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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  • @redneckpyromania6965
    @redneckpyromania69653 жыл бұрын

    I cannot express how furious i am that this is just a promotional video and not the whole thing

  • @redneckpyromania6965

    @redneckpyromania6965

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jimmy_flaps never once have i had success with stuff like that streaming sites yeah but never pirate bay

  • @robertthomas5906

    @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

    @fatalbrett

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same here

  • @SharneAndrews

    @SharneAndrews

    2 жыл бұрын

    Happily pay for it... not available in australia as far as I can tell....

  • @christopherrhodes3228

    @christopherrhodes3228

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@SharneAndrews VPN is fren

  • @TrollDragomir
    @TrollDragomir Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @Arhpeco
    @Arhpeco Жыл бұрын

    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

    @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

    @nicholasstarks3008

    Жыл бұрын

    other areas in Mesopotamia had iron working figured out

  • @BlackHoleForge
    @BlackHoleForge3 жыл бұрын

    The only thing that upset me about this video, is that the next part of the video isn't out yet. Awesome

  • @AzurePain

    @AzurePain

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not here but it is on Savage Builds from a year or two ago on Discovery+ or other means.

  • @lbaker9775

    @lbaker9775

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@AzurePain 0pp0

  • @tabithaalphess2115
    @tabithaalphess2115 Жыл бұрын

    I guess Sokka was onto something when he wanted to make a sword out of a meteorite

  • @valentinoartist578

    @valentinoartist578

    Жыл бұрын

    I was looking for thus comment

  • @wampastompa5344

    @wampastompa5344

    3 ай бұрын

    What got me curious

  • @cholulahotsauce6166
    @cholulahotsauce61663 жыл бұрын

    He's really got the atmosphere in his forge wonderfully tuned; hardly any scale on those pieces at all.

  • @bagochips834

    @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

    @StoneDeceiver

    Жыл бұрын

    what does this mean? can you explain pls :)

  • @Bubu567

    @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

    @DarthTwilight

    Жыл бұрын

    they may have been brushing it off between cuts

  • @RooSnBert
    @RooSnBert3 жыл бұрын

    You make Sokka’s sword!!!!

  • @rhettbueker8197

    @rhettbueker8197

    3 жыл бұрын

    Space sword

  • @windigowhispers

    @windigowhispers

    3 жыл бұрын

    Awe me man at arms actually made sokkas sword it was a pretty cool build

  • @DonVigaDeFierro

    @DonVigaDeFierro

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes! Boomerang!! No, wait...

  • @wampastompa5344

    @wampastompa5344

    3 ай бұрын

    From boomerang guy to ponytail guy to sword guy

  • @skoitch
    @skoitch3 жыл бұрын

    Ancient sword makers knew what to do thanks to trial and error. What they didn’t know is why it worked!

  • @MrRedeyedJedi

    @MrRedeyedJedi

    3 жыл бұрын

    I believe many ancient civilisations knew more than we give them credit for

  • @jetah50

    @jetah50

    3 жыл бұрын

    they also had time. 1-3 months to make a sword, no problem.

  • @joermnyc

    @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

    @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

    @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.

  • @benjaminjarrett9816
    @benjaminjarrett98163 жыл бұрын

    Uh oh, sokka’s space sword is becoming a reality lolzs

  • @mauricehooks320

    @mauricehooks320

    Жыл бұрын

    YYYEEESSS!!! 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

  • @MylkT1023
    @MylkT1023 Жыл бұрын

    Sokka and Master Piandao would be so proud!

  • @loganvetsch8979
    @loganvetsch89793 жыл бұрын

    Buddy looks like if Ryan Stiles was a blacksmith.

  • @themonkysuncle

    @themonkysuncle

    Жыл бұрын

    I was thinking that, then I saw your comment

  • @roromad9603
    @roromad9603 Жыл бұрын

    its crazy just how efficient and accurate jeff's swings are. decades of practice.

  • @DeadLog
    @DeadLog Жыл бұрын

    i saw the video name and all i could think of was Sokka saying "SPACE SWORD"

  • @f.k.burnham8491
    @f.k.burnham84913 жыл бұрын

    They have several meteoric iron knives at the Higgins Armorial Museum in Worchester Mass. The patterns in them are beautiful.

