Adam Savage Forges A Sword Out Of An Iron Meteorite | Savage Builds
2021 ж. 16 Сәу.
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With a meteorite in hand, Adam Savage learns how to turn it into a medieval-style sword with the help of master swordsmith Jeff Pringle.
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I cannot express how furious i am that this is just a promotional video and not the whole thing
@@jimmy_flaps never once have i had success with stuff like that streaming sites yeah but never pirate bay
Could be worse. Could be watching a Smithsonian vid. They do that all the time. Wow this is interesting... er what? GRRR.
Same here
Happily pay for it... not available in australia as far as I can tell....
@@SharneAndrews VPN is fren
A little disclaimer: people had power hammers in the ancient and medieval times, powered by watermills. These were not very common though, usually it was just a couple of forge helpers with heavy hammers.
The only thing that upset me about this video, is that the next part of the video isn't out yet. Awesome
Not here but it is on Savage Builds from a year or two ago on Discovery+ or other means.
@@AzurePain 0pp0
For anyone interested, the dagger shown at 6:44 is from Tutankhamuns tomb. It is made from meteoric iron when iron smelting was rare. Ca. 1323 BC in the bronze age.
No it isn't. It's forged from iron with methods currently unknown. There's no proof of any meteorites. None. You find a rock on the ground you can't say how it got there unless someone witnessed it and recorded it. Everything else is religious belief.
other areas in Mesopotamia had iron working figured out
I guess Sokka was onto something when he wanted to make a sword out of a meteorite
I was looking for thus comment
What got me curious
He's really got the atmosphere in his forge wonderfully tuned; hardly any scale on those pieces at all.
I'm willing to bet he runs a reducing flame for these kinds of projects in order to minimize scale.
what does this mean? can you explain pls :)
@@StoneDeceiver A 'reducing flame' basically makes the environment on average starved of oxygen, usually by the presence over an over abundance of carbon based fuel. That reduces oxidation that occurs on the surface while the metal is in the forge, and ideally only starts forming after you pull it out(but it's hard to make it THAT perfect).
they may have been brushing it off between cuts
You make Sokka’s sword!!!!
Space sword
Awe me man at arms actually made sokkas sword it was a pretty cool build
Yes! Boomerang!! No, wait...
From boomerang guy to ponytail guy to sword guy
Ancient sword makers knew what to do thanks to trial and error. What they didn’t know is why it worked!
I believe many ancient civilisations knew more than we give them credit for
they also had time. 1-3 months to make a sword, no problem.
Meanwhile we lost the recipe for “Damascus steel” (it’s now well known that this steel actually came from India (aka wood steel), the western world only first found them in Damascus.)
There was a belief that a certain kind of steel was produced when a ginger kit peed into the furnace
@@joermnyc It is just crucible steel that is melted down, cooled, and then forged out. Carbon (Combined) 1.34%, Carbon (Uncombined) 0.31%, Sulfur 0.17%, Silicon 0.04%, Arsenic 0.03% Also, wootz contained impurities like vanadium, molybdenum, chromium that seem to be integral to it.
its crazy just how efficient and accurate jeff's swings are. decades of practice.
Sokka and Master Piandao would be so proud!
Uh oh, sokka’s space sword is becoming a reality lolzs
YYYEEESSS!!! 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
Adam finally managed to make a space sword.
Read somewhere that meteorite iron was humans first experience with iron, someone found a descent amount and figured out how to forge it alright, eventually thought "ok I need to figure out how to make more of this stuff" and the rest is history
also Adam comments on weight... PURE iron is stupidly heavy. Steel is much less so due to having carbon and oxygen mixed into it in carefully regulated amounts.
i saw the video name and all i could think of was Sokka saying "SPACE SWORD"
They have several meteoric iron knives at the Higgins Armorial Museum in Worchester Mass. The patterns in them are beautiful.
Buddy looks like if Ryan Stiles was a blacksmith.
I was thinking that, then I saw your comment
We call our biggest hammer the gentle persuader
Is it weird I want a metallurgy forging series with Adam Savage in it
@Why So Serious? Why
I dont know what it is but seeing that man just talk is so addictive
i love how jeff is so chill
4:30 - why Mr Pringles neighbors just looooove him.
Finally, it is time. Send out the word. Rally the Troops.
The ancients were smart enough to smelt meteorites with iron sands and charcoal to smelt them into a workable ingot
Now that's cool and I could see having to find/scavenge quality meteorites for forging in a game or movie/show like the Expanse. Wonder how much it would legitimately cost for one to purchase something like this.
"Why is this meteorite heavier than normal steel " Lower carbon content and random heavy metal inclussions "They didn't have power hammers" Treadle hammers were a thing at least since the roman era Also slaves were a thing
We need slaves then! Wannna commit?
@@dusanradin5868 the point of slaves is not committing
@@velazquezarmouries I didn't mean voluntarilly....thick,much?
He should’ve heated the meteorite and flattened it down. Then cut it into pieces and mixed it with carbon flux and the steel they wanted to use. It would have made a very beautiful Damascus Billet that would have easily accepted the heavy Nickel meteorite itself.
Watching Adam play with red hot metal and heavy power tools is very entertaining.
This is usually new game+ type of sword builds.
Do what the old smiths did in ancient times and turn it into steel via crucible.
Amazing! Meteorite is a pain to work with but it’s beautiful when you pull it off, I just finished my first meteorite project, I made a Lightsaber hilt out of a meteorite rod and turned out amazing. But machining it was a nightmare
gummy?
Got pics?
Making a sword out of a metorite is like making an ashtray out of a tyrannosaur skull.
