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The Chandler wootz blades are billets from Alfred Pendray's shop. I forged and heat treated all of those. But some of Joe's razors are pattern-welded blades and I'm intimately familiar with the...

I have personally done so, and I know Dr. Verhoeven and Pendray have, as has Ric and several others who have had access to old samples and new made wootz.

Wootz will achieve very good hardness,...

Ric's a best friend of mine and good teacher. You'd have a good time at one of his classes. His shop is a mineshaft, dark, full of dangerous things and no room to swing a three foot bar sideways...

To be more specific, and cite this same article, John Verhoeven and Alfred Pendray have reproduced the long forgotten...wootz/bulat whatever you wish to name it. I agree that it is nothing like...