I’m releasing a bit early, the beans were spilled. I’ll add relevant links as I get them. HTME shop fire: • Lost Everything Rex Krueger’s video: • I made an "E" for How ...
Cody is the perfect example of succeeding on RU-vid by just doing interesting things and finding your niche. No fancy production equipment, mostly hand held footage. Yet he has over 2 million subs.
I think his sub count is a tribute to his personality, rather than his filmographic skills. He's so charming while he shares his interests that it's hard not to smile along as he pursues them. There's a lot of stuff he's done that I've watched with joy, despite having no interest in the subject, and come away having learned something!
I think even with how amazing his content is he could not have reached that sub count today with the style he presents in. His style worked really well way back in the day before the algorithm started crushing everyone. Now lack of consistency, staging, lighting, audio (please balance your audio levels cody
He's a kid who never grew up. He was A LOT like me at his starting age. Obsessed with learning and testing things. He just is younger so had chance at youtube i never did
One thing to bear in mind with these Kintsugi-style repairs is that the traditional technique puts the gold just on the surface--as you found, mixing it in doesn't produce a good visual effect, and it's expensive too. What you really want is to fill the gap, and then essentially "gild" the repair with a layer of high gold concentration.
Plus having the material mixed throughout can compromise the actual integrity of the repair itself as the aggregate material can sometimes prevent a good bond.
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The most Cody's-Lab/like thing possible - clay from the mine, weird elements, kiln heating and plenty of mishaps turned awesome features! Absolutely loved the video!
I have a newfound respect for everything clay-related. I always imagined clay as almost indistinguishable from mud and never imagined the amount of work that goes into a material like this
Well it is mud. But only the best mud is muddy enough. And it must be refined to a very high standard... But yes, once you get into the chemical and physical processes that turns mud into the highest grade ceramics your mind blows.
Interestingly enough, Clay is the name of a Particle Size for geological sediment. Clay, silt, sand, gravel, etcetera are all the size names of sediment particles. The colloquial use of these words is used less precisely than the actual correct usage, so it can be confusing. :-)
@@AflacMan13 To make things even more confusing, clay actually has two distinct definitions, one is the size-based definition and the other refers to a group of minerals that are very water absorbent, and happen to be clay-sized, but I don't think all clay has to be made of these clay minerals
In canada i found an area of lake erie that had clay. I didnt refine it ..just dug it and made a clay pipe for smoking, it worked great...until it cracked due to the hi content of silt and lil rocks in it..... but i definitely have a new knowledge and respect for clay!
That marbling came out gorgeous! I'm a ceramist and I'm delighted of what you archived with this piece, you never cease to amaze me, thank you for taking us for the ride.
Any other youtuber uploading something like this, eh, don't care; but Cody makes stuff like this so interesting. As I age I'd like to say my bullshit meter is getting more accurate, I can pick up on who genuinely enjoys sharing with us. Cody's channel is #1 in this respect. - Gets right into the video, no over the top intros. - Shares his knowledge in a calm and simple fashion as if he's your buddy, not yelling into the microphone. - Not afraid to show inevitable mistakes, and shows how he finds a solution. - No "Don't forget to like, comment, subscribe, smash that bell"; ends with "Hope you enjoyed, see you next time." We need more youtubers like you, seriously.
Wow, this is awesome! I have been watching their channel close to when they first started. They definitely need the support right now. Thank you for doing this.
The legend himself. This guy has been such an integral part in keeping me interested in science. Hats off to you sir. What an epic career documented in It's entirety.
@@lazertroll702 welp no doubt but at this point in time the entirety of his RU-vid career is on RU-vid. But no doubt I hope he is a vampire and makes videos for the next 1000 years
He doesn’t shy away from admitting mistakes especially if their somewhat disastrous. Much respect for that because many RU-vid channels will make their videos seem flawless when it in fact wasn’t.
Staying true to the HTME brand and getting your starting materials from nature! Love what you've done here and I hope nobody's gonna cry over those spilled beans xD
I once saw Cody driving, about a half mile from my house, and I'm in a totally different state. I did a double take, because my first thought was "I know that guy... Who. Is. That." And then I said "Oh, it's Cody." That's what I like to see on YT. Regular people doing things they are interested in. The kind of people that you might actually see out there, driving around, even in your own neighborhood, just by chance.
