In this video, I take a pile of old, worn-out kitchen knives and give them a new life — by melting them down to create Wootz steel, the legendary crucible steel known for its distinctive patterns and ...

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This time we will smelt Wootz steel from construction blades. After that, we forge the ingot of Wootz steel into a bayonet knife. If you liked our video please like it. Don't forget to subscribe to ...

The nearly 700-year-old ceremonial sword, which is likely to be returned to Hyderabad by the British government after 115 years, may have been a product of a local wootz or crucible steel industry in ...

Micro-etching done on the surface often enhance the "watered silk" pattern of old swords made of wootz steel. Reuters A 75-centimetre long Indian sword made in the late eighteenth century and probably ...

Archaeologists in Poland uncovered 26 iron objects made from a single meteorite. The artifacts, discovered during excavations at two early Iron Age cemeteries—Częstochowa-Raków and ...