Smelting MALACHITE into a KNIFE

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I travel to England to learn the art of forming tin and copper together to ultimately make bronze. I create a bronze dagger from scratch and take our series into the Bronze Age!
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@htme 4 года назад

Check out some more footage from the Beltain Festival I visited while at Butser Ancient Farm this spring in the UK, on our secondary channel: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-R8pcuWwHrJw.html

@224Jaman 4 года назад

I love the tech tree graphic

@lacybookworm5039 4 года назад

Will you be making a kilm? Do you have enough clay available locally? HTME ♥️

@MannyJazzcats 4 года назад

So cool that you came to the UK

@cretudavid8622 4 года назад

Try make a crossbow

@generalerich9196 4 года назад

Build a phone!

@smplyscuffed3216 4 года назад

Fr tho what caveman was like “yo guys this rock is fricken green let’s burn it lol”

@HavokTheorem 4 года назад

I dunno, when I discovered how to make fire as a child I instinctively wanted to try burning all sorts of things to see what happened. Fire is fascinating and so are rocks.

@benjaminbarr8714 4 года назад

Maybe they made a fire pit with the green rocks cause they were a cool color

@FreeRangeLemon 4 года назад

I’m guessing it was an accident, like they just put them in a kiln for support and ended up with metal. That’s basically what happened with all inventions.

@colonelstriker2519 4 года назад

Now imagine inventing some food “Yo fam this white thing just came out of a flappy boi let’s eat it!” - egg

@ethank.6602 4 года назад

@@FreeRangeLemon that or they noticed that the rust on native copper was the same colour as malachite and put 2 and 2 together

@LibertyTreeStudios 4 года назад

That British dude was amazing, the humor was perfect 👌🏻

@SF-li9kh 4 года назад

Delightful guy. Felt bad for him though. His asthma is holding him back

@Xtreme4mil 4 года назад

Dude looks like he bout to make a park full of dinosaurs from an insect amber

@eidolor 4 года назад

Precious bastard that

@DeadwaterGaming 4 года назад

Dang, didn't expect to see you here @James Walker. I always seem to run into our subscribers on random videos I watch, somehow.

@LibertyTreeStudios 4 года назад

Deadwater Gaming Feels good to be semi famous 😎😂 Are you guys Minnesota Gang too?

@RedBloopCreature 4 года назад

I love this reboot. This is just amazing and exactly what I look forward to every week.

@gunnaryoung 4 года назад

Exactly! It's what I wished this channel was when I first stared watching, it's perfect!

@asshattery 4 года назад

Couldn't agree more.

@nopenope6750 4 года назад

@@gunnaryoung what was it before?

@gunnaryoung 4 года назад

@@nopenope6750, it was similar but he worked with modern tools so it wasn't a good portrayal of how technology progressed

@pigmaster7747 4 года назад

I loved the British guy, he was just so genuine and kind. I hope the best for him

@rock3tcatU233 Год назад

Yep, plus he understood the importance of having slaves.

@kevbrand8824 Год назад

That was also a favorite part. Probably nice sitting and chatting with him.

@epoc162 4 года назад

I love how MEL Chemistry sponsors like, every video. It really is the perfect type of sponsor for a channel like this.

@Greentrees60 4 года назад

And I am convinced! In 8 years I will be buying it for my little niece or nephew!

@Minikin1 4 года назад

@@Greentrees60 Roughly in that same boat. Basically biding time for my nephew to come of age.

@geoffreyfoster3595 4 года назад

If I had kids, I'd be all about MEL, real talk. And in the future, when i wanna teach my kids some science, bam, who am I gonna check out?

@josequiroz5902 2 года назад

I agree

@dew7555 4 года назад

5 years from now: This episode of HTME: Space Age is sponsored by SpaceX

@linecraftman3907 4 года назад

jokes aside, there is a crowdfunded company called Copenhagen Suborbitals aiming to send a human on a suborbital flight

@Vortex-zb6be 4 года назад

Linecraftman hey you wanna know who else sends people on sub orbital flights. Virgin airlines or any other plane company

@linecraftman3907 4 года назад

@@Vortex-zb6be oh ffs 😂

@walker9192 4 года назад

Linecraftman more like 25 years it took him 3 years to make a te shirts

@VexChoccyMilk 4 года назад

SpaceX: Find your forever home, on Mars!

