Kajiya de Hajimeru Isekai Slow Life - Vol. 6 Ch. 28

[Darris]

Fredericka-chan is adorable!

 

[Kendrakirai]

Too bad it's absolute nonsense, lmao. You can't fix sword that are bent like that just by hammering it out, because the stresses have definitely caused multiple fractures internally. Similarly, those shields are basically made of thin flat bars of metal hammered around a wooden shield frame, then affixed with studs; they may or may not be leather-faced. There's very little for a blacksmith to do, there. And lastly, they need an absolute metric ton of raw processed metal to affect these repairs for an entire army, too.

At least the rest of it is fun, though.

Dudes literally got cheat magic that can do anything related to metalwork at literal godly levels. The entire premise is that he's doing impossible things with metal. Isekai and/or general fantasy manga is not where you go for realism in the hobby.

 

[Amariithynar]

Dudes literally got cheat magic that can do anything related to metalwork at literal godly levels. The entire premise is that he's doing impossible things with metal. Isekai and/or general fantasy manga is not where you go for realism in the hobby.

His cheat magic is blacksmithing correction magic (IIRC more accurately "lifestyle replication magic", but on topic...), and the ability to imbue mana into items. Neither automagically fixes things, and he's talked about this at length and shown so previously. Do you not remember the entire arc with the elf girl he just met back up with that had him having to turn the scraps of her sword into a billet and reforge it out because he couldn't just magic it together and even if he welded it, it'd be much weaker and at risk of shattering any time? Swords being bent like that is no less broken internally than her shattered sword was.

 

[Claith]

Too bad it's absolute nonsense, lmao. You can't fix sword that are bent like that just by hammering it out, because the stresses have definitely caused multiple fractures internally. Similarly, those shields are basically made of thin flat bars of metal hammered around a wooden shield frame, then affixed with studs; they may or may not be leather-faced. There's very little for a blacksmith to do, there. And lastly, they need an absolute metric ton of raw processed metal to affect these repairs for an entire army, too.

At least the rest of it is fun, though.

Don't know enough about metal work, but I was thinking he was reforging them, not just reshaping.

Instead, I've been trying to figure out how his dinky forge could generate any heat though. Really open air, little fuel, hand powered bellow for some reason (so open, most flames would extinguish from the natural wind), all on a small table.

Maybe he was using magicules as a replacement for JB Weld or something. \shrug

 

[finalm]

Dudes literally got cheat magic that can do anything related to metalwork at literal godly levels. The entire premise is that he's doing impossible things with metal. Isekai and/or general fantasy manga is not where you go for realism in the hobby.

That's a poor excuse for even poorer writing. If you accept the idea, that nothing needs to be even a bit accurate, because some unspecified magic will solve all problems, then what's even the point of calling it blacksmithing? Why would you need tools, or labour? Just have the MC pull out swords from his ass, no real deifference story-wise.

 

[Amariithynar]

Don't know enough about metal work, but I was thinking he was reforging them, not just reshaping.

Instead, I've been trying to figure out how his dinky forge could generate any heat though. Really open air, little fuel, hand powered bellow for some reason (so open, most flames would extinguish from the natural wind), all on a small table.

Maybe he was using magicules as a replacement for JB Weld or something. \shrug

Open forges are a thing, and can work quite well- you can even melt aluminum in one, provided that you have it set up correctly and burn a lot of fuel to do so. The key there is that it has to be in a bit of a pit, basically; the wind can't just blow directly across the fire, and the bellows' tuyere needs to be pointed down to the base of the fuel to give it more oxygen. This setup fails on both points. The fuel is also lit directly on the table surface instead of on a heat-resistant surface like fire brick.

The hand-powered bellow is really bad though, either way, and should seriously be a foot pedal instead, as well as having a few assistants with him to do menial tasks (like refilling fuel or pedalling the bellows, which was a job that fully consumed a single person's labour).

As has already been discussed above, magicules can't JB Weld, lol.

EDIT:I think I found the picture/video that the author/assistant half-assed as the travel forge here, lol. From this YT video about building a Large Brake Drum Forge.