What is Wesi Malelo?

A. G. Maisey · 13th June 2009, 01:11 AM

I'm not going to comment specifically on the blades pictured, but if we look at the pale pamor material in the pedang we can see little white specks.

When we find a lot of these in ferric material it is very probably caused by forging at low temperatures. Prof Jerzy Piaskowski of Poland conducted a number of analyses of this type of material and this was the conclusion to which he came.

The effect can be quite impressive in a blade that has only plain steel and no contrasting pamor, it looks like little white clouds floating below the surface of the iron or steel, almost three dimensional.

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13th June 2009, 01:11 AM	#12
A. G. Maisey Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 6,992	I'm not going to comment specifically on the blades pictured, but if we look at the pale pamor material in the pedang we can see little white specks. When we find a lot of these in ferric material it is very probably caused by forging at low temperatures. Prof Jerzy Piaskowski of Poland conducted a number of analyses of this type of material and this was the conclusion to which he came. The effect can be quite impressive in a blade that has only plain steel and no contrasting pamor, it looks like little white clouds floating below the surface of the iron or steel, almost three dimensional.