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hellize — The roach killer

Published: 2015-08-11 08:55:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 1348; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 9
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Description I sway outside. I feel the sun's gentle touch on my bare face as its invisible, joy bringing arms wrap around my shoulders and indulge me so dearly like only a lover could. The Sun! The kind, heavenly creator... only a distant dream now, time to let it go...

The growling wakes me up, though I don't wish to have another odious piece of roach-innard, at least not for breakfast. I quickly shovel in the moldy algaebread from yesterday and head outside the grotto. The cherished, unappreciated dream, stolen from old books, still lurks inside my mind, but disintegrates instantly as I look up to the grim sky. I'm blinking behind my scratched goggles, a family heirloom, but the sun is nowhere to be found, hides itself above the heavy greyish clouds which constantly drifts around like a bad omen.
They say, that it was different once. Before the cursed great winter the sun was always present, lightly petted the earth, helped it to be green and vivid. Hmm, child's tale... who cares about that anymore?
Back to work, those roaches won't herd themselves. It is bad enough that they get smaller and smaller with each calving. Great-grandma' said they are almost as small as a goat now, whatever beast that may be?!
It starts to snow. Beefy snowflakes cover my lead hood, like a hundred glowworms as I swiftly drive the herd towards the protective den. The lustrous flakes are scorching small dimples into the chitin of the bugs as they fall on them, some of the youngsters shrill as the undeveloped cuirass is penetrated. I half-heartedly look away when one of them drops dead. But my common sense conquer my distaste, I gab the carcass and drag it inside. When I pull my knife from its sheath and search for the armors weakspot on the belly with a callous heart, only one thing hovers in front of my eyes: protein is protein after all! Doesn't matter from where it comes.

The knife is 24 cm long, the blade is 11.5 cm long, 34 mm wide and 6 mm thick, forged of 5160 and S80. The handle is copper and antler. Its sheath is made of thick cowhide with copper.

It is 190 usd with postal fee included!


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Comments: 15

flametalon10 [2015-08-15 05:00:19 +0000 UTC]

awesome as usual  

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hellize In reply to flametalon10 [2015-08-15 20:52:46 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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A-Separate-Reality [2015-08-11 23:25:37 +0000 UTC]

For such a beautiful and functional work of art I feel it would be a bargain at twice the price!

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hellize In reply to A-Separate-Reality [2015-08-12 05:35:59 +0000 UTC]

Thank you But you know, a good price is quite a relative thing .

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Splurtsplet [2015-08-11 13:20:42 +0000 UTC]

190 dollars? i don't think il ever afford a sword from you. shit.   

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hellize In reply to Splurtsplet [2015-08-11 14:29:26 +0000 UTC]

That depends on the sword, my friend. A falchion which you like would be 320 usd.
You know, hammering these damascus blades are quite tiresome and coal consuming. Monosteel blades are a far more easy to make, thus they are cheaper

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Splurtsplet In reply to hellize [2015-08-11 15:04:08 +0000 UTC]

hmm yeah, i guess you're right. whats monosteel compared to damascus?

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hellize In reply to Splurtsplet [2015-08-11 17:14:34 +0000 UTC]

Well, damascus is made of 2 or more different kinds of steels, the chemical difference between them gives the nice pattern:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_…
A monosteel is a homogeneous material, in which the chemical composition is the same, anywhere you measure.
  

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Splurtsplet In reply to hellize [2015-08-11 17:41:30 +0000 UTC]

ohhh, do they have same strength and flexibility and what not?

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hellize In reply to Splurtsplet [2015-08-11 19:45:53 +0000 UTC]

Good question! A damascus is as strong as it's component steels. 
Originally it was made to be superior to contemporary steels (mostly in the middle ages, but I have seen some very nice damascus shotguns too), which were or too soft or too brittle. But modern steels don't have these flaws anymore, they can be hard and flexible in the same time, so today pattern welding doesn't give any technical advantage over mono steels, it is made only because of its beauty.

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Splurtsplet In reply to hellize [2015-08-11 20:11:57 +0000 UTC]

ohhh.. yeah thanks, that answers my question.

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hellize In reply to Splurtsplet [2015-08-12 05:36:54 +0000 UTC]

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Splurtsplet In reply to hellize [2015-08-12 10:33:13 +0000 UTC]

 

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jmirghel In reply to Splurtsplet [2015-08-11 18:31:21 +0000 UTC]

Let's put it this way: two different steels will behave differently if heat treated in the same way (in a damascus, they will be treated the same way because they are forged together). Now, if you take the superior steel of the two that make the damascus, and make your sword using only that steel... it will most likely perform better.
On the other hand, "better" depends on what you plan to use it for, and "how" you plan to use it. There are steels that will suit a vast range of applications and there are steels that are more specialized so they will outperform everything in one application but will be useless for pretty much everything else.
Everything is a trade off - such is life.  

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Splurtsplet In reply to jmirghel [2015-08-11 19:16:06 +0000 UTC]

thanks for that. and the life advice.

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