Some amazing skill

[magnet]

What these lads do with limited means puts us all to shame. There is a part one of this series on the same channel where they are making stoves with just a handful of tools and whatever materials are at hand...............its inspiring stuff

 

[Tinbasherdan]

Excellent work there! Although I'm intrigued by the safety flip flops!

 

[cumbriasteve]

Thanks, watched it and went on youtube and watched the other, love the skill of these guys, makes you wonder what they could turn out with a modern workshop and equipment.

 

[sardine]

It doesn't put anyone to shame, developed countries were doing that hundreds of years ago, its just basic tin smithing, and casting. Good on them, but don't get carried away.

 

[brightspark]

It doesn't put anyone to shame, developed countries were doing that hundreds of years ago, its just basic tin smithing, and casting. Good on them, but don't get carried away.

they were doing lost wax castings thousands of years ago and stuff a lot more detailed than that

 

[magnet]

Thanks, watched it and went on youtube and watched the other, love the skill of these guys, makes you wonder what they could turn out with a modern workshop and equipment.

Yeah their ingenuity and their ability to use whats around them is wonderful it would be interesting to see how they'd get on with better gear

 

[MattF]

it would be interesting to see how they'd get on with better gear

It would be far more amusing to see how most of our lot managed with a lot less gear. What the others have said is correct in that we've been through that stage at some point in history, but it doesn't change the fact that most would be somewhat lost without their workshop toys these days.

 

[magnet]

It would be far more amusing to see how most of our lot managed with a lot less gear. What the others have said is correct in that we've been through that stage at some point in history, but it doesn't change the fact that most would be somewhat lost without their workshop toys these days.

Agreed

 

[Rocketman]

I'd be more worried about cooking with aluminium with no surface against acid erosion

 

[sardine]

"We" have plenty of craftsmen doing hand work, but we don't need to do everything like that we've had an industrial revolution. If "they " were so clever they wouldn't be living in poverty.

 

[MattF]

"We" have plenty of craftsmen doing hand work, but we don't need to do everything like that we've had an industrial revolution.

I think you're missing the point. You fling a stone in any direction these days and you have literally no chance of hitting anyone still capable of that type of work with limited means. Been there and done it doesn't mean that we still retain the capability in general.

If "they " were so clever they wouldn't be living in poverty.

There's just so much wrong and blinkered within that single sentence that it practically belies belief. However, I'll digress. It'd only lead to a thread lockdown if we started down that inevitable path to discussing the politics and everything else involved in the reality.

 

[fixerupper]

With you on that Matt...

 

[chunkolini]

I agree with Matt there.
I spent two years in Ghana and 'accidently' spent a week hanging out with guys doing lost wax casting.
I loved the low tech approach to metal working. One day a dead truck appeared in the metal working quarter. Over about three or four days it was cannibalised, all that was left over was the crank shaft; hence the mysterious tree made out of crankshafts that I saw in the square.
I commissioned my friend to make me this as a souvenir, me on my ancient Tenere 600.

 

[Rocketman]

To be fair though I can't see anything particularly taxing what they are doing in the video. Most people on here I would dare say could do just the same with the same tools as them.

 

[MattF]

To be fair though I can't see anything particularly taxing what they are doing in the video. Most people on here I would dare say could do just the same with the same tools as them.

No disagreement there. We have some members on here who are capable of similar/same. Doesn't mean we can't appreciate their skills and knowledge though, when it's something we're personally not currently overly familiar with or capable of.

 

[MattF]

I commissioned my friend to make me this as a souvenir, me on my ancient Tenere 600.
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That's cute as. Love it.

 

[sardine]

I hate moral relativism.

 

[Shox Dr]

I hate moral relativism.

Never heard of that, before had to go look it up. So which one are you referring to.?

 

[bigegg]

I actually preferred "metal 1" to the video in the first post - mainly because they were using almost *exactly* the same set up as I use for casting - except I use charcoal, because it's more convenient than hardwood for fuel, and they have more sand

In "metal 1", I was fascinated by the use of old nails as rivets - especially the use of a toe as a length stop plus I've never really done any sheet metal work - I might have to give it a try!

 

[bigegg]

I hate moral relativism.

???
all morals are relative to the culture they are in. They are abitrary rules, not universal laws.

Egyptian pharaohs were expected/required to marry their siblings in that time and place it was morally correct.
Not so much now.