How Candles and Hand-Forged Hammers Are Made | How It's Made | Science Channel

Set the mood and take an inside look at the manufacturing of a commonplace item, candles! Candles offer a breadth of applications and were once even used to measure time. Then, venture to the workshop of a master blacksmith who painstakingly forges the perfect hammer.
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[@Aznk1d]

man. Watching this in Discovery Channel as a kid and still watching it now. I love this lmao

[@alexanderludvigsen1893]

gotta be the most blacksmith thing ever. using an angle grinder to shape wood XD

[@Vehshya]

That’s all I could think too.

[@joebufford2972]

I made candles in the early '90s for the family potpourri business, and I had a disc full of proper measurements and dies and essential fragrances. It takes a lot. Kudos to anyone still doing it the old fashioned family way 👍

[@JumpingJack6]

I always find these shows interesting.

[@kimbratton9620]

Nice candles!

[@reeceroyce2159]

Nice

[@animequeen78]

Ash is useful for this bc it doesn't shrink as much as other woods, so the head of the hammer can stay on longer.

[@jonas2431]

True. But. I've never seen someone grind the top of the handle flash with the hammer head

[@Raevynwing]

​@@jonas2431 With the wood and metal wedges it won't come off anytime soon. 😀

[@skilletborne]

Holy crap, is that Brent Bailey? Dude is a step away from legend in the blacksmithing community. Such a shame they didn't share more than his touchmark

[@hesnotbad9045]

Everyone who needs a hammer that nice already knows who he is

[@Britain-hh1ed]

Truly helpful

[@Chris-Magyar]

He uses the hammer to make the hammer

[@antoniogaravo9936]

😂

[@shri19]

Which begs the question…. Which hammer came first?

[@Blackoutfor10days]

​@@shri19stone hammer maybe

[@macpablo1169]

​@@shri19and what was used to shape the first hammer?

[@SullySadface]

They pour the candle around the candle

[@rileyda3]

which came first the hammer or the hammer

[@cgamejewels]

The angle grinder used to make the hammer. 😂😂😂😂

[@HalRiveria]

Serious answer to your joke; the rock came first. Bash some metal on a rock with a rock, making a crude hammer head. This becomes your new hammer. Now bash some metal on a rock with your hammer until you have a roughly flat surface. Strap this surface to the top of a log; this is now your anvil. Now you can create a cleaner, less crude hammer, and the tools needed to forge a proper anvil. Congrats, centuries of metal work innovation has been summed up in five sentences.

[@AngelaTheSephira]

​@@HalRiveriaexcept for the part where the log catches fire OH SHIT GROK GET ME THE WATER BUCKET OH NO THE HUT IS BURNING

[@chattphotos]

The title before my coffee finished processing: How candles are* hand-forged

[@skilletborne]

The mechanical hammer is just called a power hammer, and the pedal is called a treadle. The steel isn't compressed during a punch, most of the material is pushed outwards. That was a spring fuller, not a spring swage The eye contoring tool is called a drift, and is used to shape and to stretched out the punched hole. I shouldn't have watched this episode, but I was excited by something I love

[@keppycs]

i love your enthusiasm ^^

[@BarneySaysHi]

I'm surprised the commenter didn't say the hammer could be used for percussive maintenance as well. Normally "How it's made" uses a lot of puns.

[@SullySadface]

Candles and hammers? Was this episode filmed in my trunk?

[@alexmoskowitz811]

It’s a filling machine someone get hugbees

[@Faraazrokz]

😂😂😂😂

[@DMcLeod2]

We be awesome to watch if it wasn't for the ads

[@greatPretender79]

I'm surprised The Craftsman [tm] still has fingers. No gloves in that country, I guess 🤔

[@hesnotbad9045]

They’re made in central California. Gloves often make power tools more dangerous and they make it harder to feel what you’re doing

[@nerm9507]

@@hesnotbad9045not to mention that spinning tools are way more likely to snag your hand and suck it into the tool when you’re wearing gloves

[@prathamashish1936]

If a hammer is made by a hammer then who made the first hammer?

[@pac-mantheamericanbully7328]

A dwarf named Sindri.

[@prathamashish1936]

@@pac-mantheamericanbully7328 No Brok

[@akwurd]

Has this narrator ever narrated an Audio book? If so what, if not who is his manager?

[@yaboyblacklist2431]

Brooks Moore is his name, and I don't think he's done any audiobooks. He's basically just been the narrator for this show (with the exception of seasons 9 & 10) since it debuted in 2003, as well as other programs for the Discovery Channel and the other networks related to it

[@ThomasSingleton-th8rl]

What is a Candle Made Of?

[@antoniogaravo9936]

he uses electricity to make candles

[@jogandsp]

Imagine paying all that money for a hammer thats no better than a mass produced one

[@skilletborne]

I've been obsessed with metalworking all my life and have done a fair bit myself - they're definitely leagues above mass produced hammer. I do think they're overpriced, but it's also made by a man who cares about his product, who knows his steel, and swings a hammer more times in a day than most people do in a lifetime. It's supporting a small business and getting a tool you know will make your job easier for the rest of your career

[@liamfoxy]

Was that really a filling machine though? Looked like a rinsing machine to me. Its ok, its a common mistake

[@matteedstrom]

Most hammers made is NOT made to strike nails^^