Hello
There are alot of damascus short swords and bare blades on ebay. Does anyone have any experience with the stuff
on there?

Example?

Are you seeing wootz/crucible or modern manipulated and folded pattern welding? The latter is quite common and available from India at low cost.

Cheers

GC

Hello
I think it`s the modern stuff. Is the wootz steel,better,or just harder to make?

That kind of leads to the everlasting "best" threads.

In a simple sense, making wootz steel traditionally is more difficult than modern pattern welding of available steels. Pattern welded billets from India are very cheap, making a lot of available finished knives very cheap comparatively. Is wootz a better steel? Not necessarily. Are modern billets ground to knife form acceptable? Some will find such so. Other nutz like me will buy pattern welded knives and swords from folk like Kevin Cashen, Vince Evans and a host of others. Is that value better than modern billets from India? It all depends. Do smiths make wootz now, in a sense, yes some do. Are they better than..... what? I dunno ;)

You still have not posted an example. A picture would do. Cheap knives generally mean ground from ready made billets..

Cheers

GC

Heres what i`am looking at.

Pakistani,. it is more a matter of personal appeal.

Cheers

GC