CAN YOU FORGE A METEORITE!?
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Alec Steele Blacksmith 2017 - Zábava
"Goodbye space sword" saddest part of the whole show
atla 😭😭😭💙💙💙
Dude that was so tragic!
Lol
People who say katara experienced the most sadness
Me an intellectual: goodbye space sword
Uncle iroh’s story in ba sing se would like to have a word with you
Came flying through space and crashed to earth to be bubble wrapped carefully 😂
Funny, but it was probably meant to keep it immobile and prevent it from just breaking out of the packaging around it.
its rough in the post office!!!!
Meteorite: *am i a joke to you*
😂😂😂😂😂😂
it could also be alien junk that we think it is so precious imagine an alien blacksmith forging some of the space junk the we got rid of and thinking it is worth something
Alec: Gets 5 billion year old piece of metal from space
Also Alec: *makes leaf*
"Can you forge a meteorite?"
Terraria players: *yes*
How bout netherite
@@raindoset5408 wrong game my guy
@@whenthe4553 I play both
Space set intensifies
Need a way to get the sulfur out, I recommend melting it and adding a blast of pure oxygen.
Cody'sLab our favorite chemist
HI CODY!
Don't the two of you live close now? I'd kill for a collab!
Cody'sLab i agree
You are absolutely correct. Removing sulfur would've saved the titanic as well for similar reasons but with cold as opposed to heat.
If sokka can do it why wouldn’t a trained smith could do this.
Man, you a avatar's fan ! Me too!😊😊
You are fckn right man 🤣😂
Zomaar Iemand sokka cast the metal into a sword cast he is doing it the classic way
Sokkas a blade master and alec's a blacksmith
Nice another avatar fan
To forge something with that : totally melting to blend all elements together ^^
It's so brittle. I'd say the only hope of getting something solid out of it would be to smelt it and get rid of the obvious weaker metals, and who know what sort of alloy you'd be stuck with in the end. But it would be a nightmare none the less. It's very interesting though, thank you for this!
What’s crazy is some of the older pre iron civilizations were able to shape it into blades. How the hell they did it, carefully I guess😂
@@notadaytrader were they? Been a while since I watched this, but it seemed to be pretty hard to work with modern equipment.. I can't imagine primitive equipment cracked the riddle of this brittle alloy.
@@Easyflux well not to make it sound like every pre-iron civilization was doing it, but for example, the Egyptian Boy King Tutankhamun, had a set of daggers in his tomb, one of which is of meteoric origin. Here are some others I found quickly:
sheet-iron beads from Gerzeh in Egypt, dated to 3200 B.C.; an ax from Ugarit on the coast of northern Syria, dated to 1400 B.C.; a dagger from Alaça Höyük in Turkey, dated to 2500 B.C.; and three iron objects from Tutankhamun's tomb, dated to 1350 B.C. - a dagger, a bracelet and a headrest.
Any iron artifact dated to before roughly 1200-930BC, is highly likely from space.
Alec; NOOOOO! Please, stop! Ahhh, it hurts! You can't/shouldn't work meteorite as is - it needs to be incorporated into other, more homogenized steel. Working with meteorite, you either need to grind it into a powder before forge welding in a canister weld, or the way traditional katanas are made, with little thin bits and pieces all wrapped up together and slooooooooooowly, paaaaaaaaaatiently, work it into a solid nugget at welding heat. Once it starts to stay together, add known steel to it and again.... slooooooooooooooowly, liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiightly, work it down till it all binds together. You literally need hours of just lightly tapping away at it to consolidate a billet that can take any kind of abuse. Only then you have a chance of making anything out of it. If made into a blade and etched, it will have a pattern more similar to wootz than damascus steel, and the contrast wont be as clear... but what the hell, you'll have a fuggen' space sword! But you'll need a high carbon edge laminated into it, because any carbon is long gone from all that heating up to welding temp.
Oh, and any time you heat it up, drown that sucker in copious amounts of borax.
Anyone who reads this, please upvote it, so Alec doesn't miss it before it's too late!
Yeah, meteorite is not good material from the start. You need to slowly refine it by forging it. Of course it can also be done by simply melting it and burning all the impurities away, but it is not how it was done in pre-iron age.
