Forging a Meteorite at Ardenwood Historic Forge

This is a movie of me doing the initial stage of forging a meteorite into Knife bar stock. Later I will include movies of damascing and finishing the blade. This was taken at Scott Thomas's black smith shop at Ardenwood historic Farm in Fremont, Ca.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• blacksmith
• meteorite
• forge
• forging
• damascing
• steel
• iron
• welding

[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?

[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.

[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. .

[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.

[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?

[TheKyla1981]

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

[BUSHWACKER405]

Yes, it makes sense.