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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2007 17:13:37 GMT
Dream sword hmm let's see, single billet of wootz damascus steel. The blade would be a 1000 times folded XIIIa Oakeshott and steal rammsteins pommel because it looks cool. Not sure if it is possible but would be beautiful. Blade length 35", handle length 10", PoB the pommel which would be filled with a small amount of lead to balance it perfectly so it feels weightless, overall weight lets call it about 2 kilos.
Either that or a wootz steel khukuri sword with a blade 35" long and a 10" handle.
Failing all that a damascus pattern medieval leafblade sword, oh wait, that one has already been made.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2007 17:41:32 GMT
Where did you find a damascus leafblade sword
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2007 3:43:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2007 7:54:00 GMT
I always wanted to have a sword blade made with the iron ore from a metorite obviously not from this planet. OK maybe it's a bit fantasy but it is possible. Besides probably getting a great blade out of it the wonderment of what part of the universe it came from, how old it is and being sure it's one of a kind draws me to seriously wanting a sword made.I wonder how much cash we a dealing with for one. I saw a show about meteor hunters... they sold a 6 pound meteorite for about a million US dollars, take that and then figure some of the material in it isnt iron and it gets very expensive...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2007 8:46:18 GMT
metorite steel has been used in a sword, I just cant remember which smith it was that did it, maybe John Lundemo(spelling?) or the big name US smiths. The combined it with other steel into a damascus billet if I remember rightly.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2007 15:47:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2007 12:40:12 GMT
I ran into this article recently www.winstonbrill.com/bril001/html/article_index/articles/101-150/article122_body.html *snip "Our technique was to continuously work, by rolling or forging, the very-high-carbon steel as it cooled from 1200¢ªC. The mechanical action broke the iron carbide networks as they started forming during cooling, preventing the formation of the thick, brittle networks normally found in ultrahigh carbon steels.
After six months of experimenting with various mechanical working steps on several very high-carbon steels, we achieved the desired microstructure: ultrafine spherical grains of iron carbide embedded in ultrafine spherical grains of iron. These materials were superplastic at high temperature and, equally important, were not brittle at room temperature. We received a patent for our procedures and compositions, which are now called ultrahigh carbon steel. " This flexible ultrahigh carbon steel seems like it would be ideal material. My dream sword would have to be a type 1 schiavona made out of this, with a traditional brass cat's head pommel. The grip would be steel covered in and attractive leather, i'm thinking ostrich. The blade would begin as a hexagonal cross section, and transition gradually into a hollow ground diamond. The transition and the amount of distal taper would both be dictated by the pob.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2007 10:35:39 GMT
I was just reading up on properties of steel and found the following very technical reason as to why the Silicon in 9260 is good for the cheness blades. Silicon REDUCES ductility, which is defined as the ability to be PLASTICALLY DEFORMED, i.e. bent and set. As a consequence of this reduction of ductility, the blade at tough and strong hardnesses(mid RC 50s) would therefore have a high ability to be ELASTICALLY DEFORMED, i.e. bent while still returning to true. Had the steel retained it's ductility, such bends would permanently set the blade. Whoo-HA! (forgive me if this is fairly obvious to all of you. I personally find a lot of pleasures in the 'hows' and 'whys' of the universe. I was never satisfied with 'Silicon makes cheness swords better. I wanted to know WHY. And now I do.) It also makes blade steels like 5160 a semprini to forge. Thats why you use stock removal and buy a billet cut to specs, and then jkust do the final shaping by hand, and have it professional heat treated, will make a better blade then hand forging I'm afraid, a more even carbon content due to being heat treated in a computerized temperature controlled forge, as well as not having varying degrees in forge temperature while forging create slight variations in your carbon content. Go with stock remova, though if you are the one making it, stock remove takes longer.
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