This 19-year-old is so cool. Tristan Dare is a bladesmith who has been creating knives for five years. The teenager is known for adding ancient materials to his blades.
Dare’s latest work, called Nebula, was made from a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite– and it’s exquisite. The bladesmith already has experience with working with this kind of space object, so handling one of the oldest ones ever recorded was a breeze for him. The resulting blade also has opal, gold, and an ancient wooly mammoth tooth as a handle. It’s like a legendary loot you can get from a video game!
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On Excalibur: Excalibur was of an altogether different quality- one of those rarest swords only the Outland smiths know the secret of making - a sword forged from metal that does not grow on earth, but falls out of the infinite distances of the sky, when a star dies. The iron, that if it takes a third forging and does not shatter at cooling, turns darkly blue as the sky of midnight, and has a strength and a temper to it that no other metal will blunt or bend in the striking-a blade that will hone sharp as a razor and hold its edge no matter what it bites. Now I need to read this book again.