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Video above shows the difference between a sharp machete with a good technique and a sharpish one with a less good technique (very poor technique for zombie killing though). Sorry but you have to wait til the very end for the sharp & good technique demonstration.

Hello...

Yeah, you gotta love machetes! But seriously - let's take a look at a Hollywood anti-zombie machete in action shall we...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72YaMl2Mxy8

Speaking of Machetes, anyone watch that new series Remedy?

According to the various characters in The Walking Dead, I don't ever have to worry about sharpening my blades, EVER.

Why, Michonne has gone through at least three seasons of chopping off zombie heads and slicing through skull and bone without sharpening her samurai sword even once as far as I can tell, and it still works just as fine as the day it was first forged!!

Infinite Ammo Pistol From The Action Movies of the Seventies, meet the Ever-Sharp Bladed Weapon of the new millennium!!!

cornholioprime wrote:According to the various characters in The Walking Dead, I don't ever have to worry about sharpening my blades, EVER.

Why, Michonne has gone through at least three seasons of chopping off zombie heads and slicing through skull and bone without sharpening her samurai sword even once as far as I can tell, and it still works just as fine as the day it was first forged!!

Infinite Ammo Pistol From The Action Movies of the Seventies, meet the Ever-Sharp Bladed Weapon of the new millennium!!!

Its a rune weapon

Thinyser wrote:

cornholioprime wrote:According to the various characters in The Walking Dead, I don't ever have to worry about sharpening my blades, EVER.

Why, Michonne has gone through at least three seasons of chopping off zombie heads and slicing through skull and bone without sharpening her samurai sword even once as far as I can tell, and it still works just as fine as the day it was first forged!!

Infinite Ammo Pistol From The Action Movies of the Seventies, meet the Ever-Sharp Bladed Weapon of the new millennium!!!

Its a rune weapon

Heh.

That must also mean that Daryl has been using Rune Arrows for a long time now; he seems to have been using the exact same six or seven arrowheads since the show started!!!

cornholioprime wrote:

Thinyser wrote:

cornholioprime wrote:According to the various characters in The Walking Dead, I don't ever have to worry about sharpening my blades, EVER.

Why, Michonne has gone through at least three seasons of chopping off zombie heads and slicing through skull and bone without sharpening her samurai sword even once as far as I can tell, and it still works just as fine as the day it was first forged!!

Infinite Ammo Pistol From The Action Movies of the Seventies, meet the Ever-Sharp Bladed Weapon of the new millennium!!!

Its a rune weapon

Heh.

That must also mean that Daryl has been using Rune Arrows for a long time now; he seems to have been using the exact same six or seven arrowheads since the show started!!!

Yep must be.
I don't get too hung up on not seeing what they do in the time we aren't watching them. For all we know Michonne hones her blade every day and Daryl has been replacing broken blades /sharpening them as needed but its not interesting nor further the story so they don't show it.

cornholioprime wrote:According to the various characters in The Walking Dead, I don't ever have to worry about sharpening my blades, EVER.

Why, Michonne has gone through at least three seasons of chopping off zombie heads and slicing through skull and bone without sharpening her samurai sword even once as far as I can tell, and it still works just as fine as the day it was first forged!!

By this logic, the vast majority of the TWD cast can go weeks without defecating or urinating.

Tor wrote:

cornholioprime wrote:According to the various characters in The Walking Dead, I don't ever have to worry about sharpening my blades, EVER.

Why, Michonne has gone through at least three seasons of chopping off zombie heads and slicing through skull and bone without sharpening her samurai sword even once as far as I can tell, and it still works just as fine as the day it was first forged!!

By this logic, the vast majority of the TWD cast can go weeks without defecating or urinating.

I'm engaging in a bit of humorous hyperbole, of course....but only a little.

In real life, not only would the characters' blades as shown (NOT actual weapons like swords) be badly damaged after only a few strikes -especially into the skull or the vertebra -but it's actually a hell of a lot harder to stab people in the head than they make it seem (obviously, I'm talking about the near-infinite number of times in this series that they stab the zombies in the head through the incredibly strong cranium, not the times they stab them in the eyes or under the chin or in the temple).

cornholioprime wrote:

Tor wrote:

cornholioprime wrote:According to the various characters in The Walking Dead, I don't ever have to worry about sharpening my blades, EVER.

Why, Michonne has gone through at least three seasons of chopping off zombie heads and slicing through skull and bone without sharpening her samurai sword even once as far as I can tell, and it still works just as fine as the day it was first forged!!

By this logic, the vast majority of the TWD cast can go weeks without defecating or urinating.

I'm engaging in a bit of humorous hyperbole, of course....but only a little.

In real life, not only would the characters' blades as shown (NOT actual weapons like swords) be badly damaged after only a few strikes -especially into the skull or the vertebra -but it's actually a hell of a lot harder to stab people in the head than they make it seem (obviously, I'm talking about the near-infinite number of times in this series that they stab the zombies in the head through the incredibly strong cranium, not the times they stab them in the eyes or under the chin or in the temple).

True that. Heads are hard and dense bone even if not very thick, and the spherical shape also helps to distribute point loads.

