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19th September 2005, 09:36 PM
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(deceased)
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: East Coast USA
Posts: 3,191
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Ian
The experts thinks its a very high quality pattern welded blade but they couldn't explain why they see both pattern welding in one area and a wootz pattern in another? They said if I just showed them a picture of the wootzy area they would swear it was wootz but they spotted a fine pattern welding near the hilt. Lew |
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20th September 2005, 12:50 AM
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Member
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 116
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some wootz blades have the steel tang welded on... this maybe the case?
its a hard to tell whether this is banding or wootz... but it does look good no matter what it is... I think only a full etch of the blade will give us a true look at the steel..... but then the mystery is lost... I'd keep it the way it is ...  Greg |
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