CAN YOU FORGE A METEORITE!?

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My name is Alec Steele and I am a 19 year old blacksmith from Norfolk in the United Kingdom. I upload a vlog from my day at the workshop almost every single day. Lots of sparks, lots of making, lots of fantastic-ness. Great to have you here following along!

What do I make? LOTS of Damascus steel, knives, swords, axes and more and of course, I always love hearing your suggestions for future projects in the comments below!

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

theCodyReeder

"Goodbye space sword" saddest part of the whole show

oatman

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

KonFry

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

MaNNeRz

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

zomaariemand

Alec; 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 work it into a solid nugget at welding heat. Once it starts to stay together, add known steel to it and again.... 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!

ArthurC

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.

lewisbowers

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

cameronjones

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*

revox

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

nilssets

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

Thorneblade

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.

kurtbenson

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!

Wolfsdenforge