Smelting MALACHITE into a KNIFE
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I travel to England to learn the art of forming tin and copper together to ultimately make bronze. I create a bronze dagger from scratch and take our series into the Bronze Age!
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I love the tech tree graphic
Will you be making a kilm? Do you have enough clay available locally? HTME ♥️
So cool that you came to the UK
Try make a crossbow
Build a phone!
Fr tho what caveman was like “yo guys this rock is fricken green let’s burn it lol”
I dunno, when I discovered how to make fire as a child I instinctively wanted to try burning all sorts of things to see what happened. Fire is fascinating and so are rocks.
Maybe they made a fire pit with the green rocks cause they were a cool color
I’m guessing it was an accident, like they just put them in a kiln for support and ended up with metal. That’s basically what happened with all inventions.
Now imagine inventing some food
“Yo fam this white thing just came out of a flappy boi let’s eat it!”
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@@FreeRangeLemon that or they noticed that the rust on native copper was the same colour as malachite and put 2 and 2 together
That British dude was amazing, the humor was perfect 👌🏻
Delightful guy. Felt bad for him though. His asthma is holding him back
Dude looks like he bout to make a park full of dinosaurs from an insect amber
Precious bastard that
Dang, didn't expect to see you here @James Walker. I always seem to run into our subscribers on random videos I watch, somehow.
Deadwater Gaming Feels good to be semi famous 😎😂 Are you guys Minnesota Gang too?
I love this reboot. This is just amazing and exactly what I look forward to every week.
Exactly! It's what I wished this channel was when I first stared watching, it's perfect!
Couldn't agree more.
@@gunnaryoung what was it before?
@@nopenope6750, it was similar but he worked with modern tools so it wasn't a good portrayal of how technology progressed
I loved the British guy, he was just so genuine and kind. I hope the best for him
Yep, plus he understood the importance of having slaves.
That was also a favorite part. Probably nice sitting and chatting with him.
I love how MEL Chemistry sponsors like, every video. It really is the perfect type of sponsor for a channel like this.
And I am convinced! In 8 years I will be buying it for my little niece or nephew!
@@Greentrees60 Roughly in that same boat. Basically biding time for my nephew to come of age.
If I had kids, I'd be all about MEL, real talk. And in the future, when i wanna teach my kids some science, bam, who am I gonna check out?
I agree
“They had a power tool we couldn’t afford, slaves”
HO HO HO SANTA IS HERE
MINCRAFT UNSPEKABLE ARMY
Time
5 years from now:
This episode of HTME: Space Age is sponsored by SpaceX
jokes aside, there is a crowdfunded company called Copenhagen Suborbitals aiming to send a human on a suborbital flight
Linecraftman hey you wanna know who else sends people on sub orbital flights. Virgin airlines or any other plane company
@@Vortex-zb6be oh ffs 😂
Linecraftman more like 25 years it took him 3 years to make a te shirts
SpaceX: Find your forever home, on Mars!
"Cutting edge technology"
Ah, I see where that term comes from :)
more like good good
Ye, nævr thüt œv thæt.
that smelter guy was cool. he sounds like he'd be really fun to sit and chat with over a pint.
This dude is just playing Minecraft in real life. Finally we too can punch wood into submission.
Lovely
These videos are a pretty good companion to TerraFirmaCraft; a mod for Minecraft that makes you go through all these steps Andy does to craft tools.
@@-Kerstin Ethoslab actually has, I think, 3 playthroughs of that
Also quite an amazing modpack, really puts the Communist Manifesto in Craft
New episode today ^^
@@-Kerstin Literally watching it right now
@@Goldiloxz There is also a TFC+ which expands on TFC.
It always amazes me just how innovative and smart "primitive" people were when it came to making things and just how smart we sometimes think we are compared to them until we try to make the same items that they were making with ease.
Well as technology advances old tech is phased out
They didn't do those things "with ease". It took them millennia to figure them out. They weren't especially smart, they were persistent. That's the key to all ancient technologies.
