How Blacksmiths make Golok Machetes in Indonesia
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Blacksmiths making Golok machetes at Lombok Island, Indonesia. Gegutu village is close to Mataram City, there’s other blacksmiths nearby :) With the long handle, this Golok machete could be used one or two handed, it’s a nice practical weight for chopping heavier wood.
“Pandai besi” is the Indonesian word for blacksmith. This blacksmith doesn’t normally stamp his name into the steel, but with the camera rolling he wanted to show off! We have other golok videos coming soon!
Lombok is a nice island to visit, the English speaking guide at 16:29 is Adhar Dafi from Senggigi Beach. His business is Lombok Exciting Tours, if you're at Lombok we highly recommend him, he helped us to find this awesome blacksmith shop. He also does jungle trekking tours.
TIME STAMPS
Hammering the tang 2:01
Making the handle 6:46
Tang into handle 11:06
The address 17:22
Outro 17:35
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Dude in the blue tank top swinging that huge hammer is an absolute man! I bet he's strong as a bull lol.
Kayla Marie thirsty much?
Kayla Marie that is not the only thing he hammers😏
Wiry as fuck, these guys. Not big boned people but carry a lot of muscle.
And he has only 1 shoe
Bet i can show you how a real man hands his hammer. ;)
Indonesians are such masters in all kinds of crafts. Too bad their work is most of the time so undervalued.
'Fer sure, but also give 'em a little time, after all until WWII, they were a Dutch colony for over 300 years. In fact for such an incredibly diverse country, with so little experience with the whole autonomy/democracy thang, I'd give 'em a lotta credit for already getting this far in the short time since then!
lol this Weapon comes from the philippines what a false Description
yea... it's because corupt goverment and missinform also "claims" make our works vanished nor undervalued
@@selflessnessgamer3694 Golok is widely used in the Malay archipelago, which makes sense because trades and stuff. But it origiated from Indonesia.
@@selflessnessgamer3694 nope, golok is exclusively from indonesia. Philipine is Bolo. Yes bolo is a great machete too. And for golok, it has a wide variety of shapes. Perhaps one of its shape fits with bolo you meant about
All Indonesian men have this ability, they have a diet of fried food, strong coffee and plenty of cigarettes.
😂 no food is ok, but no coffee and no cigarettes, absolutely not ok 😂
I have been a welder fabricator, doing heavy, medium and light fabrication and forge work etc and have good experience of most kinds of engineering over the last 40 years. This kind of metal work has never ceased to Amaze me as I find it as amazing and interesting now as I did the first time I saw it as a young boy in the 1960’s. I grew up around the corner from a blacksmiths shop in a small village called Aby near Alford in Lincolnshire England, United Kingdom , the blacksmith and his son used to make all the ploughs and drags to work the land and there were always tractors and agricultural things at the local blacksmiths shop in that village. It was that blacksmiths shop that gave me the interest in metal work and when I went to secondary school and I found they had a metalwork shop and that I could do metalwork I was well pleased ! It was men like these that inspired me and gave me an interest in the metalwork that set me on my way to the skilled trade that I do Today..
Enjoy !!!
I bet it brought back memories from the good old days. From Singapore. Peace.
Hi i'm from this country, Indonesia. I know some about golok :
1.this is not golok, it's called "bedog", bedog was made for daily use and hard working like chopping wood, bone and also farming. But a Golok was made for fight, golok looks more more beauty then bedog and also expensive, a bedog cost under $10 but golok cost $40-$500.
2. I read some comment about the handle, a full tang bedog almost always cheaper than bedog like this cause it's easier to make, less beauty, and heavier. This handle is not bad, and not make it a junk. I never heard people wound cause the blade throwed from the handle, it's also easy to repair and replace. All expensive golok have tang like this except for chopping competition but usually made with some buffalo horn.
3. The treatment for traditional bedog/golok blade in indonesia are almost always like this, with some experience from the bladesmith the blade never facing problem from slaughter big animal, cutting trees, chopping wood or even bone. But, we indonesia also have modern knifemaker.
