When he straightened out the hook to make the point, I was reminded of one of my favorite parts of this channel. He is constantly experimenting. He isn't as much trying to recreate primitive methods based on what we know about the primitive methods but rather trying to discover them through trial and error using materials and tools from a primitive era. A great example is when he was first designing his furnace years ago and was experimenting with the different bellows. Really is a jy to watch. Please continue to grace us with your work.
Yep, makes it so much more authentic, really shows in full glory how all of our inventions are a product of human ingenuity instead of something given by aliens or some sht
That fish hook is actually very impressive, i've done enough forge work to know that making something that small and sharp takes a lot of practice and an immense amount of time and patience. Great job man.
already have caught a 30# Blue Cat off of these (going to try to get a 60#+ next year). ru-vid.comUgkxzXmlErSqVAEGWFEKO530BvTqFDw53QW3 Definitely very strong, and sharp. Additionally, the gap is wide enough to actually hook a fish (not always the case with circle hooks). I purchased the 8/0, but probably should have got the 9/0 (they seem slightly smaller than other 8/0 hooks). Additionally, having the point in-line helps if you drift fish. I have yet to get a serious snag with one of these hooks.
Woah, the iron knife works so well! So much better than the stone knives. Such detailed work is required to bake the ore, filter the iron oxide powder, create slag metal, find the iron/low grade steel beads, create clay, form a mold, and then cast, fire, and sharpen a fishing hook. So much respect for the patience and skill that went into this!
@@reedabuke9205 He baked iron ore. Then smashed the baked ore into that rust-colored iron oxide powder. Then made a very fine basket-strainer so he could filter out the lumpy bits, which he then smashed into more iron oxide powder. The shiny black rocks are natural coal. He started a wood fire, then added coal to serve as an accelerant (fire is more hot) and as a source of carbon (iron is a bit higher quality, but may not yet be steel). He dumped the iron oxide powder into the fire. Then covered it with more crushed coal to keep the oxide evenly heated. The lumpy mess he digs out of the fire is slag metal. It is a fragile structure of miscellaneous metal alloys. Slag is not good for much. But inside the slag are small beads of good iron (/mild steel, not sure how much carbon you can get just from coal). He smashes the slag to get to the good iron and collects it in the form of many small beads. Then he dumps fine soil into a hole and mixes it full of too much water. He collects the soil-and-water solution into a pot and allows the soil to settle. He carefully pours off the layer of water, leaving a fine solution of slaked clay. Once the water evaporated, he was left with decently pure clay that he uses to make a mold.
@@reedabuke9205 After that, he uses his new clay to make a rectangular block. Then he carves a rough fishhook shape into the mould. He fills the mould with beads of iron/mild steel. He shows us his kiln (the clay structure with a fire pit and a grate inside a chimney). He fills the base with coal or charcoal (possibly both), then places a clay brick inside to serve as a fire-proof platform. The mould with iron beads goes on the brick. He starts a wood fire in the fire pit under the grate. This catches the coal/charcoal on fire. He gets it going nice and hot, then closes the chimney with large stones. These keep the heat in and allow the kiln to get very, very hot while spreading the heat around to keep things nice and even for a long period of time. After several hours of this, he allows the fire to burn down. The rocks stay on so that the metal and the clay mould cool slowly. This prevents stress fractures from destroying his work (or at least makes that less likely). He takes the rocks off, revealing used up coal and his iron+mould. Then he uses a rock to carefully break the now rather hard clay brick so that he can get to the iron wire inside.
@@AzraNoxx Thanks. So the Iron Oxide dust in the fire with the coal made the slag (which made the hook). That's what I was confused about. I wish I could identify rocks and knew the basic chemistry. I didn't know the dust and carbon would create a metal. Thanks again for the explanation
@@reedabuke9205 Isn't chemistry pretty cool? You can make usable metal by heating some rocks, breaking the rocks up, and then heating the dust up for a long time. Then it's just a matter of breaking off the lumpy and unusable slag metal to reveal the tiny beads of good metal underneath! .... Plus some mould making, metal shaping, and manual filing. :) Lots of work, but still totally doable.
the first one it seems fake, the hook came out rounded from the mold, while the groove of the mold had the rolling up only on one side being a mold in half! couldn't get out rounded. I have some experience in the field, that mold couldn't get a hook like that out.
