Using antique lamps, Rick demonstrates how they work in this video. Properly trimming candles and oil wicks and loading the lamps for the most efficient use, and a bit about a few 19th century lamp manufacturers is also discussed.
Hi, just watched your conversation with Dave and thought I would view a video or two. after watching you first video I feel your channel perfectly compliments engels so will continue to work my way through your archive.
I just came here from your introduction video with Dave Engels. I enjoyed this video and subscribed. Looking forward to your next production. Thank you for sharing.
tous les vendredi j’attends avec impatience la video de Dave et maintenant j'aurai deux vidéos à regarder. merci de France. Pierre de Vierzon. Every Friday I look forward to Dave’s video and now I’ll have two videos to watch. Thank you from France. Pierre de Vierzon.
I'd echo what Chick said. It's great to meet you and we really look forward to learning from you and getting to know you too. So thanks and all the very best from England's sunny North West.
Very happy to see that you’ve started a new channel with such an interesting topic. Came here from Dave’s channel and instantly subscribed. Anxiously awaiting more videos!
Everything I know about carriage lamps I learned in the last 23 minutes. I don't know what's going to be covered going forward, but it looks like it should be interesting. Dave has set the bar high, but this looked to me like a fine first effort. Good luck & hope you enjoy making these.
Thanks to you for the lesson. Also thanks to Dave for the introduction. I wouldn’t have found you without him. Very much looking forward to seeing many more videos
Thank you for letting yourself be persuaded to document your skills before they disappear. I do not follow many u-tube channels, but yours and Dave Engles do make informative (and enlightening :-) watching!
Just when you think you know it all you learn something new , I thought all lamps were liquid base , I never saw a candle lamp before or I thought they were a kerosene lamp . Thank for starting this channel I plan on hanging around awhile . Bill
Hi Rick like many others I am a transplant from Dave's channel. And like Dave's channel I learned a lot about lamps in this video. so looking forward to learned a lot more and to see your expertise at first hand. thanks for producing the video and sharing.
I am looking forward to learning more about carriage lamps. I have enjoyed Dave's channel for a long time now, and I am sure this one will bring equal enjoyment.
G’day from downunder Rick. Consider yourself “Dave bombed” 🤣🤣🤣 Like everyone else, saw the interview with Mr Engles and dropped over. Thanks for sharing your obsession with us, looking forward to more. Cheers & well done 👍👍. P.S. You & Dave have to be related somewhere along the line, 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hello Rick, As with many others below, Dave sent me here. Some would say that I'm interested in old stuff, because I'm old, but not true. I've always loved the old ways of doing things, and making things. That's why your channel as well as Dave's fascinate me. I'm looking forward to more videos. Regards, Solomon
Thank you for sharing your videos on you new channel, seen you with Dave's and subbed for yours, very informative and interesting keep the good work up 👍👍👍
Nice that you share this with us. I am going to folow your shanel. I have experiense with restauring old trams and the knowlege of old methods and craftmanship are worthy.
Beautiful! From a time when the journey was as important as the destination. I can't say that I've ever considered a modern headlight to be "beautiful". 23 minutes of "Wow, I didn't know that!" Amazing. Thank you, Rick.
Rick just subscribe to your channel after watching you and Dave video interview on the “EngelsCoachShop” channel, look forward to your upcoming videos. New follower from South Wales,United Kingdom.
Add another one coming from Dave's site. Learned something new today which is good thing. As a former sheet metal fabricator I am really looking forward to the nuts and bolts of making these lamps. Thanks for posting.
Amazing craftsmanship by you and Dave. Looking forward to your entire library and you're off to a great start...even though this was 4 years ago...I will catch up.
The thing is, I don't know why I find this so interesting, but I do. I've been watching Dave's channel for years and I don't know why I'm attracted to it either. I guess I just like seeing dedicated craftsmen like you and Dave doing your thing, plus your ability to show how it was done "back then". Keep up the good work.
