Damascus in the Works

Started with 5 layers(pic1), forge welded and drawn out. Cut this in half(pic2), forge welded, drawn out, and twisted. Pic3 is its current state(10 layer) with a quick etch. I'm thinking cut/weld/twist one more time before forging it to a blade. This would make it a 20 layer. Currently 4 hours into this with coal forge and no power hammer, but so far so good on the welds.