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I had the privilege of hanging out with Michael Bell recently for a couple of days and watched him forge. He's a down-to-earth man who loves his family, his dogs, and swords, and an occasional albacore tuna for sushi. Anyways, to make a long story short, other than being one heckuva polisher and having an incredible eye for traditional blade forms and shapes, he forges just like everyone else. Get steel, heat, beat, reheat, beat, etc. Then clay, then heat, then quench. Sorry to simplify the mystical and mysterious process of Japanese sword forging, but while that website had all kinds of scientific info, Michael didn't really use any of it. It's just forging and heating and, at the final state, observing for the right color and then quenching it. It's less of a science... more of an art.
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