1:00 fun fact: the reason hats like that are “pinned” on the side was to allow a soldier to sling their rifle (which would usually have a bayonet affixed) over their shoulder without knocking their hat off.

@MaximilianonMars

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I like that style, made for action.

@B01

3 жыл бұрын

When function meant more than fashion💘

@HipposHateWater

3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes that was the case (Like slouch hats in the Aussie military uniforms in the 19th-20th C), but to my knowledge it was originally a civilian fashion first back in the 17th Century, not originally based on military practicality. (If that were the case, elaborate feather plumes likely wouldn't have been commonly included in the pinned assembly ;D )

@ramsessevenone416

3 жыл бұрын

That is also why minutemen and other soldiers with triangle-shaped hats would wear the point in the front slightly to their left or right. It allowed them to do the same with a bayonetted rifle; by pivoting the points in the back to make the straight part parallel to the rifle.

@dinkeykong

3 жыл бұрын

@@B01 gotta admit though, they’re pretty fashionable too

This took me back to highschool art class where we made rings from a coin. A class of 40 kids hammering coins for a few days was deafening, but having the ring at the end was so rewarding.

@BobPapadopoulos

3 жыл бұрын

@pinned by Townsends Reported, scammer.

@KingLouis420th

3 жыл бұрын

@@BobPapadopoulos mission accomplished, good job 👍🏻

@TC-th1ey

3 жыл бұрын

Most coins nowadays have a high steel content or are coated steel disks, which definitely makes this endeavour challenging!

@tigertank06

3 жыл бұрын

You still have the ring?

@David-lu4gq

3 жыл бұрын

That would be a great project to try. Might just have to try it! ☺️

Perhaps one of the finest set of regalia I have seen belonged to a young Lakota man (18 or 19 at the time) that had punched the primers out of spent 30-30 rifle cartridges and polished and threaded them individually upon the buckskin fringing of both legs and arms. The remaining work was with porcupine quills and glass trade beads depicting a wolf's head on his back.

@cecilyerker

3 жыл бұрын

Gotta respect the drip

@bmookbm

3 жыл бұрын

Would love to see a pic of that if possible👍

@KairuHakubi

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds freaking awesome.

@FrikInCasualMode

3 жыл бұрын

@@bmookbm Seconded :) That sounds really impressive.

@DarkValorWolf

3 жыл бұрын

@KZread Assasin uh oh, someone's got their panties in a twist

Your videos should be mandatory to watch in all our schools. Bringing history to life.

@johnsmith-jk9ol

3 жыл бұрын

I would have paid more attention in class with this more "living history" type of instruction. I would also say that how everyday life was like in the past is as important to learn as the significant events that schools focus on. The everyday hardship of the past shows just how good we have it now thanks to our forebears and their hard work.

@misterhat5823

3 жыл бұрын

This would be more accurate too. In the south we are taught demonstrably false things as part of history to paint both slavery and the genocide of the native peoples in a better light.

@Seamus3051

3 жыл бұрын

@@misterhat5823 Regrettably, history is too often written to serve the needs & requirements of the present, rather than a true depiction of the past :-(

@bobbyhill7948

3 жыл бұрын

I have learned more from watching these videos then any of my history teachers that taught about American history

@stevenpringle5784

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed! Much better than the critical race theory crap!

I love how he used pulverized brick powder as a buffing compound for the silver. I wouldn't have thought of that but it is a good idea.

the man is an artist of the truest sense, he makes art from chunks of silver and keeps history alive in doing so. Mr. Revere would approve of his art!

@TheWarCorrespondent79

3 жыл бұрын

The best Historical Collaboration would be John and Revere. IMAGINE what we’d learn. Great video John.

@bostonrailfan2427

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheWarCorrespondent79 John could teach him a thing or two about military tactics, as great as Paul was he was a horrible general 🤣

@TheWarCorrespondent79

3 жыл бұрын

@@bostonrailfan2427 Very much agreed hahah!

@HLBear

3 жыл бұрын

Brandon is an amazing metal worker. It's so relaxing to watch him pull a piece of history out of raw material like this.

