Solor stick sword for sharing & comment

[Timo Nieminen]

Originally Posted by Sajen

Hello Timo,

a hamon I know from dha but I have seldom seen it by Indonesian blades, most of the time this blades are laminated. To create a hamon is not easy and I am nearly sure that this blade wasn't forged by a local blacksmith from Solor.

For low-tech metalwork (i.e., unknown carbon content, no thermometers or temperature controlled ovens), differential hardening can be easier than trying to achieve a uniformly non-brittle hard blade. If your blade is short enough so that edge quenching is practical, then all you need is a teapot full of water, e.g., as done for edge quenching of kukris (technically, you need the knowledge/experience to know what to do with the teapot full of water as well as the actual teapot).