Andy - breaker of crucibles, destroyer of kilns, slayer of molds, father of incomplete casts

@JP94

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂👌

@johnknoefler

5 жыл бұрын

I'm just curious as to how he's paying for all that shit.

@johnemerson6112

5 жыл бұрын

Ma C “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” -Thomas A. Edison Love the videos; keep ‘em coming!

@Memento_Mori711

4 жыл бұрын

Ma C lol

@The_HappyHollow

4 жыл бұрын

He is a grand overlord indeed

I am a professional glass caster and could give plenty of pointers on both sand and kiln casting since I have the unique opportunity to do both on a daily basis. The axe head would have done better being entirely kiln cast, or at least ramped again post hot pour to fill out the details, but co2 sand is not ideal for that. As you noticed with plaster molds they have cracking issues, plastere isn't refractory enough on its own which is why we use it in combination with equal parts silica flour. If you want more detailed info feel free to reach out and I can provide plenty of info from the PDF's I have collected and made for students and colleagues.

@dominicknepper2082

5 жыл бұрын

Multiple glass artists have tried to tell him the right way to do it. He's not interested.

@danielauen7790

5 жыл бұрын

I'm interested though

@daviedood2503

5 жыл бұрын

@@dominicknepper2082 because he's a dumb geek. He's not a real nerd. We don't accept him. We cast him out into the dweebus realm.

@heartcrafts3426

5 жыл бұрын

@@dominicknepper2082 There not interested because it's a company and not just a "KZreadr".

@saugod

5 жыл бұрын

I think at this point this dude does it on purpose tbh, but my gripe is he spends money, time and effort, why not do it properly, most of his projects turns out to be a disaster of some sort, except where the woodworker dude is involved. But I still watch this channel, and maybe they know that people like to see Andy struggle.

I love how most youtubers try to edit so they look super compitent and you haven't done that AT ALL. Solid honesty!

@JustSomeDevKid

4 жыл бұрын

“solid honesty!” is that a pun?

@Bluenochian

3 ай бұрын

@@JustSomeDevKid yeah, and he had to write that comment multiple times for that pun and broke a couple of fingers maybe lol

@JustSomeDevKid

3 ай бұрын

@@Bluenochian I appreciate the fact that you responded to a 3-year old reply

Maybe, you should try casting a "rough" shape and knap the final/refined product...

@Eli_skels

4 жыл бұрын

thats what i thought

@wolves600

4 жыл бұрын

it would probably shatter the whole thing as obsidian it would be similar to trying to hammer a piece of glass

@_Sterben_

4 жыл бұрын

@@wolves600 Nope. Obsidian Napping has been around for a long time. If you do It right, it wont completely shatter.

@tellthewind

3 жыл бұрын

@Stephen Laverty 0o

@tellthewind

3 жыл бұрын

@Stephen Laverty 0o

At this pont, he could probably make some discount deal with a kiln manufacturer...

@staberas

5 жыл бұрын

i think a klin manufacturer has to sponsor them

@janneaalto3956

5 жыл бұрын

Or work for them as a full-time stress-tester.

@tanszism

5 жыл бұрын

@@janneaalto3956 *user incompetence tester still love the guy though

@micahtritscher951

5 жыл бұрын

@@tanszism hahaha so true!

@ButteredSlightly

5 жыл бұрын

I dont understand how hes fucked up so many.

You should build your own kiln ... Seeing as how you go through the 1-3 an episode

@mybackhurts7020

5 жыл бұрын

Matthew Olsen right! Alec steel has a good video on it

@elective_1232

5 жыл бұрын

He'd probably break a kiln while making his own.

@superdupergrover9857

5 жыл бұрын

It is an important piece of technology, and making one from scratch is not too difficult. Plus, he can do a second video and make a modern electric one with modern materials.

@timfriday9106

5 жыл бұрын

should go old school and build a legit one

@toakrikitt

5 жыл бұрын

hell, he might be able to piece together some working parts from all the defunked ones he has unless he tosses them out immediately apon literal meltdown

"Should be pretty easy..." 5 minutes later "So I broke my kiln..."

as someone who did a 4 year apprenticeship to become a molder i will tell you a few things. add vents and risers to your thinner parts of ur mold. Yes it will mean felting after but the risers will draw the metal to the thinner parts. also for a think mold like that i would prob do a 2 box flat back mold with vents and risers on the flat side to hide them and also i would have the mold flat not vertical

Next video series idea: Can you make a kiln from scratch?

