Damascus Steel Chef's Knife

Aug 27, 2016 3:18 AM

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John Neeman walks you through how to make a Damascus Steel knife. Quite an amazing process.

Day 32: the gif still has not ended

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Now do a gif on the topic of how to make a 1 hour long gif

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Was I the only one that expected it to loop when it got to the second part where they "start over"?

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After all that and we don't get to see it action. Like slice an onion or something.

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As a chick this makes me sploosh :)

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I started watching this gif after I finished pooping but hadn't wiped. It just ended and now the poop I was supposed to wipe is dry...

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I just watched the whole thing.

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That was worth watching!

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Yep!

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This is why we browse imgur. Have a Banana sticker!

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Still no one really know how to make REAL damascus steal (identical on molecular level)

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Thank you for this! So basically modern damascus is double ignorance: they used to call wootz steel damascus but were wrong in doing so 1/2

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

2/2: and then centuries later other guys tried to recreate that steel by producing patter-welded steel, still wrong but the term stayed :)

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Fuck just see this and I bought one. Thanks @op

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

John Neeman is such a wonderful craftsman. I love seeing his tools.

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My penis is about as hard as 240 layers of Damascus steel right now

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Username checks out @OP

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And I thought the Lord of the Rings trilogy was long.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

*Adjusts glasses* Well, we did just watch how the Shards of Narsil were re-forged into Andúril.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wow. That's literally the longest gif I've ever actually watched in its entirety. And it was well worth it. Bravo.

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Dude, my fucking phone screen timed out while he was grinding the edge. I don't have all night to re watch it to that point

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Ditto

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I made it to the end :D http://imgur.com/QOy6fKo

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Hahaha same. I almost died. So funny

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Same. Fml

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Same gaddamit

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Same here

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Same, not sitting through that again. Found the video - https://youtu.be/XBAST6i4gdc

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Dot

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Fuck yeah Glitch mob

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Dotthe

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13:37 long. I see what you did there. And rightfully so.

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That's almost a quarter of an hour's worth of squinting. My face is tired now.

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Almost there and my screen blacks out. Goddamn it

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Dammit! Phone went to sleep just before the end, now I have to watch all the way through again to see the finished product.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

3 months later...... damn what a long gif.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No problem!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The longets thing ever seen on imgur! +1

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Shit, I forgot to post the source. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBAST6i4gdc

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Holy shit. That is fucking impressive...

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"if only there were some other format, for moving pictures, where we could also have sound, maybe pause them for a while..." :D

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Nice try, but I don't think it'll catch on

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Anybody know how much one of those is worth or sold by?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No need for sauce. Watched the whole gif. Thanks

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Maybe so, but I'd rather the guy who made the knife get exposure for his awesome craft than not.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Very true. It is dope af

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The gif's so long that my screen went to auto lock! I was afraid not to accidentally reload the gifter for the fear of having to watch again

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Have to start again now :(

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I thought how to forge damascus steel was lost?

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Thats a bit of a folk tale. I don't think it was lost, but just a crappy way to make steel. IIRC japan has/had super crappy iron with(1/2)

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tons of imperfections, damascus steel was the best/only way to make a blade that wasn't awful, as more advanced metal processing was (2/3)

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developed/acquired and the imperfections could be removed they started using methods like europe that produced a higher quality steel. (3/3)

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It is, we have yet to recreate it, now its a buzz word for pattern welded. It is annoying that the misinformation is spreading.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The exact alloy recipe was lost but we approximate the pattern welding process. True Damascus had carbon tubes and I don't think we do yet

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I didn't know you could make a 2 hour gif.

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13:37 min long so basically a muted youtube video

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Yet people post 100 gifs for just 5 seconds

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It's a bit under 14 minutes

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Its 13:37. Still one of the longest gifs ive actually sat and watched without sound lol

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13:37... nice touch

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^/1[3 70(_)[#

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I think its pronounced, Gif, not Gif

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Not true. It's the other way around.

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Imgur premium members can

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Oh, awesome, where can I sign up?

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I stopped at the handle part

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Its cause gifs arent gifs anymore, they're just .mp4s with no sound.

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They can have sounds now

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I thought imgur used webm for video to gif conversion.

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no sir, I dont believe so.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You are correct. Looked it up and imgur does indeed use mp4 as their GifV format of choice.

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I'm on mobile and accidentally tapped the image... I gave up watching after that. He just put glue on the wood!

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@op lives up to his name.

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Username definitely checks out.

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Could us mobile people get a link?

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I was expecting this to be an extended cut.

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I should have checked the username before starting

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Neeman Tools is located in Latvia. They just started making long bows as well. Neemantools.com is their website.

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Definite wifi warning!

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Can't you just stop watching of your worried about your data?

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MRW I realized my wifi was turned off right as the credits roll.... But the adventure was worth it.

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FUCK!!

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nooooooo my phone went to sleep, now i have to start from the beginning..... 2 hours later.

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What's wrong with wifi? I would be more worried about 3/4G or whatever else

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It means watch only on wifi

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Next time put that in the description maybe? Ppl don't always scroll to comments before seeing the post

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Restarted half way through spent 20 minutes here....

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i was expecting it to hit FP before I finished it. went fron 162 to 195 though. :p

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from *

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Fron is head.

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...oops

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It didn't even skip.... he is the chosen one. ONE OF US. ONE OF US. ONE OF US. ONE OF US. ONE OF US. ONE OF US. ONE OF US. ONE OF US.

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If anyone's curious about the gif length, it's 13:37.

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N1C3

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That's almost a quarter of an hour's worth of squinting. My face is tired now.

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Was that intentional?

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