Always love the whole Japanese sword smiths fold the metal thousands of times and etc. and in fact it’s just because they had shit iron. No mines, just silt runoff in rivers to work with.
Also there was a (mock I think, hopefully) fight between a Japanese guy with a katana and some euro dude with a foil type of sword and the katana guy got destroyed. I don’t know if the experiment was repeated. But it doesn’t surprise me.
The katana is pretty much the same, except being exotic (to europeans), and lighter, more nimble (boring, but apparently more efficient) swords ended up winning the market. Except in asia for some reason. Maybe tradition has a greater weight.
Really good katanas are more then forge welded steel, they were also laminated steel. They may be starting at a loss but they sure as shit made up for it with ingenuity.
Always love the whole Japanese sword smiths fold the metal thousands of times and etc. and in fact it’s just because they had shit iron. No mines, just silt runoff in rivers to work with.
Oh no, all the weaboos clutching pearls!
Not my katana, the finest ever pointy thing…
Also there was a (mock I think, hopefully) fight between a Japanese guy with a katana and some euro dude with a foil type of sword and the katana guy got destroyed. I don’t know if the experiment was repeated. But it doesn’t surprise me.
The katana is pretty much the same, except being exotic (to europeans), and lighter, more nimble (boring, but apparently more efficient) swords ended up winning the market. Except in asia for some reason. Maybe tradition has a greater weight.
Really good katanas are more then forge welded steel, they were also laminated steel. They may be starting at a loss but they sure as shit made up for it with ingenuity.