@mistermangoman9293 4 года назад

“They had a power tool we couldn’t afford, slaves”

@sharonhamilton3095 3 года назад

HO HO HO SANTA IS HERE

@sharonhamilton3095 3 года назад

MINCRAFT UNSPEKABLE ARMY

@animationspace8550 2 года назад

Time

@FlameRat_YehLon 4 года назад

"Cutting edge technology" Ah, I see where that term comes from :)

@juggleyourballsoff 4 года назад

more like good good

@mr.osamabingaming2633 3 года назад

Ye, nævr thüt œv thæt.

@John_Conner222 4 года назад

this is pretty cool to see. Im glad you are exploring these lost arts from a "from scratch" perspective. To answer your question about why Bronze was developed first over things like paper and writing well you just have to understand human nature first. Even today we have to "Establish a Perimeter" before we can do more delicate tasks like writing a document. Monsters, the dark, and other humans want to take your food. No time to write when there are constant threats lurking just beyond. Once you have the tools and the bodies standing guard only then can you take the time to create something that is not going to protect you, help you gather food, or make shelter.

@joshd2013 4 года назад

Its the long way of saying function over form form can be done only when you have time

@Pupsi 4 года назад

Heyy! When you get to the iron age, you can easily harden iron to high carbon steel with case hardening. It's just packing the ready tool head into an airtight clay vessel filled with charcoal and firing it. The carbon will seep into the iron. To finish off you smash the ceramic and quench it. Firing times can range from 30 min to a couple hours. Most tools only need to hold an edge so it's common to leave the core more flexible ~30/60 min firing.

@baddonkey6876 3 года назад

Yeah, i saw Clickspring's vid on case hardening

@theFLCLguy 2 года назад

That's more the steel age than the iron age.

@59232 2 года назад

@@baddonkey6876 Clickspring is awesome

@rowanbcapr Год назад

how do you get rid of carbon though? because most of the time you’ll get cast iron rather than wrought iron when you smelt down iron ore

@gilmour6754 4 года назад

that smelter guy was cool. he sounds like he'd be really fun to sit and chat with over a pint.

@lostarcher1 4 года назад

It always amazes me just how innovative and smart "primitive" people were when it came to making things and just how smart we sometimes think we are compared to them until we try to make the same items that they were making with ease.

@mortemsteam 4 года назад

Well as technology advances old tech is phased out

@gayusschwulius8490 2 года назад

They didn't do those things "with ease". It took them millennia to figure them out. They weren't especially smart, they were persistent. That's the key to all ancient technologies.

@azzgunther 2 года назад

@@gayusschwulius8490 In terms of raw intellectual potential, they were pretty much what we are. You could go back 5000 years and, after navigating language barriers, be impressed by their organization or philosophy or technique. In some ways their generalist skill set might actually put the average Bronze Age person ahead of the average modern person, since we in the West tend to be hyperspecialized in one thing and marginal at most things. It's an interesting thing to think about. A real eye opener for me was reading Marcus Aurelius' _Meditations_ some years ago. Ideas like those coming from somebody 2000 years ago really forced me to eschew some biases.

@harryniedecken5321 5 месяцев назад

We don't see it so much today, but sometimes those materials occurred naturally or very near each other. These people were very used to the idea of putting things in a fire and beating on them to make tools, even arrow tips and other tools

@Goldiloxz 4 года назад

This dude is just playing Minecraft in real life. Finally we too can punch wood into submission. Lovely

@-Kerstin 4 года назад

These videos are a pretty good companion to TerraFirmaCraft; a mod for Minecraft that makes you go through all these steps Andy does to craft tools.

@Goldiloxz 4 года назад

@@-Kerstin Ethoslab actually has, I think, 3 playthroughs of that Also quite an amazing modpack, really puts the Communist Manifesto in Craft

@-Kerstin 4 года назад

New episode today ^^

@Goldiloxz 4 года назад

@@-Kerstin Literally watching it right now

@redking36 4 года назад

@@Goldiloxz There is also a TFC+ which expands on TFC.

@chrisfox961 4 года назад

I love the progression that you show in technology. This reminds me of playing the computer game Civilization!

@OptimisticNihilist15 4 года назад

I denounce you

@llamallama1509 4 года назад

63 episodes from now, he builds an ICBM

@trevorhunting1211 4 года назад

OK BOOMER!

@Blutwind 4 года назад

Good thin Ghandi already left the server or else is playthrough would end badly

@cristianvillanueva8782 4 года назад

After watching this channel I started getting back into the civ series, so your nottjeonly one lol

@emeraldh80 4 года назад

I have a vision of you in five or ten years hosting a show where you set challenges like "make a copper ax" for teams of contestants with eliminations every week and an eventual winner

@TheFancyUmbreon 4 года назад

He should call it Primi-tech.

