Smelting MALACHITE into a KNIFE 

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

@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.

7:15 is so Dr. STONE

Next episode: Late Bronze Age & Slavery

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

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

7:19 That techtree is super cool!!!

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)

This was pretty cool. Greetings from South Africa

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

0/10. didn't eat the charcoal

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.

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.

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

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

Best channel on yt, hands down

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

YES! THANK YOU! A DAGGER HAS BEN MADE!

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

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.

I love the tech tree!!!!!

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!

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

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.

*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.*

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.

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

It's important to point out that the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age system is is in fact NOT a system or measurement of technological progression, it is merely a way European and Middle Eastern history is retroactively divided up. Other parts of the world and other civilizations did not necessarily follow the same pathway: Mesoamerican civilizations like the Aztec and Maya for example used stone tools, yet had cities larger then anything you saw in Bronze or Iron age Eurasia (Tenochtitlan, the Aztec Captial had 200k people and covered 13.5 square kilometer,s vs Uruk, the largest Bronze age city, having 40k people and covering 4 square kilometers), with their largest cities rather being comparable to the biggest cities of Greece and Medieval Europe: Other then Tenochtitlan, El Mirador, Teotihuacan, Tikal, Calakmul, Caracol, etc were all other large metropolises matching or eclipsing large Iron and Classical European cities; Teotihuacan in particular outright being larger then Rome in expanse; while Tikal had a huge suburban sprawl covering around 100+ square kilometers. And all of these had very complex, interconnected water management systems with canals, reservoirs, drainage networks, aqueducts, etc. The region predominately operated on a city-state system, like in Greece, and stuff like political marriages, vassal states, etc were common, and there were even a few republics with senates, such as Tlaxcala. The Aztec had circles of philsophers and poets who taught at elite schools; too. In a couple of ways they were even arguably more complex then europe: Sanitation was taken to the extreme by the Aztec, for instance, with streets and buildings being washed daily and waste being collected by fleets of civil servents, while there were very high personal hygiene standards. They also had a fully formal taxonomic system for categorizing plant life, etc. In conclusion Just because a society is more or less complex in one area doesn't mean they can't be in others, and moreover, human societies don't all progress in the same way: Beyond metal tools, Wheels for transportation seems like a basic thing, but they never bothered to use it either and achieved considerable complexity regardless.

I'm liking the Live Action Dr. Stone series!

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

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.

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

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!

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

Loved the episode! I just can't imagine how someone went I'm gonna burn wood covered over and ended up with charcoal, let alone oh these are nice rocks. What if i layered them with the charcoal and blew at them for a while....

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

this legit reminds me of the anime dr. stone.

Senku from Dr Stone had his full playlist on loop

Do you realize you just made a Glass Dagger from The Elder Scrolls Games! Legend

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

You can burn through the segments in bamboo with charcoal rather than punching through it and probably splitting it in the process.

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

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

Just an idea that might help; Maybe try baking your clay molds like your crucibles to drive off the moisture--or even incorporating the mold pattern into the bottom of a crucible? And, to prevent the mold from cracking when you pour hot metal into it, try to preheat it in the fire so there is less thermal shock. Lastly, for a more consistent mold pattern, make a wooden form to press into the clay. Good luck with your future metal projects. I'm looking forward to when (and if) you get to aluminum.

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.

18:50 "Cutting edge technology" Was the pun intended

Imagine Andy just kept going once he got to present day and ended up rapidly inventing advanced future technology

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.

Am I the only one or are there others out there that just simply can't forward this to their friends for them to admire how awesome this show is because they'd think that you're weird?

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)

I turn off Adblocker for this content! This is so cool!

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

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.

This is the best channel on youtube

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

Why do I feel like every airport in the world has a shared page on this guy and every time he showed up at one all the airport employees collectively think hear we go again

Now I have a craving to play Age of Empires

That James fellow is just wonderful!

FINALLY.. The metal ages. Dude, where's your tech tree at the start/end?

"Cutting-edge technology" That pun, though lol

8:51 ah that's why it's called blow torch now days! Right?

This is the Netflix adaptation of Dr. Stone. And it's glorious science.

You can pinch the air down to a smaller opening on the exiting side of the blow pipe to increase velocity.

I'm surprised that axe can cut wood. If I was doing the same thing I would've definitly recasted that one.

This group gives 'back to basics' a new take.....in our current climate something we might actually need soon😎🇦🇺

6:26 lol

The Wheel, and Axel were Bronze Age advents. they had simple rollers before that, but drilling a hole for a captive Axel seemed to be the trick.

*Can you make an MRI machine next? You can get the liquid helium by drilling a natural gas well then create a gas liquefaction plant using your bronze and you can make the hundreds of miles of wire from the copper you smelted. The plastic can come from the pitch and oils you use, or take it from your newly created natural gas well. Should be simple*

Bronze spear. After big stick and sharp rock man's next weapon was probably the spear, after copper knife was probably the copper spear.

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

7:19 is just the flow chart from Dr.Stone

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

I was watching another video but this is more important

Minnesota Gang entering the Bronze Age like a boss 😎

2025: HTME: splitting the atom

A wonderful observation of the technology of man. Reminds me of the book Guns,Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond.

He brings up a great point. You're going at this with just yourself or a tiny team. Antiquity had entire villiages working on this.

Ha man if you do get into the steel age I'll watch every video on it... I'm playing on being a black smith....

Oh man, that tech tree is so awesome. I really hope you make a poster of it