11-12-2019, 09:41 AM
Good topic Grepper. My most important takeaway from the video posted by smurfs in the "Wootz" thread was the amount of knowledge and number of processes utilized by our modern blade smith, in smelting good quality steel from iron ore. Our modern blade smith has the benefit of books, modern construction materials and machinery and not to mention - compressed gas. I'm impressed by the skills of the modern blade smith but stand in awe of those who, a thousand years ago and without benefit of "cook books", created the same product from the same materials. That alone is enough to make me doff my hat to the ancients. For me, it is not necessary to attribute any additional "miracle qualities" to the products they produced in order to stand in awe at the magnitude of their scientific achievements.