Thread: Meteorite Steel??

Originally Posted by Bruce

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 was thinking the same thing.

Chris L

Originally Posted by Bruce

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.

Ouch... a five pound hunk of NiFe star stuff.

Before you set out to hammer this valuable rock
look at the web for images of etched nickel iron
meteorites.

It is true that the iron can be very pure and the nickel
help an "iron age" blade resist rusting.

But I suspect today we are beyond the iron age and
a modern quality steel smelted from magnetic
sand low S, low Si, low P, low impurities iron is
state of the art in terms of material. i.e. fine
Swedish steel or even Hitachi white and blue
paper wrapped steels.

And Golly I wish I had access to such a hammer.

After seeing the boker damascus blade razor I thought whoa not that is a great looking blade. the cost was wow too.
Then I saw the meteorite damascus blade for about 3x and I was stuttering

But after the shock was over I started thinking man wouldn't that be something............ no way in the world to rationalize one.

But if one had been available at the time I just might have taken the leap-

No way I could pay for one and wait- I'm patient but not that much.

Originally Posted by Bruce

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 have the heat, you bring the 12 tonner, we'll move my 2 ton outside and install the big one and have a party. Everybody bring something to drink, we'll lubricate Randy and even he'll think mashing up his star stuff will be good fun in a little while.

Originally Posted by Mike Blue

I have the heat, you bring the 12 tonner, we'll move my 2 ton outside and install the big one and have a party. Everybody bring something to drink, we'll lubricate Randy and even he'll think mashing up his star stuff will be good fun in a little while.

Not to profane your profession, but I'm imagining what a 12-ton power hammer would do to a watermelon, and thinking it would be GREAT around the 4th of July...

Mooosh my meteor? Its worth $500!


Just kidding,

Originally Posted by randydance062449

Mooosh my meteor? Its worth $500!


Just kidding,

Make a razor out of it and it will be worth $3,000. Not kidding.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Make a razor out of it and it will be worth $3,000. Not kidding.

That much star iron will go into a lot more blades than that Jimmy.

Of course, if it's the wrong kind of meteorite, that big hammer could hand Randy a box back filled with the meteoric equivalent of 500 dollars in pennies and nickels.

I saw this Hellberg razor recently on Tradera, which must be from around 1900, so assumign Mr. Hellberg isn't a fibber, this is an old idea: