I am half way through the book and I have to say that finding your site has changed my perspective of the book. Although it is an abismal piece of work, I am looking forward to reading the chapters so that I can come back here and read the summaries :)
Now, on topic, in the I need a Sword chapter, Frederick (sp?) mentions that the dwarven blade's back was "annealed", while the edge was "tempered". Terrible mistake to make since annealing is the hardening of metals through a forging process and tempering the "softening". A soft edge would not hold its sharpness, and a hardened back would make it brittle.
CP... do some research, please? At least go to Wikipedia if you can't be bother to open a dictionary
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Annealing vs Tempering
Date: 2008-10-27 05:59 pm (UTC)Now, on topic, in the I need a Sword chapter, Frederick (sp?) mentions that the dwarven blade's back was "annealed", while the edge was "tempered". Terrible mistake to make since annealing is the hardening of metals through a forging process and tempering the "softening". A soft edge would not hold its sharpness, and a hardened back would make it brittle.
CP... do some research, please? At least go to Wikipedia if you can't be bother to open a dictionary