Prehistoric Survival | Ancient Bronze Casting In The Wild

[@TipsyPotatoGirl]

Thank you for making this video! My 8 year old students will love to see how metal tools were made in prehistoric times ^^

[@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival]

Brilliant news thanks for your enthusiasm 👍😎

[@dingolightfoot8823]

​​@@WillLordPrehistoricSurvivalcheers my caveman uncle.. wishing you the best primal essences from the Pacific Northwest city of Aberdeen in Washington state to you!

[@jasonpercy184]

Otzi himself would be proud to carry it !

[@bigbasil1908]

Well he would have been extremely happy to have that but the Axe he had was made from copper and not bronze if I understand it correctly.

[@geoffreybudge3027]

When living in the wild time seems to have little meaning . Your work is not judged by the hour . The value not in money but trade for another’s work , same thing of course . But the time to make a furnace large or small , the casting molds , the incomplete burning of wood into charcoal and the collecting of of minerals creates towns that become wealthy and with wealth “avarice “

[@peterjgeraghty]

That's a great video. Twenty minutes again I was wondering how anyone could make these castings two or three thousand years ago. Now I know. Thank you.

[@railer666]

It's like going back in time and seeing it done. Thanks for the videos.

[@nightwolf1592]

Saw this guy casting a bronze spear at Semmer Water in Yorkshire a few years back. Very clever guy

[@robertfoote3255]

😀😀😀😀😀 five smiles! After following this channel for quite some time. I will never make the foolish mistake of calling ancient man... primitive ever again! Thanks for the education Mr. Lord Best wishes. 😀

[@justpettet3506]

so primitive to not enslave your brothers to pay for your luxuries hahaha

[@6killer426]

israel is bad mkay tribal warfare is bad mkay the tribal entity that have enslaved the whirled of today, occupied Babylon and areas of the Levant in those days.

[@boldrobin5709]

I agree totally.... Put a modern man out in the wilderness with some basic tools to survive by been self sufficient and he would be dead in a few days....

[@Geo64x]

@@boldrobin5709 You'd be surprised how similar modern men are to ancient people. I'm sure most people would be able to figure out fishing, hunting and gathering extremely easily given a completely untouched wilderness.

[@argonwheatbelly637]

Looks like bellows from 8kya to 5kya. By the time we were actively mining for Tin, the Copper empires were already going for a few thousand years. Proto-Writing was out of its infancy, and Writing was happening, i.e. Full-blown Bronze industry happens about the same time as fully written language. Copper industry has been around from 11kya, depending on where you are. This looks most excellent!

[@gracedevine4460]

that's amazing, so creative and beautiful. Makes me realise how clever they were. Thank you

[@sandroelbers]

I collect these tools, and this provides so much insight! Using an fresh elastic twig and a forked branch to pick up the crucible and mold is ingenious!

[@tewdogs4475]

i just left another channel because they faked making a bronze knife,,,i like your ax lol,,,,,,,i just subbed yours and of course i like what i have seen so far......out of my 70 years, 55 of them have been spent shoveling bull shit as there is very little i have not done with my own hands,,,,,hope you do not disappoint. Quality teachers of the old ways are sorely lacking.........maybe our species will need this knowledge and maybe not.....maybe in our life time or maybe never. I have believed for years now that our worlds leading civilizations get wiped out every so often after getting to ,or past our currant levels. Retaining this knowledge is critically important just for our species survival ,plus its a whole lotta fun too!!!! thanks for sharing!!

[@SoapAcademy]

Tew Dogs great comment! I feel the same way.

[@carljensen5730]

Amazing! I own a bronze cast sculpture that is said to be from 3,000 BC to 2,000 BC. It is a hollow cast of a bull. While the source was very reliable, in the back of my mind I questioned how they could have made this. Now I see that it wouldn't have been that difficult.

[@EJD339]

How did you come across the he bronze sculpture?

