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Rick Turner, 702-875-4552 These frets are harder and stronger than traditional Nickel Silver Frets. Yet they don't sound too bright like Stainless Frets. In fact they sound like Nickel Silver but they polish up smoother, brighter & glossier. These frets are a perfect alternative for stainless steel frets. The story of the Code Name Adamantium frets is a closely guarded secret. Ed Roman literally had to break into the 4th underground level of the Pentagon to acquire the chemical compound formula. He then had to construct a time machine to go back to the 40's to spy on it's inventor metallurgist Dr. Myron MacLain. Roman was obsessed to find out the secret of keeping the process of manufacturing stable enough to avoid destroying the planet into a cataclysmic vapor cloud. If he destroyed the planet, there would have been no customers left to purchase his guitars. He would have gone broke & died in the poor house!!!! To gain the necessary components he had to build a starship and travel 1.400,000 light years to the distant reaches of the Pulsar Galaxy to get enough raw materiel to build frets for his guitar lines. To do this in one lifetime he was forced to design the Abstract Equation which he evolved from the Dymaxion Dynasty of ancient Egypt. Simply put the Abstract Equation creates a slight time shift in the Universe allowing a network of black holes to open and shut in varying high speed sequences. This allows the traveler to travel incredible distances and actually get there before he left. To acquire a map of these endless pathways Ed had to use the time machine one more time and go back to ancient Greece, He had to scale Mount Olympus and gain an audience with Zeus, Using his incredible salesmanship and persuasive gift of gab. Ed Roman eventually actually conned it out of Zeus, He promised to give Zeus the Golden Fleece, This was to the amazement of his wife Hera who said it was probably a Golden Fleecing !!!! She was just about to put a curse on Ed but he quickly parasailed off the top of Mount Olympus thereby avoiding her screams, vile epithets and of course the deadly curse.
The Definition of
Adamantium MacLain began experimenting with the process that created Adamantium as a young scientist in the employ of the United States government in the early 1940s. Assigned to create a super-metal with which to build tanks, MacLain labored for months, experimenting with various iron alloys. One of his experiments utilized the rare meteoric ore now known as Wakandan Vibranium. He tried to fuse the Vibranium to the iron alloy numerous times without success. Then one night when he dozed off, some as yet unknown factor entered the process, and permitted the fusion to occur. Upon discovering his success, MacLain poured the molten metal into a disc-shaped mold. The disc, once solidified, has proven to be the most impervious object ever created on Earth. MacLain turned the discovery over to the government and it was given to Captain America to use as his shield. Neither MacLain nor anyone else has ever been able to discover what was the x-factor that entered the process, or has been able to fuse Vibranium with another metal. (The unknown iron-Vibranium alloy of which the shield is composed resembles True Adamantium, although Adamantium itself contains no Vibranium,) Over the following decades MacLain experimented,
attempting to duplicate the process that create the shield.
Finally, in recent years, he succeeded in developing the
process by which the substance known as True Adamantium is
created. True Adamantium is nearly as strong as Captain
America's shield, and is, for all practical purpose,
indestructible. The degree of impermeability varies directly
with the thickness of the Adamantium. A direct blow from
Thor's hammer, conveyed with the thunder god's full
strength, will slightly dent a solid cylinder of True
Adamantium. A sufficient mass of Adamantium could survive a
direct hit from a nuclear weapon.
Adamantium is created through the mixing of certain chemical resins whose composition is a United States government secret. For eight minutes after the resins are mixed, the Adamantium can be molded into a particular shape as long as it is kept at a temperature of 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit. After this brief period the process of creating Adamantium is completed. The extremely stable molecular structure of the Adamantium prevents it from being molded further, even if the temperature remains high enough to keep it in liquefied form. Only a device celled a Molecular Rearranger can alter the form of hardened Adamantium. The United States government has shared the secret of Adamantium's composition with certain of its allies, and the secret has also fallen into the hands of various criminals, such as the Constrictor, who has made special weaponry from Adamantium. Wolverine possesses artificial claws made of True Adamantium and his bones have been fused with Adamantium in an unexplained manner so as to greatly increase their tensile strength. The outer portion of the robotic body of Ultron is also composed entirely of True Adamantium, although Ultron's inner mechanisms are not. Adamantium is extraordinarily expensive to produce. Therefore, certain parties who wish to use Adamantium on a large scale have resorted to utilizing a similar but somewhat weaker compound similar to True Adamantium called Secondary Adamantium. Although Secondary Adamantium is still far stronger than even titanium steel, it can be destroyed by sufficiently great amounts of force. Blastaar's energy discharges and the vibratory force created by the Overkill Horn have both proved able to destroy Secondary Adamantium. The sentient computer known as F.A.U.S.T. had a casing made of Secondary Adamantium which Thor and Iron Man managed to destroy. The Red Skull and the original Hate-Monger had a dome of Secondary Adamantium constructed to protect their island fortress but the dome was destroyed by the vibratory force of the Overkill Horn and by powerful incendiary bombs. Ed Roman & his small band of merry men & crazed luthiers in their insane search for the most insdestructable metal in the universe finally succeeded where all others had failed. And They All Lived Happily Ever After. More Adamantium Stories For The True Geeks Like Me !!!!!! Types of Adamantium
This type is the mother of all Adamantium's; it is impossible to break. It could withstand a nuclear bomb, though Thor with all his strength and Mjolnir has slightly dented a small cylinder of it. Being this strong, it is very rare and expensive to create/manipulate and is top secret in the US government, though it has shared it with some of their "allies".
This type is much more easier to work with, making it much more cost effective though at the expense of its strength. Someone with super-strength (say the Hulk) can break it or warp it. Also referred to as Adamantium Steel.
This was created by an experiment involving Wolverine. As a side effect of bonding true adamantium with his bones, and his rapid healing ability there was a molecular change which has adapted adamantium to the biology of normal bone. This Adamantium acts like a biological component, regenerating as his bones do.
Russia wanted to create its own type of Adamantium, and thus Carbonadium was born. This form of Adamantium is not as durable as true Adamantium, but it is also flexible. For most purposes, however, Carbonadium is still virtually indestructable. Omega Red is probably the best known to use this metal with his tentacles, which act as a conduit for his energy draining powers. Breaking the UnbreakableThough adamantium is said to be unbreakable and indestructible, there have been instances when objects made of the metal have been damaged. Images in Gallery. Wolverine: The End In Wolverine: The End, a tale that told about an elderly Wolverine in the future, some of Logan's claws were broken. How they got in this condition was never specified. In the still-unfinished miniseries Ultimate Wolverine Vs Hulk, it appears like Hulk breaks adamantium when he rips the mutant in half. Upon closer inspection and the application of a little logic, it's becomes apparent that though Hulk did rip Wolverine apart, he didn't actually break adamantium. For the clearest explanation as to why Wolverine's spine, but not the adamantium, could be broken, read the following. Satyrquaze says:
Hulk can damage Adamantium, or at least Adamantium alloys but he did not do so in this instance.
Captain America's Shield Captain America's shield, which is an Adamantium-Vibranium alloy, has been broken five times in the history of comics. The Molecule Man once destroyed the shield (along with Mjolnir, Namor's indestructible armor, and the Silver Surfer's board) by unmaking them on the molecular level. Klaw and Dr. Doom (both amped by the power of The Beyonder) damaged the shield on separate occasions. Thanos, wielding the Infinity Gauntlet, effortlessly shattered the shield with a backhand. Finally, King Thor destroyed the shield with eye beams in an alternate universe.
Old 1940' Classic Captain America Comic
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