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Old 2nd July 2007, 12:11 PM   #7
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Flavio, "mechanical damascus" is produced by mixing several different steels together. The "true damascus" aka "oriental damascus" or "wootz" is made of just one special steel. Both mechanical and wootz steels need to be manually forged, so "mechanical" just means "not natural" in a sense
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