That meteorite appears to have too many inclusions and impurities . May have more luck by putting it into a crucible to burn out the impurities and start with a clean ignot.
Also, this would be closer to elemental iron with impurities and inclusions that a low-grade steel, as others have said. I wonder if he considered that when he was working it? As well, in the basic formation of the rock, there would be pretty large crystals. I wonder if that is why it was crumbling so much.
So then there we go - No way around this - tamahagane meteorite Tanto it is.
while I agree that what you suggested is prolly the only real way to get good working steel out of that material Im guessing that if you did that then in the end it wouldnt be very special. I mean after doing what you said it would just be normal steel. I think the point is to limit as much as possible adding other metal. i do suggest adding good steel to it. maybe laminating it and making a form of damascas. spelling bad there sorry.
Meteorite: *Flying at extremely high speed, smashing into other meteorites, then goes through the atmosphere and smashes into the Earth*
Alec: Hits the meteorite with a hammer
Meteorite: *Falls Apart*
To be fair, ground is generally a lot softer than a hammer
It was much bigger but when it hit the grund it broke into much smaller pieces and water has made it round
Oof, while watching the video scrolling down and reading this, I don't even need to watch it now :(
Alec is Thor confirmed
@@noahmannen7947 LOL! your pic describes your comment perfectly.
Who thought of "Avatar: The Last Air bender" throughout the video?
No I thought of terraria
"Can you forge a meteorite?!"
Terry Pratchette, from where ever he is: "...Well, I made a bloody good sword out of one about thirty years ago."
Every ATLA fan watching this: come on dont let Sokka down
Ik if sokka can forge it humans can too
ikr
SWORD AND FAN
@@suless6668 fun fact sokka is a human too lmao
To Alec
I'm 13 and I have forged my first knife.
It's a Bowie mixed with a bayonet.
I just want to say thank you for being my inspiration.
hurricane TV keep going bro! You have a good start!
13!?? Nice you beat me by 2 years lol
If your best friend is a boomerang and the avatar while your sister can bend water, Yes
With only having watched this one video... if you're ever able to get anymore of this material, try breaking it down into small enough pieces that it can be smelted into "space tamahagane" before forging it.
When you play Terraria way too much
Xd
THAT WAS I GONNA SAY BUT U ALREADY SAID IT. xd
*farms eye of cuthulu*
I was searching for this comment
Poland
Alec: Lets try to forge with meteorite!
16th century javanese people: *laughs anciently*
Thx bro, im from javanese
That's how keris is made..
There exists a dagger made out of meteorite which was made for pharao Tutanchamun. Very beautiful piece, you find it when googling images.
@@TAUFIKDIRWANTO wow.. I didn't know it was made from meteorites
@@nilsfrederking62 Ive seen it in person Its an incredible piece, i got to see the last tour of king tut , saw the exhibit in Montana.
12:17 The Steele bloodline almost ended.
I would love a collab with Cody's Lab to refine the meteorite for ease of forging but I love that you really tried to make it work with the raw material
as a geologist I can tell you what the problem is, Iron meteorites have a very large crystalline structure, that's what gives it that remarkable texture when etched. to work it you need to get a smaller crystalline structure to it which means melting and reforming the material. you will also want to add carbon to make it steel and a good bit of flux to clean up the silica inclusions, what you wound up with at the end was wrought iron. the nickel and other impurities will make it an interesting alloy.
To be fair the point of the video was trying to forge the meteorite on its own. If he added things to it to make it more workable it wouldn't really be forging a meteorite anymore.
U got that from google didnt u i searched it up and that popped up
@@qertqert6804 Or did google get this info from him?
Makes me wonder if you could melt it to a liquid and make a cast
Fascinating. Makes a good deal of sense. Thanks!
Here’s hoping that it turns into sokka’s meteor sword from avatar
Space sword!
SPACE SWORD
Man at arms did that
Was thinking the same exact thing.
I legit thought of that when I clicked this video
As Sokka sheds a tear... he then googles how to forge another space sword.
9:58. the laugh of pure glee when doing something you love even when it's stupid. I love this channel!
I hope there’s not alien larva in there
Everyone: *looks at June*
Me : Who is June?
