This is actually really really impressive. Continuing to use tools you previously "invented" gives a really cool sense of scale about humanity's progression.
Not really; the tools got refined, and the tool *use* got refined, over millenia. It's impressive for him trying to learn it all himself and doing it with what he's made all at once, though, just not very accurate to the sense of scale of humanity's progression.
Its just neat to watch 😁 i must say so. This guy got me thinking of making a personel set of bronze wood working tools tho. Got enough copper round the place. Just need tin
The fact that the tools got refined over so long is what gives it a sense of scale. Seeing how much he struggles to complete simple tasks with beginner-level primitive tools makes you appreciate how much time and work must have gone into developing that stuff when they had nothing else to work with. Modern knowledge gets offset by the fact that (no offense) he just isn't very good at things that they would have much more experience with. They had to figure out how to make that wheel, but by the time they were doing that they would collectively have millions of iterations of bronze casting and other crafting under their belt so they would have significantly higher quality tools and woodworking skills.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how far the whole team has come in their making abilities? The tools they have now and make are so much cleaner and refined than they were even a year ago, I'm impressed by their progress.
But he wouldn't be someone that builds these tools back then. He lacks the perfectionists soul to make it more precise. Yes it works but it could be done way better even on first try
Gattz maybe. But it wouldn’t be. People who build tools to use them make them good enough. It would be millennia before artists would be the ones making tools for the people who use them.
We all know Hot Ones was invented before written language was. It was a live interview show with grunts and crude drawings instead of explain that gram. And it was only one wing, because that’s all they had
Abrasives are the tools of precision in the ages before modern precision tools. You are forgetting to use a whole class of tools that where available throughout all of history. You are making precision projects harder for yourself with not using abrasive stones to get to the final dimensions.
yea, i've been thinking this for a long while. A little bit of abrasive can ironically make things run a lot more smoothly. But his woodworking needs a lot of work Taking a little bit of time to create these tools could save hundreds of hours in the long run
I agree and even in the making of a stone axe the peck and grind method exploits the abrasiveness of other stones and that tech is much older than this.
@@sussygussy2 You can tell he's not an actual maker by the way he makes something thats at about 30% of what it should be and just calls it good. Drives me nuts
by making a language from scrach, does he mean that he's gonna make a full language, witha unique writing system, phonology grammar etc, or is he just gonna reinvent the alphabet?
It's amazing when those miserable pieces of wood become to have more defined shape and putted together they become specific tool like this spin wheel. That's one of whole bunch of reasons why I love to create clay sculptures, make models, when hours of changing, smoothing, pushing and cutting pieces lead to complete piece of artwork. That's absolutly satisfying.
Andy, I love the channel and it's been especially fun since the reset. I wanted to let you know that my wife is pursuing a PhD in Theoretical Linguistics. If you have any questions about coming up with your own language, I'd be happy to ask her for you.
This sort of living history is great. Really helps you realize how many tools have to be built just to let you build other tools that you can then use to build something you need.
awesome as always, little tip, next time you join two pieces of wood together cover the entire mating surfaces with glue as well as the dowel pegs, will increase the strength of the joint
This has to be my all time favorite project hes done. It looked so tedious and impossible to get done quickly. Yet he shows his work and it was super satisfying
Hope you're planning on building a lathe in one of the future videos (though still got like 2000 years to go for that) . Even in its simplest form it will save you a lot of trouble, greatly improve quality of your work and allow you to make more advanced things. You should also investigate proper angels of chisels, drills and saws and try to reshape them accordingly. Its a lot of work, especially doing it manually on stones but once you got it shaped properly you'll know it was worth the effort. I have learned it myself when started diy and I still can't believe how much time and effort I wasted (not to mention how many things seemed to be impossible to do) on something that is a very simple and fast work once you got proper tools
Speaking from a logical practical point of view. I suggest that you make yourself a set of brass files & set of sharpening stones. I also would like to suggest a very traditional saw pattern. The simple toothed saw pattern, which consists of two deep cuts to separating two shallow cuts. This would be the most practical and useful design to use because you will need to sharpen the teeth very often. And the Deep Cuts separating the three teeth are for removing material. This design is considered to be one of the oldest traditional saw-toothed designs.
Dang man. You have put soo much effort into this project, its soo impressive! Thanks for going through all that effort and making this video. Keep it up!
For your saw, since copper (and hence bronze) work hardens, you can pound your sawteeth thinner and give them more acute angles to better assist in cutting. I can't help but feel that your current sawteeth act more akin to digging at the wood with a series of spoons. It's functional, but it could be *more* functional.
Another great episode! I wonder when woodworkers started using abrasives? We're a long way from sandpaper, but maybe they were using roughly textured rocks?
