He showed me the actual knife he was making. It was a Wire Damascus Fighter with about 8 inches of length. The blade was almost completed with its courageous looking extra-long false edge. Looking at it carefully, I noticed a little scar about 1.5 millimeter long at the start of the edge, right about the Ricasso. The scar is thin, but it it's deep. Dave said, "I'm keeping this for a lesson never to make the same mistake again."

Cutting the wire of 1.5 inches in diameter into about 4 feet long by torch, Dave said, "Well, first of all, it's important to select the raw material. How much carbon the iron contains decides the quality of the blade. First of all, by putting it in a grinder you will observe the sparking. If they are fine whitish sparks, you know that it contains high amount of carbon. If they are long orange sparks, the iron is not suitable for a knife. Also, you can tell by actually burning it a little. Soft iron is not easily burned".

Heat the untangled wire until reaching non-magnet point (the temperature at which point the heated iron stops reacting to a magnet), then put it in oil. When he beat this on the anvil, it broke to pieces. "This is good," said Dave. The procedure after this is explained in the photo: