Why Bronze is Fascinating... 

"This jewelry is something I can get behind."

TheFilthyLiam Copper and tin produce bronze. Bronze produces wood.

@@scotsbillhicks Aluminum, manganese, and phosphorous all make much stronger bronzes than tin ;)

@@dylantaylor7416 wouldn't aluminium make it more brittle though? Just curious since tin is pretty soft and malleable in comparison. Though I'm not too familiar with phosphorous or magnesium.

@@noobpro9759 It does make it considerably harder, but not brittle. Aluminum bronze is one of the overall strongest bronze alloys.

Have you considered having yourself bronzed?

@@BaronVonQuiply Why yes I considered pouring molten bronze on my body

@@gabebarber5813 I think they use salts instead of molten metal. It's done via elecroplating though, so I'm gonna need to you hold onto this wire..

I want a girl who looks at me.

A large chopper helps.

Gold and silver are better.

My goodness. That’s an amazing statement. So awesome

Great thought

are u bronze

@@desmondmurphy449 not for usability. it is too weak even if bronze is soft silver and especially gold are waaaaay softer

Get yourself someone that looks at you the way Skal looks at a bronze sword.

The most touching love story.boy meets blade

skall x bronze

Check his onlyfans account for xxxclusive bronze content 😂🤣

Get your mind out of the gutter.

more like sexual relief

I ship

Find yourself a man who looks at you the same way skall looks at bronze

I think he needed some lone time with the sword after this video...😅

Kind of like Shadiversity and Gambeson XD

More like 10 minutes of him talking about bronze and a 5 minute ad...

Was not kidding he likes bronze. I expect to see him at the market selling bronze after that presentation.

480 BC... A Spartian: My Lord, the Persian are comming now, they are hundreds of thousands! By the gods, what should we do? Leonidas: *silence* - Stares enraptured at his bronzen sword for a long time, which is gleaming and shimmering in the rising sun... Then stands up with a bright big smile and shout: They should come, I feel GOOD !!

I read your comment the exact same time Skall said that lmao

@@quantumratio4311 No doubt as they reportedly were beautifying themselves before battle at Thermopylae according to their custom, they made use of reflective polished-bronze surfaces for minute corrections.

Me: I don't like sand. Me after watching this video: It's coarse, rough, and it gets everywhere.

Are you trying to tickle some likes out of the comment section?

Yeah boi, 666

@@Brajany You forgot iritating.

LADS, LADS, LADS, LADS!

That pun was *sharp.*

Skaal

He SHINES a light on the use of bronze.

Yeaah, I *TIN* you are right mate!...

My thoughts exactly.

Just about every wrench used in my welding shop was bronze. Acetylene, oxygen and solvents abound; no sparks please! Even had an aluminum bronze tool.

​@@pirobot668beta Aluminum bronze?

It’s not the same type of “bronze” the ancient used though. They used copper and tin bronze. Modern non sparking tools use, aluminum, beryllium, titanium, nickel, zinc, lead or any other metal other than iron.

I like to claim the same about the color pink. Many people don't realize what an oddity it is, being a vibrant color that fits into the color wheel but does not exist within the rainbow spectrum but only as a mix of wavelengths. (I.e. it is weirder than violet which does exist as a single wavelength that triggers both blue and red cones.)

Army of the Sun.

Imagine the bards recounting this tale: "The enemy came upon us, and their wrath did burn with the fury of a thousand suns."

You should listen to the Iliad translated by Caroline Alexander on audiobook

@@johnpeterson2987 why would i do that when i could just pull my copy off the shelf and read it myself instead? Homer did like to wax poetic about the glare of the sun gleaming on the bronze swords and armour, though--you are right about that.

@@michaelmccoy1794 Because it's hard to find a bard that has it memorized in English that can stand there and recite it to me while I feast ;) I vote listen to it.

I can assure you, that the ancients did exactly that on a regular basis.

I think that’s basically how China operated for millennia, unlike most civilizations they had access to both copper and tin and didn’t need to trade long distance for it

Problem is, in the bronze age, only the rich fighters could afford metal weapons. The rest had to make due with wood, stone and bone. That's one reason the iron age took over. Suddenly you could cheaply equip a whole army with metal weapons (even if those weren't nearly as good as the best bronze weapons).

