Knife in Bones episode

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I just watched the "Twisted Bones in the Melted Truck" episode and had a couple of things that stuck out as wrong to me.
In the episode someone is murdered (like always) and they find a stab wound. After examining it they come out with two different conclusions about the knife. First was that it was carbon steel, and second that it was a damascus blade. That in and of itself isn't that unusual, but their conclusions from it were. They said that since it was carbon steel, it had to have been produced before 1964! Not sure how that works since I have several carbon blades that were definitely made way after 1964. The reason they said the blade was also damascus was because it was coated with silver. I can't say I know much about damascus blades since I have never had a desire to get one, but a quick search of the wiki page on damascus steel says nothing about silver. Only that it is really a lost art that no one truly knows how to recreate. The conclusion they got from that is that it was a rare nazi dagger given by Hitler to his top commanders.

Now was this just a obvious mistake by the writers, or do they know something I don't? Like a specific kind of carbon steel that is no longer used today, or does some kind of damascus steel use silver?

Thanks!
 
The writers either don't know, and or don't care. The plot is more important, not the real science.
 
That is a steaming pile of pinched loaf. Unless the knife is still sitting in the wound, they are not going to be able to tell what kind of steel it was, and their "info" about steel is laughable.
 
no, they probably just said carbon because back in the day there wasnt a real grading system for steel besides carbon, mild or stainless, as to the damascus, i have no idea where the silver came from as all you need is a nickel containing steel, and a non nickel container for the pattern
 
That show is full of mistakes. I watched that episode on its first airing and laughed all the way through it.

Let me get this straight. The truck was full of magnesium shavings that burned hot enough to melt human bones and cause the roof of the pick-up to collapse as the A and B pillars melted but the lead bullet that they found wasn't boiled away?

It was so preserved that they could determine that it hadn't been fired?

My wife loves the show so I watch it with her but it amazes me how many mistakes the writers make.
 
Rupestris said:
That show is full of mistakes. I watched that episode on its first airing and laughed all the way through it.

Let me get this straight. The truck was full of magnesium shavings that burned hot enough to melt human bones and cause the roof of the pick-up to collapse as the A and B pillars melted but the lead bullet that they found wasn't boiled away?

It was so preserved that they could determine that it hadn't been fired?

My wife loves the show so I watch it with her but it amazes me how many mistakes the writers make.
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It is a TV show so don't expect it to be accurate, it's entertainment in the end that's all.

Most people wouldn't know the difference between steel and pot metal unless you told them and even then some wouldn't get it so shows on TV don't really need to be completely accurate to entertain.

Plus research costs money that cuts into the bottom line and the more accurate the facts are the more it costs.

I would guess the target Audience for that show wouldn't care how accurate the facts were even if they were perfect as popular as that show is.

The Actors, writers etc are laughing too, laughing all the way to the bank. ;)
 
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