I love Alec's positive encouragement when blacksmithing. he is a great teacher. I hope you do more co-ops with him in the future, there's a lot you can learn from him

@wayfarerzen3393

3 жыл бұрын

Been watching his channel for 2 or 3 years now, absolutely love it.

@SirGuido

3 жыл бұрын

And his skill at teaching. When you can teach someone as unhandy as Andy to blacksmith, you got skills.

@kayagorzan

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed, I’d love him as a teacher

@alex0589

3 жыл бұрын

He's in the uk until spring but i agree. Alec's persona on video is always positive and fun to watch. He'll probably start a school at some point, i bet 5$

@celestialbeas9214

3 жыл бұрын

@@alex0589 he has done lessons in the past, and I'd say it's likely he'll do it in the future.

The sheer amount of charisma in this blacksmith astounds me

@MortRotu

3 жыл бұрын

Check out his channel, you think that was a charismatic performance....

@fortune6858

3 жыл бұрын

he oozes charisma so much that when youtube started stopped showing him as much in my home page i seeked out his channel after a year. great guy great content

@So_Iace

3 жыл бұрын

He's great smith I've been watching him for roughly 4-5years he is painfully optimistic 😅

@gavinli1368

3 жыл бұрын

Even when things seem to be going terrible, he rarely ever gets terribly down. A problem can be rather exciting for someone like him, cause it could mean using/learning new techniques, making new tools for the job, or dismantling something to really understand how it works

@aprilkoyyen7720

3 жыл бұрын

Give him a subscribe, it gets better from here. I've been watching him sense he was a 100k youtubelet making vlogs about teaching classes in his tiny workshop in England, and he's been awesome from then till now and probably into the future.

I love how the channel has become 50% brewing alcohol and 50% metallurgy

@reckerjak3

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty much sums up history

@naltlan7651

3 жыл бұрын

bassicaly a dwarf

@dungeonmetalworks4281

3 жыл бұрын

@@naltlan7651 So dwarfism is the next step in human evolution ;)

@Skiddlescout

3 жыл бұрын

I'm waiting for the weed brew. I'm curious what alcohol would taste like if made using weed, and I'm curious what would happen with the THC

@trevorhazell5778

3 жыл бұрын

@@Skiddlescout unless prepped correctly, just making a mash from cannabis wouldn't do anything because the active chemical is THCA until it's heated then it becomes THC

The collab we've been waiting for

@therealArchmageTeslar

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@hectorpilgaardgertz5377

3 жыл бұрын

True

@thatsalotofsodiumcoins1615

3 жыл бұрын

They have already collared in the past tho

@Ronkz

3 жыл бұрын

Just what I wanted to comment

@kevingrubb9835

3 жыл бұрын

I was kinda hoping black bear forge but alec is an incredible blacksmith

YAY!!! ALEC!!! He's cool and really good.

@destroyer1675

3 жыл бұрын

Also since you said you wanted to harness water power maybe you could look at the video on "How to make a Water powered Hammer (Monjolo)" from the channel "Primitive Skills". He doesn't really talk but he show his process nicely. It could help a lot.

@benjaminlamothe2093

3 жыл бұрын

Another alec fan

@destroyer1675

3 жыл бұрын

@@benjaminlamothe2093 You bet. Been a subscriber for almost 3 years now.

@Rainalot

3 жыл бұрын

He reminds me of Harley from trollsneedhugs

Tip: When you are forge welding make sure to brush off the scale. Even with the Borax, you will create little pockets of impurities that will leave cracks in your billet.

@varjen018

3 жыл бұрын

Oh thank you, im not the only one screaming "Brush it off!" at the screen then?

@Whiskey11Gaming

3 жыл бұрын

@@varjen018 nope, I was too! Also yelling about getting it hotter to forge weld... when I was apprenticing, my teacher kept saying it should damn near be a sparkler when it comes out to get a good forge and then actually hit the damn thing to set it. Took a while to get used to it!

Achievement unlocked: Acquire Hardware.

@lourdthebluefoxie

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@mistiridungoen

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@andreiiscru.6042

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@Kami-ic3je

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@chou4880

3 жыл бұрын

Y E S

I need someone to encourage me like alec encourages andy

@tettuotuo5446

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr?!

@among-us-99999

3 жыл бұрын

Why do literally all blacksmiths sound the same when they are instructing someone else what to do?

