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Topic Started: Mar 31 2017, 06:34 PM (139 Views)
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Mar 31 2017, 06:34 PM
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Post by: SatyaHarbinger Date: 05-XX-2014 at 16:01
So I've got a problem, and I was hoping that someone could help me figure out what I should do here. I've been commissioned to make a sword out of titanium, which has a melting point of 1668 degrees celsius. I know I can do it, but of the two anvils I have in the shop, I'm not sure which one I should use. I've got a bigger, newer one that I've been using for most of my commissions, and it's been really nice -- I get good results when I use it, but its material has a melting point of 1500 celsius. On the other hand, my old anvil, the one I first started working on is still here in a shed, and it does fine, but it's kind of dinged up from me learning to do things, and some spots are a tiny bit rusted. I don't really need it, and I'm not terribly sentimental about it, but the melting point of only 1400 degrees. I don't really have enough money to get a new one of the appropriate make to work at the appropriate temperature, and replacing one would be kind of a problem, and I don't really want to take the time to make one: it would really eat into my productivity, and I don't think that it would be a good idea. So I'm just wondering if anyone has any advice on how I should approach this.
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Mar 31 2017, 06:43 PM
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Post By: RagarokPrepper Date: 05-XX-2014 at 16:46
Well, I don't know if they're common, but there's two Persona abilities that might help? Red Wall can be applied to the anvils and I guess it might up their heat resistance (and therefore melting point), fire break might do the same to the titanium sword?
(What's the main advantage of making a sword out of this, BTW?)
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Mar 31 2017, 06:51 PM
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Post by: SatyaHarbinger Date: 05-XX-2014 at 16:52
Well, I don't know if red wall would take, because the Advil isn't alive, and I'm not sure if using fire break would work on the metal or if it would change the properties of it permanently. Different crystalline structures form under different heat and pressure regimes.
If I could get it to work, the blade would be lighter and more durable. Unfortunately, I think I'd have to ruin one anvil to do it.
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Mar 31 2017, 08:31 PM
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Post by: BaDumTsh Date: 05-XX-2014 at 17:04
Isn't titanium a bad material for swords? I think I read somewhere that titanium is too soft to make sword blades because it would constantly go dull.
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Mar 31 2017, 09:06 PM
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Post by: SatyaHarbinger Date: 05-XX-2014 at 17:05
It's actually the opposite of soft: the real problem is that it would usually shatter, but if done properly, that would be beyond the range of human strength.
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Mar 31 2017, 09:06 PM
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Post By: MatsuzakiTsubasa Date: 05-XX-2014 at 17:06
The reason it's a bad material for swordmaking is because of the heat-treating problem. In theory, it could be used to make a decent weapon. But even if it could be heat-treated to a point where it could achieved the necessary edge, there's a good chance that it would not retain that edge, and an even better chance that a steel sword would cut through it were it ever to clash with such a blade.
In other words, just make a sword with the right damned metal, and do not be such an edge lord about it.
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Mar 31 2017, 09:10 PM
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Post by: SatyaHarbinger Date: 05-XX-2014 at 17:09
I can't believe I'm sitting here making all of this effort to post while I've got a migraine so that I could share a complicated metalworking-related pun and some guy I've never even heard of beats me to the punch.
Not one full night's sleep since the first full night of golden week and not one person set me up to write the phrase "lesser of two anvils."
I'm going to go put a wash cloth over my eyes.
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