I was a coppersmith in the dockyard, I can relate to this craftsmanship, sadly these are days long gone, modern rubbish is just that, rubbish. This was a craftsman, hand made with years of skills. I would gladly swap todays rubbish to go back to the craftsman days.

I'm from latinamerica and I watch videos like this for learning english. This job here is known as 'hojalatero', and belong to those lost in time jobs. I loved how the video ends with the verses of 'the village blacksmith'. Thanks for sharing, regards from chile!

Wow, to know that this is my great Grandfather Roche. I never met him but watching this video now, I know that he was a bloody good tinsmith. I wish I got to meet my Grandfather Roche. And thank you to the people who posted nice comments 💖💗

@edwardcharles9764

6 жыл бұрын

meggy _weggy it's surprising that we remember our fathers and our grandfathers but never our great grand fathers. The third generation is always lost. If we could go back 7 generations, we could discuss matters with a relation from the Great Plague!

@hasdrubal121

5 жыл бұрын

meggy_weggy you and your family should be rightly proud. A nice little film, it would have been nice to have heard him speak on it or to hear him work with the tools. I really enjoyed watching it.

@franciestokes7121

5 жыл бұрын

He was a shite💩💩

@WootTootZoot

5 жыл бұрын

What the devil are you on about ? No one in the family here knows who you are, get on with yourself now.

@lenhowl

5 жыл бұрын

You are so lucky to have this video. A true craftsman.

Ignore the negative comments and the thumbs down, this man was a craftsman in his time. I worked in the aircraft industry all my life and knew many tinsmiths , it was always regarded as a specialist trade and we would not have survived two world wars without them, aircraft would not have evolved to what they are today. I would have loved to have met this man and talked about his craft. Today this skill is sadly not required any more, plastics and composites have replaced this trade, that's progress...sad but we progress.

@snoopyshultz

3 жыл бұрын

It is, the sheet metal workers international are still alive and well and still knocking that tin in USA and Canada .

@Ian...

3 жыл бұрын

@@snoopyshultz Good to hear that Snoopy.

It is a pure pleasure to see a true craftsman at work! God bless them all!

My friend Mike made a copper lantern by following this video exactly. It came out beautiful, and is now displayed with honor in the Sheet Metal Worker's Local 105 Union training facility..

@cryipticcreep5586

5 жыл бұрын

Very exrovetly position to stand up 4

@jackking5567

4 жыл бұрын

Actually I have some copper sheet (I work with other metals) and was looking for ideas to use it - a lantern could well be made.

A true gentleman of quiet disposition.Friendly and courteous to all. Repaired many a hurley for me and my generation when he could have been more profitably engaged. Delighted to have come across this little snatch of a byegone era.John McGuire

@gregikenberry2722

5 жыл бұрын

Love to learn how to do this

@alanpartridge2140

5 жыл бұрын

@@gregikenberry2722 If you search on amazon or ebay I'm sure you'll find some books which should be a start

It's great to see what a tinsmith actually did, Both my Grandfather and Great Grandfather were tinsmiths and a video like this makes you appreciate the work they did, thank you for posting this video.

He does well to concentrate with that fella playing the whistle outside his window every day.

@rattusnorvegicus4380

5 жыл бұрын

Happy New Year to you too.Been reading Canterbury Tales by any chance?

@richardmessenger9474

5 жыл бұрын

As my old grandad used to say " you'll have some buggers eye out with that whistle"..😂😂😂

@alanroberts4060

5 жыл бұрын

haha ;D

@spiralminus

5 жыл бұрын

This was before the workshop radio; he's just keeping it old school.

@basiliskaseridis999

5 жыл бұрын

Rattus Norvegic

That gentleman appeared to be quite senior in years, but his work rivals that of the youth. I would be so proud to be a descendant of his!

@oliviadoyle8867

5 жыл бұрын

bmcc12 he came out of retirement to film this, he would have probably been in his late 70s early 80s.

In my role as a 'coach maker' i find this sort of film quite satisfying to watch, people like him, me, are fast going the same way as the 'wheel wright', the cart-wright, the cooper, draper etc etc.Soon to be totally lost skills.

@spooksixsix

5 жыл бұрын

@@tacticalpossum7090 That's good to hear, we haven't seen any new blood come into our trade for years now, even the colleges are struggling to fill classrooms.

