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San Mai Recovery and Our Veterans Forge
What is san mai?San Mai is a term used to describe laminated steel, a sandwich
of blade steel in the middle and cladding of some sort on the sides. The
cladding can be another blade steel or something that will not harden, the
point is more that when the finished blade is etched, the different materials
will contrast. The difference when working with San Mai is mostly about making
sure you expose a similar amount of core steel on each side when grinding, and
that final step of etching the
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14th Mar 2024