lol, the rifle barrel was propaganda in WW2. Idiots

you know that the info on ther is from ages ago and can also be edited very easily
still great mod
secondly theres a tv show aout it all the smiths join to togethere and make around a ton of it every 10 years or so very intresting

Maybe you are right, tell it to Wikipedia :-)

umm dude that steel is not lost the japanese have 3 smiths who know the exact ingredents for it and also the swords they make of it go for around 10 to 15 k

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Damascus Steel. The earliest form of nanotechnology.

This is true ebony armor, because ebony is a wood as hard as metal.

I'd like to see a set of Steel Armor with the Imerial gauntlets and shin boots or Iron armor with the cuffed boots and gauntlets in the same color and texture added to go with the weapons.

is that a wood-grain texture i see on the armor? how very curious.

Can you not upgrade the armor?

i just found out that you can't enchant the shield after its been upgraded please fix this

there is no doubt that this armour looks good but being an elf i gotta keep nimble so the light really helps but an ancient nord sword? the pattern is great but can you please change it to an elven sword it would be much more fitting for the damascus pattern

only requests i can make to this beutiful set of armor are-
can you make it temporable?
and, while i do LOVE the black and silver look, is it possible to get this in dark red with the same texture and trim?
again, this armor is very beuatiful, please keep up the good work.

Pattern welded nowadays.. alot of the time is made by using large steel cable too.

Without the ability to temper the armor I am not finding it very useful. I would appreciate it if you fix that, or I will just switch to Stahlrim ASAP.

Cool texture for ebony armor.

Let me enlighten some of you Damascus, was a collection name for a type of steel that was made from a wide range of metals, de layers you see are different types of steel with differnt carbon and cobalt contents within them therefore they color differently, also with the help of oxidation.
The reason why they did this: the material they had available were not close to as pure as we have available now, and folding the steel also helps to purify it, by folding it many times you have thinner layers and this gave the steel a remarkable quality as the highcarbon steel that was in the blade made for a superb cutting edge as the lower carbon content steel gave it increase flexibility.

This is still done nowadays by master Smiths, and although the paterns and matyerials might be a tad different the techniques differ very little
I hope I made some of you smile and perhaps gave them something to look into, as smithing has an amazing history!

Yours sincerely Ruud

Actually, I was under the impression that this (pattern welded steel) was not Damascus. Damascus was simply a very high carbon-content steel with a natural grain effect, the exact forging techniques for which ARE still lost, and NOT simply folded pattern-weld steel.

Nice mod tho. Subscribing.

Though I'm not going to download (I would, but I look for armor that is meshed and textured completely new; I get tired of the original armor asthetics after a while.) The detail is astonishing. Keep up the great work!

K this mod is really nice gives a guy a break from the plain ol plain ol. But there is only one problem that I have found and that once you make the armor set you can't tempor it to make it better. you Can temper the swoard and the shield but not any of the armor. if you could fix that would be awsome.. Thanks

To look nice? A retexture isnt a bad thing. Have you ever gotten armor and went "Hmm this would look nice if it looked like (Description here)" Its to change things up and what not. You should cut the guy a brake. If you dont like how it looks dont get it.

well just sayin because you are not the only person in the world and remind me what are comments.. im sure they are just a way of talking about stuff. but really whats the point of the mod

Very nice work. But I can assure you the method for makeing damascus is not lost. Its jsut very hard to do. It requiers forge weldind your ingots togeather and folding as well as cutting the steel. You can actly minupulate the patter of the steel with verious methos such as shaveing minute ammounts off the steel in verious spots then continueing to work the steel. Ask around in the smithing communitys and you can find out quite a good deal about it.

But nice work replacateing the fold patterns.

C‘est personnel , mais je trouves bien . Je serais incapable de faire la même chose

yes its a stupid mod,
i tell you a secred
you realy dont need to download it :-)

stupid mod just re textured ebony armor and nord hero sords

J‘adore . Elle superbe cette armure

Thank you for the mod KVGR :)

I smithed and improved the whole light armor set, the shield, and the sword. I have all smithing perks on the left side (light armor perks) up to and including dragon smithing.

I don't think though that my sword improvement is improving it as much as it can. Maybe the armor too... they're all legendary but sword damage is much worse than what an ebony sword can be improved to (if one has ebony perk).