I’d love to see the process of melting the cutoff scraps back into usable silver. it's neat to see these handcrafts still being used and remembered, Love the video!

@BobPapadopoulos

3 жыл бұрын

@pinned by Townsends Go away, scammer.

If I ever make a time machine, I’m bringing Townsend’s as my guide 😂

@erinhowett3630

3 жыл бұрын

And as the narrator!

@spacetexan8695

3 жыл бұрын

@@erinhowett3630 and the cook! ... gonna have to pay him a lot 🤔😂

@BobPapadopoulos

3 жыл бұрын

Then you'll end up in 3077.

@spacetexan8695

3 жыл бұрын

@@BobPapadopoulos Isaac Arthur in that case

@grimace4257

3 жыл бұрын

@@spacetexan8695 The most adowable speech impediment on KZread 💜

Just so you guys know, y’all are a bad influence LOL. I have signed up for a beginners blacksmithing class! Thanks for the inspiration!

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a great influence.

@BaptistJoshua

2 жыл бұрын

How is the blacksmithing going? I am more interested in learning how to source metal from the Earth.

@matthewmason7753

16 күн бұрын

You'll be hooked now... It's addicting.

@matthewmason7753

16 күн бұрын

@@BaptistJoshua Sourcing metal from the earth is extremely difficult. Very very few smiths actually get their metal from ore nowadays. Iron/Steel is almost impossible to smelt (the term for refining ore) on your own and normally requires multiple days and a team of people to accomplish. Lighter metals (copper, silver, etc.) are much easier to refine, but still a lot of work. It is only those who enjoy it as a hobby that do smelting now. And industrial factories that produce metals of course.

@BaptistJoshua

16 күн бұрын

@@matthewmason7753 Thanks. How do they get the metal? Like steel oxidizes and rusts away, back into the soil. Can that dust be reused? Or does the Earth have to produce more? I wonder if metal is reproduced by the Earth just like oil is.

We find pieces of trade silver while metal detecting. It’s extremely extremely extremely rare to find. Majority never find it. Better chances of finding. 5ct diamond ring....no joke.

@tinman362

3 жыл бұрын

Can confirm, didn't know trade silver was even a thing, but I've found a diamond ring while walking through the parking lot a couple of years ago.

@T3t4nu5

3 жыл бұрын

That's amazing. How many diamond rings have you found?

@seannaesseannaes

3 жыл бұрын

@@T3t4nu5 I found 3, twice at the bottom of a public pool, once just building a sand castle I grabbed a handful of sand. Although they were all just good bands, no diamonds.

@lcheerezexplorer

2 жыл бұрын

Here on the Navajo rez, I find plenty of silver jewelry from the old days, silver buttons, bracelets, lotsa silver coins, even found a hammered Spanish Cobb made into a pendant, early 1600s. Been metal detecting over 20 years now.😃

@gabbyb9418

2 жыл бұрын

Our family has a beautiful silver & turquoise squash blossom necklace.

I love working with silver. Brass, Copper, and Nickle as well. It's what I do to relax in front of the AC after I work all day in a hot welding shop. Do woodworking and blacksmithing in the winter. It would be to expensive to have AC in the barn. But we have tons of mesquite to burn in the winter.

One of my favorite frontier topics. Instant like!

@mrguy9283

3 жыл бұрын

@pinned by Townsends ah yes a scammer

This was a great topic. What would be awesome is an expansion on the topic with an actual Indigenous American who is familiar with the history of the peoples of the area to add to the experience. Maybe even show off some examples from the era. This is such a great subject to dig deeper into.

@MegaKat

3 жыл бұрын

Only problem in that is that many of us (Native Americans) have lost an unfathomable amount of our culture, including what you're talking about. We have the US and Canadian governments to thank for that, as well as the Catholic, Presbyterian, and Episcopal churches that built and ran residential schools. My grandfather and his siblings were beaten brutally for speaking their native language or practicing cultural traditions, and as a result, they lost many things. My grandfather spent decades moving around as an adult, pretending to be Mexican so that his own children wouldn't be taken, too. My mother and aunts and uncles mostly can't speak the language either, and know very little of our culture. It was only after the ICWA that Grandpa could stop moving around, but even then, he was careful and very paranoid.

