Kajiya de Hajimeru Isekai Slow Life - Vol. 1 Ch. 4

[TheProtectorOfPureHeartedGirls]

I had a hunch that she was a dwarf thanks to her skin tone and height?
I was also expecting her to ask for discipleship from MC but this is too soon. What's more, teaching the people of that world with his cheats could be very dangerous... lol?

I just hope they can't get even to the tiniest possible skills with MC's discipleship, so there would be no wars... with MC's products... lmao

 

[theldras]

casting swords? yeah... no, absolutely not, casting would make the swords fragile and prone to shatter, which is something you would obviously not want, swords, knives, daggers, bladed weapons in general is supposed to be forged, ie. you take a bit of iron or steel, heat it to to a bright red/white-ish glow, then you beat it into shape with a hammer, wish the author had taken 5-10 seconds out of their day to google this to find out so we dont get this silly nonsense in a manga thats about blacksmithing...

 

[theldras]

Not an expert, but I'm pretty sure you don't cast swords. They'd be way too heavy to use

casting would not make them heavier, the problem is that casting would make the swords fragile and prone to snap and shatter, so casting makes for pretty terrible swords, the proper way of making swords is forging.
really wish the author had taken his time to figure this out, its especially important to get right considering the manga is about blacksmithing.

 

[kimeraspacial]

That cat logo reminds me of Mew

 

[Hcheaz]

i thought u were supposed to fold and hit the metal instead of using a mold so its stronger

 

[That0neGuy0]

i thought u were supposed to fold and hit the metal instead of using a mold so its stronger

Casting metals like iron and steel causes there to be bubbles in the metal making it much easier to crack and shatter which is why actually forging blades is the baseline for anything more than decoration, although in metals/alloys that melt at lower temperatures like copper or bronze dont have this issue so cast away with those. Folding the metal is mostly decorative and was only really required in japan because their methods of gathering and smelting metals left them with very poor quality iron and steel. With poor quality metal the folding spreads the impurities throughout the blade so their isn’t an overly weak spot. Japanese blades made with traditionally gathered and smelted iron are highly glorified in media but are actually very easy to chip and damage during normal use as a cutting sword on anything with more resistance than cutting mats.

I occasionally find manga that covers the trades I partake in but they never actually do the research on the proper methods and tend to take the easy way out like constant use of molds and casting or transmutation magic (just a mage cosplaying as a smith)

Sometimes even basic things that can be done with just some practice like consistently hitting a torso sized target at several hundred meters with a short barreled rifle like an m4a1 needs a cheat skill or cheat stats, if you went the way of infrantry like I did you’d have to land those hits while also being shot at. All these characters are handed overpowered crutches when all they need is some time to practice.