Aye, mate.

You guys who trust not your damascus guns and rifles, please just wrap them well in bubble wrap, box them, and send them to me. I will see to it that they receive the respect due them.

By some accounts the high quality damascus of 1880-1900 was stronger than the fluid steel of the same period. Of course, fluid steel won out in the end, both in strength and in cost. Nevertheless, I would not shun fine damascus and at the same time run out and shoot NFB loads in 1890 vintage fluid steel.

Curl