Millstone Dressing Worsbrough 1977 Old timer with shaky hands works stone to precision. 

I have to say these old timer vids are better than UnchartedX

Just proves u get skill with time. Plus it gives u a warm heart when watching

Such incredible skill and patience! I'm sure someone would claim these mill stones were produced with some ancient lost high technology If they were totally ignorant of the actual process used by amazing craftsmen like this.

I think this stuff is amazing. I'm glad it's being filmed and documented for posterity. Or it too would be another lost technology. I hear grains made by these eroded folks teeth fast. They use that to help date skeletons they dig up. The way he attached that chisel to the hammer is cool also. I always had a theory that they'd use a measured and anchored arm or handle to make straight lines freehanded, but also not feehanded at the same time. You can learn alot just watching these guys work alone. It why I've always liked working with old timers. Good video

Bah hell, that warmed the cockles of me heart that did. Brings to mind the Featherstones, which were an old 'native' family with many branches in the North Yorkshire moors where I was raised. The sandstone used in the cottages there abouts was dressed with a feathering pattern - a central seam running the length of the stone's face with diagonal cuts running off to the edge to create a feather-like pattern. It beared a resemblance to the face of a mill-stone also - likely a display of the mason's highest skill (it was called herring-bone also). The Featherstone family were doubtless originally masons. I came across a millstone quarry near Sheffield too, there's a great grit-stone escarpment running across the moor there, now the play-area of many a rock climber. Amazing place, littered with round millstones, half buried, big and small. Presumably those with flaws in that were left unused. I wonder if they were from an earlier period before the use of French stone, or, perhaps, for coarse grinding of something other than flour. Aye. Special video. Blue dye is also used in hand-flattening steel with a file, I did a little of it when I was studying engineering and often thought about it in relation to those egyptian boxes cut flat with "laser-like precision" ...I didn't however know it was part of the mill-stone cutters toolkit (not that I'd seen this operation done before), great to see. The use of wood in their mechanics, cogs and bearings always amazes me, there were a few ancient machines kicking around in my old man's farmyard made with them, incredible to see wood used in that way. Aye, they really were some lads! Thanks for that dude, a little gem. On a sidenote, you may enjoy one of my favorite short films, "SNOW" ...It's not relevent to stone working but a beautiful 10 minute snapshot of another age - and old lads in flatcaps. Here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cl4pJwcE7JI.html All the best, J.

What incredible skill and patience.

Thanks for uploading

What this old guy has is known as an "intention tremor". It happens just as he decides to do something with his hands, but as soon as he grasps something, or engages his hands in work, the tremor stops. My Dad had the same thing for a couple of decades.

another good video! goes to show there's more than one way to get the job done. this should make the detractors question their own logic and claims of "impossibility".

That was really interesting.

This was really cool to see, thanks.

"Tap..., tap..., tap..., tap..., tap..., tap..." *"TINK!..."* (...wheel snaps in half...)

that was a fascinating show!

Excellent find, thanks!

I didn’t see any aliens or high tech ….. 😂

My luck would be that as I dress the stone, right at the end I would give it one last light tap, and the whole millstone would crack in 2

aye lad. 👍

Nope, I'm calling it, that man is half alien half atlantean 🤣

Great for the dentist ;)

All done with his tungsten carbide tip

and all the wannabes with their fancy SNC machine...