@@monirhasan3248me: idk
WHO HAD THEIR BID ON ALIENS FOR JUNE?
June is a month
@@WhatThePartyNeeds or is it
*_So it's a Meteor Rock made from a dying Star?? Hmm..._*
*Next thing you know.*
_Thor's Hammer_
It's Mjolnir you uncultured swine.
B2SPIRIT Sounds like they’re talking about MCU Stormbreaker, actually, you “uncultured swine”.
@@coyotedomino Stormbreaker (as far as I know) is not "canon" in Norse mythology.
But eh
B2SPIRIT Oh, of course not. But right now when most people hear “Thor”, they think of Marvel, not the Poetic Edda.
@@coyotedomino So we're both correct.
Good day sir/maam
LOL this is how I always imagined an elf kid from some Gondolin smithy, sort of youthfully giving it all to the forge with glee and a big grin and lots of passion. This channel is mesmerizing! Keep forging Alec!
"Can you forge a meteorite?"
Makes a Meteorite spoon
Just don't make an arrow out of it, or the things can start getting bizarre
Shinjitsu ni totasu suru koto wa kesshite nai
Watashi mo shirimasen
...🥟..?
*inhales*...IS THAT A JOJO REFERENCE
@@mr_secks *YES, I AM!* 👇
anyone else thinking of Sokka's meteorite (space) sword? 😁
PoCanDo _ yes that is exactly what I was thing of!!
"It will be unlike any other in the world"
(Commence musical percussion, followed by forging that is reminiscent of a anime training sequence)
YES
Man at Arms already made Sokka's sword out of meteorite.
Right??
This guy: what can you make with meteorite?
Terraria players: *pulls out space gun*
Craft the full set of armor first so you can blast it for eternity
his outfit and accent AND the environment gives him a cool british cowboy blacksmith feel, a strange but awesome crossover.
Meteorite getting bubble wrapped.
Meteorite:. Am I a joke to you?
😂😂
The bubblewrap is to protect everything else :P
Don’t hate me, but stolen
THE GREAT just in case someone drops a Nokia cell phone on it.
unoriginal
Sokka did it
Boar the Fighter did it first.
Jerry Fisk does it all the time.
You get bonus points for that.
This deserves more likes 😂😂😂
you nailed it idiots haha
Yo!! what the hell?? I've come back 5 years into CZcams history and this guy seems older? His voice is deeper too 😂😂😂😂 I'm dying right now I wasn't ready 😭😭
No need to look here, just some old cringe comment
What
Nothing goes over his head, he would catch it ^
@@bunkydoes8048 meteorites are older than earth itself thats what he was tryna say, I get the joke tho
@@junior7457 Correct
@@junior7457 but earth is made of what, exactly?
My dad is an Astronomer and he's mad at you for destroying the meteorite 😂
@Ishmam Masud - Cuz I Can Well native canadian and alaskan people demonstrably did work meteoric metal. Its not just a theory, they have the artifacts to prove it.
you forgot your quotation marks around astronomer.
gotta blame the seller for selling a meteorite to a blacksmith.
I get him, this hurts me too
I have a stone itz atracts magnet
"Im collecting meteorites for ~20 years... the biggest I found is slightly larger then a gulf ball... and this guy is abusing
the biggest one I see in private hands....
I've seen a couple big on s trade hands in the knife making circles, people forge them into Damascus sometimes. I've seen them with tons of layers to better homogenize the metal.
I have personally seen ones bigger than that and seen some absolutely huge ones in pictures/videos
The meteorite is from argentina from a place called campo del cielo and the sale of these meteorites is illegal.
this is a cheapo, theres tons of these in argentina, literally tons.
Two foot long metal toothpick, made with a million year old meteorite !
Having completely destroyed the Widmanstatten pattern, it is now impossible to prove it used to be a meteorite. Good thing you took video.
I know its been 5 years, but could this potentially work in a canister damascus?
Original damascus blend steel that is now lost to history due to the family’s generational knowledge being lost. It is said that there is meteorite in the blend just like some Egyptian ceremonial daggers.
I guess this officially makes your forge a Skyforge.
Cristi Neagu what’s a skyforge?
A forge that forges meteorite iron.