Back in college I took a ceramics class and had one particular pot that was just a solid week of failure and heartache. It kept constantly breaking in some way or another. I still have that pot at home, inscribed with the lyrics to Sonata Arctica's "Broken"
I broke my feet today because I kicked my computer because someone commented that my videos are bad! I hate unjustified criticism. Please wish me a speedy recovery, dear mr
I am so glad the first one broke. Turned out to just be process development and the second version with the mixed clays and pigments was so much nicer! Great job, love it!
The art of kintsugi uses lacquer and gold dust to glue broken pottery back together, but the gold isn't mixed thoroughly throughout. It's only dusted on the outside of the lacquer as it dries!
@@AleksaNoeksa yup, seems more like he broke it and just decided to make the most of it and throw some gold in for a decorative look and because ofcourse cody would have gold dust laying around. at this point its just kind of his signature.
Hey Cody! It's Adrian- Thanks for being willing to take on a part of this project, and the letter turned out beautiful. It means a lot to me, and I'm sure it means more to Andy. Hopefully we can work on something together again!
Great work Cody =) just a tip when reconnecting pieces using slip, it helps to score the joining surfaces like you would when roughing up plastic or similar materials when joining or adding on to them. Other than that you seemed like a natural to it with your wedging and other things =) the wedging helps to align all the clay particles as well as to remove air. More ceramics videos please xD
Whenever I do repairs like this I like to drill both pieces and epoxy a pin in there, it's probably overkill but it never fails. What do you mean by reconnecting using "slip"?
@@amosbackstrom5366 slip is just a fancy word for a slurry of clay that is watered down to a kind of paste/ liquid. It is what is in between the pieces when first stuck back together before firing. Just like clay glue
Just a suggestion. Try paperclay. It's easy to make. Take toilet paper, add it to the clay slurry and stir with a paint mixer. The paper quickly breaks down to pulp. The green strength of the clay increases by several orders of magnitude. In fact it would take a hammer and several strong blows to even dent the clay. The paper burns out in the firing and there is almost no visible signs of it unless you use massive amounts of paper.
@@whynotdean8966 I never really measured it. If I was making about 2 or 3 gallons of slurry I would use one roll of toilet paper. Another hint. If you add a small amount of sodium silicate you need very little water.
While watching, I have so many questions about what clay is (chemically), why you would want to take the middle layer (when letting it sit), and what constitutes the silt that you don't want. Great content, though I wish there were more chemical commentary. Material science is fascinating and I know you have much to say on the topic!
Silt particles are to big for sintering and too heavy hence they settle down, and are probably different chemically (which I want to know too) than clay particles which are so small that make a colloid like suspension.
Clay is silica and aluminum and has an extremely fine particle size, while silt is silica and has a larger particle size than clay (hence it feeling grittier and staying towards the bottom by being heavier)
@E Van Dive deep enough into science and you'll find that all things connect. Yes, this involves Geology, though my interest specifically addresses the "What is this material made of, and what are the physical properties", principally a material science question that heavily involves geology.
Cody, I absolutely love your channel, I watch (almost) every video but watching you do this is one of the most painful things I have seen you do. This is so much more difficult than it needs to be, and I am so sorry you had a hard time making this. finding information on ceramics is not very easy because you either find tutorials meant for kids, artsy videos that do not tell you anything, or they are very overcomplicated jargon-full over the top discussions of very specific clay things. I hope that this does not put you off of making more ceramics in the future! I would love to watch you make more. I love this channel and I love ceramics. I do not mean to be rude but here is how you could have made this differently so that it would have been easier for you, and hopefully easier the next time you make ceramics! - at the start when you crushed the clay, this is both unnecessarily tiring and also dangerous if you are not wearing a dust mask (silicosis over a very large amount of exposure, but still is not that great for the short term who wants clay in their lungs?) To avoid the hard work and clay dust, you could allow the chunks of clay to completely dry and fully dry and then add them into a bucket of water, water first then the clay. leave the mix for a couple hours or so or just feel the clay to check. when the clay chunks are completely bone dry and added to water they will kind of disintegrate into the water and mix in really easily, unlike when they are still wetish (leather hard) where they will just sit in the water and not change much. to get the water out yeah either let the mix settle and tip it off or you could put the clay on plaster. the plaster sucks up the water and the clay very easily peels off after it drys a bit. if you're concerned about rocks yea you could sieve it through a very very very wide sieve or just leave them I guess. - in the video you left all the sandy stuff both at the bottom of the bucket and the fish tank. because of this your clay is a LOT less suited to sculptural things