@jesaiasgutierrez4652

3 жыл бұрын

@@among-us-99999 feels kinda like a tutorial in a video game

@scottyj6226

3 жыл бұрын

You can do it A-A-ron you can grab the bull by the horns and break its neck.

@schlapcity2774

3 жыл бұрын

Right mate??

Pretty sure the workable iron that came out of those blooms was the modern scrap you put in.

@dela_pinkster3074

3 жыл бұрын

Clickbait to the max

@endofsilenz

3 жыл бұрын

"I shall now make iron using a clay furnace, some rocks, and a bunch of iron."

@Greentrees60

3 жыл бұрын

Look at his previous videos where he doesn't use any modern iron

@sarenhs4535

3 жыл бұрын

@@dela_pinkster3074 what part is clickbait. He made iron tools.

@infini_ryu9461

3 жыл бұрын

@@sarenhs4535 Using scrap iron is kind of a cheat code, that's what I think people are getting at. Perhaps he got impatient, which is kind of understandable, but that's what smithing requires.

We love Alec. Not just because he’s a fellow Brit, but because he’s taught us so much. 🇬🇧🙏🏻🇺🇸

a collab i never expected but I'm happy it happened to very good channels what i love about alec steele is that the channel is about the journey not the ending of a project a failed project is also worth a video and what i love about how to make everything is that it show the most simple thing take a lot of work to make

This is the crossover we all needed after 2020

In 2 years i imagine something like "hey guys today we are making our own Dreadnought from scratch"

@thomashambly3718

3 жыл бұрын

Considering how fast he progressed through the stone and bronze age, I'd give it until next may

@jamieshoemaker9986

3 жыл бұрын

“Hey guys, today were founding the Empire of Man”

@srofv7805

3 жыл бұрын

It's for when he starts building an empire. Gotta make a sailing ship first, though...

@sirmounted8499

3 жыл бұрын

Can't wait for him to show us how they built the pyramids.

@BarbadosBeerFestival

3 жыл бұрын

And now we are going to make a laser sword.

i love that andy has been doing this for years yet his social skills have hardly developed

@JayBe443

Жыл бұрын

Socially, he looks like a pain to work with. Like if the attention isnt directly on him he always seems so stale and judgemental. Just a random persons opinion though.

i cannot believe alec was able to keep quiet about this! He must’ve been bursting at the seams to tell someone. lol

Heck yeah, I was hoping to get to see some more Ironworks.

This gives you an appreciation of how far we've come. This is a bit like watching someone in a modded version of Minecraft work their way up to nuclear reactors and starting off the game punching trees and rocks. I think a lot of folk take for granted how far on the tech tree we are right now.

@linecraftman3907

3 жыл бұрын

And we're not even close to end game! There is so much more to learn and build yet we spend all our money on countless wars

@samtdl8639

Жыл бұрын

​@@linecraftman3907 wars advance technology

Oh man that iron hammer head is a big safety hazard, stick a wedge in the wood!

@bontonswanson8977

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that is by far the worst hafting job I've ever seen!

@votalis4089

3 жыл бұрын

I really hope they see this comment. That thing is going to break something or someone when it goes flying.

@gavinclark6891

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. however, I REALLY want to know how this would have been grafted at this point in technological advancement

@Marc83Aus

3 жыл бұрын

Its wedged and then cross wedged with iron. You can see how alex makes his hammers on his channel. Oh god I just saw Andy's hammer. I'm sorry for commenting without seeing the whole video

@aprilkoyyen7720

3 жыл бұрын

The dude is known for making some of the best hammers in the blacksmithing world. Ya don't really gotta worry about Alec Steele

Alec Steele the blacksmith. Definitely another good example of nominative determinism :]

"Or your teeth if you're particularly brave" As someone who has had to close a back of a suburban by biting the leather strap (hands were full and didn't want to do multiple trips), I think I qualify. It should also be noted I can use my toes to open doors, so I think I win

@joshd2013

3 жыл бұрын

When you can shoot a bow with nothing but your toes and mouth then you can win

@Skiddlescout

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshd2013 before I take on this challenge, how strong does the pull weight need to be? I can do this easily, but first I need to know how much I'm yoinking back

@joshd2013

3 жыл бұрын

@@Skiddlescout well Matt Stutzman the armless archer uses a 60lb bow so let's start there lol

@Skiddlescout

3 жыл бұрын

@@joshd2013 I'll see about getting a compound bow

@doraspoljar697

3 жыл бұрын

This whole conversation deserves a lika

I love watching Alec teach the basics.

