Glen cut small pieces of the steel in the specialists’ vault and personally took them to Element Materials Technology, a metallurgical testing lab in Newtown Pennsylvania, for a spectrographic analysis. He also contacted Cabot Firearms, a leading weapons manufacturer and the world’s preeminent maker of 1911 style pistols, located in Cabot, Pennsylvania to consult on how to incorporate the WTC steel in pistols they would manufacture for Gotham Armory under an ATF manufacturing variance. The WTC construction grade steel was not, by itself, strong enough to use in a pistol, so one possibility was to simply  mix it with a stronger steel, but this solution would have resulted in totally homogenizing it. Instead, in order to preserve its singular qualities and appearance, the WTC steel would be incorporated through a “Damascus” process by which it would layered between 3 other kinds of steel, but still remain identifiably separate. To create a unique design by which the WTC steel could be transformed into Damascus steel suitable for the manufacture of 911 style pistols, Cabot recommended a well-known bladesmith and leading expert in the Damascus process, Rob Dekelbaum located in Hanover PA.