like you did with the M. if you were making thin plates or something thin and delicate and small it would be ok maybe, but anything that you're going to be moving around and sculpting will break really easily. just like when you mix rocks and whatever into concrete? I assume idk. if you are going to make sculptural pieces with your clay please leave the sand and that sort of stuff in, it will make your clay stronger. if you are concerned the clay is not clay-y enough then you can take some sand out. to test how plastic/clay-y it is you can take a piece of the clay that is about the wet-ness of playdough, roll it into a skinny log shape and see how well it bends in half and around without cracking. - when you made the M you did not make it hollow, because of this its going to be really heavy and I sort of think that it will crack easier but I am not 100% sure about that. its just not great to have a big solid chunk of clay, and if you must have a big solid chunk of clay then fire it slow af. if its solid then make sure it is incredibly 100% certain it is dry. I am not certain about the specific temperatures that you should fire the work a lot slower for because i'm a bit iffy about that, but maybe look up a kiln graph/chart thing for temperatures, or how people fire work that they're a bit concerned about cracking. ( you could have hollowed it out by getting a spoon and scooping out a bunch of clay out of the back of it) - I think you did a good job kneading the clay that looked nice, if you're concerned about air pockets like I saw in the second piece but I think that is from when you joined the two colours together, but anyway if you have clay that you think has a lot of air pockets then slam it really hard onto your table a few times with the aim of kinda flattening it out, the air pockets come to the surface when you do this. - you smoothed the work and drilled holes into them both after they had dried??? why????? just smooth them and put the holes in while they're still wet haha because then they wont crack so easily and you can change it. idk I have put holes into already fired works before but its a lot easier before the clay is dry/fired. - when you put the work into the kiln you were concerned about it cracking (i am assuming) maybe put the work in a part of the kiln where the temperature is going to be even, like laying flat on the floor. also I would not ever put work into a kiln leaning like that. when the clay sinters and whatnot into ceramic it stresses it out, leaning like that is putting stress on the legs making them even more likely to crack into pieces and warp. - last thing, when you mixed the colouring stuff into the clay at the end, that stuff is expensive so you could keep the idea in mind that some people will create a colourful slip from these mix ins stuff and dip a leather hard work into the slip ( make the slip out of the exact clay you are using, maybe take some sand out and it will stick a whole lot easier than some random clay that will probably shrinks at a different rate. -one thing I forgot, when you joined the broken leg onto the original M, you didn't scratch it up a lot and make lots of scratches into the original two pieces that cracked apart. think of all the little grain structures and stuff that's mixed across a normal piece of clay, that is kind of what is holding it together. it doesn't matter if you wet the two halfs and put slip onto them if you don't score a lot where the crack is and smoosh them together. an example of this is say, if you got to pieces of hardish clay, made two balls or two smooth surfaces, and then stuck them together. it would be really easy to break them apart from the original join again because there is no grain structure holding them together. if you scored/cross hatched/ scratched up the two surfaces a lot before you stuck them together they would stick a lot easier. - this isn't an improvement or anything but the stuff you made is a very very not really but kind of-ish form of terra sigillata. its the stuff that they put over the top of greek vases to make them shiny, they didn't use glazes. a very rough terra sigillata would be to mix up clay in a bucket really well, let it sit for about three days, then siphon/tip off the water, then siphon/tip off the suspended clay particles into a separate container then after some water has evaporated off and its a consistency you like, you can put it onto works made out of the same clay and get the back of a spoon or something nice and shiny like a tumbled rock or gemstone and softly rub it onto the clay surface to make it really shiny, then you fire it quite low i think just normal bisque maybe 1000c? dunno. but otherwise I'm pretty sure the burnishing just goes away when the structure on the surface changes. I'm sorry you had such a rough time with this, please don't let this put you off making more clay works. you could have also made a plaster mould out of mixing water and plaster and stuff but that will just make this kinda essay lol longer. I made ceramic bottles and other stuff for my uni stuff, out of clay that i had dug up from my grandmas farm. haha. anyway have a good day:)
I loved that you also hommaged the late Grant Thompson by using clay since one of his last self-presented videos was on the refinery of clay from dirt. Also helping Andy and supporting his rebuilding process is an amazing cause. Cool project and keep it up. Cheers
One of my favourite youtubers kindly assisting another of my favourite youtubers after their unfortunate turn. What's not to love? Great work Cody, and really kind of you to help HTME. In the great scheme of things, what goes around often comes around and even if kind actions seem to rebound slower than selfish ones, they will win out in the long run.
