A Lindybeige video about a relatively niche topic with a generally exploratory nature and a “we’ll figure it out” attitude? An instant classic

@loso8381

Жыл бұрын

Its not two hours long :(

@ScienceDiscoverer

Жыл бұрын

@@loso8381 The magic of time warping.

@CottonTailJoe

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@AmTrFilms

Жыл бұрын

Isn;t that every video of his?

@45calibermedic

Жыл бұрын

And he knows a bit about it. Not everything, but he has some background knowledge from his study of history and archery. Just the sort of thing that stimulates wonderful discussion in the comments. We need way more of lindy explaining old words and ideas while exploring traditional and historical life.

Bro casually returned after a month just to make an authentic bowstring, respect

@edgarbanuelos6472

Жыл бұрын

Very British the more I think about it

@colinmackay92

Жыл бұрын

Far longer than that. His last legitimate video was many months ago. His most recent content was just the interviews. They were awesome. But this is the first classic lindybeige video in quite a while.

@Milamberinx

Жыл бұрын

Probably filmed 5 years ago and not been edited too. Anyone an expert on ageing Beigemen?

@CausticTitan

Жыл бұрын

Dude you are everywhere

@VoidVagabond

Жыл бұрын

​@@CausticTitan I thought I was crazy for noticing this.

Can't wait for episode 6 when you raise your own standing army!

@joeyjoejoejrshabadoo4311

Жыл бұрын

It'll be released 2 years from now like the sword forging series.

@badusername9903

Жыл бұрын

making my own grand levee, i cant wait

@bashkillszombies

Жыл бұрын

Episode 4,308 you mean.

@humor86

Жыл бұрын

Only if they're still using forks!

Nothing stops an arrow like a good Frenchman

@_Mentat

Жыл бұрын

It seems to be the lot of Frenchmen to be skewered by English arrows.

@johnmcmanus7809

11 ай бұрын

Mad Jack Churchill decided the Germans also worked well in this regard.

@ClashClash89

10 ай бұрын

I have met multiple German seniors pocking their heads into active archery ranges… so mad jack probably had some very cooperative targets. ;p friggin nominees for the Darwin Award…

@michaelturner2523

4 ай бұрын

And you know what the only good Frenchman is...

I think the thing I love most about this channel is how every episode is a complete roll of the dice. You never know what you’re going to get, and yet it’s always absolutely fascinating. Bravo

@NorroTaku

11 ай бұрын

like a box of chocolate

enough flax to make a hundred bowstrings, or enough flax to try 100 methods of processing

@PerfectAlibi1

Жыл бұрын

I go with the latter, or enough for 99 failures... XD

@abyssaljam441

Жыл бұрын

@@PerfectAlibi1 99 failures but the bow rope ain't one

'Two guys who know a little bit giving it a go' That's the mentality that built the empire

Typically, bowstrings are waxed. This strenghtens the cord by sticking the fibers together, reduces fraying and waterproofs it somewhat in the bargain.

I never knew it would be entertaining to watch people make a bowstring for 40 minutes

@GaborSzabo747

Жыл бұрын

If it's a Lindybeige video, it is interesting!

@Logan_93

Жыл бұрын

36min

"Couple of guys, who know a bit, giving it at go" feels like a perfect series to enjoy. I for one will look forward to the spoon whittling episode, and the flint knapping one too of course!

@simonspacek3670

Жыл бұрын

"How do you know that you cannot make a bowstring, if you never tried to make one?" A lot of things is quite easy (but still time consuming) if you give it a try. Can you mix concrete? Well, it is easy, just try it. On your third try you will be pretty good. Make sling from string? Well, first two or three were a bit rubbish, but the next one was good. Sew trousers? Version 4 was not bad and version 5 I had for few years until the fabric fall apart.

@man.inblack

Жыл бұрын

If you want anything flint, chase up Phil Harding and his hat on Time Team. He’ll smash out Stone Age tools in cut off shorts.

@Earthenfist

Жыл бұрын

@@man.inblack I'm personally a fan of Will Lorde. He's got a KZread channel and talks about a lot of Neolithic stuff.

