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Make It Primitive
Germany
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 31 ธ.ค. 2019
I experiment with making stuff the primitive way: Only from natural materials that I gather myself, and using only tools made in the same way. As my outdoor workshop I have adopted a small cave in the forest.
Please don't take me for an expert. There are lots of people with far more knowledge and experience on TH-cam. I have listed a few of them in my "Featured Channels" for your convenience. Have fun!
Please don't take me for an expert. There are lots of people with far more knowledge and experience on TH-cam. I have listed a few of them in my "Featured Channels" for your convenience. Have fun!
Reusing the birch pitch dome
As promised, an update on the reusability of the clay dome for birch pitch production, made from unfired clay. Well, now it is a kind of low-fired pot, albeit full of small cracks. But it holds together surprisingly well, so three months later, I made this attempt at reusing it. I got the charred remains out, stuffed it with fresh bark shreds, and mended the fissures as best as I could, then sent it. Here's the result.
0:00 intro
0:09 preparations
2:18 firing
2:31 the result
3:37 cleanup and repairs
4:15 outro
#primitiveskills #primitivetechnology #bushcraft
0:00 intro
0:09 preparations
2:18 firing
2:31 the result
3:37 cleanup and repairs
4:15 outro
#primitiveskills #primitivetechnology #bushcraft
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Rain and distant thunder noises, view from a small cave during a thunderstorm
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The world is a noisy and stressful place, now more than ever. It's OK so sometimes want to tune it out for a while. To concentrate, to relax, or just to get away from things every now and then. When I'm in such a mood, I like to come back to this video that I took when I was surprised by a thunderstorm while outdoors and sought refuge in the little cave that I often use as my outdoor workshop. ...
Making linden bast and cordage
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Linden trees (tilia) are somewhat rare in the forests around here, but I came across one one that was felled by a storm. I harvested some of its bark, let it ret in a nearby pond for two months, and produced a nice amount of linden bast from it. 0:00 intro 0:11 harvesting linden bark 1:55 retting the bark in a pond 3:27 extracting the bast 5:44 twining bast cordage 6:30 improving my bark sandal...
Primitive pottery 4: Firing pottery black ⚱️
มุมมอง 1.4Kปีที่แล้ว
A shorter video this time, showing an experiment in firing primitive pottery deep black by enclosing it in a container with organic material during the firing. Said container didn't quite work out as planned, so I had to improvise a bit. 0:00 firing the container 0:25 firing a small pot and two bird sculptures black 2:02 success 2:43 outro The black color is caused by the ceramic absorbing the ...
Making primitive bark sandals
มุมมอง 2.5Kปีที่แล้ว
As much as I like walking barefoot in nature, it does limit your activities, slows you down, and forces you to keep your eyes on the ground much of the time. Training will mitigate this a bit, but there is a reason why shoes were invented eventually. In this video, I make simple sandals out of willow bark. The idea was originally inspired by Chad Zuber's video on yucca sandals (th-cam.com/video...
Making primitive birch pitch from scratch in one day, without pots
มุมมอง 2.1Kปีที่แล้ว
Birch pitch as a primitive hot glue is a much older invention than pottery. So how did people make it before they had pots? In this video, I explore one of the proposed methods of pre-pottery birch tar production. 0:00 Intro 0:14 First attempt: promising, but needs work 3:47 Second attempt: some progress 7:02 Third attempt: almost there 9:08 Fourth attempt: success at last! 10:36: Outro nightin...
Making primitive birch pitch using two pots 🔥
มุมมอง 3.2K2 ปีที่แล้ว
Birch pitch has been on my to-do-list for a long time - not the simple, ineffective method I tried out on my earlier video, but proper pitch production with reasonable yields. For this, I made two specialized vessels out of clay, fired them and then used them four the double vessel method. 0:00 Intro 0:07 Making the vessels 4:11 Gathering birch bark 5:18 Preparations 6:29 Hand drill fire 7:55 F...