@BobPapadopoulos

3 жыл бұрын

@pinned by Townsends Go away, scammer.

@faroukabad

3 жыл бұрын

@@MegaKat I was just wondering the other day how much of their culture the native peoples were able to retain, seems like not much. it's really too bad, we all could have learned from the culture that was lost.

@SimpleDesertRose

3 жыл бұрын

@@MegaKat thank you so much for sharing your grandfather's story with me. It is truly horrible what was done to your people. Which is why I feel it is even more important to teach your history. However horrible it was. I believe that history must be taught both the good and the bad. How are we, as a society, to make a better future if we don't learn from the sins of the past? If it makes you uncomfortable all the more likely that you are going to make a change for the better. I love learning about different cultures and peoples. It makes life so much more enriching. So many different ways of seeing the world we live in.

@MegaKat

3 жыл бұрын

@@SimpleDesertRose I get what you're saying and I agree with it; my point was not to get your hopes up about learning anything at all about pretty much every tribe. Sure, there's a few of the bigger tribes that managed to hold onto shreds of their cultures, but they lost a lot. Tribes like mine, we lost almost everything and nothing was passed down due to the astronomical number of Natives killed off or forced into residential schools, where they were separated from their families so they *couldn't* be taught about their cultures. Trust me, I'd love to learn about my people as well, but there ain't much left to learn when our government made doubly sure to eradicate everything there was to learn.

In case you haven't read this one, "The Memoirs of Lt. Henry Timberlake" is another good source on this subject. It's the account of a British officer visiting the Cherokee in the late 18th century. The writing is definitely colored by the author's worldview, but it's easy to sort out his observations from his commentary on them.

@willg7344

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely checking this out. Thank you

@BaptistJoshua

2 жыл бұрын

Colored by his worldview? What do you mean?

I didn't expect it to pin on like that! Nice work Brandon, it's beautiful and practical.

Finally bro I been waiting for somthing with first nations. Alot of colonists and revolution wouldn't have been possible without natives.

@bigguy7353

2 жыл бұрын

Indians.

@likuidrano6778

2 жыл бұрын

Natives bro not Punjabi's..

Probably after the finding of silver in Argentina. It’s well covered in 1493, but my favorite aspect is that Spain flooded the European market for silver and caused massive inflation. Meanwhile, North American and Caribbean colonies were making trade goods there was suddenly lots of silver for. Suddenly the colonies were worth big loot if your country could middleman the trade, and hence you get the French and Indian war.

The homestead series is so relaxing to watch! Excellent craftsmanship Brandon!!!

Whenever Im feeling uneasy Idk why but Townsends makes me relaxed and happy =] Great video!

@cecilyerker

3 жыл бұрын

He’a a real blessing on KZread

@danielthompson6207

3 жыл бұрын

Same here, I always catch myself smiling through these videos.

@hellsonion514

3 жыл бұрын

they arent trying to take anything from you or force you to change your thoughts like so many other channels. they only share knowledge and passion for their hobbies. like youtube used to be, just sharing things you like and having fun.

@BaptistJoshua

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe because you get away from the hustle and bustle. The visual overload. It is kind of like going way out into the country. For me, driving in the country or hiking does the same, as do his videos.

Honestly wonderful see such incredible representations of history, as part native myself I love to see the branch of trade between both the settlers and the native Americans.

@cooldudicus7668

3 жыл бұрын

Yup. One of the cool things about us humans is we love precious metals and things that look good. We also love to trade with each other. Good stuff.

@ianfinrir8724

2 жыл бұрын

Shiny things appeal to all peoples.

The most wholesome Channel on KZread Love it 🙌🙌🙌😊🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪

@BuleBelle

3 жыл бұрын

Are you sure??