*sorry for my english haha hope u all understand.
Yes your English is good!! So true, blades don't just suddenly fly off the handle, if they're starting to wear you can feel them move a bit in the handle. Then you stop using them or start fixing them :) Welcome to Bush Channel
Bush Channel i usually use a small piece of bamboo or hard wood to fill the gap. or i will take my broken black plastic bucket,melt it, and use it as a glue but it will not last long like the first way and with the second way i couldn't feel some kind of happy like when i repair it with first way.
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If some day the handle broke and you want to make a handle like this, use something like ring(plastic/steel/etc) at the base of the handle to avoid the wood crack. If u don't have any drill to make the hole for the tang u can use nail to make little hole, then heat the tang and force tang into the hole it will get im slowly
nicely explain my fellow indonesian brethren
LaperCog INA alhamdulillah bro..
Thank you Bdo!
Hard work and this is how they make their living, good to see how they tempered the blade seperately. Great video thanks guys.
So much effort and time just to make a machette!This guys just have the basic tools,and i dont even know what kind of money they make in every machette they make,it is too hard for them just to make even 1 piece.Respect to this guys,true fighters.
as indonesian i'm appreciate for your documentary, indonesia is an archipelago country and have differ in knife model and blacksmith but most of it under the radar
Your countrymen definitely make some great blades! I definitely want to tour the islands and buy some, only problem is convincing my wife to fly 20 hours to buy a knife or two :) . Hope to visit your beautiful country some day, cheers from San Diego USA :)
Much respect from an amateur blacksmith in Canada. I see a lot of people sniping about the length of the tang, but I think it’s important to remember two things:
1) The spring steel used for this tool may be hard to come by or expensive and the material may need to be used as conservatively as possible.
2) the machete is being sold to a demographic that is perfectly capable of repairing it themselves if it comes loose, and not to helpless westerners who only know how to throw something out and buy a new one.
Hi! do you have an etsy store or ebay? im in canada and id like to look at your works if possible
Me? No, hopefully one day but for now I produce more scrap metal than finished projects.
he was implying that the locals don't need to worry about rat tangs because they probably have a way , and are familiar with how to repair the machete. "helpless westerners" was obviously sarcasm/joke to make a point that city folk with no experience wouldn't be as able as these locals. there is no reason for you to call anyone idiot.
Not sure I'd trust this blade. They worked the steel to cold, causes stress cracks. The tempering of the blade is a little ify. Over all they worked pretty hard on the knife, but I don't think it came out a very high quality blade.
@@colep7236 City folk don't use machetes.
I am a metallurgist. Watching the quenching at 12:45 (just look how he "sees" the temperature judging by the color of the metal) I realize how many generations this art has been going on there. That fast and brief cooling will give the material a hard surface but a flexible core, but just in the amount this tool needs No lab or quality control equipment. Awesome. Guy really showed off here, as much as stamping his brand in the blade. .
Thanks for sharing this dude.
Is that a four-year degree? Do you guys get employed by big scrap yards?
I caught that, too, and in daylight, not in a darkened smithy.
He made the edges harder and made the rest more flexible?
@@joeygonzo yes. You want the edge to be harder to hold its sharpness but the spine to be softer to flex instead of break.
I wondered why he did that. It’s pretty amazing what they do with such simple stuff. Thanks for shedding light on the process
amazing skill, real hard working men earning a very modest living. Hats off to the guys with hammers, try that for just one minute....
Ever pound fence post or split fire wood with a maul?
Fence post hammer was a beast
Amazing !!
What a team work !!
What a power !!
Hats off... Salute !!!
Real men real work .Real skills.
Salute from USA. Very Talented and HARD WORKING..
greetings respect from indonesia🇲🇨🙏 thank you for introducing our culture to the international scene, next time come to java you must see other blacksmiting cultures from my country , like keris , kujang, or celurit (our traditional knife)
OK, they're not the most beautiful and finely crafted of edged tools, but they look functional, bloody rugged and well up to the job. Those guys certainly know what they are doing - and with so few tools, they're amazing craftsmen. Very interesting video. Thanks for posting.