I appreciate how genuine Lloyd is. It doesn't get any more classic than shooting a cardboard box with a homemade bow - didn't we all do that as kids? :)

@16m49x3

Жыл бұрын

we yes. But our children will not be allowed to

@amonickerofprofoundpretention

Жыл бұрын

@@16m49x3 you could just... allow them to?

@16m49x3

Жыл бұрын

@@amonickerofprofoundpretention I bet the government will find a way to ban homemade bows...

@Valkbg

Жыл бұрын

I didnt. But I did make artillery pieces out of cork and matches

@IFarmBugs

Жыл бұрын

Cardboard boxes were rare but the apple trees had plenty of apples

My Mum's family were in the linen trade in Ireland for generations (Ireland was one of the global centres of the industry). That wooden sword thing you refer to will be a scutching knife - we still have one hanging on the wall...

Mildred: Harold, you remember that strange bloke next door. He's got another bloke with him and they are hitting straw with a pretend sword then trying to make spaghetti with it A few hours later... Harold: Mildred, he seems to have used the spaghetti to make a bow now.

@adamcetinkent

Жыл бұрын

Harold should keep an eye out.

@grailknight6794

11 ай бұрын

​@@adamcetinkent"eye" see what you did there 👀

Your Merlin impression was spot on, one of my all time favourite films and soundtracks.

@lindybeige

Жыл бұрын

I am a dream to some, and a nightmare to others.

Don't be afraid to leave it uncut, doing long ones like this can be kind of therapeutic

Yes! Finally a continuity of series of "Ancient versatile crafts, as demonstrated by an incompetent".

Fun fact: all Englishman are imbued with unerring accuracy with a bow, provided that the target is a Frenchman.

@Spritofjazz

11 ай бұрын

Saw this before the French invasion, thought it was a joke. I should’ve known better

@bickyboo7789

10 ай бұрын

Does anyone know where I may acquire an archery target in the shape of a Frenchman?

@Tentin.Quarantino

10 ай бұрын

@@bickyboo7789 why, Agincourt, of course 😁 Or France, but those ones tend to move about a bit.

YES! Been missing a classic style Lindybeige long form video. Thank you.

@Wintermute909

Жыл бұрын

Same here!

@thothtahuti5509

Жыл бұрын

@@Wintermute909 and here! ❤️

@Spindlegrind

Жыл бұрын

Same… the Ukraine bollox was making me rethink subscription.

@thothtahuti5509

Жыл бұрын

@Spindlegrind fair enough, too. I like his classic style, but I couldn't get into them, i did watch the first one and then stopped watching. I'm sure it was well intentioned, I just prefer my politics and politicians dead and in the past (*dark humor). I'm glad to see him back in his "wheel house", which oddly is almost ANYTHING else, this is the first subject he ever covered that didn't leave me riveted in the moment and more knowledgeable by the end :) ❤️

@jphilb

10 ай бұрын

Glad I stayed to the end for the sing along.

Ah just in time, I was wondering how to make a bow string from scratch!

I loved this episode. Trying to do things our ancestors mastered helps show just how human and clever they really were. It's easy to act smug thinking we would know better, but the truth is very few people can replicate the level of technology from the past, and fewer still could replicate our current technology when starting from scratch.

@shaneintheuk2026

Жыл бұрын

Replicating our current level of technology would be impossible without millions of people working together. Creating a chip fabrication plant from scratch requires a ton of other factories to create the parts.

@himan12345678

Жыл бұрын

​@@shaneintheuk2026 the thing no one seems to get is that recreating current tech after a hypothetical collapse wouldn't be from scratch. It would be from salvage/ruins. It could be from scratch, and the more time has passed since such a collapse the more and more likely it will be from scratch. But it would most likely be from salvage. Which a single person can do. I'm currently in the process of doing electronics fabrication from salvage actually. My biggest hurdle is stealthy "dumpster diving" into landfills. Which wouldn't be an issue really in a post collapse. But if you want to counter that it took many to make those original parts, then yes. But it also takes many (not humans) to make rocks and trees and other natural materials for humans to then process. No man is an island.