I would highly recommend looking into building something called a "Roman Low Workbench". They are highly versatile tools that were used by woodworkers and carpenters for thousands of years. You could absolutely build one with just the tools you have already made. UA-camr Rex Kruger has a fantastic series on them. I would also love to see you build a pole lathe. That would take you to a whole new level of tool making.
@@guyochakovsky9100 unless he meant "power" as in water powered tools like an old sawmill (that's what I was thinking of). Although you would still need to own the land
Absolutely blown away that the end result was so effective. considering you are just a dude with a passion. Tools are getting better, and with that so will your skills with more precise tools. Well done mate!
Watching this gives me respect not only for you and the way you're doing things, but for the master craftsmen, who we all forgot, that had to make these things almost perfectly by hand before there was availability of modern tools.
Everytime I goto UA-cam I wonder do these youtubers do enough to keep my interest? And for you, it's always a yes. My mind is always blown by your ingenuity and patience. I am not patient enough to do this lmao
It feels like he's got his energy back, love the videos. He should look into finding sedimentary rocks for whetstones to sharpen his tools to make working materials easier.
As a loyal viewer, I was amazed at how well you made this using blunt bronze-age tools and understood the difficulty of creating fine work using Bronze-age tools. But, as a JOINER, I had multiple aneurysms at the inaccuracy and quality of using said Bronze Age tools.
Actual bronze-age tools were much better forged and crafted, not to mention used; look at the difference in the axe that was crafted with that bladesmith, and the axes he's made himself. He's not a professional in any of the professions needed for what he's doing, but as a "this is an example of what the first tools could have been like" they're rather impressive. I just wish he'd take that next step and refine some of his fabrication skills!
@@JoeTheSquidOfficial i don't mean to a professional's standards, but just basic competency. And yes, that would slow down the videos a bit, but he'd also be doing things a lot better and easier for his end, too. His method of approach is really starting to bite him in the butt, because he only gets through the surface layer, and keeping to only what he makes means that he has to use the haphazardly crafted items. Again, it's impressive what he's doing for someone without much knowledge or training in these disciplines, but basic craftsmanship, just knowing how to use his tools properly, would take him so much further. That's really what he needs to work on.
@@KainYusanagi i kind-of agree. its painful seeing how hastily made the projects are. in the real "old word" this would be an important tool used for perhaps a lifetime. they would put MUCH more time and effort into getting things near perfect. rather than "hey, it works". but i understand they cant spend too much time on any single project.
@@bobedwards8896 Exactly. Craftsmen would spend years apprenticing and making their own works before making their masterpiece, which wasn't "the best piece they ever made", but rather, "the best piece they ever made, at the time, demonstrating to their master that they have joined the ranks of the masters of the craft". It was literally the piece they crafted to earn the rank of master craftsman. And even then, you had plenty of self-taught craftsmen out there who never learnt from a master, too, but spent enough years doing things that they eventually learnt how to do things pretty good. The things that immediately popped up to me in this video were the lack of using an adze to properly rough-shape the surface of the log pieces, instead trying to use chisels as wedges or just hacking at it with his axe; he also hasn't crafted a basic plane yet, which would have been a piece of wood with a mortise cut into it and a cutting tool like his chisels wedged inside. Then there's his wasteful pouring out of glue and wax, when instead he should be using something more like a earthenware or stoneware pot to dip things into, giving a flat even coat that he could build up through repeated dipping, or in the case of the glue, saturating the surfaces meant to be bonded together. The list goes on, but I'm sure I've made my point; these and more are basic tools and techniques in use for millenia that we aren't seeing used that I feel he needs to get a grasp on.
A note about pottery; make cylinders not bowls when starting. Bowls are easy thanks to centrifugal force, while cylinders are difficult because we all have a dominant hand. Inside hand stronger is a bowl, while outside hand stronger makes a cone. Cylinders are also first because you want even wall thickness, and a 90° angle between bottom and sides. Too, don't worry; no one understands centrifugal force just like how it doesn't make sense that bicycles work. Keep your elbows in against your torso; thats where the stability is. It's wobbling because you are.
They didn't really have the fore thought to include a spout. The main goal was to make a clay bowl period. And to be fair he isn't the best at soft sculpting.
Whenever Andy finishes this series there should be another on called how to master everything making it to where everything he didn’t feel good about he can go back to it and master it
Nothing is too big or too small for this team, from spicy chicken wings to literally making a language. This channel is awesome! I've learned so much and actually am always pumped to watch your videos. Really impressed with the even better format since the reset!