@clayofman-levisiewert8381

5 жыл бұрын

good idea, but I dont think we need a new video every other day.

@natalieisagirlnow

5 жыл бұрын

he'd need 14 working kilns to make a working one

@itmeremi

5 жыл бұрын

My Prediction: He breaks 5 kilns in the process

Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Kilns $36,000 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

@corbettcollins5099

5 жыл бұрын

Your spending to much on food, Cut back the food

@FireflyJuu

5 жыл бұрын

Rent? You don't need that babe. Put that $800 into kilns where it belongs

@gluestickgenius2644

5 жыл бұрын

@@FireflyJuu yeah, you can live in the kiln, it is nice and cozy

@noonecares616

5 жыл бұрын

@@gluestickgenius2644 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂i dont know why i laughed aloot at this

@GregoryMarkowski

5 жыл бұрын

Your spending much on kilns, put it into kilns

**melts obsidian** Minecraft players: *impossible*

@Nickplaysgaming

4 жыл бұрын

Wubba Lubba Dub Dub copied

@nightshadekelly

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@spvillano

3 жыл бұрын

Fair enough, melting sand or glass is impossible to the naive. Glass only melts around half the temperature of iron, totally impossible! ;)

Cameraman: "Had anyone been been seriously injured on this show." Forgetting that he almost killed a man with a pickle: "No"

@landopolaroid9157

5 жыл бұрын

A pickle 😆

Try casting obsidian to give a rough shape of the final form, with enough thickness to knap it

@Guru_1092

5 жыл бұрын

That was what I was thinking. It seems plausible to cast obsidian in order to get it to a close shape to what's needed, then knap it to a razor edge. I'm not sure if the casting would affect the ability of the obsidian to fracture sharply.

@Bl4ckD0g

5 жыл бұрын

@@Guru_1092 it'd probably make it too brittle to knap. It would more than likely shatter completely after the first hit.

@antigen4

5 жыл бұрын

you can't knap it after it's cast sorry

@noah_hill

5 жыл бұрын

its structure is different after a cast

@abelbabel8484

5 жыл бұрын

That's the ticket right there

Everyone knows you can’t make an obsidian axe It’s not in the crafting recipes

@99jamus

5 жыл бұрын

They had us in the first half, I’m not gonna lie

@oukid2633

5 жыл бұрын

He knows that, hes baiting for views. He said in the first video that the flux weakens the obesidian ruining the strength of it

@adamxue6096

5 жыл бұрын

And THAT is when you realize he is playing with the mod "Tinkers Construct" Checkmate!

@zex5367

5 жыл бұрын

ou kid r/woosh

@obsolete18

5 жыл бұрын

he just has to mod the shit out of life

Might want to save up and buy some purpose built equipment. And some classes on casting techniques. i.e. your manufactured obsidian could probably be cast flat on an open mold, torch heated to slow the cooling process (simulating the slow cooling process of natural obsidian), while moulding the flat side with tools to get the flat side textured. Similar to modern glass sculpting techniques. But where the fun in not burning out a half dozen kilns and overburdening the local electricity grid with wattage it was likely never meant to sustain?

@techrev9999

4 жыл бұрын

Classes... It's painful to watch this guy do almost anything.

@lafleurstudios

4 жыл бұрын

He isn't trying to do things well or properly. He is trying to do it on a budget basis with limited equipment as to "learn" what it is to make in a not so modern time... he explains it better in earlier videos..

name change "how to spectacularly fail at everything"

@SubjectiveFunny

5 жыл бұрын

rude..

@Splunkzop

5 жыл бұрын

True.

@landopolaroid9157

5 жыл бұрын

He’s so bad working with his hands. The ideas sound great but when he actually tries to make something he’s so freaking clumsy and awful at everything he does.