Primitive Basketry 5: Making watertight spruce bark containers 🧺
มุมมอง 2.5K2 ปีที่แล้ว
When nature gives you fallen spruce trees in spring/summer, it's time to make bark containers. So I put aside the project I was originally working on, harvested some juicy spruce bark and set out to find a way to make watertight (at least medium-term) containers out of it. 0:00 harvesting spruce bark and roots 3:09 folding the box 5:15 making a stabilizing frame out of a willow branch 9:56 wate...
Stone tools 7: Gathering and knapping flint / chert into primitive tools
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There are some sites in my area where one can find chert / hornstein and possibly flint (I still find them hard to differentiate when I only find fragments). In this video, I visit these places, gather some nice pieces and then try out my the knapping skills that I have gleaned from watching flint knapping experts on TH-cam, and from trying out their techniques on vacations at the Danish coast ...
Carving spoons and bowls using primitive stone, bone and beaver tooth tools
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The beaver tooth woodworking tools I made on my last video were just begging to be used for spoon carving, and I happily obliged. A freshly fallen birch tree provided the necessary raw material in the form of suitably shaped crotches. And while I was at it, I also harvested a piece of its trunk and carved a wooden bowl out of it. Primitive tools used: - Beaver tooth carving tools (th-cam.com/vi...
Bone tools 3: Primitive woodworking tools using beaver teeth 🦴
มุมมอง 3.7K2 ปีที่แล้ว
Earlier this year, I stumbled upon a recently deceased beaver. Once only the bones were left of the carcass, I collected its sharp teeth and made primitive wood carving tools out of them. In the next video, I will be using them for some wood carving. 0:00 Intro 0:35 The dead beaver 1:28 Gathering the beaver's teeth 2:31 Grinding the teeth into tools 4:19 Making tool handles 5:50 A first test I'...
One week vacation build: Making a stone axe at the beach
มุมมอง 12K2 ปีที่แล้ว
As the year before, I spent a week at the Danish coast in 2021 and used some of this vacation time to work on primitive projects. The first one is this stone axe, made from a rock found at the beach and shaped into a stone axe head by pecking and grinding. 0:29 finding the perfect stone 1:18 creating the rough shape by "pecking" 2:18 grinding 2:50 more pecking and grinding 4:11 making the axe h...
Primitive music 5: Easy DIY flutes and whistles from impatiens stems 🎵
มุมมอง 2.5K3 ปีที่แล้ว
Usually I only work with materials native to my area, but I couldn't resist trying out some flute / whistle types out of himalayan balsam (impatiens glandulifera, AKA "policeman's helmet", "touch-me-not"), an invasive species that is found abundantly in wet places in our forests. It grows and spreads very fast, often reaching heights of over two meters, with some of the hollow stems wide enough...
Primitive basketry 4: Weaving spruce bark strip baskets 🧺
มุมมอง 4K3 ปีที่แล้ว
In this video, I continue my exploration of the uses of spruce bark. A recent storm has felled a large spruce tree, providing me with fresh bark to be harvested, cut into strips and woven into primitive baskets. I tried two techniques, the first using a dense weave of perpendicular strips, the other with a light, hexagonal weave. The latter is more demanding and the results so far are a bit won...
Primitive basketry 3: Spruce bark containers & axe sheaths 🧺
มุมมอง 1.4K3 ปีที่แล้ว
Making things out of tree bark has been on my to-do list for a long time, but I had to wait for an opportunity to harvest bark without damaging living trees. I stumbled upon a batch of spruce timbers from trees that were felled due to a spruce beetle infestation. This animal bears the latin name "Ips typographus" (in German: "Buchdrucker" - "book printer"), because it digs tunnels under the bar...
Bone tools 4: Primitive bone tweezers & tick remover & water drop magnifying lens 🦴
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Bone tools 4: Primitive bone tweezers & tick remover & water drop magnifying lens 🦴
Bone tools 3: Making a primitive bone adze 🦴
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Bone tools 3: Making a primitive bone adze 🦴
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1000 Subscribers - Thank you and welcome!
