CURLING STONES | How It's Made
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Ever wonder how curling stones are made? Get the full history and 'making of' right here!
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I always wondered how they made a rock out of rock
😂🤣😂🤣😂
No spoilers!!
They don't. They make stones out of rock which is weird because rocks are made of stone.
They used the rock to make the rock
Find big Rock. Cut rock into rock
I wonder if there's a warehouse somewhere with a ton of "How It's Made" branded stuff from over the years.
Maybe 🤔🤔🤔
How it's made house?
Maybe they’ll have a museum of How It’s Made products.
This makes me wonder how did the sport ever get started.
Raumance Probly a couple brooms, a frozen lake, a rock, and some alchohol.
@@_grug__ You had me at alchohol.
They just used whatever they had, I’d imagine.
Some janiyors get drunk and then some shit happens
Rival clans slid stones across frozen lochs to annoy each other.
Because there's feck all else to do during a Scottish winter.
This is exactly the type of content I crave at 2 am
You: Curling stone
Me: Slidey rock
This video just taught me something I didn't know I wanted to know.
It blows the mind how amazingly smart and capable human beings are in what they're able to do.
Graham Wellington
Exactly. Who thought of all these steps?
Are you talking about the High School shooter?
Robert Cornelius
Fuck off edgelord
Humans? No. Humans are dumb. Every now and then though, you get smart individuals. Building a machine from scratch requires brains. Operating the machine in a factory/process setting however? Well, you can train chimps to do that. Copy and repeat. Simple.
I agree
Dude love how badass this company was to personalize it for the video. So cool to do that :)
Canadians (used to) have good manners and they're typically flexible. I can imagine the operation happily offering the "How it's made" logo to be graved in onto this piece. :)
I will never take How it's Made for granite
har har
Zinc before you speak
Dude did you just say for granite?
WodernWarfareTree. I tried sending in solid suggestions but keep getting the cold boulder, even though I told them i think the show rocks.
Lol you fish
BLAST-IT-ALL
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Years ago, curling stones went down alleyways. This technique was called "curling".
But the main ingredient remains the same: a maaAAamoth
@@nitroturbo7869 The paper is now 99 cents IT WAS 99 CENTS
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"I always took it for Granite"
- Norm Macdonald
I was looking for the make your own curling stone instruction video. This looks intense Discovery UK, maybe I will start with the broom.
Lol x 10000.
Such a Manly sport !!
I was literally wondering what kind of stone this was last week while watching curling on tv!
UA-cam's algorithm again. Nailed it this time.
And bam, in under 3 minutes you now know how to make a smooth rock. It's also probably like 2am on a workday that you're watching this but hey, who's the real winner here?
I think the real question on everyone's mind: How the hell is this an episode of "How it's Made UK" and not "How it's Made Canada"?
This Scottish mine supplies the Olympics and every game of the World Curling Federation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kays_of_Scotland
I can't be the only one who finds the way they use water during stone cutting to be extremely satisfying
I trim my nut hairs with a high pressurized water jet.
I'd like to see all the custom items H.I.M got from the companies they visited
Oh hey, a recommendation for a thing I once thought about briefly, but never searched or even said out loud.
ProjectiluvOP UA-cam works in mysterious ways
i like the touch of the "how it's made" in the engraving
Oh boy its 3am...time to watch this
This explains why each stone is so fine and expensive.
My family has deep rooted ties going back centuries in making curling stones, some are the oldest in the world apparently.
I forget the details.
This is amazing. I really can't believe what I just saw.
The material for curling stones used in the Olympics are taken from one location on earth.
A small island just off the Isle of Arran in Scotland
When the Olympics comes on I like to watch the curling. Congratulations to Team USA on making it to the finals.
Same with me. I never watch it any other time but it's one of the few things I make sure to watch during the Olympics.
Well done to the British (Scottish) lassies on winning🥇bringing it home.
Interesting!