@@gayusschwulius8490 In terms of raw intellectual potential, they were pretty much what we are. You could go back 5000 years and, after navigating language barriers, be impressed by their organization or philosophy or technique. In some ways their generalist skill set might actually put the average Bronze Age person ahead of the average modern person, since we in the West tend to be hyperspecialized in one thing and marginal at most things. It's an interesting thing to think about.
A real eye opener for me was reading Marcus Aurelius' _Meditations_ some years ago. Ideas like those coming from somebody 2000 years ago really forced me to eschew some biases.
We don't see it so much today, but sometimes those materials occurred naturally or very near each other.
These people were very used to the idea of putting things in a fire and beating on them to make tools, even arrow tips and other tools
Heyy! When you get to the iron age, you can easily harden iron to high carbon steel with case hardening. It's just packing the ready tool head into an airtight clay vessel filled with charcoal and firing it. The carbon will seep into the iron. To finish off you smash the ceramic and quench it. Firing times can range from 30 min to a couple hours. Most tools only need to hold an edge so it's common to leave the core more flexible ~30/60 min firing.
Yeah, i saw Clickspring's vid on case hardening
That's more the steel age than the iron age.
@@baddonkey6876 Clickspring is awesome
how do you get rid of carbon though? because most of the time you’ll get cast iron rather than wrought iron when you smelt down iron ore
this is pretty cool to see. Im glad you are exploring these lost arts from a "from scratch" perspective. To answer your question about why Bronze was developed first over things like paper and writing well you just have to understand human nature first. Even today we have to "Establish a Perimeter" before we can do more delicate tasks like writing a document. Monsters, the dark, and other humans want to take your food. No time to write when there are constant threats lurking just beyond. Once you have the tools and the bodies standing guard only then can you take the time to create something that is not going to protect you, help you gather food, or make shelter.
Its the long way of saying function over form form can be done only when you have time
I love the progression that you show in technology. This reminds me of playing the computer game Civilization!
I denounce you
63 episodes from now, he builds an ICBM
OK BOOMER!
Good thin Ghandi already left the server or else is playthrough would end badly
After watching this channel I started getting back into the civ series, so your nottjeonly one lol
I have a vision of you in five or ten years hosting a show where you set challenges like "make a copper ax" for teams of contestants with eliminations every week and an eventual winner
He should call it Primi-tech.
Great idea, I'd absolutely watch it.
Might I suggest the book "Primitive Technology" by John Plant, available at all reputable booksellers near you.
OMG, what a great episode! I've cast a lot of bronze, but never made it from scratch! Hats off to you--this was quite an achievement!
I help my mom with homeschooling my younger siblings, (8 and 6 years old) and I remembered this channel, so I'm going to start showing them these videos and then doing a project related to them. Thank you SO MUCH!
It's always fascinated me how the ancients knew how to work with metals, to be able to differentiate the various ores, how to refine them, and mix them in certain ratios to make alloys.
Next episode: Late Bronze Age & Slavery
Do the interns count?
@@graywolfdracon as long as they are unpaid and poorly treated I would count them.
@@canaan5337 Hey, slaves don't HAVE to be unpaid & poorly treated. They just have to jump before you're finished saying "jump," even if they don't want to. Which is why unpaid & poorly treated has always tended to be pretty common.
So guys I've just arrived in Somalia
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loved your show before the reboot, been around since about 100k followers, but now it feels more organized and easy to follow.
great work!
7:15 is so Dr. STONE
jurian0101 Good job mentalist
Of course there is a reason Senku skipped this age, Japan is rather lacking in tin
Could have also made wind drums for the blower. It's an old African way of folding hide on top of a special drum to create a one way valve
Smelting the copper makes him an alchemist... a full metal one, one might even argue.