@@Mikebumpful framed from that perspective, it seems obvious that bronze was still valued over iron in the iron age.

@Fidus Achates I think you got a few things wrong here. First: Written sources from the Bronze age describing materials and technology basically don't exist. All we have is the archeological record which shows bronze weapons were not mass produced. Second, iron weapons instantly became cheap and readily available once new technology brought coke furnaces hot enough to smelt iron. Why? Because iron ore is everywhere, while bronze is alloyed from two semi-precious metals that have to be separately sourced (in the late bronze age hundreds of miles apart). Third, the iron age started after the bronze age collapse when bronze had become rarer and more expensive than ever before. The early iron weapons were crude and brittle indeed since the smiths hadn't learned to control the carbon content yet, while bronze technology was mature at this time. A testimony to this is how nobles and officers of the early Roman republic often carried bronze swords, while the legionaries always had iron.

@Fidus Achates Bronze is both harder to obtain and functionally superior to iron. Have you ever actually used an iron blade? It's trash. Iron armor is similarly bad.

Fidus Achates Yes, that’s what we are suggesting. Because iron became extremely available and cheap very suddenly. I’m willing to concede defeat on all your other points, except the supposed superiority of early iron as a material. The idea that the iron age came to be because iron is a superior metal is widespread, and it’s this myth I’m trying to bust. Iron didn’t become materially superior until much later, when the blacksmiths and artisans had learned to control and exploit the carbon levels in the iron, creating steel. Also I apologize for my aggressive and dissmissive retoric last night. You clearly know your stuff.

So does iron, steel need to step his game up

@@juanpablogonzalez8528 so does stone.

@LowModulation yeah, but we are not calling it "the steel age"

@@juanpablogonzalez8528 We will after we advance, lol

@LowModulation I've heard arguments for us living in the plastic age. It would be interesting to see what future generations will refer to this age as, given all the materials we're using currently.

It's not just shiny, it looks like golden ice made slick by an early spring stream of meltwater.

Tounushi Like dawn through a lens of tanned flesh

Reason #2: it's shiny

krillin6 Aye that too

like a treasure from a sunken pirate wreck

Thats his power rings so he can wield the beautiful bronze without orgasm.

@@Ublivion01 Na, it´s a +5 dex ring so he can use the sword.

@@kjellringstrom6217 Nah, it's both, but he doesn't actually needs the plus in dexterity, because the vikings alrredy have that pluss from the racial trait.

Simple wrings of metal are not jewels.

@@lemmingscanfly5 definition of Jewelry-personal ornaments, such as necklaces, rings, or bracelets, that are typically made from or contain jewels and precious metal.Example: "she had silver hair and chunky gold jewelry" Any precious/ornamental metal. I would say twisted wire is ornamental and would fall under a broad category of jewelry.

Why?

@@pewdiepieisking1454 They will think why did someone have a exceptionally made bronze weapon in the 21st century, then they will say "wow look at the great condition its in, bronze is fascinating..."

There will be no archeologist for our era. The thing is since internet appeared, there will be no loss of everything we do right now. (Except for a large scale disaster of course)

Well, to use internet, you need energy, to have energy, you need ressources... Who knows what will remains 1000 years later, maybe we will find solution, maybe not :p

André Dulac If there are no resources, there will not be archaeology. I felt this first hand in the last depression in Europe. Culture and social sciences were the first ones to lose funding... even the National Board of Antiquities lost heaps of employees... so yeah, culture is the first one to go, when it gets rough financially for a state... Edit: grammar.

Hehe, Shakespeare reference

It's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved.. at all.

Come cheer up my lads

One, seven, three, four, six, seven, three, two, one, four, seven, six, charlie, three, two, seven, eight, nine, seven, seven, seven, six, four, three, tango, seven, three, two, victor, seven, three, one, one, seven, eight, eight, eight, seven, three, two, four, seven, six, seven, eight, nine, seven, six, four, three, seven, six, lock.

What's in a name? That which we call bronze By any other name would shine as sweetly.

