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Originally Posted by kronckew
I'd like to see the other side of the blade near the tang/grip. The delamination in the middle looks like a smith that got too fancy stacking and forge welding & didn't want to start over and waste more time on it, rather than a scarf. A scarf near the tang between a less hard & more resilient tang piece, and a hardener blade would not be uncommon or deleterious in a new blade or a repaired blade whose tang had snapped for being too hard. Is that copper or suasa alloy? Looks rather untarnished for copper.
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I wondered if it was suasa as well.