Why can’t movies get Forging right?

[dascoyne]

According to Hollywood, who cares if it’s right as long as it’s cinematic? Of course they don’t get forging right.

They don’t get forging right.
They don’t get law enforcement right.
They don’t get the military right.
They don’t get lawyers or physicians right.
They don’t get other cultures right.
They don’t get history right.
They don’t get politics right.


Then there are the Hollywood-types who actually believe their own fiction.

 

[Strikerkc]

they also don't get physics right most times either, it's not their job to get any of that right unless they're making a documentary. ;P

 

[jarroth]

You're just saying that the same principle behind a katana can be accomplished by forge welding (flexy spine with a hard sharp edge), not that katanas are forge welded, right? Cause *pushes glasses back up the bridge of my nose like the ******* I'm about the be* part of how they're made that way is through applying different coatings to the blade when hardening them to cause the different parts to cool differently, not two parts welded together.

Katana's indeed have several layers forge welded together. If looked at from the side only about a quarter of the blades hight will be hard steel .rest of the blade is a lot softer. After the welding should be a series of heat treating that actualy causes the signature curve of the blade. When forged the blades where actualy straight. Modern day one material blades like seen few times on shows like forged in fire the blades are forged to have the curve because of the method of hardening.

So far i seen one guy in the show creating a curve and hamon by using hardening cycles .

 

[Strikerkc]

Hmmm, i must say what i think you're describing doesn't match anything I've ever seen about how they were made.

What do you mean when you say "side" and "height"? Are you talking about going from babe of the blade and moving towards the tip? Moving from the unsharpened back side forwards towards the cutting edge, or from one flat side to the other?

 

[AJTaliesen]

This is what I've seen, although I assume there are many different techniques.

The Hamon line would indeed be caused by coating the back part during heat treat so that different parts cool differently, but the interior layers would be forge welded.

 

[JediMichael]

So wait a minute. You guys are saying that if a car hits a wall at even 10 mph, it doesn't really blow up completely????

 

[jarroth]

So wait a minute. You guys are saying that if a car hits a wall at even 10 mph, it doesn't really blow up completely????

Only if you punch with you bare fist through a window while car is airborn and you shoot a .44 automag at the rear view mirror with your other hand.

Or something like that, depents on the actor/director