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Tim Simmons · 24th June 2006, 08:18 PM

I do not know why I do not go with North African, to me it just not really there. The rough and the fine mixed like that.

Perhaps we are looking at something that is from what was widely known in the west as Arabia? Good steel would have been less available than in Africa?

24th June 2006, 08:18 PM	#13
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,855	I do not know why I do not go with North African, to me it just not really there. The rough and the fine mixed like that. Perhaps we are looking at something that is from what was widely known in the west as Arabia? Good steel would have been less available than in Africa?