These things are like the everyday tool for almost everything in Indonesia.
You need a tree chopped down, a hole dug(thats right a hole!), gardening, whatever. 10 times out of 10 the work person you have called over to do it is bringing one of these. Most likely because these are cheap and versatile.
I called over a couple of guys to make a pond and small waterfall in my central courtyard once, first thing they did was start chopping at the ground to dig a ditch. Was interesting because of the speed these guys work at, they rarely take break, most likely because they are happy just having a warm sweet tea and can smoke on the fly.
Felt guilty about the price so I doubled the fee, wasn't that much to begin with.
Cheers.
Love the guy wielding the hammer with a cigarette in his mouth lol Quality.
I just watched a guy differentially heat treat a blade with nothing but a forge and a bucket of water. Bravo Karim!
Buat nya susah tapi harganya murah semoga rejekinya lancar pak. Aamiinn
Itu parang sakti lo pasti mahal😆
berapa emang harganya
Gotta love they are working barefoot or in flip flops . And the guy never looks winded swinging the BFH
spirit of my brother ... this is my hometown friend, I often hang out here.
Homemade tools...
This people feel pride and happy about it. They made a good piece of tool, with few tools good job
great vid; Arnold Swartzenegger swinging the big hammer is gonna have a heart attack! I really like these 'smithy vids.
Good to see health and safety is given the up most importance in this place!!!!
di Indonesia masih ramai pandai besi dan ukiran kayu.
tahniah..
teruskan bekarya.
salute..
Im indonesian..i watch this video then i read all coment..lol..I feel comforted.with all coment thanks for watching this video.
One shoe, one flip-flop. Respect!
Makes one appreciate basic workshop things like a workbench and a vise
17:42 that thing is badass!!
Thank you for sharing this video I also wonder how these knives and short swords were made absolutely incredible I have a hand made Golok from Indonesia it’s a beautiful piece sharp and gorgeous wood details on the handle I have a trainer that I use it’s also very well made these blacksmiths are truly craftsmen creating works of Art!🙏🏼
Dude in the blue tank top is JACKED!
I love how everyone is smoking and wearing sandals.
One is wearing a sandal and a boot at the same time lol
@@donavanreese864 he's multiple tasking lol
Dude it's Indonesia...wait 'til you smell that thing they smoke called Gudang Garam...
@@c0nclav3 and dji sam soe, the unfiltered ones in green boxes
Tis is the indonesian way
We basically almost always wear sandals only exceptions are when it's a formal thing (school and business)
Guy with sledgehammer. That's a real workout. He stronger then most that go to gym everyday.
Facts they must all have grip strength to the max.
Naw it's a good workout n he is certainly stronger then u that's for surr
Lol
It does not matter cuz in the end brain power and 💰 is important
Sean Mayo It’s called work, that’s what Indonesians do
I loved how he edged quenched the blade.
This is why ive given up on Tv this is enriching
Hahaha welcome to Bush Channel, glad we could replace TV! We have many more Golok videos coming.
I mean, you can watch this type of shit on TV. UA-cam isn't so different from an on-demand TV service. lol
whats tv?
So many things you can watch on you tube. Just like this Bush video. You can explore the world from home. Thanks Bush for your video
Nigel Dunn I haven’t watched main stream tv for over 5 years lol is shite
no electric machine, pure handscraft, a truly legit blacksmith.!
there is a electric cutting tools
Guy in blue looks like he's working way harder than the other guy.
These people are really amazing. They deserve admiration and respect for their good work in the absence of modern tools👍
thanks for the awesome upload man!
Watching him quench that blade was almost mystical
There is a lot of indonesian swords and daggers which are beautiful to collect or see how they made it. Keris or kujang is quite a beauty
"Your weapon, WILL kill!" Lol
Great now I feel like a scumbag for having a workbench. Absolutely incredible. Coal forge, a round billet for an anvil and an angle grinder all while sitting in the dirt.