Thank you from deep of my heart because I almost gave up on how would wheel or foundation of wheel worked.I searched weeks atlast. Yes very less people had thought upto this far and I only hoepd for simple animated video but wow lucky me to find your video thanks again
Imagine walking outside and seeing a rock on the ground. Instead of thinking 'hey look a rock', you think to yourself "I could make a pottery wheel out of that."
I don’t want to be the “um actually...” guy, but actually ATP synthase is a molecular machine that acts as a natural wheel and axle. Great video man! Keep them coming😁😁
Most HTME videos begin with me saying, "That's ambitious. No way he's going to make that work." All HTME videos end with me noting the remarkable craftsmanship from each creator involved. Love your channel.
The level of patience required to build something like with not only crude tools, but only allowing yourself a minimal range of innovation in solving these problems is commendable.
It's a matter of time frame. Yes, he could do it with his tools, but sadly that's about a millennium away plus bronze would never survive the first catch on it. Also, have you ever tried turning a huge wheel on a spring pole lathe? I have scars on my knuckles that say it's not worth it
When cutting small branches with an axe, always strike in 45° angle (rotated among vertical axis, z). So that the branch is diagonal in your hand. Usually cuts through with one good strike even with thicker branches.
Obviously this would be later for your trip through time (which my wife and I have been enjoying), or a separate video; just an idea, biodiesel or black diesel. It's easy to make and can be made with the sun (for biodiesel). Maybe a naturally made catalyst (like NaOH or KOH). Peanut oil was the original fuel for diesels, but due to the cost of crude oil and production costs it was changed. Great UA-cam show. Keep doing what your doing and ignore any hateful comments.
I wonder if someone ever came up with the idea of using slaves to spin that really fast and make work easier. It would require modifications but it's possible.
Yes they did. As well as animals. They build large wooden disc that were mounted at an angle, so whatever part of the disk had something heavy on would always want to move in one direction. And then they put a cow on there bound so it'd always move not to strangle itself. Like that's the most high tech it got for milling and the like. And I suppose some people will have used the same technology to spin whatever they wanted to spin.
you're thinking of cogs or belts, which definitely did happen, but that's an iron-age technology. a bunch of oxen in another room with a GIANT wheel, which is geared up to spin super fast at the actual potter's end.
For how quickly you must turn them out to produce weekly content, those tools are getting better and better all the time, and the results show. Dare I say, and don´t get this the wrong way, you are getting handier and handier from a not very promising standpoint. Producing this channel will yet turn you into a master artisan, showing that any skill is just a matter of time devoted to it. Good for you, that is always a great thing to see! :)
P.D: also, that saw would be a much bigger help, and a source of great precision for future builds, if it was thinner on the cutting edge, meaning you have to remove much less wood to get a given cut. Half the wood removed is half the energy expended to do so! I suggest 'sharpening' it against some abrasive stone to make a much thinner blade at the edge. Ideally, you would cut sawblades out of sheet metal as we do nowadays, but I understand casting thin sheets is a tall order, and extrusion completely out of your reach, so you´ll just have to grind them thin.
I noticed you pinned your saw blade into the handle but were using a spin drill with the bit attached by resin and twine. Might I suggest making a few spoon drill bits with a tail and two holes to put pins through to attach them to your drill shaft so they stay put? Since you've crafted a potter's wheel, it might be time to think about making a basic bit and brace for drilling holes instead. Other thoughts: ditch the saw until you can make a much thinner, stronger blade. The cross section on that thing requires you to move way more material than it's worth. You can get the same basic results with chisels in a lot less time. And as another commenter said, a draw knife would help a lot with making dowels.
I’ve done a lot of woodworking, and let me tell you. Even with modern steel hand tools, making something like that would be hard. That fact that you did it with dull bronze tools is insane. Nice work man
Hi, if you put weight (like rocks!) far from the axis of rotation, the wheel will spin longer with each kick! Greater moment of inertia means longer spinning! Also, small rocks can be used to properly balance the wheel, eliminating wobble!
Need some pumice stones or primitive sand-paper to help with finishing. The woodwork is so crude at the moment, even with rudimentary tools people figured out how to make things nicer.
Hamza Nasir yeah it took cave men centuries but still it’s hard work to make these tools how do you think he’s the only one doing this stuff it’s just really hard
The most groundbreaking thing about the wheel was the mindset shift that took place to realize it and turn it into something useful! For thousands of years Neanderthals/humans watched rocks roll but never turned that concept into something useful and then BAM! Just looking at the Ljubljana Marshes Wheel dated back to 3200BC and its axle, the complexity that is involved for something that old its obvious the wheel was discovered well before that time and evolved into what it was!
Cool thing about this invention is that, even if it's imperfect and wobbly, because it spins well enough you can use it to make more precise wheels out of clay and other materials. You can fire the new clay wheel and replace the wooden ones with them.
