Thread: Damascus blade

Originally Posted by ernestrome

I'd love a wootz razor. AFAIK no-one makes one. The TI and the maestro livi are both pattern welded, as Mr blue says.

I bet TI have never made a wootz blade.

I believe that some Livis, at least, are made from Damasteel. Not necessarily a bad thing - I have shaved with one each day for the last seven months and enjoyed it a lot.

Chris

Originally Posted by drmoss_ca

I believe that some Livis, at least, are made from Damasteel. Not necessarily a bad thing - I have shaved with one each day for the last seven months and enjoyed it a lot.

Chris

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.

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