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Cyrano4747 posted:Or you could take that steel, melt it down, and make the most mediocre gun in the world which will still be far and away superior to the finest hanzo-Damascus hybrid early modern tech kinda sucks
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Cyrano4747 posted:Or you could take that steel, melt it down, and make the most mediocre gun in the world which will still be far and away superior to the finest hanzo-Damascus hybrid Or a gunsword
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May 25, 2017 04:19
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Jobbo_Fett posted:You forgot to make bullets Its okay if I remember HALO right you can just pistol whip people to death.
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Ah yes, the age old answer to the question of "best sword:" getting a gun. Tune in next when we decide Miss Universe by paying a hooker to sleep with us, win the "WW2's best bolt action rifle contest" by flying in an F/A-18 and conquer the world's cutest kitten contest by paying a hooker to sleep with us.
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By the same process that means one of them Hitachi vibrator things is probably the world's best penischitoryu12 posted:I don't think most modern swords are meant for use as tools. They're for display, occasionally chopping stuff on a demo video to prove their sharpness, and being used in mock combat for a fairly small subset of people who use legit swords on each other. well. actually 
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May 25, 2017 04:59
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"how best to sell my street sword urban combat fighting method? obviously I will not be able to leave my mountain shrine for this photoshoot"
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Grand Prize Winner posted:By the same process that means one of them Hitachi vibrator things is probably the world's best penis quote:well. actually It is magnificently terrible.
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May 25, 2017 05:31
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i make sure to keep to the 21 foot rule when i carry around my matchlock musket
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May 25, 2017 05:43
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Grand Prize Winner posted:well. actually Am I crazy, or is that blade photoshopped in, while the hilt seems real?
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May 25, 2017 05:49
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Jack2142 posted:Its okay if I remember HALO right you can just pistol whip people to death. Well then by that logic the guy with the sword will teleport 15 feet and kill you instantly.
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May 25, 2017 06:18
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Greatbacon posted:Am I crazy, or is that blade photoshopped in, while the hilt seems real? I think it looks photoshopped because the blade is reflecting the white snow, which makes it look like it has uniform lighting.
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May 25, 2017 06:37
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SlothfulCobra posted:The Japanese smith actually forgets about the contest until the last day and just grabs an oar, but still finishes third. 
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May 25, 2017 06:53
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chitoryu12 posted:Removing the missiles from Turkey was just a ruse. The actual trade was for Sokolov. actually, the removal of the turkish missiles was cover for an off-the-books part of the kgb to make contact with the djinni colony on mount ararat
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May 25, 2017 06:56
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The Lone Badger posted:Can't he take a historical example, laser-scan it, and duplicate the shape to the nearest hundredth-millimetre? The shape wouldn't take advantage of the modern steel's properties as well as it could have, but it would still be OK. You could but you'd miss out on stuff like the balance of the blade and so forth especially since you're using a different steel. Basically, stuff that you'd mostly need to field test which as mentioned before isn't all that common nowadays.
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Surely the different steels aren't going to have different enough densities to throw things off? They're all mostly-iron. The other part of balancing a sword is the furniture, and that's not actually the swordsmith's job.
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I think the modern metallurgist should be generally unfamiliar with what makes a good bladed weapon besides steel quality to make things fair. Because this is quite serious.
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Polyakov posted:Saurkraut was certainly employed, and it has a fairly high vitamin C content at 15mg/100g, as compared to 30mg/100g for limes and 60mg/100g for lemons (not sure on juice but i think its very close to that value). Im not really sure why the RN didnt issue it, they tested it with Captain Cook in the early 1700's and found out that it worked. I would guess that it was because Lind and his successors didnt really study it for whatever reason and so as a result it didnt get brought to the attention of the RN leadership at the time that the decisions were being made. I think the real reason is that in the early 1700's the ships were able to go into port ,or a safe harbor, every few weeks to resupply and scrape the hull. The British Empire was just Newfoundland island, the coastal strip of North America, Jamaica and some scattered Caribbean islands, and some slaving forts on the gold coast. The east India company consisted of a few outposts under the protection of local rulers. What happens is that by the 1760's they've coppered the hulls of the fleet , so they only need to put in briefly a few times a year to take on water and provisions. The Empire has become a great power as a result of the seven years war, and the east India company has lucked out at the battle of Plassey and conquered Bengal. By the 1770's the crews are routinely making long voyages, and they start going three or four years without ever getting a chance to leave the ship. Sometimes they just get imprisoned at the end of the commission and transferred to a new ship. Also, after the seven years war the Navy starts to become a serious career option, so by the 1770's if you're not middle / upper class you've got no hope of career advancement ,and now you're being treated worse by the new officer class. Throughout the 1780's there's some high profile mutinies and discipline and quality of life gets even worse as a result of that. Plus the pay rates were set in the 1650's and never adjusted for inflation, and there's a rising class consciousness as a result of the American and French revolutions and the impressment of American sailors into the navy - so in 1797 it all comes to a head and the fleet mutinies and blockades London.
