The First Metalsmiths

[Beethovens7th]

Man, I wish my materials science class this past fall had been taught historically....it would've been fascinating.

[Nicatroubadour]

around 1000bc in Britain alot of communities didnt have fire or sometimes the leader was the one who had the secret of fire and wouldnt tell anyone else. interesting areas these

[Nicatroubadour]

i mean 100,000bc

[redduckinpond]

In Malaysia they found stone tools close to 1.8 million years old.

[PortfolioManager1987]

So true about creativity, I mean look at Leonardo Da Vinci!

[603881]

Hey cropper, long time fan

I would like to point out (involved with metal work myself) that pure titanium has a lower rockwell (C) than high carbon steels and therefore titanium actually has worse scratch resistance thus maintains less edge retention. Titanium alloys that get higher than 70+ usually come in the form of a coating (the glock pistol has a coated top that can sharpen knives) but doesn't come in the large enough pieces for plows and would probably be too brittle.

[MrCropper]

"titanium actually has worse scratch resistance thus maintains less edge retention."

Very interesting. I was clueless.

What about beryllium plow shares?

[legendre007]

You're talking about a time in which everyone was familiar with stones. :-)

These days, everyone is familiar with stoners. :-(

[Spalg]

You'd rather work with rocks than smoke some weed? Ok.

[Kurtyoungblood]

Hehe.

[PortfolioManager1987]

Half a cone, some lobster and some very well cooked beef liver two hours before sleep. Biological electron transportation is important, eat high concentrations of copper - which ought to help compensate for your lack of brain cells.

[PortfolioManager1987]

*comment intended for Spalg

[Spalg]

No my brain cells are fine, I practice the golden mean, I smoke rocks. See, so everything is fine (and itchy).

[Nicatroubadour]

u smoke rocks? ive heard of dribbling on rocks (a sport of skill and precision) but how can u smoke them ? Itchy?

[Spalg]

It's crack.