And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The Japanese hold a number traditional sword smiths as national treasures. Got to watch over a months time a team, every day, sword-smiths working a single Samari sword, using only traditional tools and techniques, without exception the amount of skilled labor in those Japanese swords is extraordinary. Thing is they started with a chunk of almost pure iron ore, turning it into steel thru repeatedly heating and forging using charcoal for forge fuel, until enough carbon from the charcoal fire transformed that ore into steel, then they forged it into a weapon. Don't recall how many times the smith flattened out his billet folded it over and forge welded the two halves together, their "power hammer" was three assistants pounding the billet with incredible synchronicity. The guy who ground and polished the blade used this block of gray abrasive stone and water along with special types of clay leather and cloth for polishing. The work involved alone makes those swords so valuable. 5 guys where involved mostly each being a specialist, not much crossover. Plus apprentices. They never said a single word to me whole time, only once when the master smith held up the completed sword, actually caught eyes with me first time and barely smiled. They all hardly talked to each other, just kept their heads down on their work, no days off either, show up every day too. Inspired me to become a knife maker, even make charcoal with a fifty five gallon barrel using our cord wood. Those guys where no dummies, as using charcoal instead of coal is much better for improving the quality of your blade steel. Makes a ton of sparks though, when you really put the air to it, say for making a forge weld. Not many thru history made blades like the Japanese smiths. Some Persian blade smiths created maybe better steel thru their Wootz process. And thats the really interesting part, folks all the way back in those early Persian times, in creating that Wootz steel alloy, they where making a steel that had a kind of woven crystal structure made out of carbon nano tubes. Completely corrosion resistant, pretty much unbreakable, and holds an edge nothing today matches. A process both the Jap Damascus steel and particularly Persian Wootz, lost for quite sometime till rediscovered a lot of centuries later. Nothing new under the sun thats for sure.
There’s something wrong with her sword… like the blade is made from wood
ReplyDeletebut can she suck off a head??
ReplyDeleteKendo practice blade.
ReplyDeleteThe Japanese hold a number traditional sword smiths as national treasures.
ReplyDeleteGot to watch over a months time a team, every day, sword-smiths working a single Samari sword, using only traditional tools and techniques, without exception the amount of skilled labor in those Japanese swords is extraordinary. Thing is they started with a chunk of almost pure iron ore, turning it into steel thru repeatedly heating and forging using charcoal for forge fuel, until enough carbon from the charcoal fire transformed that ore into steel, then they forged it into a weapon. Don't recall how many times the smith flattened out his billet folded it over and forge welded the two halves together, their "power hammer" was three assistants pounding the billet with incredible synchronicity. The guy who ground and polished the blade used this block of gray abrasive stone and water along with special types of clay leather and cloth for polishing. The work involved alone makes those swords so valuable. 5 guys where involved mostly each being a specialist, not much crossover. Plus apprentices. They never said a single word to me whole time, only once when the master smith held up the completed sword, actually caught eyes with me first time and barely smiled. They all hardly talked to each other, just kept their heads down on their work, no days off either, show up every day too. Inspired me to become a knife maker, even make charcoal with a fifty five gallon barrel using our cord wood. Those guys where no dummies, as using charcoal instead of coal is much better for improving the quality of your blade steel. Makes a ton of sparks though, when you really put the air to it, say for making a forge weld. Not many thru history made blades like the Japanese smiths. Some Persian blade smiths created maybe better steel thru their Wootz process. And thats the really interesting part, folks all the way back in those early Persian times, in creating that Wootz steel alloy, they where making a steel that had a kind of woven crystal structure made out of carbon nano tubes. Completely corrosion resistant, pretty much unbreakable, and holds an edge nothing today matches. A process both the Jap Damascus steel and particularly Persian Wootz, lost for quite sometime till rediscovered a lot of centuries later. Nothing new under the sun thats for sure.
She is Jewish!
ReplyDeleteInteresting positioning of the little finger on her left hand. She's giving up a fair amount of blade control if she actually hits anything.
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