@alanpartridge2140

5 жыл бұрын

Those skills are being lost along with the skills of manual machining, lots of these so called machinist don't have a clue they can only program CNC machines, a similar thing is happening in many areas including professional engineering jobs, the modern day reliance on software is obscene

@spooksixsix

5 жыл бұрын

@@alanpartridge2140 You got that right, some of my friends are fellow engineering types and can use any machine presented to them, one guy in particular is a wizard with all types of lathe, vertical mill and his stainless steel tig welding is an art form.However, even these guys are complaining about the lack of newbies wanting to follow their footsteps, dying breed sadly.

these guys is what we need I was lucky I whent to a highschool where metal shop was all about being a craftsman I wish people would do more of this

I could watch this all day. There is something magical about a skilled craftsman using his hands to make something.

I’m a tin knocker myself, fun to see the old school, hands on work. I’ll be hitting it up on Monday... Thanks.

I made a lamp not too dissimilar to this one as a test piece when I came out of my apprenticeship. It was for the managers wife and if she liked it I got to keep my job 😂. I visited them last year as I was visiting the area and the lamp is still hung on the fireplace some 43 years later.

@CHRITRAC

5 жыл бұрын

Nice story there vainparasite

@noelfleming3567

10 ай бұрын

👍

I love to be able to see where the hands that made something have been. Nice video takes me back to my apprentice days helping an old boy make mud guards for old motorcycles. I’m the old boy now!

Way too satisfying to see this brilliant craftsman working.

It is much more work, but also infinite satisfaction to make something with your own hands and skills. This is a wonderful video to watch.

@tilday

5 жыл бұрын

Here here!

@noelfleming3567

10 ай бұрын

👍👌

Great to watch, brought back memories of my sheet metal days as a young man.

A true craftsman, well done sir.

Brilliant work what a fantastic video watching this craftsman at work. I loved watching this what a clever and highly skilled man.

i really love handmade things like this lantern. mostly handmade things are not quit finished or equal from all sides but actually that is the beauty of handmade products. great job.

@andrewallen9993

5 жыл бұрын

I used Tomlin a Maserati made like that, an absolute nightmare to work on as no parts were available and you had to make all the bits you needed yourself or out of a part for another car. Who on earth mills crankshafts from billets anymore?

what a lovely little film of a great trade. thanks.

This is incredible to watch. Thanks for posting this!

Superb video. Thank you for posting.

Ive spent my life collecting skills like those. Really good video. Especially liked the brief look at the soldering. Skills like those made a house a home.

Thanks for posting, I had a family member who was a coppersmith. I've been a armourer for a while, and so can appreciate good craftsmanship.

As a professional blacksmith for 20 years now I can sure appreciate the craftsmanship. These skills are not gone but do require the public to at least occasional support such works. Though they may seem expensive you will never regret purchasing locally made items.

@noelfleming3567

10 ай бұрын

I have a handmade tongs made by a blacksmith in d 1920s I still use it

what an absolute gem.................Thanks

Very nice craft...old craft never fades.

This is true craftsmanship. A thoroughly enjoyable and informative video. Thank you!

Nice to get an original of that mans beautiful work .

No Electric powered machines here, just pure craftsmanship, lovely.

@bjr2379

5 жыл бұрын

No electric machines? Hell, it looks like there's no electric period! When was this filmed, 1790?

@alanpartridge2140

5 жыл бұрын

@@bjr2379 I'd guess 1980s Ireland so not much different from the 1790s ;)

true craftsmanship there. great video, thanks for insight into his artistry in action.

Just great to see a few of the Irish have not been forgotten.Many thanks for sharing

What a beautiful piece of work. Aren't too many Craftsman like that left anymore.

Fantastic to see some real craftmanship.. Thanks for sharing 😊

a fine job indeed ! excellent video, Thank you

Tom Roche Sir,you nade a wonderful lamp in no time !!! Loved watching the process and your dedicated work !!!

Real skill. +1 for the Longfellow at the end.

Delightful - such a change to modern videos where workshops are full of expensive machinery! Reminds me of a trip to India some years ago where there was an all purpose tinsmith/blacksmith/mechanic in one village we visited. When our guide asked what he didn't make the reply was "If I can't make it then you probably don't need it!" That was forty years ago too, bet he's gone and somebody will sell you a plastic what-not instead.

a thing of beauty, thanks for the upload.

Love the video. So nice to see this level of craftsmanship done in the old style. Thanks so much!

Very interesting video, thanks for sharing, I had a great time watching a true craftsman exercise his ingenuity and talent!

@noelfleming3567

10 ай бұрын

👍🇮🇪

Respect!...I work in a metal fab shop and I am saving this post for instructions.

super work skills now lost ,i my trip through life i alwalys found these men with hard working hands more honest that a man with clean hands

@paulsawczyc5019

5 жыл бұрын

Honest? I bet he uses a led flashlight.

