Need a way to get the sulfur out, I recommend melting it and adding a blast of pure oxygen.

"Goodbye space sword" saddest part of the whole show

Alec: Gets 5 billion year old piece of metal from space Also Alec: *makes leaf*

"Can you forge a meteorite?" Terraria players: *yes*

Came flying through space and crashed to earth to be bubble wrapped carefully 😂

Alec; NOOOOO! Please, stop! Ahhh, it hurts! You can't/shouldn't work meteorite as is - it needs to be incorporated into other, more homogenized steel. Working with meteorite, you either need to grind it into a powder before forge welding in a canister weld, or the way traditional katanas are made, with little thin bits and pieces all wrapped up together and slooooooooooowly, paaaaaaaaaatiently, work it into a solid nugget at welding heat. Once it starts to stay together, add known steel to it and again.... slooooooooooooooowly, liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiightly, work it down till it all binds together. You literally need hours of just lightly tapping away at it to consolidate a billet that can take any kind of abuse. Only then you have a chance of making anything out of it. If made into a blade and etched, it will have a pattern more similar to wootz than damascus steel, and the contrast wont be as clear... but what the hell, you'll have a fuggen' space sword! But you'll need a high carbon edge laminated into it, because any carbon is long gone from all that heating up to welding temp. Oh, and any time you heat it up, drown that sucker in copious amounts of borax. Anyone who reads this, please upvote it, so Alec doesn't miss it before it's too late!

To forge something with that : totally melting to blend all elements together ^^

It's so brittle. I'd say the only hope of getting something solid out of it would be to smelt it and get rid of the obvious weaker metals, and who know what sort of alloy you'd be stuck with in the end. But it would be a nightmare none the less. It's very interesting though, thank you for this!

If sokka can do it why wouldn’t a trained smith could do this.

Every ATLA fan watching this: come on dont let Sokka down

I would love a collab with Cody's Lab to refine the meteorite for ease of forging but I love that you really tried to make it work with the raw material

With only having watched this one video... if you're ever able to get anymore of this material, try breaking it down into small enough pieces that it can be smelted into "space tamahagane" before forging it.

Meteorite: *Flying at extremely high speed, smashing into other meteorites, then goes through the atmosphere and smashes into the Earth* Alec: Hits the meteorite with a hammer Meteorite: *Falls Apart*

To Alec I'm 13 and I have forged my first knife. It's a Bowie mixed with a bayonet. I just want to say thank you for being my inspiration.

9:58. the laugh of pure glee when doing something you love even when it's stupid. I love this channel!

12:17 The Steele bloodline almost ended.

Alec: Lets try to forge with meteorite! 16th century javanese people: *laughs anciently*

When you play Terraria way too much

Who thought of "Avatar: The Last Air bender" throughout the video?

Woah, Alec's voice was way deeper 4 years ago

as a geologist I can tell you what the problem is, Iron meteorites have a very large crystalline structure, that's what gives it that remarkable texture when etched. to work it you need to get a smaller crystalline structure to it which means melting and reforming the material. you will also want to add carbon to make it steel and a good bit of flux to clean up the silica inclusions, what you wound up with at the end was wrought iron. the nickel and other impurities will make it an interesting alloy.

Here’s hoping that it turns into sokka’s meteor sword from avatar

have you ever thought of breaking it down like the japanese process of welding steel together for making a sword

Could you heat it up to a very high temp, super cool it in water, break up the metel into small pieces, and then melt or forge back into a metal?

Meteorite getting bubble wrapped. Meteorite:. Am I a joke to you?

I hope there’s not alien larva in there Everyone: *looks at June*

Well, first guess would be that if you want to forge it, you need to melt it down to soup first, stir it around, then pour into a mold and then try to forge some thing out of it. Kind of a conglomerate piece as in made up of all sorts of stuff that isn't mixed together well....

I would just mill it into a ring or something. Or you could try smelting it and pouring it into a mold to see if it would hold together better.

anyone else thinking of Sokka's meteorite (space) sword? 😁

Alec, you need to forge the entire piece on the power hammer, flatten it, quench it, then break the hardened prices into tiny chunks. Then stack them up and forge weld them back together, much like a traditional Katana is made. Cheers mate

his outfit and accent AND the environment gives him a cool british cowboy blacksmith feel, a strange but awesome crossover.

I know its been 5 years, but could this potentially work in a canister damascus?

I guess this officially makes your forge a Skyforge.