Your saw's serration's are straight which means that you're cutting with the force you push downwards. If you chisel the serrations at an angle you'll cut during the push or the pull which will make your cut significantly more efficient.
When he first started he was working with an author who had written a book on this kind of subject, and he had said something along the lines of "I'm very excited to see you go from hammering stone tools to eventually building a steam engine." If they succeed at that, I dunno how much farther they'll be able to go without needing a few years break so that Andy can get an engineering degree!
@@willhenry2523 who needs a degree when you have rockets? you can learn a lot faster if you have a single project in mind and you learn formulas as you go rather than sit through a degree.
Thank you for another great video. It is fascinating to see how many technologies build upon the previous ones. I can see use of the bow and arrow development in this pottery wheel.
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What is in the holes at 13:33?
It looked like glue
What is your real name?
you should collab with "primitive technology"
was tht standard wood glue at 13:32? it was too light colored to be hide glue!
This man puts a timer on his ads, i deeply respect him for that
@forks and popsticles too bad he doesn’t have a part of the video where you can Watch adds to support him with add Revenue
@@cardiepie9157 at least he has a sposor so wether people watch it or skip, he still gets paid :)
forks and popsticles yeah I know
he could have just sawed through a tree stump sideways to get a wood circle right away
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This is actually really really impressive. Continuing to use tools you previously "invented" gives a really cool sense of scale about humanity's progression.
Not really; the tools got refined, and the tool *use* got refined, over millenia. It's impressive for him trying to learn it all himself and doing it with what he's made all at once, though, just not very accurate to the sense of scale of humanity's progression.
@@KainYusanagi and thats okay
Its just neat to watch 😁 i must say so. This guy got me thinking of making a personel set of bronze wood working tools tho. Got enough copper round the place. Just need tin
That’s the point!!!
The fact that the tools got refined over so long is what gives it a sense of scale. Seeing how much he struggles to complete simple tasks with beginner-level primitive tools makes you appreciate how much time and work must have gone into developing that stuff when they had nothing else to work with. Modern knowledge gets offset by the fact that (no offense) he just isn't very good at things that they would have much more experience with. They had to figure out how to make that wheel, but by the time they were doing that they would collectively have millions of iterations of bronze casting and other crafting under their belt so they would have significantly higher quality tools and woodworking skills.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how far the whole team has come in their making abilities? The tools they have now and make are so much cleaner and refined than they were even a year ago, I'm impressed by their progress.
But he wouldn't be someone that builds these tools back then. He lacks the perfectionists soul to make it more precise. Yes it works but it could be done way better even on first try
Gattz maybe. But it wouldn’t be. People who build tools to use them make them good enough. It would be millennia before artists would be the ones making tools for the people who use them.
This guy is speed-running through the entire civilization
maybe arka maybe not i guess, but he missed so many skips, im convinced that this is a first time playing for him
@@_Myrhl lol good point
Well, last step is inventing Ghandi so he can nuke us all.
@@theblackbaron4119 Brings back memories
@@Nehji_Hann *Flashbacks
I like how he's going from the wheel, to spicy chicken wings, and then to written language.
clearly one of this things is much more important that the other
Александр Минаев yeah the spicy chicken wings
@@middlesack853 obviously
We all know Hot Ones was invented before written language was. It was a live interview show with grunts and crude drawings instead of explain that gram.
And it was only one wing, because that’s all they had
Crusty Croissant only the essentials
Abrasives are the tools of precision in the ages before modern precision tools. You are forgetting to use a whole class of tools that where available throughout all of history. You are making precision projects harder for yourself with not using abrasive stones to get to the final dimensions.
Yeah, I was thinking he also needs to build a froe and a riving break so he can make nicer boards with much less effort.
Andy sometimes complicates things, no offense, but he makes crude attempts at most subjects. One example being the celt with that warped handle.
yea, i've been thinking this for a long while.
A little bit of abrasive can ironically make things run a lot more smoothly.
But his woodworking needs a lot of work
Taking a little bit of time to create these tools could save hundreds of hours in the long run
I agree and even in the making of a stone axe the peck and grind method exploits the abrasiveness of other stones and that tech is much older than this.
@@sussygussy2 You can tell he's not an actual maker by the way he makes something thats at about 30% of what it should be and just calls it good. Drives me nuts
You very badly need to invent the workbench and clamp
wouldnt the clamp need the invention of the screw?
@@TheSimmr001 I think they used to use heavy stones with squared-off edges.
Watching you do all these processes by hand makes me appreciate modern power tools I use everyday.
by making a language from scrach, does he mean that he's gonna make a full language, witha unique writing system, phonology grammar etc, or is he just gonna reinvent the alphabet?
