Parabola is spot-on about his earlier assessment here of non-fluid steel guns. Anything that takes three men something-like two days (and over 30-lbs of metal) to make captures vast-amounts of human focus and energy. If any firearm has "soul" it is because of this large investment of human time, combined with that other set of intangibles...the "art & skill" to create it. That is what I see when I look at fine damascus guns. It's not that the modern stuff misses me (it clearly doesn't) but when I view and then handle an artifact (from arguably two centuries ago now) that still functions perfectly as designed, and with all of that "art" and "skill" on full-display, I'm sensing something else going on too. Is that how "soul" is defined? For me, I suppose it is.
Last edited by Lloyd3; 12/18/23 01:23 PM.
