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Old 2nd September 2010, 04:19 PM   #1
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Well the Pesh arrived today so I put a light etch on it and it turned out to be wootz . There are a few dead spots but in all it turned out to be a nice knife. Will try and take some pics this weekend.
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Old 4th September 2010, 04:11 PM   #2
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Here are a couple of closeups of the blade after etching. As you can see there is a nice wootz pattern but the smith probably over heated the steel a bit due to the dead spots where the pattern does not come through. Btw the blade in 8 inches long.
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