[meteorite-list] Re: Odd uses for meteorites - Not

From: Daniel H. Fronefield <dfronfld_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Aug 9 11:14:24 2006
Message-ID: <1155136460.44d9fbcc96ba5_at_webmail.hiwaay.net>

Yes, meteorite can be forged and I along with many others have made it happen.
I usually have to flux extensively, work slowly at first (very light blows to
consolidate the mass), fold many times and as noted, "squirt" out the
impurities. Not something accomplished easily by someone who has not done any
forge welding previously. My main point was that the widmanstatten pattern
disappears at forging temps ... actually well before reaching forging temps.
The person looking for the Gibeon bars would be better served using a single
Gibeon mass of appropriate size, forging, folding, forging ... and then
drawing it out to the length wanted and then shaping into a circle.

Dan

Handmade Knives by D. Fronefield
"Specializing in Meteorites and other exotic materials"
http://hiwaay.net/~dfronfld
Received on Wed 09 Aug 2006 11:14:20 AM PDT