Can You Melt Obsidian and Cast a Sword?
Can You Melt Obsidian and Cast a Sword?
I took some user comments way too seriously and figured out how to melt obsidian and sand cast it into a sword.
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You can maybe cut it and give a better shape since its glass and theres tools for glass like an diamond blade (not to expensive, in brazil it costs 20$, so in USA it would be like 5$, and you can try search for an diamond grindstone if it exists, like the diamond from tools are made in machines with coal, so an grindstone may be not too expensive)
10:32 what is that
So does this mean we’re not getting obsidian swords on minecraft?
This was so cool
Obsidian is hard, but hard doesnt mean resistent, its so hard that when you smash it with hammer it dont get smashed or bends, so the damage is not absorved, andnit goes for the object without anything for absorb it, so a iron may be more usefull, but obsidian make much better blades because it can be more thin than metal, the Aztecs used wood swords with obsidian blades for fight against Spanish People, they said that with one attack someone litteraly cutted off the head of an horse, with one fricken hit
Obsidian is by definition volcanic glass. The moment you melt it to process it, it is no longer obsidian but a synthetic glass, particularly with the added ingredients whether they be flux or metal.
You are an insane contributor to green house gases by the crap you make, and keep remaking and remaking to get some likes on youtube. Consider what you are doing.
Heat the vermaculite before you add the obsidian.
Him:melt obsidian
Minecraft players: make a nether portal next
Minecraft mods in a Nutshell:
Shattered Blade
Man makes netherite in real life
Someone add this to a Minecraft mod. I don’t care which version, just do it.
Obsidian blades are very sharp but incredibly brittle the way the ancients forged obsidian arrow heads and blades was by smashing another piece of obsidian against the piece your working on until it chipped in a sharper shape then the edge was honed on more obsidian ..A very long process but bcuz obsidian breaks so easily it might be the best way to go about doing it
now i know Elder scrolls glass weapons are crap
Skyrim lied to me!
I’m afraid only nature herself can make gems
NINJAGO LIED TO ME
I have a obsidian rock. It’s black and smooth and shaped like a dog skull. I call it stripes because of its huge black stripes. I found it at a friend’s house in their river yesterday and it’s the first proof that my friend lives next to a ancient valcano.
i don’t think you understand how flux works
Now we all know NEVER EVER let you touch our tools or anything else for that matter! Lol
The number of times I have been recommended this is more than the temperature needed to melt obsidian
irl jack smith
add some lead.
Yea like if that’s in a honey jar I would eat it
this is why you can’t make obsidian tools in minecraft
The portal is good actually
I Bet ya half the views are GoT fans
r.i.p. grant
Not gonna lie, an obsidian sword is something i would very much love to get my hands on
how many kiln’s have ya’ll killed to date?
Stick to weed friends….
Is obsidian heavy
"it was questionable as to whether it could be considered obsidian anymore"…. /Adds stuff to make it look black… "Now that we have obsidian…" Hahahahaha!!!!
40% obsidion, 60% charcoal.
thats why our ancestors only used small amount of pure obsidian and not in sword form – too brittle. but interesting concept
Try an axe it will probably be easier since you just need to make a head
Should of preheated the mold / sand / vermiculite
Powder flux? I didn’t know that exists.
that shit at the beginning is cursed coffee
It’s not gonna be great for a sword, because in casting it like this, you no longer have a grain structure. Thus, it will simply shatter
that happens when idiots have too much time and eauipment, read a simple list in a lexicon or online, obsidian has a melting temperature…case closed…work in that temp. range amd it works, with about everything…if it can oxidize you need a reducing atmosphere, if you donlt even know that give up and go back to middle school…
You can apparently melt obsidian using a blue flame because it reaches up to 3000 °F
Coming here expecting: "powerful ultra sharp blade, that can cut trough hardest things"
What do I get: popsicle.
Interesting stuff though, great work!
How about letting it cool in the daft clay mold (both sides)? or lost wax mold. Since the lost wax mold is already hot (900 degrees) it should cool down slower and allow the glass to set up more firmly. Just a thought-
Sokka: Goodbye fancy space sword
Add jade and maybe it will work
what is the point of it over 50% flux? defeats the purpose
Someone: A perfect sword doesn’t exist…
09:43 : the perfect sword