I'm from latinamerica and I watch videos like this for learning english. This job here is known as 'hojalatero', and belong to those lost in time jobs. I loved how the video ends with the verses of 'the village blacksmith'. Thanks for sharing, regards from chile!
I was a coppersmith in the dockyard, I can relate to this craftsmanship, sadly these are days long gone, modern rubbish is just that, rubbish. This was a craftsman, hand made with years of skills. I would gladly swap todays rubbish to go back to the craftsman days.
Ignore the negative comments and the thumbs down, this man was a craftsman in his time. I worked in the aircraft industry all my life and knew many tinsmiths , it was always regarded as a specialist trade and we would not have survived two world wars without them, aircraft would not have evolved to what they are today. I would have loved to have met this man and talked about his craft. Today this skill is sadly not required any more, plastics and composites have replaced this trade, that's progress...sad but we progress.
It's great to see what a tinsmith actually did, Both my Grandfather and Great Grandfather were tinsmiths and a video like this makes you appreciate the work they did, thank you for posting this video.
Wow, to know that this is my great Grandfather Roche. I never met him but watching this video now, I know that he was a bloody good tinsmith. I wish I got to meet my Grandfather Roche. And thank you to the people who posted nice comments 💖💗
meggy _weggy it's surprising that we remember our fathers and our grandfathers but never our great grand fathers. The third generation is always lost. If we could go back 7 generations, we could discuss matters with a relation from the Great Plague!
meggy_weggy you and your family should be rightly proud. A nice little film, it would have been nice to have heard him speak on it or to hear him work with the tools. I really enjoyed watching it.
A true gentleman of quiet disposition.Friendly and courteous to all. Repaired many a hurley for me and my generation when he could have been more profitably engaged. Delighted to have come across this little snatch of a byegone era.John McGuire
My friend Mike made a copper lantern by following this video exactly. It came out beautiful, and is now displayed with honor in the Sheet Metal Worker's Local 105 Union training facility..
I love to be able to see where the hands that made something have been. Nice video takes me back to my apprentice days helping an old boy make mud guards for old motorcycles. I’m the old boy now!
As a professional blacksmith for 20 years now I can sure appreciate the craftsmanship. These skills are not gone but do require the public to at least occasional support such works. Though they may seem expensive you will never regret purchasing locally made items.
Ive spent my life collecting skills like those. Really good video. Especially liked the brief look at the soldering. Skills like those made a house a home.
Delightful - such a change to modern videos where workshops are full of expensive machinery! Reminds me of a trip to India some years ago where there was an all purpose tinsmith/blacksmith/mechanic in one village we visited. When our guide asked what he didn't make the reply was "If I can't make it then you probably don't need it!" That was forty years ago too, bet he's gone and somebody will sell you a plastic what-not instead.
Now that's old school techniques...loved watching it....I feel for him, because age does catch up and it makes things harder to do. Thanks for this as I love watching the old ways of producing items that will last for generations to come. 😁👍🏻🇦🇺
Fantastic!!! I always wanted to see how the lanterns are made and I am glad that some people took the time to document this craftsman's work and pass it to other generations.
i really love handmade things like this lantern. mostly handmade things are not quit finished or equal from all sides but actually that is the beauty of handmade products. great job.
I used Tomlin a Maserati made like that, an absolute nightmare to work on as no parts were available and you had to make all the bits you needed yourself or out of a part for another car. Who on earth mills crankshafts from billets anymore?
In my role as a 'coach maker' i find this sort of film quite satisfying to watch, people like him, me, are fast going the same way as the 'wheel wright', the cart-wright, the cooper, draper etc etc.Soon to be totally lost skills.
@@tacticalpossum7090 That's good to hear, we haven't seen any new blood come into our trade for years now, even the colleges are struggling to fill classrooms.
Those skills are being lost along with the skills of manual machining, lots of these so called machinist don't have a clue they can only program CNC machines, a similar thing is happening in many areas including professional engineering jobs, the modern day reliance on software is obscene
@@alanpartridge2140 You got that right, some of my friends are fellow engineering types and can use any machine presented to them, one guy in particular is a wizard with all types of lathe, vertical mill and his stainless steel tig welding is an art form.However, even these guys are complaining about the lack of newbies wanting to follow their footsteps, dying breed sadly.
Thanks for uploading! These people actually have skills to make things...really nice watching how a genuine worker hand-crafts things versus modern machines/presses that someone just shoves a piece of metal into them, pushes a button, and done. Before long the industries won't have any laborers who actually make the products but will just be all robots and machines with only a skeleton crew to do maintenance on them...heck, already have that in many factories today
Beautiffull video. My late oncle was a tinsmith too. As I watching this video I remembar all this tools and machines from my oncle's shop. I hope they both are in tinsmith paradise working together and making nice tin stuffs.
