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[redwallzyl]

I'm now in possession of a reconstruction ancient Egyptian war axe, for reasons..

I assume it is workable metal and properly treated lashings, and even if not, the reasons being because it feels good holding it?

Same reason I took the perfectly functional straight handle off the little Zona dovetail saw that got here a couple days ago and replaced it with an extra fancy one I carved?

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Hand cast bronze head with a work hardened edge and a handle made out of some type of very hard exotic wood (the you cant break this if were trying kind) that I can not remember the name of. Weak point is the lashings. In the future I want to get a hold of some proper sinew to hold it together. The current lashing is decorative and it's really held on by a type of strong adhesive. The thing itself is solid as hell though. You could not break it if you tried. All hand made and simple but effective. It's not something I bought but rather something created through the work of a friend and a relative. It don't look fancy but is cool as hell. More like a simple foot solders weapon. It would definitely kill someone dead if I hit them in the head with it. It's got some heft to it.

It's a triangular wedge of bronze with tangs on either hafted into a simple short wooden handle about two feed long.

Shitty quality image at a bad angle that does not do it justice.

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[Max™]

Nice, needs a better cross weave to the lashing, but never doubt my ability to break a stick. To date my polypropylene bokken is the only stick I've been unable to break, though I haven't tried one of the appalachian hickory kingfisher ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6alV4ASeyg

[redwallzyl]

Nice, needs a better cross weave to the lashing, but never doubt my ability to break a stick. To date my polypropylene bokken is the only stick I've been unable to break, though I haven't tried one of the appalachian hickory kingfisher ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6alV4ASeyg

I remember now, the handle is Osage Orange. Which is apparently stupid strong and was used for native american war clubs and bows. So good as you can get in America without going all crazy expensive import. Yes the lashing needs work but I need material and expertise for that. I got the handle made by a Bowyer so lashing axes is not his specialty.

My friend cast the head. Carved stone double sided mold. Not the strongest possible bronze but more then enough and probably better then anything out of the ancient world. Not smoothed and polished like the fancy stuff but with some cool looking rough sides exposed that were not caught by the basic grinding down of the sides. to take off the excess.

[Max™]

Hey, cast bronze is cool shit, I recall some dog toys were actually usable sinew btw, but appalachian hickory is actually as good as you can get in the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmEMib5hRTA

[Trekkin]

Hey, cast bronze is cool shit, I recall some dog toys were actually usable sinew btw, but appalachian hickory is actually as good as you can get in the US

Strictly speaking, Maclura pomifera (Osage orange) actually has a higher crushing strength and a significantly higher Janka hardness than any of the Carya species found in the eastern US ("Appalachian hickory" not being a single species), so "as good as you can get" depends on how much you intend to hit things with it and generally bang it around.

[hector13]

That’s what you get for being useful, banjo. /drunk holy shit am I drunk boys

Happy: I divulged shit I shouldn’t have and wasn’t immediately ostracized, fucking goal and that. Probably made someone else divulge more than they wanted though. Kinda good, kinda bad.

[Yoink]

I played neopets, but never managed to find the forums. Must have been too young to be clever enough to actually communicate with people using text.

I don't know if "clever" is really the right word in this situation, haha... at least it sparked my lifelong love of roleplaying!
Not that it took much sparking, considering I already read a lot.

That’s what you get for being useful, banjo.

Eh?

[Egan_BW]

Hey, sometimes you're just not clever enough to make the right mistakes.

[hector13]

I actually have no idea. Drunk posting ftw.

[Max™]

Hey, cast bronze is cool shit, I recall some dog toys were actually usable sinew btw, but appalachian hickory is actually as good as you can get in the US

Strictly speaking, Maclura pomifera (Osage orange) actually has a higher crushing strength and a significantly higher Janka hardness than any of the Carya species found in the eastern US ("Appalachian hickory" not being a single species), so "as good as you can get" depends on how much you intend to hit things with it and generally bang it around.

Appalachian hickory refers to slow growing trees from a few areas of the eastern us: https://www.kingfisherwoodworks.com/the-strength-of-wood.html

I showed two videos with a guy who specifically tests to destruction, I wouldn't otherwise give any sort of credibility to a claim about some sort of hidden grove of super hickory.

Osage Orange: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmEMib5hRTA

Appalachian Hickory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6alV4ASeyg

Guy has tests from shit as out there as Lignum Vitae, which is actually harder crushing wise but far too heavy for weapon use so it turns into an over heavy lever. Wood has lots of variations, take the reclaimed cabinets I've been making shit from lately, pine has some really soft easy to work with species, then it has trees which were chosen for their knots, that get called knotty pine but there isn't really any such thing. Parts of this wood are easy to work with, then you find a hidden knot while trying to cope out a pretty curve and PTWANG away goes pieces of the blade. I wind up with bits of the wood I remove beforehand and segregate due to knots like the one I made the saw holder from in the background here:

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Still on topic because that handle makes me so happy, though also kinda disappointed at the ones I thought were pretty before.

Similarly, hickory is sturdy stuff in general, but tighter grained hickory grown under the right conditions would not be surprising to find it exaggerates those qualities.

[redwallzyl]

He is right, it's a very pretty looking wood.

[Haspen]

Turns out there's a short film about videogame Papers Please and it's everything you could expect it to be.

I'm lovin' it already.

[Rolan7]

Turns out there's a short film about videogame Papers Please and it's everything you could expect it to be.

I'm lovin' it already.

I'm over halfway through and just thought to turn on subtitles, which are in English!  It kinda works without translation, though.  Very impressive film, thanks!

[Yoink]

I posted this context-free quote from my current read on social media, but I'm gonna put it here as well because going back several chapters to find it and type it out just now made me feel the power of it all over again. This book, and the author in general, has a lot of such moving moments. If it's this potent in the English translation I can only imagine what it would be like to read his work in the original language.

...and the feeling I had then, the conviction that I wouldn't make it back to shore, the intimation of death by drowning under a matte-blue sky, a sky that looked like a lung in a tub of blue paint, persisted throughout all our subsequent conversations.

   

[Enemy post]

I played To the Moon again today.