Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Indian Ceremonial knife with, possibly, a wootz blade ???

ariel · 18th June 2006, 02:36 PM

I think it is tourist as well. Definitely not real wootz (crystalline damascus), but some mechanical laminated pattern, rather crude. Is it acid etched as well? The texture of the blade surface looks uneven, but it may be just my imagination. The koftgary-ish decoration is very new.

18th June 2006, 02:36 PM	#2
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	I think it is tourist as well. Definitely not real wootz (crystalline damascus), but some mechanical laminated pattern, rather crude. Is it acid etched as well? The texture of the blade surface looks uneven, but it may be just my imagination. The koftgary-ish decoration is very new.