What is the best material to make a sword from? I think it's

steel you numbnuts

This is a good thread, you should be proud of yourself OP.

https://youtu.be/jVO8sUrs-Pw

>>34798354
Hi. Diamonds shatter.

Sorry about that.

I'll stick to iron.

>>34798365
/thread

>>34798354
Show me where you can find a diamond that fucking big
Steel or iron for me friend

>>34798365
>>34798407
Why not titanium?
Light
Strong
Won't rust

>>34798354
I think it's paper because paper cuts hurt and a paper sword can be reformed to make a different sword.

>>34798407
They make diamonds now

>>34798445
paper burns
what happens if you swing it too fast and it catches on fire?

>>34798524
Then you have a fire sword

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>>34798529

>>34798437
Does not keep a good edge. Busse infi steel is the best.

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Steel is so damn old.
I refuse to believe that it's still the best thing.

>titanium doesn't hold an edge
>paper catches fire
>diamonds shatter

Fine, what about sodium?
It's a metal and I bet it would fuck someone up good.

>>34798646
You are a bad person.

Probably some sort of composite dense plastic with a steel edge.

Just buy a gun

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>>34798686
Guns are the best thing to make swords from.

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>>34798666
I've checked with them and that's still a steel sword.

>>34798703
a really fancy steel sword

>>34798437
also really hard to shape efficiently. apparently, because it's such a strong/durable material, it's difficult to heat/grind/work without taking a lot of time and really damaging your tools.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtOXufkl3vw

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>>34798354

>>34798646
Lithium pellets in waxed hollow points for keks

>>34798825
No

>>34798354
Titanium core, high carbon steel edge.

You said best, not easiest. Take all the diamonds you have lying around to coat the tools used to work the titanium, because it will fuck them.

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>>34798354
>Diamonds
close, carbon nanotubes
>Sabres from Damascus, now in Syria, date back as far as 900 AD. Strong and sharp, they are made from a type of steel called wootz. Materials researcher Peter Paufler and his colleagues at Dresden University, Germany, have taken electron-microscope pictures of the swords and found that wootz has a microstructure of nano-metre-sized tubes, just like carbon nanotubes used in modern technologies for their lightweight strength.
Turns out it's super old tech.

>>34798354
Dragonforce, the hardest metal known to man.

The TL;DR is that steel checks all the boxes.

High strength, high hardness, high toughness, and it has the added bonus of being cheap.

This is also why gun barrels will continue to be made out of steel until the end of time.

>>34798988
That's still fuckin' steel m8. A sword made out of CNTs would just be a weird rope.

>>34799041
don't be ridiculous, carbon nanomemes can do anything.

>>34798703
this reminds me of a joke

why can't the t-rex clap?

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>>34798354
This is the most surreal bait thread I've ever seen

>>34798646
ultimate single use sword
>cast from cesium
>coat in wax or plastic
>smack someone in the face
> deforms, coat ruptures
> cesium ignites in air
> fire, death, cesium hydroxide and flaming cesium droplets that explode on contact with water everywhere

Piggybacking off of the OP.

I want to build a sword that's part Scandium part Osmium, so that the balance is absurdly off but there's no visual clues as to why.

>>34798354
Bronze. Say anything else and it's to the circus with you.

>>34798354
Anyone who doesn't believe the best material is diamond must've forgotten that diamonds are the hardest metal.

Go back to playing minecraft.

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>>34798646
>>34798437
>>34798585
Some titanium alloys can keep and edge, but like >>34798768 said, it's just a total bitch to work with.

If you're interested in titanium blades, check out Mad Science Forge. He specializes in making titanium blades.

>>34798354
dont fall for the sword meme. use a spear

>>34799011
This

>>34799320
Is this the Samson Option of swords?

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Modern steel.
High quality repros like pic related are insanely tough.

The problem with titanium is that swords do require a certain heft to work properly in the cut.
Using a lighter material to make a bigger sword also isn't really much use. Swords have a certain maximum size, and it's not down to weight, but simply what can be considered reasonably usable.

In a nutshell, a titanium sword would be way more expensive, probably bulkier to make up for the reduced weight, and not actually perform any better.

>>34799289
>inb4 AFT beheads your dog

Bismuth

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>>34800422

Te swords they use at Medieval Times are titanium which is why they spark when the blades scrape together.

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>>34801386
Steel swords do that too.

>>34799243
god made them that way

>>34798354
>diamonds
I could take a steel mace and shatter that shit sword.
>what material for my sword?
Mahogany.

>>34798354
Diamonds are the hardest metal in the universe.

Why are diamonds the hardest metal?

>>34800284

Don't fall for the spear meme. Just use a gun.

It depends on how many times you fold it

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Meteors
duh

>>34802365
Its tamahogony you philistine

What is the advantage of a monogamy swords?

>>34798646
Swords forged from sodium have an unfortunate tendency to explode during the quenching process.

>>34802770
K.
>>34802804
Dunno.

>>34798407
lab grown would likely be the answer to that... diamond would still be shit sword material... unless you like making sharpnel from your own weapon.

........Eglin steel?

>>34799243
Because all the t-rex are dead and I don't want to worry about supportive zombie t-rex.

>>34800284
dont fall for the choice meme. use both.

>>34800422
What about titanium smallsword who don't have to cut though?
They could be even more lightweight!

