Thread: Prices of early 1800s razors when made

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

Or the blister steel was used to make crucible steel (introduced in 1745 by Benjamin Huntsman in the UK and sold initially to the french market as Acier Fondu) a steel known as long ago as Medieval times in Asia, where it was called Wootz.

Did it actually contain the trace elements needed to form the dendritic structures that would make it actual wootz, instead of generic crucible steel.
Turning blister steel into crucible steel would make it better because of the carbon harmonization and removing some of the slag, so regardless of whether the dendritic structures form or not, it would be better steel. But I thought the techniques for making true wootz were lost until not too long ago, when the original source of ores dried up?