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.
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.
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 🌟
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.
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/
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.
