Need a way to get the sulfur out, I recommend melting it and adding a blast of pure oxygen.

@RaininPayne2

5 жыл бұрын

Cody'sLab our favorite chemist

@Finding-Infinity

5 жыл бұрын

HI CODY!

@sylek0

5 жыл бұрын

Don't the two of you live close now? I'd kill for a collab!

@puppetsinger9798

5 жыл бұрын

Cody'sLab i agree

@sethschueller3887

5 жыл бұрын

You are absolutely correct. Removing sulfur would've saved the titanic as well for similar reasons but with cold as opposed to heat.

"Goodbye space sword" saddest part of the whole show

@aksa3227

3 жыл бұрын

atla 😭😭😭💙💙💙

@aliced.3799

3 жыл бұрын

Dude that was so tragic!

@Vallan_se_a_la_verga

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@hunterhallengren6509

3 жыл бұрын

People who say katara experienced the most sadness Me an intellectual: goodbye space sword

@uzibeast5990

3 жыл бұрын

Uncle iroh’s story in ba sing se would like to have a word with you

Alec: Gets 5 billion year old piece of metal from space Also Alec: *makes leaf*

"Can you forge a meteorite?" Terraria players: *yes*

@raindoset5408

3 жыл бұрын

How bout netherite

@whenthe4553

3 жыл бұрын

@@raindoset5408 wrong game my guy

@raindoset5408

3 жыл бұрын

@@whenthe4553 I play both

@KLAO_

2 жыл бұрын

Space set intensifies

Came flying through space and crashed to earth to be bubble wrapped carefully 😂

@jred7

5 жыл бұрын

Funny, but it was probably meant to keep it immobile and prevent it from just breaking out of the packaging around it.

@garyjohnson4575

5 жыл бұрын

its rough in the post office!!!!

@pigeotto8319

5 жыл бұрын

Meteorite: *am i a joke to you*

@endingignorance8345

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@stavrosps1238

5 жыл бұрын

it could also be alien junk that we think it is so precious imagine an alien blacksmith forging some of the space junk the we got rid of and thinking it is worth something

If sokka can do it why wouldn’t a trained smith could do this.

@ahsanmehmoodkalimullah9193

4 жыл бұрын

Man, you a avatar's fan ! Me too!😊😊

@whenwhenwhen153

4 жыл бұрын

You are fckn right man 🤣😂

@ForceDev

4 жыл бұрын

Zomaar Iemand sokka cast the metal into a sword cast he is doing it the classic way

@seth.w4182

3 жыл бұрын

Sokkas a blade master and alec's a blacksmith

@sfbsoulfullofbyss658

3 жыл бұрын

Nice another avatar fan

To forge something with that : totally melting to blend all elements together ^^

It's so brittle. I'd say the only hope of getting something solid out of it would be to smelt it and get rid of the obvious weaker metals, and who know what sort of alloy you'd be stuck with in the end. But it would be a nightmare none the less. It's very interesting though, thank you for this!

@notadaytrader

Жыл бұрын

What’s crazy is some of the older pre iron civilizations were able to shape it into blades. How the hell they did it, carefully I guess😂

@Easyflux

Жыл бұрын

@@notadaytrader were they? Been a while since I watched this, but it seemed to be pretty hard to work with modern equipment.. I can't imagine primitive equipment cracked the riddle of this brittle alloy.

@notadaytrader

Жыл бұрын

@@Easyflux well not to make it sound like every pre-iron civilization was doing it, but for example, the Egyptian Boy King Tutankhamun, had a set of daggers in his tomb, one of which is of meteoric origin. Here are some others I found quickly: sheet-iron beads from Gerzeh in Egypt, dated to 3200 B.C.; an ax from Ugarit on the coast of northern Syria, dated to 1400 B.C.; a dagger from Alaça Höyük in Turkey, dated to 2500 B.C.; and three iron objects from Tutankhamun's tomb, dated to 1350 B.C. - a dagger, a bracelet and a headrest. Any iron artifact dated to before roughly 1200-930BC, is highly likely from space.

Alec; NOOOOO! Please, stop! Ahhh, it hurts! You can't/shouldn't work meteorite as is - it needs to be incorporated into other, more homogenized steel. Working with meteorite, you either need to grind it into a powder before forge welding in a canister weld, or the way traditional katanas are made, with little thin bits and pieces all wrapped up together and slooooooooooowly, paaaaaaaaaatiently, work it into a solid nugget at welding heat. Once it starts to stay together, add known steel to it and again.... slooooooooooooooowly, liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiightly, work it down till it all binds together. You literally need hours of just lightly tapping away at it to consolidate a billet that can take any kind of abuse. Only then you have a chance of making anything out of it. If made into a blade and etched, it will have a pattern more similar to wootz than damascus steel, and the contrast wont be as clear... but what the hell, you'll have a fuggen' space sword! But you'll need a high carbon edge laminated into it, because any carbon is long gone from all that heating up to welding temp. Oh, and any time you heat it up, drown that sucker in copious amounts of borax. Anyone who reads this, please upvote it, so Alec doesn't miss it before it's too late!

