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19th October 2011, 04:28 PM
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Location: Buraimi Oman, on the border with the UAE
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Salaams RonHen, Lovely wootz, great sword stamp, and nice blade marks hogs backs or Gurda.. Its all there and you may want to consider lightly oiling the blade or preservation wax rather than etching. Regards and welcome.
Ibrahiim al Balooshi. |
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19th October 2011, 06:04 PM
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Ibrahiim I think the blade is pattern welded  Lew |
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20th October 2011, 05:35 PM
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Salaams Lew, Only today was I appraised of the differnce on this forum as ~ By Gt Obach .. its actually simple... 1) Wootz damascus is a crucible steel... some ingredients are melted in a clay crucible till liquid then cooled slowly in the vessel. The goal is to produce a ultra high carbon, dendritic steel. The ingot is then forged out into a blade using a low forge temp inorder to grow the carbide pattern. The blade is then etched and you see the waterings 2) Forgewelded damascus- several pieces of bloom steel are stacked up in a billet... (resembling a sandwich) the billet is then fluxed and forgewelded together and drawn out .... cut... restacked and repeat - pattern is then manipulated and designs are made - eg...like those Viking sword with twistcore  Excellent ! Regards Ibrahiim
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