Fracture Damascus Billets - Shaya DamascusBertie Rietveld made his first successful piece of Damascus by hand in 1991. After that first success things started changing rapidly, and as one of the first Damascus makers in South Africa at the time, soon Bertie was producing Damascus steel for the local knifemakers hungry to use this new blade material. As time went by he acquired and built better equipment, and refined the techniques of making laminated steel Damascus. A bit of a milestone was