@tikkasen_urakointi

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, meteorite is not good material from the start. You need to slowly refine it by forging it. Of course it can also be done by simply melting it and burning all the impurities away, but it is not how it was done in pre-iron age.

@williamnicholson8133

6 жыл бұрын

That meteorite appears to have too many inclusions and impurities . May have more luck by putting it into a crucible to burn out the impurities and start with a clean ignot.

@PringleMan5

6 жыл бұрын

Also, this would be closer to elemental iron with impurities and inclusions that a low-grade steel, as others have said. I wonder if he considered that when he was working it? As well, in the basic formation of the rock, there would be pretty large crystals. I wonder if that is why it was crumbling so much.

@a-sheepof-christ9027

6 жыл бұрын

So then there we go - No way around this - tamahagane meteorite Tanto it is.

@bobbertbobby3975

6 жыл бұрын

while I agree that what you suggested is prolly the only real way to get good working steel out of that material Im guessing that if you did that then in the end it wouldnt be very special. I mean after doing what you said it would just be normal steel. I think the point is to limit as much as possible adding other metal. i do suggest adding good steel to it. maybe laminating it and making a form of damascas. spelling bad there sorry.

To Alec I'm 13 and I have forged my first knife. It's a Bowie mixed with a bayonet. I just want to say thank you for being my inspiration.

@NicSiawProductions

6 жыл бұрын

hurricane TV keep going bro! You have a good start!

@coalsauce4457

6 жыл бұрын

13!?? Nice you beat me by 2 years lol

I would love a collab with Cody's Lab to refine the meteorite for ease of forging but I love that you really tried to make it work with the raw material

9:58. the laugh of pure glee when doing something you love even when it's stupid. I love this channel!

Every ATLA fan watching this: come on dont let Sokka down

@suless6668

3 жыл бұрын

Ik if sokka can forge it humans can too

@wolfy9619

3 жыл бұрын

ikr

@cosmiceyness

3 жыл бұрын

SWORD AND FAN

@johnstrife7

Жыл бұрын

​@@suless6668 fun fact sokka is a human too lmao

Meteorite: *Flying at extremely high speed, smashing into other meteorites, then goes through the atmosphere and smashes into the Earth* Alec: Hits the meteorite with a hammer Meteorite: *Falls Apart*

@VoidplayLP

4 жыл бұрын

To be fair, ground is generally a lot softer than a hammer

@noahmannen7947

4 жыл бұрын

It was much bigger but when it hit the grund it broke into much smaller pieces and water has made it round

@yentosssk1122

4 жыл бұрын

Oof, while watching the video scrolling down and reading this, I don't even need to watch it now :(

@marisseandgale5365

4 жыл бұрын

Alec is Thor confirmed

@msDanielp369

3 жыл бұрын

@@noahmannen7947 LOL! your pic describes your comment perfectly.

12:17 The Steele bloodline almost ended.

With only having watched this one video... if you're ever able to get anymore of this material, try breaking it down into small enough pieces that it can be smelted into "space tamahagane" before forging it.

Alec: Lets try to forge with meteorite! 16th century javanese people: *laughs anciently*

@theardhians

3 жыл бұрын

Thx bro, im from javanese

@TAUFIKDIRWANTO

3 жыл бұрын

That's how keris is made..

@nilsfrederking62

3 жыл бұрын

There exists a dagger made out of meteorite which was made for pharao Tutanchamun. Very beautiful piece, you find it when googling images.

@ReikiMaulana

3 жыл бұрын

@@TAUFIKDIRWANTO wow.. I didn't know it was made from meteorites

@nikkobrown421

3 жыл бұрын

@@nilsfrederking62 Ive seen it in person Its an incredible piece, i got to see the last tour of king tut , saw the exhibit in Montana.

as a geologist I can tell you what the problem is, Iron meteorites have a very large crystalline structure, that's what gives it that remarkable texture when etched. to work it you need to get a smaller crystalline structure to it which means melting and reforming the material. you will also want to add carbon to make it steel and a good bit of flux to clean up the silica inclusions, what you wound up with at the end was wrought iron. the nickel and other impurities will make it an interesting alloy.

