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Barbarian Tech
I was watching Barbarian Tech on the history channel the other night and they showed a sword being made.
I've viewed the Japanese way of making swords with the repeated folding, and folding and folding.
The Dark Ages Reenactor melted raw Iron into bars, took three bars, welded them together using the forge and hammer, sharpened, polished and added the handle. The carbon to make steel came from the coke in the forge. He said one could be turned out with about 60 hours of work.
Quality control must have been a bear back in the old days. But the swords got the job done.
Pete
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