This Ancient Mace Hides a Big Surprise! (From
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ต.ค. 2024
- Adam Savage is back at one of his all-time favorite places, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, specifically the Arms and Armor conservation lab! This time, it's all about "shut up sticks" as associate conservator Sean Belair lets Adam handle some ancient, intricate and fairly terrifying maces and war hammers, including a cow-headed steel mace that gives Adam quite the surprise as he swings it!
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I will never tire of seeing Adam in this environment. His enthusiasm is contagious 💯 Not to mention getting a history lesson that's more than enjoyable 👍
We need more Museum stuff with Adam!
More coming!
@@tested More coming, but never enough.😉 Adam should just go LIVE in the museum!🤣
@@tested Mr.T, bring it! 👁👄👁
Space suits, armour, etc, with out doubt the best content, "Savage" is extremely knowledgeable, and his museum visits/ tours, are my particular favourites.
@@tested define "more" please?
Like, 100 episodes? or closer to 10? 😭😭 We'll take anything tbh.
*_ALWAYS_* thoroughly enjoy watching these Arms & Armor visits!
These are my favorite segments of tested videos!😊❤
We’re so delighted! More Met videos to come!
Love this content! All the MET content is top notch and I can't wait for more.
So many more videos!!!!
Your face when it whistles is hilarious. You so happy and it makes me happy. I wish there could be a comedy offshoot of mythbusters where it’s just muppets of you and Jamie busting muppet myths. Like is there a Moopet for every Muppet😂
It was a true surprise. Sean knows us well, and he'd kept it hidden, as you saw!
@@tested how nice of you to reply. I wish I was as handy and creative as you guys.😊
As a museum worker, I love hearing the awkward “sorry” heard in the background of the close ups, suggesting Adam is playing with the objects too much. 😂
Hey, fellow museum person! There is, by the way, also a Smithsonian mace.
Well there's something I never knew I wanted...a cow-headed mace!
LOL
Adam, THIS is the residency for you! Public educator at the museum!😍
the fact the curator knew to hide the last one just to get Adam's reaction says he pays attention. thank you for that one.
Sean is AWESOME.
I dearly love that cow-headed mace and the sound it makes.
It's like a sleepy gibbon just waking up.
"whoop."
08:51 "Malice Aforethought" is the phrase that sprung to mind looking at the very practical crow beak on the saxon war hammer
This video is more informative than 90% of school trips to any museum.
That's super lovely to say, thank you.
@@tested For real, I'm 30 years old and only now while watching your videos and many other videos of people who are fascinated and passionate about their hobbies I've learnt more, than from all trips I had in my high school to any museum and listening of bored guides and historians that work there on daily basis.
People often confuse a mace with the similar looking weapon of a spiked ball on a short chain attached to a wooden handle. This is actually called a flail.
In the Lord of the Rings movie The Return of the King, the Witch King of Angmar is shown wielding a ridiculous flail. The book describes a large "iron mace"
It is essentially a metal club. I imagined it looking like an iron shaft with a perfectly smooth large round ball on the end. Too heavy for a mortal to wield but for the Witch King, it deals a deadly blow.
Perhaps since Sauron already had a mace they didn't want to confuse a casual viewer, especially since the Witch King is sporting an intentionally Sauron-like armor in that moment.
For the full effect I think you need to spin that last mace like a baton or martial arts weapon ... really let it go round and round several times really fast.
Some of those hollowed types were used by people riding animals and made a noise that could carry for miles. It would scare the peasants who would know bad things are coming their way.
They need to get a drum major in there and let her play with it.
Well-preserved authentically antique bronze/iron/steel weapons are such amazing artifacts- it’s a shame how few of the _finest_ works of “functional art” survive the test of time..
I can't understand, why do I love these stuff, dude? Could you please show us some more...
More to come!
So cool to wonder about forgotten stories and providence of these objects.
The "Shut-up Stick". LOL, what a great description of the mace.
This video is so good! What I really love about it is that it takes me back to my D&D days and I'd run a cleric character and they can't use edged weapons but they can use a hammer. So I'd use a "footsman's hammer" (much like that broken poleaxe in the video) and 9/10 times I'd win any challenge about using it because it was clearly labeled with the word "hammer". 😆
The cow-head-mace IS a sort of fantasy prop: Sean said so "..19th century idea of what that would have looked like"
Adam, I would love to see you attempt to make which I know we could one of those cow Macy’s one that you can swing and make the full noise and not be afraid of breaking
3D print a prototype.
