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tempering

On-Yomi: レン — Kun-Yomi: ね.る

Koohii stories:

1) [Katsuo] 15-4-2007(175): Tempering should be done with the metal facing east. (If not, the metal may pick up the earth's magnetic field).

2) [taijuando] 16-12-2006(97): In the East, especially Japan …there are masters of tempering metal to great strength….on the Spring of Trivia show in Japan I saw how a Japanese sword …actually split flying bullets…all because of special Eastern tempering techniques.

3) [joesan] 2-1-2008(36): The old sword smiths of the East were rightly famous. The secret of course was in how they tempered the metal.

4) [darg_sama] 9-11-2005(10): Tempering metal in the East… sounds like Pittsburgh to me! After all, Pittsburgh is a city in the eastern region of the US and is famous for steel working, or tempering of metal.

5) [mantixen] 6-10-2008(9): The tempering of metal was mastered in the East for the making of swords.

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