BWAH!!
Nonetheless, much as I lurve Bev, she is wrong wrong wrongitywrongity wrong on the hardness of brass -- the reason it's used for instruments and plumbing and the like is that it's so malleable.
This is a time of celebration, so sit still and be quiet.
Snyder ,'Chosen'
Natter 57 Varieties
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
amych - Mar 12, 2008 8:50:41 am PDT #4530 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Miracleman - Mar 12, 2008 8:51:30 am PDT #4531 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Okay, so I've got two bronze, one brass.
Beverly - Mar 12, 2008 8:51:46 am PDT #4532 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Or, what amych said.
Who I was going to rec as a sabre consultant, since I am not. StY is a long-time martial arts student, knows Japanese swordwork, and we have had extensive conversations about it, and he's available for consult when I need it. H was a college fencer and has been my consultant in random knowledge. But my sabre is merely decorative in function at the moment, and has an intentionally blunted edge, and I am clueless as to how one would wield it.
The blades I lust after are 12th century European two and three-handed broadswords and Scots claymores--relatively blunt iron blades of very little finesse. I imagine a sort of edged bludgeon.
Polter-Cow - Mar 12, 2008 8:52:33 am PDT #4533 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Wikipedia supports bronze.
flea - Mar 12, 2008 8:52:35 am PDT #4534 of 10001
information libertarian
I am with amych on Bronze (=copper+tin) vs Brass (=copper+zinc). Hey, I didn't study The Bronze Age for nothin'. Also of interest: [link] which shows tensile strength and hardness of various copper alloys.
Miracleman - Mar 12, 2008 8:53:01 am PDT #4535 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Bronze it is.
Thanks, y'all!
Loves me some hivemind.
Beverly - Mar 12, 2008 8:53:25 am PDT #4536 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I repeat, amych knows whereof she speaks--I retract my brass and throw my opinion behind her bronze.
Emily - Mar 12, 2008 8:56:14 am PDT #4537 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Dude, I JUST taught a lesson on metallurgy, including talk about the Bronze Age. Of course, I know nothing about brass, but I do know that bronze started an age because it was more useful than copper or tin by their lonesomes.
Steph L. - Mar 12, 2008 8:57:21 am PDT #4538 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
throw my opinion behind her bronze.
I'd like to get behind amych's bronze, too....
t does Grouch Marx eyebrows
Beverly - Mar 12, 2008 8:57:49 am PDT #4539 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
msbelle! Overzealous healthy!coworker clearly has no appreciation for moderation in all things.
Sox, were it possible, I would print text for you. Correcting onscreen is Less Fun.
New Zealand's national museum, Te Papa Tongarewa,
While the dolphin story was heartening (Hey! They're not all abductors and rapists, they don't all torture and kill juvenile members of their own species! They're not necessarily Just Like Us!), I now have to go live in a place where random names of things are so melodic.