re: #612 LudwigVanQuixote

Well for those who are curious about what modern metals can do in the hands of a master smith, check this out.

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I can not afford one of these l6 bainite blades, and the fact is that a master smith starting with 1065 will out do a novice starting with l6 or T-10 steel. However, this is the upper end of the possible.

1. What is the composition of those cylindrical objects they’re slicing through?

2. WHY have sword makers who go to all that trouble to figure out arcane, exotic metallurgy (thus clearly demonstrating themselves to be geeks by definition) not yet created some sort of luminescent metal, or at the very least figured out a way to aim a colored LED down the blade so as to imitate a lightsaber?

3. That video adds a certain bit of texture to this:

xkcd.com