Adam Savage Forges A Sword Out Of An Iron Meteorite

Adam Savage Forges A Sword Out Of An Iron Meteorite | Savage Builds

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3 жыл бұрын

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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@redneckpyromania6965 3 жыл бұрын

I cannot express how furious i am that this is just a promotional video and not the whole thing

@redneckpyromania6965 3 жыл бұрын

@@jimmy_flaps never once have i had success with stuff like that streaming sites yeah but never pirate bay

@robertthomas5906 3 жыл бұрын

Could be worse. Could be watching a Smithsonian vid. They do that all the time. Wow this is interesting... er what? GRRR.

@fatalbrett 3 жыл бұрын

Same here

@SharneAndrews 3 жыл бұрын

Happily pay for it... not available in australia as far as I can tell....

@christopherrhodes3228 2 жыл бұрын

@@SharneAndrews VPN is fren

@TrollDragomir Жыл бұрын

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.

@Arhpeco Жыл бұрын

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.

@joshportie Жыл бұрын

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.

@nicholasstarks3008 Жыл бұрын

other areas in Mesopotamia had iron working figured out

@BlackHoleForge 3 жыл бұрын

The only thing that upset me about this video, is that the next part of the video isn't out yet. Awesome

@AzurePain 3 жыл бұрын

Not here but it is on Savage Builds from a year or two ago on Discovery+ or other means.

@lbaker9775 3 жыл бұрын

@@AzurePain 0pp0

@tabithaalphess2115 Жыл бұрын

I guess Sokka was onto something when he wanted to make a sword out of a meteorite

@valentinoartist578 Жыл бұрын

I was looking for thus comment

@wampastompa5344 4 ай бұрын

What got me curious

@cholulahotsauce6166 3 жыл бұрын

He's really got the atmosphere in his forge wonderfully tuned; hardly any scale on those pieces at all.

@bagochips834 3 жыл бұрын

I'm willing to bet he runs a reducing flame for these kinds of projects in order to minimize scale.

@StoneDeceiver Жыл бұрын

what does this mean? can you explain pls :)

@Bubu567 Жыл бұрын

@@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).

@DarthTwilight Жыл бұрын

they may have been brushing it off between cuts

@RooSnBert 3 жыл бұрын

You make Sokka’s sword!!!!

@rhettbueker8197 3 жыл бұрын

Space sword

@windigowhispers 3 жыл бұрын

Awe me man at arms actually made sokkas sword it was a pretty cool build

@DonVigaDeFierro 3 жыл бұрын

Yes! Boomerang!! No, wait...

@wampastompa5344 4 ай бұрын

From boomerang guy to ponytail guy to sword guy

@coenistheman Жыл бұрын

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

@marhawkman303 Жыл бұрын

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.

@JonatasAdoM 3 жыл бұрын

Adam finally managed to make a space sword.

@benjaminjarrett9816 3 жыл бұрын

Uh oh, sokka’s space sword is becoming a reality lolzs

@mauricehooks320 Жыл бұрын

YYYEEESSS!!! 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎

@skoitch 3 жыл бұрын

Ancient sword makers knew what to do thanks to trial and error. What they didn’t know is why it worked!

@MrRedeyedJedi 3 жыл бұрын

I believe many ancient civilisations knew more than we give them credit for

@jetah50 3 жыл бұрын

they also had time. 1-3 months to make a sword, no problem.

@joermnyc 3 жыл бұрын

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.)

@velazquezarmouries 3 жыл бұрын

There was a belief that a certain kind of steel was produced when a ginger kit peed into the furnace

@The_Gallowglass Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@rosscoed6275 3 жыл бұрын

We call our biggest hammer the gentle persuader

@MylkT1023 Жыл бұрын

Sokka and Master Piandao would be so proud!

@loganvetsch8979 3 жыл бұрын

Buddy looks like if Ryan Stiles was a blacksmith.

@themonkysuncle Жыл бұрын

I was thinking that, then I saw your comment

@roromad9603 Жыл бұрын

its crazy just how efficient and accurate jeff's swings are. decades of practice.

@f.k.burnham8491 3 жыл бұрын

They have several meteoric iron knives at the Higgins Armorial Museum in Worchester Mass. The patterns in them are beautiful.

@DeadLog Жыл бұрын

i saw the video name and all i could think of was Sokka saying "SPACE SWORD"

@jimtalbott9535 Жыл бұрын

4:30 - why Mr Pringles neighbors just looooove him.

