Learning How To Forge Weld Made Easy

Please Share! Everyone who is practicing blacksmithing should know how to do this fundamental skill!

Learning how to forge weld the way I accidentally stumbled upon it.

-Put a piece of material in the fire and watch it come up to temperature, start to sparkle, full on sparkle, and melt off.
-Cut off the burned section and fold the piece back onto itself a short length, and put it in the fire. Let it sparkle until you can’t stand it anymore, pull it out and hammer on it. There you have your first forge weld.
-Now cut off the welded portion, fold the material back onto itself once again, and repeat this process, letting it sparkle less and less each time, until you are welding when it dosent sparkle.
-Now repeat the entire process, this time using flux.
-When you think you have a good handle on welding, take all those cut off pieces and forge weld those together. Assuming this goes well for you, Congratulations! You have a very strong working knowledge of forge welding, and just made your first piece of (hada pattern) Damascus!