It’s been awhile since I’ve added anything to this thread but a thought has just occurred to me.
If Titanium is worse than steel at forming and maintaining an edge, how about making a titanium sword blade/spearhead/mace head out of titanium, and then melding a sharpened steel edge onto them...
Nighty_Knight
“If you can even count Clouds buster sword as an actual sword. That thing is more like a cleaver for cutting heavy objects. Clouds sword is big and dense enough I think it would take more than a plywood table to harm it. That and do we ever really know the quality of Clouds sword...
Prince of Spires
“The thing with heat treating is not so much to do with temperatures and the like (though it's done through temperature), what you actually do is change the crystal structure of the metal to give it a different property. I'm not an expert on titanium, but if titanium simply...
pmmg
“Well...its hard to research anything anymore. You cant even get people to agree the sky is blue.”
I know right? I typed in ‘Is titanium as strong as steel?’ On Google and the first thing I saw was a wall of text saying that titanium is equal to steel in strength but lighter than it in...
pmmg
“Titanium may be a difficult material to work with, but there are already titanium swords and knives so its not impossible.”
Yeah that’s the thing about Titanium. There’s a lot of information about it online, but so much of it seems to contradict itself. I’ve heard a lot of people say...
Nighty_Knight
So let me get this straight. If someone swung Peter Francisco’s Claymore into a Plywood table, that would take less damage than Cloud’s Buster Sword if you did the same thing with it?
pmmg
“Seems I did not understand a lot...”
No problem. All my fault really for not being specific enough.
“If there is a role for wind mages in the crafting of weapons, the things I am thinking of would seem only be a stretch to make it useful. I don’t really think they would be needed...
Tbh, I’m not planning to design any one handed swords with hilts and cross guards made out that stuff. Just bows, polearm shafts and greatswords. Also Don’t worry, fire and electricity are the last things any one using weapons made out of this stuff has to worry about.
@Nightly_Knight
“Yes, less durable. Because it will hold its shape much better, but when it does reach a point it has to move it will crack, break, or even shatter. That’s a big reason sword steel is hardened between HRc45 and HRc65. Too much higher than HRc65 or so and it will be too brittle...
pmmg
“Where is Malik when you need him ;)”
Who’s Malik?
“Have you not seen what a tornado does to a house? Or what happens if I pull the air away, and leave one in a vacuum.”
I didn’t explain this thoroughly enough. Of course elemental magic users can just use their powers to defeat their...
@Nightly_Knight
“Swords are supposed to bend. If they are too rigid it will make them brittle and they will break easier, especially with shock impacts.”
Wait. Are you saying that a sword that doesn’t bend even a little bit is less durable than a sword that does? How?
“Heating a sword to 1000...
Man its been awhile since I’ve posted anything on this website. This one’s gonna be a little different though. Rather than asking a single question in relation to a single underlying story/world building problem, this one’s gonna be broken down into a list of different questions all about a...