[@killmimes]

Very unique pouring cup and core all in one

[@ianwebling8411]

I would have liked to see how he cut away the flashing left on the base of the axe and how he drilled the hole for the cord that would connect the head to the handle.

[@richhh9000]

Thanks for the additional info man!

[@rowshonnabi5158]

Our ancestors were true legends.

[@cryhavoc9748]

An explanation of what you were doing would have been nice. All I got was " Earth, fire, air and water."

[@sammarkey672]

You forgot "Heart"

[@jamesrollison1599]

That's all you need

[@nsdtgabe4082]

Cry Havoc here you go dude kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZnMm2SbZ9SNn9E

[@SomervilleBob]

He carved a wax ax head, packed it in clay, heated the clay to cause the wax to run out leaving a perfect cavity in which to pour the molten metal. Cooled it off with water and broke open the mold and polished the resulting metal ax head. Simple.

[@huntermcclovio4517]

you would have not understand the language, so he saved his breath explaining how it was done.

[@PeterSmithwoodsmith]

Outstanding. thanks once again Will

[@TheFrog767]

This is like going back in time and watching all undetected on how it was done 🍻👋👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻.

[@anthonyfeatherstone7696]

You are one of my heroes Will. Love your vids

[@val-xo7ud]

Been watching your videos non stop since I found them. great work man.

[@rayv0125]

Man, I've been watching your channel and enjoying all of the ancient culture and knowledge you provide and would be lying to say if I wasn't envious of your living style lol. But I'd like to someday aquire the art of what it seems to be your life journey. Stay strong prosper and live long on your adventures.

[@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival]

Thank you Ray we are all on the Journey my friend and the fact you even aspire to my road means you have a vision and somewhere to head good luck and safe travels my friend

[@Ith4qua]

Otzi would be proud.

[@NCWoodlandRoamer]

Incredible! Keep up the great work!

[@johngrealey1894]

Outstanding what else can you say .that axehead came out perfect .

[@moretimethanmoney8611]

Thank you for filling a gap in my knowledge.

[@kysekaru]

Fantastic!!

[@millertalbot]

Awesome Will! Now I need to see it hafted please! Keep up the awesome content!

[@arthurstride5467]

your videos are so bloody cool man, i love watching them. Keep up the good work dude :)

[@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival]

thank you Benito

[@NomadicAdventuresEst2010]

Will I always enjoy these videos the most from you, I think out of our community of prehistoric lover's, you have more people that sub to you then anyone else, that says a lot my friend, keep being you and bringing these fantastic vids, best wishes my friend

[@NomadicAdventuresEst2010]

BTW I shared this on Facebook

[@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival]

Nice one Brooksy

[@PotatoesAssistant]

What abt primitive technology

[@ANXIETOR]

Holy shit! That was cool!

[@Lycurgus224]

Utterly amazing. The amount of work, toil, and effort it must have taken our ancestors to acquire even the most basic tools....makes me VERY thankful I can go to a local hardware store and get a sharpened, decent quality steel axe fitted with an ergonomic wood handle for maybe $20 USD. Great reconstruction of how it must have been done back in the day. Still not quite sure how you made the socket, that's what I find really impressive here. Also, how many pounds/kilograms of malachite ore did you have to crush to wind up with that much bronze? I'm assuming you mixed said malachite ore with tin to make the bronze?

[@Lappmogel]

''Still not quite sure how you made the socket'' 4:16 that socket? It looks like burnt clay, just like the rest of the mold.

[@nickhammer6408]

Very nicely done.

[@thingsofsuch]

When making copper from malachite as show here, the process of reduction then requires the copper carbonate (malachite) to then be combined with carbon to produce a copper oxide. That is then further heated and the result is rather pure copper. What I see here though is not a rather pure copper (which would be ruddy red/brown) but more like a bronze (which is an alloy of copper with tin to increase hardness) or brass (copper with zinc). The primitive man would not have access to these metals which at the most ancient of times were tin, antimony, zinc, even iron ... so without having those metals shown or the process of gathering those ores, smelting those ores, refining those metals, and then adding them t the copper post reduction, this is not a real representation of the process. It is close, better than most, but inaccurate and slightly dubious since the end product clearly is an alloy of copper not pure copper from malachite.

