this is a gyuto. 3 layer san-mai hocho. Handforged. mountings and sheath of olive wood. the steel inside is hypereutectoid (1,45%carbon content) very pure very fine . I got it from Achim Wirtz in Germany. the iron on the outside of the blade is butter iron from Holland. It has 0% carbon.
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I made this sword on demand for a lady. I had to take measures to be able to work on anthropometric data. it is all silver, damascus, fossilized walrus tooth, lime wood and salmon skin after old danish/north german swords from circa 300AD/ end of roman imperium. so she(the sword) may be called a spatha. it is typically mounted after the fashion of these days with an I type hilt. the blade is a hard core of damascus with average...
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