My Grandfather was in WWII and he said that one of the things he would never forget was watching his buddy take a Jap pistol round to the forehead (blood spraying out the rear corner of his head), but continue his charge as the Jap tried to unjam or reload and then bayonet the Jap in the throat. Turns out the round was probably light on powder and hit at a slight angle, it struck bone then must have skidded off, it traveled under the skin and exited about 2 inches behind his left ear where the skull turns from the side to the back. He said to look at it you would have thought the bullet passed clean through his brain since the entrance wound was right above his left eye and the exit was way at the back.

That was my cool story bro

Hello...

Thinyser wrote:

cornholioprime wrote:

Tor wrote:

cornholioprime wrote:According to the various characters in The Walking Dead, I don't ever have to worry about sharpening my blades, EVER.

Why, Michonne has gone through at least three seasons of chopping off zombie heads and slicing through skull and bone without sharpening her samurai sword even once as far as I can tell, and it still works just as fine as the day it was first forged!!

By this logic, the vast majority of the TWD cast can go weeks without defecating or urinating.

I'm engaging in a bit of humorous hyperbole, of course....but only a little.

In real life, not only would the characters' blades as shown (NOT actual weapons like swords) be badly damaged after only a few strikes -especially into the skull or the vertebra -but it's actually a hell of a lot harder to stab people in the head than they make it seem (obviously, I'm talking about the near-infinite number of times in this series that they stab the zombies in the head through the incredibly strong cranium, not the times they stab them in the eyes or under the chin or in the temple).

True that. Heads are hard and dense bone even if not very thick, and the spherical shape also helps to distribute point loads.

My Grandfather was in WWII and he said that one of the things he would never forget was watching his buddy take a Jap pistol round to the forehead (blood spraying out the rear corner of his head), but continue his charge as the Jap tried to unjam or reload and then bayonet the Jap in the throat. Turns out the round was probably light on powder and hit at a slight angle, it struck bone then must have skidded off, it traveled under the skin and exited about 2 inches behind his left ear where the skull turns from the side to the back. He said to look at it you would have thought the bullet passed clean through his brain since the entrance wound was right above his left eye and the exit was way at the back.

That was my cool story bro

Now that's hard-core! Having an American soldier charge towards an enemy soldier with a bayonet is one thing, but if the enemy soldier shoots him in the head and the American keeps charging, he's got another thing coming (Yeah - I said it for the benefit of Bill Cosby fans worldwide...).

In terms of The Walking Dead though, one of the things you gotta love about Hollywood is that no matter how realistic they try to make things work (Zombie apocalypses excluded... ), the sheer cinematic nature of the shows will completely overrule everything real about it. But if you want to really see a set of shows that have completely broken the bank in terms of inconsistencies, take a look at Star Trek. They've reused, retconned, reneged and rescinded just about everything in their shows, and if you want the proof, take a look at this link to Ex Astris Scientia at http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies.htm. Anyway, I think you'll really be surprised (With apologies to Trekkies worldwide... ). Please take care; thanks a bunch, and have a good day.

cornholioprime wrote:According to the various characters in The Walking Dead, I don't ever have to worry about sharpening my blades, EVER.

Why, Michonne has gone through at least three seasons of chopping off zombie heads and slicing through skull and bone without sharpening her samurai sword even once as far as I can tell, and it still works just as fine as the day it was first forged!!

Infinite Ammo Pistol From The Action Movies of the Seventies, meet the Ever-Sharp Bladed Weapon of the new millennium!!!

doubly so given that Katana are pretty tricky to sharpen.. you need special materials and technique compared to european swords and bladed tools.

http://www.nihonzashi.com/SharpenGuide.htm

We won't have to worry about the damage that vertebrae or skulls will inflict to swords in Dead Reign though, because nobody intelligent is going to use their swords for that anyway.

The ideal tactic is to immobilize a zombie by dismembering all 4 limbs and THEN worry about making those annoying natural-roll-only shots on the head and neck.

Essentially you get all the high-damage weapons and their awesome strike bonuses primed for the dismembering, and leave the crushing of the heads or chopping of the necks to unskilled people who can rush in later and do the mundane work after the threat is neutralized.

To the OP,
I have a wood stove. Like no, kidding, wood stove for heat. I have some 40 cords of seasoned hard wood. Sometimes I run out of small scrap wood to get a new fire going when I need too (usually need to get up once during the night to stoke the fire coals and add 3 or 4 more logs).
So, I use a Ontario Knives SPAX to split wood in the basement. It has gotten rather dull. If any of you have seen a SPAX, a typical Lansky knife sharpening system will not work.
So I got a Lansky "Puck."
Yeah, after about an hour of work, I accidentally took off about 3mm of the end of my thumb, it was that sharp.
Hurt like a SOB! Like getting a paper cut but worse!

BTW about the bone damage to machetes in walking dead... I thought part of the reason was 'bodies are rotting, got softer' or something.

Tor wrote:BTW about the bone damage to machetes in walking dead... I thought part of the reason was 'bodies are rotting, got softer' or something.

Bone matter would arguably get harder as the decaying process goes on, because they are drying out (for example, the marrow is normally soft and spongy).

Centuries later, those bones would likely be able to be crushed between the fingertips, but for now...

Does it still dry out if they're running around in the rain, wading through marshes, getting all soggy and bloated and stuff?