UA-cam: Ever wondered how a curling stone is made
Me: do i have a choice?
oh I never knew there was a UK version of this show with a British accent narrator. Lol but of course there is! And now that I am thoroughly fascinated, my knock-on questions include but are not limited to - how did they carve/chisel the curling stones before modern industrial processes? Like in the early 1900’s? How can such a high demand for many curling stones exist as to justify the expense of all that industrial computerized manufacuring? lol I guess maybe curling must be way way way more popular in other parts of the world than I previously realized! Very cool.
What?? There is an American version of this show??
This rocks!
i used to live at the town where they get the stone from. trust me they still blast the rocks up there. but there is loads of heaps of stones like the ones from the old quarry there. the town is Penmaenmawr check it out on google earth or maps. has a lot of stone age stuff all over the mountains and an old stone circle they have been hacking away at the mountain and leveling it off lol.
from what i remember there is only 2 locations where this kind of stone is harvested for curling stones. nice place to visit.
Looks like a nice place.
@@karldias1415 when the quarry used to be more active the village was always gray from the dust from there. but now that environmental and health kickoffs they cleaned up there act due to dust. in the winter the mountain they are quarrying casts a shadow over the village during the winter making it feel a lot colder. its a nice place to visit there are parts in the valleys and mountains that can feel very alpine. its a slow pace of life there. :)
Yes the other one is a small island in Scotland called the ailsa craig
No, curling stones come from either Ailsa Craig or Trefor quarry not Penmaenmawr.
@@grahamdavies3139 you are correct they do make the stones at these places. but i know there was a company in deganwy that used to make them and that they moved to Penmaenmawr. and after re watching the video again i realised it was misty above the mountain as it looked just like the one in penmain from the angle of the footage. thanks for pointing that out. :)
I want to buy one !
Amazing thing is these used to be made by hand by craftsmen.
A curling stone is around $500 or more. If they were all made by hand, they would cost thousands....lol.
Imagine a curling stone company a 100 years ago with an employee of the month hanging up, cause the guy made 3 stones that month.
Yeah team USA with the Gold!!
Sick track
Oh my god this show still exists....
no idea. I don't piss money away on cable. just see it here from time to time.
I like that boulder that is a nice boulder
It makes me wonder how did they do it without heavy machinery back then
Hard work and dedication
Or why ?
When the making of the elements is more exiting than the sport
I never wanted to eat a curling some until now
Ah so thats how the egyptians might have worked their stones. Considering new findings where it looks like they have sawed in to the material at rather high speeds it left the scientists kinda speechless. But this pulli system makes sense and it could also be operated and run by humans. Not the top speed ofc, but im sure it would have worked out nicely.
they could also have used flywheels to power the cutting cable, thus enabling outputs greater than human power but building up speed in the flywheel over time and then starting to cut after it's going very fast
Aliens built the pyramids
the two replies are duality of man
@@Quasar0406 either, humans do things extremely well after spending their entire life doing it and slowly honing their craft to a sharp point that boggles modern day researchers, or human is dumb dumb alien make thing me no loved by dada
How about the diamond thingy?
Didn't know what they were made of. I always took them for granit.
Made by Kay's of Scotland.
The granite that makes these stones comes from a tiny island off the coast of Scotland. Called Ailsa Craig.
Fun fact...
These stones are the only stones in the Winter Olympics allowed..
That lathe has crazy torque, like super, crazy torque.
aserta err no, pretty average
aserta not as much as you would think.
Anthony Ramsey Actually, his implied definition of torque is spot on
Anthony Ramsey ..... do you understand the meaning of the word "implied" ?
When cutting granite you don't need torque, you need a good diamond blade. I've worked with granite and marble for 5 years.
This is exiting
I didnt know there were lathes for stone, good to know!
same machine, different cutting bit
At 0:39 you can see " velocità filo / wire speed" i wonder if the machine is imported from Italy ( I live near a place where stone working represent the core of the economy) or if those curling stone are actually made here and they can not write "made in italy" for many reasons.