@shaneintheuk2026

Жыл бұрын

@@himan12345678 interesting and viable in the short term but longer term I think it would be extremely difficult. Once the easy salvage is gone, trying to educate the next generation becomes a massive problem. How do you get people to degree level when the population is much smaller and everyone is trying to survive. David Brin’s The Postman discusses it nicely.

@Lanka0Kera

Жыл бұрын

Few people know the basics of past technology because people don't care about museums that try to keep the knowledge alive. I know *how to* work flax into thread because both my parents took care of a museum for common household *stuff* as it'd had been around late middle ages tech wise. Never done it myself, but I know how to - and especially *why* some parts of the process are required. I know ye-shite-tonne of past-common stuff that have absolutely no use in modern age. Taught when I was a kid, now in mid 30 a lot of them are things I'd like to actually try to make by myself just to see if I can...

@joshuabacker2363

10 ай бұрын

@@shaneintheuk2026 Depends on how genetic intelligence was affected by a collapse and what sort of population one has to work with, and what level of knowledge or skills were retained. Salvage would make trial and error much less necessary though, because just having an example to work from is what makes it possible for non-geniuses to make things. It takes a rare and intrinsic talent to come up with, say, the idea of the printing press. But once it's been done, it's relatively easy to copy.

I thought Kon-Tiki was trans -Pacific and made of logs. I believe Lloyd refers to a prior adventure of Thor Heyerdahl with the trans-Atlantic reed boat relating to Egyptians travelling to the New World.

@atspoonermom7652

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Kon-Tiki was green balsa logs starting from Chile and sailing west with the Pacific currents. They lashed it together with hemp rope, likely originally made in a similar fashion to the flax bowstring! However, where Kon-Tiki was 1947, the Thor's reed boat voyage crossing the Atlantic was 1970, so it was later, not prior.

@lindybeige

Жыл бұрын

Yes, the Ra-II was the boat I was referring to. I got the names mixed up. Sorry.

I've read the books. But Arny is so iconic in that role it's so hard to seperate the character from the actor.

Im so glad we're back to normal vids.

@BlookbugIV

Жыл бұрын

What were the not normal videos? I’ve not been keeping up.

On the Conan anecdote, what you said is actually incorrect. Arnold got cast because he was the only body builder who DIDN'T have to lose weight to lift his arms because he had been training in a slightly different way that allowed him to retain more flexibility than was typical of body builders of the time.

@lindybeige

Жыл бұрын

I have heard this said specifically of Arnie and Conan.

Keeping civil while you string us along. Great first attempt. By the 100th bowstring, I'm sure it'll look professional.

Constructive suggestion: spin thin strings of full length flax furst, then ply several together ( opposit spin) then there will be no joins and enough twist onnthe fibres to lake them stable. Can spin with a drop spindle or a long stick rolled along the thigh

We bigfoots have to make everything ourselves out here in the woods

This is the beautiful thing about newcastle, the history, the lovely buildings. and knowing somewhere among us Loyd is making bowstrings his back garden

Love ya, Lindy 👋 You’re someone I’ve routinely searched for once every few months for almost a decade now. Here’s to the decades yet to come! 🍻

I'm not five minutes in yet, but this is already amazing. Lloyd denies us a video for a million years, then makes one about bloody bowstrings! The man is a hero!

What a forking hell of work! Based on the foliage in the background and on the progress you made, it dawned on me that you must have recorded this video in early autumn... ... of 2018. 😂 Well done!

It seems likely to me that our ancestors would have used a hackle kit and carding comb for this sort of thing, but it looks like a pair of dining forks will work in a pinch.

@abyssaljam441

Жыл бұрын

they just had to wait for the fork to be invented first?

I think if you guys had info on flax to linen processing it might have been helpful at the beginning. When he described the tools he needed it made me think of this immediately. Rope or yarn the processing overlaps! Love for this channel! ❤

@rogersmith7396

Жыл бұрын

Washer rollers for the first part then a spinning wheel.

