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The lion and the dragon, a fight fit for the millennia.
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There’s a lot of fantasy mixed up in that one. A big thing worth noting is a lot of armors had a treatment In this manner, the Victorians cleaned it off because they wanted shiny.
Why you’d blacken isn’t so much a question of money as use. If you’re on campaign, cleaning rust may not be practical so you want another method. We have a bill of sale from 1500 where a merchant directly requested it on his suit. As an addendum the suit cost him 3 months income. Getting it made now would be about the same price as a mid-range car if in the US, cheaper abroad.
Thermal bluing isn’t so much a special process as an artifact of the forging process. Steel, when heated and maintained at varying temps from 300 to 600 (iirc) degrees F will color. So the tempering and annealing process can produce the effect. You can also polish that off and redo it to get a desired color.
You still see this on guns today, and fancy knives.
Why you’d blacken isn’t so much a question of money as use. If you’re on campaign, cleaning rust may not be practical so you want another method. We have a bill of sale from 1500 where a merchant directly requested it on his suit. As an addendum the suit cost him 3 months income. Getting it made now would be about the same price as a mid-range car if in the US, cheaper abroad.
Thermal bluing isn’t so much a special process as an artifact of the forging process. Steel, when heated and maintained at varying temps from 300 to 600 (iirc) degrees F will color. So the tempering and annealing process can produce the effect. You can also polish that off and redo it to get a desired color.
You still see this on guns today, and fancy knives.
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