[@darkarchon777]

where did you read that he was after pure copper ?

[@imlivingyourlife7354]

Where's your video showing us how it's done Mister textbook perfect? Yeah I thought so. This video was entertaining and in my opinion shows the complexity and the Ingenuity of ancient man in his quest for survival and how they learned incremental steps to master fire and then melting iron and bronze and all the other things that help them along to our present day. There is the " your you're" crowd here on KZbin correcting everyone's english....then there's the " your doing it wrong crowd"....then there is the Mr Insult guy....the name caller and it goes on. Your reply was pretty lengthy so I guess you were just really itching to tell him that everything he's doing is a lie or incorrect so what category does that put you in? By the way I'm in the category called "give the content creators a break dude"

[@goofen10]

Gee whiz look at you !?

[@bluesGs]

Hi , that video is awesome , and doing that requires plenty of skills.... BUT we see malachite being crushed then bronze beeing poored. Not shown are the process of getting copper from the ore (and tin to make bronze). So even though it's a cool video , i'm curious how the bronze was obtained in the first place.

[@bettyledbetter5644]

mind boggling,thanx!

[@benjaming1230]

Wonderful video! Thank you!

[@TheGazramar]

absolutely excellent! Great forge you have there as well. I love the bellows setup. i would love to see a video of finished product in action. it was an axe head correct?

[@bmo5082]

You are very talented Will

[@vrindalee4053]

Utterly Amazing!

[@saiaddict]

beautiful job sir , ive been wanting to make a otzi style hatchet simmiler to this for a while now lol , this is a awesome boost of encouragement to make it :D

[@kommanderklotz7316]

Amazing! Really cool business! Is there a video of making these double-bellows with dearhorn? Or can you make a tutorial of building them?

[@jasonkrohn5416]

Ok, this was awesome and must have taken a long time because I know how long it take to melt metal with a propane furnace let alone a coal campfire. I also know its not to cast in a mold using green sand let alone clay, not to mention cutting off the sprue without modern tools. So good job. Just for the record that look like some type of brass/ copper alloy maybe, if so brass melts at is about 926c.

[@hardcase1659]

I have 100% confidence in a charcoal fire as opposed to a propane furnace when it comes to melting metals. I managed to melt the tang off of knives i was forging on a few occasions simply because i got distracted for a couple of seconds. It literally takes seconds to go south.

[@turtle7792]

Well he had a Bellow's

[@justinbailey1756]

Oh shit, Will has a bronze axe.

[@sileado2896]

Thank you.

[@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival]

Cheers 😎👍

[@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival]

Share, Share and Share Everywhere Facebook on all formats lets get it out there guys, Thanks Friends :)

[@olaferikson3433]

Will Lord Prehistoric Survival I think we'd all love to see you do a couple of videos on primitive clothing. I wanna see how you make your moccasins and your fox hide hat.

[@kittymcpaws4862]

Will Lord Prehistoric Survival i love your videos! you deserve more views and shares!

[@manjeetswami7067]

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[@sajalnath2507]

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[@dan_the_dj]

Could you do an in depth video or a commentary at the very least, on how to replicate this using both period tool and techniques and modern ones? Cause, Id very much like to know what did they use to cut off the excess material on the top for example. Also, how to make the crucible? Seems like the most crucial part of the whole process 😆 And lastly, how is the mold itself made? It doesnt sseem like fired clay, but I might be wrong. Thanks!

[@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival]

Yep I can do that and as soon as I get a chance I will do just that

[@dan_the_dj]

@@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival Thank you kindly!

[@cprn.]

Wait... so did you mix copper and tin? Or is this just copper from smelting ore.

