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here's some meteorite material for knife projects Http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051111/ap_on_sc/giant_meteorite_1
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COOOOOL!!! Thanks
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Heres one with a nice picture of it. Kinda looks like fossilized mammoth dung. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2005-11-11-meteoritediscovery_x.htm
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Hey IG,lets get it and saw it up on your band saw.I bet we could get it for $350,000.00 each.If Higgy goes in with us,that would make his share around $300,000.00 (Portuguese business math). What do ya say?
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Hey!!! Sounds good to me.bladsmth said:
We can send Higgy down to pick it up with his truck. HEHEHEHE!!! He had a little problem this past week with his truck picking up a milling machine from GrassHoppa. The wheels of it almost went through the bottom of his pickup's bed and I have got the full story yet, but he got pulled over by the police too. That's my boy Higgy. 
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No, he has a Tundra or what's left of it.
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Let's see...If I did my math right, 1400 lbs = 22,400 ounces = 635.028.8 grams.
The last I bought was running anywhere from $2 - $4 a gram for slabbed pieces. At $2 a gram it would be worth $1,270,057.60.
Some examples are at http://www.meteoritemarket.com/GNet.htm
Here are a couple of pair of folders from some of it. Sure had a pucker factor when I started sawing and grinding it
The last I bought was running anywhere from $2 - $4 a gram for slabbed pieces. At $2 a gram it would be worth $1,270,057.60.
Some examples are at http://www.meteoritemarket.com/GNet.htm
Here are a couple of pair of folders from some of it. Sure had a pucker factor when I started sawing and grinding it
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Nice knives. Who made the damascus????Kit Carson said:Let's see...If I did my math right, 1400 lbs = 22,400 ounces = 635.028.8 grams.
The last I bought was running anywhere from $2 - $4 a gram for slabbed pieces. At $2 a gram it would be worth $1,270,057.60.
Some examples are at http://www.meteoritemarket.com/GNet.htm
Here are a couple of pair of folders from some of it. Sure had a pucker factor when I started sawing and grinding it
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IG, just dip down deep and buy that one for youself. I heard on TV it's the 3rd largest ever found. Iggy, how's the Tundra doing? Ya done busted it with that heavy load, huh? Oo-o-o-w-w-w! That has to hurt, Iggy.
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Pallasites are "stony iron" meteorites that have olivene crystals in a NiFe matrix.
In NiFe meteorites, Widmannstatten patterns reflect crystal boundaries between areas of NiFe alloys and Ni exsolution lamellae, which is a fancy way of saying there is too much nickel to alloy and it forms separate crystals outside the alloyed matrix. This creates zones of little or no brittle strength. Don't expect a blade made from this material to be other than a decorative one.
In NiFe meteorites, Widmannstatten patterns reflect crystal boundaries between areas of NiFe alloys and Ni exsolution lamellae, which is a fancy way of saying there is too much nickel to alloy and it forms separate crystals outside the alloyed matrix. This creates zones of little or no brittle strength. Don't expect a blade made from this material to be other than a decorative one.