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					Originally Posted by tom hyle
					
				 Actually pamor is etched by acid in exactly the same manner, and (commonly) also stained.  The staining is a subtlety understood only by natives and afficionadi; ordinary "westerners" do not understand there to be a difference between pamor and any other folded steel, if they know anything about it at all.....listen, I encounter sellers on ebay who cannot give me measurements in coherent units, or who don't know the difference between width and thickness; believe me; it's easy for the ignorant to conflate things. | 
	
 Hi Tom,
I just want to be sure I am not misunderstood... unlike pamor, the Widmanstatten pattern has no staining to the surface as does pamor.  That is the difference I am referring to.
BSMStar