[TheForge] Re: Swords, Wootz

[Mike Spencer]

PF wrote:

> There seems to be a number of authoritative papers on the subject
> and they often contradict one another.

Ah!  Welcome to Academia, eh?  :-(

> They were the product of a time when trade secrets were guarded with
> one's life and the written record is sparse.

I love the description of Indian Wootz production in Neil Stephenson's
Baroque Cycle. 

- Mike

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