(urth) Forging Terminus Est

[Gwern Branwen]

On 2008.07.03 04:22:36 -0400, dcooperv <dcooperv at mail.rochester.edu> scribbled 0.7K characters:
> Re: John Smith,
> Don't take this personally, but one inch at the spine is much too thick. To be a
> good cutter (particularly of flesh) a blade needs to be fairly thin. Given a
> blade with a realistic/practical thickness, one wouldn't be unable to pour in
> enough mercury to make any useful difference.
> Second, there were once some Mid-Eastern (or Indian, I can't remember which)
> made with rolling beads set in a channel, called "the tears of the afflicted."
> These were more for decoration than anything practical though.
> Finally, IIRC Sword Forum International once had a discussion of exactly this
> issue (Wolfe and Terminus Est were even mentioned by name); I'll send you all a
> link later today.
>
> -Dan Vince

http://netsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000356.html ?

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