@gayusschwulius8490 2 года назад

Great idea, I'd absolutely watch it.

@Serahpin 4 года назад

Might I suggest the book "Primitive Technology" by John Plant, available at all reputable booksellers near you.

@gregwenderski9147 4 года назад

OMG, what a great episode! I've cast a lot of bronze, but never made it from scratch! Hats off to you--this was quite an achievement!

@mangokraken 4 года назад

loved your show before the reboot, been around since about 100k followers, but now it feels more organized and easy to follow. great work!

@Spoon80085 4 года назад

Next episode: Late Bronze Age & Slavery

@graywolfdracon 4 года назад

Do the interns count?

@canaan5337 4 года назад

@@graywolfdracon as long as they are unpaid and poorly treated I would count them.

@pneumarian 4 года назад

@@canaan5337 Hey, slaves don't HAVE to be unpaid & poorly treated. They just have to jump before you're finished saying "jump," even if they don't want to. Which is why unpaid & poorly treated has always tended to be pretty common.

@great-wall-of-nowhere9377 4 года назад

So guys I've just arrived in Somalia

@trevorhunting1211 4 года назад

aaaahhhh ok BOOMER!

@blossomnessstudios4446 4 года назад

I help my mom with homeschooling my younger siblings, (8 and 6 years old) and I remembered this channel, so I'm going to start showing them these videos and then doing a project related to them. Thank you SO MUCH!

@ieshi23 4 года назад

0/10. didn't eat the charcoal

@CarpetHater 4 года назад

that is a different channel.

@jurian0101 4 года назад

7:15 is so Dr. STONE

@razorgodzz7898 4 года назад

jurian0101 Good job mentalist

@scottkrametbauer90 3 года назад

Of course there is a reason Senku skipped this age, Japan is rather lacking in tin

@ahnabellasmith9573 4 года назад

My favorite thing about these episodes is scrolling through the comments and seeing people’s predictions for future episodes a few years down the line. Who the hell knows what they’ll do? I love it.

@Greg29 4 года назад

It's always fascinated me how the ancients knew how to work with metals, to be able to differentiate the various ores, how to refine them, and mix them in certain ratios to make alloys.

@jep9092 4 года назад

Bread? Bread? BREAD? BREEEEEEAAAAD!!!!! I LOVE BREAD I'm into baking sourdough bread and artisan loaves so the next episode will be awesome

@-Kerstin 4 года назад

Yeah I look forward to the bread episode too

@zipzesty3215 4 года назад

Could have also made wind drums for the blower. It's an old African way of folding hide on top of a special drum to create a one way valve

@markospaic314 4 года назад

Will definitely try this myself. You inspire me to learn unwritten history. Thank you for uploading quality content on youtube. Just if there was more people like you.

@daltorb8739 4 года назад

@8:55 To hollow out bamboo with less cracking, take a heated rock (like really hot) and drop it down the shoot. Then use the seperate stick to push the rock through the nodes.

@brockdaff_3125 4 года назад

new series is just amazing, good job and keep it going!!!!!

@erictaylor5462 4 года назад

4:00 "My late father's shaving brush." Is he late because he couldn't find his shaving brush?

@chrisbolland5634 3 года назад

HAHAHAHA

@masterimbecile 4 года назад

Smelting the copper makes him an alchemist... a full metal one, one might even argue.

@timmorris8932 3 года назад

He's still missing a few elements to earn that designation

@JosueHernandez-nu5cp 2 года назад

I kinda want to make a knife like the one he made in this video but I don’t know if I should extract copper from Malachite like he did in the video or just get copper ore because I am a bit concern about the toxicity of malachite

@opi_is_me1576 4 года назад

Love the reset of the channel man, super interesting seeing you going thru the stages of evolving technology.

@JPRTonundFilmstudio 4 года назад

Yeah! 7:15 A tech tree!! My wish from the last video was granted xD

@ChillyCows 4 года назад

Another great episode! Love watching the progression. Keep up the great work!

@linecraftman3907 4 года назад

7:19 That techtree is super cool!!!

@johnburr9463 4 года назад

Andy, y'all are nailing it with this reset. I love these episodes. I found you way back when Grant Thompson mentioned you in one of his early videos and have watched your progress. You are a hero in my eyes.

