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Topic: Hard materials carving

Posted By: DMiller
Subject: Hard materials carving
Date Posted: 18 Nov 2025 at 3:43am

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

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.

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