@NeutralGuyDoubleZero

5 жыл бұрын

To be fair the point of the video was trying to forge the meteorite on its own. If he added things to it to make it more workable it wouldn't really be forging a meteorite anymore.

@qertqert6804

5 жыл бұрын

U got that from google didnt u i searched it up and that popped up

@ssjwes

5 жыл бұрын

@@qertqert6804 Or did google get this info from him?

@distorteddiamond2864

5 жыл бұрын

Makes me wonder if you could melt it to a liquid and make a cast

@MrKelsomatic

5 жыл бұрын

Fascinating. Makes a good deal of sense. Thanks!

Who thought of "Avatar: The Last Air bender" throughout the video?

@buffglamrockfreddy9021

3 жыл бұрын

No I thought of terraria

LOL this is how I always imagined an elf kid from some Gondolin smithy, sort of youthfully giving it all to the forge with glee and a big grin and lots of passion. This channel is mesmerizing! Keep forging Alec!

Alec, you need to forge the entire piece on the power hammer, flatten it, quench it, then break the hardened prices into tiny chunks. Then stack them up and forge weld them back together, much like a traditional Katana is made. Cheers mate

@StantonSC

6 жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking. He'd have to forge out the impurities and add some carbon. I think traditionally they use burned rushes or charcoal to add carbon?

@DanielSMatthews

6 жыл бұрын

Just think about it as if it was at the bloom stage and work it up from there?

@raymondglueck9442

6 жыл бұрын

This is what I was thinking the whole time I was watching the video

@notanimposter

6 жыл бұрын

I don't know if meteorite metal would be hardenable like that, but that is the basic idea, yea. Then once you have it all forged into a billet, use a hardenable steel bit or carbonize the edge.

@mtgoode66

6 жыл бұрын

First thing I thought after seeing the etch. I think it's called tamahagane in Japanese.

anyone else thinking of Sokka's meteorite (space) sword? 😁

@pickleprod.8202

5 жыл бұрын

PoCanDo _ yes that is exactly what I was thing of!!

@alexhuk7353

5 жыл бұрын

"It will be unlike any other in the world" (Commence musical percussion, followed by forging that is reminiscent of a anime training sequence)

@ketameanii

5 жыл бұрын

YES

@Tahoza

5 жыл бұрын

Man at Arms already made Sokka's sword out of meteorite.

@markperyer6522

5 жыл бұрын

Right??

Woah, Alec's voice was way deeper 4 years ago

"Can you forge a meteorite?!" Terry Pratchette, from where ever he is: "...Well, I made a bloody good sword out of one about thirty years ago."

Here’s hoping that it turns into sokka’s meteor sword from avatar

@nameless4224

5 жыл бұрын

Space sword!

@robstowedd4061

5 жыл бұрын

SPACE SWORD

@DrewPeabaws

5 жыл бұрын

Man at arms did that

@thetestinggrounds7855

5 жыл бұрын

Was thinking the same exact thing.

@flashcwapt.4220

5 жыл бұрын

I legit thought of that when I clicked this video

I hope there’s not alien larva in there Everyone: *looks at June*

@monirhasan3248

3 жыл бұрын

Me : Who is June?

@curt5288

3 жыл бұрын

@@monirhasan3248me: idk

@scottbruckner4653

3 жыл бұрын

WHO HAD THEIR BID ON ALIENS FOR JUNE?

@WhatThePartyNeeds

3 жыл бұрын

June is a month

@canismajor8601

3 жыл бұрын

@@WhatThePartyNeeds or is it

Could you heat it up to a very high temp, super cool it in water, break up the metel into small pieces, and then melt or forge back into a metal?

Yo!! what the hell?? I've come back 5 years into KZread history and this guy seems older? His voice is deeper too 😂😂😂😂 I'm dying right now I wasn't ready 😭😭

When you play Terraria way too much

@tonibeba8911

4 жыл бұрын

Xd

@bulletbot1486

4 жыл бұрын

THAT WAS I GONNA SAY BUT U ALREADY SAID IT. xd

@dumbleking5172

4 жыл бұрын

*farms eye of cuthulu*

@eaterofzawarudo6764

4 жыл бұрын

I was searching for this comment

@karshmellow3021

4 жыл бұрын

Poland

Just don't make an arrow out of it, or the things can start getting bizarre

@tsukuyomi835

3 жыл бұрын

Shinjitsu ni totasu suru koto wa kesshite nai

@Bl4ues

3 жыл бұрын

Watashi mo shirimasen

@scottbruckner4653

3 жыл бұрын

...🥟..?

