04-02-2003, 06:18 AM
Quote:The material at hand becomes less a factor in determing a sword when the care in heat treatment is the primary concern in sword quality, as you can forge a sword out of the cleanest, most kick-ass grade of carbon steel and have a crappy blade in the end if the heat treat was screwed up.
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Actually it is very easy(comparitiely) to make a blade from spring steal that will not break or chip easily.
Also, wallhanger swords are not milled or machined. This process is much more expensive than casting would be. They are definitely cast....from powdered metal. If you've ever broken one this would be incredibly obvious. (Yes I busted my first sword trying to chop up a stump.)
I think you may have been confusing the terms "cast" and "forged."
With few technical words (mainly because I don't know any) casting takes powdered metal, puts it in a mold, heats the hell out of it so it fuses together, and voila!
Forging takes a basically flat piece of metal, heats it to near melting, pound into shape with big hamma and anvil.
Machining (Milling), well, you would need a very large, expensive chink of metal which a machine would basically carve into shape....
No way wall hanger swords are machined, for the same reason compound bows with machine risers cost double what those with cast risers do.
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