@nessamillikan6247

3 жыл бұрын

@BLAIR There might be a few that can contend, but I think anyone would be hard pressed to find another channel that has the same sense of community and togetherness that Townsends has!

@manurajsinghchauhan8803

3 жыл бұрын

@@BuleBelle are YOU sure ?

@tirididjdjwieidiw1138

3 жыл бұрын

@@BuleBelle aber natürlich!

@BaptistJoshua

2 жыл бұрын

How is it going in Deutschland? I hear the government is really going crazy against the more educated who do not get jabbed.

I'm bummed, I don't have time to stop and watch this right now. I can't wait to watch it later!

@gtbkts

3 жыл бұрын

Same.

@dreadmez

3 жыл бұрын

Same here this show Rocks!!! *With Nutmeg*

@kaironic8231

3 жыл бұрын

@@II__DAVE__II oh dear

@therese_grimsdottir

3 жыл бұрын

Same here! I'm like, "yay new video!" but I gotta do some dishes first. 😄

@ViktoriousDead

3 жыл бұрын

@@II__DAVE__II creep

I always love how you share knowledge, and on so many topics! I'm a viking age reenactor, but I love to learn about other time periods, and your channel is one of my favorite places to learn new things. Thank you! All the best from Sweden :)

@mattjackson

3 жыл бұрын

Know of any great channels on KZread similar to this one but covering the Viking age?

I’m native thank you for this video very educational.

@gnostic268

2 жыл бұрын

What tribe are you? I'm Lakota

@munecaana1817

2 жыл бұрын

@@gnostic268 Navajo and Apache.

@BaptistJoshua

2 жыл бұрын

Seneca here. Mostly German. I am related to Queen Aliquippa, through her daughter.

@tonyholder4326

2 жыл бұрын

I'm part Cherokee, Mohican, and Lenape.

@BaptistJoshua

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonyholder4326 hmm. I have not heard of Lanape. Do you know who they are closely related to?

My Uncles and Grandma (Navajos) knew how to work silver, they all passed away unfortunately. I'll regret never learning their craft.

@GeoffreyMhd

3 жыл бұрын

It's never to late to learn

@lcheerezexplorer

2 жыл бұрын

Ya ta hey Navajo guy, you need to get you a metal detector and roam the rez, old sheep camp sites, it's amazing what you can find, I can start a little museum if want to. I also do Smithing, silver, gold or metal.👋😃

An openwork heart brooch like that is called a Luckenbooth brooch in Scotland. A lot of them have two hearts together and they range from simple and plain to very fancy. I stumbled upon the Luckenbooth through a page on FB I follow that centers upon the Victorian era less than a week ago. By then the Luckenbooth brooches were someone considered rather old fashioned, but they were still quite popular.

I find it fascinating how it mirrors the British's own history. Thousands of years ago, we were backwater tribes until another, more advanced civilisation came along, and likewise, we would trade for valuable goods like jewellery and other decorative things. One and a half millennia later, and it is we who go to strange backwater lands and trade valuable decorations with the tribes. It seems more or less like the natural way that civilisations develop - the cultural exchange of goods.

@user-ug5xr2gb6j

Жыл бұрын

Humans have always been trading goods and ideas, taking one’s style and changing and adapting it to their styles and available materials. In the case you’re referencing, there is plenty the Romans borrowed and adapted - especially military and clothing ideas - from the Celts in Gaul, Britannia and Hispania and the Teutonic tribes in Germania, as well as other cultures and corners of the Empire. That’s why the recent idea of ‘cultural appropriation’ to me is absolutely stupid., and much like the Romans we Americans excell at adapting something and making it our thing. For a recent example, I just learned last week what ‘Chinamen’ (St Louis style fried rice) is, and am looking forward to trying some at a local place. I’m from/in the south but have family in St Louis and never heard of it, so that tells me it can’t be that old of a thing (at most a few decades).

A lot of trade with Natives. I know some traders would marry women of my tribe to gain advantages of the family networks. Women in our society had a lot more say and power than settlers as our society was matriarchal.