@mr_secks

3 жыл бұрын

*inhales*...IS THAT A JOJO REFERENCE

@Bl4ues

3 жыл бұрын

@@mr_secks *YES, I AM!* 👇

his outfit and accent AND the environment gives him a cool british cowboy blacksmith feel, a strange but awesome crossover.

have you ever thought of breaking it down like the japanese process of welding steel together for making a sword

Alec- you have to melt the meteorite and separate the impure elements of it before attempting a forge. Get a crucible, hack it to bits, set the bits into the crucible, heat it until it melts and then trace off the waste from the top. After it cools only the metallic elements will remain and then it can be forged

@brodylaws67

6 жыл бұрын

Rosson311 irons melting point is quite high but

@zinjgreen3398

6 жыл бұрын

Andrew Ortiz you just can't forge a rock isn't it.?

@icvfmfk

6 жыл бұрын

Rosson311 I'm not into forging and stuff but this is what I thought he will do aswell

@shabnamrafique7730

6 жыл бұрын

That is exactly what he was supposed to do. Putting a carbon compound in there would have given a stronger steel alloy; putting sand or glass in the crucible would have helped draw out the impurities into the by product called "Slag" ... no not the slang for swearing; "slag" is an actual term used in the making of steel.

@shabnamrafique7730

6 жыл бұрын

The "silicate inclusions" would have helped to draw out the impurities from the iron/carbon alloy if he made crucible steel from this meteorite. He wold have still had to use light hammering thought to hammer out the resulting "puck".

Hi Alec, the trouble with meteor is it is essentially an iron bloom, at least it acts the same way, and must be treated the same way. It has to be compacted and welded together first, which you tried, but the reason it didn't work out is you were trying to weld it too cold. Iron and steel have far different welding temperatures, iron welds at a white heat. Anything less and you're just trying to smoosh it together by force. Cheers and good luck!

@21herby

6 жыл бұрын

Wolf's Den Forge your right on. Therefore able eliminate any impurities that will effect the consolidation, it should still keep the coloration before you make it truly forgeable for a great Damascus.

@dontwobble

6 жыл бұрын

Id like to see anyone do anything with a meteor, since they're all out in space still.

@pasquale78

6 жыл бұрын

That's what I thought. It looks like japanese tamahagane, which essentially is iron bloom.

@marhawkman303

6 жыл бұрын

My first thought was that meteorites are more like iron ore than pig iron.

@BlacksmithTim

6 жыл бұрын

Concur with the above. Working it too cold too much before consolidating. It's essentially a bloom and needs to be worked (fold and weld, fold and weld) to homogenize and consolidate.

As Sokka sheds a tear... he then googles how to forge another space sword.

"Can you forge a meteorite?" Makes a Meteorite spoon

*_So it's a Meteor Rock made from a dying Star?? Hmm..._* *Next thing you know.* _Thor's Hammer_

@b2spirit35

5 жыл бұрын

It's Mjolnir you uncultured swine.

@coyotedomino

5 жыл бұрын

B2SPIRIT Sounds like they’re talking about MCU Stormbreaker, actually, you “uncultured swine”.

@b2spirit35

5 жыл бұрын

@@coyotedomino Stormbreaker (as far as I know) is not "canon" in Norse mythology. But eh

@coyotedomino

5 жыл бұрын

B2SPIRIT Oh, of course not. But right now when most people hear “Thor”, they think of Marvel, not the Poetic Edda.

@b2spirit35

5 жыл бұрын

@@coyotedomino So we're both correct. Good day sir/maam

Thousands of years ago in some areas of Africa, the only metal they could find was meteorite metal. They believed that since they came from space and because of how much effort that would go into making blades with it, they believed that the blades would be able to kill demons. Just a little fun fact for you guys

@paolojorge

6 жыл бұрын

Sounds like Conan’s blade made from star metal

@catalyst1011

6 жыл бұрын

www.google.com

@catalyst1011

6 жыл бұрын

No problem Al, glad i could help

@tzimmermann

6 жыл бұрын

+Shanon V Man, I've just tried this "google" thing, it rocks! Thanks!

This guy: what can you make with meteorite? Terraria players: *pulls out space gun*

@ammagon4519

3 жыл бұрын

Craft the full set of armor first so you can blast it for eternity

I know its been 5 years, but could this potentially work in a canister damascus?

@gibyou2739

Жыл бұрын

Original damascus blend steel that is now lost to history due to the family’s generational knowledge being lost. It is said that there is meteorite in the blend just like some Egyptian ceremonial daggers.

*hits it lightly with normal hammer and cracks Solution? HIT IT WITH TNE POWER HAMMER

Meteorite getting bubble wrapped. Meteorite:. Am I a joke to you?

@mfmr200

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@azayles

4 жыл бұрын

The bubblewrap is to protect everything else :P

@silvahedgehog

4 жыл бұрын

Don’t hate me, but stolen

@corison2058

4 жыл бұрын

THE GREAT just in case someone drops a Nokia cell phone on it.