I imagine he means new alphabet, words for common items and phrases. and stuff similar to that, and it'll probably be similar to hieroglyphs
More importantly, are we going to have to learn this language in order to follow later videos?
We be conlanging
*cough* collab with Artifexian *cough*
@@mcneelyng This comment is underrated.
It's amazing when those miserable pieces of wood become to have more defined shape and putted together they become specific tool like this spin wheel. That's one of whole bunch of reasons why I love to create clay sculptures, make models, when hours of changing, smoothing, pushing and cutting pieces lead to complete piece of artwork. That's absolutly satisfying.
Andy, I love the channel and it's been especially fun since the reset. I wanted to let you know that my wife is pursuing a PhD in Theoretical Linguistics. If you have any questions about coming up with your own language, I'd be happy to ask her for you.
Imagine you're almost done with a new invention you've been working on for decades and then you hear "Let's reset our technology"
Whoa wait what what's father and son doing here?
@@Copycatpilot48commenting, Sir
Schizophrenia?😅
He be rollin.. they hatin.
and tryna to catch me drillin' dirty
@@Bluboy511 Ok thats funny
@@kingoffoxez all right lets be dirty
(Sing it)
radchurro nuggets He be rollin... they hatin, and they be tryna to catch me drilling dirty.
I like watching these videos because I don't have the time or patience to do everything.
This sort of living history is great. Really helps you realize how many tools have to be built just to let you build other tools that you can then use to build something you need.
awesome as always, little tip, next time you join two pieces of wood together cover the entire mating surfaces with glue as well as the dowel pegs, will increase the strength of the joint
mom can we have *wheel*
no we have *wheel* at home
wheel at home: 13:15
This has to be my all time favorite project hes done. It looked so tedious and impossible to get done quickly. Yet he shows his work and it was super satisfying
Just finished Ancient History this semester, makes this series *amazing*.
The intro looks like any 6 year old at christmas lol
Not Declan: its me michael. They didn’t recognize me at first. But then they thought i was you.
Get it cuz your profile picture is michael afton
@@rikdenbreejen5230 it's not michael afton it's not declan
I'm from Germany and I really LOVE this series. Keep on inventing.
The amount of work they put into a single video is unbelievable
Loving so much this series since the reset. We all can see how much effort you put into this and we appreciate that
This series seems like a great exercise program.
Ikr if you look at some of his more recent videos you can definitely see him toning up
Hope you're planning on building a lathe in one of the future videos (though still got like 2000 years to go for that) . Even in its simplest form it will save you a lot of trouble, greatly improve quality of your work and allow you to make more advanced things.
You should also investigate proper angels of chisels, drills and saws and try to reshape them accordingly. Its a lot of work, especially doing it manually on stones but once you got it shaped properly you'll know it was worth the effort. I have learned it myself when started diy and I still can't believe how much time and effort I wasted (not to mention how many things seemed to be impossible to do) on something that is a very simple and fast work once you got proper tools
Speaking from a logical practical point of view. I suggest that you make yourself a set of brass files & set of sharpening stones. I also would like to suggest a very traditional saw pattern. The simple toothed saw pattern, which consists of two deep cuts to separating two shallow cuts. This would be the most practical and useful design to use because you will need to sharpen the teeth very often. And the Deep Cuts separating the three teeth are for removing material. This design is considered to be one of the oldest traditional saw-toothed designs.
Dang man.
You have put soo much effort into this project, its soo impressive!
Thanks for going through all that effort and making this video. Keep it up!
For your saw, since copper (and hence bronze) work hardens, you can pound your sawteeth thinner and give them more acute angles to better assist in cutting. I can't help but feel that your current sawteeth act more akin to digging at the wood with a series of spoons. It's functional, but it could be *more* functional.
I love the visible confusion on his face when the axe cuts through the stick first swing
The ancestral never looks messy. The craftsmanship allowed us to master nature and beautiful forms.
This show and How Its Made are simply amazing
It's cool to see the improvement in precision you have since the start of the series-that saw makes your cuts so much cleaner
Another great episode! I wonder when woodworkers started using abrasives? We're a long way from sandpaper, but maybe they were using roughly textured rocks?
I would highly recommend looking into building something called a "Roman Low Workbench". They are highly versatile tools that were used by woodworkers and carpenters for thousands of years. You could absolutely build one with just the tools you have already made. UA-camr Rex Kruger has a fantastic series on them.
I would also love to see you build a pole lathe. That would take you to a whole new level of tool making.