Fascinating. I was introduced to metal spinning at a visit to the Cessna Aircraft factory many years ago. They made (and presumably still make) light aircraft propeller spinners (hence the name!) And spinner backing plates by that method. I always wanted a reason to learn how to do it, but so far I'm just a curious bystander.
Like so many others, following Dave’s recommendation! Interesting that the tail on the oil lamp persisted to maintain the look of the candle lamp predecessor. Still on our porch light, too. One point I remember from being corrected in Church. The difference between a candle extinguisher - what you demonstrated), avoids blowing hot wax all over - and a snuffer - which was a little scissors with a box on one blade that was used to trim and catch the wick. The snuffer was the domain of the sexton. Doesn’t look like anyone makes that distinction any more.
I'm the same as Glen, I came here after watching your video with Dave and thought it was interesting, I'm glad I did and hope I learn as much from you as I have Dave, He's been a HUGE help in my job because I use alot of his tips refurbishing old signs and building new ones. We have an old Standard Oil lamp at the shop that is just a center piece and it's so great to see someone fixing these beautiful works of art! Keep it up, I enjoyed that immensely.
Thank you for the introduction to a totally new topic for me. There are so many sophisticated features to the manufacture, operation and maintenance of these incidental everyday items that I can see how you would be come fascinated by them. Most of all I appreciate you turning off the lights so we could see the lamps in use. There is nothing quite as calm and warm as candle light. I look forward to seeing what you do in future videos. Thanks again.
Part of the crowd charging over from Engels :D Would be good to know exactly HOW to trim the candle wick -- how long and when it needs doing. Those lamps would look good on the wall in my living room. :D
Came over from dave like most. This has the making of a brilliant channel thank you so much. I've really enjoyed it. All the very best from a ex- wheelwright / coachbuilder here in the uk . God bless take care 👍
I am excited to see your videos. I too love lamps with oil or candles. Looking forward to your future posts. Thank you for sharing your talents and knowledge with the world.
Thank you Rick for inviting us to your carriage lighting channel, and the informative video! Dave's recommendation goes a long way here, and collectively we're all glad to welcome you into the fellowship of great craftsmen and their historic works! I'm looking forward to your metal spinning demonstrations, as well as your molds and forming processes!
Thanks Rick, You covered a lot of things that I didn't know. That's what I have loved about Dave's lectures, and expect you are going to be just as interesting. Thanks again for starting your series.
I would recommend an identifier number system as you progress into more videos so when looking for a specific video it can be located. I look forward to your videos each week.
Enjoyed the video Rick. That was very interesting and I learned what the tail on the lamp is for. I've always thought it was just decorative. Thanks for taking the time to produce the video. Looking forward to seeing more videos. Y'all stay well and God bless.
Welcome to RU-vid Rick. Like everybody says, we are all looking forward to many more interesting and fact filled videos like your first one. I have a list of these super interesting and fun to watch videos on all sorts of things. Keith rucker at Vintage Machinery. He has lots of great videos, been a fan for well over 4 years I believe. Abom 79 for about the same amount of time. He is a third generation machinist and really knows his stuff. Plus, he has an eating and adventure channel too. Windy Hill Foundry is also great and is another new addition to my list of fun guys and gals to watch !!! Of course Dave Engall in Joliet, but, you already know about him... Then the last one that I have been watching and donating to for at least 4 years. Leo at Sampson Boat Co. he is rebuilding a 1910 Gaff Cutter somewhere in Oregon. Other than needing a haircut, along with most of his crew, he's a lot of fun to watch. All of these people really know their stuff. You can start a Patreon account too. A lot of us donate to all of these individuals and would probably do the same with you to make it easier to supply the great stuff you do !!! Thanks Rick and welcome to the show!
Had no idea what to expect but I find these lamps to be absolutely gorgeous. This is my first exposure to them and never knew about the springs, though I always wondered about the unique shapes. Probably a silly question but I assume that these are really more for others to observe as decoration on the wagons at night than how we use headlamps today to actually see the road ahead whole driving? Really looking forward to these series.
absolutely correct! while giving just enough light to see around the carriage and more importantly for others to see you coming the ornamentation value was paramount.
