Search:

I couldn't get the geocities link to work, but if it has pictures that show differences it will likely be helpful. I'll try it again later.

The Kirpichev site is interesting. The Russians make...

That's the photo I've been referring to. That is not wootz but pattern welded steel or laminated steel.

Here's one of the seminal references:
...

Most folks who are selling "damascus" steels these days are selling pattern welded material, layers of differing steels. Until Alfred Pendray got the bug for the experimentation to reproduce wootz...

Is it quantifiably better material?

I'd argue against that statement.

Given the same carbon content and relatively similar amounts of minor alloying elements, given the same heat treatment...

Justin, in the "old days" when steel was the most valuable product, the smiths tried to make a little go a long ways. It's the reason for a high carbon steel bit welded into the cutting edge of an...

No functional difference given the conditions I specified. You certainly have a right to question. My creds go a lot deeper than looking at pictures and talking religion about razors.

I do...

If you're basing your understanding of steels on the TI advertising, let's establish first, that it's advertising, and it pushes the boundaries of what IS known about old steel and the modern...