@djordjezivic2481

5 жыл бұрын

so basicaly my life

@banananoodles

5 жыл бұрын

@@SubjectiveFunny rude? But true

I want to point out that it IS in fact possible to make large, singular pieces of obsidian blades with fine details and complicated shapes, but it's not done by casting, but by extremely intricate and precise knapping. If you look up "obsidian eccentric" or "eccentric flint", you can see a ton of examples of large pieces of flint and obsidian shaped into things like the faces of kings, snakes, etc by various Mesoamerican civilizations, mostly the Maya, but also the Teotihuacano (another civilization from the same time period as the Maya at their height, though in Central Mexico like the later Toltec and Aztec rather then the Yucatan like the Maya: At it's height, the city of Teotihuacan covered 60 square kilometers, larger then Rome, had a sewage system; and had hundreds of thousands of inhabitants, almost all of whom lived in fancy stone, multi-room residential complexes with murals and frescos, fine sculptures and art, etc. Using historical inequality indexes, the city had some of the lowest rates of economic/housing inequality in history)

@BothHands1

5 жыл бұрын

Very interesting post, thank you! However, i have just one small nitpick: 『larger *than* Rome.』 "Then" indicates that one event follows another; for example: "she ate her broccoli, and *then* she was allowed to have dessert." Similar to the words "pen" and "pan," the words "then" and "than" are distinctly different in their pronunciation and meanings.

@Nathan-bu6ue

5 жыл бұрын

He mentions in the beginning of the video napping is how it would’ve been done but GOT made it look like they were forged so he was going to do it that way too to match.

@Michael-Archonaeus

5 жыл бұрын

Great fairy tale. Let's get back to reality now :)

@MajoraZ

5 жыл бұрын

@@Michael-Archonaeus I AM talking about reality. If you look up "Millon Teotihuacan map" on google images you can find an archeological land survey of the site that shows the location of the cities's various buildings and streets, the central urban core was 22 square km, while the city as a whole covered around 60 square km. There are relatively intact residential complexes that still have some of their walls up, which still have their murals and frescos on them. There are entire museum catalogs just devoted to fresco fragements from the site. And the housing inequality thing you can also easily look up: There's a free to access published paper called "Quantitative Measures of Wealth Inequality in Ancient Central Mexican Communities" which talks about it in depth, Teotihuacan measures a mere .12 on the Gini inequality index, compared to the average classical Roman/Egyptian city having a much larger inequality score of .6 or the modern US's .8.

@WallHaxxx

5 жыл бұрын

Holy crap, this! These are mind blowing!

Stop using electric kilns and make a gas foundry

@shania-antonio6425

5 жыл бұрын

SerenityGene He tried.

@BeppyCat

5 жыл бұрын

@@shania-antonio6425 😥

@seleenshadowpaw3012

5 жыл бұрын

why stop at that, aim for the stars directly skip to the backyard-blast furnace :_D

@CarnivorousPlantsAndGardening

5 жыл бұрын

@@seleenshadowpaw3012 or literally aim for the stars... Make a furnace using a giant fresnel lens and the sun

@xKatjaxPurrsx

5 жыл бұрын

I think the problem with gas is that it adds impurities to your castings.

dragon glass axe: my skyrim ass: wuuthrad...

_GENDRY WAS ABLE TO CAST THIS_ _IN A CAVE_ _WITH A WAGON OF COALS_

@princecharon

5 жыл бұрын

Well, he's not Gendry.

@vinnyvidivici

5 жыл бұрын

princecharon I’m actually really happy you got the reference, haha.

@2000MKC1

4 жыл бұрын

The real axe isn't cast its knaped obsidian.

@vinnyvidivici

4 жыл бұрын

Saul skunk .....okay.....

@justinpowell3174

3 жыл бұрын

Without any snacks!

*cuts out over probably 100 hours of film but keeps the stuff with the trash ladies in the back

@JnixMarshel

5 жыл бұрын

Haha. I was thinking the same.

@recklessroges

5 жыл бұрын

I was thinking, "Props for showing the people doing actual work."

