Holy throwback. This is the first AvE video I watched, came up in my recommended had only a couple hundred views on it. How far he has come. What a guy.
I was taught in High School shop class not to rub a file back and forth like an abrasive. It only cuts in one direction and we should only press down on the cutting stroke. Pressure on the back stroke just dulls the teeth. That's been my observation for the last 40 years or so. My $.02 worth.
My Grand Father Johnson in the early 20th Century in Texas made Train boilers from scratch cutting everything with a Chisel. This is boiler plate; real thick compared to sheet metal. All connections were done with hot rivets. Twelve hour days back then; no unions.
It’s not tea bag, neodiddlyum, and some many other AvE-isms are all yet to be formed as well. Then again when he started the Boltr series he didn’t know what codes represented which “glass reinforced plaaastic” types... I remember watching a couple of the earliest ones and he picked up a lot of that from the comments. The evolution of a manly man in the empire of dirt, canuckistania, Norteamericano, et set terra and so on, has been so very cool to watch.
Yes my friend, "There is more than one way to skin a cat" You use dial calipers like i do, I call them measuring pliers. I've done this stuff too long, and what i've learned is everybody has something to teach. 40 years, give or take a few, and i still don't know shvt. . My only bragging rites is i still have 10 fingers.
In the historical transition from all wood to metal and wood, millwrights formed up the sole plates for machinery in this fashion. I knew of this but I'm old. Truthfully, I'll use any easy, rapid technique to achieve the results I want including this one if necessary. Thanks for posting this.
I found your channel last week or so and i honestly feel like I've already learned more from you than my tech teachers in school. I love the tear downs, the commentary, and the knowledge. Thanks so much for the honesty too in every 'vijayo'. ..just occurred to me that i've got no idea what anything other than your hands look like; and i'd trust you more than some of the folks i see everyday.
Great video! Thanks for sharing a forgotten art! As an apprentice I was made to file, chisel and scrape flat surfaces for 6 months in my first year. Glad I learnt those skills as it helped me a lot with carrying out repairs in the field. Like you said...metalwork IS fun! Thanks again. Great job!
A recollection from my days as an apprentice - use new, really sharp files for brass/bronze. When they start to just skid, they are too blunt to cut that material cleanly, but they are just about perfect for steel. Oh, and beware the steel bristled file card for cleaning! Instead, use a left-over of brazing rod or similar along the grooves to remove any clogs. It won't take the edge off the file teeth. I hope this tip will extend the useful life of your files. ;-)
You can buy wire brushes with brass wire here and there. I got one that I think was meant for cleaning a grill. And definitely a piece of wire to push out stubborn chunks. It's really surprising what a good clean file can do!
I was looking up chisels for woodworking and came across your video. I haven't gotten into machining yet but this makes me excited to learn it! Thanks for posting.
+AvE I deliberately avoid grinders when doing my metal work; mostly because one slip and you can ruin the entire project. A file can be a far better option because slips can still happen but the degree of control is far greater. Its very nice to see someone else who appreciates a file. You'll find that if you actually lighten up with the pressure on the backstroke it can help the life of the file since most files sold these days are made of crappy mexican or chinese steel. Also moving in a gentle full body rocking motion almost on the balls of your feet using your weight to help with the down pressure and the cut, you can file for hours without getting tired. After many cramps my master finally took pity on me and told me the secret haha
And I was always taught to drag a file in only one direction on the metal. If you drag it backwards then chips get stuck in it's grooves. I find this method faster and the surface is also more flat.
I want to cry every time I hear those poor files being back dragged. I mean that litteraly. When dudes drag my poor files backward and round the cutting teeth over rendering them geldings. (Useless for removing metal with any efficiency). Anyway then I have to clean them thoroughly and bathe them in a solution of sulfuric acid and water. It sharpens them up. Thank you Ave I love your stuff.
Nice milling machine. I've been discovering the joy and utility of the cold chisel... and how so many tools are derived from it. Bolt cutters and wire cutters - two cold chisels in opposition with leverage Drill bits - dual rotary cold chisels Hack saws and files - lots of tiny cold chisels all in a row I just picked up a few more. One for the work tool bag, one for the truck tool bag, one for the car tool bag. For $1 each at an estate sale, no reason to go without...
I've often wondered how metal parts were made before the common use of the milling machine or lathe. Thanks for this example. I would be very interested in seeing more hand machining techniques. I don't think a Bridgeport or South Bend is in my immediate future.
I've got few power tools for metal. I use all the hand techniques you demonstrated. It may be slow, but it's effective. Filing, chiseling, hammering, bending... I don't have a forge, but much metal working is done cold, and the results can be very satisfying. Thanks for the vid!
I remember seeing a German steam locomotive in a museum in Munich that was cut in half in half by railway workers on their lunch hour with hammers and chisels. Chisel on!
In Afghanistan, the villagers make copies of Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles using - 1. Files 2. Chisels and hammer. 3. A hand cranked drill. 4. A foot peddled grind stone. Some blow up firing the first round, but mostly they work, apparently.