At this point, I would surely invent the watermill to have power tools 😄
I would to but I don't have a river around here
You'd need a magnet for the turbine and a strong flowing river/waterfall which you'd need to buy to put a waterwheel on it
@@guyochakovsky9100 unless he meant "power" as in water powered tools like an old sawmill (that's what I was thinking of). Although you would still need to own the land
windmill?
plvmbvm: yes, of course I meant water powered 😉 (or wind, but that would require huge amounts of fabric I guess)
Absolutely blown away that the end result was so effective. considering you are just a dude with a passion. Tools are getting better, and with that so will your skills with more precise tools. Well done mate!
Hey! You need to watch Rex Kruger's wood working for humans videos, a simple Roman style wooden work bench would change your life.
Watching this gives me respect not only for you and the way you're doing things, but for the master craftsmen, who we all forgot, that had to make these things almost perfectly by hand before there was availability of modern tools.
Everytime I goto UA-cam I wonder do these youtubers do enough to keep my interest? And for you, it's always a yes. My mind is always blown by your ingenuity and patience. I am not patient enough to do this lmao
It feels like he's got his energy back, love the videos. He should look into finding sedimentary rocks for whetstones to sharpen his tools to make working materials easier.
As a loyal viewer, I was amazed at how well you made this using blunt bronze-age tools and understood the difficulty of creating fine work using Bronze-age tools. But, as a JOINER, I had multiple aneurysms at the inaccuracy and quality of using said Bronze Age tools.
Actual bronze-age tools were much better forged and crafted, not to mention used; look at the difference in the axe that was crafted with that bladesmith, and the axes he's made himself. He's not a professional in any of the professions needed for what he's doing, but as a "this is an example of what the first tools could have been like" they're rather impressive. I just wish he'd take that next step and refine some of his fabrication skills!
Kain Yusanagi to be honest if he refined his skills with everything they do, moving through history will be much more slower
@@JoeTheSquidOfficial i don't mean to a professional's standards, but just basic competency. And yes, that would slow down the videos a bit, but he'd also be doing things a lot better and easier for his end, too. His method of approach is really starting to bite him in the butt, because he only gets through the surface layer, and keeping to only what he makes means that he has to use the haphazardly crafted items. Again, it's impressive what he's doing for someone without much knowledge or training in these disciplines, but basic craftsmanship, just knowing how to use his tools properly, would take him so much further. That's really what he needs to work on.
@@KainYusanagi i kind-of agree. its painful seeing how hastily made the projects are. in the real "old word" this would be an important tool used for perhaps a lifetime. they would put MUCH more time and effort into getting things near perfect. rather than "hey, it works". but i understand they cant spend too much time on any single project.
@@bobedwards8896 Exactly. Craftsmen would spend years apprenticing and making their own works before making their masterpiece, which wasn't "the best piece they ever made", but rather, "the best piece they ever made, at the time, demonstrating to their master that they have joined the ranks of the masters of the craft". It was literally the piece they crafted to earn the rank of master craftsman. And even then, you had plenty of self-taught craftsmen out there who never learnt from a master, too, but spent enough years doing things that they eventually learnt how to do things pretty good.
The things that immediately popped up to me in this video were the lack of using an adze to properly rough-shape the surface of the log pieces, instead trying to use chisels as wedges or just hacking at it with his axe; he also hasn't crafted a basic plane yet, which would have been a piece of wood with a mortise cut into it and a cutting tool like his chisels wedged inside. Then there's his wasteful pouring out of glue and wax, when instead he should be using something more like a earthenware or stoneware pot to dip things into, giving a flat even coat that he could build up through repeated dipping, or in the case of the glue, saturating the surfaces meant to be bonded together. The list goes on, but I'm sure I've made my point; these and more are basic tools and techniques in use for millenia that we aren't seeing used that I feel he needs to get a grasp on.
A note about pottery; make cylinders not bowls when starting. Bowls are easy thanks to centrifugal force, while cylinders are difficult because we all have a dominant hand. Inside hand stronger is a bowl, while outside hand stronger makes a cone. Cylinders are also first because you want even wall thickness, and a 90° angle between bottom and sides.
Too, don't worry; no one understands centrifugal force just like how it doesn't make sense that bicycles work.
Keep your elbows in against your torso; thats where the stability is. It's wobbling because you are.
16:06 I would think they'd have invented the spout by now....
Kinda -- they technically had a spout for the olive lamp.
I like to live dangerously
They didn't really have the fore thought to include a spout. The main goal was to make a clay bowl period. And to be fair he isn't the best at soft sculpting.
Whenever Andy finishes this series there should be another on called how to master everything making it to where everything he didn’t feel good about he can go back to it and master it
Of all the ferris wheels, I was not expecting to see the Singapore Flyer
I am honestly blown away at how smoothly it was spinning!! :D Beautiful work as usual, my man!
