11-14-2019, 11:23 AM
Glad to see you pile in here Mark - the chemistry you suggest is difficult to argue with but fairy dust is difficult to source. Unicorns are plentiful but only just before dusk and right after happy hour.
Here's one that you may be able to comment on as well - seems as if it was suggested in the smurfs video that the heating/folding/heating cycles employed by the ancients served to drive the impurities out of the steel. That struck a chord with me relative to old Japanese sword makers and their famous folding techniques. Was the quality of their steel poorer than today's so they learned to mitigate for that fact during the forging/forming process? What do you think?
Here's one that you may be able to comment on as well - seems as if it was suggested in the smurfs video that the heating/folding/heating cycles employed by the ancients served to drive the impurities out of the steel. That struck a chord with me relative to old Japanese sword makers and their famous folding techniques. Was the quality of their steel poorer than today's so they learned to mitigate for that fact during the forging/forming process? What do you think?