Axel_the_Bard Someone had to say it... Alright, I'm sorry if anyone's tired of someone always having snappy or cynical answers to rhetorical questions like the wolverine one in the most recent comic... but sometimes we get tired of the same "clever" questions we cynics have heard many times... So just let me get this out in the open... just because Wolverine's claws are really sharp and hard doesn't mean they're sharpened all over, so the end attached to his skeleton would probably just be blunted. Or just attached to more adamantium. Most likely both. There, I said it. Now why doesn't anyone ever ask how you sharpen something "infinately hard" to be infinately sharp? Batman In terms of comic continuity, it has been explained how they sharpen something infinately hard. Adamanium, or in this case "True Adamantium", which is actually a mix of various resins, can be molded for a brief period as long as it's kept molten hot. During that time, it can be shaped and sharpened. Batman The reasoning behind Wolverine's claws, however, are never documented officially by any Marvel canon. It's just assumed his claws are attached to his arms by tendons since his claw constructs are bone in nature. It was never clarified whether or not adamantium "sheathes" are installed and if they were, what prevents the blades once extended from pivoting from the point at the back of his knuckles along the bladed part and slicing through his palm. It was established in the Age of Apocalypse that no such sheathes exist, at least beyond the point of his wrist otherwise such a sheathe would extend out from the stub after his hand was blasted off by Cyclops. Batman Sometimes the questions asked don't have adequate answers and people have morbid curiousity about things they cannot understand. In a fabricated world, the only truth that holds true is in the mind of the writers. Sometimes, reality only exists as far as each individiual wishes to carry it. Batman By the way, I didn't even need the bat-computer for that. I found all that in five minutes with a laptop and google. Axel_the_Bard Well, that certainly makes sense about the sharpening (I figured it could be molded at some point, otherwise it wouldn't have any practical use at all, but I wouldn't think you could get something as sharp as they apparently are without actually sharpening it against a harder material). Actually, you'll have to excuse me on matters of Marvel canon, I'm not much one for american comics so all I know is from the movies and various shows. It just seemed common sense to me that the part connecting the claws to the flesh wasn't sharp like the actual blades (it's a bit like saying "Why doesn't the lightsaber cut through the handle" or "Why doesn't Superman burn his own retinas"). Say, there is something I always wondered about the bat-computer, you know. Well, more of a theory, really. Is it true that for certain areas of inquery, it will output the exact information you need, completely regardless of what information is input? Batman I can't get into the exact details of the Bat-computer but it's probably better to say it should be called the "Bat-computers". It has a kind of quantum cluster computing system with an enormous database which I constantly update with the help of Oracle and her data mining skills. So effectively, it can display a series of probabilities associated with answers that I can gather clues for and show me the answer which would best fit a situation. Of course, it isn't always correct since it cannot factor in human factors. That's why I'm the world's greatest detective. Axel_the_Bard Ah yes, I had forgotten - in your case, perhaps it's more like whatever information it output, that is all you need. Or perhaps you know just what information to feed it in turn. I suppose the marvel is both a masterful machine, operated by a masterful user. Which, then, would likely rule out trying to recreate the effect myself. Darn.