The Secrets of Wootz Damascus Steel
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Channel: The Mike Loades Channel
Views: 751,185
Rating: 4.8701053 out of 5
Keywords: wootz, Damascus steel, swords, Jordan, Saladin, crucible steel, swordblades, Al Pendray, Mike Loades, Mike Loades director, historical swordsmithing, bloomery, damascus blades, archeo-metallurgy
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Length: 50min 1sec (3001 seconds)
Published: Tue Nov 21 2017
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So the craic with the video is that the Damascus process we're all mostly familiar from modern knife making bares little resemblance to the historical process from India and the ME. A lot of research went into "rediscovering" the process, and historical arms legend Mike Loades narrates the documentary.
Sadly, Al Pendray passed this June.
http://www.thetruthaboutknives.com/2017/06/knifemaking-legend-al-pendray-father-of-modern-wootz-has-passed/
What a great video! Thanks for sharing this! I've only really started looking at knife patterns and really understanding them over the last year, but this was an amazing video helping me understand what the different type of Damascus metals!