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Originally Posted by Pukka Bundook
Now Eric,
In the cases you just quote above, Do you think these were repairs, rather than a technique used in manufacture?
To me it Sounds like a repair.
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This is a known technique, and not only for swords.
The prehistory of metallurgy in the British Isles by R. F. Tylecote, 1986.
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It would seem that scramasaxes were made by scarf welding-on a steel edge, as shown in the French example.
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How about this Indian axe, a hard steel edge with the rest a softer metal.