Oct 3, 2007 · I've seen old Wootz blades sell for $1,000+ online. I have also seen some offered by Oleg Krymlin that are priced in the $200-300 range. I'm wondering if steel gurus like Ankerson have ever tested Wootz to see how it stacks up against today's top …

Feb 5, 2010 · this is a wootz steel sword... but he has decided after doing a chem analysis that it is not a wootz sword. The ancient smiths never had a mass spectrometer in their shop equipment... so chem analysis is a unapplicable way of sorting steel from wootz steel. ( that is a modern and alien technology .. and should not be applied to the idea of ...

Jun 24, 2006 · The two methods are iron and a carbon source, or hi-carbon steel/cast plus iron; the direct reduction method of ore and carbon was not mentioned in the early texts (I mix one to two parts each charcoal and powdered limestone with four to five parts magnetite, which results in wootz occasionally). Al-Biruni (AD973-1048):

Oct 26, 2006 · Wootz (or Bulat) is an ancient crucible steel with large carbides in a soft iron matrix, which makes real interesting damascene patterns without the folding/layering that produces patterns in the "damascus" many of us make. there are a couple of people making wootz, I think Pendray and Verhoeven patented a process for making it, there were the Wootz …

Oct 12, 2021 · Wootz in particular has some interesting properties, but it is not inherently superior to any modern homogeneous blade steel. Read that thread Jerrod linked, it will reveal much. Jerrod is, by the way, a professional metallurgist.

Oct 6, 2022 · Hello Everyone, I wanted to quickly share a free tool that I programmed for calculating feed materials for wootz/crucible steel. This calculator makes it extremely easy to play around with different ingredients in your melts and get to your final recipe faster. The calculator does require an emai...

Nov 8, 2008 · Buried in myth, although Scientific American had an excellent article on the origins of wootz a few years ago. Roselli claims to have recreated wootz with its UHC (Ultra High Carbon) blades, and there may be some others. The original wootz ingots came from India, and the ore apparently had a small (but significant) vanadium content.

Mar 3, 2000 · The Wootz pattern is a visual representation of the structure of the steel. With quality steel of today we can make excellent blades following what you described, and naturally more. I would very much like to share information with the maker you mentioned, I would sincerely appreciate it if you could provide me with an email or way to contact him.

Aug 20, 2004 · Empirically, wootz doesn't exist if you define it as the steel made around 1000-1100 in India/Persia. If you use the definition more loosely, to include any identical steel, then the stuff made in other places and times is wootz,too. The source of the ores was the "secret" even though they didn't understand why.

Dec 23, 2010 · I doubt that they were called 'stukjes' back in the 1600's; if the records say buttons of steel that would be one thing, but for a reference point in Europe steel at this time was often sold as small squares or as small bars to be welded into the cutting edge (think the bit of an axe), thinking along that line 'pieces of steel' ie. 'bit steel ...