Adam Savage Forges A Sword Out Of An Iron Meteorite | Savage Builds
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With a meteorite in hand, Adam Savage learns how to turn it into a medieval-style sword with the help of master swordsmith Jeff Pringle.
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I cannot express how furious i am that this is just a promotional video and not the whole thing
@redneckpyromania6965
3 жыл бұрын
@@jimmy_flaps never once have i had success with stuff like that streaming sites yeah but never pirate bay
@robertthomas5906
3 жыл бұрын
Could be worse. Could be watching a Smithsonian vid. They do that all the time. Wow this is interesting... er what? GRRR.
@fatalbrett
3 жыл бұрын
Same here
@SharneAndrews
2 жыл бұрын
Happily pay for it... not available in australia as far as I can tell....
@christopherrhodes3228
2 жыл бұрын
@@SharneAndrews VPN is fren
A little disclaimer: people had power hammers in the ancient and medieval times, powered by watermills. These were not very common though, usually it was just a couple of forge helpers with heavy hammers.
For anyone interested, the dagger shown at 6:44 is from Tutankhamuns tomb. It is made from meteoric iron when iron smelting was rare. Ca. 1323 BC in the bronze age.
@joshportie
Жыл бұрын
No it isn't. It's forged from iron with methods currently unknown. There's no proof of any meteorites. None. You find a rock on the ground you can't say how it got there unless someone witnessed it and recorded it. Everything else is religious belief.
@nicholasstarks3008
Жыл бұрын
other areas in Mesopotamia had iron working figured out
The only thing that upset me about this video, is that the next part of the video isn't out yet. Awesome
@AzurePain
3 жыл бұрын
Not here but it is on Savage Builds from a year or two ago on Discovery+ or other means.
@lbaker9775
2 жыл бұрын
@@AzurePain 0pp0
I guess Sokka was onto something when he wanted to make a sword out of a meteorite
@valentinoartist578
Жыл бұрын
I was looking for thus comment
@wampastompa5344
3 ай бұрын
What got me curious
He's really got the atmosphere in his forge wonderfully tuned; hardly any scale on those pieces at all.
@bagochips834
3 жыл бұрын
I'm willing to bet he runs a reducing flame for these kinds of projects in order to minimize scale.
@StoneDeceiver
Жыл бұрын
what does this mean? can you explain pls :)
@Bubu567
Жыл бұрын
@@StoneDeceiver A 'reducing flame' basically makes the environment on average starved of oxygen, usually by the presence over an over abundance of carbon based fuel. That reduces oxidation that occurs on the surface while the metal is in the forge, and ideally only starts forming after you pull it out(but it's hard to make it THAT perfect).
@DarthTwilight
Жыл бұрын
they may have been brushing it off between cuts
You make Sokka’s sword!!!!
@rhettbueker8197
3 жыл бұрын
Space sword
@windigowhispers
3 жыл бұрын
Awe me man at arms actually made sokkas sword it was a pretty cool build
@DonVigaDeFierro
2 жыл бұрын
Yes! Boomerang!! No, wait...
@wampastompa5344
3 ай бұрын
From boomerang guy to ponytail guy to sword guy
Ancient sword makers knew what to do thanks to trial and error. What they didn’t know is why it worked!
@MrRedeyedJedi
3 жыл бұрын
I believe many ancient civilisations knew more than we give them credit for
@jetah50
3 жыл бұрын
they also had time. 1-3 months to make a sword, no problem.
@joermnyc
3 жыл бұрын
Meanwhile we lost the recipe for “Damascus steel” (it’s now well known that this steel actually came from India (aka wood steel), the western world only first found them in Damascus.)
@velazquezarmouries
2 жыл бұрын
There was a belief that a certain kind of steel was produced when a ginger kit peed into the furnace
@The_Gallowglass
Жыл бұрын
@@joermnyc It is just crucible steel that is melted down, cooled, and then forged out. Carbon (Combined) 1.34%, Carbon (Uncombined) 0.31%, Sulfur 0.17%, Silicon 0.04%, Arsenic 0.03% Also, wootz contained impurities like vanadium, molybdenum, chromium that seem to be integral to it.
Uh oh, sokka’s space sword is becoming a reality lolzs
@mauricehooks320
Жыл бұрын
YYYEEESSS!!! 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
Sokka and Master Piandao would be so proud!
Buddy looks like if Ryan Stiles was a blacksmith.
@themonkysuncle
Жыл бұрын
I was thinking that, then I saw your comment
its crazy just how efficient and accurate jeff's swings are. decades of practice.
i saw the video name and all i could think of was Sokka saying "SPACE SWORD"
They have several meteoric iron knives at the Higgins Armorial Museum in Worchester Mass. The patterns in them are beautiful.