@@Somethin_Slix have you done something unforgivable to another person? If not....head up high and start being the person you want to be today. Its silly but taking crap about yourself will make you feel like crap. Smile and find something positive to do...life is too short to be upset with yourself :)
@@Somethin_Slix Without knowing you, friend, and whatever you have been through. I can offer only words. Even as I write them they seem ..so shallow; but, please, find what comfort you can. I have seen some ..horrible things. Wasting diseases. Tragic events. Bad rolls of the die.. happen to the most wonderful, loving people and while that may seem so unfair; what they stood for echoes strongly within me. That might even be more important than singular wrong things being righted every single time. Keep at it! Work hard (If only I knew how to myself) and try to be kind. Control what you can. Accept the things you cannot and move on. I MUST believe that small acts of kindness rights some small wrong part of the world. If only a grain is turned right at a time. Many small actions should echo ever more strongly. It starts with us, me and you. Lets go! "Once more unto the breach, dear friends" =)
Even after almost a decade of making videos you still surprise me with your creativity. Thanks for another great video and thank you for supporting another great channel. Here’s to you Cody.
Came out great! Love the mixed coloured clay and repairs. Really nice thing to do with HTME, been following both of your channels for a long time, nice to see you helping them after the fire.
There are two type of chemistry RU-vidrs: 1. Cody 2. NileRed Gotta love both of them. I love Cody's way as it really feels homemade and almost doable in spite of the being extremely complicated at times. NileRed seems like what you would like to do if you were working at a research laboratory - Very interesting but not accessible by everyone
So Cody (and to be clear, this is NOT a criticism of you and your work!) I would speculate that the reason the clay warped on the second attempt was due to having 3 differing clays. Each one probably shrunk at slightly different rates causing the warping. Also, if you are sticking large surfaces of clay together, you may want to score the surfaces you are joining. This will give you better joints and prevent it from seperating (such as with the repair...). But it sure looks cool! Good job on that!
I was so worried when he wasn't scoring the surfaces of those long strips of clay, I've had a few pieces fall apart because I forgot to score and slip. His final piece still looks really good though!
This was just a super cool project for a good set of folks. Really is a bummer what happened to HTME, and it's nice to see a bunch of other creators getting together to do something like this.
Something that used to work really well for me to help dry the clay is to take some pieces of drywall, even scrap, and wrap it in canvas. Dries the clay fast, and makes wedging really nice and easy if the canvas is drawn tight. I've been watching your videos for years now, love your channel. Keep up the great content!
That looks fantastic, and I think by adding in some gold I think you've made it more 'you'! What a pretty piece, I am excited to see how the other parts will look :)
Super cool, this reminded me of what might have been my favorite class in high school, ceramics and sculpture, which I took freshman year. Actually that was probably the only class I really enjoyed!
Artists often make a skeleton out of wire to help supporting the clay. See the channel North of the Border for some inspiration (and for great content) The M ended up looking pretty cool (kinda yummy too) good job!
This does not work well with real clay since it shrinks and cracks if there's something solid inside. North of the border uses polymer clay which is quite different.
@@christopher- He ended up using commercial clay so maybe he could have covered the armature with polymer clay and then add the other types of clay around.
Cody is probably the only one who did it genuinely out of care, the secret spilled early because you know others were going around bragging how nice and good of a thing they were doing for someone. Which is quite common and the norm for some reason
OMG! I'll bet you were one of those kids that mixed the Play-Doh colors together too!!! LOL (In retrospect, I can see the artistic reasoning behind doing that, but my OCD is still kinda freekin out a little bit! LOL) All in all, not only was this ANOTHER interesting "Cody" video, you really did create a wonderfully looking result. Thanks again for ALL your content!! It's so wonderful!!
Cody, it would have been better to form the holes when it was in its soft state, however the repair would have been solid had you wet it back as much as possible and inserted some sort of rod like coat hanger cut into strips 👍
Adding solid pieces into clay is rarely a good idea. Since the clay shrinks while drying, and again while firing it's going to compress around the solid parts and likely crack.