*_So it's a Meteor Rock made from a dying Star?? Hmm..._* *Next thing you know.* _Thor's Hammer_

Yo!! what the hell?? I've come back 5 years into KZfaq history and this guy seems older? His voice is deeper too 😂😂😂😂 I'm dying right now I wasn't ready 😭😭

It's an incomprehensible thought that this little piece of metal, is older than the planet we are on

Hi Alec, the trouble with meteor is it is essentially an iron bloom, at least it acts the same way, and must be treated the same way. It has to be compacted and welded together first, which you tried, but the reason it didn't work out is you were trying to weld it too cold. Iron and steel have far different welding temperatures, iron welds at a white heat. Anything less and you're just trying to smoosh it together by force. Cheers and good luck!

*hits it lightly with normal hammer and cracks Solution? HIT IT WITH TNE POWER HAMMER

LOL this is how I always imagined an elf kid from some Gondolin smithy, sort of youthfully giving it all to the forge with glee and a big grin and lots of passion. This channel is mesmerizing! Keep forging Alec!

If your best friend is a boomerang and the avatar while your sister can bend water, Yes

Try using the meteorite like tamahagane bloom steel and try using your hydraulic press. Watching you work the material it reminded me of what the beginning stages of what tamahagane steel looked like.

Man at arm's Sokka's meteorite sword. They use space metal to make the sword but they have the sword covered with a steel outer layer with the meteorite core

Having completely destroyed the Widmanstatten pattern, it is now impossible to prove it used to be a meteorite. Good thing you took video.

"Can you forge a meteorite?!" Terry Pratchette, from where ever he is: "...Well, I made a bloody good sword out of one about thirty years ago."

I think your best bet is to melt it down, allowing some of the impurities to burn off and letting it homogenize, then try forging the ingot

Just don't make an arrow out of it, or the things can start getting bizarre

"Can you forge a meteorite?" Makes a Meteorite spoon

Someone in the Philippines forge a meteor long time ago.This forge knife from the meteorite is very special for some reason it can increase its length and be used as a sword, He uses it to fight supernatural forces.

Alec- you have to melt the meteorite and separate the impure elements of it before attempting a forge. Get a crucible, hack it to bits, set the bits into the crucible, heat it until it melts and then trace off the waste from the top. After it cools only the metallic elements will remain and then it can be forged

Anyone here thinking of Sokka's sword?

I got my meteorite forging lessons from Billy Merrit back around ‘91. Expensive but fun.

Jokes on him, all metal on earth are as old as the earth itself

Thousands of years ago in some areas of Africa, the only metal they could find was meteorite metal. They believed that since they came from space and because of how much effort that would go into making blades with it, they believed that the blades would be able to kill demons. Just a little fun fact for you guys

Oldest things in OUR solar system...not the universe... Also worth 50c to $5 per Gram...so a 1kg (2.2lb) Iron meteorite could be worth upto $5000.

Problem is it’s oxidizing in forge. Would have to forge in oxygen less environment and flux like crazy before heat cycles. Akin to how a Japanese smith would take tamahagane and stack and wrap heat. Main problem is all the impurities, ie minerals in its composition you don’t want. Definitely need to work out sulphur. I’m just an amateur as well but imagine it might work to stack pieces and try a clay and straw wrap like the traditional Japanese smiths. I imagine meteorite steel would be close to there low quality iron they made before purifying. Maybe.

As Sokka sheds a tear... he then googles how to forge another space sword.

This guy looks like a grown up George Little off the movie Stuart Little hahaha

My dad is an Astronomer and he's mad at you for destroying the meteorite 😂

This guy: what can you make with meteorite? Terraria players: *pulls out space gun*

nice to see someone doing what i was thinking to do with a similar piece i have now i changed my mind i think i will keep it as it is

Sokka did it

You look like George from Stuart Little

Only came here for the avatar comments for sokka. Let’s see how well he does

there is a technique of putting carbon in to raw ore so it can be forged. by gently tapping between 2 slabs of wood. this is very effective.

"Im collecting meteorites for ~20 years... the biggest I found is slightly larger then a gulf ball... and this guy is abusing the biggest one I see in private hands....

@Alec Maybe it's time to add a small foundry to the workshop.

Fun Fact: The original Bowie knife was included part on a meteorite. Try sandwiching it between layers of steel like you would making Damascus.

Something cool that happened when they reopened King Tuts tomb items was that they found a knife that was apparently being held by him that has been in a box for decades. They tested the material and realized the contents of it wasn't of this planet. 🤯👌🏽👍🏽

YOU HAVE TO MAKE SOKKA’S SWORD OUT OF IT!!!!!

Should have smelted it in the foundry and then forged it.

