Grand Dwarf - Ch. 28
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Hey, we finally got back to the engineering after way too many chapters without!
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We're now an educational manga
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hell yeah, as a fellow craftman, that chapter banged! much better than "blacksmith" or "creation" cheatskills that can pull anything from interdimensional asses
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Alright, but will it pass the keel test? Get Doug Marcaida in there!
Luckily it's purely a ceremonial [burial] weapon, and doesn't have to hold up in a fight. Because those welds would break very quickly compared to actual forged and tempered (etc) steel (or even iron).
But considering it was at that point only a symbolic decoration, that's probably fine.
If we are pointing out various other flaws in what he did, there's also stuff like how there's surely cracks or deformities hidden inside the metal, with it having shattered like that. So the welds might not even be the weakest part, particularly when we consider the handle too.
ps: where did he get the other parts of the axe from? To weld multiple parts together you need multiple parts to weld together! But prior panels of that axe only showed one part.
Yeah, he really didn't restore it into it's old functionality of a weapon. A bit of a scammer in that regard.
But considering it was at that point only a symbolic decoration, that's probably fine.
If we are pointing out various other flaws in what he did, there's also stuff like how there's surely cracks or deformities hidden inside the metal, with it having shattered like that. So the welds might not even be the weakest part, particularly when we consider the handle too.
ps: where did he get the other parts of the axe from? To weld multiple parts together you need multiple parts to weld together! But prior panels of that axe only showed one part.
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Page 4 there is bits of the axe head sticking into the ground. He's probably welding the edge back onto the the axe head which is probably why the first guy says its so far gone.
Welds can actually be stronger than the rest of the material depending on what rod he used. I'm not a welder myself but I've been around them a lot. Look up any "real" weld test if done correctly the metal will break before the weld does.
This really all depends on the type of metal and how it was welded back together. His technique seems legit and I perosnally like how he uses a welding rod. but yeah in essence I agree probably not as "legendary" as it used to be but could definitely be used as something.
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"It will keel"
Is this true even for things like weapons, which need to take all kinds of weird stresses including impacts from various angles, etc? Because I could believe it for some specific test (particularly if only done from one angle), but overall it feels like a weld will never have the same resilience as metal that was tempered/annealed (and hammered) specifically for the exact kind of use the metal has to endure.
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It all depends on many factors. The axe as it stands now would likely be slightly stronger then a normal weapon because of fantasy nature of the setting. IRL the welds would be stronger then the base weapon, if the welds were even able to adhere to the corroded scrap metal that remained.
TBH reforging the axe would have been the only option IRL. But this is a fantasy setting so I wouldn't even be surprised if it was restored to its legendary status because the Grand Dwarf "fixed" it.
