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Post by charleshelm on Feb 4, 2019 7:04:00 GMT -5
Yes, and you can do things like differential heat treating, especially in a single-edged blade, to keep the spine flexible while hardening the edge. Lots to know in the area, and it is interesting. Swords were very expensive back in the old days, which is why so many used axes or spears instead. Yet they still buried them with people or threw them in rivers at times....then they occasionally burned fabulously expensive ships too...
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Post by kemp on Feb 4, 2019 7:16:43 GMT -5
Yes, and you can do things like differential heat treating, especially in a single-edged blade, to keep the spine flexible while hardening the edge. Lots to know in the area, and it is interesting. Swords were very expensive back in the old days, which is why so many used axes or spears instead. Yet they still buried them with people or threw them in rivers at times....then they occasionally burned fabulously expensive ships too... Yeah, and many of the swords recovered in burial mounds and chambers were purposefully bent, some scholars surmising that it was to dissuade grave robbers from disturbing the burial sites of wealthy lords and warriors in their search for usable weapons.
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Post by Char-Vell on Apr 7, 2019 18:52:50 GMT -5
Today I found an old "sword" I created when I was about 12 in the creek behind my parents house.
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Post by charleshelm on Apr 7, 2019 20:19:45 GMT -5
Needs a little brushing up maybe...
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