Should have mentioned that the bronze I work with is for plumbing fittings. Good stuff!

Soooo preeettyyyy.....

isn't the symbol on the ring the same one from Samurai Jack ep were he fight a viking trapped in stone

@@tophatminion.7558 you know which ep? Then I could check it

@@manuelschurig2266 Episode X: Jack and the Lava Monster Samurai Jack. its on the stone that tells the story of the viking

@@tophatminion.7558 so you mean on the thing holding his cloak right?

What's it called?

@@isectoid9454 The sword of Goujian, dated 8th to 5th century BC, perfectly preserved. The sharpness seems to owe to differential tin to copper ratio depending on what part of the blade is examined (notably, almost 30% tin right on the edge, fairly high for bronze). Also the sword was apparently found inside a very tight fitting lacquered wood scabbard, inside a casket, inside a tomb underground which likely contributed to fending off tarnish and preserving the intricate decorative patterns. Cheers.

@@platinumnib4443 Thanks.

Chinese tombs are weird like that. Look up Lady Dai to have your mind blown.

@@vitriolicAmaranth its partially because China has a wide range of natural resources and partially because some of their tombs were equal parts well built, well preserved, and had good natural conditions that alot of their burial artifacts are in amazing condition compared to places like europe where most tombs were either raided or flooded and rusted everything to sludge.

Stone? Ha! You lucky filthy rich person! What's wrong with bone I ask, hmm? Not only you can you make ALL stone tools from bone, but you can create needles from bone, which is not possible with stone.

You disgusting bourgeoise pastoralist! What's wrong with wood may I ask, hmmmm. Seems all you care about is bone which cant do much compared to our glorious wood homes, you filthy caveman.

@TheT34Tank You wretched hunter! Why use the guts and meat of a dead camel when you can pick berries and sleep outside exposed to the elements?

@@abramelinomago516 You repulsive hominid! How dare you waste away your life wallowing in riches and luxuries you have no earthly need for?! My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandpappy swam around without consuming oxygen of any kind! What's the point of an opposable thumb I ask you? A jaw will catch your food, chew it up, and scare off competition at the same time! Nothin' better than a good ol' mandible, that's what I sssssssay.

*sees the the comment section* *sits down with a cup of tea* Don’t mind me lads, continue on! *sips tea*

Hopefully they won't mind that he said their jewlery can stain your skin.

@@Guanjyn It's not like it's an anomaly for jewelry to do that.

@@Guanjyn I'd hope they'd appreciate their consumers being fairly informed about both the positives and negatives of their products so they can make a decision they don't regret.

Agreed, so much so I've actually purchased something.

Ya thats how id imagine its supposed to br done to win both parties!

same

Or Aluminium alloys Well in that cases they might be Aluminium Cooper alloys maybe with tin wich IS a bronce Aluminium alloy...

Um... as someone who dabbles in aircraft I can tell you that you do NOT want aluminum/ copper alloys for corrosion resistance.

@@jonskowitz Pretty much this, Aluminium, copper and Steel causes Galvanic corrosion and rots faster than unprotected steel. So much so that sacrificial plating, anodes are used to make the rust goes elsewhere first.

Chlorophyll more like borophyll

Now that you mention it, i spent a week on a boat that is 50 years old or so, and almost all the metal looks bronze or brass

Often true for a variety of non-ferrous metals like silver and gold too. Probably derives from historical beliefs that various undead and "evil" creatures feared rare metals.

What's more funny is how when we see how copper smithing from a layperson would look completely magical: I mean, bros go to the underworld, bring the blood of the earth with slight, magical tints of green, smelt them into liquid fire and pour it into moulds, making it into a material never seen before. Also, it's not like you can come unscathed in this journey, as arsenide from the pranks of our little old nick and those pesky kobolds will destroy your health. Old Nick and Kobolds even get honoured with the metal names Nickel and Cobalt. No wonder there were such things as shaman-smiths in places like Croatia in the Bronze Age.

Well, I am not so sure about that, they have some nazi symbolism in their inventory (and I am not talking about runes, I mean things like the Black Sun), so that sponsorship might turn sour fast.

