misclassed: MANGA; SHIMOSA. (☸ 14)
千子村正 / senji muramasa ([personal profile] misclassed) wrote in [community profile] synnet 2025-04-11 01:11 am (UTC)

Ah. It would depend on what part of the process you're looking to add kaiju at. Something like the tsuba or the tsuka-maki would be the easiest to change materials on, or any of the other mountings.

But if you mean the steel itself, then
[ INSERT 5 PARAGRAPHS OF DETAILED ASSESSMENT AND OPINIONS ON INCORPORATING BONE TO THE FORGING PROCESS, WHETHER IN THE FLUX, THE FUEL, OR THE STEEL ITSELF, THE RESULTING DIFFERENCE IN HARDNESS AND ITS EFFECTIVENESS ON CUTTING, VERSUS DURABILITY, PLUS CONCERNS ABOUT INCONSISTENCY IN QUALITY OR MATERIAL COMPOSITION

tl;dr: you can add organic material, but its difficult to control the results unless you're VERY GOOD at what you do (and not once does he imply that it's beyond his own capabilities)
]

And all that is assuming that the fire doesn't destroy whatever properties makes the material a repellant. (Maybe you could use blood for tempering, but that sounds like a nightmare to keep supplied and fresh, 'specially with how much you change out the water.)

... I'd need to test things, at the very least.

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