I love when you collab with other KZreadrs. I mean you’re trying to examine every specialization we as a society have built up over thousands of years, and what better way to learn and teach than by collaborating with people who are modern day specialists.

I'm loving you channel Alec, been watching for a couple of years now. Wish I had the room to do some of those things now. When I did have the room and did a lot of these things I found it always paid off taking more time in getting things set up and spend more time in doing the actual bloom. It always seemed to take twice as long as I thought to get it right.

FINALLY, this is what I’ve been watching this whole series for, I hope you continue to make blacksmithing videos 👍🏻

Is this a crossover episode?! Really great stuff, love to see these collabs, and with arguably the blacksmith who's been the most influential on me recently no less

I knew he would go to Alec at some point in this series!

Alec Steele is phenomenal. His channel has been one of my favorites for years.

Every blacksmith I've ever seen on KZread or met in real life have always been great, soft happy people, I love blacksmith's and think they should get a bit more recognition.

"we're going to time travel 2 billion years, with the power of science" -senku

I clicked without reading the title and I must say, I was not ready to see Alec here

For not knowing all the ins and outs of forge welding, I, amazed you got some of that material to stick together at all! To help make it easier next time, try removing as much scale as you can from the surfaces you want to stick together. The metal you were trying to weld together was super bumpy and hard and full of oxidized metal, so it didn’t want to stick, but if you can get most of the oxidation off they’ll stick together much easier next time!

It's interesting that this channel is the one that helps me deal with being a perfectionist when it comes to making things, especially with blacksmithing. When the internet is flooded with people that have been doing these things for years, it's hard to grasp what it's like to be a beginner. Your projects don't have to be amazing, or awe-inspiring, just doing it is the important part. If you make something functional, it should be considered a win.

You really should've stick wit Alec for the hammer too.... His hammers are great!

For how young he is Alec is such a wonderful teacher. Hes been doing it for years already, teaching master Smith's when he was still a teenager.

That's some effort for the hammer, good to see it working out! Well done! Alec seems like a good teacher, first time I see him teaching something.

I’m amazed that little forge got hot enough to weld. I see so many people struggle with getting similar small forges that hot, and you had no problem

2 small ingots... About the size of that scrap metal you there in at the beginning?

Marvel: Avengers is the greatest crossover of all time Me: Have you seen How to Make Everything with Alec Steele?

Alec is so incredibly skilled. I can just imagine how it would have come out looking if you to figure it all yourself. It'd be like a pair of chopsticks tied together with a nail in a wobbly hole.

I’m glad to see Alec Steele still popping up on popular channels. His is one of the few channels I found in its prime.

FINALLY A COLLABORATION BETWEEN MY FAVORITE 2 KZreadRS

Jooo this dude is free content man! I could listen to him for ages!

HTME and Alec Steele are the bread and butter of my KZread entertainment. Thanks for this

This is why it took so long to reach the iron age. Not only is smelting it hard, but shaping it is hard too. Miss me with that. All my homies are bronze gang

@danilooliveira6580

3 жыл бұрын

and it took thousand of years of trial and error for them to figure out how to make the steel better and more reliable than bronze.

@Skibbi198

3 жыл бұрын

@@danilooliveira6580 at least iron ore is more readily available

I trained with Alec back in the day, and I know how difficult the 4 sided drawing out technique he uses is to master. Good job, and good job as well getting those forge welds to stick. Not an easy thing to do as a beginner!

I love practical building and engineering. "So, what are you going to do with your lathe?" Build a bigger lathe.

Alec has a great video on how to properly fit a handle to a hammer head. I've used his techniques many times when reconditioning vintage tools I've sourced from yard sales.

Couldn't have chosen a better teacher. Alec's always so positive and he really knows his stuff.

Alec is such a good teacher 😍

Anyone else get a cold shudder down their spine when they saw him water quench that freshly forge welded billet?

Alec seems like such a great teacher.

Andy AND Alex Steele on the same vid? I can't believe my two fave channels are at the same time! This is the collab the world needs

So awesome when 2 channels I love work together.

