Since he was 12 years old, a 19-year-old American knifesmith has been forging blades. His art and vision are not little, despite his youth. He discovered how to mix priceless metals from meteors into the blade while forging them.
Bladesmith Tristan Dare is a young knife maker from Idaho in the United States. He’s been making beautiful swords for the last five years. It’s interesting to note that he frequently uses antiquated materials in his blades. Nebula (Nebula), his most recent creation, was made from one of the oldest meteorites ever discovered and embellished with opal, gold, and an old mammoth tusk.
Beginning in 2022, Dare acquired the Muonionalusta meteorite from Germany and began forging this exquisite sword with a water pattern. One of the oldest meteorites is the Muonionalusta meteorite, which is older than 4.5 billion years. It struck the planet one million years ago, had a liquid iron core, and went through four ice ages before being discovered in 1906. There are currently just around 40 fragments left in existence, and they are very expensive.Dare did not disclose how much he spent on forging the Nebula sword, but he said it cost several thousand dollars to buy the materials.
The iron crystals on this meteorite have perfectly symmetrical octahedral molecular patterns. These natural patterns often disappear during the fire-forging process, but Dare says he has found a way to keep them.
“These patterns are preserved in all the octahedral swords I have forged,” he said. As far as I know, there are less than 10 people in the world who can do this right now.”
He forges his knives at a temperature close to the melting point of steel, around 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit (1,200 degrees Celsius), combining black steel with shiny nickel to form a beautiful flowing water figure of graceful beauty.
Dare decorated the hilt with a 20,000-year-old mammoth ivory, placed several opals along the Nebula blade to represent the stars inside the “Nebula”, and added 24 karat gold to the blade. to increase the splendor.
Nebula will be auctioned in October or November. Dare hopes collectors who own this treasure will value the story behind Nebula and its beautiful materials, “making it an heirloom that will be passed down from generation to generation.”