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deathsdoctor ([personal profile] deathsdoctor) wrote in [personal profile] pendantry 2014-01-31 03:54 am (UTC)

[... hmmm. How does he describe the patterns he's seen in iron and steel sometimes. They're interesting and natural. Maybe there's something around with something similar.]

Well sometimes metal get these patterns that occur in it as they're worked. There's a type of steel that gets a wood grain pattern occurring throughout it when it's forged. [A person from an Earth would call it Damascus steel. But given the description, Raven could also think of mokume-gane.] And sometimes iron gets this mottled finish with bands that hatch across each other. [He's picturing iron with a high nickel content, typically sourced from meteors, that produces this pattern when lightly etched with acid. A Widmanstätten pattern.] So I'm thinking an etching that mimics something like that.

[He can't describe what he's picturing further because he simply doesn't know the smiths do these things or what they're called. He's just knows it fetches a decent Beri on the market.]

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