You need you use a crucible, when you put that usable iron into the crucible it keeps extra carbon, and impurities from getting to the iron. This is called crucible iron, and it was highly prized in 1200 AD due to its amazing resilience, and flexibility. I wasn’t sure if you had thought of this yet so I decided to just inform you to help, I’ve been experimenting with ore I found in my hometown and it was just way too impure, so if you melt enough iron from the ore you can put it in a crucible and seal it to create a solid chunk from all the small pieces of iron you created over the few runs you made

@darthplagueis13

3 жыл бұрын

He might end up doing that at one point but I think we are still a bit off from there. This episode still counts as 1000 BCE and the very earliest evidence for the production of crucible iron is from around 300 BCE and it didn't really become common until around 600 AD.

@HistoricalGeology56

3 жыл бұрын

@@darthplagueis13 very true, I would like to see him try and make some graphite crucibles, I know that wouldn’t be a thing in the era he is in, but I don’t think clay would cut it quite as well as graphite clay would, its basically the same process when making a clay crucible just graphite would be included within the mix, I was actually planning on trying to make my own crucible, and mixing some bloomery steel, and some relatively low carbon steel to help get the brittleness out of the high carbon bloomery iron. I can tell it wouldn’t be a great quality iron because it’s basically become cast iron, which is why I’m mixing the low carbon steel to help dilute the carbon content

@satibel

3 жыл бұрын

@@HistoricalGeology56 making a clay powder and mixing in about 1/3rd of powdered charcoal works fairly well.

I came here because I saw Alec's name in it and thought - huh, I don't recall seeing that before. Now - I'm like - wow, someone tracking weapons and tools through the ages and recreating them - that's awesome. I'm binge watching your channel for the rest of the night.

YES!!!! My favorite KZreadrs finally collaborated!!!

"OK, Doordash guy's about to get here, what to watch while eating lunch?" KZread: New HTME Me: YES. YES. ABSOLUTELY YES.

"Riveting I should say".... a dude with my sense of humour

Somehow it never occurred to me how good of a teacher Alec is. I mean, I guess blacksmithing is sort of both a teaching and craftwork trade.

I think people forget that making iron was a large community process requiring the constant work of probably very many people prospecting, gathering, crushing/refining, multiple furnace types working the basic metal, coal and charcoal makers, brickmakers, large bellow operators/makers, and finishing. Its ALOT for one man to try and accomplish esp if your trying to do everything from scratch.

Next episode: Combining Enchantments with Alec Steele’s anvil

3:30 "Use those tongs to make more tongs." When does it end!?

Omg yes!!! Im newish to this channel but been following alec for years, since the first workshop. I didnt expect this collab at all, so excited!

Great choice of blacksmithing teacher, love Alec's stuff

Never clicked on a video faster

This is like the HTMA version of “Dirty Jobs”.

Eyyyy! Our boy Alec! Great to see you here!

this is what I've been hoping for!!!! love both of your channels so much !!!

Alec looks like a live action Lewis from meet the Robinsons

@kasai7272

3 жыл бұрын

omg you're right

Achievements unlocked: IRoN CoLlecTEd

Love alex. Amazing the knowledge he has for such a young age

This collab make me happy Alec keeps popping up in all the channels i follow

Great Job :)

This is like a Minecraft let’s play in real life

@Kami-ic3je

3 жыл бұрын

^

Andy was like starstruck a little, standing next to the champ Alec 🤩

A collab with another one of my favorite KZreadrs! HTME, Alec Steele, and Cody's Lab are 3 of my favorite feel-like-you-can-make-anything channels

Am I the only one looking at the forge welding and saying to myself. “More heat less flux lol.”

@farmerboy916

3 жыл бұрын

It's a bit embarrassing. How the hammers turned out (they aren't even hafted), and how poorly he was working the bloom pieces as well (also looks like a heat problem.

"Some" borax

@TheJohnreeves

3 жыл бұрын

I've seen things like on Black Bear Forge, when he forge welds it's like a tiny sprinkle of flux. I'm not sure how it works, but I wonder what effect the heaping piles of borax had on this.

@Ben-qv9td

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheJohnreeves the borax serves to stop the iron from oxidizing on the welding surface. Adding excessive borax might make it a bit more difficult, but the biggest issue is that he's not cleaning the iron off before attempting a weld. The welding surface needs to be very clean before joining.

@farmerboy916

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheJohnreeves Mainly dirtying up your forge and tools and so on afaik

YES!!! ITS THE CROSSOVER I NEVER KNEW I WANTED!

Alec is such a great teacher

What happened to resetting? Finding nails and scrap isn't really making it from scratch in that age... or a forge

@jakobbull5454

3 жыл бұрын

Or carbon steel hammer and anvil ? But do you want to watch a series that lasts years?

