Description
This dane axe is a light weight axe based on the axes used by the Vikings during the viking age it has a slender bladeand is an elegant dane axe.
This damascus Dane axe is forge welded up from two billets of steel. The body of the axe is formed by folding a 100 layer piece of damascus back on its self another 100 layers is then inserted at the edge and the whole axe forge welded together giving 300 layers of steel at the edge. The pattern in the damascus is formed when the hammering used to make the axe pushed layers beneath each other, the process of the making is written in the steel!
