Why swords are so expensive?

Bruno · 11-19-2011, 08:24 AM

A water wheel might be more useful to power a hammer and save the smith some physical effort there, rather than grinding (At least before steel became cheap enough). But I don't think it would make it any faster, and there's a lot of the hammering would still have to be done by hand because it wouldn't be straight up-and-down hammering. You couldn't eliminate the skilled labor part with just a powered hammer either.

11-19-2011, 08:24 AM	#15
Bruno Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Canada	Re: Why swords are so expensive? A water wheel might be more useful to power a hammer and save the smith some physical effort there, rather than grinding (At least before steel became cheap enough). But I don't think it would make it any faster, and there's a lot of the hammering would still have to be done by hand because it wouldn't be straight up-and-down hammering. You couldn't eliminate the skilled labor part with just a powered hammer either. __________________ All about Size Modifier; Unified Hit Location Table A Wiki for my F2F Group A neglected GURPS blog