Cristi Neagu thanks.
Brawlhalla skyforge?
Konoe Giatanez no...it’s a forge that can forge meteorite iron
That meteor has hurtled through the solar system, waved at planets, sling-shotted around the sun, survived the intense heat of passing through Earth's atmosphere at breakneck speeds..just so it could become...a leaf.
A leaf is truly an amazing thing when ya think there is zero life out there........supossedly
Well what the hell was it supposed to do otherwise? Stay a rock?
@@obamagamer5531 If indeed it is a meteorite, it's worth more as a rock than
anything he could make out of it..
A meteorite is crap material. Trying to forge it into something useful is nearly impossible. There's a reason why there has been millennia of Metallurgy on this planet
@@obamagamer5531 technically it was just an ingot to begin with...
Technically...
Alex: i'll forge a sword out of meteorite!
16-17th Keris blacksmith: -laugh out lot-
Woah, Alec's voice was way deeper 4 years ago
Anyone here thinking of Sokka's sword?
yes...
czcams.com/video/DITY1WzbLj8/video.html I'll just leave this here for no reasons...
I'm thinking of brisingr(not sure if the spelling is right). man at arms make brisingr iut of meteorite and laminated it with tamahagane (japanese bloom steel) so it won't crumble. the reason the meteorite breaks apart even with the lightest blows because phosporus and cobalt is bad for steel so you need to laminate is with other steel alloys
space sword
Dawson Germano I’ve heard that Meteorites are not easy to forge. However, I would crush the meteorite with a masonry hammer and use the broken pieces as an ore. I’d make a feudal Japanese smelter and mix the meteorite chunks with bits of limonite. And when the contents are melted, I’d have a good little piece of tamehagane or bloom steel composed of space iron
Hi Alec, the trouble with meteor is it is essentially an iron bloom, at least it acts the same way, and must be treated the same way. It has to be compacted and welded together first, which you tried, but the reason it didn't work out is you were trying to weld it too cold. Iron and steel have far different welding temperatures, iron welds at a white heat. Anything less and you're just trying to smoosh it together by force. Cheers and good luck!
Wolf's Den Forge your right on. Therefore able eliminate any impurities that will effect the consolidation, it should still keep the coloration before you make it truly forgeable for a great Damascus.
Id like to see anyone do anything with a meteor, since they're all out in space still.
That's what I thought. It looks like japanese tamahagane, which essentially is iron bloom.
My first thought was that meteorites are more like iron ore than pig iron.
Concur with the above. Working it too cold too much before consolidating. It's essentially a bloom and needs to be worked (fold and weld, fold and weld) to homogenize and consolidate.
Only came here for the avatar comments for sokka. Let’s see how well he does
I was watching this video on my laptop and my mother comes up and asks "whos the geek?" and then ask how old he is
Alec- you have to melt the meteorite and separate the impure elements of it before attempting a forge. Get a crucible, hack it to bits, set the bits into the crucible, heat it until it melts and then trace off the waste from the top. After it cools only the metallic elements will remain and then it can be forged
Rosson311 irons melting point is quite high but
Andrew Ortiz you just can't forge a rock isn't it.?
Rosson311 I'm not into forging and stuff but this is what I thought he will do aswell
That is exactly what he was supposed to do. Putting a carbon compound in there would have given a stronger steel alloy; putting sand or glass in the crucible would have helped draw out the impurities into the by product called "Slag" ... no not the slang for swearing; "slag" is an actual term used in the making of steel.
The "silicate inclusions" would have helped to draw out the impurities from the iron/carbon alloy if he made crucible steel from this meteorite. He wold have still had to use light hammering thought to hammer out the resulting "puck".
Thousands of years ago in some areas of Africa, the only metal they could find was meteorite metal. They believed that since they came from space and because of how much effort that would go into making blades with it, they believed that the blades would be able to kill demons. Just a little fun fact for you guys
Sounds like Conan’s blade made from star metal
www.google.com
No problem Al, glad i could help
+Shanon V Man, I've just tried this "google" thing, it rocks! Thanks!
