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@@Nermander how kind of you to say. Quite few people seem to find those 360 videos, I am glad you did. I think one of the reasons for this problem might be that alot of people are either outdoor people or blacksmiths, not both two. Good tools offers alot for free, bad tools demands a worker to know what is really going on. I too plan to start working with propper tools one day, I just had to get this thing out of my system. Now that I have my toolbox I can bring it back home and work there... just need to build a forge first... cut the trees down to build it, forge some axes to cut the trees down. I only I had the time.

Yeah, seeing the whole clip without skipping can be a bit long to some. But when it happens for real in the forest, time moves in a different way, a quite nice way.

@@jabohabo3821 the ammount of birch bark in this mix is neglible, but I can see why birch would be preferred in furniture since it is brighter in color.

@@gustavthane2233 and a thinner material by comparison too

@gustavthane2233 and ofcourse negligible but it likely helped it to stay looser. If you add other oils to pine tar it works just as well. Plus that smell

@@jabohabo3821 yeah, the smell of tar...

@@gustavthane2233 pine tar smells good

@@deanrantz1112 the thought has crossed my eye...

@@viccw2366 I am afraid I do not follow... I sanded the sides and then cut them... The file is three sided. Or are you referring to the saw?

@@gustavthane2233 No I'm referring to the file. You start by cutting the three sides, and after that you do one more operation on the edges. You first "erased" them, and then you cut them again

@@viccw2366 ah, right, yes I cut the sides. When doing so I get some cuts that dig deeper into the corners and som that do not. The cuts became uneven in the corners. But in a sawfile, it is imortant to file down into the material of the saw, the corners need to be even more perfectly cut than the sides. But with the uneven cuts from the sides they would easily brake. So I grinded the corners to be safe of cracks. Then I made them into a metal saw like corner.

@@viccw2366 thank you. Yes, lets hope the channel keep growing, I appreciate you are here now.

@@gustavthane2233 You're welcome!

@@gustavthane2233 You probably received more feedback in your more recent video, but just in case I wanted to tell you that I find your images really beautiful, the points of view you choose, the landscape, the quality of your camera, the closeups, etc. I also find the general approach of building tools from scratch awesome. It's really interesting. Again, congratulations, from Eastern France where the landscape looks a lot like in this video!

@@viccw2366 it is good to hear you liked it. It takes around doubble time to get the work done when also recording it all on film, but it is really nice to bring the camera. It feels a bit like working together with people to know that someone will experience the process on video.

@@michaelmitchell1496 thank you for the kind words.

@@bhaktapeter3501 thanks, it was forged in an earlier video... under limited circumstanses.

Yes of course you should. They are the best.

Thank you, and welcome.

Pine tar can be used for anything from mosquito repellent and Liquor flavouring to waterproofing and rust prevention, but I made this tar to coat the tool chest I was working on at the time.

Yeah I know, I let too much oxygen into the bottom leading to fire and far to thick black tar. In my second attempt I handled this problem. That is what part 2 is all about. Check it out at th-cam.com/video/EXPi-NLDSYo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Y-V6RAi1XveBeNWT

Thank you, yes tar is a fascinating thing to have, such a versitile material.

Well, I used to sell a similar design that I forged myself. But these verry axes were forged under rather primitive conditions in this verry forest, sharpened on a local stone and hafted by wood cut by the axe itself. I had this idea that I wanted to make a wooden chest from scratch, including the tools to build it with. I recorded the process on 360 video and published here on this channel, the video quality was not verry good but the axes proved useful.

Yeah, it can be a bit confusing. Makes more sense on a phone than a computer.. and the 360 settings on. I had this idea that I wanted to invite people to just hang around, look at something else when they wanted or just enjoy the scenery. Vr-headsets will be the future... but the quality was simply not good enough with my camera so eventually I came back to normal video again.

Yeah, but also filled with fat wood and also burned from the top rather than bottom, otherwise the same.

Well, a flat large surface is quite different to a flat small surface, and the method I use here can be used to make an ever flater plane. In therory we can assume that the stone age technique of grinding three surfaces towards each other two at the time will allways lead to a perfect plane in the end. Just ad sand and water between the two stones and they will erode. In practice I assume almost flat is enough. Wood joinery may establish a flat suface to begin with but not much flatter than what a plane is providing. A plane gives you a flat surface due to the fixation of the chisel/cut, not the flatness of the tool. The tool is only flat to stop the tool from wobbling, at a surface large enough unwanted wooble tend to even out.

