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Gustav Thane
Sweden
Приєднався 7 гру 2012
Melting the land - Sand Ash Clay & the beauty in Wood Fire
This is the forest of my childhood. A small piece of this paradise becomes the glaze of five ceramic tumblers. Sand, wood ash and clay are the only ingredients needed to make an amazing glaze. And that’s what this place is made of. I dug up this rusty sand when building a wood kiln for ceramic's firing.
5 % of the local clay, 25 % of wood ash and 70 % of the rusty quartz sand I found here makes up the glaze. I’ve made two glaze tests, testing ten different recipes. The ones with more than 20 % clay turned out to boil on these temperatures and can therefore not be used for a glaze. The glazes with 40% ash or more can not be used because they run too much. But the ones with a lot of ash also brings out the red colors of the Iron sand. Clay in small amounts stabilize the glaze. The rust colored sand is probably quartz silica with a little bit up rust in it. Either from a long time ago when the ice age lake filled this area… or 150 years ago when the blacksmiths who lived here used the ash from their forge as a fertilizer on the meager quarts silica.
The lowest parts of the kiln were at cone 8 and the the middle of the kiln were at cone 11, approximately 1300˚C, 2370˚F. I don't know how hot the top was but I know it was warmer than cone 11. The fire was running for a total of 22 hours and the final two hours were only fed with fine cut wood, pine wood thinner than a square inch in cross section.
The story is told in pictures and words. This is the first video I publish with a voiceover. I’m still trying to find my voice and the coming videos will be experiments of other formats to tell a story. There will be video soon about the clay work with the tumblers I glazed here. The process of building the kiln and the firing it are also in the making. I hope to get the opportunity to keep making videos like this in the future as well. Please like and subscribe if you want to make that possible. If everything goes as planned there will be further videos in October of this year. And one day I hope to build an actual forge here, with the trees grown and cut at this place.
5 % of the local clay, 25 % of wood ash and 70 % of the rusty quartz sand I found here makes up the glaze. I’ve made two glaze tests, testing ten different recipes. The ones with more than 20 % clay turned out to boil on these temperatures and can therefore not be used for a glaze. The glazes with 40% ash or more can not be used because they run too much. But the ones with a lot of ash also brings out the red colors of the Iron sand. Clay in small amounts stabilize the glaze. The rust colored sand is probably quartz silica with a little bit up rust in it. Either from a long time ago when the ice age lake filled this area… or 150 years ago when the blacksmiths who lived here used the ash from their forge as a fertilizer on the meager quarts silica.
The lowest parts of the kiln were at cone 8 and the the middle of the kiln were at cone 11, approximately 1300˚C, 2370˚F. I don't know how hot the top was but I know it was warmer than cone 11. The fire was running for a total of 22 hours and the final two hours were only fed with fine cut wood, pine wood thinner than a square inch in cross section.
The story is told in pictures and words. This is the first video I publish with a voiceover. I’m still trying to find my voice and the coming videos will be experiments of other formats to tell a story. There will be video soon about the clay work with the tumblers I glazed here. The process of building the kiln and the firing it are also in the making. I hope to get the opportunity to keep making videos like this in the future as well. Please like and subscribe if you want to make that possible. If everything goes as planned there will be further videos in October of this year. And one day I hope to build an actual forge here, with the trees grown and cut at this place.
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To “close” the land is a 1000 years old tradition, to fend a garden with a fence, a Gärdes-gård. The fence is not brought here, it is grown here, erected in a matter of days, preparations were the real work, taking palace for almost a year. This land is by the border between West Gothaland and Småland (Sweden) and this model of pole fence is sometimes called a Smålandsgärdsgård or långgärdesgår...
Bush Craft Fire Striker - from scratch in nature
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You need tools to make tools, materials to form, steel to make a fire striker, fire to forge the steel. But the fire to forge a fire striker cannot be lit with the fire striker. The fire striker therefore cannot exist in the first place. This is a chicken and egg paradox, what came first? Obviously, the egg came first, since chickens derives from less evolved egg-laying vertebrates… or was it G...
Blacksmith's hammer - Forged in nature using simple tools
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You need tools to make tools, a hammer to forge a hammer. My first hammer was a stone. I used the stone to make a hammer. Now I use that hammer to forge another hammer, one of higher weight and precision. Weight is of importance when forging heavy stock, heavy weight enables the force of a hammer’s blow to press through the full dimension of the stock. I do not have a hammer heavy enough yet, n...
