OT Terry pratchett forges sword

Very amusing. I look at the story differently now. Before joining BF I would have looked at it and said it would have been an awesome sword. Now, I look at it and think, "Hmmm, unknown steel, home smelting with low carbon. . . Well, at least it's got Thunderbolt Iron in it. That's stuff's magical!"
 
zaph, if he had the proper kind of help, it might indeed make a nice sword. Sounds very similar to some of the smelts done by some of our own members including Kevin Cashen. That's how the Japanese made their simple carbon steels for a long, long time. As for the metiorite, I want to say he was being tongue-in-cheek. :)

The difficulty with a home smelted bloom is the inconsistency. It takes some experience to pick out the higher carbon content and group it together and then forge it into a single piece.

--nathan
 
Having done smelting and seen what Ric Furrer does with meteorite iron, and what some other smiths do with home smelted steel (In addition to Kevin's ore to sword weekend rock cookout which I was very happy to have the opportunity to be there for) I have every confidence that if he was working with an experienced smith who knows how to work the steel it is probably great

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:thumbup: As an avid Pratchet fan I find this cool beyond description, the only thing that breaks my heart is that I couldn’t be the one to help him make his sword. To stand beside the creator of Diskworld while guiding him in feeding the smelter would have been one of the greatest moments of my life. This news just put him over the top for me as one of the coolest human beings that ever lived.:cool: Alzheimer’s has to be a very evil disease as it seems to have a penchant for taking some of our greatest minds, too many of my personal heros have been its victim:(.
 
They need a big discworld box set that I can buy and just get them all at once, I want to read them all in the order he wrote them, but i'll be damned if my library can get them. (what is it with libraries not bothering to get sci-fi or fantasy novels?)

I have always preferred authors who write long series or create worlds, because I read so fast that I'm disappointed when i reach the end of a book and know there isn't more to come. Hence prolific authors like Pratchett, Asimov, Herbert, Peirs Anthony, C.S. Lewis, Heinlein, etc are my favorites.
 
Justin.Mercier said:
They need a big discworld box set that I can buy and just get them all at once, I want to read them all in the order he wrote them, but i'll be damned if my library can get them. (what is it with libraries not bothering to get sci-fi or fantasy novels?)

I have always preferred authors who write long series or create worlds, because I read so fast that I'm disappointed when i reach the end of a book and know there isn't more to come. Hence prolific authors like Pratchett, Asimov, Herbert, Peirs Anthony, C.S. Lewis, Heinlein, etc are my favorites.
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All my library stocks is romance novels for women who read 3 a day.
Library purchasing decisions are done on volume and the checkout numbers rule (and the library here is staffed and run by women who like such things.)

What I find sad about the original post and story is that the highly respected and knighted author has to hide the high quality sword and symbol of knighthood from the authorities to avoid prosecution and persecution.
 
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Having recently read my first DiscWorld book and decided I have missed something in life, I find this WAY too cool for words! Thanks for sharing!
 
Kevin R. Cashen said:
:thumbup: As an avid Pratchet fan I find this cool beyond description, the only thing that breaks my heart is that I couldn’t be the one to help him make his sword. To stand beside the creator of Diskworld while guiding him in feeding the smelter would have been one of the greatest moments of my life. This news just put him over the top for me as one of the coolest human beings that ever lived.:cool: Alzheimer’s has to be a very evil disease as it seems to have a penchant for taking some of our greatest minds, too many of my personal heros have been its victim:(.
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I'm a great Pratchet fan as well. I have all his books (and related ones) and I thought exactly the same way about Alzheimer...
That such a mind of fire and quicksilver can be smothered spark by spark by such an illness saddens me beyond words.
It seems to me a paradigm of unfairness...
Luckily, he seems to be following a treatment that shows some results.
 
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