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- Thread starter Ashin Varanin
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Warden of the Sky
Hmm... *thinks about this*
I do what I want and no one can stop me. Not even [member="TiCira D'Arr Hawk"]'s lightwhip. I'd rather hear others' opinions about what Daella uses rather than my own, too.
Alexandra Feanor
The Lady in Silver/Grey Historian
Niman mixed with Trakata while using Jarkai, then Makashi and Shi-cho in certain situations.
TiCira D'Arr Hawk
Singing Mountain Clan
[member="Daella Apparine"]
She is too cute.
She is too cute.
Kung Seilois
Freelancer Extraordinaire
You realize they were folded over and over again because the Iron in Japan is incredibly flawed right? That is why they did it. It was not to make the greatest sword EVA because folding over and over makes it a super sword. They did it because they had to. The reason Europeans only folded their blades a couple of times is because they had superior Iron and thus did not need to work as hard to harden the blade and balance out the impurities in the metal.Ashe the Reaper said:
Katana are they single most over-hyped blade of all time. Because of their hardness that comes with folding so many times, they chip very easily which is why most styles involve cutting as quickly as possible and keeping the fight short, because the blades could not handle drawn out combat as European and Middle Eastern swords could.
A katana can not slice through another sword. To believe that is being ignorant. At best, you can cut through thin sheet metal which a longsword can do as well. A katana cannot cut through chainmail or other basic forms of armor. If you wish to talk about 'ancient blades' Viking blades had a carbon ratio that is incredibly close to modern high-carbon steel.
We can make superior Katanas now then they could have back then. This is not opinion, it is fact. We have superior metal as well as superior production methods. The reason we no longer fold them 'hundreds of times' is because it becomes redundant with the quality of metal we have.
#StopFeedingKatanaHype.
Judas of Vahl
Beyond Broken
Darth Arcis: The Singular Soresu Sith
+1 for Alliteration
+1 for Alliteration
Seydon of Arda
Raquor'daan
[member="TiCira D'Arr Hawk"]TiCira D'Arr Hawk said:>.>
Only if you perhaps illuminate us in your famed "Heft of Endowment"
Well it's as I told Rosa: I'm like a Elmo doll. Tickle me and the fun starts.
Nyxie
【夢狐】
Various existing steels as well.Kung Seilois said:
There are a good half a dozen different forging techniques throughout the eras, most of which contribute to the blade's ability to absorb and mitigate shock.Kung Seilois said:
No one said it was to cut through another sword. A katana can factually use less energy to cut more matter because of the way it is shaped and engineered. A longsword is a much more mundane item. Even modern katanas can cut through a pig carcass, with olden ones somehow able to cut even more.Kung Seilois said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH_oLEllyvg
Please give your source a noose and tell them to hang themselves, they're wrong. Besides, modern production methods do not replicate some of the still mostly-unknown hand forged techniques of the past. This is a straight and solid fact, look it up on the History Channel website or something. Seriously. You had some Wikipedia 'facts' right there....Kung Seilois said:
I have never been so thoroughly disappointed in a long time.
TiCira D'Arr Hawk
Singing Mountain Clan
Seroth Ur-Rahn said:[member="TiCira D'Arr Hawk"]
Well it's as I told Rosa: I'm like a Elmo doll. Tickle me and the fun starts.
... Tickling eh?
Preliat Mantis
The Wolf
Ashe the Reaper said:
Ashe the Reaper said:
irony at it's finest
Kung Seilois
Freelancer Extraordinaire
No. Iron. Steel is not found naturally. You create steel from Iron. You do not mine steel. You get steel from removing impurities from Iron. The better Iron you have, the better Steel you are going to get. Japan had crappy Iron thus had crappy steel which is why they folded over and over again to spread out the impurities and remove as much weak points in the blade as possible which is the point of folding a blade. Iron to Steel. I should not have needed to explain this.
No, that isn't how it works. When you fold a blade over and over again, it becomes hard but brittle. This is a fairly obvious outcome. If you do not fold a blade as much, it retains some of its flexibility which allows it to better absorb blows. Longswords and other European/Mid Eastern blades were not folded as much due to the superior Iron (Thus steel) and so did not need to be folded to spread out impurities because there were less impurities, because of the less folding, the blades were flexible thus not as brittle thus better at sword to sword combat as well as against armor since they were less likely to chip.
You do realize that Europeans and Middle Eastern nations also realized that curved blades are easier to cut with? In fact, Europeans have hundreds of different variants of curved blades, but the reason Straight Blades still persisted was their superiority at armor penetration. A curved blade is primarily a cutting weapon, piercing is superior at getting through armor. A curved blade can be thrusted with, but it is not as good at getting through cracks, or getting the same amount of force behind it.
Longswords can slice through pig carcasses. Would you like me to find videos of these mundane swords slicing through pigs, sheet metal, and by letting paper graze against them?
[member="Ashe the Reaper"]
No, that isn't how it works. When you fold a blade over and over again, it becomes hard but brittle. This is a fairly obvious outcome. If you do not fold a blade as much, it retains some of its flexibility which allows it to better absorb blows. Longswords and other European/Mid Eastern blades were not folded as much due to the superior Iron (Thus steel) and so did not need to be folded to spread out impurities because there were less impurities, because of the less folding, the blades were flexible thus not as brittle thus better at sword to sword combat as well as against armor since they were less likely to chip.
You do realize that Europeans and Middle Eastern nations also realized that curved blades are easier to cut with? In fact, Europeans have hundreds of different variants of curved blades, but the reason Straight Blades still persisted was their superiority at armor penetration. A curved blade is primarily a cutting weapon, piercing is superior at getting through armor. A curved blade can be thrusted with, but it is not as good at getting through cracks, or getting the same amount of force behind it.
Longswords can slice through pig carcasses. Would you like me to find videos of these mundane swords slicing through pigs, sheet metal, and by letting paper graze against them?
[member="Ashe the Reaper"]
Eternal Father
Did I ever tell you how much I love you?
@Kung Seilois
@Kung Seilois
Ashin Varanin
Professional Enabler
[member="Ashe the Reaper"] @Kung Seilois
I don't care who's right. Take it elsewhere. Next one to run their mouth, bad things happen.
I don't care who's right. Take it elsewhere. Next one to run their mouth, bad things happen.
Ashin Varanin
Professional Enabler
You don't run your mouth and then like the post calling you out. No passive-aggressive moral high ground to be found here. Shoo.
Nyxie
【夢狐】
I have the right to agree with your point and prefer that course of action, do I not? So I just fething did. I Liked it. Get over it. >_>Ashin Varanin said:
You talk of passive-aggression but you can't even tag me in the post stating it. Humph.
*walks away before cussing someone out*
Preliat Mantis
The Wolf