@atmankost3261 4 года назад

Man, I really wish I could support you! This channel, PrimitiveTechnology and a few others are my favorite channels as you are exploring primitive technology and showing everyone else, basically how to do it from scratch! Keep up the amazing work!

@pb7199 4 года назад

i love seeing otzi the ice man! i remember studying him briefly in my ancient history class in high school! he was lactose intolerant (normal at the time because humans had only just started domesticating cows and didn't drink milk past infancy) and had grains, meat and plant matter in his stomach which suggested an omnivorous diet. i forgot what the evidence was but something in combination with the arrow wound in his shoulder suggests he was shot at a distance from uphill while running away from attackers.

@irishmigit 4 года назад

Can't wait to see more! Great video!

@SB-or5mj 4 года назад

You should use thinner blowpipes. Every time you blow, you have to replace all of the air that's currently in the pipe. If you put your hand at the ends it probably feels like it's not outputting as much as your inputting. A thinner pipe helps that.

@austinames8959 4 года назад

I can’t wait till episode 500 when he goes to space 😂😂😂

@LittleDergon 4 года назад

When you get to the iron age, are you going to be following crafting from the iron rich sources of the west (i.e. broadswords) or from eastern iron poor sources (i.e. japanese folded metal)

@canaan5337 4 года назад

Probably bog iron would be the easiest Iron ore to acquire.

@tanszism 4 года назад

@@canaan5337 he isn't talking about ore, but the uses. The west had an abundance of iron and thus used it heavily. The east, not so much, so they made thin, master craftsman-only tools.

@sandervanduren2779 4 года назад

PersonalPerson you do realize that katanas are thicker and heavier than equivalent European swords, right?

@amefeu4259 4 года назад

@@tanszism/videos Considering his current smelting and blacksmithing skills he should probably stick to the west methods. Produce a large bloom, pick the best bits of metal, and make something that does the job despite being unrefined.

@ThePandaInTheTrash 4 года назад

@@sandervanduren2779 this was done to make up for their poor quality iron. Japan has really low quality iron ore. Europe had some of the highest quality iron ore. That's why traditional European swords were better than traditional Japanese swords, and why it took the Japanese months to create just one katana. It took a lot of time and skill to turn bad iron into decent steel and then into a good weapon.

@cholulahotsauce6166 4 года назад

Putting the lessons of the musical instrument episode to good use i see. The band is getting back together!

@bertnelson4087 2 года назад

I really appreciate the amount of time that goes into these videos. So much work involved.

@zak686 4 года назад

I do enjoy this tech reset you've done. It makes for a great combination of history/primitive survival and chemistry/technology. I look forward to seeing you work into the iron age and all the challenges that entails.

@adrianoluca1435 4 года назад

How to make everything is soooo educational. I love it soooo muuch

@fdk7014 4 года назад

This is a brilliant series!

@civilisedzombie 4 года назад

i liked the restart so much that after a 1 to 3 years of watching your vids, i finally subbed and turned on notifications!

@aitchpea6011 4 года назад

I used to live near Butser Hll, and went there for events many times. It's great seeing it get mentioned on videos like this, they do great work there.

@TheWildWondersSA 4 года назад

This was pretty cool. Greetings from South Africa

@DesertNavy 4 года назад

2:40 Cassiterite is an ore that yields tin. So yeah, it would be complicated extracting copper from it. 😜

@cvspvr 11 месяцев назад

alchemists were just built different

@byronperry8931 4 года назад

All raw materials used in thus series so far Basic reources: Wood-Local Stone-Local Pine Resin-Local Cattails-Local Hemp-Local Clay-Local Bamboo-California Turkey Feather Grown In His Garden: Gourd-His Garden Flax-His Garden Rocks, Minerals and Metals: Obsidian Galena-Illinois Native Copper-Michigan Malachite-California Casserite-Cornwall, England Flint-England

@AlexanderTzalumen 4 года назад

The thing I find most people don't realize about the wheel is that the metal banding around the wheel and the metal clamps that hold the axle in place are what give the wheel the durability and utility to actually function... Moderately advanced copper and bronzeworking had to be achieved before the wheel to create those parts.

@jannepeltonen2036 4 года назад

Awesome episode!

@lolsflint7598 4 года назад

YES! THANK YOU! A DAGGER HAS BEN MADE!

@UtahSustainGardening 4 года назад

Great series!

