I have been watching you do amazing ropework and now I find this gem, you are a fabulous woodworker as well. Thanks for another quality video and a worthy reproduction... I think I want one myself now!
I just found your channel and find it incredible how many trades or skills and your ability carry them out,thank you for sharing them with us,all the best to you and yours
I’m a fiber artist and I was watching tutorials on fringe plying, it led me down the rabbit hole to this video. Amazing!! That’s one of the most beautifully built machines I’ve ever seen! Just brilliant!
Mikko, you are such a skilled craftsman. It is a pleasure to watch you work. Thank you so much for keeping ate art of rope making alive. You are an inspiration to all of us knot tiers.
Really, really nice Mikko, and thank you for all you do for the craft, from knotting tutorials to making fine cordage available for purchase. I'm also totally in love with your shop.
Bravo. Thank you so much for such a great video. Your craftsmanship is wonderful. I could watch you all day. I want to make a wooden, hand powered, rope making machine, and this is the best I've seen. I am going to use recycled plastic shipping bags as my cordage
I used to work for a mom and pop outfit that made poly ropes in different sizes, from lariats up to 3” in diameter. These were made on homemade equipment. Probably the hardest work I’ve ever had. Especially when it came to thing the knots at the end, because they were woven ends. Trying to get the rope ends even and laid out, required you to use your fingers splayed out, dragging the strands between your fingers. When I went home the first day after I learned how to weave the ends, my fingers looked like raw hamburger. Even using gloves didn’t work too well because it ate them up too. Eventually I used baseball gloves with two different sizes, one over the other. Even then they were wire out by the end of the week.
I’ve been watching your videos for some time now and i find the blend of watching you work using such skill combined with the wonderful guitar playing very interesting while being relaxing at the same time. Your videos have helped me through some bad times. Thank you for what you do so well. ❤️😊
@@mikkosnellman love your appreciation of the old ways and the time you put into this project was well worth the effort in my opinion. Awesome piece of history shared, thanks.
High Mikko great video, very educational and entertaining. I will definitely be trying this when I get a house and a shop. I actually came across your channel a few weeks ago thanks to the video on how to make tarred rope and I hand made cordage and wanted to try making the tarred cordage I need it for a project I’m making but I noticed you took the video down I was hoping you can re up load it it was the only tutorial I can find on how to do it and I must say it was a rather good one. Just as the rest of your videos are. Anthony ☕️😊
Wonderful work, Mikko! I've been following your channel for a few years now, and I've watched this video perhaps a dozen times. I recently decided I would build a mini version of your rope maker, for my ship models ropework. I've never been really satisfied with what I could find in stores or online in regards to scale cordage for my schooners. As an asside, I went and replaced my old birch seam rubber with a new one I turned from a small board of lignum vitae. The board came off an ancient huge resaw, where it was used as a bearing board between the saws jaws. Beautiful stuff, thank you for the inspiration!
Very well done. And nice to see that you still had most of your fingers at the end. I was worried at various points. I too am somewhat self taught, however for those of you who watch this, be very careful. I really enjoyed this video.
@@mikkosnellman After over 40 years of machining wood and metal in a shop and on site and still with all fingers I too wasn't happy a couple of times watching this....! Even the best of us can have accidents, be careful, lovely work.
Nice video. Keep the past alive.... 40 teeth on the big wheel and 9 teeth on the small wheels make for 4.444 turns of the hooks for each turn of the wheel.
Amazing project and craftsmanship. You deserve high praise. I was disappointed to read in the comments that you did not produce a set of plans for this amazing replica. Although I am an amateur woodworker I would like to take on the challenge of building one of these. Any chance you could produce a set of plans from your replica and make them available for sale? Cheers and all the best from Canada!
Hi Mikko, very impressive! Here´s a link to a docu-short from Oslo, showing an older, simpler type of ropemaking machine without gears. I´m sure you know the type. The film is grainy, but it shows both spinning the fibre and making it up into rope. Sad film really, as it was a last-minute documentation effort on the very day the old guys emptied out their shop. The equipment got sent to the same museum that made the film. The machine in question is shown in almost complete facsimile in the French "Encyclopedie" from the Enlightenment, 1750s to 1790s. But machines like that were used long before, of course. BTW, I plant my own flax for sewing thread for leatherwork. Your channel is very inspiring, I added a subscription. Thanks, André (P:S. I only wrote in English because someone else might like to know what I was saying)
Rope from start to finish. History is so interesting and thank you for the video. Does anyone know the wage for rope makers of 17th century or before that? I can't find anything on wages for rope makers on RU-vid or Google.
@@mikkosnellman Thankyou so much. Information like that is valuable. When doing research on this it hard to find anything on Google or RU-vid. Wikipedia has an agenda and has many mistakes they won't correct, even when freinds of mine approach Wikipedia about correcting them they refused. Has a result, today academics will laugh at you if you are writing a paper and quote Wikipedia has source of information. But what you have given me is gold. Thank you ✨🙏✨
I've been looking into the knot tying lately, since I have more time on my hands, and I have found a lot of your videos. I must say, I am getting more inspired to make thing (tools and such) because of watching you, Thank you! first and foremost, for putting this out there for others to be inspired, but I do need to ask this... when you inserted the hook into the gear... I saw no shear pin or shaft key... Is it just friction that turns the hook? and if so.. wouldn't that wear with time? Thanks again!
@@mikkosnellman Thanks, that makes more sense, I guess I had to think of how it was made back in the day and not with the techniques of today. I will be contacting you soon about some of your cordage, once I learn a little more!
@@mikkosnellman, I will buy from you. But do you offer workshops? I will like to learn that skill and teach it to people in Congo. Great craftsmanship. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Too right about that... I just get excited about everything craft related... the less time spent in from of a computer the better, if it was left to me... P.S. next up becket kit... that's for sure :-)
