I heard from another video on TH-cam that hand cutting files was a side hustle for a lot of people before the advent of machine cut files at the spawn of the Industrial Revolution. You could hand cut the blanks at home and send them back to the factory for hardening. It's mostly a lost art now, so I'm glad people like you are keeping such an ancient tradition alive and well. Isn't it fascinating that tool making has survived the rise and fall of so many civilisations?
I have read that hand cut files are better than machine cut files; the fact that there is irregularity in the spacing of the teeth means that there is no tendency for, what on a lathe would be called, "chatter". I have made a few very small files but none as large as yours - excellent work.
Wow! Thank you for showing aesthetics of the process and your passion. Of course as technical details and the process of making an advanced things from a simple things
Someone needs to capture these techniques as drawings and CNC them onto a stable substrate, like clay tablets or metal sheets, then store them along with the food plant seeds at the future-proof bunker on Svalbard. Whoever comes after us is going to need to know this to make ploughs and scythes.
I'm curious why you chose to cut the teeth towards yourself rather than away. Wouldn't it be easier to see where to place the next tooth if you can see the teeth you already cut?
This is a condensed version of a much longer video in which he comments through it entirely. Well worth a watch even just to year someone be so descriptive in how metal feels under a hand tool
I heard from another video on TH-cam that hand cutting files was a side hustle for a lot of people before the advent of machine cut files at the spawn of the Industrial Revolution. You could hand cut the blanks at home and send them back to the factory for hardening. It's mostly a lost art now, so I'm glad people like you are keeping such an ancient tradition alive and well. Isn't it fascinating that tool making has survived the rise and fall of so many civilisations?
Well done, as always. You really should make yourself a maker's stamp for your work.
Anyone else get goosebumps when they hear that first "ding!" at the beginning of one of Chris's videos?😃
I love how two Australian TH-camrs are meeting in the year ~2000BC.
Clickspring working backwards in time, Primitive Technology working forwards…
Jimmy Diresta.
I'm sure the joke resolves around people not talking, but it's a bad joke 😂
And they both live in Cairns :)
Amazing, better than store bought by a factor of 10.
I have read that hand cut files are better than machine cut files; the fact that there is irregularity in the spacing of the teeth means that there is no tendency for, what on a lathe would be called, "chatter". I have made a few very small files but none as large as yours - excellent work.
Chatter is called chatter everywhere. Lathe, mill, hand tools.
@@blaken2880 ...cars...
The chips that first file is cutting are just incredible. Those are shear cut chips! By hand!
In wrought iron but still.
I'm in the shop forging, about ready to take a lunch break, when this video posts, very nice. Thanks!
I love your videos! Beautiful, concise, professional.
I miss the long project videos
Wow! Thank you for showing aesthetics of the process and your passion. Of course as technical details and the process of making an advanced things from a simple things
Your knowledge, skills, perfection and patient almost make me angry.
Fantastic, painstaking work! And that's how they were made, eons ago.
More like 200 years ago or less
@@rvhill69 These methods date to to 200 BC or before.
"Uploaded 2 seconds ago" - Never have I opened my browser with a more perfect timing!
It would be super interesting to see how well these perform in comparison to modern manufactured files.
amazing work
Amazing to see hand made files. What are the stones you use to do the scraping and burnishing on the file blanks?
I think they're just river stones.
Chert (flint) and Quartz are hard enough to use as scrapers and many ‘stones’ can be used as a consumables like sandpaper.
Mesmerizing 👍😎
Someone needs to capture these techniques as drawings and CNC them onto a stable substrate, like clay tablets or metal sheets, then store them along with the food plant seeds at the future-proof bunker on Svalbard. Whoever comes after us is going to need to know this to make ploughs and scythes.
they figured it out before... they can figure it out again.
@@paradiselost9946But how long did it take!
@@paradiselost9946 Only took a few thousand years, too. The hope would be to give folks a bit of a jump ahead.
Makes nice chips that one.
No talking?
Ah I see, the Jimmy DiResta classic 👌
I'm curious why you chose to cut the teeth towards yourself rather than away. Wouldn't it be easier to see where to place the next tooth if you can see the teeth you already cut?
using the ridge of the last tooth to align the chisel.
👌👌👌
can you use the steel shaving to make a wire brush ??
Which came first, the file or the file?
Those shavings make me realize Ive never owned a proper file in my life..
Using files to make files. Not sure that's legal.
Files all the way down.
Magic of technology
Hand made files to make more handmade files though? Maybe a gray area but ill allow it. 👍👍
It’s ok to make a pdf from a docx, so …
File this away for future reference.
Amazing work as always, I hope the guy from Primitive Technology channel gets to this point too.
Am I correct that the teeth are sloped away from the direction of cut (2:49)!which is ‘forward’ or away from the user?
Yes, that is how the cutting angle and clearance angles are formed.
Why not just buy them?
If you don't want to speak while making the video, close captions would be great so we could understand each step of your process. Love your videos!
This is a condensed version of a much longer video in which he comments through it entirely. Well worth a watch even just to year someone be so descriptive in how metal feels under a hand tool
it costs $2 in the store
you,sir, are an animal...
Всё понятно, чтобы сделать древний напильник, нужны ещё древнее напильники, по другому не получится!