Forging a drift in nature using simple tools
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You need tools to make tools, a hammer to forge a drift, a drift to forge a hammer. Any tool can be the first tool, but this is a second tool process. When I forged the first hammer I had no drift, no punch, no knife and no metal tongs. I used stones and sticks and the outcome was a result of that. That first metal hammer was a lot better than a stone, but not as good as I would have liked. The...
Flat tongs
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You need tools to make tools, a tongs to hold the tongs to hold the tongs. This is my third generation tongs and as such, the first proper flat tongs made in this project. This time I had metal tools to forge it, not just stones and sticks. Metal tools gave me the possibility of punching a hole and rivet. This could be where the journey ends. The tongs are identical to contemporary forging tong...
Making a poor mans plane while using poor tools
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You need tools to make tools, a plane to make a plane, the first plane though cannot be planed (made flat), the next plane is more plain, good planes are plane planes: planes made using planes. I used axes and chisels forged with a stone for hammer. I do not use poor tools because I am a poor man myself. But I am interested in beginnings. The story I dive into concern the hand-made, tool-tools ...
How to make a knife using simple tools
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You need tools to make tools, I’ve got a tool chest to fill up. This season we explore a third generation of tools. The first tools were made by hand in natural materials: stones and stick. The second generation in metal using stones and sticks and now that tools can be used to make even better tools… tool-tools if you will. This time I made a knife, hafted it in cherry wood and used it to make...
Pine tar from scratch - How to make it using simple tools
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This is a rather unusual way of making tar these days. It is also a way of making tar of a higher quality than you’d buy in the store. This is brown tar, or should I say reddish brown, with a higher resilience to water, ampler then black tar and on woodwork far more beautiful if you’d ask me. It is made from pine root in a tjärdal (tar ditch kiln) as tar has been made in Sweden for at least a t...
Brush made of human hair
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The forest project is coming to an end. The wooden chest is full of tools and need little more than a coating to be done. Still there is at least one more tool to be made; a brush to apply the tar coating the chest. Throughout this series I have had metal and a fire, no hunting license, no other materials but the nature itself and no hand tools but the ones made. The tools made in this series h...
Primitive sheaths made of bark
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The responsible tool-user take care of the tools; make sure they do not rust, blunt or brake before their time is nigh. Making a tool chest was part of such an endeavour but edged tools cannot scramble around in a box without blunting… hence the sheaths. Working bark is one of the most surprisingly fun crafts I have encountered throughout this series and in some cases it works and looks really ...
Making a tar kiln the old fashioned way
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Tar can be found in any sort of fat wood but getting it out of the wood, enough to coat a wooden chest, can be a bit of a venture. Previously I have sometimes made tar using a large bucket or sheet metal to guide the tar to the correct place and to keep the fire out. This is my first attempt to make tar without such devices. All I have to begin with are the tools made in previous videos and the...
Mästermyr chest part4 assembling
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Eventually it is time to assemble the Mästermyr chest. The pieces are ready and prepared and all the tools needed have been created. When the tools are placed in the chest I think of it as a tool chest… the wood just needs to dry up a bit. I kept the boards uncut as long as possible until the last moment just before they are coated with tar. In the last picture the tar pile/tar ditch is running...
Making a nail header + nails for the Mästermyr chest
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Nails are trickier to forge than you’d think, in order to make it as simple as possible I prefer using a nail header, this is one way of making such a tool. A nail header is normally hardened and given cone-shaped holes with the smaller ends facing upwards. Apart from that it can be and have been made in many other ways as well. However, this pattern was used a thousand years ago and is still s...
Making a saw off-grid using primitive tools
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You need tools to make tools and other tools to work wood. At the moment I am making a wooden tool chest and got curious of saws. I have never made a saw before and I could do without one, the axe is sufficient for most wood work, but now that I have a primitive file, chisel and steel hammer a saw feels like the next step… And even if I do not need the saw I could certainly use one, It would be...