@snoopyshultz

3 жыл бұрын

not lost just forgotten. the sheet metal workers international are still alive and well and still knocking that tin in USA and Canada .

True old school craftsmanship! Thank you for posting such wonderful content of a time gone by!

i'm afraid they don't make em like your grandad anymore you deserve to be proud of him

Whoa! That was an Honour Thank You

An example of a real tradesmen, who had pride in the build

Fantastic!!! I always wanted to see how the lanterns are made and I am glad that some people took the time to document this craftsman's work and pass it to other generations.

I’ve worked on 150 year old homes and the copper always works beautifully .

Awsome workmanship ..bless you sir

This is best tinsmithing video i have ever seen, along with Tinker: John Forshee

Thank you for this great video!

Such a craftsman! Thank you Tom. And thank you to the people that took the time to help preserve this craft for others to follow.

thank you for the education have always been fascinated by copper in Cincinnati I do a lot with old soup cans has made oil lamps out of a half gallon chicken stock can the king is laying on its side it is a hanger you can I set it down on the table unless you fold the handle back as a tripod. thank you again for the Old World teaching

thats very beautiful work realy nice

Just love the way Toms hammer caresses the copper...great wee poem at the end. Thanks for the view.

Interesting of how things were made by hand. Spirits of Salts in small milk bottle and using a chicken feather to apply it, was a reminder of my Dad soldering. Good memories of times past.

Great piece of footage. Enjoyed watching this old fella doing his thing. Wish we had these craftsmen around the corner nowadays.

Aaaaawwwww I’d LOVE one of these 😍

I was blest to serve my apprenticeship under a coppersmith and a tinsmith.in Dunedin NZ

A true honour to watch a master at work .

Now that's old school techniques...loved watching it....I feel for him, because age does catch up and it makes things harder to do. Thanks for this as I love watching the old ways of producing items that will last for generations to come. 😁👍🏻🇦🇺

An ancient lantern was found buried in the stables of my great grandfather's house- he was a corn chandler. It is bigger and the glass is like a lens- like very old circular bottle bottom glass . The whole lantern is decorated by piercings- almost like perforations made with different sized nails, I imagine. Sadly, the cone has disintegrated at the top but I assume it once had a big circular ring so it could be hung up or carried about- checking the premises- and I hope not burning the place down! Well, the old house is still there. I need a man with Tom's skills to remake that cone- and I may know just the fellow- but he's busy making and mending guitars- although he can make anything, be it wood or metal. He once had a big old Ford V8 Pilot car and he made the whole exhaust system for that! I am in complete awe of these folk that have all these skills- they are getting mighty rare now, I am afraid.

Need more this kinda video to educate modern civilization

amazing man.

Amazing to wartch and beautiful to look at I would rather have this than something manufactured.

@harrykuheim6107

5 жыл бұрын

But will you "Pay the Price"? I make stuff all the time like this...but why should I or anyone else spend 12 hrs working on something like this that won't sell? Let's see 12 hrs x $ 25/hr (and that's Cheap) minus copper that's very expensive thanks to Liberals shutting down all Mining, plus 3 pieces of custom cut glass , buy those rolling Machines and hand tools, and Rent or own a Shop, Keep Records, and Pay Taxes = $300.00 vs a Coleman battery Camp light that is 20 times brighter and costs $25....Didn't think so.

@paulsawczyc5019

5 жыл бұрын

Not me - I like my led flashlight - no smoke and much brighter.

@howardchambers3163

5 жыл бұрын

I make things out of Copper and wood but if I charged the true price of my time, no one would pay the price of a weeks work plus materials. So I gift pieces.

@-Pol-

5 жыл бұрын

​@@paulsawczyc5019 - Brightness isn't everything. I hate my LED flashlight with its soulless cold blue light. Too bright; it suppresses my own night vision and dazzles everyone else. My tube lantern was a revelation; brightness just right and It even puts some heat in a tent.

@alanpartridge2140

5 жыл бұрын

@@harrykuheim6107 Copper worldwide is expensive due to the demand from China it's fuck all to do with "liberals"

I have two copper navigation lights very similar design which was from a 1939 Scottish Trawler, great video to see how they were made ..thanks for posting.......... and the fools complaining about the Flute, mute your sound then watch a craftsman at work......

@manonamountain

5 жыл бұрын

Humour is lost on the fool.

This is what I like - handmade items that last, then can be repaired, and end their days usefully recycled with no waste.

Awesome craftsmanship......

