Thread: Damascus blade

Originally Posted by Bruno

I just checked with Mike, and true wootz costs about 100$ per inch. Sadly, there are many disreputable sellers on the internet who call their stuff wootz and sell it for 20$ per inch.

In any case, at 100$ per inch you can easily see that for a razor to be made from real wootz, it would be about 1000$ just for the steel itself, never mind the scales and working it.

All I can say is Wootz the big deal ?

Originally Posted by Bruno

I just checked with Mike, and true wootz costs about 100$ per inch. Sadly, there are many disreputable sellers on the internet who call their stuff wootz and sell it for 20$ per inch.

In any case, at 100$ per inch you can easily see that for a razor to be made from real wootz, it would be about 1000$ just for the steel itself, never mind the scales and working it.

But I'm not claiming they are made from Wootz steel - far from it. I believe that billets of Damasteel are used. Do some of these patterns look familiar? I have two that are labelled blue tongue. As I said, this isn't necessarily a bad thing, since the razors look good and shave well.

Chris