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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I'm also sharing this project:

https://web.archive.org/web/20081113091234/http://www.elfic.fr/scrimpages/alchimie/nigredo.htm

A French blacksmith who did this knife using a meteorite and mammoth ivory.

Alchimie

Edit: a bit more details on the blade: he melted the meteorite himself, however since the meteorite did not have any carbon and had a really high nickel content or would have make a terrible steel so he added a bit of carbon and some raw iron do dilute the nickel.

Except for that the blade is entirely made from the meteorite.

[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

A French blacksmith who did this knife using a meteorite and mammoth ivory.

It's a beautiful blade, but it SICKENS me a mammoth had to be killed to make this.

BE the change you want to see ๐ŸŒŸ

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ivory comes from a lot of things, but i doubt this came from an extinct animal one that went extinct durong the fucking bronze age.

Also the ivory probably came from like a narwhal or whale or something.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's the page where the artist mentions the mammoth Ivory: https://web.archive.org/web/20081113092306/http://www.elfic.fr/scrimpages/alchimie/albedo.htm

Here's a page where you can buy some mammoth ivory: https://arcticantiques.com/

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fuck guess it was made of mammoth ivory, guess i just assumed most of it had rotted away by now. Which still shows my retardation since im very well aware there are ivory artifacts found in europe dated in the tens of theousands of years.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Don't sweat it. Until those post I had never considered the possibility of mammoth ivory being a thing. In my head, ivory is very much a modern thing, that comes only from elephants, even though I know better

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mammoth ivory is actually quite easy to find online.

There is a lot of mammoth ivory found in Siberia. Especially in the area where the permafrost is melting locals people are finding a lot of mammoth remains apparently.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some people even tried mammoth steak.

(it was horrible, get your steaks fresh)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same, and it's a long process having to kill the mammoth, drag it back, cut the ivory ... All of that for a knife.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mammoths have been extinct for thousands of years...

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Are we still doing "woosh" here?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh the calamity!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

โ™ฅ๏ธ love that