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The article explicitly mentions an all-stainless Damascus steel formulation:

> "Devin makes all-stainless Damascus steel, high contrast, double high carbon, and many, many exotic patterns."

Right, but even raw pure stainless of let's say 304 or 316 will rust in naked form due to the small crevices left on the surface straight from the mill...if multiple dissimilar layers of stainless or folded, it seems to me that stainless Damascus will be very vulnerable to rusting... unless there is something in the chemistry between the individual layers that mitigates this, no?

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