Agreed. Also, natural draft furnaces like that can get hot enough to reduce iron, but usually not hot enough to melt it. And without flux, they probably wouldn't have melted together that nicely even if he reached high enough temperatures. I call shenanigans.
@@EntropicNightmare the black stones he's using to get the temperature higher is oiled shale. Petroleum rocks. So yeah I don't think the heat is that much of a problem.
Iron doesn't melt at temperatures below 1800k. Oil shale burns at around 1080k. No way he got the heat up 720k with a little fanning. Also, iron doesn't melt into a little mold like that, neat as you please. Now, lead? Lead makes pretty little beads juuust like the ones he put in that mold when you stream it into water. Easy enough to smash up the mold after and switch out with a bit of wire. Maybe this guy should stick to digging swimming pools.
I love and respect your work, man. Only you know how much effort you made for all of this. Can you please film where you find the stones and how you recognize them, please? Keep up the great work!
Amazing. I am truly humbled by his craft and intelligence. With all my education and skills I learned a lot from this young man. This should be required viewing for more modern students.
you could get a hotter fire temperature by having a chimney inside a chimney and blowing air down the center one. The fresh air going down the center one would be heated by the rising smoke. with a large chimney you could even melt steel.
@@gkdxvysvqu1. if you heat the air before it burns; the temperature will burn hotter. this is because the chemical energy of combustion creates a fixed delta. the numbers quoted in most books start with room temperature air. one example of this is a propane forge that creates a vortex since that heats the air as the air spirals.
@@daghetnie lighten up there KAREN. I was merely noting that my luck is after spending the enormous amount of time to make such a great looking hook I would most likely loose it. It wasn’t negative it is realistic. In a real world survival situation it would be far more efficient to make a hook out of bone or wood, even stone. Your comment was more negative and condescending than my original post. Merry Christmas!
Этот чувак красавчик! Единственно целую кучу надо переобжечь а потом отбивать шарики металла от шлака, по итогу получаем маленькую кучку металла! Ему бы попробовать наэлектризовать кусочек уже имеющегося металла, об волосы или шерсть, мне кажется так он намагнитит больше металла из шлака, чем вручную будет так его собирать!
He change his mind on how he was going to fabricate it. He realized after casting it that it would be too difficult to do the finish work needed if it remained in the original configuration. "How will I thin the hook shank down ? How will I put the point and barb on it...." The stones and that knife could not get inside that "J" to do the work he needed to make it an effective hook
hes not fishing for studs so stop saying the hook finna bend, its most likely not gonna especially considering the fact that hes probs gonna fish in a shallow river pocket or a small pond
Maestro! Incredible eye for detail. It took you some time and effort to make that one. Fast evolution from stone age to iron age, but I was wondering if you also could make a hook of bone? It usually is easier to find. Being a fisherman my self i know it's good to have some spare parts. Anyway, great job! Merry christmas and a happy new year to you, sir.
i don't know what is more mind blowing to me, the amount of work to produce a piece of "wire" with primitive technologies or how cheap it is to have in the store today
I feel bad after watching this knowing that I've got like a hundred different styles of hooks in my tackle box. I'd give this guy like half of them after watching that for just one hook. Also throw in some fluorocarbon Line. After about the second day messing with this I'd be heading to the local Bass pro Shop or Walmart. I must say, amazing skill & patience!
Three things I would love to see. 1. Primitive thread. So you can patch that shirt up. Curious to see if it can be done. 2. A rug or some sort of mat out of local materials. 3. More epic videos. So talented. Let's me know if the world ends, we will be alright.
Great video!! That looks like a hook you would buy in a store..lol.. awesome job! I also really like all of the detail you shown making it.. keep up the excellent work.. Cheers from Cincinnati Ohio USA..
As someone who has seen some casting.... is the truly the shape you got out of that mold? The last picture of the mold with metal in it, versus what you are holding in your hand makes no sense.. If you follow the rules of gravity, you don't get something circular when you lay something flat on the ground. You have to make a double negative mold to get a circular cast. What you have shown here is not what you made.
