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|  12th September 2009, 03:32 PM | #8 | 
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			Nice blades!  Could be shear steel, the 'other' pre-Bessemer way to make steel from iron. Here is a pic of a lightly etched wood chisel made of shear steel, the laminations can be coase or fine depending on the amount of processing. It can look almost exactly like sham wootz   | 
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