@@christopher- I’ve actually done this more than a dozen times and ended up with one cracking but it was easy enough to fill and dress it up with a touch up the point being that it would be solid 👍
I had it rammed into my head by my pottery teacher that dry clay dust is to be avoided like the plague. It is extremely bad for the lungs. So watching a huge lump of dry clay being sandpapered and then drilled gave me big anxiety 😅
it's beautiful. and you literally employed the art of kintsugi, which if anything is aligned with the idea of HTME building anew and better than ever despite the damage they experienced. Masterful :)
It's really beautiful! Great job, you never cease to amaze me Cody! You've got such the creative spark. Thanks for helping me keep motivated on working on my own projects!
In japan there is a repairing method called kintsugi also known as kintsukuroi. They repair the broken pottery with lacquer and cover it with silver or gold or platinum. This add a little bit of characteristic to the pottery and from that moment it has more sentimental value, because it show the pottery has a history. I think what you did is you added a little bit of you in that "m" letter.
Very cool!! It was neat how you were able to mix in the cobalt to form that nice light blue. The piece is extra special because you mined the clay from your mine! Well done! Side note, it seems like you've been in better spirits the last couple months, and it makes me happy to see you happier (I mean, I hope that's the case.) Thank you for all you do and for providing us with fantastic content!
Cody, that letter is fucking beautiful. An incredible work of art. I was skeptical a number of times during the process, but I was blown away in the end. Even by the packaging method you devised. The homemade clay was a wonderful addition which adds meaning and the gold is a perfect signature for you.
Love Cody‘s Laband love HTME! They’ve had a really hard time, and it’s nice to see good people doing something kind and thoughtful for other good people! The M was very Cody’s Lab style! Kudos!
Reminds me of making my own clay when I lived in Missouri. Mine was a lot more red though. It's such a fun process and super easy. Can't recommend it enough.
Those swirls from the different clays were actually making me hungry! Especially the bit when you first applied the epoxy and we could see the pristine interior. I think my brain associated it with chocolate or a mousse. Great work Cody. Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat with style! That's the first i've seen of your clay deposit. Clay is fascinating stuff. Changing it's crystalline structure depending upon the elements it contains. So it has memory of it's past exposures. Put a blob of one clay with another & the blob combines with the new clay to make a new type with qualities from both "parents". Hard, rocky clays don't move about much at all. And fine clay either dries out & blows away or gets diluted in water & is washed away. But lumpy clays, with a fine clay matrix that washes away letting the hard lumps tumble along the stream bed to join with other clays. Their crystal structures changing as the new information is passed on. There was some work that got quite far in looking at clays as the first replicator. I think it was dropped s while ago but what we learned about clays & how it's crystal structure records and passes on information about what elements it has been exposed to is fascinating.
Nice gesture and project! Their recent ice episode was brutal, but they seem to be recovering well... xD Cody, wouldn't it have been better to add a bit of skeletal support there? Like a thick copper wire or something, to keep with the theme... xD Not sure if different rates of expansion meshes well with this though... even different types of clay, I was expecting it to crack in line with the different layers. :P
11:56 Thaaaaaaaank you. Thank you SO much. I was actually talking at the screen, which I never do, saying, essentially, that you needed to just do it right and start over. haha =) Clay is such a fickle, unforgiving material. In my experience it's always best to make multiples of the piece you're making. For me it's inevitable that I'll break one. =) Thanks for your awesome content Cody. Edit - Aaaahhhhh another break! haha =( ah well, that second one looks absolutely amazing. Really very cool work!
Oh man I remember making clay from nothing like this as a kid forever ago. Thanks for the memory trip, Cody. Forgot all about it, but watching your process brought it all back.
Cody: "i dont need to put that much effort into it" also Cody: "so lets use some epoxy with 24k gold, and lets break this piece intentionally" if thats not alot of effort after already making a new one, i really wanna see him spent some time designing something awesome
Did HTME ever acknowledge the sign in any of his videos? I don't see it show up in any of his latest videos and he never made a dedicated video about it, as far as I can tell.
I'm glad you didn't decide to make the letter out of extracted Cesium or Gallium or Titanium. That would take a while. Clay is amazing. Clay has been amazing for thousands of years. Nice pick and nice save.
Awesome video Cody and a very nice thing to do for HTME. Sucks it broke at first even when it seemed like a perfect repair, but the second one turned out even cooler. Especially with the gold mixed in the epoxy. That was a neat take on the traditional way to repair breaks with gold
3:00 Glad to see you’re following old-timers’ safety warnings. It’s like my grandpappy always said, “whenever your a mixin you up some bathtub clay, gotta be sure to pour the heads off… else you’ll go blind.”
