Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Is this Sham Wootz?? On a Wahabi Jambiya??

Lew · 14th March 2012, 12:09 PM

What I find funny is that the pattern fades towards the end near where the blade meets the hilt and there is a defined edge which could be some type of faux etch

? Could be shear steel or blister steel or even some type of local carbonized wrought iron?

14th March 2012, 12:09 PM	#3
Lew (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: East Coast USA Posts: 3,191	What I find funny is that the pattern fades towards the end near where the blade meets the hilt and there is a defined edge which could be some type of faux etch ? Could be shear steel or blister steel or even some type of local carbonized wrought iron? Last edited by Lew; 14th March 2012 at 12:19 PM.