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[-] [email protected] 79 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Damn, looking at the comments here I realize sometimes I DO have more knowledge on some topics than other people. If you guys don't know that's a bronze sword, bronze is a metal that's well known due to its corruption-resistant properties. When bronze develops that green patina you see on the sword it also creates a sort of protective layer that shields the rest of the metal from oxygen and prevents it from rusting away.

Quick note meant to say corrosion not corruption lmao.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

bronze is a metal that's well known due to its corruption-resistant properties.

I suppose it won't take a bribe?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

We should start encasing politicians in bronze, might help things

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It would help. Not for that reason, but it would help.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Perhaps the casing could be in the shape of a bull maybe... A brazen bull we could call it

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

This is also why the statue of liberty is green. Also the colossus of Rhodes would've been the same color by the time of its fall, and especially by the time some MOTHERFUCKER SCRAPPED IT!

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I think she’s actually made of copper, but ya simillar

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Jealousy is a fine coat.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I was refering to the patina effect not the metal. But yeah.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Just wanted to add to your comment here because patinas are freaking cool, in the world of bronze sculpture you can make the patina form a different color by applying different chemicals.

It can be blue, black, turquoise, or iridescent depending on the chemical mix. I'm pretty sure there's even a company that sells premixed solutions to achieve the desired results.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

that's really cool. yeah, anything involving either chemistry, manufacturing, or blacksmithing I would safely assume I'm not the expert in the room. I bet lots of people are same

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[-] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago

Beautiful sword, but looking at it gives me the strangest urge to carve runes into my skin.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

I feel like there is a room full of monks chanting or something in my kitchen but when I go and look, theres nobody there.

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*Scarification

Tattoos usually don't involve much carving

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Oh... Should we not be doing this?

I feel foolish.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

That's nice. A nice sword. I want that nice sword. 😋

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It's okay if you colonialism Germany and steal their stuff for museums, just so you know

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

looks almost too nice for that age

[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago

Bronze lasts a long time because it barely corrodes in the right conditions compared to iron/steel which rusts the moment you look at it wrong.

Here's one that was made sometime around 700 BC and is in absolutely pristine conditions because the scabbard was so well made it was a practically air tight seal around the sword.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_Goujian

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

And then someone dropped it and cracked the blade!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

tbh, a 7mm crack is the best case scenario

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

I have this feeling that my luck is none too good This sword here at my side don't act the way it should Keeps calling me its master, but I feel like its slave Hauling me faster and faster to an early, early grave And it howls, it howls like hell

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

If I recall correctly, bronze swords tend to be shorter than iron/steel swords. I wonder how big this one is. Need a banana for scale.

Also, it looks cool as fuck.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

If I had to guess I'd say it's about a human arm's length.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

1,45 m human or 2,15m human?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Good point. And it's Bavaria, so his arms may also have reached the floor when standing up.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

You need one of those swords in case you ever go into the underground empire. They glow very brightly when you're in danger from anything but a grue.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Skyrim glass sword.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Heres a concept, imagine some corrupting evil sword gets picked up by someone who incorruptible by the sword. The trick is they are immune to the swords corruption cause they are working off of a fundamentally different internal morality.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

"Hahaha!", said the sword. "I will twist your mind until you're wearing mixed fabrics, having pre-marital sex, and using the Lord's name in vain!", it cackled.

"I'll even make you skip church on the sabbath!".

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

what about gay sex and masturbation? Don't want to do half-job here being evil

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

"Hmm...", said the sword, quizzically. "The scriptures on those are a little vague in the translation the Blacksmith had".

The sword paused for a moment to think, its metal shifting subtly in a manner which could vaguely be described as coy.

"Maybe...", stuttered the sword, "you could show me what that means".

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

With all the fake stuff on the internet i just presume that this picture is not of the sword

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I'm seriously amazed at how polished it looks after just a small rinse of water over it, despite being buried for over 3000 years. The arrowheads also look perfectly intact

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Ah, so the real answer is that the sword was bronzed

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Are objects of solid bronze "bronzed?"

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"Given the soft nature of bronze, historians have previously wondered whether such blades served a ceremonial purpose, rather than a practical purpose on the battlefield. A few years ago, scientists even staged sword fights in order to learn more about how the Bronze Age weapons could have been used effectively in battle, despite being much easier to damage and harder to repair than their iron successors."

Scientists a sword fight?! Yes:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/en-garde-scientists-stage-sword-fights-study-bronze-age-warfare-180974705/

scientists fighting swords

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Head to your nearest graveyard and you're bound to dig up a sword in one of them eventually.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'm sorry, I thought this was America?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Handle looks like a snakes head, I wonder if that's deliberate?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Wasn't Nördlingen the Attack on Titan town?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Whispered secret #1: "Your mom and dad regret having you."

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