Reviving the lost art of bespoke globe-making in London | Remarkable Living

Peter Bellerby couldn't find the perfect gift - a globe - for his father's 80th birthday. So he decided to make his own, and in the process, found a new calling in life.
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[@pierrerossouw6083]

I would be happy to watch a 45 minute to one hour documentary on this! It is so unique and beautiful. What a way to carve out a niche market.

[@Globemakers]

Thanks Pierre! A book in the works to go into more detail for those who are interested. Keep up with us @globemakers on social media to learn more / updates in the future.

[@laurencekelly5081]

Noooo to short I wanted more it was so wonderful.

[@Globemakers]

More videos over on our page, glad you like what we are doing!

[@RexExLiberi]

FYI The large globe shown at 5:06 (including its base) goes for £89k (that's currently more than $120k) on their website...

[@dewdop]

Eat the rich

[@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111]

Yeah i could tell this guy is a wanker lmao, Silly price for something like this which really doesnt look all that hard to make.

[@dewdop]

@@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111 smh

[@soniatriana9091]

Thank you for creating & sharing this incredible video! It definitely takes patients, skill, willing to problem solve, & the ingenuity to create what it is that you require - in order to make these unique Master Pieces!!! Beautiful!!

[@Globemakers]

Thanks Sonia!

[@dreadog6425]

WOW, that was quite enjoyable. Geography was my favorite subject in school. I love globes. I had no idea this guy exists. Now to find the dollars to buy one.

[@pgmurrin]

You need to learn to make your own globe,lolol.

[@terrystephens1102]

Superb craftsmanship 👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@BobbyGeneric145]

I don't understand... He couldn't afford a £20,000 globe, but could spend £450,000 to learn how to do it?

[@alittlemoore1]

I thought the same thing.

[@robbie6625]

This is how I view woodworking... Wife: I want to buy this bookshelf Me: Psh, I could make that for cheaper and better Wife: ... Me (6 months later and 2-3x the cost): See I told you I could do it better.

[@jimmyglea]

I understand it in a way. I could go to a dispensary to buy my weed, but I spend more to grow it myself because hobbies/passion have no cost other than not pursuing them.

[@ahpadt]

Presumably a loan to start the business

[@laurencekelly5081]

thefactorypilot145 I do things can escalate and then you see a business opportunity and away you go worrying all the way at the back of your mind will it work out will i fail and he succeeded brilliant.

[@MrBanzoid]

Fascinating. Thank you.

[@painiscupcake5433]

4:35 "This is the Based Department, how may I help you?"

[@csealand]

Absolute genius. Beautiful.

[@zaynumar0]

Truly beautiful

[@adamsimmons59]

Wonderful.

[@Bismut209]

Buying $20,000 pound antique globe: out of budget Spending $450,000 to learn how to make globes: 🤷

[@motherlandbot6837]

Haha! And acquiring largely lost skills, while employing others who are also acquiring such precious skills, and earning income as well!

[@philmckay9973]

and likely creating a business where it is valued at over 1 million....just by counting the employees....and valuations usually based on 7 years...

[@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111]

Then selling them for 89,000£ or 120,000$ for the "large" one. lmao

[@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111]

@@motherlandbot6837 Precious skills ? Dude you saw the process yourself lmao, he is printing globe shapes and sticking them to balls lmao! sure it might take a few go's but i am sure anyone could get the hang of that fairly soon, then someone paints a bit.. ok not exactly a lost skill, then some minor woodwork for the bases.. WOOOOOW such amazing lost talents he has brought back lmao. Bullllshit, dude is way overpricing these things because he knows the market for them is entirely rich people and he lives in london and comes from a super rich family (dad was a fkin naval architect lmao).

[@zaynumar0]

Aesthetics , beauty and power. When I'm a filthy rich businessman , I shall buy from this gentleman. Regards from Yorkshire

[@piccalillipit9211]

I've been rich. You never earn more money than you can spend cos there is ALWAYS someone out there making a yet pore pointlessly expensive whatever... I now live in £600 a month here in Bulgaria and my life is not appreciably different. I just write with a 25p pencil not a £5000 mechanical pencil, I eat with stainless steel knife and fork that work perfectly well instead of silver, I look at a quartz desk clock not a £15k Jaeger-LeCoultre desc clock. Anyway, as a Yorkshireman myself, Im more at home being poor than rich LOL

[@danijelsan81]

What would the world be like without people like Peter who are willing to go through such grueling process to make things exactly the way they want them to be?

