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Old 19th November 2005, 12:57 AM   #16
Pusaka
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Actually the meteorite Iron would have to be converted into meteorite steel first and then sent to the keris worker as meteorite steel. There is no empu who has a furnace capable of doing this as they use very basic charcoal furnaces. Luckily a friend of mine has such a furnace so I intend to let him convert the Iron to steel. After all it’s only a matter of de-gassing the meteorite and adding the correct amount of carbon black, and then the impurities can be removed.
So you see it’s not as difficult as you make out. The reason why keris workers find it so hard to work with meteorites is because they are full of impurity’s, they are Iron not steel and they tend to break up when heated and are very difficult to forge. However if I gave the keris worker a lump of purified meteorite steel which will be easy to work he should have no more problems forging it then he would a common keris. So you see it not as complicated as you make out. Yes the meteorite would be expensive but that’s about all you got right
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