[TheForge] Meteoric iron - wrap it in foil

[Michael H. Murphy]

Andy,

Check your mythology and various types of fantasy fiction.  The hero very
frequently had a magical blade forged from a piece of a star.  In a book
about Jim Bowie, The Iron Mistress (a considerably fictionalized account),
when James Black was forging the first Bowie knife, he used a piece of
meteorite in making it.

So there is a very well documented precedent for using a meteorite to infuse
the magic of the gods into a blade.  Who knows -- maybe there is magic in
it.  Even if not, it's really cool to have a meteorite blade. :-)

Murf

> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:theforge-
> bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Andy Vida
> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 6:19 PM
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> Subject: Re: [TheForge] Meteoric iron - wrap it in foil
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> 
> Chuck Robinson wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> 
> 	What I don't understand about all this is why would anyone want
> 	a blade forged from meteorite when the heat destroys all the
> 	attractive visual features of the material.  I guess it must
> 	be the misguided sense of having something rare and unique, no?
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