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Pontius Pilate posted:I think the modern metallurgist should be generally unfamiliar with what makes a good bladed weapon besides steel quality to make things fair. Because this is quite serious. The modern metallurgist is familiar with the theory and practice of producing various different steels with different qualities. Basically if someone asks, "I want a sword with these qualities", he can do that. None of the others have this capability.
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May 25, 2017 10:37
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OwlFancier posted:You would think ergonomics would also be important for any tool, though. The HEMA class i used to go to kept one bad practice sword around for reasons and I occasionally ended up using that. Structurally sound and all that so you could practice with it, but the ergonomics of it were awful since it was really heavy and badly balanced. You could do all the sword poo poo with it but I at least ended up getting sore arms from waving it around for an hour.
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BattleMoose posted:The modern metallurgist is familiar with the theory and practice of producing various different steels with different qualities. Basically if someone asks, "I want a sword with these qualities", he can do that. None of the others have this capability. But he needs someone to tell him what those properties are. Swordsmiths throughout history have searched for the answer to the riddle of steel. The modern engineer has all the answers, but he doesn't know the question.
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Those assholes have a bajillion katanas and all sorts of weird poo poo, but no repro heavy cavalry sword that Sharpe used? Shaaame! EDIT: Reviews of boar spears by guys who actually use them to hunt boars. Americans are crazy, why try to spear a boar when you can shoot it with a gun? JcDent fucked around with this message at 13:22 on May 25, 2017 |
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JcDent posted:EDIT: Reviews of boar spears by guys who actually use them to hunt boars. Americans are crazy, why try to spear a boar when you can shoot it with a gun? because its cool also most American "boars" are really feral pigs, which are still dangerous but I think they're generally a lot smaller. We have actual boars too though because rich assholes imported them from Europe to hunt in the 1900s and they escaped.
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Jamwad Hilder posted:because its cool Shooting a feral pig with explosive rounds from an anti-materiel rifle from a kilometer away is also cool, you know. Or just use auto-aim.
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You definitely can get near perfect replicas of historical swords if you've got the money. I've seen people cut with some of them and they are very good at their jobs. There's no doubt still some unknown unknown subtleties out there but by and large the main ideas behind various taper and edge geometries have been figured out and a talented modern smith can make a drat good sword.
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JcDent posted:Those assholes have a bajillion katanas and all sorts of weird poo poo, but no repro heavy cavalry sword that Sharpe used? Shaaame! I've actually looked around and you can get replicas of those sword at least for display. I did briefly consider it at one point just for something neat to hang on the wall.
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A long rod penetrator is isomorphic to a sword.
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Ensign Expendable posted:A long rod penetrator is isomorphic to a sword. If you could display a part of a tank in your home, what would you pick?
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May 25, 2017 15:30
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Probably a periscope or a track link. Something small and self contained.
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Where would a $20 stamped-metal machete place in the rankings?
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The Lone Badger posted:Where would a $20 stamped-metal machete place in the rankings?
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Where would Machete on DVD be ranked?
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The Lone Badger posted:Where would a $20 stamped-metal machete place in the rankings? Depends on what you think about Rwanda!
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Ensign Expendable posted:Where would Machete on DVD be ranked? It would face some stiff competition from Crank 2 on ridiculous action movies rankings
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SeanBeansShako posted:If you could display a part of a tank in your home, what would you pick? I'd set a Panther in concrete to act as a bunker in front of my house to deter solicitors.
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Cyrano4747 posted:Secretly we all know this is probably true. If you're putting down Ringo could you please please please do this book in TFR
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Nebakenezzer posted:If you're putting down Ringo could you please please please do this book in TFR Ringo has been on hold for quite some time now.
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JcDent posted:Tune in next when we decide Miss Universe by paying a hooker to sleep with us, win the "WW2's best bolt action rifle contest" by paying a hooker to sleep with us and conquer the world's cutest kitten contest by paying a hooker to sleep with us. Fixed this for you.
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SeanBeansShako posted:If you could display a part of a tank in your home, what would you pick? I would mount the tank turret on a medieval turret.
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OwlFancier posted:I would mount the tank turret on a medieval turret. Mounted, of course, on a battleship citadel.
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JcDent posted:Ringo has been on hold for quite some time now. I miss that thread. 
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.