Depending on time period, this would have been done with a 1/2"-1" ribbon of steel wound around a mandrel so you get better welds and straighter finished material.

@TheRealWilliamWhite

9 ай бұрын

Thinking about it more, this is how its done today, but i can't think of when this would be the way they did it historically.

Im learning how to make a crack pipe

It might be worthwhile to use swage block and some cold steel round bar and use that to make the pipe, though seeing as you already made it and probably won't need to make another this isn't really that useful.

Amazing thank you for your hard work ❤❤

Alec Steele anvil I see

Awesome! I hope this will also have you testing how easy it is to make transparent things from other materials, like window panes and lenses (for glasses, microscopes, and telescopes) made from (1) glass, (2) resin/rosin (most likely a mixture, depending on the temperatures at the time), (3) waterglass (waterproofed, of course, with wax/resin/rosin or something else), and maybe even boiled cow horns (sourced humanely, from a slaughterhouse). In addition, for windows, you would also need to make textiles and paper and test waxed/greased/oiled paper/textiles, which let light in but might not be optically transparent (depending on the materials used, proportions, and thickness of the end result).

Love the anvil.

@markeastridge9649

9 ай бұрын

“The Steele Anvil 140 pound” by designed by Alec Steele. Small business well reviewed. Made in the USA hence 1600$ plus freight shipping.

@diggoran

9 ай бұрын

@@markeastridge9649 You may have missed the reason why OP loves the anvil. It’s because Alec Steele is another KZreadr and using his anvil is like a soft collaboration.

I imagine casting would work too, but I might be incorrect. It seems like there might be a few holes in the pipe, might want to coat it with something to seal them.

@tungsten_cube

9 ай бұрын

A good forge weld should make it well enough. It would have to be cast out of steel though, due to glass furances being around 2000°C.

@TheRealWilliamWhite

9 ай бұрын

@tungsten_cube from what I saw in this video, there wasn't a good forge weld.

@dominiczibuda5232

9 ай бұрын

@@tungsten_cube I mean, it looked kinda fucked to be frank. Not sure about the heat treatment either but it's not really necessary

Adrian (adrien? Im not sure) is such a dope human, i wish the best for them, but they dont really need it much with the immense skill they have lol

Glass blowing, although an ancient art in and of itself, pales in it's antiquity to the nearly lost art of hand forging and hammer-welding of the blowpipe that made it possible. When the eventual collapse of "modern society" occurs, these are the arts that must survive if Mankind doesn't want to regress to a hunter/gatherer level once again.

Not how I would go about it, I woulda made a hole in stone 1st then expanded one side of the hole so that the sheet of metal could start there and be bent by the stone as I hammer it in

Yessir make those heady glass pipes mane sheesh use that real borosilicate

@taylordavis1543

9 ай бұрын

Lmao imagine him trying to create an oxy propane torch hot enough to melt boro.

Hor to force a mostly straight anvil?

Why not cast and iron pipe. Make a mold of the top and bottom and insert a tube made of pottery

Hey, that anvil I know it!!!

It looks like it took hours, but it will last a few hundred years.

Uh... Was that really a mystery bruh?

@tungsten_cube

9 ай бұрын

It may seem simple, but its alot harder than it looks, it takes alot of hammer control to not just collapse the tube, especially then done without and sort of guides. It's definitely one of the more advanced skills that might need repeating several times in blacksmithing, and when I initially needed to do it, it definitely stumped me on how to do it.

@jacobhope6164

9 ай бұрын

@@tungsten_cube I didn't say it was easy bruh. You're arguing points I didn't raise. I asked if that was really a mystery. I asked that because I know very little about smithing, but it was obvious even to me that we were gonna watch a man forge weld a tube.

@TheRealWilliamWhite

9 ай бұрын

​@@jacobhope6164congratulations you watched the video i guess.

First

You could also buy a pipe...

@Shadow.Darkraven

9 ай бұрын

the channel is called how to make everything not how to buy everything

@user-zp5xt8em6l

9 ай бұрын

They want to show how people progressed from raw materials to the modern age or what is present now...

@lordmole2776

9 ай бұрын

Yes, but How to Buy Everything wouldn't exactly be that interesting of a channel.