[@zaynumar0]

Beauty

[@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111]

Then sell them for tens of thousands of pounds for just the small ones lmfao, yeah thank god for people like this, otherwise what would the insanely rich do with their money? poor folk.

[@robwoerpel641]

It's cool he has all those flat earth globes hanging there too 😄

[@HROM1908]

I well remember an antique shop in Stockholm that featured an impressively carved base. The earth was represented by a flat plate, not a globe !

[@olotbesalu2258]

Excellent work 👍

[@Sturmknecht]

Wow, what an amazing product. I MUST own one. After looking at prices: don't mind me, I was just leaving...

[@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111]

Only the mega rich are welcome here, hes a man of the people XD lmao

[@angelesmariabartolomepache9027]

Que bonitos todos, un globo terráqueo, es un objeto fetiche, de gran poder visual, puedes tener el mundo en tus, manos, el taller es una maravilla, agrupa, técnicas modernas, con artesanía y manualidades, además el Londres, todo muy Victoriano.

[@Globemakers]

Muchas gracias, me alegro de que te guste lo que estamos haciendo.

[@biancat7761]

You can buy a desk globe for around 2000 pounds. It would make an excellent milestone birthday present for a family member. It's definitely something that would be cherished for years to come.

[@Globemakers]

Kind of you to say, thanks Bianca. We enjoy doing gifts like that as customers work with us to tell stories of their favourite travels and family migration - incorporating all that history and memories on to the map and truly making it one of a kind and a family heirloom.

[@biancat7761]

@@Globemakers yeah when my dad turns 60 I'll be calling you guys up

[@trcmf]

As a new woodworker who aspires to build extremely fine and high quality pieces this video is so inspiring.

[@Globemakers]

Thanks Tim, glad you spotted it! Good luck on the next phase of your journey - woodwork is a glorious thing to get into.

[@RobRobertson1000]

Wonderful

[@aaronjohnmaughan]

I'm so glad someone is doing this.

[@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111]

Yeah otherwise what would the mega rich elites of society do with their money? Poor folk. His large globe at 5 min mark is on his website for 89,000£ lmao! or 120,000$ ... yeah thank god he is doing this.

[@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111]

He saw that globes cost an insane 20,000 at an auction, so he decided to make his own globes... for guesse what... about 20,000£ each lmao! what a man of the people this guy is. The big one at about 5min mark is 89,000£ on his site, or 120,000$. lol guys a bellend.

[@legolam8876]

Let me get this straight. He said he didn't have the budget to buy a £20,000 globe so instead he spent £450,000 to learn how to make them.

[@1218omaroo]

A job and company you could love working for. How wonderful. :)

[@bones007able]

show how you actually make the round ball.... what is it made of ? wood, plastic, fiberglass?

[@laurencekelly5081]

I know it was amazing i wanted more like you ahh well.

[@motherlandbot6837]

From their website: durable plaster, resins, grp (the materials for the globes themselves; wood, brass, etc. are for the stand). I'm assuming the resins are inorganic. Grp = fiber reinforced plastics. Their website has videos showing how the globes are made. My links get deleted here, do a search for Bellerby and Co. Globemakers.

[@motherlandbot6837]

The small globes have a plaster body. Larger globes are made from "composite materials", which might mean plaster with a resin shell or support. The globes are all very heavy for their size, so they aren't hollow fiberglass or resin spheres.

[@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111]

Something that does not justify the fact he is charging 89,000£ or 120,000$ for the fairly large one at about the 5min mark.

[@InfinityX008]

That seems extraordinarily therapeutic.

[@SoulSpacebyAditi]

This is so inspiring ❤️

[@Globemakers]

Thank you

[@Walter-Montalvo]

I would love two globes: one of Pangaea 335 million years ago, and another of the geographical plates and water basins without a single political border

[@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111]

No problem just send the guy about 50,000$ and you are good. Aslong as you are happy with two fairly small ones that is.

[@Walter-Montalvo]

@@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111 Heh definitely not your $40 made in China globe, that's for sure.

[@vivek-1318]

Awesome

[@ReiMonCoH]

I wonder if he made the Arrakis globe for DUNE...

[@Globemakers]

Someone asked recently but has not purchased formally and need to look into the copyright laws etc before. We do fictional planets though / anything a customer dreams up we can make.

