Wootz Marsh Arab dagger translation help?

[ALEX]

Originally Posted by spiral

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Interesting you see it as sham wootz? most sham Ive had is more simple & linear in style? Artzi web site shows few clearly sham examples I think?

Fascinated that you think a swordsmith cant reforge this blade out of another broken larger blade, I dont realy comprhend that as to my mind if a sword smith can forge a blade out of wootz {or any other steel.} why can they not reforge a blade from one type or size to another?

Thanks for your thoughts though Alex, was that your rhino horn gurade on ebay recently, as the buy it know price dropedf I nearly bought it, but then it was gone..

Such is ebay though..

Spiral

Hi Spiral,

Sham wootz is characterized by low contrast/less complex pattern, and I think your blade is sham.

The reason I think the blade is original is because of it's geometry/curvature. The smith could re-forge it from another broken blade.. but why? it'd be so much easier to create it by stock removal, i.e. grinding...
I assume by "reforging" you meant metallurgical process, not mechanical reshape. I doubt the smiths used metallurgical reforge of broken blades much for the above reason.

No, that was not my gurage on eBay. That was another Alex's:-)