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Originally Posted by Chris Evans

3. Carlo: Thank you for those illustrations of grain sizes and microstructures. For those who would like to read a little more, here is a good article, albeit a little heavy at times.

http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/...pb9/861397.PDF

Chris, thanks for the link. This is another one that, even if referred to
japanese swords only, is of high interest to the ones that are interested in
metallurgy. Many information of general interest :

http://xoomer.alice.it/tsubame/ZZZZZZ_DOWNLOADS.htm

Click on Tatsuo Inoue Swordsmithing file.

You've to download it.
Sadly it is no more on line and I've stored it into my website to preserve
the info from oblivion.