I Built The Most Powerful Blow-Lamp I Could

[@zamplify]

"I've hesitated to do this because it is insane."

[@dakota6054]

Likely my favorite quote from any video I’ve ever seen, but also on par with history’s greatest inventors.

[@الدعوةالىالله-خ8م]

@@dakota6054 🔴 What Is Islam? 🔴 Islam is not just another religion. 🔵 It is the same message preached by Moses, Jesus and Abraham. 🔴 Islam literally means ‘submission to God’ and it teaches us to have a direct relationship with God. 🔵 It reminds us that since God created us, no one should be worshipped except God alone. 🔴 It also teaches that God is nothing like a human being or like anything that we can imagine. 🌍 The concept of God is summarized in the Quran as: 📖 { “Say, He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He does not give birth, nor was He born, and there is nothing like Him.”} (Quran 112:1-4) 📚 🔴 Becoming a Muslim is not turning your back to Jesus. 🔵 Rather it’s going back to the original teachings of Jesus and obeying him.

[@dakota6054]

@@الدعوةالىالله-خ8م you might have picked the one person out of this viewer base who’s studied Islam and Arabic language, history, geography, culture, trends, etc for their entire adult career. مو زين بالتكلم الفصحة مخصوص بالعراقي يعني الله يخليك

[@jakeeasterday1663]

Having also invested myself in designing and using blowpipes, lamps and their apparatuses for fine metalwork, I have a few ideas as to why the large wick underperformed consistently. Firstly, the wick on your lamp needs to be trimmed very evenly or be shaped to a slightly domed form. This helps prevent turbulence from the airstreams impacting stray fibers. Secondly, the nozzles need to be cones with a much gentler taper, so that the resulting jets run fairly close to parallel to one another. This is why two nozzles outperformed three. Finally, I would locate the "sweet spot" for your lamp, which tends to place the orifice of each pipe less than a mm above the top of the wick and practically immersed in the fire, preserving a more laminar cone of flame. This proximity is where the many accounts of assay blowpipes being clogged with soot come from. The conducted heat will probably be hot enough to melt your solder joints, but a harder solder will remedy that! Forgive the essay, I enjoy your channel and journey and would love to see it continue!

[@oxoniumgirl]

As a Silversmith, I was thinking that his use of 60/40 tin/lead solder might prove problematic due to the higher heat of the flame. Historically and modernly outside of leadworks and electronics, solders for metalsmithing are comprised of the workpiece metal (silver or copper, generally) + a miscible dopant/dilutant metal of a much lower melting point, such as Tin or Cadmium. Given that Cadmium is extremely toxic and Tin is not, I recommend Tin. A modern substitution for Cadmium is Bismuth, which when mixed with Tin makes an excellent dopant/diluent for making a solder. You can look up recipes for silver solder by checking the composition percentages from major suppliers of today, such as Rio Grande. Since silver, whose melting point is lower than copper, and its solders are miscible with copper, it will work well for bonding copper. Joints made of these types of solder will be harder to perform as the workpiece metal must be heated to much nearer its melting point than for lead soldering, but the joints will be far stronger and will hold up to being placed in a simple flame.

[@Eric-nu3wh]

yeah when i saw the air streams crossing i thought the same thing turbulence is your enemy.

[@Biokemist-o3k]

@@Eric-nu3wh Oh Yes it is!! I am a chemical engineer and I do scientific glass blowing and neon repair or shall I say used to. I also built my own laminar torches. You have to search really hard but there are a few really talented people who have built their own laminar torches for their shops. I used an apple corer that was on Amazon like ten years ago and just started being available as the outer tube and 12, 2 or 3mm brass and copper tubes that make up the inner assembly. I used a special filler solder that NOBOX09(I think that is the way he spells it) used when building his torches. Really great stuff and a great art to learn because the torch I wanted was over $1200 and I was not going to throw that money away on a torch because I do not blow glass as a living. I may start building triggered pressurized and custom spark gaps however because they are insanely expensive and very hard to get.