They are made in Ayrshire on the west coast of Scotland using granite from a small island.
@@Alan_Mac All Olympic stones are quarried from the Isle called Ailsa Craig situated west of Girvin
@@alistairthow1384 Yes that's what I said.
@@Alan_Mac just adding a wee bit of detail to your story Alan. 👍🏻
This leaves more questions than it answers
All that work and manufacturing to make something seemingly simply
Curling, the ultimate sport for street sweepers
Yooooo this is crazy. I was just wondering how they were made this morning
Yeah, I was dusting off my stone in the closet just the other day.
I was amazed by this but what is this thing used for?
Now that I've watched this, my recommend will be curling and other videos of how it's made.
What shall I watch next?
I wonder how many curling stones the world needs
I clicked on this actually expecting to hear Huggbees.
from a slab of concrete/stone to a British winning Curling team`s tool!
Granite
Really don't understand why I watched this. It was exactly how I imagined it would be done, but for some reason I was still expecting something interesting to happen.
It should be noted that all Olympic curling stones come from a single quarry. (An island in Scotland).
The world's only other quarry used for curling stones is in Wales.
What about 'Canada Curling Stone Co.'? Where are they located? What do they make?
Griffin and Rachel Mcelroy brought me here and I don't regret it
That lathe really needs service.
how do they make sure that the weight is correct from the onset?
they weigh it
I didn't know it was really made of real stone...
Well no medals for GB...2022 here we go.
Watching 2022 now Trying to work out how to play the game
Cross between lawn bowls and darts ?
Is the quarry in north wales?
That's how a smart brain can selling millions stones to the world
I always thought they were made of polished concrete.
Ive been there! Its in Scoooootland
LunaWolfMXS scootland, is that where scooters are made.
nomoreclickbait please scoooooooooooooootland!
Lmao you crazy.....but I like it
LunaWolfMXS actually, it's in italy. In val malenco to be more precise, near the lake of como. It is an important green marble cave.
You can clearly tell this at 0:38
I didn't even know that this things were made out of stone
All of my life i thouhght that this sport is realized with kettles on ice :)
Why am I watching this I should be sleeping.
Don't let this distract you from the fact the U.S. beat Canada at their own game (curling) yesterday, twice (and then in women's Ice Hockey for Olympic GOLD)!
Great
Where am I? I blacked out for a few hours and bow I'm watching curling stones being made.....
I hate curling, but this was pretty cool
i didn't even know
its made of rock😂😂😂✌️
Interesting
Water also used as an equipment
Just wow🤔🤔
Human destroy mountains just to have fun
When did curling start and how did they cut it back in the day?
Tbasko sauce they had lathes back in the day lol even before electricity.
This has how is a plumbus made vibes. I just imagine the 20t piece of rock being formed into one quirling stone. xD
It's important that the Fleeb is rubbed because the Fleeb, has all of the Fleeb juice
I always thought they were using torque converters from automatic transmissions
That is a pretty funny statement. 😂
I was watching movie trailers then car reviews....how did i get here?
CrJediKnight some time you just go down a rabbit hole. No avoiding it.
Cilalı taş devrinde çok oynardık arkadaşlarla :D
How did I get here???
A lot of effort for something nobody wants.
Most amazing "sport" ever! Yay
Cost? Between £300 to £500! ....Stones for the Winter Olympics are sold in sets of 18!
1 question...what is this Rounded Stone for?
Shape large rocks into smaller better rocks
Curling donut is what it should be called
Cool
Blast-It-All
The poor rock wanted to be a countertop when it grew up, but sadly it now serves no purpose. 🤣
Ancient egyptians would just hum in unison and make these
this is meh comparing to pyramids
oh wow
Pretty cool, but that's nothing. You should see how a Plumbus gets made.
Exactly how big is a small car???