@ticklemynekc

4 жыл бұрын

unoriginal

If your best friend is a boomerang and the avatar while your sister can bend water, Yes

Having completely destroyed the Widmanstatten pattern, it is now impossible to prove it used to be a meteorite. Good thing you took video.

I think your best bet is to melt it down, allowing some of the impurities to burn off and letting it homogenize, then try forging the ingot

@Digital_Drug

6 жыл бұрын

thats what i was thinking, like crucible steel

@mortensolbergjr.1327

6 жыл бұрын

agreed

@SlowplayRJ

6 жыл бұрын

Smelt it!

@SplitWasTaken

6 жыл бұрын

Tony Ficarra he should use the traditional method of forging katanas. The impure japanese iron needed to be stacked in brittle pieces and forge welded together with charcoal to mix carbon into it, creating steel

@Nikoesht

6 жыл бұрын

But then you lose the pattern of the meteorite

Try using the meteorite like tamahagane bloom steel and try using your hydraulic press. Watching you work the material it reminded me of what the beginning stages of what tamahagane steel looked like.

@captainimpaler5388

6 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing.

@johannesesmael5576

6 жыл бұрын

Thats great thinking

@shabnamrafique7730

6 жыл бұрын

Wait a minute isn't bloom steel made in a bloomary? If so then how can bloom steel be a meteorite?

It's an incomprehensible thought that this little piece of metal, is older than the planet we are on

Great video Alec! You're a tenacious man! I'm learning a lot from these videos, thank you sir.

I guess this officially makes your forge a Skyforge.

@x302justice

6 жыл бұрын

Cristi Neagu what’s a skyforge?

@CristiNeagu

6 жыл бұрын

A forge that forges meteorite iron.

@x302justice

6 жыл бұрын

Cristi Neagu thanks.

@konoegiatanez3754

5 жыл бұрын

Brawlhalla skyforge?

@x302justice

5 жыл бұрын

Konoe Giatanez no...it’s a forge that can forge meteorite iron

Sokka did it

@nnelg8139

5 жыл бұрын

Boar the Fighter did it first.

@winterhorse290

5 жыл бұрын

Jerry Fisk does it all the time.

@MikeJones-ph2qq

5 жыл бұрын

You get bonus points for that.

@jaydennjones946

5 жыл бұрын

This deserves more likes 😂😂😂

@arjayvajramasabio7826

5 жыл бұрын

you nailed it idiots haha

nice to see someone doing what i was thinking to do with a similar piece i have now i changed my mind i think i will keep it as it is

I got my meteorite forging lessons from Billy Merrit back around ‘91. Expensive but fun.

Oldest things in OUR solar system...not the universe... Also worth 50c to $5 per Gram...so a 1kg (2.2lb) Iron meteorite could be worth upto $5000.

@ChuckBeefOG

6 жыл бұрын

Google says $5 a lb...

@kasdarack

6 жыл бұрын

No. Not even close. Maybe for stony meteorite rubble.

@twocsies

6 жыл бұрын

kasdarack Link to shop or you're irrelevant.

@Welcome2TheInternet

5 жыл бұрын

@@kasdarack You have zero knowledge in this field. Stay in your fucking lane. And get me a Big Mac.

@ecksman1016

5 жыл бұрын

I was looking for this comment. I heard a meteorite is worth big big cash because it my have elements not of this earth. I believe this video I bullshit.

This guy looks like a grown up George Little off the movie Stuart Little hahaha

@benjamincorwin8970

5 жыл бұрын

I think he is

@Mr_Jish

5 жыл бұрын

@@benjamincorwin8970 Reasonable to think so, but last I saw that kid grew up , got ripped, and now looks like a weird foot-creature.

@thebropoppy1293

5 жыл бұрын

jesus christ he does too

@isacaraujo5506

4 жыл бұрын

You to

@yonatansingson

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah!

I would just mill it into a ring or something. Or you could try smelting it and pouring it into a mold to see if it would hold together better.

Jokes on him, all metal on earth are as old as the earth itself

"Im collecting meteorites for ~20 years... the biggest I found is slightly larger then a gulf ball... and this guy is abusing the biggest one I see in private hands....

@darkveils1291

4 жыл бұрын

I've seen a couple big on s trade hands in the knife making circles, people forge them into Damascus sometimes. I've seen them with tons of layers to better homogenize the metal.

@Wesleystewart78

4 жыл бұрын

I have personally seen ones bigger than that and seen some absolutely huge ones in pictures/videos

@natalioromanelli5613

4 жыл бұрын

The meteorite is from argentina from a place called campo del cielo and the sale of these meteorites is illegal.