Hi Rick. Found my way here from Engels. Love it. I look forward to more. Greetings and Good Luck to you from London, Olde England. Oh, I subscribed immediately.
Thanks for taking the time to do these videos. I'm looking forward to learning all all about this and perhaps putting some of that new found knowledge to use,
Thank you for doing these videos. A lot of fine craftsmen like yourself prefer to not work with an apprentice. These videos will help share some of what you know for later generations. Oh, they also make folks like myself envious because you obviously love
G'day, Yay Team ! Thankyou for pointing Dave at the Wheelwrighting business ; I found you via him, and I found him via the YT Algorithm... I posted a video of my grandfather's Spoke-Pointing & Tennon-Cutting Bits, which I was about to use to make some rustic outdoor furniture - cantilevered & with dowelled joints...; the Workbench I made that way 25 years ago (with the ancestral Bits...) being still in-service... In 1976, when I was 15, I helped my father (52 when I was born...) to shape & fit a pair of (square-sawn Spotted-Gum) Shafts onto a "Racing Spyder" (lightweight Sulky, in Oz - I dunno what you'd call it in the US ?)..., and in '77 he had me in the team when he set the second of a pair of Steel Tyres, onto their (2, Steam-Bent) Wooden Felloes of the Wheels for a Horse-drawn Harvester which was under restoration. The Shafts were from among 6 pairs which my grandfather took into Stock in 1936, there were 3 pairs still in the Rafters of the old Paint Shop...; the other 2 pairs then being readily on-sold to the people who owned the Spyder. I've charged Batteries with Wind-Turbine Rotors that I carved with my grandfather's Wheelwrighting Tools..., & I've flown behind 2 different Ultralight Motorglider Propellers that I made the same way...; and I didn't realise it until (binge) watching Dave's Videos - but I've somehow wound up with pretty much my grandfather's entire Journeyman's Wheelwrighting Toolkit - enough so that I could put my hands on enough rare, old, and specialised Gadgets to Make a Wheel with if I wanted to try... (and I have one old & never-used Hub to start with, too !). As I've told Dave in the Comments..., I have a long mouldering ambition to build an Electric Wooden WindWheel, for the fun of it, a Permanent-Magnet Alternator with a Bridge-Diode Rectifier to produce DC Current... I visualise Helically-pitched Wind-Turbine Blade-Sections, carved onto the Spokes...(I'm practiced at that, it's the theoretically "hardest" part, but it's the only bit that I've actually already kind of mastered...) and Neodymium Magnets in the Felloes (which will be weirdly-Sectioned, too - to harness a little bit of "Thrustrum Effect", as well as using the Felloes as a tip-sealed, rotating Duct...), so it would be quite Aerodynamically very efficient (!). The idea is to build a Triangulated Wooden "Airframe" for the Windmill, with a pair of C-shaped Iron-Cored Pickup-Coils with the Magnetised faces of the Fellows passing between the ends of the Cs, with close attention to the Spacing, to ensure that as the Wheel turns there is always the same Area of Magnets between the Iron Faces, as the Magnets go past the Coils - to prevent "Cogging". I forsee no actual advantage over what's readily commercially available in the shops, and Solar Panels beat the Tripes out of Windmills for making reliable off-grid Electricity, say for Houselighting (I've been off-grid for 35 years)...; but I think that for sheer whimsy and quaint eccentricity it might be quite difficult to beat - if I can make it work...(?) ! Anyway, until I encountered Dave's Videos I had had more experience at Wheelwrighting, and done more of it than anyone else in the local Postcode (2370, Glen Innes, NSW, Oz...), but - I knew that I actually knew almost nothing about it... Mere ancestral smatterings picked up along the way, as a kid, hearing and remembering things said... But, now, I'm aware of at least a thousand mistakes to try not to make - which would have probably conspired to stump me entirely... And if Dave's in the business now, because you started him in that direction - then I owe you as much thanks as I owe to him... Yesterday, I left a long comment under his most recent upload, inviting him to check out my "The SunFoil Project..." Playlist, Therein to collect his Reward within the Gift-Economy, for having taught me so very much ; which I've wanted to know for 60 years...