[@fernandomelgar892]

You would think they would paint the globes by hand, no.

[@deezynar]

Expensive baubles for rich people. Attractive, and charming, but obsolete except as decorative items.

[@ats-3693]

Yeah, and?

[@deezynar]

@@ats-3693 A bag of chips.

[@bsusak09]

Literally who buys these? How do they have an entire company for such expensive and frivolous things? I'm clearly doing the wrong thing with my life haha

[@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111]

Big one is on his website for 89,000£ lmao! the people buying these are the mega rich elites.

[@SANTIAGE86]

So he didn't have $20,000 to buy a globe but had $450,000 to learn how to make them?

[@crouchingwombathiddenquoll5641]

I would like one with no town, county names or boarders. Just as seen from space.

[@shalashaska615]

Asking what coloured stick you’d like your moon on seems redundant now.

[@garyconway1073]

how can I view your globes , actually I like to see your FLAT EARTH MODELS

[@kattengat2]

I wonder how close to the 20000 pounds his globes are at? Beautiful work.

[@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111]

the big one at about 5 min mark is 89,000 £ or about 120,000$ on his website lmao! this is for the elite of society clearly, not suprising when his dad was a naval architect lol!

[@Globemakers]

@@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111 Our globes start at £1,199 - and each is handcrafted and hand painted and one of a kind so it's not a quick mass produced or off the shelf product. We make everything in London and pay our talented artists properly. So pricing won't be the same as something factory produced. Peter had no help from his father to start his company and worked his way up through previous jobs. He did not start Globe-making til he was in his 40's -

[@mtregi]

Does he only do Earth-616?

[@Ryzler13]

The reason that the quality has dropped over the past hundred years is because the quantity went up with the industrial revolution and subtlties that human hands could do, machines could not.

[@mountain-roots]

Lies lies lies yeah Their going to get yah Lies lies lies yeah

[@Teeb2023]

Flat Earthers... Infecting comment threads all around the globe.

[@iancrossley6637]

How do you do the printing and cutting the gore? Do you butt or overlap? what are the bases mad of?

[@Globemakers]

Hi Ian, there are more videos on our page in more detail or head over to our website - Bellerby & Co - we handcrafted many bases in various woods and metals and undertake one-off commissions of all kinds.

[@piccalillipit9211]

FYI - £1,500 to £80,000 Sooo not cheap.

[@bf.258]

Should have bought that 20k globe instead.

[@peterbayonet1266]

1:28 Really??? He still looks young!

[@sandergjertsenstvold1051]

May I order one flat globe please

[@abhisheksoni2980]

Can something as generic as world map be bespoke? The answer is : YES

[@Jon.A.Scholt]

Says £20,000 is out of his budget, so he proceeds to spend £450,000.

[@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111]

Then sells the globes for way more than 20,000 each... nice guy for sure.

[@Jon.A.Scholt]

@@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111 But the globes are "Bespoke"!!!!!

[@Norfolk250]

Do you make any that are not erroneously perfect spheres?

[@weaponisedpotato7352]

I wonder if this company makes flat earth disks for the flat earth crew?

[@motoputz3201]

ill take one please

[@captbiddy160]

2 years and 450 k to make a globe. doubt it.

[@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111]

Ya, bullshit. If it did cost that his naval architect daddy for sure fronted the cash lmao. Yknow the big globe.. the one at about 5min mark, selling for 89,000£ or 120,000$ on his site.. insane! Guy saw them selling for 20,000 in an auction and decided to sell them for even more, wow what a humble guy.

[@WallyMahar]

I would like to lose the art of using the word bespoke. The most pretentious old word I ever heard. What’s my problem? When a word is so old and unused I have to ask someone what it means to be part of the ‘in’ crowd.

[@firefly8464]

Here’s hoping the don’t plot the 9 dash line 🙄

[@rezaangga1631]

photoshop = an amazing program.. well that's quite correct

[@hrxy1]

You can con people all of the time. All these peoples working doing nothing but creating lies. It's FLAT.

[@atzonaftaniel4798]

This was april 2019 how is he doing now during Covid.

[@actontreadway1168]

he's a flat earther, as a result.

[@atzonaftaniel4798]

@@actontreadway1168 hahahaha, That's a good one.

[@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111]

Hopefully not so well so he can lower the price from 20,000 per small desk globe to something more sensible.