Absolutely amazing. Brilliant work. I freaked a little at 9:03 when I saw extra hands. I was like, "Holy Sh#t, this explains why this guy is so bad ass, four hands!".
I just thought of this when that bugger was in the background whistling: I bought a wooden whistle, but it wooden whistle! So I bought a steel whistle, but it steel wooden whistle! So..... I bought a lead whistle, but it steel wooden lead me whistle! Beautiful video by the way, thank you
Bloody hell Tom! That is a beautiful lantern! Your protruding windows are marvellous, I might have to borrow that idea the next time I make a lantern for myself, and I will call that my 'Roche' pattern lamp! I bought 90% of my tools from a bucket-maker in Leeds, and I have identical stakes and five HUGE and one identical tiny Jenny/swager/crank as yours. I was about to declare you a 'One hammer guy until I saw you switch to the homemade mallett... then a Crosspein. Not one specialist hammer!!! Awesome 🏆 Also, your piercing method with the knife was a joy to behold. So... I have to ask... What became of your tools? I hope they are not gathering rust somewhere... I hope they live on, continuing to collect nicks and scratches all born of honest toil? and the lantern... Where does it shine this Christmas? This whole video has me quite emotional, bless your memory Mr Roche from an English armour maker, now working in secret in a French forest. Best wishes and Merry Christmas fellow metal-botherers from me and all the mice in the workshop. 🧐⚒️🐁🐀🐁🐀🐁🐀🐁🐀🐁
I have two copper navigation lights very similar design which was from a 1939 Scottish Trawler, great video to see how they were made ..thanks for posting.......... and the fools complaining about the Flute, mute your sound then watch a craftsman at work......
An ancient lantern was found buried in the stables of my great grandfather's house- he was a corn chandler. It is bigger and the glass is like a lens- like very old circular bottle bottom glass . The whole lantern is decorated by piercings- almost like perforations made with different sized nails, I imagine. Sadly, the cone has disintegrated at the top but I assume it once had a big circular ring so it could be hung up or carried about- checking the premises- and I hope not burning the place down! Well, the old house is still there. I need a man with Tom's skills to remake that cone- and I may know just the fellow- but he's busy making and mending guitars- although he can make anything, be it wood or metal. He once had a big old Ford V8 Pilot car and he made the whole exhaust system for that! I am in complete awe of these folk that have all these skills- they are getting mighty rare now, I am afraid.
I made a lamp not too dissimilar to this one as a test piece when I came out of my apprenticeship. It was for the managers wife and if she liked it I got to keep my job 😂. I visited them last year as I was visiting the area and the lamp is still hung on the fireplace some 43 years later.
He would have got on a lot better if he'd have had proper tinsmiths hammers instead of using carpenters hammers,but he did well with what little he had
keith douglas I watch a lot of craftsmen and a lot use tools that may not seem quite right ! like a coach builder panel beating with a claw hammer 😂 but sometimes something just feels right ! Im an engineer myself and some of my most used tools are ones i crafted myself ! Just thinking there, that cine camera that was used to film this was probably the most light he ever had in that workshop 😳 a lot of talent there for sure 👍🏻
thank you for the education have always been fascinated by copper in Cincinnati I do a lot with old soup cans has made oil lamps out of a half gallon chicken stock can the king is laying on its side it is a hanger you can I set it down on the table unless you fold the handle back as a tripod. thank you again for the Old World teaching
I'm from latinamerica and I watch videos like this for learning english. This job here is known as 'hojalatero', and belong to those lost in time jobs.
I loved how the video ends with the verses of 'the village blacksmith'. Thanks for sharing, regards from chile!
I was a coppersmith in the dockyard, I can relate to this craftsmanship, sadly these are days long gone, modern rubbish is just that, rubbish. This was a craftsman, hand made with years of skills. I would gladly swap todays rubbish to go back to the craftsman days.
It is a pure pleasure to see a true craftsman at work!
God bless them all!
Ignore the negative comments and the thumbs down, this man was a craftsman in his time. I worked in the aircraft industry all my life and knew many tinsmiths , it was always regarded as a specialist trade and we would not have survived two world wars without them, aircraft would not have evolved to what they are today. I would have loved to have met this man and talked about his craft. Today this skill is sadly not required any more, plastics and composites have replaced this trade, that's progress...sad but we progress.
It is, the sheet metal workers international are still alive and well and still knocking that tin in USA and Canada .
