damascus blade

“A Damascus blade is a lot like baking a loaf of bread,” McKinney said.

As the skills get more complicated, students can learn to combine several types of metal to make a Damascus blade, which has a distinctive pattern, like flowing water or wood grain.

A letter in the following week's Spectator described him as "one of the keenest of intellects, with a mind like a Damascus blade".

The carving on the steel had the pearly gleam of a Damascus blade, while the stock flowed into lock and lock into barrels as though they had grown that way from a magic planted seed.

It can be said of Ingersoll, as was written of Castelar, that his eloquent utterances are as the finely-fashioned ornamental designs upon the Damascus blade—the blade cuts as keenly and the embellishments beautify without retarding its power.