Try making something similar to a draw knife, it'll definitely cut time. Maybe an adze, earliest evidence came from around 50,000 years ago
Pun intended?
Nothing is too big or too small for this team, from spicy chicken wings to literally making a language. This channel is awesome! I've learned so much and actually am always pumped to watch your videos. Really impressed with the even better format since the reset!
This is one of the best series I'll probably ever see
This show helps u realize just how amazing humanity is
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Watching him hit with that bronze axe I'm thinking, how much durability left, then, plink!
@@avoirdupois1 haha lol
Feels accurate to me.
general Erich stuck in stone age\forest - Primitive Technology
Pool building in forest - Primitive survival tool & stuff
Thank you from deep of my heart because I almost gave up on how would wheel or foundation of wheel worked.I searched weeks atlast. Yes very less people had thought upto this far and I only hoepd for simple animated video but wow lucky me to find your video thanks again
Imagine walking outside and seeing a rock on the ground. Instead of thinking 'hey look a rock', you think to yourself "I could make a pottery wheel out of that."
Me: oooh, shiny!
This should really be on TV. Very well produced.
I don’t want to be the “um actually...” guy, but actually ATP synthase is a molecular machine that acts as a natural wheel and axle. Great video man! Keep them coming😁😁
I would call it a wheel either, more of a shaft being spun around by a motor.
So like a stick that you put a string around :D a bowdrill for example.
Wow... Andy does the most work in a video? That's a great innovation!
If you dont build a boeing 777 from scratch in the future then I'll be disappointed
Nah a 747 would be cool
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Most HTME videos begin with me saying, "That's ambitious. No way he's going to make that work." All HTME videos end with me noting the remarkable craftsmanship from each creator involved. Love your channel.
"I'm gonna try to invent my own language"
*Conlang Critic has entered the chat*
The level of patience required to build something like with not only crude tools, but only allowing yourself a minimal range of innovation in solving these problems is commendable.
12:54 this is cursed but legitimate in a survival situation.
You upload so consistently and do amazing things each time. I don’t understand, and hope you aren’t overworking yourselves
You should make a leath it would make wheels/circles MUCH easier. Like so he can see 👍🏼
Lathe - just so he gets what you mean lol
Spring pole lathe is within reach of his current tool set.
It's a matter of time frame. Yes, he could do it with his tools, but sadly that's about a millennium away plus bronze would never survive the first catch on it. Also, have you ever tried turning a huge wheel on a spring pole lathe? I have scars on my knuckles that say it's not worth it
Thank you again for this fantastic series
I like how you have a box simply labelled "stones."
When cutting small branches with an axe, always strike in 45° angle (rotated among vertical axis, z). So that the branch is diagonal in your hand. Usually cuts through with one good strike even with thicker branches.
4:32 Cat was startled at human doing thumb stuff
Obviously this would be later for your trip through time (which my wife and I have been enjoying), or a separate video; just an idea, biodiesel or black diesel. It's easy to make and can be made with the sun (for biodiesel). Maybe a naturally made catalyst (like NaOH or KOH). Peanut oil was the original fuel for diesels, but due to the cost of crude oil and production costs it was changed.
Great UA-cam show. Keep doing what your doing and ignore any hateful comments.
I'm still waiting for the Iron Age techs, as that's where I stand to learn the most.
Watching the videos on this channel is like reliving the progress made by mankind on this planet
I love how this channel is really getting up to steam now you have the few basic tools :)
steam has to wait
@@paddlesaddlelad1881 Haha I realized that just after I made the comment :P
Again I love the sponsor timer, really helps me skip and/or watch depending on interest!
I wonder if someone ever came up with the idea of using slaves to spin that really fast and make work easier. It would require modifications but it's possible.
Yes they did. As well as animals.
They build large wooden disc that were mounted at an angle, so whatever part of the disk had something heavy on would always want to move in one direction.
And then they put a cow on there bound so it'd always move not to strangle itself.
Like that's the most high tech it got for milling and the like.
And I suppose some people will have used the same technology to spin whatever they wanted to spin.
@@emilychb6621 That's just consistent spinning, not high speed spinning, that said, that speed would at least be faster than without the animal
Mei Grafd Vodder I will give you a example romans they used it to power them mining
you're thinking of cogs or belts, which definitely did happen, but that's an iron-age technology. a bunch of oxen in another room with a GIANT wheel, which is geared up to spin super fast at the actual potter's end.