  • @JonatasAdoM
    @JonatasAdoM3 жыл бұрын

    Adam finally managed to make a space sword.

  • @rosscoed6275
    @rosscoed62753 жыл бұрын

    We call our biggest hammer the gentle persuader

  • @coenistheman
    @coenistheman Жыл бұрын

    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

    @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.

  • @markgreiser464
    @markgreiser464 Жыл бұрын

    Finally, it is time. Send out the word. Rally the Troops.

  • @justin9202
    @justin9202 Жыл бұрын

    Is it weird I want a metallurgy forging series with Adam Savage in it

  • @justin9202

    @justin9202

    Жыл бұрын

    @Why So Serious? Why

  • @monkeydhuen2874
    @monkeydhuen2874 Жыл бұрын

    I dont know what it is but seeing that man just talk is so addictive

  • @jimtalbott9535
    @jimtalbott9535 Жыл бұрын

    4:30 - why Mr Pringles neighbors just looooove him.

  • @Abrahaminho
    @Abrahaminho2 жыл бұрын

    i love how jeff is so chill

  • @attasipilurtuut7361
    @attasipilurtuut7361 Жыл бұрын

    This could’ve been 30mins and I’d watch it all

  • @Egryn
    @Egryn2 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @randomrangoon5476
    @randomrangoon54763 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @remen9013
    @remen9013 Жыл бұрын

    Do what the old smiths did in ancient times and turn it into steel via crucible.

  • @Goodnewsglobal
    @Goodnewsglobal2 жыл бұрын

    It would be interesting to try and replicate the Tutankhamun dagger... 🙏🙏🙏

  • @denispol79
    @denispol793 жыл бұрын

    Alec Steel also tried couple of years ago. Unsuccessfully.

  • @friday8188
    @friday81883 жыл бұрын

    Amazing

  • @northerners2828
    @northerners28283 жыл бұрын

    I will wait the part 2 of this video.

  • @nathannash7136
    @nathannash7136 Жыл бұрын

    Watching Adam play with red hot metal and heavy power tools is very entertaining.

  • @balogh89
    @balogh893 жыл бұрын

    Alec Steele once tried to do this also. If I remember well, he wasn't able to make it at the end.

  • @HisVirusness

    @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

    @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..

  • @mattnobrega6621
    @mattnobrega66213 жыл бұрын

    Awsome work

  • @saintmatthias8187
    @saintmatthias8187 Жыл бұрын

    Every atla fan is stoked by this.

  • @velazquezarmouries
    @velazquezarmouries2 жыл бұрын

    "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

    @dusanradin5868

    2 жыл бұрын

    We need slaves then! Wannna commit?

  • @velazquezarmouries

    @velazquezarmouries

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@dusanradin5868 the point of slaves is not committing

  • @dusanradin5868

    @dusanradin5868

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@velazquezarmouries I didn't mean voluntarilly....thick,much?

  • @saammahakala
    @saammahakala Жыл бұрын

    6:47 I believe they used inductive, deductive, abductive and analogical reasoning🤔

  • @TheeHobbyHub
    @TheeHobbyHub2 жыл бұрын

    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

    @danscheid6031

    Жыл бұрын

    gummy?

  • @StormZephyr

    @StormZephyr

    Жыл бұрын

    Got pics?

  • @OlderthanIlookyoungerthanIfeel
    @OlderthanIlookyoungerthanIfeel Жыл бұрын

    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 .

  • @JustAGuyProduction
    @JustAGuyProduction2 жыл бұрын

    This is usually new game+ type of sword builds.

  • @Tonatiuth
    @Tonatiuth2 жыл бұрын

    I've been waiting the Mythbusters to try this since I saw Avatar's aang

  • @mjmj997
    @mjmj9972 жыл бұрын

    How much does a meteorite of that size and variety cost roughly lol

  • @doomTr41n
    @doomTr41n2 жыл бұрын

    as a tig welder, i cant imagine just burning into raw meteorite, sounds fun

  • @haljohnson6947
    @haljohnson69473 жыл бұрын

    Making a sword out of a metorite is like making an ashtray out of a tyrannosaur skull.