@chrishenry8196

5 жыл бұрын

I was wondering if anyone else was going to bring up the trash lady

How to success: Cast one big slab of obsidian, that is flat and wide Knap it into your desired shape

@Michael-Archonaeus

5 жыл бұрын

Great method, right until the moment he makes one false blow, and snaps the whole axe in two lol :P

@metalface8515

5 жыл бұрын

@@Michael-Archonaeus LOL that definitely might happen

@evannibbe9375

5 жыл бұрын

Also tell him to not add flux, it ceases to be real obsidian at that point. He may also want to melt it in a nearly 0 g*kg (of normal force, finding a place with 0 g is impossible as technically gravity is affecting you wherever you are, 0 g*kg of normal force can be found in low earth orbit) vacuum using electric welding rods in a similar fashion to how it is done in The King of Random. Then he can draw the molten rock into whatever shape he wants! A mold is never going to work for a proper weapon, regardless of material, it must be forged gradually across its length in order to not have one crystal structure that forms parallel lines of potential failure.

I do wonder, if you'd started on a more full, or thicker shape. Then knapped it down to the intended shape? Not to say you didn't try. It's easy to look in hind sight and criticise.

You are a good creator with great ideas where you go to a lot of effort to setup but then in execution (read: see the finish line) you then take too many short cuts that affect the end product. Please keep it up though and be patient.

You really should invest in a gas kiln. They are much less problematic.

@autopartsmonkey7992

5 жыл бұрын

But...they reduce the shit outta the glass

@autopartsmonkey7992

5 жыл бұрын

Plus. .his dumb ass would be dead

@shitboxoffroad

5 жыл бұрын

@@autopartsmonkey7992 what do you mean by reducing the glass?

@agamjotsb

5 жыл бұрын

Propane is not that cheap

@autopartsmonkey7992

5 жыл бұрын

@@agamjotsb its alot cheaper then electric..per btu..and over all

he always ends up failing by doing some kind of mistake... And the mess you make i mean for real? Good video but its frustrating to watch

@Khalastas

5 жыл бұрын

Painfully incompetent!

@Andy-hj6om

5 жыл бұрын

He really need to team up with someone more competent. If not I will stop watching he's channel.

@Fushione

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah it’s always been painful to watch but I figured with time it would get better. Apparently it doesn’t, it gets worse

@joshuahames5782

5 жыл бұрын

It's not just mistakes, is always the SAME KIND of mistakes, usually caused by a lack of care, lazy research, or just general clumsiness. Everything always feels so half-assed. I swear he must have dyspraxia.

@backstept

5 жыл бұрын

"I messed it up, but I'm going to keep going anyway." *Surprised when it doesn't work out as planned*

Mom: Hey what are you watching? Me: A guy melt a bunch of rocks to cut things Mom (confused look): uh okay?

@lasarith2

4 жыл бұрын

A guy making real Dragon-glass, from ancient casting technology.

Every time I watch this guy try to make something I just think....and now to go find an actual expert on the subject.

@mastercheif7189

5 жыл бұрын

The dude gives up too easily

@jyunny598

5 жыл бұрын

Thats just rude in a way

@CommonApathy

4 жыл бұрын

@@jyunny598 He does though... He just uses the scant material he has first try, then gives up.

Yeeeahh!!!! I was sooo glad when you showed you had made silicon molds ^^ Great video!

@socrazybmx

5 жыл бұрын

silicon is a metal added to base melts to create alloys (or used solo in electronics), silicone is a polymer used in mold recipes. With that said, yes, making a mold is by far the best move he couldve made. Watching a foam mold go bad is heartbreaking when that pattern took hours or even days to make

@amelienabet1861

5 жыл бұрын

@@socrazybmx well thank you, that's interesting =) I'll try not to make the mistake again. English isn't my first langage.

@socrazybmx

5 жыл бұрын

@@amelienabet1861 no worries...its just a silly little typo that i always catch lol...somehow I seem to find them everywhere I look

the way he made his styrofoam mold would be a great way to make an obsidian cosplay piece.

@joeleek9976

5 жыл бұрын

Better of with 2# mc foam and plastidip. It will be able to flex more without breaking.

I love your persistance, keep it up! The problems you encounter feel very real and reflect often how I feel when I try to do things myself. So often you only see the polished, edited, final version which is the result of a huge evolution of trial and error. You show all the trial and error and I respect the hell out of you for it!

