Holy crap it's for sale!!!

Iowa Boy said:
Thanks again Mecha...Yes I do want a pure meteorite blade, just didn't know if it was physically possible, while at the same time being useful. I use my knives, retired now and the Missus and me spend our time in the field, looking for "bones & stones", or on the oceans, sailing our boat (Hallberg-Rassy 64 )...

How is Titanium for use onboard a bluewater cruising ( Category A, Ocean Unlimited ) vessel, or fossil hunting in the swamps of Florida ? I'd like to see your blade offerings...and will contact Hellize.

What sold you on Titanium ?
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Well, meteor iron worked for King Tut! :D I believe in Hellize, he will walk down the cobblestone path laid by the Romans to his 4,000 year old coal forge and successfully turn a meteorite into a good knife first try, I bet. He knows how to observe the iron and steel and sense what's happening.

Titanium is great for rusty conditions, and it can make a perfectly serviceable knife. However there's a type of steel called Magnacut that's pretty much totally rust-proof and will make a knife more like what's typically expected. Titanium is weird.

What sold me on titanium alloys was really for long blades - swords, machetes, etc. That's where it really stands out, due to lighter weight and resistance to impact and shock damage, the way long blades cut, etc. The knives work well too, though, it's just that in a big long blade they really shine, and there's nothing like it.
 
I am going to obtain several meteorites, send them to Hellize, he can melt them all down into a meterorite alloy. Before I send them, I'm thinking to have them sent off to IMR Metallurgical Labs, for SEM ( scanning electron microscope ) analysis, so he at least knows what he's working with. IMR has analyzed many of our Roman coins, they'd love a meteorite project, they only ever get industrial and aerospace projects. They love it when we send Roman coins to them, and always ask if their Children can take them to school for others to see, and actually hold in their hands.
 
Iowa Boy said:
I am going to obtain several meteorites, send them to Hellize, he can melt them all down into a meterorite alloy. Before I send them, I'm thinking to have them sent off to IMR Metallurgical Labs, for SEM ( scanning electron microscope ) analysis, so he at least knows what he's working with. IMR has analyzed many of our Roman coins, they'd love a meteorite project, they only ever get industrial and aerospace projects. They love it when we send Roman coins to them, and always ask if their Children can take them to school for others to see, and actually hold in their hands.
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I would just get one meteorite the size of a large ball bearing, and not bother with melting, just forging, to retain a banded pattern of sorts. That's something you'd have to ask Hellize about, though.
 
Mecha said:
Well, meteor iron worked for King Tut! :D I believe in Hellize, he will walk down the cobblestone path laid by the Romans to his 4,000 year old coal forge and successfully turn a meteorite into a good knife first try, I bet. He knows how to observe the iron and steel and sense what's happening.

Titanium is great for rusty conditions, and it can make a perfectly serviceable knife. However there's a type of steel called Magnacut that's pretty much totally rust-proof and will make a knife more like what's typically expected. Titanium is weird.

What sold me on titanium alloys was really for long blades - swords, machetes, etc. That's where it really stands out, due to lighter weight and resistance to impact and shock damage, the way long blades cut, etc. The knives work well too, though, it's just that in a big long blade they really shine, and there's nothing like it.
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Yes, Hellize, living in Romania, is definitely familiar with the Romans, so many intact Roman towns still there, it was called Dacia back then. He probably has as least some Roman DNA in his self, it ain't called Romania for nothing....

I can't wait to get this project underway. Researching meteorites is the first step, don't want to send him crap material.
 
Iowa Boy said:
Yes, Hellize, living in Romania, is definitely familiar with the Romans, so many intact Roman towns still there, it was called Dacia back then. He probably has as least some Roman DNA in his self, it ain't called Romania for nothing....

I can't wait to get this project underway. Researching meteorites is the first step, don't want to send him crap material.
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Yes, just looking into the meteorites alone, and which are for sale, is its own journey.

Welcome to custom blades! If the project is successful, you'll end up with a real treasure.
 
Mecha said:
I would just get one meteorite the size of a large ball bearing, and not bother with melting, just forging, to retain a banded pattern of sorts. That's something you'd have to ask Hellize about, though.
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Oh, I was thinking more like, say, 8 or so cubic inches of working material. Are forging and melting mutually exclusive ? I don't know, metallurgy isn't my thing, I was a L.A.S.E.R. guy, atmospheric propagation of the beams.
 
Iowa Boy said:
Oh, I was thinking more like, say, 8 or so cubic inches of working material. Are forging and melting mutually exclusive ? I don't know, metallurgy isn't my thing, I was a L.A.S.E.R. guy, atmospheric propagation of the beams.
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That depends on the size of the blade you want. I'd think something the size of a bigass ball bearing, like 2" in diameter, would be good for a typical little belt knife. The price on iron meteors rises nonlinearly according to size, from what I see.

There's a state between being totally solid and totally liquid, where the metal is forged and elements within the matrix can move around and spread out, coagulate, precipitate, and recrystallization can occur.
 
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That depends on the size of the blade you want. The price on iron meteors rises nonlinearly according to size. For a normal belt knife, something the si
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I'm thinking 4-5 inches in fixed blade, but could easily get used to a folder like a Buck 110, complete with meteorite bolsters. I have no idea how much initial material would be required to make a blade of any sort. I like thick spines, rather than thin ones, the actual cutting edge(s) I can sharpen to whatever back-up thickness I want, but a thick spine means strength.

Yeah, the price of meteorites seems to rise exponentially according to size (weight), and there is no "quality control ", which is why I'd rather send him several, along with their respective SEM analysis, he can sort it out, because that's what his area of expertise is.
 
Iowa Boy said:
I'm thinking 4-5 inches in fixed blade, but could easily get used to a folder like a Buck 110, complete with meteorite bolsters. I have no idea how much initial material would be required to make a blade of any sort. I like thick spines, rather than thin ones, the actual cutting edge(s) I can sharpen to whatever back-up thickness I want, but a thick spine means strength.

Yeah, the price of meteorites seems to rise exponentially according to size (weight), and there is no "quality control ", which is why I'd rather send him several, along with their respective SEM analysis, he can sort it out, because that's what his area of expertise is.
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A lot of these sorts of details are up to the knife makers and how they work. Generally-speaking it's best to let them work without too many constraints, and you'll end up with something surprising, even better than imagined.
 
Yes, metals are crystalline in structure, but imperfectly. For instance, in the laser world we use many crystalline structured rods as the lasing medium, Ruby, Sapphire, Garnet, we grow them in a controlled environment so that the matrix is as perfect as possible....it's not like you can take your Wife's nicest from the Earth, as created by Mother Nature, Ruby, and "lase" it, but the crystalline structure is fundamentally present.

Metals do re-crystallize, many a 2000 year old Roman silver coin is re-crystallized, drop it onto a tile floor and it shatters like glass.
 
Mecha said:
A lot of these sorts of details are up to the knife makers and how they work. Generally-speaking it's best to let them work without too many constraints, and you'll end up with something surprising, even better than imagined.
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Absolutely ! So I'll just send a bunch of meteorites, ( and the SEM results ) and say, " do your best. " Don't know what I'll get, but it will be first-class...if the Artist asks me for parameters, fine, if not. that's fine too. Make me a blade that will work in the field, everyday carry, a working blade, no matter how pretty it may be...kind of like a Holland & Holland shotgun, very pretty, but make no mistake, very much at home in the worst of conditions, for however long such conditions may last.
 
Elin Musk is going to buy it and try to baton it through a piece of hardwood, and he will stream it all on TikTok.
 
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