[@DarrenMalin]

@@Eric-nu3wh 'don't cross the steams' lol :)

[@richardduncan9740]

absolutely TOP comment sir. Such insights will bring much success to anyone willing to participate in their application. It was frustrating to see him ignore aerodynamic considerations entirely.

[@trainiumm]

the Steve Mould joke at 9:00 was hilarious

[@felixer80]

Laboratory glassware and an upcoming alchemy video?! I can't wait! I worked as a glassblowing assistant for a year, but I couldn't personally afford the costs for acetylene/gases, so I wasn't able to approach it in my own time. I'm very grateful for your endeavors. As you progress with glass working, there are three tools I think you might find helpful: 1. A marver table/surface for having a stable, level base to keep the hot glass from sagging 2. An air supply for cooling off specific portions of your glasswork. 3. A mandrel to size the openings of your labware to allow fitted articulations between labware. Once again, I'm very thankful for your resurrection of this technology! I can't pay what this is worth right now, but this would be an immensely valuable tool for my future projects

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you! Those are great suggestions I'll look into. Best of luck, and thank you for your generosity!

[@amogusenjoyer]

Its so cool to see you solder with your earlier blow lamp, such a good way to show how useful it wouldve been back then. Also, top notch humour as always 😊

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you! Each new lamp makes soldering easier, though Ive yet to try soldering with this big one!

[@cheeseguru1017]

I get a certain feeling watching your videos that I only get watching Primitive Technology, there’s just something amazing about watching you work and explain what you’re doing. The end result always looks incredible too, the wick cap alone is beautiful

[@unusualfabrication9937]

extremely underrated channel

[@daniellapain1576]

Between Uri Tuchman and your videos on KZbin. It’s becoming increasingly easier to see just how people did things differently way back when. It’s also inspiring to know that one is not stuck with what a hardware store offers when you can just make the tools at home.

[@marthinwurer]

This is insane. It's so cool bridging the technological gap between the medieval and modern eras with this renaissance technology!

[@andreandrade3083]

Fraser it is so refreshing to see content with this level of quality on youtube, the amount of entertainment and educational value your videos contain is amazing. I hope you know you are amazing, and we’ll be pleased to see more!

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you! :)

[@Mr.Fabrication007]

@@fraserbuilds I second that compliment....please influence as many as possible! Your clear calm collective voice and narration of your videos is refreshing to modern mumblers, thanks man, stay smart........

[@adamwest6499]

This channel is such a gem.

[@benhoward2619]

Fun to see that one of the first proper glassblowing projects you make with the new lamp is a moonshine still!

[@arjovenzia]

I love the aesthetic of your builds, and the passion for the history behind the projects makes for a very enjoyable experience. multiple 'Aaaah, that makes sense' moments. Keep up the good work mate, but at your own pace.

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you!

[@sheppycoop]

4:20 i just love your tiny anvil :)

[@Fgway]

Every thing reminds me of her

[@ashurean]

This is one of the first times I've heard Hero's other discoveries mentioned. Every other KZbin channel brings up his vending machine, but no one talks about how much else he did

[@K7classicrockfan]

As a french person, I can attest, your pronounciation of Danger is excellent and took me by surprise as usually english people have a difficult time concerning the french accent. Bravo!

[@fraserbuilds]

Thats a relief! Thank you!

[@K7classicrockfan]

@@fraserbuilds keep up the very entertaining content!

[@divermike8943]

I noticed his pronunciation of some English words different. It is a bit subtle sometimes he pronounces an O as and E. Pertble instead of portable for instance. Had me wondering what accent that is and where from.

[@bearnaff9387]

Every day we come closer to that weird achievement - an extended video essay that illustrates how one could move from an early Victorian scientific workshop and eventually build a very simple digital computer. I am serious. There are videos on making your own vacuum tubes of differing capabilities, and other videos on how to build a simple computer out of tubes. Videos like this, showing what making the needed tools looks like, are just another piece of the puzzle.