Plugging your sponsor is done so organically. I'm really impressed with the choice of timing "While we wait for that, let's check out the sponsor". Practically perfect.

10:25 : when you’re working on something in Minecraft and realize you ran out of wood

Hello love watching your videos, keep up the good work! Just would like to point out that you were 100% correct when smashing off the mold the next morning you said "I don't know why that happened, maybe I didn't burn out all the wax"...the telltale was from the nice yellow flame when you were pouring into the mold (or where I'm from "mould") as it was burning the gases trying to escape the mold as the superheat contacted the wax pockets you had mixed. Also, pouring into a mold from a kiln outside is not advised for best results as you could see cooling to a thicker texture as you were pouring into the mold. Just finally like to add that I do not in any way shape or form declare that I could in any way do a better job than you, and I am no hater, just trying to point out a couple things as all knowledge is good knowledge, and thanks for your knowledge :)

That part where the cleaner/s walked into shot was masterful.

Damn you can't go through a single step without making a massive mistake lmao

@whoareyou5722

5 жыл бұрын

Like we could even heat up a kiln right

@robotmistake

5 жыл бұрын

i now forger

@5T3LTH

4 жыл бұрын

i spent the last 3 years working in a foundry and this video caused me physical and emotional pain

You DO know there are metalforming techniques OTHER THAN casting, right? Why are you casting riveted metal strips??? But then again, I suppose that's something they'd do on the show too.

@oukid2633

5 жыл бұрын

He doesnt have the equipment to craft it. Im pretty sure it’d be much harder to forge them rather than just casting, he should just stop the metal working it bothers too many people who dont know shit and try to compare him other youtubers when they have no experience

@dudenamedclem

5 жыл бұрын

@@oukid2633 In that case, shouldn't his channel be "How To Make Everything *incorrectly*"?

@ravendevino6419

5 жыл бұрын

@@dudenamedclem There never was a claim that he was showing how to make everything accurately or correctly.

@dudenamedclem

5 жыл бұрын

@@ravendevino6419 Thank you the white night of the channel, defender of the obvious.

@ravendevino6419

5 жыл бұрын

@@dudenamedclem You're welcome bridge troll of the channel, waster of oxygen. Like really, trees work hard to make that for you...

A general thing about plaster casts: you want the mold to at least touch 720c. Any volatiles left will result in voids and a hot mold assists with flow. Keep it hot.

@marhawkman303

2 жыл бұрын

yeah the liquid glass was starting to solidify as it touched the mold, so it didn't fill the mold properly.

I wont lie, I chuckled when he said pointless, (since the blade was without a point)

Obsidian was used in weapons not too long ago in a weapon originating in Mexico called a Macuahuitl, consisting of a wooden base similar to a rugby bat, with pieces of jagged obsidian stuck in the edge on all sides. A similar weapon called a Leiomano was made by Polynesian peoples, primarily the Hawaiians, that had shark teeth in place of the jagged obsidian.

how can you go through so many kilns and materials every episode!?

This is the first video I have seen of this guy and he begins by saying people think he is an expert on this. How?

@Treviisolion

4 жыл бұрын

Snoofles_FTW He’s been doing this for a while and with raw ingredients he’s had to process himself and figure out how to process more or less himself. He’s really an expert in trial and error.

@Yourebeautyfull

3 жыл бұрын

@@Treviisolion He certain ain't no master craftsman. He is just some random guy with a lot of curiosity discovering his passion... Which is fully respectable and admirable by the way. But comparing him to a real master craftsman... is not. It's clear from his videos that he has neither the knowledge nor the experience in comparison. He is just a hobbyist, not a professional.

this assumes "dragon glass" in the GoT universe is really just simple obsidian and not some magical substance

@trashpanda5947

3 жыл бұрын

If I was going to force it into reality I would go with a doped obsidian. Glass combined with metals, fibers, etc.. that together are strong. Basically things that could reasonably exist within a dragons den that got melted as the dragon was finishing up her home by melting the walls (likely partly silica) and adding things that would strengthen the walls. Kinda like how a bird collects stuff for their nests.

