Just throwing ideas out there that might be taken as " Historical Heresy " I guess one could really cheat using blackened steel ground to imitate whatever facetting that obsidian would display. Posted: Mon 19 Sep, 2005 11:07 pm Post subject: The edge being made of interrupted rectangular pieces is certainly due to the near impossibility of finding and making very long cutting edges and it should make replacing one damaged section a lot easier and attachment to the club.Ī " Durable " semi-usable display piece might be made using some sort of tempered glass less likely to fracture or maybe some lexan tinted to look like obsidian ? I guess one could really cheat using blackened steel ground to imitate whatever facetting that obsidian would display. The crosssection of the club might be very flat at least for a wooden club and possibly of diamond section with a deep groove on each side to hold the obsidian rectangles securely. Posted: Mon 19 Sep, 2005 10:42 pm Post subject:īecause the obsidian is glued and / or attached with tongs to a piece of wood fairly thick compared to a steel sword using it with dismembering force / results might be difficult and a chop might be more likely to break off a piece: I wonder if draw cuts wouldn't be a preferred method to use these ? The extreme sharpness making deep cuts possible and draw cuts would spare the obsidian from stress that might flake off and damage the edge ? sells it with their flint knapping supplies, probably similar types of places would as well. Sometimes pet/fish stores will carry it to put into fish tanks. Rock shops are probably about the best place to buy obsidian, usually it is fairly cheap and sold by the pound. The type of cut you get would probably go from the cleanest cut you have ever seen to a cut with something like a chainsaw. It takes a bit to get it to flake right, so damage would most likely cause it to be more sharp and jagged. The thing about Macahuitl taking damage is that it will still be sharp, but it won't be as scary sharp as when it was made. I've used it to cut tape, open boxes, and all kinds of other things that you would just grab a knife to use. It will cut right through leather, recall a number of times it being picked up and used that very way just because it was right here and cut better than any knife in the shop.
It won't do well again any metals though. Obsidian is a natural glass though, so it is sharp, brittle, concoidal fractures, etc just like regular glass. It is always hard to work on things like this when there is other work to be done, I'm sure he would love for someone to give him an excuse to make one of these if someone was to ever commission him to. We never got around to making one of these though, all the further we got was trying to get a feel for working the obsidian. He is very interested in most of the ancient central and south american cultures, so these are right up his alley. Mark Grzybowski of and myself discussed these at great lengths around the shop when we were working together.
Posted: Mon 19 Sep, 2005 10:13 pm Post subject: Also leather being abrasive your razor edge won't be that way for long. With the little leather working I've done I've noticed that a razor edge will cut as a hot knife through butter, but a less than razor sharp blade will have great difficulty cutting leather. If a small piece flakes off it can leave a new edge as sharp as the original edge in some cases.Īt least this is what I vaguely remember from some long ago read science article.Īgainst steel plate or maille I would guess it would shatter ? Against leather or linen armour is should cut very aggressively. When looked at with a microscope the edges are as close to a zero edge as you can get and for surgery makes a very clean cut with no tearing. I think flint or obsidian has been used as scalpel blade for modern eye surgery, at least experimentally. Posted: Mon 19 Sep, 2005 8:34 pm Post subject: Location: Montreal,Quebec,Canada Joined:
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