[@mateirosdocerrado]

Salve companheiro! Que vídeo incrível! Um registro perfeito de um passado remoto! Parabéns!

[@anthonyfeatherstone7696]

Dude. Just incredible! I love this channel!

[@Lamthesavender]

Beautiful

[@bluescorduroys3523]

Like whoow.. Well done!

[@meyo4158]

Duuuude. Sahweet. The hafting....the hafting.

[@connlaffan6232]

me Yo , yah I would love to see him making the haft , it would complete the build:)

[@Paul-vo4ze]

Your crucible changed from a primitive looking clay one to what appeared to be a graphite one, fresh from a gas furnace? Also, I thought you were using malachite which would make copper? You seem to have ended up with a bronze axe head in the end... Although at first glance this looks the part, I think you've used modern processes and materials which is misleading.

[@ElPikacupacabra]

Excellent observations. I was wondering how he reduced the malachite.

[@patrizioaguilarfuzinato2094]

+ElPikacupacabra the malachite ore reduces 1/3 of the original form when it melt, 100% of malachite = 33,3% of molten copper

[@panzerlamb9196]

@@patrizioaguilarfuzinato2094 mined malachite isn't pure copper carbonate. Lots of impurities (often mainly silica) mean you get less than 5% of the mass as usable copper.

[@shelterskelter]

Did you also notice the intense burst of air in the forge ( to much sustained for those shitty bellows) just before he pulled the now graphite crucible. Modern processes. Video is such bullshit. But the " Survivalists" will like it no matter.

[@patrizioaguilarfuzinato2094]

@@shelterskelter i made a bellow at this style on my home and used it to melt iron, it worked perfectly(consumed 3 charcoal sacks but worked). If you don't know, this process was used to make bronze swords(in Egypt and Corinthian),axes and armor plates on the bronze age, bigger than a simple adze. I can't see where you saw a graphite crucible, it's clearly a clay crucible(polluted by grime and charcoal), please do better observations and stop lying please

[@sixbauman8320]

What are you carving in the beginning, that seems to melt so easily!?

[@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival]

Beeswax mate

[@Gmodfan13]

Wow, amazing!

[@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival]

thanks Hans

[@davidcrane5984]

Absolutely amazing!

[@abegunderson5941]

Hey, when did you add the tin?

[@primitive.and.ancient]

Amazing video👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@iamjp9320]

Why not create tools to help you with your future project?

[@gregbutts7362]

Good stuff.

[@richardf.dossii3900]

What was used as the mold for the cast that was able to melt and found in the wild,?? Sap?

[@zeo5009]

This is a certified "Iltam Sumra Rashupti Elatim" moment

[@broderickelliott8527]

Will! I have a casting project I'm working on. I have limited resources, so I can't afford the fancy crucibles or even firebrick to rest one on for melting down the brass. I was hoping your approach to the casting craft from the "primitive" angle might have provided you with some insights that could help me. I'll be using the lost foam method and I have my investment and refractory all figured out, as well as my furnace (a hole in the ground full of charcoal with a pipe angled to the bottom and connected to my air compressor for a bellows), but as far as a crucible, something stable to set it on over said charcoal and some sort of funnel for pouring, I'm still trying to figure something out. Any pointers? Advice from anyone else on here is welcome.

[@turtle7792]

Maybe the bottom of a steel fire extinguisher or maybe a porcelain mug

[@WildBearFoot]

What ratio of copper to tin do you prefer for a bronze blade?

[@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival]

10% generally mate

[@WildBearFoot]

Is that malachite you're crushing at the beginning?

[@Why1236]

I'd love to do that will also you should make some videos on prehistoric clothing

[@Zyxory]

Sorry if this has been asked already, but why the fullers?

[@janjoska2549]

GREAT! Have you hardened the edge by hammering?