@uncledeadhead3674

4 жыл бұрын

this is a cheapo, theres tons of these in argentina, literally tons.

@AJCsr

4 жыл бұрын

Two foot long metal toothpick, made with a million year old meteorite !

You look like George from Stuart Little

@slightgrinful

5 жыл бұрын

ErikShestakov I thought the same thing

@officerhughdowning1711

5 жыл бұрын

Hmmm your right he does

@liamthelegend1563

5 жыл бұрын

Steve Smith from American dad

@tomclancy3546

5 жыл бұрын

@@liamthelegend1563 on point

@iamthestormthatisapproaching69

5 жыл бұрын

Jimmy Neutron tho.

Fun Fact: The original Bowie knife was included part on a meteorite. Try sandwiching it between layers of steel like you would making Damascus.

Only came here for the avatar comments for sokka. Let’s see how well he does

My dad is an Astronomer and he's mad at you for destroying the meteorite 😂

@Magmafrost13

3 жыл бұрын

@Ishmam Masud - Cuz I Can Well native canadian and alaskan people demonstrably did work meteoric metal. Its not just a theory, they have the artifacts to prove it.

@JANFU_Nova

3 жыл бұрын

you forgot your quotation marks around astronomer.

@Psychetwo

3 жыл бұрын

gotta blame the seller for selling a meteorite to a blacksmith.

@andremorning7427

3 жыл бұрын

I get him, this hurts me too

@AjayKumar-hx5dx

3 жыл бұрын

I have a stone itz atracts magnet

Anyone here thinking of Sokka's sword?

@dabigboom8140

5 жыл бұрын

yes...

@MauMik

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/dn2Iu5OQqsWymps.html I'll just leave this here for no reasons...

@xxEmmankunnArt

5 жыл бұрын

I'm thinking of brisingr(not sure if the spelling is right). man at arms make brisingr iut of meteorite and laminated it with tamahagane (japanese bloom steel) so it won't crumble. the reason the meteorite breaks apart even with the lightest blows because phosporus and cobalt is bad for steel so you need to laminate is with other steel alloys

@mcpaulstephen8048

5 жыл бұрын

space sword

@joehumpston7937

5 жыл бұрын

Dawson Germano I’ve heard that Meteorites are not easy to forge. However, I would crush the meteorite with a masonry hammer and use the broken pieces as an ore. I’d make a feudal Japanese smelter and mix the meteorite chunks with bits of limonite. And when the contents are melted, I’d have a good little piece of tamehagane or bloom steel composed of space iron

Well, first guess would be that if you want to forge it, you need to melt it down to soup first, stir it around, then pour into a mold and then try to forge some thing out of it. Kind of a conglomerate piece as in made up of all sorts of stuff that isn't mixed together well....

Something cool that happened when they reopened King Tuts tomb items was that they found a knife that was apparently being held by him that has been in a box for decades. They tested the material and realized the contents of it wasn't of this planet. 🤯👌🏽👍🏽

@darrinjones9387

2 жыл бұрын

There weren't anyone back then that could forge iron or steel. I wonder if the maker ground it into shape

That meteor has hurtled through the solar system, waved at planets, sling-shotted around the sun, survived the intense heat of passing through Earth's atmosphere at breakneck speeds..just so it could become...a leaf.

@garageliving3658

5 жыл бұрын

A leaf is truly an amazing thing when ya think there is zero life out there........supossedly

@obamagamer5531

5 жыл бұрын

Well what the hell was it supposed to do otherwise? Stay a rock?

@solarmon

5 жыл бұрын

@@obamagamer5531 If indeed it is a meteorite, it's worth more as a rock than anything he could make out of it..

@77Avadon77

4 жыл бұрын

A meteorite is crap material. Trying to forge it into something useful is nearly impossible. There's a reason why there has been millennia of Metallurgy on this planet

@zedries

4 жыл бұрын

@@obamagamer5531 technically it was just an ingot to begin with... Technically...

It seems to me like Alec and this meteor rock is having an intense argument while forging. With every hammer blow Alec strikes it says: "BE FORGED!" And the meteor is not wanna cooperate and responds: " I have been an meteor for billions of years, you really think I am going to move that easy? But through some cozy heats and some gently hammering this man and this rock gets to know eachother. And finally the meteor accepts Alecs request and says: "Fine! I will let you forged something, go ahead and make a leaf!" Great video, this rock has a lot of character.

This channel's contents are so Interesting, infact I want more of this kind of video.

the shape you made is a key to another dimension of the universe

@Alec Maybe it's time to add a small foundry to the workshop.

