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Yep, some of these should be in the next Dune movie...Space sword!
I will looky, no touchy.
I don't know, but in the video I posted, in the first few seconds, he opens a package with a slice of meteorite inside. That's what he cut his blanks from...Interesting. Does it say where he sources his iron meteorites?
Iron meteorites run anywhere from $0.50 to $5.00 per gram, which works out to $14 to $140 an ounce.
There are online places which sell meteorites, like the one below that I found:
Iron Meteorites For Sale Archives
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You’re probably right about combining different metals , or forge welding the metal together to make his knives.I'd like to see the sizes of the knives in his portfolio on his website.
A cubic inch of steel is 0.2833 pounds, or fractionally more than 4.5 ounces. If the iron meteorites were pure iron, that would be anywhere from $63 to $630 in material alone, assuming he used that amount in the blade. He would, of course, be laminating it with other alloy metals to get what he's producing (I haven't watched the video yet, as internet connectivity has sucked all day today).
A K-Bar blade runs 11.2 ounces. Shorter fixed blades would be significantly less weight, depending on length, thickness, and design.
But he's definitely got some awesome artwork skills, and that's going to command some good prices for him regardless of the material source.
Video of him making the push knife step by step...