SURPRISE! Wootz Steel in a Most Unexpected Place!...An Aceh Podang/Peudueng

Gavin Nugent · 14th June 2015, 12:04 PM

Hi Charles,

Your sword came from a very high end collection and I suspect the inventory number 209 was left in place on the scabbard?
I would leave it, it is healthy even if shrunken a little.

Charles, Rick, I really don't know what the intention was when forging the amanremu, I'd say they maker had an idea and insight in to wootz, perhaps from those who traded the ingots? I just don't know...the end result wasn't pretty but is important in the study of wootz in Sumatra.
Wootz in Sumatra is a study that I think would be worth while as personally I think your wootz blade was formed in Sumatra, not traded.

Gavin

14th June 2015, 12:04 PM	#16
Gavin Nugent Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,818	Hi Charles, Your sword came from a very high end collection and I suspect the inventory number 209 was left in place on the scabbard? I would leave it, it is healthy even if shrunken a little. Charles, Rick, I really don't know what the intention was when forging the amanremu, I'd say they maker had an idea and insight in to wootz, perhaps from those who traded the ingots? I just don't know...the end result wasn't pretty but is important in the study of wootz in Sumatra. Wootz in Sumatra is a study that I think would be worth while as personally I think your wootz blade was formed in Sumatra, not traded. Gavin