@@SirBlackjack010 The black sun pre-dates Germany it'self. it's important to remember that the 3rd reich thrived on taking well established icons (Like the swazika) and corrupting/appropriating them.

@@Ranstone Does it though? Do you have sources for that? There are sources for sun wheels, but that specific design seems to be exclusive to nazi germany.

If you're genuinely interested, here's a revised, online version of a peer-reviewed paper. contern.org/cyberproceedings/papers-from-the-1st-international-conference-on-contemporary-esotericism/eva-kingsepp-the-power-of-the-black-sun-occultural-perspectives-on-naziss-esotericism/ _TLDR: Yes, you are correct, it's highly affiliated with Nazi Germany, but its previous use as a symbol of the occult was what drew Himler to use it in the first place._ In short, its a satanic symbol first, and a Nazi symbol secondly. After checking my sources for the above paper however, I think what you said makes more sense than I first thought. A lot of people affiliate the black sun with the SS, and it could be misconstrued. P.S. Never trust wiki. I had to use academic-search-complete because this topic has so many rumors along with it. P.P.S. Nazis suck. In case anyone thought I was supporting them in any way, I wasn't. Death to Nazis!

As Asian we don't really care about nazi, heck we love japan now, the country that enslave most asian

Bronze gazing, the pancea of our time.

Dont listen to him he has been bribed by the big bronze industries to say that kind of stuff

I thought Skallagrim had cracked his addiction ... but all that hard work seems to have gone for nought

It's gold the one that looks like Bronze

Bronze is much prettier to me because it's darker.

All aboard MegaWizard79's horizon!

@@naverilllang Exactly what I hoped the only comment would say. Hello 7 months later.

@@cxx23 hello friend

Hi frend, I'm having troble boarding my horizon. How did you make its work?

@@kasperbolding18 It seems that your issue is that you're trying to board your own horizon. MegaWizard79s horizon is the only horizon for you! Please board soon, as MegaWizard79s horizon will depart... eventually.

Simon Peter Bronze is OP. Everyone thinks ur a noob until u pwn them in full bronze body.

That’s the fist time in history I’ve ever seen anybody use the words holy poo

He really does look at it like that

my Preciousss

You were at my side all along.... :)

*Opera music starts playing*

I once paid for a local guind. He turned out to be a fishman who tried to sacrifice me to his star gods. Bugger didn't even guind me to the temple I was looking for first.

All shad needs are mochiolations.

False! The four basic human necessities are air, water, food, shelter. -Dwight Schrute

CobaltMusketeer to spill the blood of my enemy’s see them driven before me and to hear the lamination of the women

@@turinturambar1688 Having your women laminated seems a rather nasty thing to do to them. Quite lamentable.

@@SimuLord yea u are right

I hate wearing them, but I wear one around my neck on a chain. Best of both worlds really.

Go to 'Pakabone' on Etsy, the original jeweler from Ukraine

God dammit now I want that scallagrim. And I hate scallagrim

I normally dislike the concept of jewellery, but that ring really is awesome. Skall manages to get the best sponsors on the internet.

Sorry but Skall is lord of the ring.

Gold goes well with purple

Red gold looks a lot more similar. No surprise, it's got copper in it. :)

If you use aluminum instead of tin, it produces a very gold coloured bronze, and harder too! Edit: gold, not good

Bronze Flammenscwert?

You know there is white gold (alloyed with silver, palladium or platin) and red gold (alloyed with copper)? Of course gold does not have the nice patina bronze develops, but the colour of those gold alloys is true metal. ;-) I wear a ring made of white gold (585), because it looks better than silver and does not get a black oxide layer like silver does. Did you also know that bronze is a lot heavier than steel? A broadsword may be impractical because of it's weight, but it will be pretty. :-)

@Borderguy342 last time I checked, I am half German and Dutch. But who knows

its human nature

Bronze is pretty unique in the family of combat applicative metallurgies, it's got a very subdued golden shine that's super appealing and it ages a lot better than almost any non alloy metals. In general there's just a lot to like

@Borderguy342 so are Hugin and Munin...

