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Originally Posted by Drabant1701
Thank you for your answer David. In this case I dont think it was split when new, it has simply separated the two halves from each other due to heavy wear and/corrosion. On many of my wootz blade there are lines on the spine, but on this one it one countiouos line all along the spine from point to grip.
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Which is just how mine is. Alternatively one writer (Stone?) suggests that a method of recycling a worn blade was to forge it out to twice its length, fold it over a lesser quality core and weld and forge it into a "new" blade!
I do wonder is sometimes they just forged two tired blades together to make one usable blade.
Will we ever know for sure?