First I appreciate
Jeff for entering into this discussion,
His information is very informative to me anyway. Thank you and Welcome.
I have a wootz knife (Bowie) made by
Al Pendray , made from his wootz, also I had him make a Bowie out of a old original wootz ingot, both has a very "wootzy" pattern. This Alwar Armory wootz ingot was written up by
Dr. Verhoeven,
Pendray and
Dauksch in a paper
"
The Continuing Study of Damascus Steel: Bars from the Alwar Armory" in the September 2004 issue of the JOM.The Wootz Ingot/bar I gave them, for testing, is labeled #3 in Table 1 page 18.
I readily admit that just making a blade out of an old wootz ingot is not a good practice. However a lot of technical information was derived, in this case by doing so.
The reaming half of the ingot/bar with the Alwar inscription is still intact.
see:
http://www.vikingsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/002326.html
Do you perchance make wootz knives for sale, also?
I am posting this to let all to know that
Jens has saved someone a lot of money ($1000) by asking this ( not to hard a question this time
) question and posting it.
In April of 2003 I purchased a wootz ingot ( not the one mention above)
in order to have a knife made out of it by Pendray, it was tested and found to be cast iron, not wootz. I returned the ingot and received full credit form the seller.
The exact, same ingot went back up for sale, recently. I was in a quandary as to what to do about the information that I had about the "wootz' ingot.
When I checked the seller web site, Monday of this week, the ingot is no longer listed. Not listed as being sold, just not there.
That to me indicates that this posting by
Jens was read and that the correct and Honorable action was taken by the pending seller of this ingot.
By pulling this item, also relieved me of just what to do about it as I was, other than the sell, probably the only one that was aware of it being non wootz.
Using this forum, learning from it and the helping out of one another is the reason I enjoy it
.
Gene