All I can think about is all of that meteorite waste chipping and spraying all over the floor. Can you imagine how much $$$ value is on the floor of that shop? EGAD! 😳😲😦
I've been waiting the Mythbusters to try this since I saw Avatar's aang
as a tig welder, i cant imagine just burning into raw meteorite, sounds fun
Alec Steele once tried to do this also. If I remember well, he wasn't able to make it at the end.
He did make a canister billet with meteorite inside. He said he was going to fold it up, but that video never happened.
@@HisVirusness Yes, this is why I think that he wasn't able to do anything with it. But knowing that he also shows his errors and fails, it's weird that we never got a follow-up of that project..
How much does a meteorite of that size and variety cost roughly lol
I will wait the part 2 of this video.
This could’ve been 30mins and I’d watch it all
6:47 I believe they used inductive, deductive, abductive and analogical reasoning🤔
Every atla fan is stoked by this.
If you cut the meteorite up into small pieces and put it in a canister with your other metal ingredients . I believe it's called Wootz steel , that would probably work best .
It would be interesting to try and replicate the Tutankhamun dagger... 🙏🙏🙏
Alec Steel also tried couple of years ago. Unsuccessfully.
I wanted to see the finished product!
I like how you said you were terrified of the table saw I just watched some opal videos and the guy cut a huge ironstone rock on a table saw, right between his arms!
Are you watching those Aussie Opal hunting videos too? Addicting aren't they
Well that ended rather abruptly...
I call my hammer the convincer as well Adam. Gotta work with you got right 🤷♂️😂
i love how they edited the work mid-heat, you can see how lobsided the billet is at 5.14 and then it cuts to a pretty neat and straight bar. nothing but respect either way but it had me laugh
I'm sitting here drinking talking to myself about magneto from X-Men and just thought about meteorites
Power hammers are awesome, I would love to have one but I can't justify putting one in my little home forge.
Forging a sword from a meteorite! You know, there’s a 60’s or 70’s comic book hero from the Philippines who did this!
Awsome work
Amazing
GNU Terry Pratchett
I mean... historically swords breaking was an issue... I'd imagine it was less common with swords made by more experienced smiths. no one saved the ones that broke and the ones that happened to come out really well became legendary or w.e.
I love this idea. Do you have a source for that at all?
@@speakebreathe not really
@@kingjames4886 "saved" is a bit of a euphemism here. You mean left in their broken state. Their owners recycled them. Melting or forge welding a busted sword is way easier than taking ore and making a sword.
in Indonesia the name " Mpu " , he made sword from meteorite too..in ancient century with hand he making sword . The javaneese sword name " Keris ."
It would be nice if you could forge aerogel into a sword making it less heavy and so sharp but basically impossible right
A sword made of meteoric rock, why does that sound familiar? *cough* Gehrman *cough*
Believe me, this hasn't been running into things. The fracturing is from heating in the atmosphere.
Yea that makes more sense.
@@craigthescott5074 And also hitting the ground at high speed. :p Simply heating it can actually forge-weld the internal cracks out of existence.
HELLO, SPACE SWORD! :D
Cool pharaoh sword
What type of tool steel ?
wonderful homage to Alec
As soon as you start to forge meteoric metal, you lose the grain structure that is the only benefit it might have had over a terrestrial alloy.
My interest in forging and meteorites came from the eragon series 😆
Sooo.... no one makes an Avatar reference with Sokka making his meteorite sword?
I’ve been looking for such a comment but no. :’(
Is there a link for the rest?
5:50 c'mon adam...if you need time away from the wife and kids just say so 😂
Hand hammers work better if you hold them lower down the handle by the way lol
This looks excellent for home kingdom defense.
I don't mind that its an exert, what I mind is that it fails to mention that and implies in the title that it includes the end product
When Jeff Goldblum and John Malkovitch are forged together you get this guy ^
"My space sword!"
Terry Pratchett did this once.
But the question is "will it keel?"
He has a nice Harrison Ford kind a vibe
The real question here, _Will it keel?_
I want to see the whole process, it's been cut short
@SaltyBrains Savage Builds is the name.
Wonder if the meteor was a short sword due to the metal content, or the lack or ore
As a Witcher fan I am drooling
Also it hit the ground red hot & going 18 km/s
Water-powered power hammers were in use during the medieval era.
I wonder if Jeff Pringle likes Pringles
why not smelt the meterorite into a bar to start with and then use that to make the sword
Because it'd still need to be carburized; no matter what, you'd still have non-meteorite metal inside.
Why do we assume that meteorite swords were not made out of smelted meteorite iron? Is there a ancient text somewhere that said that it was only forged and not smelted first?
I'm guessing Adam (at least mostly) knows the chemical composition of the rock, and melting it just wouldn't have worked.
Does anyone know why the power hammer bounces up and down when not engaged?
A shame we didn't see the finished product .
I have a hammer I call the persuader, I need to get me a convincer!
Hey, that meteorite is from Tallahassee, not space
The video ends before they even have it forged!?
I wonder how many Jules of energy it took to make that one sword
Anyone know how the sword turned out?
Somebody is a fan of Sokka and Piandao....
Sokka's sword in Avatar.
You could simply infuse the meteorite with the souls of powerful animals via bones inscribed with runes to make steel.
to handle metal with that many imperfections and fractures, my first thought would have been smelting and casting it first to make an ingot.
honestly, that's probably the easy way.
la final et ou!!!???
His last name is Savage?
The cross section of this meteorite looks a bit like Texas
Meteorites are the reason I now know I have a nickle allergy. My brother was making a necklace and polishing a piece of iron-nickle meteorite, my whole body swelled up like a microwave hotdog.
whoa
but why do you think it was BECAUSE of the meteorite? What makes you think that the allergy was not present before coming into contact with it?
"Adam savage sticks a chunk of meteorite to a chunk of steel and uses a power hammer" is less dynamic of a title I suppose.