Making a saw file off grid, the whole process
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Making a saw file off grid, the whole process
Making a Mästermyr chest off-grid part2. Assembling the boards
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Mästermyr hinges made off-grid using stones for tools
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Mästermyr hinges made off-grid using stones for tools
Making a Mästermyr chest off-grid part1
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Making a Mästermyr chest off-grid part1
Mästermyr drills made off-grid using stones for tools
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Mästermyr drills made off-grid using stones for tools
Making a 16 mm wooden board from a log using hand axes
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Making a 16 mm wooden board from a log using hand axes
Tool maintenance and the simplest mallets made
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Tool maintenance and the simplest mallets made
Making a bush craft plumb bob & line
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Making a bush craft plumb bob & line
making a 90˚ corner log dog using stone tools
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making a 90˚ corner log dog using stone tools
Re-steeling the axe after cutting frozen pine
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Re-steeling the axe after cutting frozen pine
Hm... yup. That looks like Sweden alright.
@@PackthatcameBack Sure is, 🫡
You've got all that steel. Make a proper hammer and some tongs....
@@andrewgarrett76 i did, keep watching.
Thanks for NOT including a bunch of "selfie stick face time" wherein you ramble on and on and pretend to be an actor and/or a comedian. it's REALLY sad how so many channels think that 1990's discovery channel shtick is the only way. On the otherhand; I'm guessing the entire sequence where the sheets of bark- wood were made was lost?
@@someguydino6770 you are welcome. Thak you for letting me know. Most people who comment ask for more talk. Actually, all that bark and woodwork is in part one. The video called something like 'making a wood kiln' on my channel.
The wood in the roots and nearby areas is way richer in resin. If you use that part of the tree, you will get a better yield.
Thank you for the tip. Check out part one to see where I got the wood from. ua-cam.com/video/lq7H_je0VPY/v-deo.htmlsi=ZUFeopalc0PcTVKz
Make a video about your forge
Are you referring to the forest forge or the real forge? I believe a lot of videos are made about the forest forge.
are the mix ratio by weight or volume ?
@@khalidoubihi8657 by weight. It is allways by weight in glaze recipes. And without water. It does not work to follow a recipe of minerals in volumes.
@gustavthane2233 Thank you
Very informative. If you don't mindme asking, how much tar (in litres) did you get from this burn?
@@philsharp758 I think I wrote the number in the description... something less than two litres but I think it was more than one. Not super much.
@@gustavthane2233 Thank you for taking the time to reply. A fascinating method. All the best.
how does this dude not have million views?
Caveman ass video.
I'm in Texas and my neighbor has a pine tree as straight as a telephone pole right on our property line. I drips onto our chain link fence and if you're not careful, you'll lean against it. That stuff won't come off with anything short of rocket fuel. It's easy to see how early man, having gotten some of that on his hands, got hip to the idea of using it for some kind of glue.
@@curtmanners1182 yeah, I'm thinking there are alot of great materials we tend to forget when we think of the stone age as the time they used stones for everything.
Beautiful process <3
@@xJarosławKamiński it sure is. Such an experience to see how a material come to be... from a material that different.
Outstanding! 🫡👍🏻
Thank you
Looks similar to making charcoal.
Yes, it's the same process... only with a gutter in the bottom to collect the residues, and selected fat wood.
Cool project. Have you tried further refining the tar to terpentine and rosin?
@@NomadMakes when it cooled down it separated naturally and I believe the clear liquid on the top was terpentine. But the twrpetine i did not pour off that first few days appears to have evaborated from the tar.
I am really enjoying your tools making tools series, and I hope you keep making those. But this is also delightful, thank you.
@@SlungBlade thank you
Dont read the comments!!! Just make the video however you think is best because you cant please everyone. Fact, you are making the content, not the people commenting. Youll never settle if you try to listen to other peoples opinions on your original content. Take it from a performing musician of 15 years.
@@Notforyou201 Yes sir! I will do precisely as you say... sir! 😉 Nah, just kidding. Sarcasm is so difficult in text like this... but you dont have to worry about me, I have been self employed for most of my life (and got kicked out of the army) for the simple reason that am unable to follow orders. But I appreciate your support. And I do find it interesting to find my voice in social media. Throughout that journey, I'll be happy for the tips, trix and experience that's out there.
Amazing to watch. Thank you for Such a nice video. And good to see a New upload from you. All the best
@@RAMUNI-Viking thank you
I grew up in a place like that. Great times.