Something cool that happened when they reopened King Tuts tomb items was that they found a knife that was apparently being held by him that has been in a box for decades. They tested the material and realized the contents of it wasn't of this planet. 🤯👌🏽👍🏽
There weren't anyone back then that could forge iron or steel. I wonder if the maker ground it into shape
Yknow when in the hunger games, people can send down gifts to help the contestants survive? Yeah well what if aliens are like "hey you need some iron? I got you"
*hits it lightly with normal hammer and cracks
Solution?
HIT IT WITH TNE POWER HAMMER
Alec, you need to forge the entire piece on the power hammer, flatten it, quench it, then break the hardened prices into tiny chunks. Then stack them up and forge weld them back together, much like a traditional Katana is made. Cheers mate
That's what I was thinking. He'd have to forge out the impurities and add some carbon. I think traditionally they use burned rushes or charcoal to add carbon?
Just think about it as if it was at the bloom stage and work it up from there?
This is what I was thinking the whole time I was watching the video
I don't know if meteorite metal would be hardenable like that, but that is the basic idea, yea. Then once you have it all forged into a billet, use a hardenable steel bit or carbonize the edge.
First thing I thought after seeing the etch. I think it's called tamahagane in Japanese.
Fun Fact: The original Bowie knife was included part on a meteorite.
Try sandwiching it between layers of steel like you would making Damascus.
This guy looks like a grown up George Little off the movie Stuart Little hahaha
I think he is
@@benjamincorwin8970 Reasonable to think so, but last I saw that kid grew up , got ripped, and now looks like a weird foot-creature.
jesus christ he does too
You to
Yeah!
You look like George from Stuart Little
ErikShestakov I thought the same thing
Hmmm your right he does
Steve Smith from American dad
@@liamthelegend1563 on point
Jimmy Neutron tho.
It's an incomprehensible thought that this little piece of metal, is older than the planet we are on
have you ever thought of breaking it down like the japanese process of welding steel together for making a sword
"It should be V for victory!"
2.5 seconds later...
"It's now L for loser!"
Oldest things in OUR solar system...not the universe...
Also worth 50c to $5 per Gram...so a 1kg (2.2lb) Iron meteorite could be worth upto $5000.
Google says $5 a lb...
No. Not even close. Maybe for stony meteorite rubble.
kasdarack Link to shop or you're irrelevant.
@@kasdarack You have zero knowledge in this field. Stay in your fucking lane. And get me a Big Mac.
I was looking for this comment. I heard a meteorite is worth big big cash because it my have elements not of this earth. I believe this video I bullshit.
You would think a rock made of a lot of dense metals, is praised by science, and survived the burning atmosphere and crashed without breakage would be more difficult to destroy
The Ancient Egyptians were able to make knives of meteoric iron in the late Bronze Age (e.g. the knife in Tutankhamun's Tomb). I suspect that the methods used required far more time, and probably more workers, than this channel (or most other CZcams channels) could afford, though.
"It was supposed to be *V* for *VICTORY*
Now it's *L* for *LOSER*
hahaha best moment
no like he is funny
i think we all laugh at that moment , not our host
"It´s meant to be V for Victory - it´s now L for Loser." When even stonecold lifeless matter gives yout the F.... Made my day. xDD
Curious as to the reason for the periodic hammer tap of the anvil after every couple of hits. Is it to readjust your grip on the hammer, a shock to dislodge any stuck material from the anvil/hammer or just a chance to inspect the material while maintaining a rhythm?
Anyone else think when they saw it break into pieces “just use a canister dude”
Should have smelted it in the foundry and then forged it.
Yeah i thing he should smelted too (smelt)
red x17 yeah cuz it went through atmosphere and it’s a rock so basically making lava
Gotta admit, I'm baffled that he would knowingly try to forge it with impurities. Common sense says smelt it and get rid of the slag.
@@kyngkryss7250 exactly
Too many impurities mate, I admire your diligence, but you should have melted that thing in a crucible to eliminate some of the crap inside.
Alacycle An acetylene torch, I guess. Or thermite.
Nah you just need to select the right parts of it to work.
Even when the Japanese make their katana iron they only choose the best bits, and melt the rest for general use
It would still be meteoric alloy.... just missing the inclusions that long forging eventually removes (all of the sparks and scale). Melting would separate the quartz, etc from the metal alloy...
