Hard materials carving
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Topic: Hard materials carving
Posted By: DMiller
Subject: Hard materials carving
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2025 at 3:43am
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As with the Hard Concrete Drilling post, how does one go about 'Carving, a Iron/Cobalt/Nickel rock into a statue, in the 11th century of Tibet? Not sure anyone today can do so with primitive tooling, and NO Steel. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/carved-from-meteorite-this-thousand-year-old-statue-was-taken-from-tibet-by-the-nazi-ss-52313204/" rel="nofollow - Carved From Meteorite, This Thousand-Year-Old Statue Was Taken From Tibet by the Nazi SS
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Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2025 at 7:11am
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Patience and a lot of hard work using sharp rocks to chip away at it. Similar to the way some of my ancestors made arrow heads and spear points. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2025 at 12:38pm
| Yet this was Iron Cobalt and Nickel, we can have tough times Machining High Nickel Blocks!! Not gonna do much gouging with a Rock. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2025 at 2:38pm
| Must’ve been aliens eh? |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2025 at 3:38pm
YEP... my vote is for ET.... Not too many other options !  ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2025 at 6:47pm
| The Science stated that Tibetan Monks formed with Hammer and Chisel. HOWEVER, did not have Iron or Steel save for the Meteor in 11th century in Tibet. Did not begin fashioning Metal Prayer Idols until 13th. Kind of like the Granite Blocks in Peru, fit tight enough cannot slip a sheet of paper between and Predate the Inca or Aztec credited to have made. |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2025 at 8:59pm
SOOO............ we are back to ET !!! 
way too many things from 1000 - 2000 years ago that can NOT be explained even with todays technology.. ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 19 Nov 2025 at 3:19pm
| A great deal of it we still cannot achieve today. |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 20 Nov 2025 at 6:59pm
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We the unwilling can do the impossible in a given amount of time If you wanted it done today , you should have asked yesterday ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |
Posted By: scott
Date Posted: 24 Nov 2025 at 9:15am
| If it wasn't ET... who did it? Chiseling Nickel/Iron with rocks seems like an unlikely answer. I'd more believe the world has been inhabited far longer than science will admit. If the planet is 4.5 billion years old (google) advanced life could have 'come and gone' a couple times now. Everything would rust and disintegrate in a million years except the stonework which seems like where we are today. |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 25 Nov 2025 at 11:26pm
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It's not carved at all, there's no carving markes. To make this, all one needs, is beeswax, some quicklime or clay slurry, and a good, hot fire. ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2025 at 3:09am
| Thanks Dave. One slight variable. Not much to any clay high in Tibet mountains, no record of Clay Kiln or other mineral recovery ovens been built there. Most of the nation is above tree line where few to any bees for the wax availibility. |
Posted By: fjdrill
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2025 at 6:48am
| Imma thinking it's cast. Look inside the arms at elbows. Also, inside the what looks like rope loop below his left shin. If it was carved those would have been easy details to correct to make more crisp like the detailed cuffs on arms and ankles. Wonder what the back looks like? Might have been carried up to the Monks. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2025 at 6:54am
| No one is certain Who came up with or produced it, is not Cast as can see the raw Meteorite Base was derived from. |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2025 at 12:46am
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Something is amiss - article says the Swastika carved into - DAAA - it stands out not carved in . Someone has no idea and is making up stories . That marker on chest has been used in many parts of the world for many generations ands yet now or since 1932 to 1945 has become something else ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 27 Nov 2025 at 3:59am
| Navajo, Tibetans, Hindu and Asian religious groups all used the Swastika. World wide on a minimally populated Earth among peoples that not ever presumably met. |
Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 29 Nov 2025 at 11:41pm
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This is, without any doubt, a lost-wax casting. The metallurgy isn't by any means mysterious... wether they found it in the side of a mountain, or a divot in the ground, it's not a magic mystery metal. Contrary to your assertion, Dave, Tibet has PLENTY of bees... and plenty of valleys between the mountains. Apiary technology has been integral to their agrigulture for thousands of years, as has lost wax casting, especially bronze, has been part of the western plateau cultures since before the appearance of Buddhism... before 1200BCE. Tibet is known for bronze bells made specifically with lost-wax process. If it wasn't surrounded by other cultures' turmoil, I'd recommend a visit, but things have changed significantly since 1987... China has held a considerable grip on Tibet since then. ------------- Ten Amendments, Ten Commandments, and one Golden Rule solve most every problem. Citrus hand-cleaner with Pumice does the rest. |