King Tut's meteorite dagger

BF Papyrus 1.0

A few:" bronze and copper are easier to sharpen and cut just as well as that hipster super metal "

Some: "what a useless tacticlol piece of bazaar ninja, man jewelry"

More: "that super metal does what? What is this 'rust'? It also chips much more than bronze?"

Most: Eagerly awaiting the arrival of the latest ScarabCo catalogue, in their parents basements.

All of Egypt: Piling up huge supplies of sandstone near Gizah, anticipating a run on sharpening stones.

Turned out it was only a sprint run.
 
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Jens Schuetz said:
BF Papyrus 1.0

A few:" bronze and copper are easier to sharpen and cut just as well as that hipster super metal "

Some: "what a useless tacticlol piece of bazaar ninja, man jewelry"

More: "that super metal does what? What is this 'rust'? It also chips much more than bronze?"

Most: Eagerly awaiting the arrival of the latest ScarabCo catalogue, in their parents basements.

All of Egypt: Piling up huge supplies of sandstone near Gizah, anticipating a run on sharpening stones.

Turned out it was only a sprint run.
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Accurate. lol
 
G. Scott H. said:
Pffft. Metal blades? Another hipster fad. I'll stick with my trusty flint and obsidian. :thumbup:
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Exactly. 1095 -I mean, obsidian, has been good enough for thousands of generations and it is good enough for me! ;)
 
G. Scott H. said:
Pffft. Metal blades? Another hipster fad. I'll stick with my trusty flint and obsidian. :thumbup:
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Exactly. 1095 -I mean, obsidian, has been good enough for thousands of generations and it is good enough for me! ;)
 
Cobalt and Nickel makes for nice blades... I wonder if Palladium would be even better, it is harder than nickel...

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This just in, Lynn Thompson wants to take Tut's knife to see if it will stab through a cow's skull, and survive abusive spine whack testing.
 
OK. Nobody here anymore but on the off chance somebody peeks in here:
Why is there so little or actually no corrosion?

Is the blade remade? Is it the space alloy or just preserving conditions like no humidity no dust, no extreme temps? And when dug out probably smothered in renaissance wax?

This dagger looks better than 100 year old Kukris drowned in Cosmoline!
 
Jens Schuetz said:
OK. Nobody here anymore but on the off chance somebody peeks in here:
Why is there so little or actually no corrosion?

Is the blade remade? Is it the space alloy or just preserving conditions like no humidity no dust, no extreme temps? And when dug out probably smothered in renaissance wax?

This dagger looks better than 100 year old Kukris drowned in Cosmoline!
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Probably some of each. Egypt has been dry since ancient times. The nickel level probably helps. It'd be interesting to know how much carbon is in there.
 
Bill1170 said:
Probably some of each. Egypt has been dry since ancient times. The nickel level probably helps. It'd be interesting to know how much carbon is in there.
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Agreed. Would be great to see the whole composition and then figure out which modern steel comes closest.
 
If you heat up bronze alot and let it air cool it becomes harder, but if you do the same to steel it becomes softer (annealing in a nut shell) right?
Given that the metal of choice back then was bronze, and the smith who made that probably tried to handle the iron like bronze since they'd have no idea how to deal with iron back then, its probably annealed iron. Most of the research I've dug up has said bronze weapons are at about 40HRC for hardness, and annealed iron depending on alloy is about the same, that kinda makes his fancy moon rock dagger less stellar.

Oh and because I hate the censored hole that is Russia Today, here's a BBC link for those not wanting to give them the clicks.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36432635
 
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