Listen to your Katars!

[Atlantia]

Originally Posted by TimW

Hy all

I am new hear, but would like to respond to this post. My interests are old edged weapons and knifemaking.

Some of the characteristics of wootz are, besides edge holding, heat retention and vibration. If you would make a tuning fork from steel vs wootz, the wootz model would vibrate much longer... Maybe you should clean up your katar, it might be wootz...

cheers

Tim

Hi Tim.

Welcome to the forums and thanks for joining my light hearted little thread
One of the best things about 'being here' is that you'll learn things even when you didn't expect to!
For instance, I had no idea that some of the peculiarities of Wootz are increased heat retention and vibration.
I will clean this old chap up soon, its a nice 'battle' Katar and would certainly benefit from a clean either way.
Thanks
Gene