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					Originally Posted by Rick
					
				 
				Yes, it has not seen a lot of washing and was finished smooth; but why do we see such large cold shuts/forging flaws in a blade that appears so nicely carved at the sorsoran ?     
			
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I have my doubts as well, the forging flaws let me think that the gandhik is a later addition.