[TheForge] Meteoric iron - wrap it in foil

[Chuck Robinson]

The meteorite I use that forges pretty well is GIBEON.
 I find it every so often on Ebay.
There are  a lot of meteorites, with the wrong composition, that will not
forge.
You need to identify the source.
Chuck
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From: <MRScherm at aol.com>
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Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 7:12 AM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Meteoric iron - wrap it in foil


> After about a dozen attempts at getting an iron meteor to stick together
when
> hammered, I wrapped it in stainless steel foil, the stuff sold to wrap
tool
> steel before heat treating to avoid scale from oxidation.  Heated the
package,
> forged it and ground off the stainless.  The knife that I made from it was
> very soft and good for conversation mostly.  Oh, and I also made the
mistake of
> pickling the blade in nitric and it ate a hole right thru in a couple of
> places, I assume because of the non-metallics (crud) that was also in the
meteorite.
> Mike Schermerhorn
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