Making Files by Hand
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- The late Ken Hawley tells us about the workstation used until the mid 19th century for making files by hand.
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No no no no no don’t end there
MORE! Need more!!
I’m going to your channel now
I really hope the rest of this video is available. He said he will tell more about that later
The channel "Clickspring" has the entire process, by a young guy trying to determine how the Antikythera mechanism was made.
your work is amazing, sharing knowledge before it is lost is important
Finally a PROPER medieval anvil! I've seen these ALL over medieval depictions. Log of oak with a block of iron/steel in it. Interesting to see it made it all the way up to the 20th century!
With the steel block embedded in horse sxxt no less! :-)
The knowledge and skill this old bloke is passing down is gold ,pure gold,
i actually just started using files for restoring old tools! these things are exceptional and timelessly useful! great video
Im 78 now and when I stepped into the trade my first full year was spent learning to file. In this age of CNCs it may seem ridiculous but after that year you had a beginning knowledge of what makes tools cut. THANK YOU for the video.
TH-cam come on! You should’ve recommended this years ago!
What a wonderful man. A true pillar to crafts. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for preserving this content. Ken Hawley is a great artisan, and this historical perspective on a tool so truly underestimated is valuable to us all.
God bless this man. I make my own files too hand-stiched files.
if you don't think I wouldn't like to work with this man for a year straight just to hear his stories and the story of his life you're smoking crack!
a file can make countless other iron instruments and tools.
thats while a file is an essential in every serious workshop.
Very important to keep this knowledge present. Many thanks grandpa.
Thank you Mr Hawley for sharing your knowledge, i watched at the comments and many people, including me, would love to see your chisel skills at making a file.
Thanks so much for posting this video, is wonderful! Looking at the skill and tools involved is like taking the tardis back 1000 years in time!!
Wow, this has to be the coolest video ive come across on TH-cam. Thank you for sharing this
I can't thank enough for this video. Thank You
Passing knowledge down to the younger generations through the use of modern technology; this is why the internet is great! Thank you so much for the information. I'll be trying to make some of my own files soon. Hopefully enough of my generation, millennials, will learn these disappearing crafts and trades to pass them on and keep long running human traditions alive!
Cheers from Texas. I just cut my first file it was very rewarding and cuts wonderful. I still have alot to learn but the ability to cut your own files is a great tool to have in the old tool box. Thank you for sharing your craft.
How do you prevent warping is it a 100 percent unavoidable
Exquisite videos, loving them all.
This video is grateful as to why the internet exists. Just think, 100 years ago this man could have taken his knowledge with him to the grave. Thank god we live in a day of age where a lifetime of information is accessible at a click.
As I'm typing this the video ends... Like wth?!
Thank you so much for sharing this. I feel it's very important to keep these techniques alive lest they be lost. There are still times when this will be valuable. I myself have had a need for some special files. Perhaps now I might have a go at it.
Thank you for your knowledge and wisdom 💙
Thank you for the great video on making files.
Thank you for preserving this for posterity.
This fella is sharp as a tack for his age
Interesting. Thanks for posting this snippet! I would love to see the whole process.
Take a look at our most recent video: th-cam.com/video/UTXlzcmkQf0/w-d-xo.html
Thank you for video.
This is amazing
Why did it cut off at the end
I love the old cut open shoe heel used to hold the hammer. I always tell my wife that I was born in the wrong century. I love making things by hand. Knives and leather holsters, sheaths, etc. Products now are all disposable junk. I like to make things that will last.
How do you prevent warping when quenching files would thicker material prevent warping i know you should plunge and cooling it evenly (i know some files arent straight to file a certain spot for flatness but now i want to use the files own flatness to file a flat.
some ancient tool makers are better than modern commercial factories
Ngl, I kinda love these og making processes. Everything gets automated and you lose the intuitive notion of how tinkered and specialized all those methods were... The machine makes all the turns and twists in, like, .1 seconds, and as a result you have ever so slightly more taken for granted...
I saw a guy saying “I’ll make a toaster from scratch”; he failed. He couldn’t handle making plastic and then it just broke after barely functional at all.
Toaster took a lot of trial and error, research and generations of manufacturing to become what they are today.
Just remember, we stand on the shoulders of giants. It’s probably reasonable to feel some gratitude to it. Imagine being in the past, getting cut on the shin and having no preconception of things like antibiotics. You put random ointments in it, you hide the would, ignore it, go about your life for a week, get a fever and collapse.
Gratitude goes hand-in-hand with humility.
Cheerios, fam.
This is very interesting, I've often wondered how files were made by hand. I also wonder what the process is for making rasps. I have a friend who is a farrier, and he insists there must be a way to sharpen a rasp even though I keep telling him there's not. I'd like to show him a video of how they are made, and that might convince him.
I've never tried it, but I've read that files (and rasps?) can be "sharpened" by etching with acid or similar. I'll have to try on one of my old worn out files to see though.
@@bobvines00 I would suspect that would only clean the file really well, maybe removing all the crud in the teeth?
Search TH-cam for Auriou Rasps there’s footage of how they are made using the old hand “stitching” method with a hammer and small punch known as a barleycorn. One way I have seen how to sharpen files and rasps is to immerse them in a strong acid for a length of time, the acid erodes away the dulled edges of the cutting teeth but it’s not a panacea to a brand new tool. Files and rasps are ultimately consumables. That’s why in the past they were usually sold by the dozen or half dozen.
This belongs in the "things you didn't know you didn't know about" section!
Wish the film was full and not cut short.
P.S: Instead of 'section' I wanted to say 'file' :-)
It’s on the list of things to do
Files haven't disappeared. The one thing I would never get rid of is my collection of files.
I think he meant the production of "hand-made" files. I'll never give up my collection of files either.
Thanks- I’m looking to make some files
I surely wanted to see each step of the process to the final hardened and tempered file.
Why? Because I bought a rasp from a big box store. The first stroke of the rasp curled the teeth over like the banana peel. It was not hardened!
amasing work, thanks for sharring.... really a shame that the old craftman ship is dissapering
Just discovered this channel and I'm a happy subscriber now. Do you have any videos of rasps or rifflers being cut and made?
Just what I want in my kitchen "fresh horse manure" lol. Cool video though
I hope you can re-upload the entirety of this video. It seems cut off. 😵💫
what is the tool called he uses to punch in the groves?
what is the % carbon content of hand files? please
Good question! Usually between 1-1.2% carbon content.
too bad there is no chisel action
Nothing adds flavor to a meal like horse manure and lead on your hands while cooking.
WTF are you on about with this stupid snide comment?
That's rubbish you can still get excellent hand stitched files
Prove it. Where do you get them.