@@SB-qm5wg paradise
Truly a paradise. They turned out beautiful! So turns out if you mix three extremely useful materials you get something extremely useful, didn't know that's how you make a glace :)
@@TC-qb8uf neither did I. When I learned that glazes can be completely free of chemicals and stuff, I was surprised. When I also realized that the materials here are this interesting, I simply had to make a project around them.
Lovely local, natural materials- home. Thank you for this.
@@TheSalMaris you are welcome. And thank you for letting me know.
Now that’s some mighty fine moon shine
That was great 😃
@@SB-qm5wg thank you
I thought they always used the bit of the tree below ground. With old dead trees in bogs being totally loaded with pitch and other useful stuff.
Yes, that part underground is the best, but everything close to it is also okay. Here is a link for the part 1, where I dig up the wood for this tar: ua-cam.com/video/lq7H_je0VPY/v-deo.htmlsi=pZLfuMvnwl6M2uZh
what do you do with the Pine Tar? Why are you making it?
I mainly did it for two reasons. I use it as wood preservation on the toolbox this playlist is all about. But also for purely academic reasons. I have known how it is done since I was young... but I never tried it. Now I have. To know is a different thing when doing it for real. Now I know.
why wouldn't you use the pine boughs instead of wood? they seem to have the most sap
@@noelhutchins7366 no part of the tree has more tar than the central root right beneeth rhe stub. It is particularly good 25 years after the tree was cut dowm. Check out part one. I collect the perfect pieces in that video. It is a video about how the setup was made.
Here is a link to part 1: ua-cam.com/video/lq7H_je0VPY/v-deo.htmlsi=pZLfuMvnwl6M2uZh
I thought about making some granite for a hammer but good quality takes about a million years to cure right, & I'd have to leave some things out of the video.
@@billcornelius1383 yeah, people today have no patience. When I was young, the internet wasn't even invented yet and all we had to do was to look at that stone... and we were happy about it. Kids today ha?
Really nice! I've got an axe and a couple of chisels that don't have sheafs. Thanks for sharing the different techniques 🙂 I've not heard of pine root cordage before, it looks really good though. how do you make it? I recently learned how to make nettle cordage but that involved twisting fibres whereas it seems like this was just one fibre that was naturally the size of string?
@@jonnyramsden1161 ah yes, I just plainlessly dig somewhere. And when one of those little roots comes up I follow it as long as i can and pull it up. Then I peal it... which is a surprisingly pleasant experience. And its ready to use. But if it dries up you need to put it in water for a few days before using it or it will brake. If it is thick just split it with a finger nail in the middle. The process is identical to the one I used to make a stone hammer handle in one of the early 360 videos on this channel. And the one used to tie the pole fence, tha gärdsgård in a recent video. An old scandinavian technique.
@gustavthane2233 thank you 🙂 simpler than I was imagining - for some reason I thought it might have involved pounding larger roots and separating them into fibres like that! Ah cool I'll have a look at some of the other videos, I like making tools, it's very satisfying
@@jonnyramsden1161 Yes, I think I must have some root diggimng in one of the earlier ones... or if that was off-camera, I always find it a bit difficult to decide what to ad int the final videos. good luck.
You should give yourself a good healthy enema of your pine tar and let it sit for awhile so it can really soak in good.
@@A3Kr0n umm, sounds healthy. I did taste the tar though. Smells alot better than it taste. Let me know how tar feels like from the enema when you've tried it.
It's videos like this that make youtube worth watching. Thanks.
@@cal4625 thank you.
He's getting hold of pinehart's fat lighter and turning it into pintar
That’s some old school knowledge… I have open wondered how pine tar, turps, etc. was made back in the day. Awesome job and kudos to you sir..!
@@Laval-59 thank you.
I can't believe I'm watching a guy with a man bun burn dirt
@@shaunsmith9801 Oh my young padawan, so much to learn, you still have.
Check this one out though, where the bun goes into the work. ua-cam.com/video/1SQonceri4w/v-deo.htmlsi=IaPlFRf-7PUvpwWj
You have to wonder how they came up with this centuries ago. Thanks for the education 👍
This video was recommended to me by the algorithm, and it's the best video I've seen so far this year...
@@Thiscouldbeyou thank you, I appreciate you letting me know.
Just to let you know. All i did was think about possibly watching a video about how to make pine tar and this was recommended the next day. I wish everyone would make a comment when this happens, maybe it'll bring light to the subject. Anywho, good video, thanks.