Adam finally managed to make a space sword.
We call our biggest hammer the gentle persuader
Read somewhere that meteorite iron was humans first experience with iron, someone found a descent amount and figured out how to forge it alright, eventually thought "ok I need to figure out how to make more of this stuff" and the rest is history
@marhawkman303
Жыл бұрын
also Adam comments on weight... PURE iron is stupidly heavy. Steel is much less so due to having carbon and oxygen mixed into it in carefully regulated amounts.
Finally, it is time. Send out the word. Rally the Troops.
Is it weird I want a metallurgy forging series with Adam Savage in it
@justin9202
Жыл бұрын
@Why So Serious? Why
I dont know what it is but seeing that man just talk is so addictive
4:30 - why Mr Pringles neighbors just looooove him.
i love how jeff is so chill
This could’ve been 30mins and I’d watch it all
He should’ve heated the meteorite and flattened it down. Then cut it into pieces and mixed it with carbon flux and the steel they wanted to use. It would have made a very beautiful Damascus Billet that would have easily accepted the heavy Nickel meteorite itself.
Now that's cool and I could see having to find/scavenge quality meteorites for forging in a game or movie/show like the Expanse. Wonder how much it would legitimately cost for one to purchase something like this.
Do what the old smiths did in ancient times and turn it into steel via crucible.
It would be interesting to try and replicate the Tutankhamun dagger... 🙏🙏🙏
Alec Steel also tried couple of years ago. Unsuccessfully.
Amazing
I will wait the part 2 of this video.
Watching Adam play with red hot metal and heavy power tools is very entertaining.
Alec Steele once tried to do this also. If I remember well, he wasn't able to make it at the end.
@HisVirusness
2 жыл бұрын
He did make a canister billet with meteorite inside. He said he was going to fold it up, but that video never happened.
@balogh89
2 жыл бұрын
@@HisVirusness Yes, this is why I think that he wasn't able to do anything with it. But knowing that he also shows his errors and fails, it's weird that we never got a follow-up of that project..
Awsome work
Every atla fan is stoked by this.
"Why is this meteorite heavier than normal steel " Lower carbon content and random heavy metal inclussions "They didn't have power hammers" Treadle hammers were a thing at least since the roman era Also slaves were a thing
@dusanradin5868
2 жыл бұрын
We need slaves then! Wannna commit?
@velazquezarmouries
2 жыл бұрын
@@dusanradin5868 the point of slaves is not committing
@dusanradin5868
2 жыл бұрын
@@velazquezarmouries I didn't mean voluntarilly....thick,much?
6:47 I believe they used inductive, deductive, abductive and analogical reasoning🤔
Amazing! Meteorite is a pain to work with but it’s beautiful when you pull it off, I just finished my first meteorite project, I made a Lightsaber hilt out of a meteorite rod and turned out amazing. But machining it was a nightmare
@danscheid6031
Жыл бұрын
gummy?
@StormZephyr
Жыл бұрын
Got pics?
If you cut the meteorite up into small pieces and put it in a canister with your other metal ingredients . I believe it's called Wootz steel , that would probably work best .
This is usually new game+ type of sword builds.
I've been waiting the Mythbusters to try this since I saw Avatar's aang
How much does a meteorite of that size and variety cost roughly lol
as a tig welder, i cant imagine just burning into raw meteorite, sounds fun
Making a sword out of a metorite is like making an ashtray out of a tyrannosaur skull.
@FirehorseCreative
Жыл бұрын
All I can think about is all of that meteorite waste chipping and spraying all over the floor. Can you imagine how much $$$ value is on the floor of that shop? EGAD! 😳😲😦
I wanted to see the finished product!
Well that ended rather abruptly...
I like how you said you were terrified of the table saw I just watched some opal videos and the guy cut a huge ironstone rock on a table saw, right between his arms!
@randomrangoon5476
3 жыл бұрын
Are you watching those Aussie Opal hunting videos too? Addicting aren't they
Cool pharaoh sword
Forging a sword from a meteorite! You know, there’s a 60’s or 70’s comic book hero from the Philippines who did this!
What type of tool steel ?
Power hammers are awesome, I would love to have one but I can't justify putting one in my little home forge.
in Indonesia the name " Mpu " , he made sword from meteorite too..in ancient century with hand he making sword . The javaneese sword name " Keris ."
wonderful homage to Alec
This looks excellent for home kingdom defense.
i love how they edited the work mid-heat, you can see how lobsided the billet is at 5.14 and then it cuts to a pretty neat and straight bar. nothing but respect either way but it had me laugh
I'm sitting here drinking talking to myself about magneto from X-Men and just thought about meteorites
Is there a link for the rest?