@w1ld51 4 года назад

Best channel on yt, hands down

@rw42000 4 года назад

3:03 "But they had a power tool that we can't afford, that's time. haha... and slaves, of course." Hahaha, the delivery is perfect

@cetyl2626 4 года назад

Glad to finally see you be able to smelt copper like that!!

@Nono-hk3is 4 года назад

I am so freaking impressed. Time to join your patreon.

@RustyCigrit 4 года назад

Best channel on youtube we learn with you and really let's us appreciate history

@m4rvinmartian Год назад

*9:00** Wrap the bamboo in vines, let them dry in the sun, it'll reduce the chances of splitting. Also, use the smallest dowel you can, then increase the size. A sharp pebble is better at piercing through. Drop it down and hit with the dowel.*

@mudddober 4 года назад

Great video. I have been a living history reenactor for 15 years and i would suggest a smaller blow pipe as it intensifies the air to make fire plume hotter. the bigger pipe allows to much room for air dispersal and you waste breath as a cause of it.

@unvergebeneid 4 года назад

It's crazy that people figured out to do this with next to no knowledge of metallurgy!

@rickcoona 4 года назад

i really appreciate this series thank you for showing folks what it took to get civilization to where we are today

@toolzshed 4 года назад

I love this show!

@Striker9 4 года назад

I'm in love with this series, can't wait until they get to gunpowder xD

@humphrey7079 4 года назад

"It actually holds an edge pretty well but it dulls super quickly" So which one is it HTME

@timmorris8932 3 года назад

Both. They are not mutually exclusive conditions.

@DH-xw6jp 3 года назад

@@timmorris8932 yes they are, "holding an edge" means it doesnt dull quickly, because it holds. "Gains an edge pretty well" can be used in this scenario though.

@timmorris8932 3 года назад

@@DH-xw6jp semantics. The OP pass talking about how it will take an edge but losses it quickly. That was pretty obvious.

@Zamolxes77 3 года назад

Man those tools look so crude, but I love them. Must be very satisfying knowing you made them, in primitive conditions !

@hoagy_ytfc 4 года назад

Loved this.

@kittiesice 4 года назад

this legit reminds me of the anime dr. stone.

@hunterpatton1370 4 года назад

ashley nickle yeah, but Andy isn’t as good as Senku and Dr. Stone kinda skipped the Bronze Age

@kittiesice 4 года назад

@@hunterpatton1370 lol true, but the way he explained it reminded me of when Senku talks about rebuilding from the ground up lol

@simon-patrickjohnson 4 года назад

This channel is popping off👌

@buttersquids 4 года назад

Woah, I loved that tech tree at 7:16! Please do include it in future videos!

@MegaAdeny 4 года назад

That James fellow is just wonderful!

@evilbaron 4 года назад

The most important relic of the Bronze Age: the Nebra Sky Disk (or Himmelsscheibe von Nebra) around 3600 years old, middle Germany. Also today 09. November 2019 is 30 years Fall of the Wall (Called Mauerfall here in Germany)

@jamie8602 4 года назад

I would look into work hardening the edges of the tools with a hammer stone rather than just sharpening for both bronze and copper. This gave them a much more durable edge and a simple way to sharpen them.

@joecoastie99 4 года назад

“Unlocked” it’s like a tech tree in a game but human history. I can dig it

@makaan1932 4 года назад

what a nice wholesome guy

@jordythecat7181 4 года назад

I heard of one way people made bronze things in the old days. They sculpted what they wanted to make from bronze out of wax, then put clay around it, and baked it the wax would get runny and drip out of the mold, while the clay hardened. Then that’s when they put in the molten metal, and when it was cooled, just... break the clay away.

@DanCooper404 Год назад

Lost Wax

@keppi157 4 года назад

yo i swear this channel is amazing and should get more views

@q8haroon 4 года назад

Keep up the good work!!!!

@OffGridHacks 4 года назад

Blacksmith, iron worker here. Should be able to cook the moisture out of the clay. With what you have i would make a 3 inch thick "pot" or "form" for your casts. Bake the clay for many hours in the fire, maybe get a moisture meter to check to save failure. Of course fine sand is best for casting, but clay SHOULD be able to work. I would really focus on perfecting your skill in creating tools now, in doing so that will directly affect the quality of future work and yes, it is more time spent now, but I promise you that you will get that time back and more in saved time later. You can do it!

@scasey1960 3 года назад

What’s amazing is that you can go from Kitty Hawk to the Apollo moon landing in under 100 years. By comparison, the transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age took several thousand years.