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    Thanks for going the extra mile Dylan. I'm assuming you've seen the thread pointing out Robert Williams experiments with highly magnified photos of edges ? In his recent post on the topic me requested anyone who had a Pakistani blade they couldn't use to send it along to him for high magnification examination and analysis of the properties of the steel. Seems to me this blade would be an ideal subject for one of his experiments.
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    thanks Dylan for all your hard work

    now we can finally lay this debate to rest

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    Dylan, if one of these blades cracked all the way through, I'd like to see the grain structure. I wonder if that is contributing to the edge crumbling. It would give another little emphasis to heat treatment issues. Good looking steel can still be ruined with a poor heat treatment.
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    Dylan,

    You have done us all such a great service by doing this, Thanks!

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    Thank you Dylan. That is the exact same issue, that a german forum member had with his pakistan damascus blade. So I´m not amazed, but it is allways good to have a second view.

    Actually I have got a similar razor from a customer, to make some experiments with it.





    I made a little regrind on the blade and will make a new heat treating with it.



    I will keep you informed, if the steel is hardenable and if it will be possible to hone this blade.

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    Thanks for your efforts to validate the quality of the razor, which were more difficult in practice than your quick overview might indicate. Too bad, because properly hardened, it could have been a real keeper. Thanks also for "taking a bullet" for the rest of us, so we won't end up getting tempted into purchasing the next shiny incarnation of substandard Pakistani metallurgical technology, whatever it may be called. You can be sure that "Pakistan" will not be stamped on the blade.

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