  • @FirehorseCreative

    @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! 😳😲😦

  • @ArcturanMegadonkey
    @ArcturanMegadonkey3 жыл бұрын

    I wanted to see the finished product!

  • @bolweval
    @bolweval3 жыл бұрын

    Well that ended rather abruptly...

  • @theprodigalson4003
    @theprodigalson40033 жыл бұрын

    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

    @randomrangoon5476

    3 жыл бұрын

    Are you watching those Aussie Opal hunting videos too? Addicting aren't they

  • @ShadesApeDJansu
    @ShadesApeDJansu2 жыл бұрын

    Cool pharaoh sword

  • @kevinbergonia5806
    @kevinbergonia5806 Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @bigbob1699
    @bigbob16993 жыл бұрын

    What type of tool steel ?

  • @hawkbox
    @hawkbox3 жыл бұрын

    Power hammers are awesome, I would love to have one but I can't justify putting one in my little home forge.

  • @Pablopikaso1980
    @Pablopikaso19802 жыл бұрын

    in Indonesia the name " Mpu " , he made sword from meteorite too..in ancient century with hand he making sword . The javaneese sword name " Keris ."

  • @beautifulsmall
    @beautifulsmall3 жыл бұрын

    wonderful homage to Alec

  • @element-dh9dx
    @element-dh9dx Жыл бұрын

    This looks excellent for home kingdom defense.

  • @thewhitecrow110
    @thewhitecrow110 Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @HOTBOYHOTFINDS
    @HOTBOYHOTFINDS Жыл бұрын

    I'm sitting here drinking talking to myself about magneto from X-Men and just thought about meteorites

  • @AdrianJean001
    @AdrianJean0013 жыл бұрын

    Is there a link for the rest?

  • @kingjames4886
    @kingjames48863 жыл бұрын

    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

    @speakebreathe

    2 жыл бұрын

    I love this idea. Do you have a source for that at all?

  • @kingjames4886

    @kingjames4886

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@speakebreathe not really

  • @marhawkman303

    @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.

  • @jahrusalem3658
    @jahrusalem36582 жыл бұрын

    A sword made of meteoric rock, why does that sound familiar? *cough* Gehrman *cough*

  • @BlackSoap361
    @BlackSoap361 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @wiesejay
    @wiesejay2 жыл бұрын

    Also it hit the ground red hot & going 18 km/s

  • @NoelBarlau
    @NoelBarlau3 жыл бұрын

    GNU Terry Pratchett

  • @colingregory7464
    @colingregory7464 Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @djolley61
    @djolley613 жыл бұрын

    Believe me, this hasn't been running into things. The fracturing is from heating in the atmosphere.

  • @craigthescott5074

    @craigthescott5074

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yea that makes more sense.

  • @marhawkman303

    @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.

  • @randomrangoon5476
    @randomrangoon54763 жыл бұрын

    I call my hammer the convincer as well Adam. Gotta work with you got right 🤷‍♂️😂

  • @user-sf7lv4jm4c
    @user-sf7lv4jm4c9 ай бұрын

    The ancients were smart enough to smelt meteorites with iron sands and charcoal to smelt them into a workable ingot

  • @tesstickle7267
    @tesstickle72673 жыл бұрын

    Hand hammers work better if you hold them lower down the handle by the way lol

  • @foxtrot570
    @foxtrot570 Жыл бұрын

    Sooo.... no one makes an Avatar reference with Sokka making his meteorite sword?

  • @ASLTheatre

    @ASLTheatre

    Жыл бұрын

    I’ve been looking for such a comment but no. :’(

  • @leslauner5062
    @leslauner5062 Жыл бұрын

    Somebody is a fan of Sokka and Piandao....

  • @RTL_CSQ
    @RTL_CSQ Жыл бұрын

    Does anyone know why the power hammer bounces up and down when not engaged?

  • @Cantabile
    @Cantabile2 жыл бұрын

    As a Witcher fan I am drooling

  • @JesseHols
    @JesseHols3 жыл бұрын

    He has a nice Harrison Ford kind a vibe

  • @brettmacaulay397
    @brettmacaulay397 Жыл бұрын

    My interest in forging and meteorites came from the eragon series 😆

  • @hyperguyver2
    @hyperguyver2 Жыл бұрын

    Terry Pratchett did this once.

