1. I could not agree more with the importance of smith's qualifications.
2. So do we move from wootz to "crucible damascus" or we stay with "wootz" ? I like wootz more - it is shorter.
3. The problem is also "what is wootz ?". For example, a lot of people do not believe that what Anosov made was anything similar (besides patterns) to traditional wootz.
4. While the subject is heavily obscured by myths and so on, it seems that comparison wootz vs. others were repeatedly made with different results (i.e. Anosov's bulat seemed to be of really high quality).
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