@@user-fk1we3gs4d You know, I've used the ravens in writing several times, and every time I do, someone feels the need to correct me on the spelling regardless of how I spell their names.

I'm reading through the comments while listening to the video. I read your comment, wonder what you are talking about. Not even a second later those words come through my headset and I'm like "ah, neat". perfect timing

Isn’t vegvisir just how you pronounce wegweiser in German

When I look at the word I can see the english Way and Vision. English being such an influenced language is so cool to me as it is both Germanic and Romantic especially When you look at the evolution of letters like G making the Y sound

@@cometthegreat8750 Unfortunaly no xD

@@cometthegreat8750 well if you pronounce vegvisir like an American or English speaking Canadian would it would sound a lot like a German pronouncing wegweiser. If a German pronounced vegvisir it likely wouldn't sound like wegweiser.

@@robinpohl2702 in german it would sound like weg Visier

Glad to know, thanks for the positive feedback.

H1 stainless steel or titanium

@@mistakenotou7681 Granted. Though unless your fantasy setting is going all the way up to an industrial tech level - or you get really creative with alchemy - Bronze weapons are much more likely.

@@Bluecho4 why thech level in most fantasis is low? I mean there are like several thosound years old civilisations especially fire arms it wont take long for people to figere them out

@@mistakenotou7681 I think the typical reason for fantasy settings to have low technology is that they usually have magic. When a civilization has powerful wizards to both build cities and bolster armies, there's less of an impetus on developing new methods of doing those things that don't fall under the purview of magic. Why would you need a gun when you can throw a fireball?

@@Demonrifts reliability. everyone can use it and get mass produced imagine. The defenders had bombers in that lotr siege

I know it's a late response, but, you can't spell "bronze" without "bro."

@@caseyhart9916 I want to be bros with bronze

He would be a dull person

This is why Tolkien simply said the Elves used magic to reforge Narsil. There's reference to hammering the steel, but it's core explanation is magic. I was thankful for this, as nothing pulls me out of immersion like when an author gets something this esoteric wrong.

Even with a well done modern weld wouldn't it alter the flex of the blade? Could it make a blade more prone to further breakage either behind or in front of the welded spot?

​@@acerbicinspirations5978 While metal around an area to be welded is typically preheated (depends on the exact process) and while this temperature varies based on the exact type of steel. The preheating never really exceeds 400°F. Annealing temperatures (the minimum temperature where if let to air cool or cooled in a controlled way, the result will be a softening of the metal from re-arrangement of it's crystalline structure) for a strait carbon steel are all well over 1000°F. Even if quenched, there is no weakening or loss of temper/hardening that can physically occur. However hardening temperatures (which would require quench cooling) can be around the 400°F range depending on the exact formulation of the steel. Thing is, it's not really a through heat. The concern is mainly with the surface being at temperature so that it can fuse well with the metal being added. So at worst what you get is something of a case hardening on either side of the weld. Which doesn't effect the toughness. So the metal on either side of the weld at worst might become a bit stiffer. However for a blade to function properly, the desire would be to have everything smooth and flush. Therefore grinding and polishing would take off any excessively hardened material as necessary for preserving performance. The end result should be no noticeable difference in flexibility. and no net change in strength of the material on either side of the weld. But this is all based on doing it properly. which includes using the right materials and process based on foreknowledge about the specific alloy in question. If not done well there will be a rather large heat affected zone with significantly deep penetration into the piece. However even these areas can be mitigated with appropriate cooling processes and even reheats and cools applied. So basically it's good to have someone who doesn't just know how to weld. But also knows how to spark test, acid test etc. and is something of at least an amateur metallurgist as well. The one thing that might be noticeable to the old arm at swinging a sword is a balance shift in the grams. At least with gas welding processes one is adding material and that material tends to be denser than the original material. But something to understand about a weld is that it is not soldering. This isn't a simple fill in of molten metal to act as a glue. the metal on either side of a weld fuses (like the interlacing of your fingers) with either side of the weld itself. for all intents and purposes it makes two or more pieces of metal one, with a gradation in exact composition and properties, radiating out from the weld site. The thing of it is, it's still a half truth modernly because unfortunately most people that learn to weld do so from a book or instruction by someone else who knows how to weld (like myself, lol). There are not nearly as many vocational school, certified welders as there are complete amateurs who think that they are better at it than they are. A large part of that is vocational school for welding and fabrication can cost $20,000-$40,000 out of pocket (there isn't really such a thing as financial aid for this sort of schooling in most cases). These schools are well worth it. But unfortunately not an option for a lot of people who need the skill. I have a friend who attended one. He said it was more book learning than anything else. And he brought home all of his test pieces to show off (the guy makes damn beautiful welds. Which I attribute to his decades of painting miniatures). Because formally educated welders are tested constantly. They have to not only be able to technically weld but do so from the most inconvenient of angles (including directly over head) and their pieces have to survive 90° and up bend tests. As well as make good judgment calls on process. These schools make sure that they know what they are doing. And if they don't to satisfaction they wash out or have to take courses over again. His class started with something like 20 individuals and ended with something like 6 or 7. of which I think (if memory serves) 2 had to retake some qualification or another and he graduated top of his class. So even out of those who went to school for it. There are not as many as one would hope that are naturals at it or were even among the best in their class. The problem with a failed weld is far more often the welder and not the process.

