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Of course not :)
You can even still see parts of the nail polish that was on the edge during the etching phase.

Cell phone close-up of the hollows of the wootz razor I am working on. The green specs you see are the remnants of the nail polish I used to protect the edge during etching. The pattern is coming out...

In progress pics of a wootz razor that is going to wear mammoth tusk ivory.

this geometry is a bit different from my other designs. I wanted to make sure I got it right so in order to be really...

Cell phone closeup of a razor for which I am currently making scales.

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And this is the razor done, with ivory scales.
I just love wootz patterns. For one, they force me to be better at finish polishing because otherwise the patterns don't come out crisp. Mainly...

Another Arwen design razor in wootz, pictured on Ivory. Still a bit greasy all over but this is just a reference pic with different colors of mammoth tusk for the customer to choose from. I am...

A scale-less blade I finished this afternoon. The finish is a repeated sanding and etching process that I am still needing to improve.
In the correct light, there are also white-ish structures...

http://straightrazorpalace.com/knives-other-sharp-things/126403-wootz-damascus-knives-work-progress.html

You mean the wootz kitchen knife? No not atm though i could post wip pics in rhe knives and sharp things i suppose.

Just above critical, with 7 normalization cycles. The excess carbon goes to the dendritic wootz structures.

I am happy to report that the test shave went extremely well. Better than I've ever gotten carbon steel or Damascus to shave. Not only great looks but also a superb shave.

Ok Wootz turned out to be notoriously hard to make decent pics of. Either they're overlighted, or underlighted, or the pattern doesn't show up. I had to use my lightbox for the overall lighting,...

This is how it looked before buffing the scales and pinning everything together.

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I just sanded the scales again because after the first round on the buffer, I saw some remaining scratch...

Thanks Mike. I am doing a couple of wootz razors in preparation for the pendray wootz.
I want to have the basic process down before I go there. :)

Wootz and Mammoth Ivory are just meant to be...

Hahaaaa!

Now that the meet is done I finally had some time to hammer down the scales material details with the customer.
Mammoth Ivory it is!

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Success!!!!

Ok it's not perfect. I tried several things, and finally found something that worked. completely different than what was recommended, but there you go. The fact that a razor is hollow...

Still struggling with it. I etched in ferric chloride, and then polished it again. I can see the pattern. It is right there in the shiny steel. I just cannot yet get it to come out in contrast. Every...

Yesterday I ground and polished the razor. It is the best grinding I ever did, if I say so myself. I took it slower than normal, with more time spent at each grit. With tool steel, the buffer will...

Around 60, and it should be comparable to similar high carbon steel. Ill let you know after I finish it.

As I mentioned earlier in this thread, wootz can only be made in little hockey puck sized (give or take) ingots at a time. The reason is that when the crucible is taken out of the fire, the carbides...

Wootz is ultra high in carbon. When used like that, it would fare in a similar fashion as Japanese white paper steel or similar steels.
The reason is that the video you linked shows the absolute...

The carbides only stick out when the hardened steel abrades away. So for example like with a kitchen knife that is used a lot. It will keep cutting extremely well even as it gets duller.

Since...

What we call Damascus these days is in fact pattern welded steel. Different sorts of steel hammered together, and then folded, twisted, and otherwise manipulated several times to create all sorts of...

In a nutshell, wootz steel is what used to be called 'Damascus' a long time ago. This is the stuff of legends. It is made in a crucible by melting iron or steel, mixed with the right combination of...

I wanted to demonstrate just how well this stuff cuts, so I made a video. None of my Damascus or tool steel razors do this, but the woots steel can cut clotch and rope even when completely dull.

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