Jeff - very nice comments. THANK YOU! I also can see the difference. What I can not understand is how the blade can be so substantially reworked without harming an entire pattern. I saw great wootz blades being just polished on a machine and losing 50% of their pattern contrast and also acquiring inactive spots, etc. Now, in case of pattern alteration, such as adding the ladders, some "scars" should have been present.
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