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Originally Posted by sirdarksol  The use of higher quality steel makes up for this in the quality of the blades, but it is an art in Japan, not a science, so loss of knowledge/ability cannot be completely be atoned for by better materials. |
Actually it could not be use of high quality steel, but the quality of iron ore.
Though knowledge/ability has to be in place in order to get the iron ore into quality steel.
Bacially, no matter the grade of material, without the knowledge to refine it, it is nothing more than a hunk of metallic rock.
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