Man sagt oft „Historischer wootz“ und „und die neue Klingen müssen so wie „gute alte“ sein. Wir wissen aber, die alte Klingen waren meistens weich und technisch uninteressant.
Also Gefügeaufnahmen:
Schwert 7 Jahrhundert
http://www.damask.nm.ru/Lib/teh10.html
Die Klinge ist weich, wie im viele andere alte Klingen. Und man sieht warum...
Es gibt überall viel Streit, was Wootz überhaupt ist.
Z.B. Koptev (Zitat):
V.K.:Well, in general, Wootz is more hard and more uncertain material… And it is not that it is very uncertain, the matter is that we are not quite ready to it. Somewhat novel… Tough, hard, unpleasant… and no tools for it. Normal tools are oriented on steels with definite properties, but in this case they are not appropriate… normal methods of work are not appropriate for the Wootz.
V.K.:All our grades of Wootz have the only common property: all of them during treatment, more or less, produce crumbling of carbides out…, which spoil our nerves… And they can be treated only with sintered hard alloy or diamond tools. And they are different, first of all, by pattern, and second, by capacity of forming a micro saw on the blade. For example, one of our first grades of Wootz, so called 2x2 (two-by-two), forms the saw from the very beginning and unconditionally, sometimes crumbling out at most inappropriate moment. But new grades, which we consider today to be commercial, behave more predictably and form the saw only when it is necessary… Well, but any way, some level of unpredictability remains for all grades, especially for our best grades with very complex set of alloying elements, including rare-earth metals.
Frage:
A.L.

lease, tell us, which grades are presented in your collection, which is exposed currently in the Russian Chambers Gallery?
V.K.:All six blades are forged of the Wootz Steel, which we call “two-by-two”. This is a very hard alloy. It contains 2.2% of Carbon and up to 2% of alloying elements, mainly tungsten. But despite the fact, that initially the same alloy was used, the method of forging for each blade was unique, that is why – different patterns and, consequently, different features.
Man sieht: so wie Legierung als auch Härte stimmen mit „alten Klingen“ nicht überein.
V.K.:The pattern is very weak. Something like this we had a year ago. I told Sergey Lounyov then that such steel does not resembles much the wootz, which I saw in the Armory Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin. Since then he had changed a lot in the technology of producing of ingots. Today we really have real Wootz Steel. The main difference, to my mind, is in the pattern contrast and, as I think, in the carbon contents. Pattern contrast in the metal is not only contribution to aesthetics. This is first of all the level of carbon liquation. Besides, I have not seen finished items made of Balouyev’s Steel. When there will be finished blades, then we will see. Until now I saw only polished and etched strip
V.K.:Only on photographs. These were items made by V.I. Basov. I do not think of metal of Leonid Arkhangelsy as of Wootz Steel. I would be more appropriate to say that I do not think of it at all.
Also hier ist geschrieben, wer Wootz oder kein Wootz macht.
Übrigens: die Seite von Sergey Lounyov ist verschwunden. Der hat da einige Gefügeaufnahmen gemacht.
Was schreiben dann Experten von Russian Chambers Gallery?
Tolstoj: Die Wootzgeheimnisse hat für uns Anoßov geluftet. Also vor 150 Jahre.
Wir wissen aber, dass richtige Wootz- Herstellung vor kurzem in der USA entdeckt wurde.
Die Gefüge und Romans- Meinung hier kennen wir auch.
Auch nach Romans- Meinung „die feinste und fehlerfreiste Gefüge“, die nach Methode aus der USA entstehen sollte, stimmst (s.o.) nicht ganz (nicht immer).
Es gibt noch neue und "historische" Gefügeaufnahmen- aber das später.
Hinsichtlich „Praxistest“ bleibt meine Frage aber:
Gibt’s also Wootz- Klingen, die bei einer Härte von z.B 62- 65 Flextest (Schneide) gut bestehen können? Bei Schneidendicke bis 0.2 (0.3) und Schneidwinkel 20 bis 25...
