If a picture is worth a thousand words, we don't need to say much. The 1084 & 15n20 damascus, housemade made by Saul Kokkinos-Kennedy, is a composite weld of five billets, The top 3 bars are twisted in alternating directions, then a bar of straight laminate, and the edge is a bar of twisted crushed W steels. Thin, especially toward the tip, the blade is flexible and heat treated to perfection. And that handle...