13th November 2005, 02:53 PM | #1 |
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The ultimate meteorite Keris!
There is one thing I would love to try with regards to keris. Have you ever tried to make a keris from just Meteorite steel. Now remember the difference between steel and Iron, I know it is common to make a keris using Meteorite Iron but what about meteorite steel? First you would need a furnace which can produce very high temperatures. Get a large good quality meteorite and sand blast the surface to remove all the outer impurity's until the meteorite is shiny. Now you need to find out what percentage of the meteorite is Iron. Melt the meteorite down and add a calculated quantity of black carbon to the melt and cap it. All the impurity's will come to the top, remove it and what you will have left at the bottom is pure Meteorite steel, not Iron.
Take this steel and make a keris with it adding nothing else. As far as I know this has not been done before because you will need a special vacuum furnace to de-gas the melt but I have been talking to western metal experts and they say it is possible as long as you select the correct Meteorite to start with. Imagine that, a pure meteorite blade :-) I would love to make it, want to help me!!! lol |
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