its beautiful. it reminds me of obv samurai swords, but also this explosive metal forming project that visited my art school- years ago. this cat was combined a variety of alloys thru the use of semtex and moulds. it produced really cool shit, but was nearly impossible to get access to.
The explosive metal project sounds interesting. Reminds me of an episode of "Beyond 2000" that came on the discovery channel when I was a kid. If I remember correctly, they were fusing dissimilar metals together with shaped charges. Impossible to do any other way.
without a doubt. This material is meant to be ground not machined. Its really really hard; 55-60 Rockwell C. This took 3.5 hrs to machine. The exact same piece in Ti takes only about 45min and Ti is considered a "difficult to machine" material.