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Pillow_Killer

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What came first
« on: May 03, 2010, 11:32:49 am »

A pick, or an Anvil?
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Re: What came first
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2010, 11:37:46 am »

The anvil came first.  It's the only way you could forge a pick.  The more important philosophical discussion is "You need an anvil to forge an anvil.  Where did that first anvil come from?"
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Re: What came first
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2010, 11:46:12 am »

technically, you don't actually need an anvil for anything, you could use a flat stone...and anvils are cast, not forged

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Re: What came first
« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2010, 11:53:31 am »

technically, you don't actually need an anvil for anything, you could use a flat stone...and anvils are cast, not forged
Magic?!  :o
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Re: What came first
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2010, 11:54:14 am »

technically, you don't actually need an anvil for anything, you could use a flat stone...and anvils are cast, not forged
Magic?!  :o

Then I wonder why we make anvils at the forge rather than the smelter.
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Re: What came first
« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2010, 11:55:26 am »

technically, you don't actually need an anvil for anything, you could use a flat stone...and anvils are cast, not forged
Magic?!  :o
No, cast as in thrown. The ancient dwarves used anvils as weapons, but knowledge of how they did it has long since passed from our memory.
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Re: What came first
« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2010, 11:56:57 am »

technically, you don't actually need an anvil for anything, you could use a flat stone...and anvils are cast, not forged
Magic?!  :o
No, cast as in thrown. The ancient dwarves used anvils as weapons, but knowledge of how they did it has long since passed from our memory.

Ever heard of Cast Iron? Thats what we're talking about as far as anvils being casted.
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Re: What came first
« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2010, 11:57:13 am »

and anvils are cast, not forged

This.  It really saddens me that I am forced to have an anvil in order to make one, when all a dwarf really needs to do is grab an iron bar and use that!  Or even better, why cant the smelter spit out an anvil?  It already has the means to cast bars apparently, why cant it cast an anvil?
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Re: What came first
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2010, 12:00:34 pm »

No, cast as in thrown. The ancient dwarves used anvils as weapons, but knowledge of how they did it has long since passed from our memory.

Ever heard of Cast Iron? Thats what we're talking about as far as anvils being casted.

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In the wells of livestock vans with shells and garden sands /
Iron mixed with oxygen as per the laws of chemistry and chance /
A shape was roughly human, it was only roughly human /
Apparition eyes / Apparition eyes / Knock, apparition, knock / Eyes, apparition eyes /

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Re: What came first
« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2010, 12:01:56 pm »

No, cast as in thrown. The ancient dwarves used anvils as weapons, but knowledge of how they did it has long since passed from our memory.

Ever heard of Cast Iron? Thats what we're talking about as far as anvils being casted.

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I was actually talking to carebear.
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Re: What came first
« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2010, 12:03:09 pm »

I was actually talking to carebear.

Oh. :( I wasted a perfectly good illustrated example. Sorry.
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In the wells of livestock vans with shells and garden sands /
Iron mixed with oxygen as per the laws of chemistry and chance /
A shape was roughly human, it was only roughly human /
Apparition eyes / Apparition eyes / Knock, apparition, knock / Eyes, apparition eyes /

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Re: What came first
« Reply #11 on: May 03, 2010, 12:28:10 pm »

No, cast as in thrown. The ancient dwarves used anvils as weapons, but knowledge of how they did it has long since passed from our memory.

Ever heard of Cast Iron? Thats what we're talking about as far as anvils being casted.

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I was actually talking to carebear.

you quoted wilfor  ;)

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Re: What came first
« Reply #12 on: May 03, 2010, 12:43:13 pm »

No, cast as in thrown. The ancient dwarves used anvils as weapons, but knowledge of how they did it has long since passed from our memory.

Ever heard of Cast Iron? Thats what we're talking about as far as anvils being casted.

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I was actually talking to carebear.

you quoted wilfor  ;)

And Willfor quoted carebear.
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Re: What came first
« Reply #13 on: May 03, 2010, 01:02:51 pm »

No, cast as in thrown. The ancient dwarves used anvils as weapons, but knowledge of how they did it has long since passed from our memory.

Ever heard of Cast Iron? Thats what we're talking about as far as anvils being casted.

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I was actually talking to carebear.

you quoted wilfor  ;)

And Willfor quoted carebear.

And I quoted you.
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Re: What came first
« Reply #14 on: May 03, 2010, 01:07:22 pm »

No, cast as in thrown. The ancient dwarves used anvils as weapons, but knowledge of how they did it has long since passed from our memory.

Ever heard of Cast Iron? Thats what we're talking about as far as anvils being casted.

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I was actually talking to carebear.

you quoted wilfor  ;)

And Willfor quoted carebear.

And I quoted you.

Let's keep on doing this and generations to come will wonder who quoted who first !
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