06-11-2009, 04:14 PM
I was in North Cackah lackie a few weeks ago and went to this "Lost Colony" settlement. They had a blacksmith there who was making iron nails and tools. He was telling me that if you take time and do it properly, you can make steel stronger then your average "off the shelf" steel blades. He was claiming that he could make a steel blade would cut through a not-so-well made piece of steel. In other words, he was pulling the "Japanese Steel" line from Kill Bill. Does anyone buy this? I wouldn't normally, except the info came from a blacksmith.
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