I am a blacksmith I make blades Damascus is not a lost art the name just changed it is now called pattern welded steel its just two different carbon content steels fused n folded till you have however many layers you want it is difficult to make and yes all Damascus is acid etched
the acid reacts at a different rate for each of the two materials making some dark like 1095 steel n some shiny like 15n20 its only valuable for its looks you get better strength n resiliance in a blade by using a leaf spring from a car but at $100 per square inch ill keep making it :]

To people arguing about whether Damascus Steel can actually be remade: who cares? I say this because modern looking Damascus steel is a product of chemical etching. The old type was not! Just because someone claims it is real does not make it so. Also, judging by the expertise demonstrated by the author, I will defer to his judgement. also, arguing on the internet is like drinking alone. even if you get drunk you are still a loser. :}

u sir r a fan of ebony armor

exellent mod please further update to include two handed weapons if you think it would be a good idea

to all the haters, lets see yur badass historical armor mod... this is good work 123 i appreciate what you've done here, but i do agree the smithing requirements are a little wierd, wish it was in steel... i can understand tho, keeps u from bein able to craft till yur nicely leveled.... keep it up friend.... :)

@ Everybody who's arguing. Hey! This is a great mod in any light! The rest of us really enjoy it and probably don't want this commenting area ruined by people who disagree. People are always going to disagree until the day they die. So, please, stop arguing and let's all befriend each other again?

This is pretty cool, I only wish I could use Damascus metal to make more weapons (I'm more into Axes then swords).

@stuartmchgh People might CLAIM they know to make it, but they probably don't. It can LOOK like Damascus steel, if one simply pattern-welds a few pieces of metal together. It's a common practice. There are so many different people out there who claim they know how to make it, yet use vastly different formulas and folding techniques, that I've come not to trust any of them.
Regardless, Damascus steel would actually be below today's standards, and would barely compare to modern pattern welded steels, or even just plain steel. There's no point in trying to remake it, as its standard has long been surpassed.
The next and, currently, perhaps the only step up from plain, pure steel is amorphous steel. Amorphous metals are like their normal counterparts, but have a more glass-like lattice. They look like their normal counterparts, but are significantly stronger, and perhaps sharper.

um...people still know how to make demascus steel. i have many hunting knives made from it. plus my brother is a RL blacksmith and he makes and uses it all the time.

yes sure you are,
you are the smartest living man on earth,
oh what am i saying
you the fucking smartest man of the universe and of all the parallel universes

but that all plays only in your brain :-)

i dont know but im guessing im smarter than u bro

The heavy version doesn't appear as upgradeable at all. The light version does. Could be a mod conflict on my end and I'll look into it but I have every smithing perk. The light version doesn't appear to be affected by my smithing perks, and the heavy version is non existant in the upgrade menu.

but it is upgradeable
if use the heavy version you need the ebony perk to upgrade
if you use the light version you need the dragon scale perk

Quality reskin job on the armor and sword, and worth downloading just for that. My only gripe is that the heavy version isn't upgradeable at all. Maybe you can attatch it to be affected by a perk? I'd love to use this to be on par with the ebony armor I already use, or even superior to statwise.

Okay.

yes i know that but i decided to leave them as they are,
so other people can see how smart he is :-)

@123 You do know that you can delete other peoples posts? (I'm talking about Tenzdawgzz's posts.)

@72 Mavrick
i add a picture when i am about to impove the shield
as you can see it works by me.
Maybe you don´t have the arcane black smithing perk?

Sheild shows up now. Still can't improve any. I have gone with the appearal and the ingot. It doesn't show up on the list at the table.

Nice mod. Textures are really good! But I disagree that not so simple but still STEEL armor can be better than ebony and even dragonscale. Hundreds of different steel layers can't make simple steel better than legendary dragonscales! Your armor stats hardly fucks up TES Lore and this is only one mistake in this mod. With exception of crazy reqs for smithing. Where's logic in that? Why heavy armor in Ebony (80 smithing for perk), but Light one in Dragon (100 !!!)? Looks like discrimination by armor type... Why shield needs arcane smithing? All this brilliant armor set should be packed into ONE category (daedric or Ebony for example and ofc. with arcane requirement). As you can see, I have nothing against your retexturing, it's awesome, but you should do somehing with smithing, 'coz it's really bad.