Very good Drew. How do we begin to create definitions?

If I take a pile of scrap. Chop it up. Heat it red hot. Hit with a hammer, is that damascus? Didn't say I was wrapping it around anything. Didn't say I was making a barrel from it. What if the scraps are homogenous? No iron / steel mix. I want to say that the product from the above process is not damascus. But then, I have to throw out all wootz barrels.

So maybe it is damascus if there is a visible pattern?

Pete