Stone tools 6: Primitive cord drill / pump drill with a flint tip 🪨
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Stone tools 6: Primitive cord drill / pump drill with a flint tip 🪨
Primitive basketry 2: Weaving willow baskets 🧺
มุมมอง 8K3 ปีที่แล้ว
Primitive basketry 2: Weaving willow baskets 🧺
Make it Primitive: One year of primitive projects!
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Make it Primitive: One year of primitive projects!
Stone tools 5: Knapping hand axes and other primitive tools from beach flint 🪨
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Stone tools 5: Knapping hand axes and other primitive tools from beach flint 🪨
Make it Primitive: Christmas decorations (straw stars, resin candles) 🎄
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Make it Primitive: Christmas decorations (straw stars, resin candles) 🎄
Bone tools 2: Primitive bone knife, chisel & awl, antler pressure flaker 🦴
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Bone tools 2: Primitive bone knife, chisel & awl, antler pressure flaker 🦴
Primitive music 4: Limestone lithophone 🎵
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Primitive music 4: Limestone lithophone 🎵
Primitive pottery 3: Firing pottery in a camp fire ⚱️
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Primitive pottery 3: Firing pottery in a camp fire ⚱️
Making primitive birch tar glue, the simple way 🔥
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Making primitive birch tar glue, the simple way 🔥
Primitive music 3: Ice age flute that plays two notes at once 🎵
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Primitive music 3: Ice age flute that plays two notes at once 🎵
Primitive basketry 1: Burdock coil basket 🧺
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Primitive basketry 1: Burdock coil basket 🧺
Creo que el edor no importaba en aquellas épocas 😅
I have a similar flute made of bamboo wood.
I’m glad you’ve returned after all this time. Your videos are awesome. Please keep it up. Thank you for this.
Really cool. I wish there was caves and big rocks nearby my area...
Good Evening Make It Primitive; Do you live in that Cave? I'd love to live in something like a Cave!!!! 👍😃👋
Very nice video! Really fun and enjoyable to watch. Basswood is in my top list of favorite resources. I love trees like this that are multipurpose. you did a very nice job of showing the nice cordage that can be produced. This one tree provides food, cordage and fire, putting it as one of my tops. Awesome job. Oh… love the basket weave on those sandles ! Do you have a video on making them? Take care Ben
I sure do! th-cam.com/video/EpoQk_vuOaM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=OFKTMW6go4qyEz23
Da hast du jetzt einen schönen Vorrat. Super!
Another really interesting video. Can I ask, once the tree is cut down how long do you have to strip the bark before it’s too dry? Also are there any other great types of tree that can be retted like this? I ask as I don’t have much lime near me. Also if you’re interested I’ve started a cordage from foraged fibres series, would love to hear your thoughts as I’m a complete beginner with most fibres!
Bark is very good at retaining moisture, so there is usually no need to hurry, it should last for a couple of weeks at least. If the bark doesn't come off at all, you can apparently also toss whole logs into the water and ret the bark on the wood. I'm currently trying this with another piece.
@ Ooo ok, I may try that with some ash I have. It’s just been cut down and I tried hammering it to split the bark, but didn’t have very good results. Do you think getting would work for this or is it the wrong time of year to have cut the tree down?
I dont yet have any experience with ash unfortunately. But let me know how it worked out for you! So far I've only tried retting linden bark.
@ Well I may be making a video out of how it’s not worked 😂 I’ll have to try and see if I can get my hands on some linden!
I allways make my cordage with a simillar fiber, from the beach cotton bark. Im currently storing cordage to make a hammock, a small one! Great vídeo.
When the world most needed him, he came back.
