Thread: Meteorite Steel??

Beam me up is right!!

I saw that razor on Classic and it had already sold. The colour of the mammoth scales is the most beautiful I have ever seen. And I am a cream ivory fan!

I know I had seen on TZ's site that he has meteorites for sale and I thought that was kind of weird. But that razor was as jaw dropping awesome as I have ever seen.

Words just can't express......

When I saw that high dollar meteorite damascus blade + ivory I too thought it was grand- Man, did you ever in your lives think there would be a need for a lay-away plan to buy a straight razor??
A real work of art- I wonder how long it will be before he makes another one. If it takes a year to make one then it tends to take the impact out of the price if one could say put down $500 to order one like a layaway-

From what little I have read most are mixes of iron and nickel and difficult to work. I have a 5 lb chunk of it sitting on my fireplace mantle.

i had talked to Tim about it at one point and he said that it was not easy (comming from a guy that makes that much Damascus thats saing something)

Originally Posted by randydance062449

From what little I have read most are mixes of iron and nickel and difficult to work. I have a 5 lb chunk of it sitting on my fireplace mantle.

Randy,

I think we should see if we can take it down to Cannon Falls, heat it up, and put it under a 12 ton hammer.

I heard somewhere in new mexico a mint straight razor fell from the sky around 1920. Supposedly it was some new kind of dubl duck that never needs stropping or honing!

Stony iron meteorites are mixtures of stone and iron. The iron would be useful but require carburizing.

Iron meteorites are alloys of iron and nickel. This material would give a brighter band in the blade billet. Again carbon content will require attention.

Jimmy cited Don Fogg's webforum. Some of my other breadcrumbs are over there. I find it fascinating to know that iron and nickel are the two heaviest elements being created in the solar wind of our own sun. There is still new iron falling to earth. All the iron on our ball of dirt started out somewhere else in space. We would not exist without it.

And we couldn't shave very well either.

Bruce if you show up with a metallic looking rock, we'll stretch it out and hide it amongst all the other bars of steel...

Originally Posted by Mijbil

I heard somewhere in new mexico a mint straight razor fell from the sky around 1920. Supposedly it was some new kind of dubl duck that never needs stropping or honing!

The Chronik!

Originally Posted by Mike Blue

All the iron on our ball of dirt started out somewhere else in space. We would not exist without it.

I don't know why but that just blows my mind. An amazing universe we live in.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I don't know why but that just blows my mind. An amazing universe we live in.

And it's a spectrum of amazing. Not only would the planet not exist without the aggregate iron in the core making the magnetic field that we need to keep the cosmic rays from sterilizing life from the face of the earth, but we need the iron to make hemoglobin to carry oxygen around our systems as well. No other molecule can come near to doing that job as well.

Amazing iron goes macroscopic on a galactic scale and microscopic at the same time. I have to leave those questions alone as I'm still struggling with getting iron to hook up with carbon to make steel consistently well...