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Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey
All of the knives that I use to eat my meals with are 19th century English shear steel.
Sometimes they get etched with tomato juice, or some other acid in the food, and I need to polish them clean with Ajax and Scotchbrite --- my wife won't do it, she wants to know why I won't eat with the perfectly good stainless steel knives we've got.
Anyway, the material in this pic does not look even remotely like the shear steel I use several times a day.
Shear steel is not really all that much different to mechanical damascus --- another material I'm more than just a little familiar with --- and it most certainly is not mechanical damascus either.
I don't know what this stuff in the picture is, but it does not look like mechanically manipulated material to me.
Please accept my apologies for being so disagreeable.
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Ah, which takes us back to here doesn't it?
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...ighlight=bowie