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Originally Posted by Interested Party
I think it looks good. My 2 cents is that it is wootz. Different steels have different levels of contrast.
Mariusgmioc Could this be a local Afghan ore processed by a Iranian smith thus a slightly different contrast? I have read that Afghans, I don't know which tribe, were making their own crystalline wootz blades. It is possible that they were extracting their own ore rather than importing cakes of wootz from Iran or India.
How long is the blade from the point to the guard?
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Interesting, do you remember where you read it? Afghans no doubt must have used their own ore alongside imported cakes and blades