@@snoopyshultz Good to hear that Snoopy.
It's great to see what a tinsmith actually did, Both my Grandfather and Great Grandfather were tinsmiths and a video like this makes you appreciate the work they did, thank you for posting this video.
Wow, to know that this is my great Grandfather Roche. I never met him but watching this video now, I know that he was a bloody good tinsmith. I wish I got to meet my Grandfather Roche. And thank you to the people who posted nice comments 💖💗
meggy _weggy it's surprising that we remember our fathers and our grandfathers but never our great grand fathers. The third generation is always lost. If we could go back 7 generations, we could discuss matters with a relation from the Great Plague!
meggy_weggy you and your family should be rightly proud. A nice little film, it would have been nice to have heard him speak on it or to hear him work with the tools. I really enjoyed watching it.
He was a shite💩💩
What the devil are you on about ? No one in the family here knows who you are, get on with yourself now.
You are so lucky to have this video. A true craftsman.
I could watch this all day. There is something magical about a skilled craftsman using his hands to make something.
A true gentleman of quiet disposition.Friendly and courteous to all. Repaired many a hurley for me and my generation when he could have been more profitably engaged. Delighted to have come across this little snatch of a byegone era.John McGuire
Love to learn how to do this
@@gregikenberry2722 If you search on amazon or ebay I'm sure you'll find some books which should be a start
My friend Mike made a copper lantern by following this video exactly. It came out beautiful, and is now displayed with honor in the Sheet Metal Worker's Local 105 Union training facility..
Very exrovetly position to stand up 4
Actually I have some copper sheet (I work with other metals) and was looking for ideas to use it - a lantern could well be made.
I love to be able to see where the hands that made something have been. Nice video takes me back to my apprentice days helping an old boy make mud guards for old motorcycles. I’m the old boy now!
Way too satisfying to see this brilliant craftsman working.
these guys is what we need I was lucky I whent to a highschool where metal shop was all about being a craftsman I wish people would do more of this
Very interesting video, thanks for sharing, I had a great time watching a true craftsman exercise his ingenuity and talent!
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Such a craftsman! Thank you Tom. And thank you to the people that took the time to help preserve this craft for others to follow.
Brilliant work what a fantastic video watching this craftsman at work. I loved watching this what a clever and highly skilled man.
What a beautiful piece of work. Aren't too many Craftsman like that left anymore.
It is much more work, but also infinite satisfaction to make something with your own hands and skills. This is a wonderful video to watch.
Here here!
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As a professional blacksmith for 20 years now I can sure appreciate the craftsmanship. These skills are not gone but do require the public to at least occasional support such works. Though they may seem expensive you will never regret purchasing locally made items.
I have a handmade tongs made by a blacksmith in d 1920s I still use it
A true craftsman, well done sir.
Tom Roche Sir,you nade a wonderful lamp in no time !!! Loved watching the process and your dedicated work !!!
Thanks for posting, I had a family member who was a coppersmith. I've been a armourer for a while, and so can appreciate good craftsmanship.
Ive spent my life collecting skills like those. Really good video. Especially liked the brief look at the soldering. Skills like those made a house a home.
what a lovely little film of a great trade. thanks.
I’m a tin knocker myself, fun to see the old school, hands on work. I’ll be hitting it up on Monday...
Thanks.
Great to watch, brought back memories of my sheet metal days as a young man.
Superb video. Thank you for posting.
Love the video. So nice to see this level of craftsmanship done in the old style. Thanks so much!
This is true craftsmanship. A thoroughly enjoyable and informative video. Thank you!
Fantastic to see some real craftmanship..
Thanks for sharing 😊
Delightful - such a change to modern videos where workshops are full of expensive machinery!
Reminds me of a trip to India some years ago where there was an all purpose tinsmith/blacksmith/mechanic in one village we visited.
When our guide asked what he didn't make the reply was "If I can't make it then you probably don't need it!"
That was forty years ago too, bet he's gone and somebody will sell you a plastic what-not instead.
Just great to see a few of the Irish have not been forgotten.Many thanks for sharing
That gentleman appeared to be quite senior in years, but his work rivals that of the youth. I would be so proud to be a descendant of his!
bmcc12 he came out of retirement to film this, he would have probably been in his late 70s early 80s.
true craftsmanship there. great video, thanks for insight into his artistry in action.
Very nice craft...old craft never fades.
The world nowadays has far to few quality people left like this old man.
Amazing job... this is a quality handmade Master piece
It was the norm back in a day, no crappy things made in china we have today
Ty for sharing
True every house in d country has some kind of plastic rubbish imported from China just as well its cheap they don't last
Nice to get an original of that mans beautiful work .
