Best material for a sword?

[Lancet Jades]

Personally, I'd prefer some sort of new-age alloy for my blade, lol.

[Laggy]

teh older teh better

i dont care though, all swards are cool ^_^

[Zelphiel]

Personally, I'd prefer some sort of new-age alloy for my blade, lol.

likewise. maybe some sort of steel-titanium alloy tempered in the japanese folding style. It would be permanantly razor sharp too flexable to break and rigid enough to cut or stab through quite a bit. basically a ginsu 2000 katana :D

[Wallie Wildo]

prolly somethin uber strong ^_^

[Gravity]

Steel-titanium with a special melted ingridience in it..

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[The Deity]

I like show swords with gold blades...of coarse that wouldn't be the greatest idea for battle.

[Dark Luther]

Actually, I study sword construction, and Steel-titanium would probably be too heavy and not strong enough. The Titanium would only be good to keep the blade from rusting. If you use mostly Titanium, the sword would be strong and light, but would be impossible to keep a blade and hard if not impossible to fold since it would probably deform while the softer outer layer was applied.

Heres a few buyer tips for those looking for swords:

If you want a sword that will keep it's blade forever without sharpening,
you're best bet is good quality Carbon Steel. It usually comes in jet black and is very hard to dull, while being relatively strong. It's drawback is that good quality Carbon Steel is hard to come by. It's very strong, but very brittle and will not dull, but can chip if not used right, and is very hard to re-sharpen once it happens. It also stains easily, so clean up of the blade is a chore if you neglect it.

If you want a Katana, the steel used will vary depending on the maker and his manner. At least two different types will be used, a softer and harder steel used in the inner and outer folds. The steel will be mixed while forging with certain base metals and catalysts to remove certain impuritites.

For me, I have been tinkering with the use of tungsten/wolfram ( the best material for puncturing, because of it's hardness and ability to cut into other metals ) in the thrusting point of a rapier or my own Croatian Schiavona ( a mercenary cross between a cutlass and rapier ). The same could be true for a Shikomni-Zue if it could be kept hot enough and still folded.

The only problem is it's got a very high melting point, the hardest of all metals, and not the easiest to shape and fold, let alone fold.
The idea ahead of this is the conversion to tungsten carbide n.773, which would make Carbon Steel look like glass. But I'm getting ahead of my self, I guess I can only dream.

[Chaos Theory]

a sword made of light

of yeah check how original I am

lol weightless is a good thing


diamond would be cool too cause I can kill while beeing all bling bling

[Dark Luther]

Yeah, and you could call it a light saber.
Wow that's good, just don't forget to give me the credit for that one.lol

[Johnson Swags]

i would say alot of steel and titainium if i spelled it right you get me point but that would be one strong sword

[Lancet Jades]

a sword made of light

of yeah check how original I am

lol weightless is a good thing


diamond would be cool too cause I can kill while beeing all bling bling
A diamond sword. That sounds pretty damn good, lol. Ouchy killing power, too...