Richard Furrer

Hey Ric I was reading the overview of The Sword Form and Thought Conference held in Solingen last November and saw this:

Ingo Petri (Hamburg, Germany) presented a conclusive counter-statement to the hypothesis that the famous Ulfberht-Swords had been made from Indian crucible steel, which has been forwarded in popular media recently. By examining X-ray- and microscope-photographs, he could demonstrate that European steel and fire-welding-techniques had been used in constructing these swords.

Figured you had seen it already but just in case...  I have the pdf of the overview but that is all there is on that topic.

On a sad note I just found out that a load of the old Ohio Penitentiary water tower was scrapped without telling anybody recently. a guy's insurance company gave him a "clean up or we will drop you ultimatum and he scrapped everything when the local smiths would have "cleaned up" for him happily!

Thomas Powers