[TheForge] Re: TheForge Digest, Vol 111, Issue 14

[Mike Spencer]

Andy Gladish wrote:

> Very fun article!

Yeah.  Interviewer and collector both having fun.

> What they say about Wootz is very different from what I've read
> along. Until now, Wootz was forged at a fairly low heat so as to avoid
> messing up the pattern.

Right, My understanding was that you can forge wootz, albeit slowly
and tediously, at a low red heat without destroying the desired
microstructure.  But you surely can't weld it into a composite blade
without getting it much hotter.

I know, I know, you don't have to weld at a blinding yellow heat --
why there's a "Cherry Heat" flux.

Well, I dunno.  I'm no expert on this stuff, but it didn't quite ring
true. 


- Mike

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