Gold foil and damascus steel

TAT - sorry for the delay. I have been in additional training for a week or so. I am familiar with Damascus steel and I am not confident that the foil will attach - you will have to do a test experiment. When working with the Art Clay Silver, we heat a fired silver piece up with a hot plate to around 800°F to 900°F and burnish the gold foil into the surface. This works well but I think it is partially driven by an interaction between the gold and the silver. Also - it seemed to be an important aspect to use an agate burnisher rather then a metal one - my understanding was that the agate's response to heating is better then the metal. I think the foil I used was 22k or 24k gold. I think the heating function will be important as well, using a torch to heat from the top will tend to melt your foil, while 'heating from underneath' will help the foil to lay into the steel. Please let me know how this works out for you.