  • @raystevens1458
    @raystevens1458 Жыл бұрын

    A shame we didn't see the finished product .

  • @Jesse_Golden
    @Jesse_Golden3 жыл бұрын

    I want to see the whole process, it's been cut short

  • @zvehee

    @zvehee

    3 жыл бұрын

    @SaltyBrains Savage Builds is the name.

  • @bendover9813
    @bendover9813 Жыл бұрын

    You could simply infuse the meteorite with the souls of powerful animals via bones inscribed with runes to make steel.

  • @hemalet
    @hemalet Жыл бұрын

    Sokka's sword in Avatar.

  • @Avliv_Satan
    @Avliv_Satan2 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if Jeff Pringle likes Pringles

  • @braydencheatham9406
    @braydencheatham94063 жыл бұрын

    "My space sword!"

  • @George_M_
    @George_M_ Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @chrixthegreat
    @chrixthegreat3 жыл бұрын

    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

    @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.

  • @adivitarakamil9431
    @adivitarakamil9431 Жыл бұрын

    Meteorite .🙏🇮🇩

  • @torrimathews5232
    @torrimathews5232 Жыл бұрын

    The video ends before they even have it forged!?

  • @mattkemp3727
    @mattkemp37272 жыл бұрын

    When Jeff Goldblum and John Malkovitch are forged together you get this guy ^

  • @alexwieland-ducher8792
    @alexwieland-ducher87923 жыл бұрын

    But the question is "will it keel?"

  • @benderisgreat95able
    @benderisgreat95able Жыл бұрын

    HELLO, SPACE SWORD! :D

  • @ricknick5318
    @ricknick5318 Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @remigaruba7749
    @remigaruba77499 ай бұрын

    It would be nice if you could forge aerogel into a sword making it less heavy and so sharp but basically impossible right

  • @corvideclectica6931
    @corvideclectica69312 жыл бұрын

    Water-powered power hammers were in use during the medieval era.

  • @aleksnight5406
    @aleksnight5406 Жыл бұрын

    Вот вошёл ты в кузницу, Как красиво вай, вай, вай! Если хочешь мне помочь - ОТОЙДИ И НЕ МЕШАЙ! ДА!

  • @marhawkman303

    @marhawkman303

    Жыл бұрын

    Ah yes, the mantra of a true craftsman. :D

  • @aleksnight5406

    @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

    @marhawkman303

    Жыл бұрын

    @@aleksnight5406 ah, I see, interesting. :D

  • @davienstrong
    @davienstrong Жыл бұрын

    Anyone know how the sword turned out?

  • @duckgoesquack4514
    @duckgoesquack45142 жыл бұрын

    Wonder if the meteor was a short sword due to the metal content, or the lack or ore

  • @treemover7259
    @treemover72593 жыл бұрын

    why not smelt the meterorite into a bar to start with and then use that to make the sword

  • @HisVirusness

    @HisVirusness

    2 жыл бұрын

    Because it'd still need to be carburized; no matter what, you'd still have non-meteorite metal inside.

  • @spyersecol0013
    @spyersecol00132 жыл бұрын

    I have a hammer I call the persuader, I need to get me a convincer!

  • @danielhooke6115
    @danielhooke61153 жыл бұрын

    4:26 "Welcome to Earth!"

  • @Phant0m_Gl1tch
    @Phant0m_Gl1tch Жыл бұрын

    Sokka:👀👀👀

  • @tolkienfan1972
    @tolkienfan1972 Жыл бұрын

    The cross section of this meteorite looks a bit like Texas

  • @XBANGARANGX
    @XBANGARANGX Жыл бұрын

    I wonder how many Jules of energy it took to make that one sword

  • @mborges2133
    @mborges2133 Жыл бұрын

    Hey, that meteorite is from Tallahassee, not space

  • @jameshartman5574
    @jameshartman55743 жыл бұрын

    A silicated campo del cielo meteorite is probably the worst one to do this with.

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