He's still missing a few elements to earn that designation
I kinda want to make a knife like the one he made in this video but I don’t know if I should extract copper from Malachite like he did in the video or just get copper ore because I am a bit concern about the toxicity of malachite
Bread? Bread? BREAD? BREEEEEEAAAAD!!!!! I LOVE BREAD
I'm into baking sourdough bread and artisan loaves so the next episode will be awesome
Yeah I look forward to the bread episode too
My favorite thing about these episodes is scrolling through the comments and seeing people’s predictions for future episodes a few years down the line. Who the hell knows what they’ll do? I love it.
4:00 "My late father's shaving brush." Is he late because he couldn't find his shaving brush?
HAHAHAHA
0/10. didn't eat the charcoal
that is a different channel.
Will definitely try this myself. You inspire me to learn unwritten history. Thank you for uploading quality content on youtube. Just if there was more people like you.
Yeah! 7:15 A tech tree!!
My wish from the last video was granted xD
@8:55 To hollow out bamboo with less cracking, take a heated rock (like really hot) and drop it down the shoot. Then use the seperate stick to push the rock through the nodes.
7:19 That techtree is super cool!!!
new series is just amazing, good job and keep it going!!!!!
When you get to the iron age, are you going to be following crafting from the iron rich sources of the west (i.e. broadswords) or from eastern iron poor sources (i.e. japanese folded metal)
Probably bog iron would be the easiest Iron ore to acquire.
@@canaan5337 he isn't talking about ore, but the uses. The west had an abundance of iron and thus used it heavily. The east, not so much, so they made thin, master craftsman-only tools.
PersonalPerson you do realize that katanas are thicker and heavier than equivalent European swords, right?
@@tanszism/videos Considering his current smelting and blacksmithing skills he should probably stick to the west methods. Produce a large bloom, pick the best bits of metal, and make something that does the job despite being unrefined.
@@sandervanduren2779 this was done to make up for their poor quality iron. Japan has really low quality iron ore. Europe had some of the highest quality iron ore. That's why traditional European swords were better than traditional Japanese swords, and why it took the Japanese months to create just one katana. It took a lot of time and skill to turn bad iron into decent steel and then into a good weapon.
Love the reset of the channel man, super interesting seeing you going thru the stages of evolving technology.
You should use thinner blowpipes. Every time you blow, you have to replace all of the air that's currently in the pipe. If you put your hand at the ends it probably feels like it's not outputting as much as your inputting. A thinner pipe helps that.
I can’t wait till episode 500 when he goes to space 😂😂😂
Andy, y'all are nailing it with this reset. I love these episodes. I found you way back when Grant Thompson mentioned you in one of his early videos and have watched your progress. You are a hero in my eyes.
This was pretty cool. Greetings from South Africa
3:03 "But they had a power tool that we can't afford, that's time. haha... and slaves, of course." Hahaha, the delivery is perfect
YES! THANK YOU! A DAGGER HAS BEN MADE!
Putting the lessons of the musical instrument episode to good use i see. The band is getting back together!
Another great episode! Love watching the progression. Keep up the great work!
It's crazy that people figured out to do this with next to no knowledge of metallurgy!
i love seeing otzi the ice man! i remember studying him briefly in my ancient history class in high school! he was lactose intolerant (normal at the time because humans had only just started domesticating cows and didn't drink milk past infancy) and had grains, meat and plant matter in his stomach which suggested an omnivorous diet. i forgot what the evidence was but something in combination with the arrow wound in his shoulder suggests he was shot at a distance from uphill while running away from attackers.
Man, I really wish I could support you! This channel, PrimitiveTechnology and a few others are my favorite channels as you are exploring primitive technology and showing everyone else, basically how to do it from scratch! Keep up the amazing work!
Best channel on yt, hands down
i liked the restart so much that after a 1 to 3 years of watching your vids, i finally subbed and turned on notifications!
Can't wait to see more! Great video!
How to make everything is soooo educational.
I love it soooo muuch
I really appreciate the amount of time that goes into these videos. So much work involved.
