I saw this today and was wondering if anyone has heard of this being attempted by Japanese sword producers?
I did think it was a pretty neat idea, though...
http://blastr.com/2010/09/terry-pratchett-made-his.php
Thoughts?
I saw this today and was wondering if anyone has heard of this being attempted by Japanese sword producers?
I did think it was a pretty neat idea, though...
http://blastr.com/2010/09/terry-pratchett-made-his.php
Thoughts?
Gil Zepeda
Metoric iron is often used to make Indonesian weapons.
The big nickel deposits in Ontario are meteoric.
But, for the most part, FE is FE. It's what you mix with it that makes it special or not.
Joe
http://ejmas.com
Gil, there were a number of Nihonto made using meteoritic iron over the past few hundred years, & I've been working on writing a paper for about a year. I'm still collecting info & examples, & will gladly post it for anyone who's interested once I'm done...probably in another year. And I'll gladly use any info that the forum forwards to me!
Ken Goldstein
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Judo Kodansha/MJER Iaido Kodansha/Jodo Oku-iri
Fencing Master/NRA Instructor
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it'll annoy enough people to be worth the effort."
I would love to see some examples of some blades that have some meteoric content. Very cool, indeed.
Gil Zepeda
Jim Hrisoulas has a very informative article about meteoric iron and swords here ... Meteoric iron forging
Paul Smith
"Always keep the sharp side and the pointy end between you and your opponent"
Great pics, thanks, Paul!
Gil Zepeda
Hi all,
one guy posted some pictures of swords from Meteoric iron on discussion in czech sword forum...
Here are the links to his pictures:
http://forum.katana.cz/download/file.php?id=238
http://forum.katana.cz/download/file.php?id=236
http://forum.katana.cz/download/file.php?id=239
http://forum.katana.cz/download/file.php?id=237
Here is a link to the forum thread:
http://forum.katana.cz/viewtopic.php...=243&start=124
Petr Brezina
http://www.kokkidojo.cz