[@yumasobkoviak9580]

Can you explain the clay and where you got it? On the video it seem well processed clay. Did you dig it yourself? We use processed clay from New Mexico that is refined when we buy it for our pottery business. Great vid as always. We are true fans.

[@christianestes2789]

Shouldn't you be whetstone in it also if you hit the edge it will actually harden it heating and cooling it only soften set at least that's the way it goes when it comes to softer metals

[@Soldier957]

Impressive. I wish this is what they taught you in boys' school.

[@alecfowler2261]

Where did you get the raw copper from?

[@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival]

I went on ebay, and found some malachite for sale

[@TheIntermont]

You mean, you bought it from some Phoenician traders.

[@fasiapulekaufusi6632]

Use metal stuff from your house items. Melt it into a dirt mold. Once it cools down and is hard, you can sand paper it and sharpen it. I won't say it'd be the best metal but it's something. It'll be brittle because the metallurgy science behind a metal item must be hammered and smithed for best condition metal but melting into a mold is a start.

[@PeasantByTheSouthernSea]

what a legend

[@TSNchannel]

Nice skill, so good

[@bulletsfordinner8307]

Wait is that raw bronze? Where did you find it? That's amazing

[@EyelessEntity]

No, that is copper ore shown in the video. Bronze cannot be found in nature. To make bronze you need copper + tin or arsenic. Judging from the color of the end product, he added tin to the copper but didn't show it in the video. Arsenical bronze has a much darker silver hue.

[@bulletsfordinner8307]

@@EyelessEntity thank you for your reply! Very cool

[@ZorroFox-do9oe]

The real life Otzi

[@mickleblade]

damn fine, how much charcoal did the burn need? obviously you wouldn't have just popped down to b&q to buy some eh?

[@sethtwc]

Is it a lost mold casting?

[@sergiu-dh6fc]

Amazing 😱😱😱

[@andreabalducci8794]

Will, is this the video that you made some years ago with the london museum?

[@Nuclear187]

What did you use that melted out of the mold ?

[@PotatoesAssistant]

In modern times wax is used it’s called lost wax casting I have no idea what he uses kn this video though

[@moretimethanmoney8611]

@@PotatoesAssistant it could be pitch, amber, or any number of naturally occuring resins/tars.

[@austinwheeler3679]

Beeswax works great for lost wax casting, it's probably historically accurate considering it's natural.

[@whisperingwind2]

What was the green thing he was shaping in the beginning made of? Some sort of green wax? I know what the purpose was, but what material did he use?

[@theoriginalNoOne.]

I think it was a green cut from a plant or tree.

[@whisperingwind2]

Dereck Patton ah, of course it was! Good on ya mate.

[@jukeboxhero1649]

See that stand o trees back there, Grizzly Adams,? Yeah, get to it!

[@rplanet_ua]

How to make this melting pod?

[@Thesmurfeater12345]

what is the purpose of making it hollow? just to conserve material?

[@saiaddict]

its a socket style axe , its for attaching the handle quick and securely heres a link of how they put together the whole axe artefactual.co.uk/category/bronze/

[@hatchet0711]

What is it?

[@Baum_Mann]

is that magical green stuff at the beginning wax??

[@Lycurgus224]

That would be raw copper, or malachite as Will alludes to in a reply to Alec Fowler. He says he got it from Ebay. Technically that's cheating but I think he deserves a pass here haha.

[@theoriginalNoOne.]

I think they're talking about the stuff he was shaping for the mold. I believe it was a fresh green plant or tree cutting.

[@andrewbringaze9929]

WHat kind of clay is that? Where did you get it?

[@PotatoesAssistant]

Idk but whenever I try something like this the clay shrinks and cracks

[@hdunn8589]

Potato Servant add some sand it should keep it from cracking in the right proportions

[@theoriginalNoOne.]

Yes, a coarse grain sand called gruell, he was incorporating it by slamming on the rock in the beginning. Former pottery artist, here.

[@stickyfloor1820]

Just wait till he gets to rune, he’ll be rolling in it

[@강원용-d3f]

Bronze? That is copper.