All raw materials used in thus series so far
Basic reources:
Wood-Local
Stone-Local
Pine Resin-Local
Cattails-Local
Hemp-Local
Clay-Local
Bamboo-California
Turkey Feather
Grown In His Garden:
Gourd-His Garden
Flax-His Garden
Rocks, Minerals and Metals:
Obsidian
Galena-Illinois
Native Copper-Michigan
Malachite-California
Casserite-Cornwall, England
Flint-England
I do enjoy this tech reset you've done. It makes for a great combination of history/primitive survival and chemistry/technology. I look forward to seeing you work into the iron age and all the challenges that entails.
this legit reminds me of the anime dr. stone.
ashley nickle yeah, but Andy isn’t as good as Senku and Dr. Stone kinda skipped the Bronze Age
@@hunterpatton1370 lol true, but the way he explained it reminded me of when Senku talks about rebuilding from the ground up lol
This is a brilliant series!
2:40 Cassiterite is an ore that yields tin. So yeah, it would be complicated extracting copper from it. 😜
alchemists were just built different
Best channel on youtube we learn with you and really let's us appreciate history
"It actually holds an edge pretty well but it dulls super quickly" So which one is it HTME
Both. They are not mutually exclusive conditions.
@@timmorris8932 yes they are, "holding an edge" means it doesnt dull quickly, because it holds.
"Gains an edge pretty well" can be used in this scenario though.
@@DH-xw6jp semantics. The OP pass talking about how it will take an edge but losses it quickly. That was pretty obvious.
Great series!
Awesome episode!
I am so freaking impressed. Time to join your patreon.
The thing I find most people don't realize about the wheel is that the metal banding around the wheel and the metal clamps that hold the axle in place are what give the wheel the durability and utility to actually function... Moderately advanced copper and bronzeworking had to be achieved before the wheel to create those parts.
Glad to finally see you be able to smelt copper like that!!
I'm in love with this series, can't wait until they get to gunpowder xD
I'm liking the Live Action Dr. Stone series!
“Unlocked” it’s like a tech tree in a game but human history. I can dig it
I love this show!
I used to live near Butser Hll, and went there for events many times. It's great seeing it get mentioned on videos like this, they do great work there.
i really appreciate this series thank you for showing folks what it took to get civilization to where we are today
Loved this.
Man those tools look so crude, but I love them. Must be very satisfying knowing you made them, in primitive conditions !
Senku from Dr Stone had his full playlist on loop
*9:00** Wrap the bamboo in vines, let them dry in the sun, it'll reduce the chances of splitting. Also, use the smallest dowel you can, then increase the size. A sharp pebble is better at piercing through. Drop it down and hit with the dowel.*
That James fellow is just wonderful!
Now I have a craving to play Age of Empires
This channel is popping off👌
Great video. I have been a living history reenactor for 15 years and i would suggest a smaller blow pipe as it intensifies the air to make fire plume hotter. the bigger pipe allows to much room for air dispersal and you waste breath as a cause of it.
18:50 "Cutting edge technology" Was the pun intended
yo i swear this channel is amazing and should get more views
Woah, I loved that tech tree at 7:16! Please do include it in future videos!
Keep up the good work!!!!
Love your channel. I've been wanting to try this myself. How long was the crucible in the kiln/foundry?
This is the best channel on youtube
FINALLY.. The metal ages.
Dude, where's your tech tree at the start/end?
I would look into work hardening the edges of the tools with a hammer stone rather than just sharpening for both bronze and copper. This gave them a much more durable edge and a simple way to sharpen them.
Bronze spear. After big stick and sharp rock man's next weapon was probably the spear, after copper knife was probably the copper spear.
Great video i love your channel
I love the tech tree!!!!!
I'm enjoying this
Best episode yet.
You can burn through the segments in bamboo with charcoal rather than punching through it and probably splitting it in the process.
what a nice wholesome guy
Do you realize you just made a Glass Dagger from The Elder Scrolls Games!
Legend
This has earned a sub from me! I love this kind of thing!
CANNOT wait for the lathe.
"Tin have to be crushed to fine dust and separated from the calcite that way"
*happy macerator noises*
Nice joke :D
i love this channel
Minnesota Gang entering the Bronze Age like a boss 😎
2025:
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