Hello All, 
I am coming into this discussion late and ignorant (as usual), but if there are any metallographic studies done on this or other similar blades I would like to see them. 
 
This type of sword is on my radar and has been for some time, but there is scant physical studies on the subject. 
With a bit more information on the metallurgy some reasonable experimental copies could be made for testing. 
 
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