I mean... historically swords breaking was an issue... I'd imagine it was less common with swords made by more experienced smiths. no one saved the ones that broke and the ones that happened to come out really well became legendary or w.e.
@speakebreathe
2 жыл бұрын
I love this idea. Do you have a source for that at all?
@kingjames4886
2 жыл бұрын
@@speakebreathe not really
@marhawkman303
Жыл бұрын
@@kingjames4886 "saved" is a bit of a euphemism here. You mean left in their broken state. Their owners recycled them. Melting or forge welding a busted sword is way easier than taking ore and making a sword.
A sword made of meteoric rock, why does that sound familiar? *cough* Gehrman *cough*
As soon as you start to forge meteoric metal, you lose the grain structure that is the only benefit it might have had over a terrestrial alloy.
Also it hit the ground red hot & going 18 km/s
GNU Terry Pratchett
I don't mind that its an exert, what I mind is that it fails to mention that and implies in the title that it includes the end product
Believe me, this hasn't been running into things. The fracturing is from heating in the atmosphere.
@craigthescott5074
3 жыл бұрын
Yea that makes more sense.
@marhawkman303
Жыл бұрын
@@craigthescott5074 And also hitting the ground at high speed. :p Simply heating it can actually forge-weld the internal cracks out of existence.
I call my hammer the convincer as well Adam. Gotta work with you got right 🤷♂️😂
The ancients were smart enough to smelt meteorites with iron sands and charcoal to smelt them into a workable ingot
Hand hammers work better if you hold them lower down the handle by the way lol
Sooo.... no one makes an Avatar reference with Sokka making his meteorite sword?
@ASLTheatre
Жыл бұрын
I’ve been looking for such a comment but no. :’(
Somebody is a fan of Sokka and Piandao....
Does anyone know why the power hammer bounces up and down when not engaged?
As a Witcher fan I am drooling
He has a nice Harrison Ford kind a vibe
My interest in forging and meteorites came from the eragon series 😆
Terry Pratchett did this once.
A shame we didn't see the finished product .
I want to see the whole process, it's been cut short
@zvehee
3 жыл бұрын
@SaltyBrains Savage Builds is the name.
You could simply infuse the meteorite with the souls of powerful animals via bones inscribed with runes to make steel.
Sokka's sword in Avatar.
I wonder if Jeff Pringle likes Pringles
"My space sword!"
Now imagine doing it the old meteor iron forging method - cold forging. Just hammering it forever. That's why all the pieces in Tut's tomb other than the (imported) dagger look so bad.
Why do we assume that meteorite swords were not made out of smelted meteorite iron? Is there a ancient text somewhere that said that it was only forged and not smelted first?
@ryanott1407
2 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing Adam (at least mostly) knows the chemical composition of the rock, and melting it just wouldn't have worked.
Meteorite .🙏🇮🇩
The video ends before they even have it forged!?
When Jeff Goldblum and John Malkovitch are forged together you get this guy ^
But the question is "will it keel?"
HELLO, SPACE SWORD! :D
Some master sword Builder personally myself I would have heated the two separate chunks up as long elongated them and then intertwine the two pieces of metal then flatten that out and start folding it once it's folded again straighten it out the other way then Fold It Again
It would be nice if you could forge aerogel into a sword making it less heavy and so sharp but basically impossible right
Water-powered power hammers were in use during the medieval era.
Вот вошёл ты в кузницу, Как красиво вай, вай, вай! Если хочешь мне помочь - ОТОЙДИ И НЕ МЕШАЙ! ДА!
@marhawkman303
Жыл бұрын
Ah yes, the mantra of a true craftsman. :D
@aleksnight5406
Жыл бұрын
@@marhawkman303 Это куплет одной широко известной в узких кругах песни) В среде российских ролевиков. Песня называется "Мория". This is a verse of a song widely known in narrow circles) Among Russian role players (LARP). The song is called "Moriya".
@marhawkman303
Жыл бұрын
@@aleksnight5406 ah, I see, interesting. :D
Anyone know how the sword turned out?
Wonder if the meteor was a short sword due to the metal content, or the lack or ore
why not smelt the meterorite into a bar to start with and then use that to make the sword
@HisVirusness
2 жыл бұрын
Because it'd still need to be carburized; no matter what, you'd still have non-meteorite metal inside.
I have a hammer I call the persuader, I need to get me a convincer!
4:26 "Welcome to Earth!"
Sokka:👀👀👀
The cross section of this meteorite looks a bit like Texas
I wonder how many Jules of energy it took to make that one sword
Hey, that meteorite is from Tallahassee, not space
A silicated campo del cielo meteorite is probably the worst one to do this with.