ushernet Chapter 390: Suite of Gifts
Chapter 390: Suite of Gifts
Chapter 390: Suite of Gifts
With the weapons all forged and ready to be polished and finished off completely with a proper handle and some grinding to smooth out the edge - just not to a keen, sharp edge, that's for sure.
The falchion and two daggers were currently just plain, simple metal weapons that didn't look all that special, and since they were supposed to be gifts for my darling daughters plus one - Ipoala was my daughter too, just not by blood - I wanted to make sure they looked good as well.
That meant a serious grinding on the flats of the blade, a good grinding on the bevel, a polishing, and then fitting the wood onto the tang to create the handle; that would then need to be sanded down and shaped for their smaller hands.
All of that would normally take quite a bit if done entirely by hand, but uh...
Yeah.
Watching as the various bumps and roughness on the side of the blades was smoothed out in a mere wipe of the sandpaper, I chuckled wryly as I then began to do the same on the other side, using my System here to do the 'not so fun' portion of the work for me; at least in this moment in time, I wanted to get going to make the other things.
Though I did do the handles myself, in two different styles; for the falchion, I traced out its tang on a block of wood and began to carve out the shape of the tang, before setting the tang inside that slit and placing another block of wood on top, making sure they were compatible pieces.
When I saw that they were, I crafted up some wood glue and applied it liberally to the inside of the first wood block, before firmly placing the other block on top alongside a few thick ingots to make sure the glue did its job.
Then I went to work on the daggers, heating up the tangs before burning them into their handles, creating a tight fit for the daggers that I then added a bit of the glue to again, before pushing the tang back inside the wood.
And since they would be identical wands in terms of materials and function, I decided that personalizing the wands would be a good touch for my two girls, as well as excellent practice on my ornamentation skills.
To start, I began to lengthen the ingot before rolling it gently, maintaining a cylindrical shape as I forged the wand first, moving onto the ornamentation afterwards.
I kept it simple for them both, but Ehretia got the head of a Doe forged onto the end of her wand whilst Ipoala got the head of a Robin, the silvery metal making those ornaments stand out whilst not being the most gaudy things ever, which was a plus.
Roughly eight inches long, the wands were long enough that the girls could use them even when they grew up, whilst the thickness of the metal was slightly much for them now, but in a week they would be perfect.
[Silver Damascus Wand (x2) : +45% Mana Gathering, +40% Mana Damage]
A bit stronger than the wand I made Kalia, they were good enough to last the girls for a long time, though I imagine I will be able to make upgrades soon enough to everyone's weapons and Focuses if need be; after all, the Damascus managed to add 5% to the stats of the wands, and that was just a simple alloy of basic Silver and Steel.
What about an alloy of Flame attuned metal and Wind attuned metal?
Would that create something super strong, something diverse, or would it fail?
With questions on the mind, I could only sigh as I lifted the two wands and placed them in my inventory, before heading up towards the main floor to rejoin everyone after a rather tame few hours.