Well... turn of the century Parker catalogs state their damascus is hammered and turned, which doesn't support my belief that most skelp barrels were rolled onto the mandrel rather than hammered inch by inch. Of course the catalog makes no attempt to clarify that they don't actually make the barrels, they simply purchase them from various sources (on a far away continent), which makes the process way beyond their control. So I'm not buying it...but here is the data for anyone wishing to add to their damascus files.