@@ijikegaming4202 yeah I've heard of the wheels people were walking in to pump the water out
For how quickly you must turn them out to produce weekly content, those tools are getting better and better all the time, and the results show. Dare I say, and don´t get this the wrong way, you are getting handier and handier from a not very promising standpoint. Producing this channel will yet turn you into a master artisan, showing that any skill is just a matter of time devoted to it. Good for you, that is always a great thing to see! :)
P.D: also, that saw would be a much bigger help, and a source of great precision for future builds, if it was thinner on the cutting edge, meaning you have to remove much less wood to get a given cut. Half the wood removed is half the energy expended to do so! I suggest 'sharpening' it against some abrasive stone to make a much thinner blade at the edge. Ideally, you would cut sawblades out of sheet metal as we do nowadays, but I understand casting thin sheets is a tall order, and extrusion completely out of your reach, so you´ll just have to grind them thin.
That's not how saws work, it's not a knife. If he thinned the teeth, how would the back of the saw fit in the cut?
13:13 is that normal wood glue I see?
I noticed you pinned your saw blade into the handle but were using a spin drill with the bit attached by resin and twine. Might I suggest making a few spoon drill bits with a tail and two holes to put pins through to attach them to your drill shaft so they stay put?
Since you've crafted a potter's wheel, it might be time to think about making a basic bit and brace for drilling holes instead.
Other thoughts: ditch the saw until you can make a much thinner, stronger blade. The cross section on that thing requires you to move way more material than it's worth. You can get the same basic results with chisels in a lot less time. And as another commenter said, a draw knife would help a lot with making dowels.
Whooooo the wheel finally that took a long time but I gess it was even longer for ancient people
I’ve done a lot of woodworking, and let me tell you. Even with modern steel hand tools, making something like that would be hard. That fact that you did it with dull bronze tools is insane. Nice work man
5:32 holy shit my anxiety spiked!
Hi, if you put weight (like rocks!) far from the axis of rotation, the wheel will spin longer with each kick! Greater moment of inertia means longer spinning! Also, small rocks can be used to properly balance the wheel, eliminating wobble!
"Nowhere in nature"
Armadillos:
"They see me rollin'. . .they hatin'"
"Nowhere in nature"
Armadillos:am I a ball to you?
Need some pumice stones or primitive sand-paper to help with finishing. The woodwork is so crude at the moment, even with rudimentary tools people figured out how to make things nicer.
Finally. I have been waiting so long for a new video and sub to this how to make everything this stuff takes a WHOLE WEEK
Wow how to make everything hearted my comment I was not expecting that
@@cardiepie9157 these tools take weeks but htme knows how to build them. Imagine how many years it took for the bronze age to do this
Hamza Nasir yeah it took cave men centuries but still it’s hard work to make these tools how do you think he’s the only one doing this stuff it’s just really hard
gosh every new video im just so blown away this is the coolest series on youtube
Finally he did it, he did what he said he would do, the invention we were waiting for.
The most groundbreaking thing about the wheel was the mindset shift that took place to realize it and turn it into something useful! For thousands of years Neanderthals/humans watched rocks roll but never turned that concept into something useful and then BAM!
Just looking at the Ljubljana Marshes Wheel dated back to 3200BC and its axle, the complexity that is involved for something that old its obvious the wheel was discovered well before that time and evolved into what it was!
No one:
Literally no one:
This mad lad:
12:52 Look a snack for later.
@Daniel Jankových mm, fried grub!
"Ew, Grandpa!" -Gwen Tennyson, probably.
Cool thing about this invention is that, even if it's imperfect and wobbly, because it spins well enough you can use it to make more precise wheels out of clay and other materials. You can fire the new clay wheel and replace the wooden ones with them.
how many more hundreds of years will it take for him to learn how to say "Dagger"
It's a Minnesotan thing, you should hear how we say roof and yea and idea and boat and....
You sir have the best series on UA-cam.
I'm waiting for gun powder and firearms 😂
Your saw's serration's are straight which means that you're cutting with the force you push downwards. If you chisel the serrations at an angle you'll cut during the push or the pull which will make your cut significantly more efficient.
So how far are you willing to go with these videos last one you're on the moon?
When he first started he was working with an author who had written a book on this kind of subject, and he had said something along the lines of "I'm very excited to see you go from hammering stone tools to eventually building a steam engine." If they succeed at that, I dunno how much farther they'll be able to go without needing a few years break so that Andy can get an engineering degree!
@@willhenry2523 who needs a degree when you have rockets?
you can learn a lot faster if you have a single project in mind and you learn formulas as you go rather than sit through a degree.
wow didnt think it was going to look that good, I am glad i stumbled on this channel loving it so far.
Nobody:
The comment section: they see me Rollin, they hatin
Thank you for another great video. It is fascinating to see how many technologies build upon the previous ones. I can see use of the bow and arrow development in this pottery wheel.
new name for the second channel LHGMS
least handy guy makes stuff
This is my favourite show on yt right now
Man I thought this one would be wheely easy