All I keep thinking is: "move the rock crystal mace away!" *visions of any of the other maces falling out of Adam's hands*
15:14 Adam said Plausible 😍
Adam, you have got to make a replica of that whistling cow mace at the end; it's incredibly amazing! Even something like a 3D print would be cool.
oh this is so exciting, war hammers and picks were always the most badass medieval weapons to me!
the sheer joy on adam's face from the cow mace whoooo sound 😂
As a frame of reference: I sharpened a railroad spike once and welded it to a 30in piece of3/4in rebar, for use as an oilpan piercer in a wrecking yard. We couldn't swing it at the oilpan tho, it could do too much damage inside the motor. We had to hold it up and hit it with a hammer.
You TH-camrs have the unique opportunity to take priceless museum artifacts in hands and show (and preserve the picture... and occasionally swing) the details to the world. Something not possible for ordinary person.
We consider ourselves very very lucky, truly.
"This sticks around." Also, "This stick's around."
Also,"This stick's a round."
Absolutely fascinating. We don't give our ancestors enough credit.
16:21 I see you killed the cow king in Diablo lol
Moooorning!
You need to visit Deccan college and Phule musuem in Pune(India) for their weapons collections.
That rock crystal mace was spectacular.
Ahhh the MET museum, Adam is the real life history Channel show for me...
We’re honored!
Hans Talhoffer -- the judicial combat illustrations are *amazing*. The illustrations of judicial combat between a man and a woman (he's in a hole in the ground up to his chest, armed with a knife; she's got a big rock tied up in her veil, both of them are in what can only be described as "combat onesies")...INTENSE
You get to play with the best stuff! Please keep it up!
This episode was a-mace-ing! 😁🤘
Oh, NICELY done!
Xur's mace scepter from The Last Starfighter is still my favorite.
It's been awhile since I've seen the film, but it had a retractable spike, right? That's a pretty cool feature.
That cow headed mace though. When you can hear the blow comming before you actually get hit. Must make one rethink their choices...
I can totally imagine the person who commissioned or received that mace having the same reaction as Adam when they got it.
Right?
I can imagine the bull mace making the sound from a child's "moo" toy every time it is moved up or down.
Ou est la boeuf? 💥
I love this series.
Love these arms and armour videos!
Next one is slated for Monday!
The noise from the cow headed mace was both satisfying and not at the same time! Satisfying that it made a noise but not because it wasn’t as resonating as expected; kind of like getting a new car and realising the horn sounds like a clowns nose.
That would be one way to ensure the veracity of witnesses - giving them the same sentence as those they accuse - what a brutal but effective judiciary system.
You mentioned a swagger stick. I have one that my uncle brought back from Vietnam that was carved by a NVA POW during the war.
I'd love to see something smoking stuffed inside that cow-headed mace so smoke comes out of the nose and ears. Adam should make a replica and add a smoke machine into it!
This just makes me want to see him collaborate with his British counterpart: Tod of Tods Workshop. Who's semi-retired from TV to do med-evil mythbusting on youtube.
Yeessss, I love seeing behind the scenes of this place! Everyone on camera is just SO happy to be there! And there's something so relatable, across such long spans of time, about the idea that the most important thing a man of might would want memorialized is, "I was here and I had a big stick" :D
We absolutely love visiting the Met, and we cannot WAIT to go back.
The one with the broken handle looks like a "Bec de Corbin," to me. Nasty weapons; part spear, part hammer, part pick. A phalanx of soldiers with these would just do a LOT of damage.
I dun thee! Sir Thwacks-A-Lot! :P
Always been a huge fan of flanged maces. They just seem to be a simple weapon that works on unarmored and armored foes. But my first choice if i had to choose a medieval weapon, would be a spear. Reach is good!
Breaking armor joints would be bad, but I would think even bending a plate on a joint would seriously impede its ability to flex! Chain would provide no real protection from a mace or a hammer! Very nice.
My immature part of the brain made a connection to the old Mac OS 9 sound "Quack" at 3:10 :)
Interesting thought about the cow-headed mace, since it "whistles" instead of "moos" when swung.
Keeping in mind its command identity, could the mace be swung in circles from horseback, keeping the whistling motion going? This could have been used by nobles as a 2-in-1 "command whistle mace" to not have to blow a separate horn for field command, or to rally nearby troops without dropping weapon or shield.
I wonder how loud it would get if swung around really fast...
I see a 3D-printed cow-head mace in the future.
The cow hoots like an owl lol
Great video sir 😊
Cow mace is mega rad
OK the last one has to be the earliest CONFIRMED record of "booping" an opponent. I mean, after all this time it still goes "boop".
16:16 Your first Havoc Staff, huh?
Such a well woven narrative!
Thank you Adam I become educated as you do.
