Forging a Meteorite at Ardenwood Historic Forge

[RichardOhKaNoi]

it would be a better film if the person operating the camera would take a few lessons on operating a camera, it will greatly increase the quality of the video. no joke it will help you to become a better camera operator. i know i did. i made the same mistakes of moving fast side to side and fast zooms in and out. Zoom very slowly and pan sideways very slowly and come to stops slowly  dont zoom in and out and in and out . slowly zoom in and hold it to get a good close up then slowly zoom out. tks

[dionysusdevotee]

@RichardOhKaNoi Lol the person holding the camera is about 14.

[gstarr567]

My granddad makes hand made knives and I want to try to talk him in to making me one of these, where did you get the Meteorite, how big does it need to be and how much did you pay for it?

[gstarr567]

My granddad makes hand made knives and I want to try to talk him in to making me one of these, where did you get the Meteorite, how big does it need to be and how much did you pay for it?

[dionysusdevotee]

@gstarr567

Ebay, It depends on how big a blade you're making. I just bought one and figured "thats how big a blade I'm going to get" and about $75.00 if I remember.

[TheKyla1981]

WOW, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR. SWEET.

[BUSHWACKER405]

sorry if this sounds stupid but shouldn't you wear gloves? cool stuff though

[dionysusdevotee]

Alot of people ask that. Gloves get you burned more often/badly than no gloves.

Things can fall inside them and burn you while you try to pull them off. If you put a gloved hand against hot metal either it will be so hot that it burns through, and then you've got a burning glove stuck to your hand. Or it slowly heats the glove to hot enough to burn you.

Gloves reduce grip, causing you to lose control of what your holding. And that is much more likely to lead to burns than anything else. .

[BUSHWACKER405]

cool, thanks for the info.

[switzforge]

I'm in full agreement with dionysudevotee. Gloves are great at times, but I generally prfer to go without. The minor injuries you get without gloves heal much faster than the ones you get with gloves. And gloves around rotating machinery can cripple a hand in an instant. Don't get me wrong, gloves do have a place in my shop, but they are only for special times

[BUSHWACKER405]

Yes, it makes sense.

[Rich5578]

@switzforge you get used to the bits of scale that land on your hands and forearms. If you get a burn you can 'burn it out' by holding your hand close to the fire, hurts like hell but stops hurting quickly rather than a burn that goes on for a few days.

[boredism07]

you don't seem stupid for asking. as most people would assume that we should wear gloves (us being blacksmiths in general. but if our tongs are long enough we don't need them. and hammering with a glove fatigues the wrist and forearm quickly, making it harder to continue working. it's the same concept as running without shoes or socks on. try it sometime and you'll notice you can go a lot further than you would be able to go with socks and shoes on.

[AnfoMerc]

NEAT. I am trying a small scale meteorite art project with etching. I know in grinding on them with a grinder, one has to take care not to recrystallize the iron and nickel by over heating. It looks like this would work great though! Forging meteorite into magic weaps!

I am also a buyer/seller on ebay

[gswiaczny]

I heard that Inuits on Greenland were forging meteorites thousands years ago! That was probably first tribe ever, who was using a kind of metal to make tools and weapons. Cool video :)

[dionysusdevotee]

Yeah, I know, I just said the wrong country for some reason!

[stelenes]

Your meteorite is not from Venezuela. You are confused with a (not meteoritic iron, but rather meteoritic stone) that was said to have killed a cow in Venezuela named Valera. Your meteorite is from Argentina and is called Campo del Cielo.