@tstodgell

6 жыл бұрын

Time for some bronze swords? Yes, please!

@186booboo

6 жыл бұрын

That would be worth watching! The making of a small foundry!

@MrDuddly

6 жыл бұрын

Yes!

Man at arm's Sokka's meteorite sword. They use space metal to make the sword but they have the sword covered with a steel outer layer with the meteorite core

@loganlong6024

6 жыл бұрын

Episode 20 season 1 man at arms

i love how his hair always sticks up

I love your energy dude. Never change 🤘

"It should be V for victory!" 2.5 seconds later... "It's now L for loser!"

"It´s meant to be V for Victory - it´s now L for Loser." When even stonecold lifeless matter gives yout the F.... Made my day. xDD

there is a technique of putting carbon in to raw ore so it can be forged. by gently tapping between 2 slabs of wood. this is very effective.

You would think a rock made of a lot of dense metals, is praised by science, and survived the burning atmosphere and crashed without breakage would be more difficult to destroy

Should have smelted it in the foundry and then forged it.

@ebythelofd5523

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah i thing he should smelted too (smelt)

@QuigleTheGnome

4 жыл бұрын

red x17 yeah cuz it went through atmosphere and it’s a rock so basically making lava

@kyngkryss7250

4 жыл бұрын

Gotta admit, I'm baffled that he would knowingly try to forge it with impurities. Common sense says smelt it and get rid of the slag.

@detraillowe3657

4 жыл бұрын

@@kyngkryss7250 exactly

SMELT IT WITH SOME COKE AND MAKE METEORITE STEEL !

@sandervanduren2779

6 жыл бұрын

maoristereo smelting is used to turn ore into metallic iron. This already is metallic, so smelting won’t do anything better for him.

@maoristereo

6 жыл бұрын

Besides getting rid of cracks, silica inclusions and adding carbon? Nop, not a thing. Your're a genius.

@MaryRose007

6 жыл бұрын

I agree. SMELT IT!

@beantowner76

6 жыл бұрын

Smelting is the way to go if you want to make sure the material is solid and won't break apart upon forging it. The only problem is you lose all the cool designs that run through the meteor.

@MaryRose007

6 жыл бұрын

Beantowner form follows function. With the current cracks, it’s not a functional piece of metal

i found a piece of rock that looks similar to that meteorite. it has a sort of dull metallic look to some of the surfaces, almost like graphite.

This mans workspace must be worth millions now, with all his goold dust and metiorite bits

"What you got there is a frozen chunk of poopy." Joe dirt. That was a fun episode.

@byronstudley5091

6 жыл бұрын

kirk orr what a terrible film

@Kirkorr123

6 жыл бұрын

Sorry you don't have a sense of humor.

@byronstudley5091

6 жыл бұрын

I do, It lets me publicly laugh at people who think Joe dirt is a funny or generally good piece of cinema

"It was supposed to be *V* for *VICTORY* Now it's *L* for *LOSER*

@tako.23

6 жыл бұрын

hahaha best moment

@tako.23

6 жыл бұрын

no like he is funny

@cutterhead13

5 жыл бұрын

i think we all laugh at that moment , not our host

is it possible that the meteorite was melted first, then printed on bars, then forged.

The Ancient Egyptians were able to make knives of meteoric iron in the late Bronze Age (e.g. the knife in Tutankhamun's Tomb). I suspect that the methods used required far more time, and probably more workers, than this channel (or most other KZread channels) could afford, though.

you should do canister damascus with pisces of the meteor

@nathanmactaggart2344

6 жыл бұрын

SCARE EVERGREEN1 that would be awesome

Too many impurities mate, I admire your diligence, but you should have melted that thing in a crucible to eliminate some of the crap inside.

@betinivinicius

6 жыл бұрын

Alacycle An acetylene torch, I guess. Or thermite.

@dylanzrim1011

6 жыл бұрын

Nah you just need to select the right parts of it to work. Even when the Japanese make their katana iron they only choose the best bits, and melt the rest for general use

@shdwbnndbyyt

6 жыл бұрын

It would still be meteoric alloy.... just missing the inclusions that long forging eventually removes (all of the sparks and scale). Melting would separate the quartz, etc from the metal alloy...

@ynots38

6 жыл бұрын

Zamolxes77 i agree 100% needs to smelt out the impurities... now that he put together a furnace it's do able...

@Mikey__R

6 жыл бұрын

Honestly guys, you don't need to melt it to drive out the impurities. Slicing it, stacking it and working it as if it were a bloom, would allow the impurities to come out. In fact, it may well be cleaner than bloomery steel. Thats exactly how wrought iron is made, and steel was until the crucible method was rediscovered. Japanese bladesmithing was mentioned. Yes, the different parts of the bloom were used for different parts of each blade, but the Japanese also didn't have the technology to melt iron or steel in a crucible. They worked blooms same as the Europeans did.

