There are no contemporary bladesmiths capable to recreate the beauty of Indo-Persian wootz. None. Zero.
And this is despite the fact that modern metallurgy knows orders of magnitude more about technology of wootz making, with complex diagrams, exact temperatures, precise percentages of carbon and rare elements.
IMHO, and as I have learned from high class bladesmiths, the quality of wootz ingot contributes only part of the final result. Wootz ingots were exported from India in tens of thousands, and it was impossible to pre-test each and every one. Good and bad ingots went to Persia, Turkey, Egypt, Syria , Central Asia, Caucasus, you name it.
But the final blades from the Ottoman areal were always very simple, whereas Persian blade carried fantastic tabans.
What decided the fate of the final product was the technique of forging the blade: direction of the blows, their force, their number, the temperatures to start and to end forging and a multitude of yet unknown ( really forgotten) small tricks of the trade.
Whereas the former ( wootz ingots manufacture) can be reproduced scientifically, the latter ( blade forging) is not a science, it is an art. And that cannot be recreated by a single generation of even the best and the brightest modern smiths. Once lost, this art requires starting from scratch.
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