Post by The Dungeon Master on Jan 24, 2017 14:10:47 GMT -6
In medieval Europe it took a standard blacksmith about a week to make a decent average steel longsword. If they where making something for their lord or king they would often spend as much as 6 months ensuring they had the ornate design perfect, but that's about it. Usually a sword would take about 1-2 months to finish, not because they where spending that long making a sword, but because they'd be making a dozen or more swords at the same time to better make use of their resources; there's a lot of waste when you're smelting metals.
If you did nothing else, working a full 12 hour day, you could probably make a decent sword in 2 days if you know what you're doing.{This would be where rushing the job would necessitate a roll of a non weapon proficiency to indicate success or failure, possible leading to the item appearing fine but leading to a save every time the object is used} This depends on the style of sword and the method you're using to make it, but generally most steel swords are made by hammer and grind, heating and folding, or the more advanced technique of splitting into vortices; plaiting and welding. The latter method puts a natural fuller into the blade and was the common technique from 6th century onwards in western Europe.
You must also take into account the availability of raw materials. The page also contends that the production of steel from iron would take four or five workers at least a week. It also goes on to mention that, depending on the quality of the sword, the polisher might take weeks to get things done just right.
If you did nothing else, working a full 12 hour day, you could probably make a decent sword in 2 days if you know what you're doing.{This would be where rushing the job would necessitate a roll of a non weapon proficiency to indicate success or failure, possible leading to the item appearing fine but leading to a save every time the object is used} This depends on the style of sword and the method you're using to make it, but generally most steel swords are made by hammer and grind, heating and folding, or the more advanced technique of splitting into vortices; plaiting and welding. The latter method puts a natural fuller into the blade and was the common technique from 6th century onwards in western Europe.
You must also take into account the availability of raw materials. The page also contends that the production of steel from iron would take four or five workers at least a week. It also goes on to mention that, depending on the quality of the sword, the polisher might take weeks to get things done just right.
