I was browsing Classic Shaving's Zowada Customs and saw an already sold 'Meteorite Steel' razor.
What?? Are we talking metal from outer space? Seriously?
Anybody know?
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I was browsing Classic Shaving's Zowada Customs and saw an already sold 'Meteorite Steel' razor.
What?? Are we talking metal from outer space? Seriously?
Anybody know?
IIRC that is what they are talking about. I believe he got a piece of it and made a razor out of it. I hear the shave is out of this world. :D Here is some stuff I found in a knifemaker's forum on the topic.
Meteorite has large amounts of iron...
Many samples can be forged into blades.
So yes meteorite steel is steel from outerspace.
I believe it is often mixed with a known steel while forging,
most examples I remember were folded into a type of Damascus/pattern welded steel
it can take almost any shape or look.
But usually it looks awesome.
That razor that Zowada made and sold on Classic surely did. I'm glad it was sold before I saw it... Truly awesomeQuote:
Originally Posted by Mike_ratliff
So was the price. :eek: :chop:Quote:
Originally Posted by richmondesi
I remember when Tim started making straight razors a couple years ago and I went up to his shop to share with him the different grinds and shapes that would be more popular than the 5/8 full hollow prototypes he had made (not to mention the grinding lessons I got) and then he starts pulling out these meteorites he was collecting. It's cool that he was able to come up with something to use them on.
I wonder what the other steel in the pattern weld was or even how much of each went into the blade. It would be neat to know what the meteorite metal properties ended up being or what the steel could be compared to.
Pretty cool stuff.
Lynn
$2500 IIRCQuote:
Originally Posted by JimmyHAD
EDIT: I went and checked... Yep!
My jaw dropped when I first saw that razor. I'm a big fan of his work and own three of his blades. I'm actually glad it was sold when I found it or I might have done something really stupid in order to acquire it. In my mind, it is the nicest razor Tim has ever made and the incredible scales complete the package and make it something really special.
Big + 1. The credit card balance would have been through the roof. I also have two of his razors and the terrestrial razor really blew me out of the water. I too was glad the temptation was gone. :cry: ..... sort of.Quote:
Originally Posted by whitebar
Yep, I own a couple myself and they are nice shavers. Just have to keep a coat of oil on them at all times as the deep etching in the pattern weld is really prone to rusting. Other than that, shave on.......
Beam me up Scottie........
Lynn
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)
Randy,Quote:
Originally Posted by randydance062449
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.
:beer2:
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...
The Chronik!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mijbil
I don't know why but that just blows my mind. An amazing universe we live in. :hmmm:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Blue
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyHAD
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... :)
I was thinking the same thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruce
Chris L
Ouch... a five pound hunk of NiFe star stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruce
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.
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. :beer2:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruce
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...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Blue
Mooosh my meteor? Its worth $500!:rant:
Just kidding,:)
Make a razor out of it and it will be worth $3,000. :rock: Not kidding.Quote:
Originally Posted by randydance062449
That much star iron will go into a lot more blades than that Jimmy.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyHAD
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. :confused: :)
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: