METEORITE and DIAMOND used to Make the Coolest Knife Ever!

[Music] [Applause] [Music] guys guess what we got patrick adair in the house literally my house i'm patrick adair i make rings out of cool interesting exotic materials my company's called patrick and air design so i make videos here on youtube so we wanted to make a knife out of some exotic materials patrick being the connoisseur that he is of exotic materials thought he'd be perfect to team up with so show us some stuff you you brought some cool stuff yes because we're gonna make some cooler stuff out of it this is meteorite this is muwani on elusta meteorite right now it looks kind of plain and dull but don't be fooled when we're done with the knife we're going to etch it in acid and it's got some amazing patterns that take millions of years to develop and are impossible to fake it's an amazing material we're gonna see if it can make a decent knife as it is though i tested a piece that i had and we can test it again to see if this is the same as what i had yeah it was showing up on the rockwell scale at 30 which you know a really good stainless steel or a high carbon knife you could probably get up to 60 maybe even 65 if you're really trying to get a hard blade 30 is that sounds like it's a lot softer but you also should keep in mind that like mild steel the stuff you're going to buy from home depot or whatever that's like a negative sign this knife is going to look spectacular function is secondary secondary a lot of time all right yes and we've got some other cool stuff over here just uh yes so i do a lot of inlays in a lot of my rings these are all the ingredients to create my stardust ring inlay we're not exactly sure what we're going to do for this uh knife yet planning's still to come i decided to bring all of these along with me this is aqua glow powder it glows in the dark this is crushed yellow opal and this stuff looks so cool up close so vibrant that's what gives it the overall stardust design is very monochrome gray muted and so that i wanted to give it kind of a spark color and that's what this does perfectly and then moonstone um it adds a really cool it's like a mostly see-through stone it gives it a really cool depth and also moon in the name so you know you know that space vibe going on and then this right here meteorite shavings okay same type of meteorite yes same exact types of meteorites so we save all the shavings it's such a precious material so it's going to kind of dye the whole thing this charcoal color without having to use any pigments at all and then right here these are uncut natural diamonds these are some these are some pretty good ones so we're going to figure out what we want to do here yeah we need to figure out what shape and kind of knife we want to do we need to choose a knife shape so i've got a box of knife shapes i've done before some of them i haven't even done before but these are all options well we don't have unlimited meteorite so we're gonna have to pick something that we can make work with what we've got yes now here's something to think about with meteorite it's all very angular and edgy so do we want to match it with a more of an angular something that yeah i like that this is this is pretty angular the tonto blade that's certainly something that's pretty cool got a few good options good let's whittle it down to these two they have wider blades which again i think is going to highlight the meteorite more you're going to have more blade visible to see what that's looking like yeah and i think that's going to be a good thing that's the design there should we do it i like it cool before we cut this shape out i want to do a test and make sure we actually can weld the meteorites so got a bar of 1095 knife steel here which is you know carbon steel it's probably about as close as we're going to get to this stuff without just going welding steel from home depot yeah and so this fits up nicely i think we can just clean up both sides so they're ready to be welded and take this up to the welder and test how well that's going to bond great how's that look well we've got some tests to do but so far it looks welded you know what i'm thinking meteorite hatchet [Music] well i guess we're part of the way there maybe start with the knife and move on to the hatchet later if it works well all right let's go uh grind this a little bit and see what kind of meetup our two metals made yes [Music] i think it's connected i think it's definitely connected enough at least yeah and it could be a really really good connection i don't know i'm not trying to stress test until it breaks but it's holding i think we can make a knife out of this and maybe don't try and chop any logs with this yes but i think it works great weld it to the meteor that is really good news all right so now we can start cutting the shape of the actual blade out of the piece of meteorite that we're going to use all right before we weld things on i think we're going to want to surface credit and try and get the meteorite down to about the same thickness as our 1085 okay so at this point yeah let's grab the angle grinder and start wasting your meteor no way geez this is this can be sad to watch but worth it all right let's do it [Music] [Music] start off with just enough to kind of blanket the surface lightly we'll add more if we need it go ahead and sprinkle it in and see how it's looking gonna go all over the place because this isn't necessarily mixed super well it's hard to get these two dissimilar materials to mix so we're gonna mix it time for the diamonds because we want diamonds at the bottom we're putting these in now before we add any more resin now the moonstone is extremely subtle but it does it does have a nice effect that it does add so all right as a finishing touch some extra meteorite shavings the reason for this is because the other ones that are mixed into here they're kind of covered in a lot of the other materials and the shine doesn't come through super well so this will give it its chance to literally shine this is easy to apply just nice and easy all over the whole surface all right that should do it there's a metallic sheen to it that it definitely did not have before i like that love it okay wait for this to cure perfect awesome so we uh we did that first layer where we put all the cool stuff in there made it look really nice let the epoxy cure and then yesterday i added another thin layer on top of that to give just a nice clear coat it looks great you can see right down through the new layer of epoxy because it's just crystal clear stuff and i am amazed at what that does to the opal ah there you go box you've served your purpose technology these days i'm just gonna get thumb prints all over our resin's now been sanded down it's a much better shape and we have a good sense of how thick it is but i don't think it's fully cured i added a second layer on top of it just last night and it's really a 24-hour cure resin so it hasn't had that yet and we really want it to be as hard as it can get so we're going to throw it in a low temperature toaster oven for an hour so it really let that resin harden up all the way all right so while the the resin is in the toaster i've been hardening we said we're gonna get ready and cut this and then we got distracted by making the handle for a bit so now we're actually gonna get to cutting this that cuts so much more easily than a stainless knife steel interesting it looks like you're totally fast relatively [Music] made a lot of good progress with the angle grinder there so normally i would jump right to using the belt sander to try and take it down all the way to the rest of the profile but this is thicker than we want the final knife to be and i'm thinking that i should just put it on the surface grinder and grind it down to the thickness we want before i get all the contours and the rest of the profile shapes in okay i gotta wonder how many knife makers have made this exact pun making good progress but we've barely scratched the surface it's a burden being hilarious walked in this room with you guys all day long surface grinding it has uh brought out some interesting details in the metal any little crystals some inclusions little crystals but we also have some cracking in a few spots and it'll be interesting to see how that plays out bevel i added to both the meteorite and the bar stock are so that when i weld it the weld is going deeper into the metal that way when i grind the top off i still have a lot of good connection and just more welding surface area in general [Applause] that's right i can do top down mig welding i've ground the weld down on one side and redrawn the profile of a knife you can see i've left the weld on the other side still just looking at the difference it's a pretty good weld i do have a couple little gaps in there since we have to now cut the profile of the handle out i'm going to want to make sure i get edge weld the process for cutting out the handle is the same thing that we're doing with the blade part of it we're going to use the angle grinder for cut large bits out with that and then we'll clean it up on the grinder [Applause] got the general shape ground in looking really good now i'm just in the process i i lost all of my lines because that's what happens from all the heat and putting in the water and stuff i'm just retracing over everything to get the final grind in but it is looking very good so far i'm really happy with how it's turning out and we may not have to do any more welding after all got a little notch and i do have an attachment on the grinder that i could probably use to put that in but i'm going to see how it goes using a hand file now i've never hand filed media right before [Music] all right you uh i recommend we throw this in the toaster oven and this is so much better now yes nice and uh run hard you can even hear it it's no longer able to dig a thumbnail into it so we've successfully cured it and i think it's time we start cutting this out and gluing up the different pieces that we're going to have for this handle so we're talking about this is gonna be like the main body of the back of the handle on the front part of the handle we're just gonna have a little bolster area we're gonna be using this blue micarta and you're pointing out that's gonna go really nicely with the blue prevalent color that's fantastic [Music] excellent you can see you know these borders really help you visualize how it's going to look finished [Music] you're like hmm okay i've never done the grinding of a knife blade made of meteorite before so it's the first time forever [Music] right now we want to do the etch which involves putting the whole knife or all of the meteorite portion of the knife in acid and we want to make sure that we've got a container that will hold all the acid and the knife but isn't gonna you know we don't want a pot we don't have that much acid so we want something that fits the knife fairly well but will allow it to be submerged all right it's etching time this is the funnest bestest part of the whole thing in my opinion we've got the knife ready to go it looks beautiful by the way thank you and we've got it perfectly clean wiped it down with alcohol and set on a fresh nitrile glove now over here our acid workstation everything this is denatured alcohol in a taco bell cup we've got nitric acid over here about 70 percent concentrate then a beaker to measure it out in and then of course for safety baking soda we've got the window open and some ventilation going goggles on gloves on this is some scary stuff also does the acronym always add acid so we put the alcohol in first we add the acid to that that is how to do it safely nitric acid can pop and spark and smoke and get in your eyeballs you don't want to mess with it now we've got this little container that is 25 milliliters and the ratio we're going for of denatured alcohol to nitric acid is nine to one and 25 milliliters times nine is point nine nine cups so one cup to one little beaker is almost exactly perfect for this ratio exactly perfect i'll do my very best to get 0.99 yeah don't don't fill it quite all the way back it off one percent go back that off now i don't trust that measuring cup to pour well so we've got a large funnel so it no longer will matter i suppose we could have just filled it 100 and counted on one percent evaporation this is true [Music] and you're saying now we hope that as we add 50 milliliters of nitric acid we don't get too much heat yes yes we want to do it nice and carefully and slowly now before we get started on that let's mix up some baking soda solution and clean down the work surface all right we're ready to go let's make some magic watch it happen [Music] [Music] you can see it's starting to react it gives off a little bit of a shimmery yellow in the water yeah there's a shimmer it looks kind of like there's warmer water around it yeah yeah oh there is like yeah it's yellow and brown all right let's look yep it's good oh we are good wow oh my gosh that's so pretty wow oh oh man that's gonna be like the coolest looking blade of all time that has ever been made into a blade famously in the tomb of king tut was found a knife with an iron blade and after a chemical composition of it they're fairly certain that that iron came from meteor that and the fact that the egyptians weren't doing iron working at that time so a meteorite knife has been done before but they didn't have nitric acid to bring out the effect and i don't know if the meteor they were using even had this crystalline structure this is muanyanolesto meteorite is this particular pattern kind of it's unique to that in my opinion the absolute best pattern of any meteorite and so there aren't universal like every meteorite everything's different you can identify it even visually based on the pattern if you know what you're doing all right we've been etching the blade for what 10 15 minutes something like that yep about 15. i believe it is done check this out wow i can't believe how good that looks oh my word it's so precisely made yet so intricately and like organically shaped with these patterns yeah such an interesting look i think the tonto shape really it it goes with it yeah we've got the angles perfect wow and i oh man it's fascinating to see like the different solid like larger areas of patterns because we have like we have some darker lines we have some lighter lines and then we have some areas that have some horizontal lines that are very shimmery yes now we're just going to neutralize this using the ammonia yes and the ammonia smells so good it turns like blue green things you shouldn't do without the gloves this now after we've neutralized it we just rinse it in normal running water works [Music] i've got the front shaped but i really want it to pop i want it to look really good so now i'm going to sand it and i've got a pack of sandpaper that goes from 320 grit up to 12 000 grit i'm gonna work my way through all of those on these front edges and bevels that i just put in and then i'm gonna hit it on the polisher just to get it really nice and clean and shiny looking i'm gonna end up doing that same thing for pretty much the entire handle after it's attached to the knife [Music] working our way up through that 12 000 grit sandpaper we've got a very nice uniform finish here and we're just going to try and bring out a little bit of shine on the buffing wheels [Music] [Applause] wash all the polish off and we can take a close look at that [Music] now we're at this point it's time to split the scales apart and actually glue them onto the knife i want to rough this surface up quite a bit to make sure that the glue is going to do a really good job of sticking but then i'm just going to mix up some five minute epoxy and attach to the knives [Music] [Music] after making sure we've gotten all the extra epoxy cleaned off where we don't want it to set we just have to let this cure for a bit and then it's time to come start shaping the handle the glue is cured time to get onto shaping the rest of the handle i am loving how this looks and we're getting pretty close just got a little bit more to get us all the way through so we're gonna head back to the grinder after taping up the knife to protect the blade and shape that handle to how we want it this profile is looking great we're gonna get shaped and then we're gonna go back to smoothing it out getting it nice and polished so you can really see all of the amazingly cool stuff we've got in the handle [Music] [Applause] we got the handle on and cleaned up and polished and it is looking so good the home stretch patrick lee this thing is the best part we gotta put an edge on this we gotta make it sharp as sharp as meteorite can get out of this world sharp ah which uh ironically isn't that sharp yeah well no it'll be sharp it should be sharp it just will probably hold that edge as well as a goodness you just got to be careful use it sparingly this knife will treat you right [Music] [Music] the meteorite knife is complete look at that handle man that is so cool come on oh there we go okay it's not bad it's so fun now again this is not going to see a lot of heavy use yeah look at that okay now this other side isn't as charged up it just needs a second literally two three seconds in direct sunlight [Applause] [Music] boom there it is this is still a fairly bright room so really not seeing the ultimate kind of room illuminating power with that glow powder [Music] what i love about the glowstone material just the natural look it has all of the natural real stones items we put in this leave you with a very kind of like a granite look to it that is the whole goal behind glowstone are trademarked stuff is to just make an organic looking amazing material it looks like it could totally be a natural occurring rock but it just glows in the dark this has been one heck of a cool project patrick thank you so much for coming and uh supplying the world's most amazing knife parts supplies well it was my pleasure and i can't thank you enough for just this craftsmanship it is so beautiful glad you're happy with it i am now i am thrilled with the final result of that well great well thank you very much i actually have a gift for you as well this is the stardust handle here's the stardust ring very cool now that's just kind of a sample ring i've got one for you and one for keith the cameraman thank you but we'll get your size figured out and we'll get you your own custom startups cool look and obviously it's it's this look it's just a ring shape it's a micro pattern yes brilliant guys if you are not aware patrick adair makes the coolest rings probably in the entire world uh patrick where should i be sending people to watch your stuff patrick the bear designs right here on youtube there you go go check him out find the coolest rings ever go to his website look at the amazing rings and if one of them grabs your fancy you should get it thanks for watching guys guys i absolutely love making videos like this i hope you've enjoyed watching this your support means the world to me and of course a special shout out thank you to all of my supporters on patreon if you're interested in joining patreon to help support making more videos like this one the link for that is down in the description we'll see you next time [Music]

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Published: Wed Apr 06 2022