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Post by pvsampson on Oct 22, 2020 8:46:11 GMT
One trillion layers???
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Post by illustry on Oct 22, 2020 18:20:17 GMT
Given an average blade thickness of 6mm, or perhaps better in this case, 6,000,000 nanometers, and given that the size of an atom is about .1 nanometer, each of your layers will be several orders of magnitude smaller than an atom.
Given these parameters, you should be careful of strong nuclear blast emissions when pounding the layers with Thor's hammer.
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Post by pvsampson on Oct 22, 2020 19:19:49 GMT
Given an average blade thickness of 6mm, or perhaps better in this case, 6,000,000 nanometers, and given that the size of an atom is about .1 nanometer, each of your layers will be several orders of magnitude smaller than an atom. Given these parameters, you should be careful of strong nuclear blast emissions when pounding the layers with Thor's hammer. This thing will slice through the greatest tank cutter katana. OP, I believe you have miscalculated your layer count.
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Post by mrbadexample on Oct 22, 2020 19:25:29 GMT
Given an average blade thickness of 6mm, or perhaps better in this case, 6,000,000 nanometers, and given that the size of an atom is about .1 nanometer, each of your layers will be several orders of magnitude smaller than an atom. Given these parameters, you should be careful of strong nuclear blast emissions when pounding the layers with Thor's hammer. Greatest. Post. Ever.
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Post by tensho on Oct 23, 2020 6:36:26 GMT
OP, I believe you have miscalculated your layer count. 37 folds should equal 1.2 trillion layers. I saw a kitchen knife with 1 million layers, and the pattern was pretty "stretched" out. If anything comes of this I'm curious as to what it looks like.
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Post by MOK on Oct 23, 2020 10:11:58 GMT
In theory, starting with 9 layers and folding 37 times should result in 1,236,950,581,248 layers - in other words, a trillion and change in modern English usage. But since that would indeed result in layers less than an atom thick, in practice it's physically impossible to keep the layers distinct and what you end up with is just an inconsistently mixed mass. PS. Never take the marketing copy about a mass market knife having X layers at face value, at least for values of X greater than three. The large numbers are always exaggerated - rounded up to the nearest impressive sounding named number if the marketing department were feeling particularly honest, or just made up out of whole cloth on a regular day.
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Post by Sir Thorfinn on Oct 31, 2020 13:22:10 GMT
PICS!!!!!
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Post by samsalvati on Nov 9, 2020 2:10:33 GMT
Tldr.
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Post by pvsampson on Nov 9, 2020 4:44:58 GMT
Honestly,I really hope this works out for you. You are putting a lot of thought and effort into it.
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Post by pellius on Nov 9, 2020 4:50:17 GMT
Honestly,I really hope this works out for you. You are putting a lot of thought and effort into it. I second what pvsampson said
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Post by L Driggers (fallen) on Nov 13, 2020 2:55:38 GMT
Got to keep myself from responding to this.
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Post by samsalvati on Nov 15, 2020 13:48:37 GMT
I didn’t know people still cosplayed topics like this. Brings me back, whew.
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Post by Jordan Williams on Nov 16, 2020 14:28:25 GMT
Lots of deleted posts
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2020 14:49:20 GMT
I decided if I want too at the end, I’ll just show the project finished. I’d rather not be antagonized into an argument from other members again on my own thread. So no more progress updates. I’ll probably just post in the general discussions thread when it’s finished, which will be a long while.
Cheers
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Post by samsalvati on Nov 16, 2020 17:20:17 GMT
Riiiiiight
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Post by pvsampson on Nov 16, 2020 23:30:42 GMT
Also, I forgot to mention I might be selling the sword when it’s done. It will cost something like $25,000 when finished, which is non-negotiable. This project will take at least half a year, and I’m doing solely this project, nothing else. It will be an extreme amount of risk, be thousands invested (with already a considerable sum invested), and be many hundreds of hours of hard labor, (completely by hand, no power tools). So if your interested save your money for when I finish. Many Thanks The best of the best swordsmiths in the world could not demand that sort of money for a sword. No matter how much work you put in I cannot honestly see that you will get anywhere near that price. Again,I hope you do well with the project. It is disappointing to see the posts have been deleted as I was following with interest. Good luck.
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Post by stormmaster on Nov 16, 2020 23:34:09 GMT
Price went from 10k to an even more cool 25k lol
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Post by L Driggers (fallen) on Nov 17, 2020 0:00:53 GMT
this is a sword we will ever see. At at trillion layers it would look like mono steel. As a sword maker with a lot of the proper equipment I would ever even think about trying this. Do you even know what size of billet you would have to start with to do a trillion layer, you would lose so much steel to forge scale. Also you steels you said you wanted to combine don't work that well to gather.
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Post by mrbadexample on Nov 17, 2020 13:21:33 GMT
this is a sword we will ever see. At at trillion layers it would look like mono steel. As a sword maker with a lot of the proper equipment I would ever even think about trying this. Do you even know what size of billet you would have to start with to do a trillion layer, you would lose so much steel to forge scale. Also you steels you said you wanted to combine don't work that well to gather. Yeah. I’m leery about the silver. It’ll stick if done right (I say this having looked into it on paper but not having done it myself), but I’m not sure it’ll be great for structural integrity. Driggers, I’m impressed by your self restraint in this response. Lol. Glad to see you posting!
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Post by illustry on Nov 17, 2020 13:45:16 GMT
The silver sounds cool.
I encourage the OP to pursue his project as it will be a great learning experience. Sometimes it is easy to set your expectations too high, and then be let down when those expectations aren't met.
I admire the OP's ambition. Ambition is one ingredient of success. Don't give up OP. Stay realistic though - stay humble and learn from your experiences, and you will get there!
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