@Andrewtr6

2 жыл бұрын

@@trashpanda5947 Dragon glass in game of thrones could have Valyrian steel as one of it's components since it's the only other thing that can kill white walkers. But since Valyrian steel is based on Damascus steel which is just a type of steel, it probably doesn't exist naturally and was smelted.

most of us prob just watched the people with the trash bins ._. wow i go 8 likes?

@GretchenDawntreader

5 жыл бұрын

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed the significant can dragging cameos.

LOL, why is everyone moving trash cans in this vid? (Edit): OMG thanks for 196 likes :)

@FalcoTheImpaler

5 жыл бұрын

Definitely my favorite skit in the show

@Temp0raryName

5 жыл бұрын

As the first time we saw one, the second two, I figured before the end of the episode we would see three ladies tromping by with trash cans!

@natalieisagirlnow

5 жыл бұрын

those are full of all of his mistakes

@ymj4256

5 жыл бұрын

Those were the failed attempts

atomic number of carbon is 6 also can you do a kiln review on how you broke each one

@antigen4

5 жыл бұрын

what on earth is it to do with carbon - i think there's very little carbon in obsidian - more like silicon

@guineapigtyler

5 жыл бұрын

antigen4 it’s basically just really dirty and not clear glass

id imagine casting an obsidian slab and then knapping it into the appropriate shape and edges would work moderately well

Movie magic? Not real obsidian? Next thing you're gonna tell us they don't even use real dragons on the show! I want real dragons!

@andykapsar4667

5 жыл бұрын

they dont use real dragons the GoT "dragons" are actually wyverns

@Hydrastic-bz5qm

5 жыл бұрын

@@andykapsar4667 wyverns are dragons

@andykapsar4667

5 жыл бұрын

@@Hydrastic-bz5qm if a wyvern is a dragon, why does a dragon have 4 legs and a wyvern have 2? theyre used somewhat interchangably in fantasy yes, but there are a few distinctions that make them seperate

@TheAceWolfe

5 жыл бұрын

@Jerry C real unicorns! We need this to happen

Sodium silicate can also be cured with air. It will be a lot slower, but air has enough CO2. That way if you run out of CO2, jut set it in the sun for a few hours, depending on the thickness. Also, don’t pour from as high, it only gives the obsidian or brass time to cool.

"We might need an actual dragon. At least what our budget will allow" 😂

I love this channel. I think 80% of everything he does fails, but hes just so positive about it haha. Poor guy

3:17 my favourite part of the video, me: "what's that interesting sound?" "...a new high tech machine?" Depressed lady with garbage: *grrrrrrrrrrttt ....* Me: 🤣 10:13 Two depressed ladies with garbage: *grrrrrrrrrrrrrttttttt* Me: 🤣😂😂

You should make a whole channel just for cutting styrofoam with that wire cutter thing. Oddly satisfying af.

you should put the Obsidian word first... for clickbait purposes ofcouese

After watching experts do stuff perfectly seemingly without trying it is refreshing to see someone flounder around trying something new like I do :D.

Could it be the mold not being pre-heated allowing the viscous obsidian to cool on contact and then act as a plug? Might somehow put the mold in fire/charcoal and then pour? I don't know.

You should check out the king of random’s homemade metal foundry, might be a good alternative to the kilns

love this video thanks for sharing it

@magiguy7897

3 жыл бұрын

Why is this the top comment

Try heating the mould to remove the wax first. Then keep the mould as hot as you can, maybe by keeping it in a kiln , and this should keep the obsidian flowing much better

I have never seen a more satisfying and yet unsatisfying video on youtube than this one

"I'm gonna try different methods of casting" *every single way of casting he does is wrong* "So that didn't work"

@Gillymonster18

5 жыл бұрын

Victor Becker never does it the same way twice to work out kinks...or plans an organized way to do anything...all over the place. Drives me nuts.

@Datrebor

5 жыл бұрын

He is really good at finding ways how not to do a good casting.

@CommonApathy

4 жыл бұрын

@@Gillymonster18 Gotta crank out them vids. The only way they can afford all the kilns and interns.

