With a bit of luck, the final forgewelding can be done on Wednesday. And then I can start grinding.
The really scary part will be the heat treatment. I have spent quite some time thinking about it because there is a risk it'll fly apart.
My theory is that the O2 in the spine will throughharden quickly and not contract too much.
The 1095 and 15N20 between the wootz and Damascus will hopefullycreate a boundary that is in-between in terms of hardening speed.
And the wootz is normally shallowhardening but in the edge section should harden fully enough.

In theory.

I conferred with Howard on this but as he rightly pointed out: it's not a common combination of materials, and surely as hell not something you'd normally do with wootz. Our conclusion was that it may work as expected, but the proof of the pudding will be in eating it.