[@calebkaminski6951]

Then we need to get stone age to Victorian next

[@bearnaff9387]

@@calebkaminski6951 Oh definitely - though that's a MUCH longer distance. In terms of skill and capability, the difference between early Victorian tech and the age of radio is actually slimmer than you would expect. There was a big difference in what materials could be easily acquired, and the catalog of things one could make was much more vast by the end of the end of the vacuum tube era. But, the actual skills needed to make a homebrew version of, say, a vacuum tube computing device, existed long before people knew how to do it Getting from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age would probably be the hardest point since neither copper nor tin are available everywhere. You need vast shipping networks to reliably make bronze. If we were doing it all over again, it might be worth going the route of John at the Primitive Technology channel, and try to work out a small-forge iron age straight from stone.

[@calebkaminski6951]

@@bearnaff9387 that's what I was thinking of originally just going straight to iron to skip looking copper and the like it would allow a much faster speed run of the tech tree but still sounds like it would take forever or at least a lot of one's life

[@FrancisR420]

This is just the plot of doctor Stone

[@FrancisR420]

​​​​​@@bearnaff9387radios are much simpler than any computers, it's a piece of bent wire. not comparable imo. Developments move quicker because of infrastructure What do you mean "the skills existed long before when people didn't know how to do it" what would be the skill here? Like dexterity? how long? Does a monkey have the skill to make a computer but not the knowledge? A device capable of creating a strong enough vacuum for a vacuum tube was invented in the late 1800s. I just don't know what this comment is saying.

[@welcometocattown2036]

I do lampwork, have been making jewelry, aquarium parts, pens, soldering tools, pipes, etc, and actually got started in college almost 30 years ago in my chemistry labs. This video just rekindled my passion for it and now I want to build some of my own supplies. Great, here I go buying more metal working tools to pack into my apartment.

[@enghel381]

i miss you buddy, post more please

[@fraserbuilds]

More is coming soon! I promise!

[@-NGC-6302-]

hooray

[@nikthetrickster9948]

Mate you have no idea how much I enjoy your videos, you're probably the only KZbinr whose content makes me go "I definitely have to watch this one".

[@Dangineering]

Babe wake up, Fraser Builds posted

[@fraserbuilds]

Im back!

[@jameslynch8738]

Haha, it's true! 🤗

[@The_Arachnid]

Haha exactly I was like 🫸😲🫷

[@theodoretavenner3089]

Fr Fr

[@agxryt]

This meme needs to die, it stopped be funny two years ago

[@fransoldman841]

I appreciate you sharing your process and knowledge so much. Your skills as a craftsman are fantastic! That setup is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks again for sharing.

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you!

[@merlindraws3616]

man over here living my dream life. i've always wanted to make tools like this and do thinks like make my own test tubes and stuff.

[@sandwichman8u]

This is the kind of stuff I expected from How to Make Everything. I'm definitely enjoying your content!

[@Zane-It]

With these tools you can produce your own chemistry set. Amazing

[@en2oh]

I had a hand held alcohol torch that work very well. The pressure was actually created by warming a sealed alcohol reservoir that was part of the handle. Neat technology.

[@charlieevergreen3514]

Fascinating, all of it. Thank you.

[@PCMcGee1]

Great to see you getting some traction with your videos, they are wonderful.

[@andrewinnj]

Very happy to have a new video from you. Rewatching the older ones has been good, but nothing hits like new information 😊

[@jscancella]

@24:39 - why not a double action bellows? Blacksmiths use those to supply air on both sides of the pull stroke (as you pull it forces one side of the bellows to blow air while inflating the other side. When you stop pulling gravity forces the other inflated side to blow)

[@justinh5701]

Your content is great! Really making the past come alive.

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you!

[@asgerthorndalkofod2366]

Not only are your subjects extremely fascinating, your craftmanship is also hypnotic to watch, and you got a wonderful voiceover voice. Watching your videos are the perfect combination of exciting and relaxing. Always appreciative when you upload.