@dbmail545

3 жыл бұрын

Mothers know their children in a way that fathers can't. I remember reading that in some first nations' cultures the mother's brother was more important that the presumed father.

@Y34RZERO

3 жыл бұрын

@@dbmail545 yes. That's how it was for mine. But the US restructured families under men in the late 1880s to early 1900s. My grandma and great grandparents had to go to mandatory schools and forbidden to speak in our native language. Despite all that our language is still here although most don't speak it. Chahta Anumpa anumpuli la hinla. I can speak some. My grandma taught me some when I lived with her a bit.

Wonderful to venture into a new subject in your field of study! Excited to see more history and historians on the subject.

An excellent video, and excellent work with rudimentary tools. One thing that caught my attention was when Brandon mentioned using coin silver, and said it was sterling. While the British pound was sterling silver (92.5% silver), more common was the Spanish dollar (Real, or "piece of eight.") and early US coins, which were 89.24%. So much of the trade silver was less than sterling.

I would love to hear more on the local tribes in the area in the 1700s. The passages about Nicholas Cresswell going in to trade were really interesting. I find the info on how different groups coexisted (or not) super fascinating.

Man, I wish I had known John my entire life. What a awesome fella!

I would love to see more videos about the Natives culture, etc on this channel :)

Excellent video. Loved watching the process, Brandon did a great job!

Another great episode. I'm so very glad to see a topic about the American Indians. The story of the 18th Century in America cannot be told without them. I hope you will do more. Thank you!

@msmltvcktl

3 жыл бұрын

**Native Americans. "American Indians" are Indian Americans, with roots in India. (:

@mattieb7348

3 жыл бұрын

@@msmltvcktl Apologies! You are absolutely correct! Thank you for pointing that out.

I've heard tell of copper and silver mines in the Great Lakes region that predate the coming of the Europeans, so for certain the First Nations knew the value of metals and used them for decor prior to the Mayflower. Doubtless it varies from nation to nation.

@adedow1333

3 жыл бұрын

Still very cool to know about!

@KaikanoSei

3 жыл бұрын

There is evidence that it wasn't just the natives here but those from the ancient Mediterranean as well who mined copper out of the Great lakes area. Really rather fascinating!

@drugbuddy665

3 жыл бұрын

I believe it was the bronze cultures around the great lakes, there's a great video about it on here somewhere, but I don't remember the title. Sad to think of how much history on this continent that we'll just never know because of how many oral histories were lost in the native american genocide.

@IamOutOfNames

3 жыл бұрын

@@KaikanoSei ...what?

@diehounderdoggen

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure about copper as decor, but all the Anishinaabe peoples used it for making tools. It's a cinch they had it on hand.

I know this wasn't the point of the video but I'm in awe at that drilling tool. Really ingenious.

@adedow1333

3 жыл бұрын

It really is very cool

@dbmail545

3 жыл бұрын

I believe the YT channel is "clickspring". A lot of content on how these first-level tools are made and how a complex mechanism like the Antiktheria device is built using them.

I absolutely love watching your videos. Everything from the topics you cover to the editing is done so well.

That was a great trip back in time Jon, thanks for sharing this history lesson with us. The traders back in those days had to learn what was a good product to trade and how to adapt. Thanks again, Fred..🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👋👋

Brandon made a beautiful piece out of that silver. Something that takes time, patience and a lot of attention to detail and he aced it! Bravo!👍❤️

I'm so glad I found this channel. So many great videos.

Native tribes used copper a lot because North America had huge exposed copper veins mixed with basalt (on the west coast) made it a different color while corroding and might be more resistant. Tribes liked silver because we couldn't smelt yet ( Smaller silver pellets, Stone age people)

I always wondered where the images of native americans with silver decorations came from. Really interesting.

@bigguy7353

2 жыл бұрын

The images came from artists. You really didn't know that?

@pingASS_

2 жыл бұрын

@@bigguy7353 i meant photos and drawings depicting native americans wearing metal jewelry. Since they didn’t have the knowledge to work metal in that way I just wondered where they got those items from.

Thank you for sharing one of my frontier topics. Love your descriptions.

