I forged an ancient meteorite into this…

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Here's a process showing how I reveal the pattern in this blade forged from thousands of layers of alloys fused together to create this pattern, in which the acid exposes the intricate damascus steel pattern I forged with a 4.5 billion year old meteorite iron integrated into the blade.

The meteorite iron I used is Muonionalusta meteorite iron that comes from near the small village of Kitkiöjärvi, which was discovered in 1906. It has survived nearly 4 ice ages, and is dated to be one of the oldest meteorites ever recorded. Dating to be older than the Earth itself, it comes from a planetoid that was once apart of the parent body of our solar system.

Meteorite iron, naturally, is a very brittle and fragile iron. The reason being is partly due to its high impurities content, with little to no carbon or manganese... To combat that, I essentially needed to find a way to forge this blade with meteorite, whilst still maintaining a strong, durable and sharp integrity of the blade. To do this, I used high-carbon steel 15n20/ 1084, which I forged and crafted the layers of the damascus steel (or pattern-welded steel) into a mosaic pattern that would look very organic, whilst still preserving the natural Widmanstatten structure of the meteorite. This structure is the crystal formation of the meteorite iron molecularly separating the iron from the nickel, formed from cooling over billions of years in the vacuum of space. This pattern cannot be replicated by any technological process in our lifetime, and our main goal was to preserve this to be as natural as possible.

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