Zamolxes77 i agree 100% needs to smelt out the impurities... now that he put together a furnace it's do able...
Honestly guys, you don't need to melt it to drive out the impurities. Slicing it, stacking it and working it as if it were a bloom, would allow the impurities to come out. In fact, it may well be cleaner than bloomery steel. Thats exactly how wrought iron is made, and steel was until the crucible method was rediscovered.
Japanese bladesmithing was mentioned. Yes, the different parts of the bloom were used for different parts of each blade, but the Japanese also didn't have the technology to melt iron or steel in a crucible. They worked blooms same as the Europeans did.
i know im necroing a 6 year vid but did you ever manufacture anything from this? it might be worth turning it molten casting it into bars after giving it a rough pass with the bessemer process while molten. then after flux you might find it much easier to work and forgeweld the material.
You can make a lightsaber with it, Terraria proved it.
It seems to me like Alec and this meteor rock is having an intense argument while forging. With every hammer blow Alec strikes it says: "BE FORGED!" And the meteor is not wanna cooperate and responds: " I have been an meteor for billions of years, you really think I am going to move that easy? But through some cozy heats and some gently hammering this man and this rock gets to know eachother. And finally the meteor accepts Alecs request and says: "Fine! I will let you forged something, go ahead and make a leaf!" Great video, this rock has a lot of character.
swords made with "star stones" have been used as part swords in the UK for centuries. I is necessary to hammer it under heat to make fragments to stack, like making a traditional Katana would.Then stack and forge a bit at a time. Look, czcams.com/video/K_PS2l31EhM/video.html , Carbonisation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gSU4k
Tom Sikes Just what I thought.
I was thinking exactly the same. The whole Tamahagane thing seems incredibly similar, although the impurities here are of course a load of 'weird' metals, not the usual slag.
Hatman39 carburizing would be the only logical answer. Beat the slag out of it. It's worked for hundreds of years.
was thinking of writing this exact same thing when i saw your comment. In several ways metorite metal is similar to bloom steel, so it makes sence to treat it in a similar fashion
Tamahagane, try the same way, we wanna see!
Didn’t Tutankhamen have a dagger made of meteorite? I’m pretty sure it depends on how the elements in the meteorite is arranged or the percentage of how much of each element there is.
Yes...I came to this video just after knowing about Tut dagger
This mans workspace must be worth millions now, with all his goold dust and metiorite bits
And there was a disturbance in "the Science"...as if a thousand research voices cried out in terror and sadness.
Trying not to disturb my mother from laughing so hard at this.
I actually felt pain while watching this. That was a beautiful specimen. It hurt to look at it being mutilated like that.
That stuff is expensive too
@@user-mh2bw4hu3o indeed. Plus, you know damn well that the meteorite that proves extraterrestrial life is sitting in a private collection someplace never to be examined by scientific means. All for some rich man's vanity.
@@ismailabaza411 ah. You are one of those people.
In 2020...Nobody searched for it... it just dropped out of Nowhere in my recommendation... and i liked it👍
Same 👋
Boys:
*picks up rock*
"HOLY MOLY WHOAAAA~"
A crucible melt with a skim before a pour would do wonders for that material😊 I suspect that the presence of Germanium and that other rarer metal are causing dishomogenous striated structure in this alloy.
Everybody: space sword
Alec: GOLF CLUB
Throw a chunk in the crucible, melt it down and start with a clean billet!
That's what I was thinking 👍
Same here
I think he was trying to stay in the spirit of the video. You can technically melt down and purify any source. If he did that, could he say he forged a meteorite? I wouldn't think so, he would have merely extracted the metal he wanted and then forged something in metal... It's more of an entertainment/experimentation video.
It's not necessary to purify the meteor, just to melt in order to make it more homogeneous.
problem with that olhor is that many metals just don't want to alloy together n that is the inevitable nature of crappy space rocks, for whatever reason they land here and do nothing but provide an oddity value and nothing more :/ But it was my first thought too, to simply melt a whole piece together, melt it super hot so it'll be liquid and just cast it as something because you're never going to be able to get an alloy, best you can get is a nice polished piece of melted rock.