@@Ranstone Tolkien's universe is well acquainted with steel. I'd suspect they would have forge welding at least. Which is done (effectively) with hammering. An interesting thing is that in many cultures historically smithing and smelting was considered a type of magic. This is likely because of the elemental nature of the work and that smiths often worked in apparent secrecy. Though the reality is that they worked under necessary conditions. An ancient smiths shop would often be set up something like a dolems seen in Skyrim (though not necessarily made of stone). Which is is to say a corridor whose entrance is juxtapose to the entrance of the inner structure. The temperature of any metal can be discerned by its color. Whether it's a mild or high carbon steel, whether bronze or brass. All metals radiate consistently. That is to say that cherry red hot copper is the same temperature as cherry red hot iron. In order to see these colors accurately it's important that their light be the majority light being given off. So smiths often worked in dark or dimly lit conditions that blocked out natural light. It wouldn't due to have a costumer enter and let in the sunlight just as you were checking the color of a reheated piece. Layout of a shop is also very important to a smith. For time constraint concerns on heating and working they need to minimize unnecessary movement. So needed tools have to be within arms reach, the anvil height has to be right so as not to hurt the back during long hours. Where it sits and it's orientation in relation to the forge has to allow a smith to turn 70°-90° from one and be positioned with the piece over the other. So again it doesn't due to have people who don't know what their doing loitering in the work space. Natural air flow prior to things like forge blowers was important as well. so being on the upper end of a hillside is good for ventilation. So your ancient smith might retreat to an on high, ceremonial looking structure, that by nature of it's layout blocked out natural light, and where only him and his apprentices were permitted entry. Then after hours of the damned ringing of metal and bellows of smoke he would emerge with seemingly miraculous end products from having been brought only pieces of crudely refined earth. Furthering the mystery around it would have been the fact that smiths make a variety of job specific implements that only they understand the purpose of. In addition to this guarding one's secrets excepting those who might one day replace you when you're old and nearly deaf/blind was job security. All that taken together... One can easily imagine how to the uneducated mind that this appeared to be some manner of magic being worked. So I think a satisfying hand wave for the author's lack of knowledge regarding the subject. Is that the exact process was so obfuscated. That even the author cannot fully relate to the reader it's inner workings; That even the author imagines it to be some sort of magic for not understanding the process by necessity of the process being done well.

@@The1Helleri Thanks for your exhaustive reply at putting my concerns to rest.

Does that mean you like rose gold?

I've honestly wanted a bronze folding knife, or smallish EDC fixed blade. It'd be much less practical, but hella interesting and would be a hell of a conversation starter with other blade people.

However, I would like to point at what is most likely misinformation in chemistry. First: silver tends to tarnish as well and seemingly more often than bronze. Good thing is that you can easily clear silver tarnish with some toothpaste. Second: copper oxide (II) is black. Copper oxide (I) is dark red. Green discoloration usually seen on copper roofs is in fact copper (II) carbonate.

