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!

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 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.