Knife or Death

r8shell said:
Interesting. Is there a reason you decided to go with that blade, and not one you had used/tested previously?
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This is the only photo I have of the first sword made for the show, the fat one on the right:

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It is Ti Nb alloy, with the HT oxides preserved which is what I wanted to bring. However, the handle was not comfortable enough when I beat the blade as hard as I could into something solid like a log, and I couldn't get a 2-handed grip on it with space between the hands. It was also not representative enough of the blade shape I'm generally going for.

So I took some of the other alloy which was already in plate form rather than square bar stock like the ti nb, and was way easier to forge in general just because of its properties, as well as easier to grind and HT, and just whipped up a big mecha-style blade from it, and finished it the day before the deadline to send it off to the show people.
 
Mecha said:
This is the only photo I have of the first sword made for the show, the fat one on the right:

v9HFr31.jpg


It is Ti Nb alloy, with the HT oxides preserved which is what I wanted to bring. However, the handle was not comfortable enough when I beat the blade as hard as I could into something solid like a log, and I couldn't get a 2-handed grip on it with space between the hands. It was also not representative enough of the blade shape I'm generally going for.

So I took some of the other alloy which was already in plate form rather than square bar stock like the ti nb, and was way easier to forge in general just because of its properties, as well as easier to grind and HT, and just whipped up a big mecha-style blade from it, and finished it the day before the deadline to send it off to the show people.
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those both look awesome, but the sheer barbarism at play in that sick dao type thing is pretty damn appealing on a gut level
I like the pretty rainbow colours, too
 
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