Does Conductive + Sharding Synchronize?

[Ith'Cal]

So I was reading through random weapon enhancements, when I came across an interesting idea: A creature that uses a melee weapon with the sharding and conductive enhancements can, not only use melee touch attacks(as long as they are supernatural or a spell-like ability) at a distance, but also use the conductive ability several times in a round, because it states in sharding that it creates a duplicate of the original weapon, and the conductive effect occurs with the duplicate, thereby making the once per round limit void. Can someone tell me if my logic is correct(or otherwise) in this assumption?

[Aziraya Zhwan]

There's one major flaw with your thinking, and that's the fact that the Conductive effect occurs with the duplicate. Both the Sharding effect and the Conductive effect are both aspects of the weapon as a whole. Even just thinking logically instead of thinking about it rule-wise, the order that would have to happen is Conductive->Sharding since if the weapon Sharded then the launched copy is no longer in your possession in order to activate the Conductive on it.

Even then though, it still doesn't work. Conductive says:

Conductive wrote:

When the wielder makes a successful attack of the appropriate type

and Sharding says

Sharding wrote:

The wielder of a sharding weapon can make a special ranged attack with the weapon in place of any melee attack.

If Conductive said "When the wielder makes a successful attack with an appropriate weapon" then it would work. If Sharding said "can make a ranged attack with the weapon as a special melee attack" then it would work. With how the two are written, as soon as you do the ranged Sharding attack then your melee touch attack no longer can be channeled since it's no longer a melee attack.

[kadance]

Well, if you have two conductive weapons, you can use them each once per round. Sharding effectively gives you a temporary, distinct copy of your weapon... so, yes, you can use it multiple times in a round, though you could already do this with quickdraw and enough conductive weapons on your belt. I would assume you need a ranged touch attack ability since the melee weapon you throw is then a thrown/ranged weapon.

[Ith'Cal]

Well, doesn't it say in sharding that,"The duplicate gains a range increment of 10 feet for this purpose, but uses the same proficiency and otherwise functions the same as the original weapon." Since the original is a melee weapon, wouldn't the thrown duplicate, for the purpose of the conductive property, be a melee weapon?

[Claxon]

Nope.

When you throw a weapon its a ranged attack, not a melee attack.

Conductive works with a specific attack type. So, if you have an attack that is normally a ranged touch attack you can use it with conductive on the weapon you throw with sharding.

Alternatively, you could also use the same weapon to deliver a melee touch attack ability when you use the weapon as a normal melee weapon without sharding.