Wootz Marsh Arab dagger translation help?

ALEX · 21st April 2010, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by spiral

... forging is always better than stock removal for quality of structure, & often speeds up the process ...Spiral

Not with wootz. Forging wootz is very complex process, Re-forging it even more so. It's not only structure, but the pattern which is in stake, and when it comes to pattern preservation - stock removal is absolutely the best and easiest method.

spiral · 21st April 2010, 10:10 PM

Which in that case is presumably why the crazed area in front of the gold cartouche tip, is as it is?

Spiral

21st April 2010, 10:10 PM	#2
spiral Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 1,712	Which in that case is presumably why the crazed area in front of the gold cartouche tip, is as it is? Spiral