[@UnderTransmission]

Im curious how would you make the pipes going from the bellows? The must be done in bronze or something right?

[@jonpaul3868]

Watch the primitive technology channel. The John plant channel. Not the other.

[@joshrogan9854]

@@jonpaul3868 John Plant is the real deal.. Excellent channel.

[@ryanconnolly7889]

Thanks first time replied by KZbin

[@ewa8723]

what are these specific bellows called?

[@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival]

I didn’t know they had a name to be honest

[@ewa8723]

@@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival also how did you make the crucible? ive tried making one and it cracks up all the time even when i temper the clay.

[@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival]

@@ewa8723 I use 20% clay and the rest is grog which is fired clay crushed up that reduces the cracking

[@kylesgarden8725]

I wana know how they figured out that heating stone ore for a while will make pure metal

[@joshd2013]

I daresay they had the cool looking green rocks as a border around their fire pit and realized you could melt it it probably started as a party trick till someone found a use for it

[@kylesgarden8725]

Josh D that sounds likely lol thx

[@freestylebagua]

Loved this video, I see the polished stone axes and they really don't seem to be that good a tool at all especially on green wood. I question everything about what I've seen of them, I really can't imagine any stone age person carrying one around, for their weight they seem almost useless compared to other stone tools like arrowheads or daggers, and is the polishing anything functional at all or is it really just decorative? These early metals as axes on the other hand, I'd like to seem them compared in use to the stone ones. At least those don't look so ridiculous useless hafted as the stone ones I've seen bandied about.

[@albertoflugel1162]

They are not good tools in our modern undestanding, however, the polished edge gives a far cleaner cut then the previous knapped axes.

[@freestylebagua]

@@albertoflugel1162 I've seen a few more videos since then. Perhaps the polishing makes the axe head less likely to need reconditioning of the edge, but I'm just speculating.

[@Tony.795]

@@freestylebagua It was certainly better than a hand axe, how else would you cut down and process a small tree without metal. And based on how far away from the origin of the rock they were made out of, these stone axe heads were carried around frequently. A smooth surface is less likely to crack as the shock waves can't concentrate in ridges or recesses as far as I understand it. That's why they probably polished them, to be able to go someplace further away from the rock that makes good tools.

[@greenjack1959l]

I believe the polished stone axes were weapons rather than tools. You don't need a razor edge to brain your enemies, but you like your weapons to be a bit gucci. You don't bother to put a shiny finish on your woodworking tools, when a flaked edge is perfectly adequate for chopping down trees.

[@Tony.795]

@@greenjack1959l Polishing apparently makes them a lot more durable than a purely knapped blade. An unpolished blade with an uneven surface is more prone to shatter completely, whereas on a smooth surface the energy is spread over a wider area instead of being directed along a ridge. Suitable rocks were not found anywhere so it makes sense that they made their tools more durable when they planned to travel. They were surely used as weapons as well. Check out AncientCraftUK, he talks about this very thing in one of his videos.

[@Simonsiempie]

Nice

[@meyo4158]

Hafting?

[@rayrivera59]

Dude you amazing how early man would have gone thru just to make an item

[@memeboi6017]

Not early, relatively contemporary, using tech from about 7000 years ago, humanity has existed for 300,000 years, not that primitive

[@andrewclark5156]

What material was the crucible

[@guss6469]

Graphite

[@chimchu3232]

What did you carve the axe head with? I noticed it melted in the fire. I would love to see a vid on how to process malachite

[@saiaddict]

its bees wax :) easy to carve , holds its shape perfectly, and melts away. the technic is called "lost wax casting"

[@chimchu3232]

saiaddict thank you!

[@judymichaud4081]

Modern clays modern wax modern pipe totally wild.

[@Sphere723]

I smoked some dope with this guy in the back of my friends 1996 Ford Torus.

[@c0nstantin86]

Loool!