@@willsmith8586 Yes you are so right. A few years ago I was hoping people would engage more so the channel could grow. I sort of accepted the smallness of my channel after some time, its still fun to make videos. But the algoritm probably learn better if people engaged. Thank you.
I thought I was the only person that happened to. I know my phone listens to me and recommends accordingly, but I swear sometimes all I do is think of a subject and somehow my mind is read and the same subject is recommended to me the next time I start watching videos
@@jamiemiller8678 you know what they say, the algoritm know you better than you know yourself.
@@gustavthane2233 ...more like the controlling agenda being shoved on us like a mudslide yet we just let it. There is tech out there that has been being perfected for well over a decade that can do just this. Implant suggestions, pick up your thought in some cases. Wifi in your homes is like sonar. It can track your movements in your own house. Smart meters keep track of your daily habits, now which appliances you are using and what times, etc... I think this is more of what the original commentor was getting at. If not...WELL YOU ALL SHOULD BE BRINGING AWARNESS TO THAT so we don't need this kind of knowledge very soon.
Pretty to watch but not much use if you dont know what your doing and why.
@@bri525mag you are welcome to read the descrition if you are interested in learning more. I am thinking about how to make the video more pedagogical, but my focus this far has been on the experience, not the education. I hope I can find a functional middle way between the two soon.
@ it was a very good video but watching it i didnt have a clue what you were doing or why. I could have read the info but that spoils the vid if you need to keep going between the two. Keep the vids coming, they take me back to childhood, all the fun of camping out and fending for myself. Now at 70 the memories make me very happy and appreciative of the life i have had. No need for phones and internet , there was shit loads to do. Thanks again Brian
@@bri525mag ah, yeah. There is still shit loads to do... but hard to decide what to chose on the limited time and budget at hand. I'm glad it worked, that you felt the nature through the screen. That was the pupose.
Thank you
@@NordeggSonya thank you
Great video Brother!! Blessings 🙏♒️
@@mikeshem7665 thank you, I can use that.
Is this a guess work video?.😮
@@andrewpeters3424 you guess, is it?
This is a bushcraft version of what the germans did with wood to make fuel / plastics in WW2?
@@Marread ok, interesting. Fuel you say. An plastic... I did not know.
@gustavthane2233 my friend, they used a similar process but with coal. Watched a vid called "synthetic fuel, Germanys secret wonder weapon" earlier. Take care, thanks for the video :)
@@Marread thanks for the tip. I'll check it up.
It isn’t very educational, didn’t learn anything really. I think you need to explain what’s going on.
@@OliverCampbell-f6x ok, I'll try that in the future.
Nice sweat it out loved the carburetor hole on the front to pull the fire forward and get all of it going
@@davidpotts4368 ah, yeah. It really worked, but only until the flames were too hot to take out by blowing, when its warmer it risk making everything burn.
Hi. Always wondered how stone age people produced sufficient amounts of tar. That is the solution. Thanks for showing. Greetings and Like from Germany, Chris
Gathered pinion pine pitch for some craft projects. Found it best to look at trees on hillsides where rocks had rolled down the hill and hit the tree, was big gobs of pitch on them.
I just realized that tarring and feathering someone was a much larger 'screw you' statement than I thought due to how long tar takes to make.
Interesting reflection. I have thought of it that way... The really invested in making their point.
You had to really deserve it. It's been a long time since anyone's done it to a public servant around here and it shows.
@@dont.ripfuller6587 I'm all for reintroducing it.
It is something you have to plan ahead for.
It usually kills the recipient
I just discovered your videos. This is what people should watch when talking about prepping or living “off grid”. Thanks and keep them coming!!!
Welcome here, Yes I have material for three more videos. Just need to find the time to edit.
You really are the real deal. Best content on youtube. You're one of the authentic greats. Wish your channel had more views.
Thank you🙏
For those of you who don't know, the reason why blowing on a fire can put a fire out is due to your breath lowering the temperature of the fire before the added oxygen can get it to burn hotter.
@@ryelor123 something like that yes... I would put it like this: fire without heat (coal) is just like a match, blow the flames away and the smoke loose its fire. Eventually when the smoke was too hot to smother this way it was time to cover it all up with a turf.
👍 I learned a new interesting way to extract pine resin
disappointed, where is coffee table in the end?