I wonder what people used to pre-stretch the string during the middle ages, if anything; to stress it until it settles. Your accuracy is very gratifying to watch ;)

I used context clues to determine abseiling is British for rappelling!

@lindybeige

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes! I edited that bit out, sorry. I meant to leave it in. Whoops.

The fact that I have been watching your entire back catalogue this month but didnt get this new video recommended says something about the algorithm

You randomly showed up on my suggested videos - but yet we did student radio together more than 15 years ago. Hello old friend :D

This kind of content is a favourite for me. Watching you try stuff out is great

Intersting topic. It seemed like eons passed since the last upload from Lloyd, glad to see him back ! I hav'nt done any bowstring for years, and those where made out of dynema or fastflight... really cool to see one made out of natural fibers. Even with modern materials, I needed loads of trial and error and a lot of time to make, so I'm very impressed by this video ! As alwais this channel is full of suprises and a lot of fun to watch.

If this is an example of "Bush craft" I keep wondering if the forks were naturally sourced. I tend to doubt it. It's the wrong time of year in England for the forks to be ripe.

@blunderingfool

11 ай бұрын

We have these wonderful inventions called greenhouses, I had a haul of spoons in the dead of winter last year!

@RealMoukeycat

11 ай бұрын

@blunderingfool so you're telling us it wasn't true bush craft. I was imagining Lindy went on a long walk in the countryside to sorce the forks. But all he did was pop into the garden.

"I'm starting to get something a bit hair-like" Not only this, but it's also beige!

@SallyPointer has some great videos on making cordage from plant fibres. Also some on repairing knitwear which might also interest you @Lindybeige considering your collection of lovely knit jumpers.

Ohhhh Lindybeige, I always love your goofiness. Please never stop being yourself. Blessings and hugs from Texas!

I absolutely adore your "lets just try it and figure it out" approach sir, thats after all how learning is done best!

Nice to see my former physics teacher again

@sdd4735

Жыл бұрын

have a feeling he likes lasers

@lindybeige

Жыл бұрын

Your feelings are accurate.

it's so nice that Lindy is still making great videos since all this time , his videos have been a companion of mine for a while now , and I like it !

I love the fact that you did a survival course where the squaddies were deferring to you regarding orienteering and yet you trusted them to set up the ropes which you used to abseil !!! Your a brave man sir I salute you

I made a trash bow from a tree branch, strong elastic and some real arrows.... it went dangerously far, all the way across the park (was much more careful after the first launch). The branches break, but are easily replaceable.

My wifes family is ojibwe, natives of Canada/Minnesota, and her dad told me something cool one time. He said that in the past their tribe would kill a turtle, and cut a spiral pattern around the skin of its outstretched neck(2 person job) in such a way that you ended up with a long skinny "rope". They would dry the skin, twist it tightly and tie it off, and they used that as bowstrings, successfully. It was like he was passing on some sage wisdom. That was a cool moment 😎

Gosh, if i were a make-a-wish kid, my wish would be to spend one day nerding out with Lindybeige.

It has been an absolutely hellish week.. I needed this. Thanks Lindy!

Love the casual admission of lindybeige nearly hitting the deck second time abseiling due to overconfidence. Goes to show we are all susceptible to the donning-Krueger effect

I didn´t know that it was called "abseiling" in English. As a native German speaker it´s always funny for me to hear German words in the middle of an English conversation

Wake up babe, Lindybeige released a new video

@nodrog302

Жыл бұрын

Lmao. Was think exactly that and ready to type but you beat me to it.

@meyr1992

Жыл бұрын

everyone knows lindy’s viewers consist only of the male variant of the humans

@Henri.d.Olivoir

Жыл бұрын

@@nodrog302 lol

@Henri.d.Olivoir

Жыл бұрын

@@meyr1992 yes

@BlookbugIV

Жыл бұрын

body pillows aren’t sentient

Authentic bowstrings were often coated with beeswax. Modern sorce often state that this is to protect the string from water, but it might also help to bind the strings together.