@Abrahaminho 3 жыл бұрын

i love how jeff is so chill

@justin9202 Жыл бұрын

Is it weird I want a metallurgy forging series with Adam Savage in it

@justin9202 Жыл бұрын

@Why So Serious? Why

@monkeydhuen2874 Жыл бұрын

I dont know what it is but seeing that man just talk is so addictive

@markgreiser464 Жыл бұрын

Finally, it is time. Send out the word. Rally the Troops.

@nathannash7136 Жыл бұрын

Watching Adam play with red hot metal and heavy power tools is very entertaining.

@randomrangoon5476 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@Tonatiuth 3 жыл бұрын

I've been waiting the Mythbusters to try this since I saw Avatar's aang

@haljohnson6947 3 жыл бұрын

Making a sword out of a metorite is like making an ashtray out of a tyrannosaur skull.

@FirehorseCreative Жыл бұрын

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! 😳😲😦

@balogh89 3 жыл бұрын

Alec Steele once tried to do this also. If I remember well, he wasn't able to make it at the end.

@HisVirusness 3 жыл бұрын

He did make a canister billet with meteorite inside. He said he was going to fold it up, but that video never happened.

@balogh89 3 жыл бұрын

@@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..

@mattnobrega6621 3 жыл бұрын

Awsome work

@doomTr41n 2 жыл бұрын

as a tig welder, i cant imagine just burning into raw meteorite, sounds fun

@friday8188 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@JustAGuyProduction 3 жыл бұрын

This is usually new game+ type of sword builds.

@bolweval 3 жыл бұрын

Well that ended rather abruptly...

@Egryn 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@mjmj997 3 жыл бұрын

How much does a meteorite of that size and variety cost roughly lol

@remen9013 Жыл бұрын

Do what the old smiths did in ancient times and turn it into steel via crucible.

@saintmatthias8187 Жыл бұрын

Every atla fan is stoked by this.

@TheeHobbyHub 3 жыл бұрын

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

@danscheid6031 Жыл бұрын

gummy?

@StormZephyr Жыл бұрын

Got pics?

@saammahakala Жыл бұрын

6:47 I believe they used inductive, deductive, abductive and analogical reasoning🤔

@denispol79 3 жыл бұрын

Alec Steel also tried couple of years ago. Unsuccessfully.

@velazquezarmouries 3 жыл бұрын

"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

@dusanradin5868 2 жыл бұрын

We need slaves then! Wannna commit?

@velazquezarmouries 2 жыл бұрын

@@dusanradin5868 the point of slaves is not committing

@dusanradin5868 2 жыл бұрын

@@velazquezarmouries I didn't mean voluntarilly....thick,much?

@northerners2828 3 жыл бұрын

I will wait the part 2 of this video.

@OlderthanIlookyoungerthanIfeel Жыл бұрын

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 .

@attasipilurtuut7361 Жыл бұрын

This could’ve been 30mins and I’d watch it all

@Goodnewsglobal 2 жыл бұрын

It would be interesting to try and replicate the Tutankhamun dagger... 🙏🙏🙏

@ArcturanMegadonkey 3 жыл бұрын

I wanted to see the finished product!

@theprodigalson4003 3 жыл бұрын

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!

@randomrangoon5476 3 жыл бұрын

Are you watching those Aussie Opal hunting videos too? Addicting aren't they

@ShadesApeDJansu 2 жыл бұрын

Cool pharaoh sword

@HOTBOYHOTFINDS Жыл бұрын

I'm sitting here drinking talking to myself about magneto from X-Men and just thought about meteorites

@thewhitecrow110 Жыл бұрын

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

@kevinbergonia5806 Жыл бұрын

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!

@bigbob1699 3 жыл бұрын

What type of tool steel ?

@AdrianJean001 3 жыл бұрын

Is there a link for the rest?

@hawkbox 3 жыл бұрын

Power hammers are awesome, I would love to have one but I can't justify putting one in my little home forge.

@jahrusalem3658 2 жыл бұрын

A sword made of meteoric rock, why does that sound familiar? *cough* Gehrman *cough*

@element-dh9dx Жыл бұрын

This looks excellent for home kingdom defense.

@randomrangoon5476 3 жыл бұрын

I call my hammer the convincer as well Adam. Gotta work with you got right 🤷‍♂️😂

@Dimensilain1980 2 жыл бұрын

in Indonesia the name " Mpu " , he made sword from meteorite too..in ancient century with hand he making sword . The javaneese sword name " Keris ."

