kuraki
Fimbulvetr Knifeworks
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Honestly I was just guessing I have no idea. But you have more experience it seems. So is what I said inaccurate? Taking 1 lbs of steel and forging it into a knife with a fuller so the resulting knife is 1lbs will not be stiffer than forging a knife where the result is 1lbs without a fuller?
Maybe. It matters where the metal resides. It's not a question of mass alone, or dimensions alone, because the cross section and direction of the force matters.
It's why I brought up fluted barrels. Being cylinders and symmetrical it's easier to say definitively that a fluted barrel and unfluted barrel of the same weight and length, the fluted one will be stiffer because it's diameter and cross sectional area are necessarily larger than the unfluted one. There is only one place for the material that would have resided in the flutes to go, increasing the diameter. It doesn't matter which direction force is applied because they are symmetrical.
A knife generally isn't as symmetrical. I think it matters where that material resides and which direction the force is applied.
Maybe I'm wrong. I will model it and do another simulation on it tomorrow.