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you so much! Glad you appreciated :)

[@xuplankton]

bravo. I'm always stoked for your videos when they come out. What you love about the blow lamp is exactly what I love about your channel in general -- your videos bridge the ancient world and the modern world, they help me understand better how we got from there, to here. Fascinating stuff! Keep it up!!!

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you!

[@newmonengineering]

Awesome project. I think i would make dual foot bellows, or attach them to bicycle like pedals. It would be a work out but a fairly easy workout and it shouldneasily supply enough air. Keep up the awesome content/work.

[@PermireFabrica]

I see you like to treat the wood with dye. But after applying the smooth wood finish is gone. I have a simple tip for you: After sanding the wood (up to 320), wipe it with a wet towel and let it dry. This results in to riseing of the wood fibres and the surface gets rough. Then you sand a second time but only use the 320 grid. You can repeat this process, but usually two times is enough. After that, you can dye and finish your piece as normal. At first this might sound cumbersome, but I promise you it's fare less of an effort than sanding to a stupidly high grid.

[@samcoote9653]

Awesome video mate, absolurely quality channel. Not just for history, but fabrication techniques that many others think they can't achieve in a simple shop. You and Clickspring are pioneers of the build your own workshop from scratch. Thanks!

[@TheArchaeologyOfAncientMagic]

Absolutely awesome!!! Thank you for letting as participate in your amazing work and for sharing your experience! I love your videos :-)

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you! :) Im so glad you enjoyed it!

[@stauffap]

Fantastic! KZbin doesn't get any better than this. Thanks for sharing your experience and actually trying this thing! I'm sure it will be helpfull to a lot of people, since this tool seems to be pretty much forgotten.

[@PopcornOnCouchAnime]

watching this legend is always on my list of things to do im always eager for your uploads! it gives me ideas for when i get the chance i really loved your clay working videos trying to refine bad clay into workable art its always so cool to watch what you make and just the blow torch alone was amazing i cant wait for the video involving the silver ! much love Fraser!

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you!

[@Scott.E.H]

This is definitely fascinating stuff. Would love to see more development going into it!

[@derekturner3272]

Absolutly amazing video. Good pace, detail, camera work and subject matter depth. As a 50 something life long tinkerer and maker, I pay the compliment of saying, you are well on your way to bringing something great back into the world. Keep it up and never stop sharing your passions. They are contageous and well worth the toil. :)

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you!

[@JohnSmith-il4wi]

I watch every minute of these videos, they never get old.

[@matthewhays9410]

Nice work! i really liked the retort desk display

[@wtechboy18]

these long format build videos are pretty awesome. I like this lamp - I kinda want to build something like that for myself for some DIY glassblowing.

[@kokotepeyac]

Thank you for these awesome videos about your blowtorches ! I’m a silversmith and appreciate the older soldering methods !

[@magnustveten492]

Your style of video is very enjoyable, dialogue is not exactly descriptive of what we see but done in such a way we get to enjoy what your doing and hear why it’s being done. And the history stuff is awesome as well.

[@peter_hauer]

This series is really interesting, has very well produced video and annotation and your finished builds look amazing. Thank you for your work.

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you!

[@patrickosullivan4354]

I think you need to shape the exposed portion of the wick. Fluff out the edges so to speak. You might be able to add multiple blow pipes over a wider or deeper Flame. Your channel is among my favorites.

[@ototao]

Fraser continues to forge his legacy into the annals of YT builders, with another banger 😎

[@Mr.Fabrication007]

Very nice to see traditional handmade metal tools like this. I studied traditional blacksmithing and have done modern metalwork since (and glass blowing for a brief time). We need more smiths to procure and pass on knowledge of basic scientific theory and methods to future generations. I appreciete you my friend. Keep up the good work. Your thumbnail likely caught the extra interest of the hi-speed late night viewers, lol

[@worm628]

This is great! I have no problem waiting a long time in between videos because your production value, meticulous research, and fantastic narration are a treat! Keep up the great work.