Love your outdoor presentations now. Because the woods are always old-timey.

this is why i have enameled pins on my bag, I call them hippy trade silver. people will do a quick favor or turn out cash when you need them for some small trinkets

@cecilyerker

3 жыл бұрын

Where do you obtain the pins

@ccaffie1231

3 жыл бұрын

@@cecilyerker you can get enamel pins from a lot of places for example: etsy, redbubble, online shops run by artists, merch stores (even innersloth sells them!), gift shops, and amazon

@robertcowley-yamamoto4880

3 жыл бұрын

@@ccaffie1231 Making them is also an option! I've had a chance to make some cool ones with a button press

Very cool guys. The right tools make it easier! My friend's dad had an extensive 18th century gun collection, many of which were Indian trade guns with the silver "furniture" to provide the "bling" that they cherished. I also made a reproduction of a 1793 medallion given to the Indians by George Washington showing him offering a clay pipe to a Native. Thanks again for an excellent video!

Such great content about the uniqueness of American culture and the long road we have taken as a nation. However, i feel it must be said that Indigenous Americans have long worked with precious metal, before Europeans arrived. It is known from many artifacts from acorss both continents. Gold, silver, copper, brass, and even iron from meteorites!! And not just in mesoamerica. Across north America.

@kimfleury

3 жыл бұрын

The indigenous people in the Ohio Valley had been trading for precious metals for centuries if not millennia by the time the Europeans arrived, but didn't have access to the raw metals. In that region, the incoming, venturesome Europeans saved the indigenous people a lot of travel.

Love this video! I study 18th century contact between Europeans and indigenous people of the Eastern Woodlands and this is excellent delivery of good information!

Love this. Very, very good!

A book by Gary Brockman, Wearing the Moon: Navajo and Pueblo Silver Buttons, gives a thorough and fascinating account of trade silver in a different time and area.

Bravo! Great jewelery smithing there. I'm going to college for that stuff and it's so inspiring to watch someone making a piece of jewelery. I love the brooch, great job! I really liked that neat trick you had there with the mini clamp in your hand so you could hold the heart while you worked on filing it smooth. And I loved how you crushed sandy soil down for the use as sand paper. Very cool. I thought at first you were crushing up yellow ochre because we use that when soldering pieces together, you brush yellow ochre dust on places you don't want the solder to flow to. Like a barrier. Solder will not go in dirty areas, it won't stick. But the sanding trick was way cool to see. Thank you for sharing this wonderful piece of history, I loved it. Take care, bye.

As a coin collector, this is very interesting. I like proto-money from times gone by.

This episode made me so nostalgic, loved it!

Thanks Brandon! Interesting to see the variety of clamps used.

This is so cool. I live in Elwood, Indiana. Not far at all from where you film. I love your show. Keep it up buddy. I love learning about our past. Very neat and informative. 👍

fyi-u cant turn coin silver into sterling, like the man said. coin silver has less silver in it and more of the alloy in it then sterling. so to turn it to sterling u would have to add more pure silver in it. I collect old coins and also work with silver jewelry. they r just making coin silver jewelry from coins. but this would not be called sterling. I also collect antique pocket watches and the cases r marked with the coin silver stamp if it is made from old coins since it is less then sterling. yall get what I am saying, I am bad at explaining things over a comment. :). but cool video either way. I just wanted to clarify something the man who was making the piece said. ;)

@cecilyerker

3 жыл бұрын

Yes sterling has to be 92.5% pure silver hence the 925 mark

@minuteman4199

3 жыл бұрын

You are correct in what you say about coin silver, but it's not that straight forward. British coins were sterling silver until 1920, when they were reduced to 50% silver. Given that money was "real back then, nobody particularly cared were coins were from as long as they were of high quality, I think that in colonial frontier America you would have founds lots of British, Spanish, and French coins as well as American coins, and their value would depend on their silver or gold content.

@JeffDeWitt

3 жыл бұрын

No, but you can make coin blanks out of sterling, and he did say he was using sterling coinage.

