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Originally Posted by drohem
You are incorrect about bronze swords. The Celtic and Chinese producted bronze that 3,000 years later are still razor sharp. Even with today's technology, we cannot reproduce the level of craftsmenship of those weapons.
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Sorry, I was thinking iron when I said that, not bronze. The biggest problem with bronze was its expense; its not until you get to some of the primitive steels that you actually get any better an edge (if anything iron, holds its edge worse than bronze, and is vulnerable to corrosion to boot). But of course the difference does matter in terms of accessibility, as iron weapons would have been far cheaper than bronze (and once located, iron is easier to find than either of the two component metals of bronze in most areas, making it even cheaper preportionately).