[@franciscodilisio4956]

I found you're videos, and i watched them on a marathon, you're content is amazing, can't wait to see more like.

[@IragmanI]

Absolutely loving your channel. Love the artistry. Love the history. Love the pace. Beautiful work all round

[@Poetofsilver]

Great video, incredibly informative, and you show the entire process step by step. I think I'll make my own little blow lamp!

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you! Best of luck!

[@Remowylliams]

First time viewer. I did enjoy your video. You provided info in a very smooth and calming way. I liked the Steve Mould comment made me chuckle. The effort and detail attention made me think of Clickspring. Which I hope you'll take as a compliment. Please keep making more. I have no specific interest in blow-lamps and their use. I just enjoy learning things, and the historical info you offered just sweetened the pot of goodness. Bravo

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you! Clickspring is incredibly talented and a major inspiration to me :) Glad you enjoyed!

[@dunravin]

Always a pleasure watching you work. Good job Fraser

[@anatexis_the_first]

As a beginner woodworker, I found it amazing that you nonchalantly made a perfectly fitting dovetail insert!

[@HavanaWoody]

I really have enjoyed watching your work and the continued Refining and exploring this basic tech that would otherwise be lost. You Have inspired me to make one.

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you! Best of luck!

[@goddessofmoss9649]

ough dude! I'm always intrigued with your content and I just adore seeing these antique techniques replicated! As a lampworker myself i doubt i'll find a huge amount of use for this stuff cause i work boro but it really is awesome to see someone experimenting and having fun with stuff i've never seen done before. i think my one suggestion for getting nice round stuff is work on consistent turning of your work! the difference between the return thing and the thermoscope already shows a ton of improvement and I look forward to what you do in the future!

[@kittencaboodle8124]

always a joy to see a new video from you!! your insights, craftsmanship, and production quality are genuinely top tier especially for a smaller channel. you're already doing great things but I imagine you'll grow far beyond your current audience before long. keep up the good work!

[@frommypointofview7173]

I find your videos fascinating and very informative watching someone who is very passionate about what they are doing is extremely refreshing

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you!

[@fast-yi9js]

crazy artistry making the lamp, what a gem of a channel

[@philippdebus7404]

Love your videos man, glad to see another one

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you! Hopefully theyll be coming a little more frequently going forward 😅

[@theauroradragon8410]

I'm so excited to see another video from you! I can tell how much love goes into making each piece :)

[@wrekced]

@FraserBuilds When you close chain links, it is much easier to use two pairs of chain-nose pliers (stubbier needle-nose) with some tape around the jaws to prevent marks. I use two pairs of nylon jaw needle-nose for jewelry chains. You could even make leather or rawhide sleeves for the jaws if you don't want to spend the $$ for nylon jaw pliers.

[@ameliafox9429]

This vid is amazing!! I work in an analytical lab and it's so cool seeing the early forms of things we still utilise being used so skillfully!!

[@RandomGuy0987]

Really great video, great footage of you making your new lamp, great narration. So interesting and cool. Makes me want to make one myself.

[@andyash5675]

What a beautiful production!

[@Jacob-yg7lz]

This channel's really an asset for when I get sent back in time and have to bring the ancient greeks modern science.

[@ProductiveSam]

I am full of wonder at how you have convinced me to make one of these soon. I had ordered a printed version on Danger's book but yeh, it never arrived. Thank you so much for the links! My workshop really needs one of these. my current torch is way too large.

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you! best of luck!

[@Jordan-m2m]

Thank you so much for sharing your amazing creation. Love your channel

[@kimberlydrennon4982]

Woohoo a new Fraser builds! Wondering if adding a rest for your work to steady it in front of the flame might help keep it even. I'm also a big fan of the CMOG channel. Something I've picked up from Bill Gudentath's videos is that you should never work glass while it is not spinning if you want it round. Thanks for making my Friday!

