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4th May 2006, 03:11 AM
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Speaking of interesting knives...
Jens, what is that pic you posted of? Obviously, a knife, and it looks like Wootz steel, but did you make it? What are the decorations made from, gold? That's quite an interesting piece, can you tell us more about it?
Sincerely, Michael www.radharcknives.com |
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4th May 2006, 02:10 PM
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Hi Michael,
The picture is a detail of a blade – see the attached. Tegha. Rajasthan. 18th century. The blade is wootz and the decorations are gold koft gari. Below are a few links, which may be of interest to you, if you make a search, you will of course find a lot more. http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=292&highlight=meteoric http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=269&highlight=meteoric http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=465&highlight=meteoric |
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5th May 2006, 04:16 PM
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Links and magnetism
Hello Jens, and thank you for the links. That's quite a blade. I checked out some of the posts on the links you sent. It made me curious, and I grabbed a compass and ran it along several blades that I've forged and made into knives. They do all sorts of things. Some hardly move the compass, some make it spin, some move it back and forth. LOL!
I didn't do anything special to any of them to induce any sort of magnetism or magnetic fields in them, so am not sure what creates the different effects. Interesting nonetheless... Michael www.radharcknives.com |
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