Katana made from 450-million-year-old meteorite @ Tokyo Skytree

[ambermonk]

http://www.japantoday.com/category/arts-culture/view/katana-in-tokyo-skytree-forged-from-meteorite

This is probably about as close as we're gonna get to a real-world legendary sword. Might even put the Hattori Hanzo sword to shame.

[th555]

It is thought that humans’ first encounter with iron was meteorite iron – before the invention of smelting, meteoric iron was already being used to to make weapons and tools, including those owned by Inuit tribes first encountered by explorers in the early 1800s.

That's pretty badass.

[MisterE]

its almost like a piece of loot youd find in a final fantasy game, but only in the game itd be able to slash down a big ass ogre in one swipe, but irl it might not be any better than a sword you can buy at walmart, who knows

[Adieu]

I need to put on my leather fedora and go hold this thing.

[Joyrex]

its almost like a piece of loot youd find in a final fantasy game, but only in the game itd be able to slash down a big ass ogre in one swipe, but irl it might not be any better than a sword you can buy at walmart, who knows

I'd like to think Walmart sells swords...

[sweepstakes]

 

its almost like a piece of loot youd find in a final fantasy game, but only in the game itd be able to slash down a big ass ogre in one swipe, but irl it might not be any better than a sword you can buy at walmart, who knows

I'd like to think Walmart sells swords...

 

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Minecraft-Sword/30961544

[Tricone RC]

Neat. Loads of ancient stuff was probably made from meteorite iron since it's so easy to work with (don't have to smelt it etc). The date sounds dodgy though, it's almost definitely 4500 million years old not 450

[triachus]

How the unboxing of the 450 million year old meteorite katana will go down like:

 

 

[popiax]

lol

[dr lopez]

not a geologist or anything but aren't minerals in our earth's crust like also super old? not sure how important age is here or anything

 

edit: anything

[Ragnar]

only thing that would make it better would be if it were just called "Heaven" with a picture of a sword on the left side

 

i.e.

 

[ambermonk]

I will admit that I haven't seen any evidence that the sword's been physically tested. It could shatter on impact with a brick wall for all we know.

[ghOsty]

I bet it gives insane boosts to dexterity and arcane damage

[YEK]

there's probably little alien cells in it which will take over the sword and make it at least 2x stronger.

[oscillik]

the picture in that article is criminally small.

[dumplings]

Yeh more pics would be awesome. 47 Ronin magic sords ftw innit.

[Guest]

[ambermonk]

the picture in that article is criminally small.

Yeah apologies for that. But Phoenix helped us out with that problem, cheers btw

[Leon Sumbitches]

I need to put on my leather fedora and go hold this thing.

 

Flol

[peace 7]

Here I am about 16 months ago:

 

 

Glad to see my new meteorite katana is finished. You pay these Japanese master craftsmen a few million dollars to custom make you a sword to IDM spec, and they take ages on that shit like a stoner doing homework. This is Japanese sword making, dude, not fucking completing an epic album to finally get you properly signed to a label.

[ambermonk]

We may never know who the smith was who crafted the Tentetsutou. Maybe it was forged in some top secret lab, or maybe it was by some hermit in the countryside.

But if anyone does know, please keep the secret to yourself.