@Jeremy Baldwin
I think a workbench is the most basic an employer should have for all employees.
These poor Indonesians are unfortunately deprived of one. No point in making a difficult job more difficult just to save a few pennies..
I'm so impressed that you can manufacture and 'make do' with so few tools! thanks for the video.
Knife sharpening while you wait
I'd call it a full service shop
One of many reasons why I love tinkeres and bush craftsmen.
Savage swinging that hammer with one boot and a Choncla😂
You still have the best videos!!! Blessings to you and your family 😇 🇺🇸
these are the kinds of people i would welcome into western countries and they could bring there skills with them
And what about westerners who are far more skilled? This video really isn’t that impressive. One hard swing and the handle will come off.
@@twistyturd hadeh
This is old school and I loved every bit of it, watching them make this by hand is amazing to watch wouldn't dare go up against one if these dudes with that machete in his hand that's for sure.
The only one who didn't have a cigarette was the baby.
He probably just put his out before the recording began
Beautiful work forging this quality of machete with the same style as that of the katana I like it much even more because it is done in the old school and few tool is a pleasure to watch this quality of videos and job... I just want Thank you very much for making this kind of customs and humble work .
Dude hammering in a boot and a flip-flop.
Oh,grinding with hand grinder,later in video showed him with that foot near wheel, the manner he runs it.
Geees .. How efficient ... Next time *I* have 7 buddies with nothing to do, and a couple spare days, I'll make one $4 machete too! :)
Love the guy at 7:00 with the grinder shooting sparks everywhere next to the guy with a pile of wood shavings under him. Seriously great vid though. Amazing what can be done with what they have.
Astonishing combination of Western materials and technologies with the skills of local blacksmiths, nothing more
If business picks up he's gonna upgrade to crocs.
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing this world. Subbed!
I did this work back in my can try in El Salvador we just to have a factory just like that. We just to make machete. Horse shoes and much more.
So cool to see people make works of art with basically no power tools
Opening scene three dudes in flip flops and smoking bones around a piece of metal that is thousands of degrees. I’m in!
Jason Smith right.
They don't even need a lighter, they just press it on the red hot metal ;)
I can tell the way the sparks are flowering not so brightly.. that blade is very soft.. quenching in water.. that’s why.. he takes a huge risk every time that he doesn’t crack his projects.. that quench was not sufficient to harden properly
"Alright guys, don't forget your flip flops to work. Comfort first, safety second."
You're gay
cheeseGrillz you think these fucking guys can afford 150$+ work boots dawg give your head a shake
What's more amazing is that he's still hot all his fingers.
Bravo Karim!!!
Ha ha...thanks from karim
I loved watching this - I am always impressed at the capability of people.
Must have cigarette in mouth before grabbing sledgehammer
Live is hard in here sir... help....
Americans are the same
Helps keep relax while working
it's cleaner than the air around you so gotta have one lit all the time
@@sharingringanseputarkesehatan That's actually very true, nicotine is a great brain stimulant. Also probably helps them stay awake, god knows I light up when I'm tired.
Nice to see craftsmen of old producing long lasting work
My favorite part is the dude with one boot and one sandal.
I think he got smart and decided to cover his foot from burns..........
Lol... it's funny as hell to look at though
Urat dawai tulang besi lo
@roger guy in truck
Selen style the name in jakarta
Rama Kambing My thoughts exactly!
That striker in the blue is a beast.
Perfection in the craftsmanship. What a pure art. Such a pleasure to watch. Having the angle grinder helps!
Merci beaucoup beaucoup. It's alaws a pleasure your vidéo ! In France your Chanel it''s Big UP.
love these guys making something out of nothing it will be better than any machete you will buy in a shop
11:05 saw that :o im speechless
I am a son of blacksmith herw in the Philippines. We have different style of creating bolos, or golok. we also create sword.
