Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure they are folded about 10ish times. With 10 folds you get 1024 layers of metal in the blade. Folding it a thousand times would require an intense amount of labor, and much of the metal you be lost to oxidation during forging.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure they are folded about 10ish times. With 10 folds you get 1024 layers of metal in the blade. Folding it a thousand times would require an intense amount of labor, and much of the metal you be lost to oxidation during forging.