Difficulty’s in working with meteorite as a pamor material

Rick · 17th March 2006, 06:05 PM

Well said Andrew .

I had no problems with Purwa's first paragraph ; but the second , personal part does not fit Mark's demand to "drop it" .

Everyone ; speak plainly , in English with no innuendo please .

Jeff Pringle · 18th March 2006, 05:15 PM

One more thought on e.t. vs. terrestrial material; Meteorites contain more Iridium than earth materials, and you could probably do a spectrographic analysis to detect that material without doing any more damage to the blade than a restoration cleaning.
These days, of course, store-bought Iridium could be incorporated into a blade, but it would probably be as much expense & trouble as using real meteorite and not give you the right trace amount, so I don't see deliberate fakers going down that road.

17th March 2006, 06:05 PM	#1
Rick Vikingsword Staff Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 6,376	Well said Andrew . I had no problems with Purwa's first paragraph ; but the second , personal part does not fit Mark's demand to "drop it" . Everyone ; speak plainly , in English with no innuendo please .

18th March 2006, 05:15 PM	#2
Jeff Pringle Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 189	One more thought on e.t. vs. terrestrial material; Meteorites contain more Iridium than earth materials, and you could probably do a spectrographic analysis to detect that material without doing any more damage to the blade than a restoration cleaning. These days, of course, store-bought Iridium could be incorporated into a blade, but it would probably be as much expense & trouble as using real meteorite and not give you the right trace amount, so I don't see deliberate fakers going down that road.