@NoelBarlau 3 жыл бұрын

GNU Terry Pratchett

@user-sf7lv4jm4c 10 ай бұрын

The ancients were smart enough to smelt meteorites with iron sands and charcoal to smelt them into a workable ingot

@benderisgreat95able Жыл бұрын

HELLO, SPACE SWORD! :D

@beautifulsmall 3 жыл бұрын

wonderful homage to Alec

@kingjames4886 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@speakebreathe 2 жыл бұрын

I love this idea. Do you have a source for that at all?

@kingjames4886 2 жыл бұрын

@@speakebreathe not really

@marhawkman303 Жыл бұрын

@@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.

@djolley61 3 жыл бұрын

Believe me, this hasn't been running into things. The fracturing is from heating in the atmosphere.

@craigthescott5074 3 жыл бұрын

Yea that makes more sense.

@marhawkman303 Жыл бұрын

@@craigthescott5074 And also hitting the ground at high speed. :p Simply heating it can actually forge-weld the internal cracks out of existence.

@JesseHols 3 жыл бұрын

He has a nice Harrison Ford kind a vibe

@tesstickle7267 3 жыл бұрын

Hand hammers work better if you hold them lower down the handle by the way lol

@BlackSoap361 Жыл бұрын

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.

@wiesejay 3 жыл бұрын

Also it hit the ground red hot & going 18 km/s

@braydencheatham9406 3 жыл бұрын

"My space sword!"

@foxtrot570 Жыл бұрын

Sooo.... no one makes an Avatar reference with Sokka making his meteorite sword?

@ASLTheatre Жыл бұрын

I’ve been looking for such a comment but no. :’(

@leslauner5062 Жыл бұрын

Somebody is a fan of Sokka and Piandao....

@Avliv_Satan 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if Jeff Pringle likes Pringles

@colingregory7464 Жыл бұрын

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

@RTL_CSQ Жыл бұрын

Does anyone know why the power hammer bounces up and down when not engaged?

@hyperguyver2 Жыл бұрын

Terry Pratchett did this once.

@brettmacaulay397 Жыл бұрын

My interest in forging and meteorites came from the eragon series 😆

@hemalet Жыл бұрын

Sokka's sword in Avatar.

@Phant0m_Gl1tch Жыл бұрын

Sokka:👀👀👀

@alexwieland-ducher8792 3 жыл бұрын

But the question is "will it keel?"

@davienstrong Жыл бұрын

Anyone know how the sword turned out?

@spyersecol0013 2 жыл бұрын

I have a hammer I call the persuader, I need to get me a convincer!

@danielhooke6115 3 жыл бұрын

4:26 "Welcome to Earth!"

@treemover7259 3 жыл бұрын

why not smelt the meterorite into a bar to start with and then use that to make the sword

@HisVirusness 3 жыл бұрын

Because it'd still need to be carburized; no matter what, you'd still have non-meteorite metal inside.

@duckgoesquack4514 2 жыл бұрын

Wonder if the meteor was a short sword due to the metal content, or the lack or ore

@mattkemp3727 3 жыл бұрын

When Jeff Goldblum and John Malkovitch are forged together you get this guy ^

@Jesse_Golden 3 жыл бұрын

I want to see the whole process, it's been cut short

@zvehee 3 жыл бұрын

@SaltyBrains Savage Builds is the name.

@chrixthegreat 3 жыл бұрын

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?

@ryanott1407 3 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing Adam (at least mostly) knows the chemical composition of the rock, and melting it just wouldn't have worked.

@bendover9813 Жыл бұрын

You could simply infuse the meteorite with the souls of powerful animals via bones inscribed with runes to make steel.

@nam6128 2 жыл бұрын

5:50 c'mon adam...if you need time away from the wife and kids just say so 😂

@raystevens1458 Жыл бұрын

A shame we didn't see the finished product .

@Cantabile 2 жыл бұрын

As a Witcher fan I am drooling

@corvideclectica6931 3 жыл бұрын

Water-powered power hammers were in use during the medieval era.

@freedom7047 Жыл бұрын

la final et ou!!!???

@CodyRushDriving 3 жыл бұрын

Plot twist: Billions of years in the future, long after the sun has burnt out and a new star has taken its place, this ancient meteorite is once again forged into a sword, and this time, it *is* used defend a kingdom.

@torrimathews5232 Жыл бұрын

The video ends before they even have it forged!?

@alandonaly457 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@karlwschipul5079 2 жыл бұрын

whoa

@karlwschipul5079 2 жыл бұрын

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?

@George_M_ Жыл бұрын

Now imagine doing it the old meteor iron forging method - cold forging. Just hammering it forever. That's why all the pieces in Tut's tomb other than the (imported) dagger look so bad.