I’ve made a sword from a meteorite had it first melted down in a furnace and cast into a ingot before starting the forging process I used the Japanese method for melting it down ie a traditional Japanese smelting furnace to proses the iron before forging it

You would think a rock made of a lot of dense metals, is praised by science, and survived the burning atmosphere and crashed without breakage would be more difficult to destroy

"It was supposed to be *V* for *VICTORY* Now it's *L* for *LOSER*

you should do canister damascus with pisces of the meteor

You have to keep up the temp to fuse the metal together on meteorites

Yes u can.. Few hundred/thousand years ago ours people Made "keris" from various irons and one of the irons is meteor stone.. Its a ancient weapon/dagger, but build with art and spiritual ritual.

It seems to me like Alec and this meteor rock is having an intense argument while forging. With every hammer blow Alec strikes it says: "BE FORGED!" And the meteor is not wanna cooperate and responds: " I have been an meteor for billions of years, you really think I am going to move that easy? But through some cozy heats and some gently hammering this man and this rock gets to know eachother. And finally the meteor accepts Alecs request and says: "Fine! I will let you forged something, go ahead and make a leaf!" Great video, this rock has a lot of character.

That meteor has hurtled through the solar system, waved at planets, sling-shotted around the sun, survived the intense heat of passing through Earth's atmosphere at breakneck speeds..just so it could become...a leaf.

Is say the reason you could keep forging the material is likely due to the much longer crystallisation time of meteors. the different colours at the start were most likely actual large metal crystals formed due to the ridiculously slow cooling time in space, so those cracks poping up the piece are probably just bonds between the crystals not actually cracks in the piece.

No need to look here, just some old cringe comment

"What you got there is a frozen chunk of poopy." Joe dirt. That was a fun episode.

SMELT IT WITH SOME COKE AND MAKE METEORITE STEEL !

i found a piece of rock that looks similar to that meteorite. it has a sort of dull metallic look to some of the surfaces, almost like graphite.

The Ancient Egyptians were able to make knives of meteoric iron in the late Bronze Age (e.g. the knife in Tutankhamun's Tomb). I suspect that the methods used required far more time, and probably more workers, than this channel (or most other KZfaq channels) could afford, though.

TURN IT INTO A SPACE SPOON

Hi Alec I would love reffering you to a video by Man At Arms where they make a Katana the traditional way (and no this is not a jab at your Katana, that thing looked effing cool and the work you put in there was simply amazing!) They make their own steel and it reminds me a lot of the meteorite cause it behaves a little like bloom steel. They go at it very slow and try folding the steel a lot of times before they go to the power hammer. (Oh for further reference in the video they make Kill Bills Katana)

Great video Alec! You're a tenacious man! I'm learning a lot from these videos, thank you sir.

is it possible that the meteorite was melted first, then printed on bars, then forged.

I'd love to see you make the Ulfberht. That'd be amazing.

Everybody: space sword Alec: GOLF CLUB

Should've smelted it . Pulled off the slag. Then get it checked metallurgically for composition. Add to it what would make it the strongest alloy possible for the desired outcome.

I'm pretty sure tutenkaman had a iron dagger made out of meteorite. So there has to be a way to do this. Plus there r other examples of meteorite iron being used for weapons thousands of yrs ago b4 the iron age. So idk.

If you could work the meteor into pieces, you can attempt the Japanese way of forge welding, putting the pieces all arranged on a sort of paddle made of the metal, wrapped in cloth and grass to keep oxides from forming on the surface, and draw it into its own billet. From there, you could then use it like a jacket if it's just Iron or a low-carbon steel, and put a high-carbon steel wedge in it to make a blade from.

"It´s meant to be V for Victory - it´s now L for Loser." When even stonecold lifeless matter gives yout the F.... Made my day. xDD

A bit of thereoretical thinking. But maybe it's able to crack because it cools down slowly. It has time to reform itself which gives time for cracks to form. (And who knows maybe this was never meant to be forged, just to be cut)

Didn’t Tutankhamen have a dagger made of meteorite? I’m pretty sure it depends on how the elements in the meteorite is arranged or the percentage of how much of each element there is.

Hey Alec! Could you do a crucible steel experiment at some point? The pattern on it can turn out insane and would make an interesting project to film and see.

swords made with "star stones" have been used as part swords in the UK for centuries. I is necessary to hammer it under heat to make fragments to stack, like making a traditional Katana would.Then stack and forge a bit at a time. Look, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gcWAhpWdmJepmIE.html , Carbonisation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gSU4k

If anything I would slice it into thin sheets and use it like a veneer of sorts.

the spotts from the etching could just also be just monster grains of single-crystal iron from cooling down slowly in the cradle of the early universe. maybe try melting it and casting it again(to remove existing cracks), then a combination of cold working and quenching it should break up the grains and start working more like material from the earth. unless it's a problem with the sulfur like codys lab says.