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Post by treeslicer on Jul 24, 2021 1:26:41 GMT
May thy knife chip and shatter (and melt if you leave it on the radiator)!
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Post by Paul Muad’Dib on Jul 24, 2021 1:39:56 GMT
Doesn’t look at all what I envisioned as I read the books. Of course that is not a surprise. Should be a translucent white/cream color. Never in the books did it mention any engraving but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t any. What made it a personal/ bonded to the carrier was just carrying it on your person afair. If taken away or lost it would dissolve after some time. Very disappointing but never expected much to start with. Edit: And $159. RIIIGHT. It does look translucent white to me, you can see the model's fingers through the blade in one of the pictures. You are correct, I did not go that far into the photos. My bad. Doesn’t change my opinion. |
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Post by Paul Muad’Dib on Jul 24, 2021 1:43:43 GMT
May thy knife chip and shatter (and melt if you leave it on the radiator)! [br Treeslicer, thank you. I knew something was off but couldn’t pin it down. And yes, let’s not get space heaters involved. |
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Post by pvsampson on Aug 15, 2021 1:52:03 GMT
I always wanted a proper Crysknife, accurate to the description in the book. I wondered how one would make a functional one? Ceramic? Amber or a some form of gem? Natural agate could be used. Possible to put an edge on with knapping, I have ground usable edges on fantasy style stone knives I have made some years ago, (no images sorry). Ground from a single thick enough piece should be easy enough but time consuming, handle would be integral part. If I can find some stone I may give it a go over the next couple of weeks and report back. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2021 1:54:58 GMT
I always wanted a proper Crysknife, accurate to the description in the book. I wondered how one would make a functional one? Ceramic? Amber or a some form of gem? Natural agate could be used. Possible to put an edge on with knapping, I have ground usable edges on fantasy style stone knives I have made some years ago, (no images sorry). Ground from a single thick enough piece should be easy enough but time consuming, handle would be integral part. If I can find some stone I may give it a go over the next couple of weeks and report back. I used to have some of that. It chipped nicely, I don't remember how sharp it was. I might have ground the edges down back then I'll keep an eye out for some as well. I also got a big chunk of quartz with thin slivers of gold veins in it, I considered trying that out |
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Post by treeslicer on Aug 15, 2021 2:10:18 GMT
If it's supposed to be a tooth, some form of calcium phosphate would be appropriate. I'd expect that some form of hard proteinaceous material would be present as well, and that the edges would be finely serrated like shark's teeth. I had a link here on calcium phosphate cements, but the obscenity filter doesn't like the link's name.  |
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Post by pvsampson on Aug 15, 2021 2:11:38 GMT
I have a piece of this stuff left, some white onyx I have had for many years. Would not be a functional knife in the literal sense but would be better than plastic. Have a little agate as well,but would be around six inches,narrow. Is there any idea of what the dimensions would be overall?  8 inches. |
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Aug 15, 2021 2:14:24 GMT
A sandworm tooth, something that resists permanent sandblasting, rather diamond than enamel.
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Post by treeslicer on Aug 15, 2021 2:21:17 GMT
A sandworm tooth, something that resists permanent sandblasting, rather diamond than enamel. I'd agree that in reality something like diamond or alumina would be present, but Herbert wasn't known for writing hard science fiction. His entire setup in Dune was a hollow plot device to support the society he wanted to play with. Sandworms themselves don't make sense biologically. Dune's ultimately as much a fantasy as LOTR or Frozen. The crysknife Herbert describes is a big, sharp tooth. |
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Aug 15, 2021 2:48:58 GMT
Yup, but "harder than enamel" is on the same scientific level as "bigger than an earthworm"!  |
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Post by treeslicer on Aug 15, 2021 3:05:40 GMT
Yup, but "harder than enamel" is on the same scientific level as "bigger than an earthworm"! Silica would work, if the teeth were shed/renewed often enough, and the teeth would be laying all over the place. In that case, the thing would basically be a flint knife, which is not the impression I got from the book, nor were piles of worm teeth mentioned. |
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Aug 15, 2021 3:11:09 GMT
The fixing thing is hard to fix!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2021 7:22:06 GMT
Yup, but "harder than enamel" is on the same scientific level as "bigger than an earthworm"! Silica would work, if the teeth were shed/renewed often enough, and the teeth would be laying all over the place. In that case, the thing would basically be a flint knife, which is not the impression I got from the book, nor were piles of worm teeth mentioned. Honestly, I buy that. I like that view on them. Explains why they want it to chip. Now I wanna get into Flint napping (knapping?) |
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Post by Paul Muad’Dib on Aug 15, 2021 10:50:29 GMT
Silica would work, if the teeth were shed/renewed often enough, and the teeth would be laying all over the place. In that case, the thing would basically be a flint knife, which is not the impression I got from the book, nor were piles of worm teeth mentioned. Honestly, I buy that. I like that view on them. Explains why they want it to chip. Now I wanna get into Flint napping (knapping?) With the k. |
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