While I appreciate this guy's more traditional approach to smithing, I rather prefer MichaelCthulu's welded swords for pure entertainment value. He made all of these years ago.
The Masamune was actually one of his most boring builds... too simple, too unusable.
Probably his best work, at least for unusably huge fantasy swords:
Also, to anyone who claims to want one, I'm pretty sure the guy still builds to order... not that the swords are good for much more than hanging on a wall or breaking your back. Looks like they make one hell of a workout out of chopping firewood.
Maxtro said:
Anybody know what kind of metal the sword would need to have made of to prevent the wobble?
Maybe titanium?
Of course that would make it super expensive to make, and I'm sure the in-game Masamune was also a very expensive sword.
Definitely not titanium... it may have great strength to weight, but it has terrible strength to volume in comparison to steel. It's more like better aluminum than better iron... and iron has a pretty unique carbon alloy in steel. A titanium sword of any significant length, unless it was very thick, would bend under its own weight and stay bent.
As for preventing wobble with a piece of metal that long and thin... it's probably possible with an extremely hard temper of high carbon steel, but that would make the blade brittle, so you definitely wouldn't want to use it (thus, the wobble in the video is actually the sign of a stronger, more flexible sword. Only the very shortest of real swords don't wobble at all. Traditional-length katanas wobble quite a bit [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH_oLEllyvg]-watch the last cut). Aside from that... maybe some super-dense alloy we haven't discovered, or maybe carbon nano-tubes. Still have no idea why those wouldn't be brittle from some angle or other... but my material science studies have all been strictly amateur.
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