[@mrsmd4616]

Do you make flat ones 🤣🤣😭

[@MrChrist741]

Malaysia map yo~

[@kellychamberlain6093]

WHAT No flat earth Discs? Just saying

[@Teeb2023]

No, because that would be silly.

[@oliviera5988]

He is just gluing pieces of paper on a globe... no drawings, not really a craftsman activity...

[@wilkinson8707]

If you are spending £60,000 on a globe that gets printed off a PC and stuck down on papier-mâché or whatever then that individual really needs to get their priorities sorted.

[@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111]

Yeah, seems we are the only ones who see through this guy everyone else is amazed that this legend is bringing back lost skills and crafts, like sticking paper to globes and the mythical "painting" or "minor woodwork".. amazing stuff! Maybe they dont realise the insane prices he is charging?

[@franciscos5055]

Very disturbing - this is very manipulative and what this man is doing should be brought to light! Until we put our feet down and STOP letting things like this manipulate us then truth will never again see the light of day.

[@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111]

Flat earther?

[@franciscos5055]

@@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111 no.

[@TheGreatChrisB]

He said the issue is getting a flat map to fit a globe, but the earth is round. Flat map makers have the issue of making things fairly accurate when their shape is different from the original. Globes are theoretically the easiest map to make as they're the same layout as their inspiration.

[@kahnnguyen7903]

Yes, but the paper on which the map is printed is flat.

[@motherlandbot6837]

@TheGreatChrisB just to add to Khanh Nguyen's points, our Earth isn't round; it's an oblate sheroid, slightly compressed at the poles, and widest at the Equator. www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-is-not-round/

[@enhaoteoh405]

North London is red

[@Asianevermore]

Flat earth society enters the chat....

[@brageok]

gloge

[@karthikvel1608]

Is this globe 100% accurate

[@peterherrington3300]

Not to scale

[@patrickdewhurst3378]

Well played Peter, well played.

[@Ryzler13]

Like asking AI to write a poem. It doesnt know about the human connection that it might take someone to. Try explaining the chill of a frosty morning or the sting in your eyes or hairs standing on end to AI.

[@ZEUSOFHOLLYWOOD]

Subtititles ruined it. Fail.

[@actontreadway1168]

#flateartharoundtheglobe

[@abumaawi2266]

what about the flat earth?

[@dadillen5902]

What about the Easter bunny

[@dadillen5902]

@@TheOnlyRealAlf You have just proven not all humans have evolved. Great way to make a point. Play the idiot.

[@dadillen5902]

@@TheOnlyRealAlf There is a vast difference between a theory and an opinion. Both intellectually and structurally. It is the truest form of ignorant not to know that different. Dressing religious dogmatism in scientific sounding words does not change the fact that it is religious dogmatism.

[@dadillen5902]

@@TheOnlyRealAlf You have no Qualifications to judge. Or perhaps you have a Doctorate in anthropology? Ignorance is curable through education, stupid is however is most often genetic and usually incurable. Nature however has historically limited stupid though early death. Governments and religions on the other hand prefer the stupid. They are more easily controlled. Just my OPINION. 😉😬

[@dadillen5902]

Oh by the way 'made up nonsense' speaks volumes for your neutrality. 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@danielm3670]

The earth is actually a flat plane, but the product is nice.

[@dadillen5902]

So, it matches your head. Being a flat plane and all.

[@herculesrockefeller8969]

@@dadillen5902 You mean fat, plain, and all.

[@dadillen5902]

@@herculesrockefeller8969 I'll have leave the visual aspect to you, but if you see it as fat and plain. Who am I to disparage your opinion.

[@Teeb2023]

Only if you're wilfully ignorant.

[@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111]

You playing or actually that dumb?

[@quentin818]

What a wast of money and time. The earth is flat, try to get Water to curve.

[@Ronny_van_Gerwen]

Blasphemy! The world is flat. Everyone knows that

[@Teeb2023]

Must troll harder.

[@Ronny_van_Gerwen]

@@Teeb2023 alright! Round as a pancake?

[@brianchamberlin1539]

Its flat.

[@liyuanzheng5879]

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[@the-word5316]

what is the "proper way" of making "globe" when what it is that you're making is but, your imagined lies. Seek truth, Gain wisdom.

[@Teeb2023]

_"Seek truth, Gain wisdom."_ Why is it so often those who possess neither of those attributes who post such nonsense?

[@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111]

Nah bro, YOU gain wisdom lol, ya really need it trust me.