@Prober61

3 жыл бұрын

He made iron. He doesn't need to make ALL his iron.

@Verlisify

3 жыл бұрын

@@jakobbull5454 Isn't that the point? Rome wasn't built in a day you impatient child

@Krytern

3 жыл бұрын

@@Prober61 He didn't make any iron. The iron you see he "made" is from the scrap nails etc he put in there. The bits he couldn't use because they fell apart is actually the bits he tried to make.

@jomuffins6551

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe Andy just needs to learn how to do it modern first then primitive. This isn’t easy at all.

I think you kinda cheated when you "unlocked" this one. Like, "I'm just gonna throw in all this modern scrap metal but ignore that."

@adfaklsdjf

3 жыл бұрын

He also used an anvil and hammer he didn't make when making those tongs. Honestly I don't think you can compress 10,000 years of development and a million lifetimes of experience (with division of labor, research, etc) into a single person's youtube channel without taking some shortcuts. You can find nearly infinite ways he's leveraged modern tools to accelerate this process. How did he transport the ore he found in Utah? Where does the firewood come from? Does he start the fires by rubbing sticks together, or make his own matches? How did he meet and communicate with Alec? Etc ad infinitum. The first knife was made purely from rocks. With that demonstrated, he's accelerating the process by multiplying the raw material with some non-hand-sourced stuff

@akhasshativeritsol1950

3 жыл бұрын

I agree, the modern steel almost certainly has lower impurity content and useful additives. It's still impressive what he's doing, but this one fell a bit short of my concept of the spirit of "the reset"

@ryrandom8785

3 жыл бұрын

Give him a break, he doesn’t have the infinite time and slaves they had the first time.

@shelbyherring92

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryrandom8785 This.

@ancapftw9113

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryrandom8785 but he does have a credit card and an Amazon account. He could have ordered iron ore. Or ran sand over a magnet to get magnetite. Sure the magnet isn't accurate, but the magnetite is, so at least he's using proper materials. It's like saying your meal is organic when you used factory farmed beef with suppliments and all the antibiotics it can stand. There's a big difference between that and beef from a cow that was fed factory made sweet feed with its grass.

Ha! Great collab. I've been following both you and Alec Steele for years.

I'll be honest. This video introduced me to Alec a few weeks ago. I've watched a LOT of his videos this XMAS break. Thanks!

When your early

@juneye5980

3 жыл бұрын

griseph same

@thesultanpepper9413

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@turtle7792

3 жыл бұрын

You're*

I'm noticing that you "anvil" is moving a lot. You are losing energy everytime you try to work your material. Get a bigger rock. A much bigger rock. A very large very hard rock. Your rocks that you are using looks like sandstone. Too soft too much moisture, too much movement. I think that's why it is breaking. Go bigger, harder and try to tie to a big heavy log. Add mass. I know that I'm kinda back seat driving here, but I'm fascinated by your journey here and want to see you succeed.

Hey Andy, a tip for your forge welds when you're using ingots like that might be to hammer them together at a cooler temperature to mate the surfaces before trying to heat the pieces to welding temperatures. Then when you have it hot enough, light, fast taps will help the pieces stick. And weld in smaller sections over multiple heats. Love your videos, keep 'em coming.

i'm a huge fan of both channels, you two are passionate about your subject and fullfill my crave for the type of content that you provide. You both give us super high quality content, and this cross-over video was a blast for me. I waited for this video since a while and wasnt disappointed, it was awesome, love you guys, merci beaucoup from France !

Been looking forward to this ep, Alec is the best.

This video is immensely valuable to a beginner blacksmith like me. I have been really struggling to make a decent set of tongs. I am excited to try Alec's method.

This is a super awesome collab! When you started on metallurgy I was hoping you’d ask him. Congrats on your new iron tongs

It feels weird to see Alec Steele in a video without ads all the time.

Been waiting for this combo!

Love it when two of my favourite youtube channels collaborate.

FINALLY THE COLLAB I ALWAYS WANTED!!!

This guy's a character and a half, love it

This is such a great video! I love blacksmithing stuff. I’ve always found it so fascinating.

Reflecting upon his craft, I realized that Blacksmithing , stone carving and woodworking is just hitting material until it relents. They are the "mind over matter" jobs. Wild

I am SO not surprised that Alec Steele is so good at instruction.

Two of my favorite channels together at last.