Moin, danke, dass Sie wieder Videos hochladen. Ich habe erst kürzlich nach Ihrer digitalen Anleitung einen Meißel und einige Ahlen aus Knochen hergestellt. Als nächstes will ich mich am Töpfern versuchen. Planen Sie weitere Videos zum Töpfern zu machen, beispielsweise die Fertigung von größeren Schalen/Pötten? Also eher so "Kochtopfformat"?
Töpfern ist eine meiner Lieblingsbeschäftigungen, da werde ich also auf jeden Fall immer wieder Projekte machen. Ein Video mit einem mittelgroßen Kochtopf ist auch schon in Vorbereitung. Richtig große Töpfe sind derzeit etwas schwierig, weil ich nicht oft Zugang zu einer Feuerstelle für ein großes Feuer habe, aber eventuell ändert sich das demnächst.
It works
Saw a comment from you on chads channel. Your vids are amazing, sucks how the algorithm promotes garbage these days
What is the plant you are using pls
Burdock
Studying Thompson Motif A661.0.2.2 brought me here
Wow amazing, I've made the first basket before with acacia bark but that second one looks amazing! I'm sure it's a lot harder than you made it look lol
You have my respect all materials are primitives. Waww
crows approve
Камера далеко не видно как протягивает нитку
Awsome
Great Job love this Channel my first time here I've Subscribed 👍🤣👋 I can't wait for the next video 👍🤣
Obrigado por ensinar , excelente trabalho. 🇧🇷
This brings back memories when I was a little lad. My father used to make me one from using his pen knife...🤔
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Should fire some of the clay first to use as grog.
Man the experiments on your channel are just awesome.
You are crazy creative.
I wonder if prehistoric people made instruments like this but we never figured that out because to an archeologist they would just look like a random pile of stones. :D
I am currently trying to make birch pitch myself with modern tools and in my last attempt I got nothing while using roughly the same amount of bark as you are. Your video helped me realize that all my potential pitch escaped as gas and simply burned off. Well at least I carved a nice boomerang/throwing stick while waiting for my pitch. :D I assume you do this experiment because of the fact that use of birch pitch predates use of pottery in the archeological record by tens of thousands of years? Very interesting. :)
An amazing and thrilling experiment! I really enjoyed watching how you tackled the challenges and innovated during the primitive pottery firing process. The final result was truly stunning and reflects ancient beauty and craftsmanship techniques. Thank you for sharing this fantastic video! Please continue making more videos, as I'm excited to see more of your adventures and creations.
Cut the nettles. Wait 36 hours. No more stinging when you process it.
FINALLY a channel that does it with hand tools rather than yet another person with a dremel. Very useful for a reenactor like myself 😊
Love the boots
Can you do this with yucca fibers? Wondering how stiff the fibers need to be to be inserted in that tubs to feed into the coil of the basket?
I did a pvc transverse flute... this is more elaborate.
What kind of wood is this
Elderberry
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Does birch tar hold any advantages over pine pitch? Or are they comparable?
Great video, I find it extremely difficult to fold bark without it cracking to make it waterproof. It takes just the right piece of bark. It is a very underrated skill. Thanks for sharing ! I've posted a few bark baskets on my channel as well, but haven't made many waterproof ones. I've subscribed. Have a great day, Steve
I love how smart we are as humans
Great work! Was very impressive and satisfying to watch.
Great video! Im going to try this.
cool video
For someone just getting started, is there a step by step field guide book on making bone tools, what to look for, which bones are better than others, etc, that could be taken out in the field?
Muy bonito trabajo, y una buena idea para mis próximos trabajos.
Interesting. You should try flint pecking stones, they work great and resharpen during use. Pecking with flint is what the old timers also did. Grinding is also faster without the sand, as you just spent energy and friction crushing and rolling the sand to dust. Also when pecking, it is good to put the wristwatch aside ...
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This video makes me appreciate all the more what an nativeAmerican went through to make the one I found in a field!! Excellent job!!
Birch tar is called "Russian oil" in Sweden... According to Siberians and Inuits the only way to keep the mosquitos at bay...