Glass(obsidian) knife

[0racle]

edit: glass knife

made from obsidian style glass

i figure that obsidian should require the frageging skill and work like other foragable items.

since a stoneworking technique is used to create a knife from obsidian i believe that skill should be needed to make them

[Percival]

Tell me, have you ever used a knife made out of clay? Tell me, how sharp was it?

[SpidersEverywhere]

Modern ceramic knives are in many ways better than steel, but the technology to make them is waaay out of the time period we're talking about here.

[0racle]

Modern ceramic knives are in many ways better than steel, but the technology to make them is waaay out of the time period we're talking about here.

you are right, then why not a glass knife like obsidian, those are often used are are very sharp. that is more realistic.

even the aztec time frame used the macuahuitl

i changed the name of the post

[mvgulik]

why not a glass knife like obsidian

mmm.
1) Making them don't really seems to fit the supposed time period. (glass + * -> glass-like knife)
2) Lack of volcano's in HnH history. Or no raw obsidian around. (obsidian + * -> obsidian knife)
(although that history part could be easily corrected.)

[0racle]

why not a glass knife like obsidian

mmm.
1) Making them don't really seems to fit the supposed time period. (glass + * -> glass-like knife)
2) Lack of volcano's in HnH history. Or no raw obsidian around. (obsidian + * -> obsidian knife)
(although that history part could be easily corrected.)

obsidian is a kind of glass


1:volcanos do no have to be a mountain, underwater volcanoes can form the glass then shifting of plates could form the boulders you see around, from which the glass would break off and get spread around by wind water and animals.

,(for example volcanic glass can form millions of years before somone finds it)(alot of land shift can happen in that time, califoria could just vanish)
2: and obsidian didnt just vanish around the 8-12 century

[mvgulik]

Mountain?
Volcano as in "lava".

[Repercussionist]

Modern ceramic knives are in many ways better than steel, but the technology to make them is waaay out of the time period we're talking about here.

So is the technology for metal meat grinders (invented in the 19th century A.D.), but hey, who's counting time-continuum flaws anyway?

By the way, that answer is 217. >.<

[0racle]

Mountain?
Volcano as in "lava".

a volcanoe by definition is an opening in the earths crust possibly a mountain in which magma extrudes.

mind you plenty of land is formed by volcanoe.

[DigDog]

Modern ceramic knives are in many ways better than steel, but the technology to make them is waaay out of the time period we're talking about here.

So is the technology for metal meat grinders (invented in the 19th century A.D.), but hey, who's counting time-continuum flaws anyway?

By the way, that answer is 217. >.<

Not really. There's a difference between being able to melt and hammer metal into the right shape to create a metal appliance and being able to create high pressure presses which apply a pressure of around 300 tons to make those knives.