If you can ever make it to Egypt check out King Tut's meteorite dagger. It was forged while Egypt was still in the Bronze Age. They considered the iron from meteorites to be gifts from their gods as they had no other way to acquire iron for tools and weapons.
Could you heat it up to a very high temp, super cool it in water, break up the metel into small pieces, and then melt or forge back into a metal?
YOU HAVE TO MAKE SOKKA’S SWORD OUT OF IT!!!!!
Uriah Siner czcams.com/video/DITY1WzbLj8/video.html
Uriah Siner, Totally what I was thinking!
Uriah Siner Yes please :-D
impossible too mutch cracks on this material
Man at arm's did it in season 1.
"Can you forge a meteorite?"
*Ser Arthur Dayne has entered the chat...
Ah, I see you are a Thrones fan as well.
King Tut had a knife made of a meteorite. So yes, it can be forged with 4000 year old technology.
When I see this vid it reminded me of sokka from avatar and his space sword
hes the kind of guy that would make a montage of cutting a rock
Uuuhhhh
Not only does the file cut the meteorite. It cuts your meaty hand as well.
I have to advise you not to attempt forging your hand. If you try to forge your hand, you'll just ruin it.
What if he wants a sword hand?
Hands make extremely poor swords, mainly because because when you try to forge it, it doesn't melt, it just turns to ash.
@@erictaylor5462 well he could do a mixture of human flesh and steel.
Well, seeing human flesh is mostly made of carbon with a few volatile (they will evaporate when heated) compounds, all you will get is high carbon steel.
High carbon steel has it's uses, but as it is quite brittle, using it to make something to hit something is not going to give good results.
I like how this is edited yet there's still a typo
Should've smelted it . Pulled off the slag. Then get it checked metallurgically for composition. Add to it what would make it the strongest alloy possible for the desired outcome.
IN 2020 A BLACKSMITH DISCOVERED A METEORITE. THE REST IS HISTORY.
Video: Can you forge a meteorite
Me: ...
My mind: Terraria meteorite weapons/armor...
Remember that episode of avatar when sakka made a meteorite sword?
SPACE SWORD
Watch man at arms........ they made that that sword.........
That's the first thing I thought of when I saw this video's thumbnail lol
i thought the same thing...
"Space earth"- sokka, water tribe.
I wonder if it's current state it won't forge well , but smelt it to liquid metal form some rebar like piece then forge it then. ?
Traditionally, Thor's hammer Mjölnir (molar, or "mill-grinder") was forged from a single piece of Sky Iron (or in the Marvel stories, Uru). But there wasn't much of it, so they made the handle smaller than the head.
Ooohhhh....a meteorite...let’s hope it’s does not go meteorong...
Stuart Nagle nice
Or a meteorleft
was that a meteorite hunters referance?
i dont know what to think of that
Stuart Nagle did you just...
Dad joke knocked out of the park!
Even at a paltry estimation of 4 pounds and at a median price per gram of $2.50 (USD) this iron meteorite is worth $4500 (USD)!!! I bet there are some geologists who see this and cringe!
I imagine geologists would watch this in awe! It's not everyday you can watch someone forge with meteorite. It's not like they're rare or anything, it's just considered special because it's a rock from space. In fact, any old rock outside my house is 4 billion years old.
I’m a geologist, I both cringed and watched with excitement
It's not worth 4500!
Maybe not. There are meteorites for sale on ebay ranging from 4k-12k. Not sure what they sell for though.
Boom Town there are ones that sell for $10000. It depends on how rare the darn thing is. Like is it a piece of space matter that is important to us. Like a piece of the moon that flaked of and now shows up as a meteorite on earth! This one does not fall into that category.
The moment I saw the title instantly
I thought of Sokka’s sword
This might be a dumb question, but when your hammering on your anvil, what is the purpose of tapping the hammer to the anvil from time to time? I've always seen blacksmiths do it but never know why
I think your best bet is to melt it down, allowing some of the impurities to burn off and letting it homogenize, then try forging the ingot
thats what i was thinking, like crucible steel
agreed
Smelt it!
Tony Ficarra he should use the traditional method of forging katanas. The impure japanese iron needed to be stacked in brittle pieces and forge welded together with charcoal to mix carbon into it, creating steel
But then you lose the pattern of the meteorite