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Author Topic: RL Legendary Stonecrafter  (Read 3713 times)

Warlord255

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RL Legendary Stonecrafter
« on: January 26, 2009, 11:24:20 am »

http://skullkraft.deviantart.com/



The above skull is carved out of Hematite.
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Re: RL Legendary Stonecrafter
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2009, 11:55:23 am »

Looks like cast iron. Hematite is an iron ore.

Legendary metalcrafter.
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Re: RL Legendary Stonecrafter
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2009, 11:56:18 am »

What self respecting craftsdwarf would use iron or it's ore for trade goods?

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Re: RL Legendary Stonecrafter
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2009, 12:06:37 pm »

How fast can he churn those out? He has to be able to churn out the equivalent of a small production line before he is legendary, without sacrificing quality.
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Re: RL Legendary Stonecrafter
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2009, 12:24:53 pm »

Looks like cast iron. Hematite is an iron ore.

Legendary metalcrafter.

Nope, everything on there is stone-carving; I think there was a Gabbro skull in there somewhere.
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Re: RL Legendary Stonecrafter
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2009, 12:29:14 pm »

I meant just that one. It just doesn't look like hematite to me. Looks like cast iron.
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Re: RL Legendary Stonecrafter
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2009, 02:30:20 pm »

I wouldn't be so fast to call it metal Yanlin. You can do some pretty nifty things if you polish stone enough.
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Re: RL Legendary Stonecrafter
« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2009, 02:31:05 pm »

I meant just that one. It just doesn't look like hematite to me. Looks like cast iron.

I've worked with cast iron, it's never that polished.
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Re: RL Legendary Stonecrafter
« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2009, 02:43:19 pm »

Can't you just polish it AFTER casting?
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Re: RL Legendary Stonecrafter
« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2009, 02:54:43 pm »

Speaking from experience with cast iron cookware, the answer seems to be no. If I recall correctly, cast iron is sort of like pumice in that it's got holes through it. Granted, they would be smaller than those in pumice.
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Re: RL Legendary Stonecrafter
« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2009, 12:33:51 pm »

I would consider Edward Leedskalnin a Legendary Mason.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle

If you believe the stories, this guy apparently violated the laws of physics to build his masterpiece.  To this day, nobody knows exactly how he moved those multi-ton blocks of stone by himself.
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« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2009, 02:33:33 pm »

I've seen that before, doesn't that have those huge stone doors that you can push open with one hand?
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Re: RL Legendary Stonecrafter
« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2009, 02:58:31 pm »

Yeah, coral castle is amazing. I still wanna go see it sometime.
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Re: RL Legendary Stonecrafter
« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2009, 04:12:26 pm »

I've seen that before, doesn't that have those huge stone doors that you can push open with one hand?

If you read the Wiki, that in particular was a cheat.  He just used an axle and bearings.
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Re: RL Legendary Stonecrafter
« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2009, 08:04:20 pm »

Uhg.. deviantart...
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