CAN YOU FORGE A METEORITE!? 

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

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

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

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!

"Goodbye space sword" saddest part of the whole show

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

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

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

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!

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*

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

12:17 The Steele bloodline almost ended.

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

When you play Terraria way too much

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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!

I guess this officially makes your forge a Skyforge.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

King Tut had a knife made of a meteorite. So yes, it can be forged with 4000 year old technology.

Sokka did it

Anyone here thinking of Sokka's sword?

Fun fact - every piece of iron you ever touched from earth is approximately 1.8 billion years old.

Ancient egyptains forged swords from meteorites. So yeah. Way to name the video

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

You look like George from Stuart Little

IN 2020 A BLACKSMITH DISCOVERED A METEORITE. THE REST IS HISTORY.

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

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

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

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. 🤯👌🏽👍🏽

No need to look here, just some old cringe comment

"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- 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

Every Terraria player ever wants to make meteorite bars

POV. Alec is the Terraria guy forging meteorite armor

"It should be V for victory!" 2.5 seconds later... "It's now L for loser!"

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

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

So you do realize that's just petrified doodoo from a plane?

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.

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

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

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....

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, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K_PS2l31EhM.html , Carbonisation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gSU4k

TURN IT INTO A SPACE SPOON

This mans workspace must be worth millions now, with all his goold dust and metiorite bits

Terraria: I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you

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.

Too many impurities mate, I admire your diligence, but you should have melted that thing in a crucible to eliminate some of the crap inside.

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

Anyone else think when they saw it break into pieces “just use a canister dude”

And there was a disturbance in "the Science"...as if a thousand research voices cried out in terror and sadness.

SMELT IT WITH SOME COKE AND MAKE METEORITE STEEL !

My bro tryna forge the stormbreaker here with that meteorite

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

"Can you forge a meteorite?" *Ser Arthur Dayne has entered the chat...

Sometimes you just gotta destroy 4.6 billion year old rocks, just because you can.

Well, the Egyptians did it. For the longest of time meteoric steel was the only steel available!

hes the kind of guy that would make a montage of cutting a rock

Ooohhhh....a meteorite...let’s hope it’s does not go meteorong...

I was watching this video on my laptop and my mother comes up and asks "whos the geek?" and then ask how old he is

Dude gets a meteorite and immediately forges a toothbrush

Everybody: space sword Alec: GOLF CLUB

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

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

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 RU-vid channels) could afford, though.

"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

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

Didn't an Egyptian Pharoah have a dagger of meteorite before people even used Iron? I swear there is a story on that

Asteroids are just amazon packages from aliens

based off my avatar the last airbender knowledge... yes, yes you can

Even at a paltry estimation of 4 pounds and at a median price per gram of $2.50 (USD) this iron meteorite is worth $4500 (USD)!!! I bet there are some geologists who see this and cringe!

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

Alex: i'll forge a sword out of meteorite! 16-17th Keris blacksmith: -laugh out lot-

this meteorite survived for millions of years until it fell into the hand of the little sod