Indo-Persian knife for comment

[GuyM]

Originally Posted by Rick

Guy,
There's always ON DAMASCUS STEEL by Leo S. Figiel MD .

Thanks for the pointer!

Originally Posted by Michel

Guy,
in your dad's library is the book : "Damascus steel" by Manfred Sachse
In the book : "Bei Schah Emir und Khan" by Balsinger and Klay

I should have remembered those!
Thanks dad

[ingelred]

I have seen this kind of pattern in one of the books from Herman Historica.
In this book this pattern is referred to as net damascus.
The books can be found here:

http://www.hermann-historica.com/

Look for reference books.

Greetings, Helge

[Jeff D]

Originally Posted by ingelred

In this book this pattern is referred to as net damascus.

Unfortunately there is as many ways to name wootz as there is collectors. We need one of the "big boys" to publish a complete classification scheme that can become the standard.

Jeff

[GuyM]

Well, I have a lot of reading to do I guess, thanks to all for the many pointers and the valuable feedback!

Guy