@@dymytryruban4324 Oh, I think I was under the impression that the green was an oxide.

@@BaronVonQuiply It was Skallagrim's who called green discoloration "oxide". I accidentally posted comment in the wrong place and couldn't retrieve it. Also Skall mentioned bronze's safety in volatile environments because it doesn't create sparks. This property belongs to berillium bronze.

And people wonder why it was the most popular metal for 2000 years...

I dont think brass oxidizes.

@@furrytrash7917 yes it does....

I know from my time playing minecraft that it only takes 2 cubic metres of stone and a single stick to make a sword

Thanks, but that happened over half a year ago. :)

@@Skallagrim , O. M. Gosh! Lmbo. That's too funny sadlytoo funny. Blessed days sirSir, Crawford out

Is that Finland but with a speech impediment?

@@tiberiu_nicolae No, it's England but with an even worse speech issue.

My dealer won't tell me where he gets it.

@Benja Freeman 2 minutes at least. Put my bracelet in for too long at one point and it ended up too shiny for my taste. But the patina usually comes back after a few days of wearing it.

How about silver? Side point, juice was used in the Americas to make pre-columbian statues appearing to be of solid gold. They'd make an alloy of gold, silver, and copper. Then they'd use sulfur to dissolve the silver, and citric acid to dissolve the copper, then they'd burnish the resulting top layer to spread the gold and make an impressive finish. The Conquistadors thought they were surrounded by pure gold when it was merely gilded copper-electrum.

I always just soak it in cider

@@TheSteij yes anything with mild acidity will work. Lemon juice is just a good cheap way, being a dollar at the dollar store.

If you want a more effective acid, put the lemon juice in a sauce pan over low heat. The heat catalyzes the acid and it will eat away at tarnish more quickly.

i heard that it did but not flully sure.....may have to call my. cuz and get the smelter runing agin it somethimg to try

It's been used for ship propellers, so it's got the toughness. The only question is strength of the edge vs standard bronze.

aluminum bronze is tough as shit, I work as a tool and die maker and occasionally machine parts from aluminum bronze. I usually have to use feeds and speeds similar to that for A2 which is an air hardenable tool steel. it resists friction from other metals which is why it is often used for bushings etc. but makes it really hard to saw though. id say it would make a great sword but if I was going to do it, id make a short thick sword like a roman short sword or something. you'd have to cast it into the shape of your sword because it doesn't forge well. and since it work hardens id sharpen it with a peening hammer like they do with scythes.

@@atomiclizzard288 Cool. Thanks for the info.

There is a tapping like Method for a bronze edge that makes the edge more stronger.. but would it be good still with any other metal?. I have the same I idea that bronze mixed with another like a Damascus like sword. Bronze can be the soft core as it has the harden steal as the edge. I know a way that could be a good basis but I'm not well know how to forge welled correctly and I may be worng for my knowledge about bronze is fairly young and not that vast just yet.

Yes, it does. It's a process called work hardening if you're interested.

You can not nearly to the same degree as iron. Bronze has a far more regular crystal structure so it is far more consistent in terms of hardness.

That sounds garbled. Not sure if he garbled it or you did. Hammering bronze without otherwise heating it makes it harder, not stronger or tougher. You don't want it too hard - it will shatter/crumble. Bronze swords were molded into shape but the final shaping of the edges was done with a hammer to make that part harder so it would take a sharper edge. This does NOT make it tougher - quite the opposite. But it does make it possible to get a very sharp edge. If you make it too hard you need to heat it back up to make it softer again, then give it another try. The first swords were made of bronze and they were really cutting edge technology of the time.

@@laughingdaffodils5450 "cutting edge technology" ahh I see what you did there!

Shad described a process reflecting what Malcolm said for production.

Gargoyle helm and shield are made of bronze, pretty sure it says it in the item description. All he needed to do was soak the helm and shield in an acid so they would be shiny again.

@@grandpanoogie2665 that is actually correct. Although they are very rusty, so they don't look as grossly incasdescent as they should.

@@aiexmonsterhunter a shame it is

@@aiexmonsterhunter rusty bronze? lol