04-12-2003, 03:11 AM
Alas, the high price of a functioning sword today would come from the rarity of the craftsman, if not because the rarity of the material. Steel's cheap. Finding a guy who knows how to shape it into a working sword certainly is not. Bit of a swing of the pendulum for demand and cost of manufacture. A medieval smith would decree it the work of angels (or devils) to create steels of the purity and strength that industry gives it giving easy and consistent manufacture of a fine blade from the hand of a skilled smith, but the number of craftsmen worth their salt wanes in the modern day.
As such, now that I'm rightfully employed at a real job, I can now begin looking for a real sword. Got a manufactured reitschwert in mind.
As such, now that I'm rightfully employed at a real job, I can now begin looking for a real sword. Got a manufactured reitschwert in mind.
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