Just love the way Toms hammer caresses the copper...great wee poem at the end. Thanks for the view.
Bloody good to hear it being soldered, and not sodded.
Now that's old school techniques...loved watching it....I feel for him, because age does catch up and it makes things harder to do. Thanks for this as I love watching the old ways of producing items that will last for generations to come. 😁👍🏻🇦🇺
He does well to concentrate with that fella playing the whistle outside his window every day.
Happy New Year to you too.Been reading Canterbury Tales by any chance?
As my old grandad used to say " you'll have some buggers eye out with that whistle"..😂😂😂
haha ;D
This was before the workshop radio; he's just keeping it old school.
Rattus Norvegic
a thing of beauty, thanks for the upload.
A true honour to watch a master at work .
A true artist with metal. I truly Respect him. Godbless bless you. Thank you for the uploading of this video.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😇😇😇
Respect!...I work in a metal fab shop and I am saving this post for instructions.
Fantastic!!! I always wanted to see how the lanterns are made and I am glad that some people took the time to document this craftsman's work and pass it to other generations.
thats very beautiful work realy nice
a fine job indeed ! excellent video, Thank you
i wasnt even born when this video was made and yet i wish i could be there watching this an work.
Awsome workmanship ..bless you sir
True old school craftsmanship! Thank you for posting such wonderful content of a time gone by!
A true craftsman, a pleasure to watch.......................
Great piece of footage. Enjoyed watching this old fella doing his thing. Wish we had these craftsmen around the corner nowadays.
i really love handmade things like this lantern. mostly handmade things are not quit finished or equal from all sides but actually that is the beauty of handmade products.
great job.
I used Tomlin a Maserati made like that, an absolute nightmare to work on as no parts were available and you had to make all the bits you needed yourself or out of a part for another car. Who on earth mills crankshafts from billets anymore?
MY LORD..... NO GLOVERS, TRUE CRAFTMAN. OLD IS PURE GOLD. VERY NICE
Need more this kinda video to educate modern civilization
In my role as a 'coach maker' i find this sort of film quite satisfying to watch, people like him, me, are fast going the same way as the 'wheel wright', the cart-wright, the cooper, draper etc etc.Soon to be totally lost skills.
@@tacticalpossum7090 That's good to hear, we haven't seen any new blood come into our trade for years now, even the colleges are struggling to fill classrooms.
Those skills are being lost along with the skills of manual machining, lots of these so called machinist don't have a clue they can only program CNC machines, a similar thing is happening in many areas including professional engineering jobs, the modern day reliance on software is obscene
@@alanpartridge2140 You got that right, some of my friends are fellow engineering types and can use any machine presented to them, one guy in particular is a wizard with all types of lathe, vertical mill and his stainless steel tig welding is an art form.However, even these guys are complaining about the lack of newbies wanting to follow their footsteps, dying breed sadly.
Thank you for this great video!
Whoa! That was an Honour Thank You
Thanks for uploading! These people actually have skills to make things...really nice watching how a genuine worker hand-crafts things versus modern machines/presses that someone just shoves a piece of metal into them, pushes a button, and done. Before long the industries won't have any laborers who actually make the products but will just be all robots and machines with only a skeleton crew to do maintenance on them...heck, already have that in many factories today
It's been going that way for centuries, it's nothing new.
@@alanpartridge2140 If you only knew the truth, you would eat those words.
A master at work
This is best tinsmithing video i have ever seen, along with Tinker: John Forshee
I’ve worked on 150 year old homes and the copper always works beautifully .
Fantastic...
Aaaaawwwww I’d LOVE one of these 😍
An example of a real tradesmen, who had pride in the build
I love Tom Roche. God bless him with lots of happiness.
I will show /share this to many friends.
what an absolute gem.................Thanks
No Electric powered machines here, just pure craftsmanship, lovely.
No electric machines? Hell, it looks like there's no electric period! When was this filmed, 1790?
@@bjr2379 I'd guess 1980s Ireland so not much different from the 1790s ;)
Beautiffull video. My late oncle was a tinsmith too. As I watching this video I remembar all this tools and machines from my oncle's shop. I hope they both are in tinsmith paradise working together and making nice tin stuffs.
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Fantastic.That guy would make a fortune these days doing retro pieces. A true craftsman
I love programs like this
Amazing craftmanship.!
Absolutely amazing. Brilliant work. I freaked a little at 9:03 when I saw extra hands. I was like, "Holy Sh#t, this explains why this guy is so bad ass, four hands!".
