The British proof house tests specified "mechanical damascus".

Heuse-Limone talks about the rolling mills installing special rollers to handle the damascus billets.

Chuck if you can find the image, please post it. The tradition tool was the perrot, a blade makers tool. It hardly remained unchanged for 300 years.



Patent 223432 of "Monsieur Florent Heuse-Bovy" for a process and device mechanically carrying out the synchronic torsion of metals.



Here a Belgian maker with a British patent.
Belgian, Eugene Joris, 1894, A New Process of Manufacturing Damascus Cannons and Tubes.
http://v3.espacenet.com/origdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=GB189401981&F=0&QPN=GB189401981

Pete