[@Dretnep]

That is a very satisfying desk object, great video!

[@RodHartzell]

Incredible. Your videos just blow my mind. I would love to emulate you but afraid I wouldn't have the same passion to follow through with results like you are achieving. Great video. Keep them coming.

[@davidbumpus3457]

good work. Keep having fun at learning new skills. I'm working on refining my space to be able to incorporate some small smithy and perhaps glass blowing capacity in the future.

[@ReedSwitchTube]

Excellent video on historic lampworking.

[@yotamgosh]

This is absolutely one of the more exciting channels out there for me! Not knowing exactly what you're doing but having the enthusiasm and curiosity to fumble forward until you figure it out is not only fascinating and helps to understand the process much better, it also is much more accessible for someone like me without a lot of skill or expensive tools! So I'm absolutely delighted your channel is doing well, and don't worry about an upload schedule - if you keep up this quality and learn as you go, you'll be one of the channels that I simply watch whenever they upload something new. By the way - now that you have a system for higher pressure - do you think you should look at decreasing the diameter of the nozzle again? I wonder if increasing the pressure further would have an effect on the flame. Also - I don't know how to create laminar flow in air, but maybe look into it and see if that does anything? The air right now seems to be quite turbulent

[@ObsessedwithZelda2]

So happy this channel got such a boom in attention

[@ocloud7389]

Love your videos as always, keep up the great work

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you!

[@bubbadunnam3944]

I am so glad youtube decided to show me your video today

[@samurguybriyongtan146]

A fantastic video! So fascinating and educational.

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you!

[@RealisticCookingIRL]

Love seeing your channel growing :) binged all your videos

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you!

[@edvard-swift3645]

Thanks I've always been curious about glass blowing of the past and the tools they use

[@nomam9085]

this tiny candle powered distiller is absolutely adorable

[@DarrenMalin]

wonderful work Sir , thank you :)

[@laggerd55555]

I love ur videos and projects and ur commentary so much

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you!

[@moconnell663]

Regarding the historical inaccuracy of your air mattress pump (24:50), just refer to it as your "apprentice" as its activities seem like apprentice work to me :)

[@daviddrift7663]

Great vidoe. Really informative. Thank you.

[@aaronhackney9652]

thank you for exploring these obscure but essential tools for early scientists and inventors

[@evanalmighty9444]

good camera work! You show all the steps well, without any camera shot overstaying their welcome.

[@fraserbuilds]

Thank you!

[@tysonty5989]

Keep it up friend, really like your alchemy and magick videos. Awesome work as always🙌

[@miszcz310]

Great! I was waiting for you, thank you.

[@benbordwell9476]

I really enjoy your videos. I have done some scientific glassblowing in the past and I would recommend getting some books on scientific glassblowing blowing from your library or, if there is a university near you, their library. The technique for scientific glassblowing is a little different than what you showed in your video. Also a book on scientific glassblowing would show you the steps in making a project like you made. Thank you so much for making these videos! I think they are very important for showing people how it was possible for people in the past to make and do these things. Thanks again

[@mylodressler2323]

Very well done! You are certainly an inspiration!

[@NebuTheNub]

Always enjoy your work. Keep on keeping on.

[@fmdj]

beautiful craftsmanship

[@Seasal87]

Oh my god a new video, your clay lamps inspired me to make a little lamp out of some clay I found, going to fire it soon

[@fraserbuilds]

Awesome! Best of luck!

[@Seasal87]

Thanks!

[@calross5008]

You do good work mate, you dig into historical applications and descriptions while making it interesting and practical. It is likely you have increased the number of people using blow-lamps in the world by several factors 👨‍🏭🧑‍🏭👩‍🏭

[@AlphaKnight-hg2jq]

great series

[@Karebear9001]

So fun! Thanks a lot for all your work. Looking forward to your eventual alchemist shack 🤣