It is the basic ingredient of traditional Javanese weapons, the name of the weapon is keris. Such a beautiful weapon that decorated with gold, carnelian, diamonds with artistic carvings. 😊

I’ve made a sword from a meteorite had it first melted down in a furnace and cast into a ingot before starting the forging process I used the Japanese method for melting it down ie a traditional Japanese smelting furnace to proses the iron before forging it

Even at a paltry estimation of 4 pounds and at a median price per gram of $2.50 (USD) this iron meteorite is worth $4500 (USD)!!! I bet there are some geologists who see this and cringe!

@A.C.Lawrence

6 жыл бұрын

I imagine geologists would watch this in awe! It's not everyday you can watch someone forge with meteorite. It's not like they're rare or anything, it's just considered special because it's a rock from space. In fact, any old rock outside my house is 4 billion years old.

@jeffmendolo

6 жыл бұрын

I’m a geologist, I both cringed and watched with excitement

@workwithnature

6 жыл бұрын

It's not worth 4500!

@A.C.Lawrence

6 жыл бұрын

Maybe not. There are meteorites for sale on ebay ranging from 4k-12k. Not sure what they sell for though.

@workwithnature

6 жыл бұрын

Boom Town there are ones that sell for $10000. It depends on how rare the darn thing is. Like is it a piece of space matter that is important to us. Like a piece of the moon that flaked of and now shows up as a meteorite on earth! This one does not fall into that category.

Everybody: space sword Alec: GOLF CLUB

Yes u can.. Few hundred/thousand years ago ours people Made "keris" from various irons and one of the irons is meteor stone.. Its a ancient weapon/dagger, but build with art and spiritual ritual.

Been operating a band saw the whole day at work and I still can't figure out how Alec can make it seem awesome xD

And there was a disturbance in "the Science"...as if a thousand research voices cried out in terror and sadness.

@epauletshark3793

3 жыл бұрын

Trying not to disturb my mother from laughing so hard at this.

@user-mh2bw4hu3o

3 жыл бұрын

I actually felt pain while watching this. That was a beautiful specimen. It hurt to look at it being mutilated like that.

@user-mh2bw4hu3o

3 жыл бұрын

That stuff is expensive too

@timmorris8932

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-mh2bw4hu3o indeed. Plus, you know damn well that the meteorite that proves extraterrestrial life is sitting in a private collection someplace never to be examined by scientific means. All for some rich man's vanity.

@timmorris8932

3 жыл бұрын

@@ismailabaza411 ah. You are one of those people.

TURN IT INTO A SPACE SPOON

You have to keep up the temp to fuse the metal together on meteorites

I used mine in a canister. Made a neat piece

Hi Alec I would love reffering you to a video by Man At Arms where they make a Katana the traditional way (and no this is not a jab at your Katana, that thing looked effing cool and the work you put in there was simply amazing!) They make their own steel and it reminds me a lot of the meteorite cause it behaves a little like bloom steel. They go at it very slow and try folding the steel a lot of times before they go to the power hammer. (Oh for further reference in the video they make Kill Bills Katana)

@marcdavid3993

6 жыл бұрын

Hey, I believe this is the video you were mentioning, just thought i'd be of help by adding a link. Its interesting because he uses the meterorite as a layer in a damascus billet which helps with the crumbling. kzread.info/dash/bejne/dn2Iu5OQqsWymps.html

@lsubslimed

6 жыл бұрын

Lucas Kramer - Lucas, is Bob your uncle? 😉

@lucaskramer9076

6 жыл бұрын

lsubslimed MAN I WIIIISH hahahaha that'd be the funnest uncle to be with EVER ... or not you know ... I don't think even an uncle can forgive you messing up a 4000$+ knife :'(

YOU HAVE TO MAKE SOKKA’S SWORD OUT OF IT!!!!!

@braiansingh9730

6 жыл бұрын

Uriah Siner kzread.info/dash/bejne/dn2Iu5OQqsWymps.html

@johnwilson2338

6 жыл бұрын

Uriah Siner, Totally what I was thinking!

@timpinxteren

6 жыл бұрын

Uriah Siner Yes please :-D

@dr.alkill5186

6 жыл бұрын

impossible too mutch cracks on this material

@TheMercer187

6 жыл бұрын

Man at arm's did it in season 1.

You need to keep condensing it when it gets hot, and keep pulling the scale out of it. Or melt it down, if I remember correctly the scale should separate to the top

POV. Alec is the Terraria guy forging meteorite armor