This is incredible to watch. Thanks for posting this!
I love watching such super craftsmen at work.
Loved watching. This was when God's people used their hands to make things of value.
Sure wish I could have apprenticed under him ! Thanks for posting....
Excellent, a man worth his salt.
This is what I like - handmade items that last, then can be repaired, and end their days usefully recycled with no waste.
I was just passing by again hope you don't mind Its seems like ages a go when I was hear last its nearly 6 months ago look I enjoy your work so much
Awesome informational educational video experience Y'alls
Extremely Satisfying to Watch Sir Roche Make this Lantern ! And Nice Poetry reading at the End.
Nice. You retaught me something I really can use. Also, thank you.
I just thought of this when that bugger was in the background whistling:
I bought a wooden whistle, but it wooden whistle!
So I bought a steel whistle, but it steel wooden whistle!
So.....
I bought a lead whistle, but it steel wooden lead me whistle!
Beautiful video by the way, thank you
Awesome craftsmanship......
Bloody hell Tom! That is a beautiful lantern! Your protruding windows are marvellous, I might have to borrow that idea the next time I make a lantern for myself, and I will call that my 'Roche' pattern lamp!
I bought 90% of my tools from a bucket-maker in Leeds, and I have identical stakes and five HUGE and one identical tiny Jenny/swager/crank as yours.
I was about to declare you a 'One hammer guy until I saw you switch to the homemade mallett... then a Crosspein.
Not one specialist hammer!!! Awesome 🏆
Also, your piercing method with the knife was a joy to behold.
So... I have to ask... What became of your tools? I hope they are not gathering rust somewhere... I hope they live on, continuing to collect nicks and scratches all born of honest toil? and the lantern... Where does it shine this Christmas?
This whole video has me quite emotional, bless your memory Mr Roche from an English armour maker, now working in secret in a French forest.
Best wishes and Merry Christmas fellow metal-botherers from me and all the mice in the workshop. 🧐⚒️🐁🐀🐁🐀🐁🐀🐁🐀🐁
Lovely to hear u still carry on d trade I wish u well
Wow...Old School. I watched with admiration and respect. I wish Hi Def had been available at the time, for a clearer recording of the process.
I have two copper navigation lights very similar design which was from a 1939 Scottish Trawler, great video to see how they were made ..thanks for posting.......... and the fools complaining about the Flute, mute your sound then watch a craftsman at work......
Humour is lost on the fool.
An ancient lantern was found buried in the stables of my great grandfather's house- he was a corn chandler. It is bigger and the glass is like a lens- like very old circular bottle bottom glass . The whole lantern is decorated by piercings- almost like perforations made with different sized nails, I imagine. Sadly, the cone has disintegrated at the top but I assume it once had a big circular ring so it could be hung up or carried about- checking the premises- and I hope not burning the place down! Well, the old house is still there. I need a man with Tom's skills to remake that cone- and I may know just the fellow- but he's busy making and mending guitars- although he can make anything, be it wood or metal. He once had a big old Ford V8 Pilot car and he made the whole exhaust system for that! I am in complete awe of these folk that have all these skills- they are getting mighty rare now, I am afraid.
I made a lamp not too dissimilar to this one as a test piece when I came out of my apprenticeship. It was for the managers wife and if she liked it I got to keep my job 😂.
I visited them last year as I was visiting the area and the lamp is still hung on the fireplace some 43 years later.
Nice story there vainparasite
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A great tinsmith , he would have been in the centre of the town with the blacksmith and the carpenter . Great video 👍🇬🇧
Wow such talent with so little tools ! these trades are almost gone now shame that
He would have got on a lot better if he'd have had proper tinsmiths hammers instead of using carpenters hammers,but he did well with what little he had
keith douglas I watch a lot of craftsmen and a lot use tools that may not seem quite right ! like a coach builder panel beating with a claw hammer 😂 but sometimes something just feels right ! Im an engineer myself and some of my most used tools are ones i crafted myself ! Just thinking there, that cine camera that was used to film this was probably the most light he ever had in that workshop 😳 a lot of talent there for sure 👍🏻
Real skill. +1 for the Longfellow at the end.
Beautiful to see an art of bygone performed.
thank you for the education have always been fascinated by copper in Cincinnati I do a lot with old soup cans has made oil lamps out of a half gallon chicken stock can the king is laying on its side it is a hanger you can I set it down on the table unless you fold the handle back as a tripod. thank you again for the Old World teaching
I love videos like that
When men were men, the good old days,, when everything was handmade quality, perfection, integrity...!!!😎
i'm afraid they don't make em like your grandad anymore you deserve to be proud of him