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Tamahagane Steel

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Steel for blades which is produced in the traditional Japanese manner is referred to as Tamahagane. 

This is the traditional Japanese method for creating the steel to be used to forge a katana. Iron sands would be fired for several days in a clay kiln with charcoal to create steel blooms of varying carbon content. These blooms would typically be divided according to carbon content and then formed into steel billets of varying carbon content and hardness which the smith would then used to create sword blade. These billets would then be folded to further refine the steel from impurities.

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