Meteorite?

[Keith Montgomery]

I am thinking of having Gibeon or Cape York meteorite used for the fittings (guard, ferrule and buttcap) on a bowie. Is this a good idea?

 

[mete]

Why not ? I was tempted to buy a folder with a Gibeon bolster ,it really looked nice . As a decorative addition it's similar to damascus. We metallurgists call it Widmanstatten lines, which is caused by precipitation along certain crystallographic planes Please make one with meteorite and post the photo.

 

[Kit Carson]

Keith,
Here is what it will look like

 

[Rene E. Roy]

Geeze, you guys must have been reading my mind!!!I just bought this meteorite. Going to have it sliced up, for bolster stock and to make some Meteorite Damascus out of it....
This is a Campo del Cielo, Fell in Argentina about 5000 years ago, a courser grain meteorite than Gibeon Meteorite...should be interesting!!!!

 

[indian george]

Rene: Are you sure that it isn't from a donkey or maybe a llama????

 

[george tichbourne]

Rene you know that you will lose the Widmanstatten pattern when you begin to forge the meteorite don't you?

 

[Rene E. Roy]

Indian George,
Can't be from a Donkey or a Llama....cause I step on it an nearly broke my foot!!

George,
Yes, I knew the pattern would be lost, but I have used some of Delbert Ealy's meteorite damascus in the past and like it very much....I want to make a folder with this meteorite as the bolsters and forge some into damascus for the blade....

Oh ya...this is a 5 pound piece of damascus, about the size of a big fist.....in case anyone wants to know.

 

[indian george]

Rene; If you want to do some in a canister bring it with you if you come down Fri or Sat.

 

[mete]

If you forge it you are wasting it. Meteorites are usually iron-nickel alloys with ~10-20 % nickel. Use something else for damascus. Indian george may be on to something. I recently came across a list of materials for knife handles including on e called Copralite. It was identified as petrified dinosaur do-do.

 

[rlinger]

and by-golly-by-gosh here is an example of that (copralite): http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2199327021&category=15915

That Mete and that IG!!! They really know their CRAP.

RL

 

[Dan Gray]

it looks like Sheet to me :footinmou

 

[etp777]

SOmeone posted link to some of that stuff before in general disucssion forum. a lot of it had crystals in interorior, like agate. purty. But still crap.

 

[Rene E. Roy]

Mete,
This particular meteorite has 6.68% nickel. I plan to use whatever scraps that are leftover after slicing up the meteorite for the damascus....

Originally posted by mete
If you forge it you are wasting it. Meteorites are usually iron-nickel alloys with ~10-20 % nickel. Use something else for damascus. Indian george may be on to something. I recently came across a list of materials for knife handles including on e called Copralite. It was identified as petrified dinosaur do-do.

 

[RHINOKNIVES]

i don't buy no stinking sheet

 

[rlinger]

Oh come on Rhino. There's gotta be a market for a line of Do-Do kitchen knives somewhere.

 

[truck]

You have to admit, a handle made out of copralite would be a ...

 

[Keith Montgomery]

Kit, I've seen that knife before. What kind of etch did you do to get the Widmanstatten (thanks mete) pattern to look so bold?

 

[Kit Carson]

Keith,
Just got back from Trackrock.
I used a diluted ferric chloride on it.

 

[peter nap]

If you forge it you are wasting it. Meteorites are usually iron-nickel alloys with ~10-20 % nickel. Use something else for damascus. Indian george may be on to something. I recently came across a list of materials for knife handles including on e called Copralite. It was identified as petrified dinosaur do-do.

A year or so ago I bought some fossil whales teeth. I think Bruce Evans bought one too. I cut it and it was like being in a Georgia Mens room in Augest. The worst smell you can Imagine. It never got any better so I got rid of it!

Hope the petrified dinosaur do-do smells better

 

[C L Wilkins]

I got some of that stuff from a fella in West Texas. It wasn't magnetic. I guess it wasn't quite petrified yet...

Craig