Another use of tow was to load dueling pistols with when you want to get rid of your troublesome nephew.

What I really appreciate is going to that extra step to test it against wizardry.

You have the best viewers, ever. I love that a viewer just sent you the raw materials randomly. He knew you couldn't resist trying it. As hard as the work looked, it sure beats following the north end of a south bound ox pulling a plow. Better a journeyman than a peasant.

You can also make very strong string from nettle. In a more bushcraft and less agricultural setting. Nice greenish colour!

@Par-Crom

Жыл бұрын

Apparently, the best period to gather them would be in May - June. You can cook nettles to make delicious soup too !

Sent you enough for a bow string… and many attempts.

For the first 15 minutes I was thinking a violin bow, and was slightly surprised Lindy also plays violin.

Welcome back "Lindy" we missed you🤠

With sprinkles of trivia and anecdotes, love it.

You need finer fibres, to twine them more tightly, neater joining in, and then... double up the fine twine to make a thicker twine.

Our Beige Saint has returned. Hello Again Lindybeige. Glad to see you again.

That you RP Warhammer absolutely makes my day.

Truly some great impressions😆

Seeing him with friends it's always great. 😃

there are some great vids of old gents making flax.... its amazing ! conan... i read so many when i was 12/13 year old... i was enthralled !

Nice to see two friends doing some hand crafts and having a yarn. I wouldn't want to be on the other side of that bow. I'm thinking about growing some of that flax myself.

Hours of flax into bowstrings. I'm having horrible Runescape flashbacks.

excellent end card

Love your videos Nikolas, some more WW2 tank videos? But what about your graphic novel, in search of Hannibal, even just an update would be nice.

@tommyteapot13

Жыл бұрын

The script is finished, waiting on the art

As someone who works or musical instruments for a living, I was pretty excited to see this show up in my feed… oh wait…

That was not only the best Nicole Williamson impression I have ever heard, its the only one.

Excellent video as always thank you

we ❤ marks physics lessons

Lindy you were right about the composer. It was Basil!

There I was, thinking I couldn't like you more and now you share your love of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay! Absolutely love it 😄 Bummer that talk did get cut

STRICTLY NO MUTTERING "I wasn't muttering! I was just mumbling!"

When doing the rope making part put the loop over a nail in a board. Allows you to keep some tension on it and allows full use of both hands.

All that work for 15 crafting xp. And here i was thinking making a bowstring only took 3 ticks

Me wondering why Lloyd uploaded a video at 1am but what does it matter, it's a proper Lloyd crafting video.

Mark is a real trooper.

Olden crafts, modern revival! Over the course of the hundred years war I expect you'd get a few good bowstrings out of that lot! Good stuff, well done both!

I honestly could listen to you both banter for hours while doing something equally tedious and be right as a rain cloud.

That moment when you find yourself explaining to the postman that it is flax and not the pelt of cousin It :o)

There used to be a process called "London Shrinking". Possibly anachronistic both ways, but probably people knew about textile shrinking and what it does before it was an industrial process? Some people in the 1400s certainly knew that a wet rope tied to a boat would pull it off a sandbank when it dried where manpower had failed.

This is one short step away from watching two middle-aged men braid each other's hair for half an hour. I couldn't look away.

We love you Lindybeige!

Thanks for your footage. I was recently tasked with making a primative bow and string at an American Mountain Man event. It worked marvelously.

I would have loved Lindy to be my history teacher

Wow. I think I just learned where the term "tow-headed" comes from. Oh, and how bow strings were made!

Fantastic work! I’ve missed these crafting videos with the beige man

That was a brilliant Nicol Williamson impersonation.

Lloyd is already a alltime classic. Thank you for your work and continues work!

The "virgin bits are quite stiff" oh my.

Best part of the video was you and Mark sharing stories while you worked. Thanks for the video Lindy!

Thank you for the video, Sir Beige

The Chumping Thing that Katchumps. Reminds me of my former Woodworking teacher naming all his jigs.