Love watching craftsmen at work, we alll hate plastic now! We need to back to the old non disposables age.

@harrykuheim6107

5 жыл бұрын

You're Dreaming...Liberals have shut down Mining to "Save the Earth"...or do you not know where or how Copper is created?

@thebigdawg61

5 жыл бұрын

Craftsman? That thing looked like something created by the local special ed class.

@tompollard6643

5 жыл бұрын

@@thebigdawg61 Tell me, what do you make with your hands and can I view any videos on You Tube?. Bet the answer is Nothing. That man made a lamp to order, these lamps were standard here in Ireland in the days before electricity in our homes, Ireland only got countrywide electricity in the 1950's. What this man created from meagre materials and basic tools is actually a great achievement and to compare his honest days work to people in special ed classes just tells me that you see yourself as a perfect specimen, a fully rounded human and mist probably an angry, friendless, talentless cunt. Suppose all the lamps and light fittings in your home are from designer outlets because you are so fantastic. Cunt.

@generalralph6291

5 жыл бұрын

Plastics are great; no need to go back to tin and copper.

@robertkat

5 жыл бұрын

If you want to see real craftmanship watch videos how musical instruments, organs were made in 17 th century

I love Tom Roche. God bless him with lots of happiness.

Wow such talent with so little tools ! these trades are almost gone now shame that

@keithdouglas4581

5 жыл бұрын

He would have got on a lot better if he'd have had proper tinsmiths hammers instead of using carpenters hammers,but he did well with what little he had

@vanillagoose4444

5 жыл бұрын

keith douglas I watch a lot of craftsmen and a lot use tools that may not seem quite right ! like a coach builder panel beating with a claw hammer 😂 but sometimes something just feels right ! Im an engineer myself and some of my most used tools are ones i crafted myself ! Just thinking there, that cine camera that was used to film this was probably the most light he ever had in that workshop 😳 a lot of talent there for sure 👍🏻

shining bright at the end, beauitiful ancient artifacts :)

Bloody good to hear it being soldered, and not sodded.

Absolutely amazing. Brilliant work. I freaked a little at 9:03 when I saw extra hands. I was like, "Holy Sh#t, this explains why this guy is so bad ass, four hands!".

I will show /share this to many friends.

A true artist with metal. I truly Respect him. Godbless bless you. Thank you for the uploading of this video.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😇😇😇

Thanks for uploading! These people actually have skills to make things...really nice watching how a genuine worker hand-crafts things versus modern machines/presses that someone just shoves a piece of metal into them, pushes a button, and done. Before long the industries won't have any laborers who actually make the products but will just be all robots and machines with only a skeleton crew to do maintenance on them...heck, already have that in many factories today

@alanpartridge2140

5 жыл бұрын

It's been going that way for centuries, it's nothing new.

@craigmarr7986

2 жыл бұрын

@@alanpartridge2140 If you only knew the truth, you would eat those words.

Love this!!

The world nowadays has far to few quality people left like this old man.

Excellent!

Extremely Satisfying to Watch Sir Roche Make this Lantern ! And Nice Poetry reading at the End.

Amazing craftmanship.!

Sure wish I could have apprenticed under him ! Thanks for posting....

Excellent, a man worth his salt.

Fantastic.That guy would make a fortune these days doing retro pieces. A true craftsman

Beautiful to see an art of bygone performed.

Nice. You retaught me something I really can use. Also, thank you.

I love watching such super craftsmen at work.

i wasnt even born when this video was made and yet i wish i could be there watching this an work.

I love how he still sticks his tongue out!

@markhowards420

5 жыл бұрын

I do too when concentrating, and my 4yr old daughter has copied me for a year or so. I wonder what the shrinks think about it..

@wolfparty4234

5 жыл бұрын

Probably completely healthy

@vacuumelite2065

5 жыл бұрын

Yes. He does it proper @ 1:31. My Dad did it making stuff in the shed. I do it also. Sometimes I am aware of it....and smile to myself, thinking fondly of my Dad. xx

@145inA

5 жыл бұрын

Wolf Party He wants to be like Mike.

@redtobertshateshandles

Жыл бұрын

Good way to bite your tongue off.

Beautiffull video. My late oncle was a tinsmith too. As I watching this video I remembar all this tools and machines from my oncle's shop. I hope they both are in tinsmith paradise working together and making nice tin stuffs.

@29ginad

5 жыл бұрын

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A master at work

A true craftsman, a pleasure to watch.......................

I love videos like that

MY LORD..... NO GLOVERS, TRUE CRAFTMAN. OLD IS PURE GOLD. VERY NICE

I love programs like this