@spacecase0

3 жыл бұрын

I bought a bunch of silver coins that are 99.9% pure. I bought them in the 1980s. I'm pretty sure they were available back then if people looked for them , not all of the coins sold are currencies of a country. Lots of collectible coins for sale

@BobPapadopoulos

3 жыл бұрын

"You can't turn coin silver into sterling... but you can turn coin silver into sterling."

Very nice to see. Thank you!

Dude you are the best historical interpreter period!

Another great and informative video. Thank you.

Hi from Syracuse NY and thank you for sharing brother

Wow! This is one of the best videos you’ve ever done!!! ♥️

Such a TALENTED artist ! 🎶

This is really interesting! Thank you for sharing.

Great video. Awesome first piece Brandon.

May I suggest, for anyone interested in this topic who will be in the Indianapolis area, the Indiana State Museum. We have some excellent extant examples of trade silver from the Lafayette area, dating from about 1790 to 1820 or so. Mostly arm rings, gorgets and such, some of which have fine etching (very impressive for hand work) of birds and animals to make them more attractive to the native nations in the area.

The Iroquois liked hearts and luckenbooths

Good work, Brandon! Good information, Jon!

Hello from Detroit Michigan brother thank you for what you do and for sharing your knowledge and expertise and adventure

I'm glad you made this i've been trying to learn more about the indigenous peoples of NE America inthe 17th century

This is very fascinating. Cheers!

This is great! Thank you for the research

Always delightful, the toe-tapping happy music...

Beautiful! Always a great show on this chanel

Amazing work, Brandon!

Brings me back to my junior year of college, when I took a jewelry making class. It would not have worked for what I thought it might for the future, but it was an entire semester of fun for me. And I still have the tools I had to get for the class.

Wow, that was amazing! Very nice pin or clasp, whatever you would call it, it is beautiful!!

Very interesting bit of history, great video.

Thank you for sharing your passion.

Excellent production. I’m going to go try to make a silver trinket myself now.

I am absolutely obsessed with the style of fur trade era sliver ornaments. It is my goal to track down some good Finnish crosses, medicine wheels and such.

Great piece!

Excellent video !!! 😊

What a wonderful piece of art

That really does look good. That's amazing he could do that with such simple tools.

Gr8 topic thank you. Would love to learn more about copper, brass and beads if you could.

Lewis and Clark understood the trinket value very well.

I'm from marshall county Indiana and we find arrowheads often when the farmers till the fields. The part of the tippicanoe river I usually fish had potowatomi indians that used that river for food and travel

Just what I’ve been waiting for! Something regarding native Americans!

Thanks for putting the spy glass on this topic. Very interesting.

Don't know where you found that anvil,the top is in such awesome condition it makes me jealous!Super nice,my compliments!

The tools are fascinating. And the history is eye opening. I wonder if engineering schools ever study historical tools like the ones used on this channel?

Here in Argentina he cut, polish or do anything around the piece in a felt pouch so he could "sweat" the silver remnants. Also, in Spanish, the silversmith´s anvil is called "tas".

Great video!

Great topic!

@BobPapadopoulos

3 жыл бұрын

@pinned by Townsends Try getting a job, scammer.

I wish you would read that whole book lol maybe a video for every chapter. I think it's a good idea because you can explain the lingo to people who don't understand certain words of the time

So here I am, watching your videos, 1. I didn’t realize you were in Indiana and 2. I live in Lafayette! I know where we’ll be seeing you this year!

I love this channel, I would love to see something similar about Europe.

@elenavaccaro339

3 жыл бұрын

Look into "Time Team". Archeological digs that talk about the people who inhabited the sites they explore in mostly Britain.

@GeoffreyMhd

3 жыл бұрын

@@elenavaccaro339 Thank you, I'll give it a look

Amazing work

Loved this, I would love to know more about the anvil you have and know about what to buy if wanting one or making one etc. also where do you get the information from from the stories you read out? Being based in the U.K. it isn’t as easy to source some of the things you guys can. Any and all links would be appreciated, thanks in advance.