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>>34798585
you could deposit tungsten carbide on the edges like pic related

>>34798354
you just went full minecraft
never go full minecraft

>>34798697
its like a brain expanding meme
diamonds=little brain
steel=normal brain
titanium=slightly bigger brain
cesium=really big brain
guns=massive brain
OTHER SWORDS=COSMIC BUDDHA BRAIN

>>34798354
>Swing brand new $1billion pure diamond sword
>Shatters on impact because it's brittle.

You fucking stupid OP?

Natural diamonds would suck ass for a sword but diamondoids (synthetic nanodiamonds) could make for a fucking awesome sword, as they can be made to be not brittle.

>>34806211
but diamond is the hardest metal there is

>>34802365
>I could take a steel mace and shatter that shit sword.
I want to see the math.

>>34806555
diamond is not a metal.

>>34807238
If you're too old to be here, don't you remember the thread?
Anyone have the cap?

>>34806534
>as they can be made to be not brittle.

When people say that, they mean "compared to natural diamonds", not "compared to anything it'd make sense to make a sword out of".

>>34807320
eh, i only started reading /k/ like 3-4 years ago. before that i was on /o/ and /fit/, before that on /g/ with a different trip.

>>34807333
Well nevermind then. I prefer staying anonymous, but whatever.

It was an older meme, same style thread, with an anon claiming diamond is the hardest metal

>>34798646
>Steel is so damn old.
>I refuse to believe that it's still the best thing.
For a second I thought I wondered into a "Why .45acp sucks" thread.

>>34798768
Fuck man at Wallhangers. Such a shit smith; his forgings always weigh more than they should.

>>34798354
Diamonds have good hardness but not a lot of shearing strength. Hit one at the right angle and it'll shatter.

>>34802812
Okay, this one made me laugh but I think it's a little advanced for your average 4channer.

>>34807427
Yes, and we called him stupid then.

>>34807791
t. middle schooler

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>>34798646
>Steel is so damn old.

What we consider good steel today isn't terribly old, many forms of it didn't exist a century ago. What was good steel a century ago didn't really exist in Napoleon's time, and so on.

Age isn't necessarily something a material has against it either, it allows for maturity in the technologies of making it, handling it, and designing your items to make the most of the material's properties. We're getting pretty damn good at doing things with steel by now.

>>34801386
If you don't get sparks flying when using steel, then you're doing things wrong.

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>>34805774
Perhaps something an Olympic fencer would notice, but for us common mortals the lighter smallswords are as good as weightless as it is.

>>34798988
Oh yes, that fucking thing. You know, for all the talk of nanotubes, even in the "short communication" itself (yep, not a full, proper article) it seems they didn't actually see any. They saw: "Some remnants (Fig. 1c) show evidence of incompletely dissolved cementite nanowires3, indicating that these wires could have been encapsulated and protected by the carbon nanotubes".

Could have... While I can't seem to find the bloody reply at the moment, others have suggested alternative causes for the structures observed.

Even graver an issue IMO is that the article simply takes the assumption of the superb properties of these steels for granted. What little data I've found on it suggests otherwise, showing us steels that are not terribly hard, and yet quite brittle. By assuming that these were superlative steels we also easily fall into the trap of thinking that since the steel was exceptional, the presence of the nanotubes is also exceptional. Has anyone ever bothered to check for them elsewhere?

A hole the authors manage not to trip , but which basically everyone reporting on their findings do, is to assume that the nanotubes would in some was be the cause of the assumed superior qualities of the steel. In reality their presence could just as easily be harmful, and no matter what significant amounts of them would do, they may only be present in trace quantities, limiting their impact to either solely to the indirect, or nothing.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/x3js4b93gt83i2p/Carbon_nanotubes_in_an_ancient_Damascus_sabre.pdf

>>34799011
>power metal
>hard
Nigger what

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>>34801386
>words they use at Medieval Times are titanium which is why they spark

Er... Anon...

>>34802770
>tamahogony

Tamahagane pleb.

>>34802812
>Swords forged from sodium have an unfortunate tendency to explode during the quenching process.

Oil quench my dude

>>34807791
>Okay, this one made me laugh but I think it's a little advanced for your average 4channer.

Underage b&. Anyone who finished high school knows basic properties of Alkali Metals include violent exothermic reaction with water.

>>34802684
Most meteors have a large % of nickel in them. Nickel isn't a good sword material, and if you want to make a sword from meteorite you still have to add layers of steel to it (youtube it, there's a really good series on this).

>>34806173
Take your normiebook memes somewhere else. And your opinions too.

>>34806555
>>34807238
>>34807320
>>34807333
>>34807427
tedious

>>34807427
It is the hardest metal. Electron movement defines it as a metal because of the structure of the outer shells.

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>>34798646
>Cesium and Sodium softballs in a bucket full of oil
>Water gun in hand, bucket on waist
>Grab, throw towards enemy, give squirts, stand back

>>34799320
fucking nerds leave my /k/ REEEEEE

>>34802684
>This faggot still uses meteorite
>Not just skipping straight to hellstone

Also Hallowed bars and Luminite are your best bet, OP.

>>34808151
You sound equally as much of a fucking idiot as that guy does by not just saying "it explodes"

>>34799289
there's no S in ATF, now leave my dog alone

>>34799551
fucking beat me to it