Modern 'wootz' going into commercial production.

ariel · 28th July 2011, 11:41 AM

I would suggest we pull together our first impressions of this masterpiece: what feature immediately prompted us to conclude it was not a real wootz?
For me, it was a striking uniformity of the pattern across the blade. Usually, with manual forging, the pattern of lines gets simplified along the edge ( likely, due to higher number and force of hammer strikes). Here, it is perfectly monotonous, indicating machine process.

28th July 2011, 11:41 AM	#8
ariel Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Posts: 5,503	I would suggest we pull together our first impressions of this masterpiece: what feature immediately prompted us to conclude it was not a real wootz? For me, it was a striking uniformity of the pattern across the blade. Usually, with manual forging, the pattern of lines gets simplified along the edge ( likely, due to higher number and force of hammer strikes). Here, it is perfectly monotonous, indicating machine process.