Hello All,
This has been a long time coming...I've wanted to make wootz for ages and getting around to it has just never really happened. Fortunately that's changed and I am very pleased. The number of hours I have spent researching and studying in order to make this happen easily exceeds 50, excluding two previous failed attempts. Finally seeing this come together feels like a big step. There's just something so gratifying about producing a steel nearly from the ground up and seeing its final features. Those of you with gardening experience will have some sense of what I'm describing.
This blade measures 42mm tall X 130mm long and has a carbon content of approximately 1.80%-1.85% with 1% Mn and a few other trace elements. It differentially hardened all by itself in the quench and the pattern is most prominent in the soft area at the spine, most likely due to the high Mn content, though it is discernible throughout the blade. The hardness is somewhere between 63 and 64 hrc, and the blade is fitted with a plain maple handle and weighs 82g. It tapers from 2.6mm at the neck to .82mm 1cm from the tip and is .17mm thick 1mm above the edge. The blade faces are fully convexed and finished at 2000 grit plus etching and polishing with loose abrasive.
Asking $250 U.S ($345 CAD) plus $28 U.S shipping anywhere in North America.
Thanks for looking!
More to come.....
-Matt
This has been a long time coming...I've wanted to make wootz for ages and getting around to it has just never really happened. Fortunately that's changed and I am very pleased. The number of hours I have spent researching and studying in order to make this happen easily exceeds 50, excluding two previous failed attempts. Finally seeing this come together feels like a big step. There's just something so gratifying about producing a steel nearly from the ground up and seeing its final features. Those of you with gardening experience will have some sense of what I'm describing.
This blade measures 42mm tall X 130mm long and has a carbon content of approximately 1.80%-1.85% with 1% Mn and a few other trace elements. It differentially hardened all by itself in the quench and the pattern is most prominent in the soft area at the spine, most likely due to the high Mn content, though it is discernible throughout the blade. The hardness is somewhere between 63 and 64 hrc, and the blade is fitted with a plain maple handle and weighs 82g. It tapers from 2.6mm at the neck to .82mm 1cm from the tip and is .17mm thick 1mm above the edge. The blade faces are fully convexed and finished at 2000 grit plus etching and polishing with loose abrasive.
Asking $250 U.S ($345 CAD) plus $28 U.S shipping anywhere in North America.
Thanks for looking!
More to come.....
-Matt