(!). You, too, deserve my gratitude ; so pretty please, if you feel like it, check out my SunFoil Project Playlist. The long-winded explanation is posted in the Thread under Dave's video posted at the end of Feb. 2024...(yesterday was my 29th of Feb, when it appeared in my Feed - but in Montanna, when Dave posted it, it was still the 28th !). I hope you enjoy the idea of SunFoils as much as I'm enjoying the Wheelwrighting...; and the Lampwork. I lived on Kerosene Lamps & Candles from 1985 to 2000..., so you, too, appear to me have the status of an actual GuRu...; Gu meaning Darkness..., & Ru meaning Light - so a GuRu leads people from the Darkness into the Light...(!). So a Hare-Krsna told me once... Which is a pretty fair description of a Manufacturing Luminary (!), is it not ? Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !
I am very happy to see that a relative of Dave's and one who has a kinship in the trade has started this channel, congratulations. I was very interested to see and hear about the differences in candle lamps to oil lamps and so on, but I would also have liked to learn more about the lamps themselves. You did mention who made them, but are there different styles of lamps and perhaps where did that style come from originally and when? What are the different styles used in the carriage trade?, and perhaps you could speak a little more about their history. I am very much looking forward to when you get to actually showing us how these lamps are made and the process involved, and I know that will come in time, but knowing more about the different styles and history of the lamps in the meantime would be quite interesting. Thank you for showing us your skills.
Absolutely love the total craftsmanship that goes into the production of these lamps. Back in the day you would have to be an aprentice to an older person to learn a trade and so learn how to make a living. We are sadly lacking in this department in this day and age. Everything is junk and we just throw it away. I believe in repairing something, rather than throw it away because it was damaged. It is very sad that many people see no value in that any more. I am eager to see you demonstrate more of the tools and techniques of this trade! I also love to see and hear Dave Engels as well, really like the antique style of his shop as well. Best of luck with the channel and can hardly wait for more videos.
Thanks Rick, an excellent first video- Like most people here, I also came over from Dave’s channel, and is with wheelwrighting, know nothing much about carriage lamps. I’d love to see some content explaining more about their origins. For example, although I’ve seen many carriage lamps over the years , it never occurred to me they had springs to keep the flame in the correct position. Congratulations on your efforts, and I am looking forward to learning more!
Hi Rick, like everyone else....Dave sent me, but it's a fascinating topic. Here in Australia we have very few people that repair coach/carriage lamps. Looking at my collection every second one of them has something I'd like to repair, so I'm really looking forward to your videos. Love to see how you go about cutting, beveling and replacing glass panels. Congratulations on taking the leap, and thanks for sharing your knowledge and passion
Rick, this is an interesting and educational "first" video. I'm looking forward to more videos! Now I want to learn enough from your videos to try to make my own lamp for use at home. ;)
Welcome to RU-vid! I love the idea of your channel, and I hope you have as much success as your brother-in-law. If I could make just a couple of suggestions (please take this as encouragement!) it would really help if you had a different microphone - one that was close to you speaking, instead of across the room. Thanks! And best wishes.
Thank You for taking the time and effort of sharing Your knowledge and and passion in this way. I found it absolutely fascinating and very informative, even though I knew absolutely nothing about this particular subject. So I wish You the best of luck with the endeavor of "building this channel". And I hope You will find it rewarding so that we can take part of and benefit from much more of Your knowledge of and passion for Your craft. Best regards.
your the light of the world, just jump right in and good luck to your channel I am sure it will be an illuminating experience for us all. godspeed and my prayers are with you.
