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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. Last edited by Lew; 4th September 2010 at 04:41 PM.  | 
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