I just love the way he half arses everything, and actually tells you about it...just awesome

Your determination to this this is amazing.

the trash cans being wheeled by...perfect symbolism ! lol

- Does a half-assed job every step of the way - When things don't work out: *Surprised Pikachu face*

Hey HTME, another great vid! Honestly your one of the fav youTubers. Keep up the good work! The atomic number for carbon is 6.

15:06 That's a block of "obsidian". Imagine having a stack of these...

Very cool showing the real thing vs a movie prop. Also nice using silicate-bonded sand which I've been advocating for some time. Spare cylinders are a must. :)

Lol Andy is the guy who is all thumbs but never gives up. Love ya bro

This channel should actually be called "How To Fail At Everything".

MEL Chemistry videos are always popping up on my Facebook feed and I love watching them! Carbon's atomic number is 6

I've seen people knap obsidian before, volcanic glass arrowheads and all. Would it be possible to do that for an object of this size with a large enough piece of igneous?

can you melt the obsidian into a cast while in the kiln instead of pouring into a mold?

@marhawkman303

2 жыл бұрын

yeah that's how the process of AlON sintering works. fill the mold with powdered AlON, then heat it until the powder gets soft and sticky. it doesn't NEED to flow like water since it's already in place. Just getting it warm enough to soften the material is enough. All you need is to let it sit long enough for any air pockets to bubble up to the surface before cooling.

Check out Alec Steele's latest vid series on making a cavalry sabre. He went through a few attempts, but eventually perfected bonze casting. He makes a wax mold, then uses plaster around it to make the cast, and then melts the wax out of the cast in an oven. After that, he has an empty mold without a bunch of foam inside to get in the way. This was his first bronze cast, and he got it perfect. Really shows what you can do with enough research and very careful meticulous workshop practice. Check him out :)

@NOWUNITEDUPDATES

5 жыл бұрын

Danielle Spargo with all that detailed information, you sounds like you’re the Alec you’re promoting.

@BothHands1

5 жыл бұрын

Plus, the cast material he uses melts away in water. That way you won't need to use a hammer and chisel to get the final product out of the mold, and you won't risk breaking it.

@BothHands1

5 жыл бұрын

NOW UNITED UPDATES lol, nope, i only found his videos about a month ago, but i marathoned a lot of his series, like the viking sword one, which was my fav. After watching his professionalism, it makes coming back to vids like this a bit frustrating, cuse i know he could do it right if he just did a bit more research.

@AriesSupertramp

5 жыл бұрын

I honestly think that guy just doesn't want to succeed. He never learns from his mistakes or if the mold already looks crappy he still continues. I dunno.. but at some point you should improve. I liked his channel but started to dislike it.

@oukid2633

5 жыл бұрын

Eric Theodore Cartman He should stop making casting vids so he doesnt get triggered key board warriors like you.

Nice cat tail transition! 😹👍 9:04

pre-heating the mold might help also, the techniques shouldn've be combined: you cast it, and then you brake off flakes from it to make sharp edges

In the next video make valyrian steel by grinding up obsidian into power and sprinkle it on your molton steel as you fold it

You should stop using kilns, you should use a metal melting forge to do that since there’s nothing to “burn out” on a fuel based system

@dbseamz

2 жыл бұрын

I remember one video of his said that it took long enough to get the contents of a fueled forge to the right temperature that he didn't want to keep a flame going that long. Running an electric kiln overnight is safer than running a propane torch overnight.

the thing with casting a obsidian would be to gather a ton of it then melt it and cast it in to a block that you knap in to what ever you want be it a axe head or sword or dagger so only thing the melting proses does is gives you a prosesed material to work with and not to rely on accidental find of a big enough piece So make a solid block roughly the shape you want so you want arrow heads make it more trinagle in shape, then you cast it, let it cool as slowly as possible so that i does not form cracks and then onse you have the " ingot " you knap it to get your arrow heads, onse done right you will get fairly uniform arrow heads with sharp edges

I know your probably sick of obsidian but you could try making like an orb of it as it seems to round off quite nicely. could be a neat thing to have

> Can You Melt Dragonglass and Cast an Obsidian Axe? The answer is "Yes", but there's some fine print...

Couldn't you just cast it too big then nap it into shape and sharp?

