Need help trying to make a damascus steel pattern.

[drheller1]

Hey! I'm currently designing a knife and I wanted to try to make a damascus steel pattern into the metal and I want it to look good.

 

Anyone have any tips and tricks to do this? I don't feel right about going on Google and throwing patterns in that might be copyrighted or owned by someone, so I wanted to do them myself. I have not seen much of any Damascus patterns in shape form on Google anyway and I've seen no tutorials of how to do it on here.

 

Any help is much appreciated! 

[Pixey]

4 hours ago, drheller1 said:

Any help is much appreciated! 

 

Welcome to the forum  Perhaps you can give us an example of what you are trying to do?

 

By the way, you can get free Damask patterns from here:  https://pixabay.com/images/search/damask pattern/?manual_search=1

[Red ochre]

I think @drheller1 is after ways to create the patterns created when sword steel is repeatedly folded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel

 

I would start by running the built-in clouds effect, then try my Artistic/Contour effect (in my pack), then distort this pattern by stretching and or tiling it.
My Distort/Aardvark and @Pyrochild's Tools/Liquify could be useful.

 

[Pixey]

2 hours ago, Red ochre said:

to create the patterns created when sword steel is repeatedly folded.

 

Ahhh - I'm not that familiar with that term, obviously 😬

 

I tried it with:

 

1.  Hexagonal grid

2.  Dents.

3.  Layer to Color burn.

4.  Gradient mapping.

 

 

[drheller1]

5 hours ago, Red ochre said:

I think @drheller1 is after ways to create the patterns created when sword steel is repeatedly folded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel

 

I would start by running the built-in clouds effect, then try my Artistic/Contour effect (in my pack), then distort this pattern by stretching and or tiling it.
My Distort/Aardvark and @Pyrochild's Tools/Liquify could be useful.

 

Very much appreciated! Do you think you could give me a bit more of a step-by-step process to how you made that pattern?

Edited October 10, 2022 by drheller1

[drheller1]

3 hours ago, Pixey said:

 

Ahhh - I'm not that familiar with that term, obviously 😬

 

I tried it with:

 

1.  Hexagonal grid

2.  Dents.

3.  Layer to Color burn.

4.  Gradient mapping.

 

 

Thank you! I will also give that a try.

Where would these tools be by the way?

Edited October 10, 2022 by drheller1

[lynxster4]

@drheller1 you can find all these plugins here:  And welcome to the forum. 🙂