@@gustavthane2233 Thank you for responding. Didn't know about grinding three surfaces together, but it makes sense. I see that I was assuming a lot about the chisel. Was always curious about how it all started. Had the opportunity to see the shop of an old woodworker out in California who did restoration work. He had so many specialized planes and tools I've never seen before. He restored an antique china cabinet that had water damage around the base. Amazing hand workmanship. He lamented having nobody to share his knowledge with.

@@Xandrosi yeah, I guess planes are one of those things you can never have to many of, a bit like axes or teapots 'only one more, than I will be satisfied'

Yes, it is common with axes that are flat on one side, it is a slightly different technique to use them, in Sweden it is called a "saxslipad yxa" I guess that traslates into seax beveled axe . Fun fact: the handle needs to be angled out as well so you don't hurt the knuckles but since the axe also needs to be flat past the eye the whole eye-area of the axe is quite different to normal axes.

Thank you.

Ah yes I did that some time ago but I did not get as much as I thought, it must have been the wrong time of the year or something.

Well the birch does nog give much tar at all when used like this, it is just there to guide the tar to the bottom groove. In birch tar the ammount and quality of bark is quite different.

@@gustavthane2233 Oh ok. I was just wondering. Its something new that I am venturing in to. Appreciate you sharing your video.

It is not my own land but I have permission to use it, cut down some of the trees and use the barn for storage. When I was a child it belonged to my great grandfather and I played all summers long in these woods.

Спасибо.

Ah, thank you, it is nice to hear they are read, hopefully they make it easier to follow the process.

Thank you, I hopenyou will have use of it

It is good to know that someone appreciate it, thank you for letting me know.

You´re so kind.

Yeah, that sounds like a project, I´ll se what I can do... buffalo dung furnace baked bread...

There are different numbers suggested depending on the durability of different materials. My slow grown wetland fir in this sandy ground will probably last longer than some other fences. Traditionally the whole fence is checked and repaired every 15 years. But if properly repaired Iit might not need to be totally replaced within the next 60 years. Yes the upright poles is the weak spot along with the collars. After 15 years I push down the poles another foot or so and then I put an oval collar on top of everything. The important thing is to ensure the diagonals to stay on top of each other, when they fall down on the side of each other the fence is no fence but a pile.

Yeah, I am showing how hard life would have been...

Interesting... I have been thinking of making clear pich as flavour for spirits... could be the way to go.

@@gustavthane2233 Oh, my, I remember some pine resin flavored liquor from the Alps. Interesting stuff, but it was still difficult not to think of drinking Pinesol floor cleaner. And then there’s Greek Retsina wine, which gives the worst hangovers. But I don’t mean to discourage you on your explorations!

It will, but I also believe we have some of this in our genes, the urge to live close to nature.

But I do. Over 900 words. First i describe the context, that this is an old Swedish way of making tar, then I get into the hands-on method of what I did and then eventually a short section about the resulting tar... so yup 😀

He he, well I guess some things are priceless.

Well, since they are not quite needed, most tasks can be done with an axe or knife, I guess they are alot younger than axes, but I seem to remember something about the ancient Egyptians... But its been some time now since I did my research so I can not say for sure. What I do know is that there was a saw in the Mästermyr chest, and the tools are considered to be of Roman style, according to people knowing more than me.

@@gustavthane2233 thank you. I didn't realize they went back that far. I was watching an episode of "black sails", a pirate soap opera of sorts, that was set in the 1600s and they had bucking saws on set. I didn't know if that was accurate.

That is great, thank you for letting me know.

Thank you for asking. I have replied to peoples comments and talked about such a video... but now that you ask it straight out I took the time to look through the videos and I can not find it. In one video I make tar and in the next my chest is allready brown and dry... it appears the video where I applied the tar was never released. I know I edited it. The video where I actually apply the tar must have been the one I never finnished. It was a long one where I made the whole process into one coherrent story... but It became to long and I never finnished it. I am sorry, one day I hope there will be time for that.