@Bl4ckD0g

5 жыл бұрын

Would probably shatter the whole thing after one hit. The casting process seems to make it way more brittle than normal.

@rdizzy1

5 жыл бұрын

@@Bl4ckD0g His casting makes it brittle, there are other ways.

It appears that you need to heat the mold up to the same or higher temp as the glass in one kiln then cast into it. Also you may need to up the temp of the glass so that it will still stay fluid for the entire length of the pour. Lastly, pour one at a time. Have you considered casting general forms then working it by knapping?

7:34 pfft, I can so easily see myself in you at this moment;)

I appreciate your efforts. But as a general rule, melee weapons should not be casted.

@corwinweber693

5 жыл бұрын

That's true with any metal that can be work hardened, but obsidian wouldn't be something you could forge anyway so casting would work. You can't make it harder by hammering it anyway.

@willplume1555

5 жыл бұрын

Most melee weapons are originally cast pieces or were fabricated from cast products, swords, maces, saps, knuckles. Name it and most if not all of its components were cast at one point or another.

@willplume1555

5 жыл бұрын

@@corwinweber693 When was the last time a metal that could be work hardened was actually work hardened then used in an effective melee weapon? Honest question.

@corwinweber693

5 жыл бұрын

@@willplume1555 Erm..... you're aware that both iron and steel can be, right? That's what JN 1991 is referring to. Yes, you CAN cast blades, and people have before. They're inferior to forged blades. Maces and picks as well.

@willplume1555

5 жыл бұрын

@@corwinweber693 Yes, that is true. But they would be brittle and terrible weapons if the forging process only involved banging the material Into shape, which is what work hardening is. Fortunately for us modern folk, we have a more in-depth and thorough forging process which has a few steps: The shaping (banging the material into shape), then normalizing (heating the material to a high temperature for a shortish time removing all the uneven stress put into the material during shaping which disqualifies it from being classified as work hardened and also keeps the weapon from breaking or warping during the quench), then tempering (heating the metal to a relatively low temperature for a longish time to provide a softer more resilient blade) which can be done differentially (think katana) to keep the blade harder and the back more flexible, and finally the quench (locks the molecular structure of the material in place and provides a lovely roughly complete weapon). If you're interested in some good channels that go more into the nitty gritty of forging I'd suggest Man at Arms/Reforged on the AweMe Channel and Aleck Steel. Both have a lot of great stuff on forging weapons.

How yo make everything wrong

Would it be easier/better to cast the axe head larger than required then shatter it (knapping was it called? XD) down to size, so you get the sharp edge? idk anything bout glasswork/casting tho

Out of curiosity, could you have cast the axe blades with a semi perforated or shallow groove towards the cutting edges that you could then snap off once cast to give it the sharp edge?

Can you make a waterbottle it was in the scene!!!

Maybe look into getting a sponsorship from a kiln wholesaler at this point ;)

Bro, I've had the same kiln for 10 years. You're a wizard of destruction.

Lady taking the trash out is the unsung hero of the video

The title is wrong, it should be something like "a totally inexperienced guy fails several times at making an Obsidian Axe"

When your fire retardant gloves catch on fire 0_0

A question about your casting teniques. I've seen on How It's Made type videos that when OEM manufacturers cast parts, they follow a similar pattern. Make a disposable core, pack it in casting sand, ect. They then preheat the mold for several hours in an oven to prolong the working time of the molten metal and to provide a cleaner result. Do you think preheating your molds in a normal oven would give you more working time, like with the molten copper?

Would it be possible to make the edge first then use melted obsidian as more of a medium? Just think it could be similar to how you mention using wood, just more tricky.

this should be called how to fail everything

@fortniteprofart

5 жыл бұрын

captainnemo Better than you could do lmao

New name for channel... How to break everything...

I think you would greatly benefit from a gas forge/furnace for the stuff you've been trying to do. There are lots of "How-To"s on building a venturi burner and such. I would look into the plans and parts from Zoeller Forge.

So randomly the other day I was reading about meteorites, and happened to read about how impact glass (tektites) have a fairly homogeneous composition and contain almost zero water and other volatiles, unlike volcanic obsidian. If you got your hands on any, do you think it would be any easier or work better for casting compared to normal obsidian?