Indonesian spear with brass blade

[milandro]

Originally Posted by Battara

Alan thank you. That's been my experience that bronze is softer than brass, and brass is more brittle than bronze. That's why you see more bronze cannons vs brass ones for centuries.

Quite the opposite

Bronze is harder than brass and more brittle than brass.


https://www.thinmetalsales.com/blog/...jects%20better.


"....There isn’t a particular advantage to using brass or bronze. It depends on the project you’re undertaking. Bronze is harder and therefore has often been used on ships and fittings. However, it’s more brittle. Brass is more malleable, on the other hand, and more easily manipulated, which is why it serves as decorative projects better. ...."



Bronze spears are of course " common" in the classic world and one can certainly make a usable and very sharp bronze weapon

see this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAFz7UeVm4E


apparently in the Javanese bronze era there were, along with the aforementioned bronze axes, also bronze spears

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...q&opi=89978449


"....During the Japanese occupation W. Rothpletz found on the Plateau of Bandung in Java a large number of fragments of clay moulds for axes, spear-heads and bracelets, which prove that in Proto-Historic times such objects were actually manufactured in the locality and were not imported from abroad, as is often believed...."


this is a GREEK bronze spear at the Metropolitan museum