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Wootz steel blades from ancient Damascus

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11/05/2014 at 10:37 pm #21146
wickededge
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This is a cool article on the properties of authentic Damascus blades: http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/jom/9809/verhoeven-9809.html Not surprisingly, Verhoeven is one of the authors.

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11/05/2014 at 10:40 pm #21147
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Wikipedia has a little more history about the origin of Wootz steel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wootz_steel

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11/06/2014 at 2:09 am #21150
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Very nice Clay! I’m going to read this soon. And anything Verhoeven was involved is is interesting… Thanks!

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