Indonesian workers: no safety shoes, no glasses >>> efficiency 100%
US workers : safety glasses, steel toes, safety apron, no smoking policy, safety helmet, safety gloves, OSHA safety training and certificate, insurance >> efficiency 1%
ABC TRAVELER about right
Haha😂😂
Stupid , the us workers normally reaching in good condition the retirement age. Those guys are happy if they reach the fifties.
i watched it all and i liked it all.
good work man
Quella cosa lì
Thanks, there is more Indonesian blacksmith footage coming. Also we have another Philippines blacksmith video coming afterwards
damn you know your bad ass when you wear sandals at the forge
TheDieselbutterfly we’ve got a few bare-foot Blacksmiths coming soon.
Why afraid by a little burn. When u live next to jungle and snake cant even bite u?
Hope u know. Lol.
Those ringing sounds are so satisfying!!!!!!
The only guy with saftey glasses is the guy not working lol
Tom_nobreaks probably the owner or boss of the place
He host he make this video
Tom_nobreaks jaja
I’m the guy with the glasses and believe me, making videos like this is very hard work. There’s a reason why most videos on YT only have 4 or 5 views, those people don’t put in the work.
Bush Channel a few metal shavings embedded in the cornea never hurt nobody. :-)
Besar sangat lengannyaa om.stamina sangat kuat .terbaik wargaa indonesia .salam dari malaysiaa nusantara
No power hammers for these guys I love it ..
They’re human power hammers.
Bush Channel Why don't they build themselves a hammer or press?
difflocktwo too expensive for them to buy it
At 3:30 he really gets into the power strokes
I didn't say buy, I said build. They can develop their own tools and slowly build a complete workshop.
Awesome. I could watch this all day
You cant help but respect anything that gets made by someone with a cigarette dangling out their mouth
rrmond 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Would a cigar dangling instead warrant even more respect?
@@Bushchannel no no no it has to be a cigarette 🤣🤣 cigars are too hauty lol
Both dudes need props ..working with hot steel in sandals ..straight beast mode
This one is not part of tourism. The just make machete for daily use, not for souvenir ones.
LOL totally true. We get a few inexperienced travellers coming on here and calling these blacksmith shops “tourist traps,” they assume that the blacksmith shops are part of some daily tour and we’ve just been suckered in to going there. This ain’t the type of thing that you’ll find in the Lonely Planet travel guides. It’s off the regular tourist trail and something that we specifically seek out ourselves.
@@Bushchannel good job.
Hermoso vídeo amigo felicitaciones!!! Cuánto esfuerzo,esa gente como trabaja!
I also work as traditional blacksmith, with my neighbor but i'm on finishing part not forging
This was awesome . Thank you for the knowledge and patience of yours.👏👏
Somewhere, an OSHA inspector is having a coronary.
He should stop eating so many fatty hamburgers. Most OSHA inspectors I’ve met aren’t healthy 🤣
Good!
OSHA are pussies lol
The dude in the blue top at least has 1 safety shoe :P
Lol!
Thank for visit Indonesia and apreciate our traditional black smith sir
Love the music at 17:33 - Who is the artist?
New friend here from the philippines enjoy your work my friend
*THESE CRAFTSMEN ARE TRULY AMAZING...SOMEONE NEEDS TO BUILD THEM A WEBSITE SO THEY CAN SELL THESE INCREDIBLE TOOLS!* *OR PERHAPS A WAY PEOPLE CAN REACH THEM TO BUY THEY'RE SUPERB WEARS!*
if I ever get in a battle I want that dude with the hammer.he is strong I have seen him in other videos that dude is natural strong.looks like John Henry
Great stuff! I would definitely buy from them.
Yes, reminds me of those Japanese Katana smiths.
Good👍👍. It's cheap too
How much dos one of those usually cost?
Sheep Ewe under 15 dollar I think. It's not like keris that have such a beautiful craftsmanship in blade
Do You think they will ship worldwide?
Look at that power hammer going to work... it’s the Indonesian version of Big Blue from the show forged in fire
Forged in fire Indonesia style 🤣
Very interesting to see the different adaptations of tools and techniques from different cultures around the world. Some would certainly be marketable in other countries. Enjoyed the black smithing and tool making skills displayed in this video. Thank you for sharing this.