The Sword in Your Hand

danielwang · Post by **danielwang** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 10:32 pm

Alter_Kazuma wrote:i would love to have Shishio Makoto's sword. that was cool. to be able to burn people with it.

this sword rocks also. 15lbs of power. looks great on my wall.

there are also so many out there to count that i would love to have.[/url]

Interesting.
That's either a high-quality, professionally polished sword, or it's chromium.

Chromium in a sword is NOT good. Do RESEARCH, or if you're stubborn, call a member of the Cornell Fracture Group or [url=http://www.swordforum.com/] SFMO and they'll tell you why.

However, if it HAS been polished correctly, it can reflect light in that matter. The Japanese method seems to be the best, according to the latest AFM height scans. Some of the best professional polishers can get the peak/dip height on a katana to what 12 microns (um) (u=mu)

Lyrs · Post by **Lyrs** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 10:33 pm

okay.....swords,

http://www.diabloii.net/items/item_sets ... thos.shtml

been trying to collect 'em for like ever!

http://www.diabloii.net/items/uniques/w ... lite.shtml

wish i had 'em

danielwang · Post by **danielwang** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 10:40 pm

I'll have a water-repellant sword too. Though it can't be polished to shine or it won't work.

Science Magazine, Vol.299 No.5611, Erbil, et al, wrote:The hydrophobocity of a material is mostly dependent on it's surface chemistry, but can be altered by changing the surface topography. Superhydrophobic materials have been made, but usually only from expensive starting materials that required machining or etching to roughen the surface. Working with isotactic propylene, Erbil et al. (p. 1377) show that they can modify the standard gelation process to product a rough polymeric coating on glass, aluminum, seel, and other polymers; this coating has a water contact angle around 160 degrees.

The Japanese bladesmiths, amazingly, did manage to hit the eutectic temperature or their stell right on the spot, creating the perfect self-assembled heterophase monolayer, each layer approximately 0.1 micron width. But they never found out about that!

El Banana · Post by **El Banana** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 10:59 pm

I'd like to have this bad boy....

Lyrs wrote:

what is the name of this sword?

I believe it is a gim sword, a tai-chi sword would probably be smaller....

Mr Pilkington · Post by **Mr Pilkington** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 11:26 pm

MAS PRODUCTIONS wrote:
Mr Pilkington wrote:
CliffD wrote:Put simply, if you HAD the skill, AND you could choose from ANY media (print, anime, live-action, and/or video game, just to name a few), what sword would be in your hand?
Gatts' Dragonslayer. Not the wussy one. I'm talking about his 7 foot Zweihander of homicidal doom!
There isn't a human alive that could wield such a sword. The only way to use one would be if it were made of aluminum, but that would defeat the strength factor of the sword since most its power comes from its immense weight.

Maybe, but the sheer bragging rights in owning said blade is alone reason enough. Besides the question at hand wasn't a matter of function it was merely a question of "what if."

Cardinal.jpg · Post by **Cardinal.jpg** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 1:36 am

Lyrs wrote:okay.....swords,

http://www.diabloii.net/items/item_sets ... thos.shtml

been trying to collect 'em for like ever!

http://www.diabloii.net/items/uniques/w ... lite.shtml

wish i had 'em

My barb dual weilds Light sabres with ith runes to make them 45% increased attack speed. Completely legit also. They have different damage ranges to prove it.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 7:41 am

danielwang wrote:I'll have a water-repellant sword too. Though it can't be polished to shine or it won't work.

Science Magazine, Vol.299 No.5611, Erbil, et al, wrote:The hydrophobocity of a material is mostly dependent on it's surface chemistry, but can be altered by changing the surface topography. Superhydrophobic materials have been made, but usually only from expensive starting materials that required machining or etching to roughen the surface. Working with isotactic propylene, Erbil et al. (p. 1377) show that they can modify the standard gelation process to product a rough polymeric coating on glass, aluminum, steel, and other polymers; this coating has a water contact angle around 160 degrees.
The Japanese bladesmiths, amazingly, did manage to hit the eutectic temperature or their steel right on the spot, creating the perfect self-assembled heterophase monolayer, each layer approximately 0.1 micron width. But they never found out about that!

And now you know what I do for a living. Spellcheck the EXACT stuff above. I think I even spellchecked that journal sometime.

GoldenGundam · Post by **GoldenGundam** » Thu Sep 04, 2003 4:18 pm

The Onyx Sword of Eldrith the Betrayer (BG: Dark Alliance)

Eldrith's soul was tied to the sword (like the One Ring on TLOTR) and weilding the sword allows you to use a part of her soul to defeat your enemies. (So says the tale)

SQ · Post by SQ » Thu Sep 04, 2003 4:24 pm

Well, I've been taking Kendo/Kenjutso for almost three years now.. And some very expensive bugei katana, or possibly the Cold Steel Warrior series katana looks nice...

... Those anime swords though.. If you've never cut something with a katana before... It takes a lot out of you. And anything heavier then three pounds will tire you out after about three swings, so...

the real Cold Steel Warrior or Imperial series... Yeah... Those look nice...

-wishes she had money so she didn't have to use the school sword... And so she could buy the Cold Steel katana-

SQ · Post by SQ » Thu Sep 04, 2003 4:26 pm

SQ wrote:Well, I've been taking Kendo/Kenjutsu for almost three years now..

Wouldn't of corrected it if I didn't know there was going to be some major flaming about "You don't even know your own art" crap... >>

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