How you drill a long hole thru quartz. You take a long thin rod, it can be wood, cane, or metal. You coat the end of it with something sticky like hot wax or tar. You roll the end in crushed garnet, or some other very hard and very common gemstone. And then you start spinning the rod against the quartz, Mostly, you might just spin with your fingers, or you might set up a bow drill. In later years you might use something like a water mill to spin your drill. When doing it by hand, you have to frequently pull the rod out and reapply more wax and garnet, then go back at it. And you better have patience.
When I hear people marvel and suspect that ancient cultures must have had some ‘lost technology’ to carve such hard materials as crystal and granite, I explain to them, they used the exact same technology we Still use today. They carved very hard rock by RUBBING a harder rock against it.
A diamond drill is nothing but a piece of metal with crushed diamonds stuck to it. We just use motors to speed up the actual rubbing.
Back in that era, before glass blowing became a thing, artisans would make goblets and stemware out of quartz. Imagine the time it took to hollow out the bowl of a thin walled crystal goblet? In that era if you served someone wine in such a glass, they knew they were holding a year or more of some craftsman’s life in the their hand. This is how ‘crystal’ came to have the connotation with wealth that it has.
That's moognificent!
LOL
"Better act right" stick
I'm looking forward to the one day build on that cow mace.
I'll bet that if you stand in a breeze on a hill or gallop on horseback carrying the cow-headed mace it would moan eerily and continuously. (Yeah, I want one!)
SAVAGE SMASH!
Imagine yourself back in the day and get hit by that thing. Crashed bones and skulls. Crazy brutal times.
Oh yeah, the Bec can punch through armor like it's not even there. I've literally seen somebody put a Bec through some plate, gambeson, and deep enough into the dummy that they had trouble getting it back out.
The Moo Mace lol
Before you go there, "boom stick" is already taken.
😆
incredible!
We breezed right past the 'how did someone, 500 years ago, drill a hole through stone crystal" question. I'm genuinely interested. It seems like that would be a difficult job even today. Most of the ways I can think of would get you in trouble if (when) the hole starts drifting off center. My best guess is some type of hand powered hammer drill setup, maybe with the bit running down a metal tube that would be advanced with it to help keep it centered.
Dude, you so need to make your own Zombie apocalypse mace 😎
There is no cow level hahahaha
Modern-day AMMA fights armored MMA they are fighting with those weapons, in full armor, and in a hexagon. Just like the picture they showed. Watching those fights you can see how armor reacts when it's hit to the side, or not. How it affects their grip, or their stance.
In addition to recording videos I feel like Tested should start 3D scanning objects like these to share with the community. Assuming they get permission of course. But I'd like to 3D print maces like these.
The gentle hoot sounds more like an owl mace.
Skull fragments ? TO THE CLONING MACHINE !
Although somebody like me who has perpetually sweaty hands would be a different matter entirely and should always wear gloves😂
this really makes me wonder how they forged long, straight steel tubes in medivial times.
What is the "Big Surprise" referenced in the thumbnail and video title? The fact that it's so light or that it might have been more ceremonial than practical....?
The whistling of the cow mace ... we didn't expect it to make noise like that; they usually don't.
Okay, Adam. Inquiring minds want to know what armor being struck with maces and war hammers looks like. Can you do a Mythbusteresque episode, bashing an armor clad ballistic gel torso with these delightfully devious devices? Please, please, pleeease! Then, you can do a breakdown of damage to the torso and the armor.
I guess that cow says Moo... kind of?
Make move videos about weapons and armors etc. It's fascinating.
There's another armor video to come!
Hi Adam, Are we going to see a 3D printed cow's head mace in the near future??? With it's own sound??
In the animated movie Home, Steve Martin's character is the leader and has a "shusher" mace.
Is anyone else thinking, "Wait a minute, they made that on Forged in Fire!"?
can you imagine the barbarism? getting clocked in the head with those and *not* passing away right away would suck
that last one, despite being a representation, instead of swinging it for the 'whistle' I initially thought they would hold it up while riding into battle on horseback. Hearing a horde of those approaching at night would wake a village in a panic.
Ready? ... "hoo"
Cow headed mace. Invented by cows that suffered the indignities of cow tipping‼️
ah, bec de corbin underrated pole-arm.
MILK FOR THE KHORNE FLAKES! Syrup for the pancakes! Oh Khornada! 🇨🇦
a great (not hollywood-ized) movie showing medieval trial by combat “the last dual” inspired by / based on book eric yager. directed by ridley scott, stars matt damon and adam driver.
I hate dead pixels in cameras, always freak me out
"Holy cow!"
Really? Really, Adam? 😆
Dad jokes.