When I saw you cutting the sheet metal with a cold chisel I couldn't help getting misty eyed. My first car was a £30 banger (Around 50 Canadian beer tokens), It had reasonably good bodywork, But mechanically it was totally FUBAR. So, I did what any red blooded man would do........ I bought another one that was mechanically sound but rotted out. After swapping all the decent running gear into the good shell I was left with the rusty one to get rid of. At that time scrap steel was worth less than dog sh!t, And everyone I called wanted me to give them my actual cash money to cart it away !?!?! So, To get rid of it I decided to cut it up into small enough chunks to take to the dump. I started with an angle grinder, But it soon dawned on me that it would cost me a fortune in discs. So then I started with the cold chisel. I made some reasonable progress with that, But it was back breaking work. It was at that point I thought up a MUCH quicker way....... A 6lb axe sharpened to a razor edge!!!!! Jesus !!!! That thing would zip through 12" of body panel on a single swing ! After about 3 evenings of slog with the cold chisel I'd stripped down the whole front end, But only 5 hours with the axe had the rest chopped into bits small enough to fit in the back of my rebuilt car. If I'd had the money for discs I wouldn't have looked beyond the angle grinder. If I'd been really flush with folding money I'd have probabbly gone out and bought an air chisel or reciprocating saw, But I wasn't and I didn't, So I improvised a cheaper way to get the job done. That was just one of many lessons that being broke taught me back in the day, And I feel that I'm a better person for learning them.
Why are there so many comments about his filing method? If your file is being "ruined" by dragging it backwards on a peice of pretty soft brass/bronze, chances are your file isn't properly hardened, and thats what you get for buying dime store harbor freight files. Dragging the file backwards is a perfectly acceptable technique, and often recommended to maintain an even surface, so long as you arent putting significant pressure on the backstroke, and it doesn't seem like he is. I would love to see some evidence to prove that hes ruining his file, else it seems like a lot of people are spreading wives tales.
My college machinist teacher told us they would give them a round bar to file into a perfect cube. You just showed it to be true. Ill probably never do this, but...its in the minds toolbox for sure!
Most of my dream projects I would do if only I had a welder. I'm probably gonna have to make one with a couple of microwave transformers (poor man's stick welder). Thanks for the video.
You have Shown me and a lot more People , That things were done that way for hundreds of years , Can be done the same In today's world , without all the fancy tools of our Age !
Most people seem to forget litterally all of the tools, technology, and other items that we make started with the simplest of tools a stick and a rock, 2 sticks, 2 rocks, who really knows what the first two actually were but that was the start of all of our current technology
That's not bronze, it's brass. There's a difference. EDIT: Just to clear things up, it could be brass or bronze. I thought that it was brass because of the color. Brass has zinc as its main alloying ingredient because zinc is cheap. Bronze usually has a much lower or zero zinc content because there are better ways to improve the properties than zinc. Bronze is usually redder than brass because it has a higher copper content (lower alloy content, usually ~10% tin and other elements, vs brass' ~40% zinc content, although there is no technical standard), but it could have any alloy content. This was most likely phosphor bronze, because he has used that in other videos, but has never used brass. This was the first AvE video I'd ever watched. Sorry about this comment.
+ROTTK9 Huh... I always thought any alloy primarily copper was bronze, but brass was specifically copper plus zinc, making brass a specific type of bronze. I guess I was wrong about that.
+stuffstuffa it is difficult to separate brass and bronze because they looks the same. bronze - cooper witt sn brass-cooper with zn and haow you can know who is who in video.
davids lapins Isn't bronze TYPICALLY more brown/pinkish-orange, while Brass is typically more yellow/gold? I know color blind people have a particularly hard time telling the difference, but I can usually tell if something is brass, or 'something else'(bronze).
I'll do this I have a pretty skookum vice and some nice bits of copper bars, I thought about doing some soft clamps out of the copper, but I did not know how. Thanks for this, I have all the tools required, it would've never occured to me to do this with just a chisel, file and saw.
Cloth or premium sandpaper wrapped around file or something flat can help level quick too with a smooth finish depending on your grit. If you don't have many files, it's an easy and fairly cheap way to get around some issues. With soft metals, get an abrasive restorer block which is like a mega pencil eraser and will clean the grit up and extend the life of the sand/emery paper.
Hacksaw is not a very old invention. In the 1880s they became generally popular, but it was in the 1980s that bi-metal blades came on the market. Before that they tended to break a lot. Before hacksaws people would use a V-shaped cold chisel for the grooving, and then follow up with a flat one, like you have in this video. Die makes still used chisels until CNC took over.
Old school technique, and it works!.... I have, in the past, cut front sight grooves in pistol barrels with a 'graver' which is a narrow cold chisel (like a woodworking mortice chisel).... Piece of cake... took me less than ten minutes to do the job. It would have taken at least that long to set it up in the mill and mill it out. So cutting steel is also possible (and not too difficult) with a chisel....
I learned that pulling back any file doesn't cut anything, but rolls the edge so it becomes duller quicker. Pushing the file forward then lifting the file off the work piece and returning to the beginning edge will actually get the job done faster, as it won't be getting rolled over and traping the wee shards of metal between the folds. AYEEEEEEEEE!
Been watching AvE for years now, what a ride. The RUclips algorithm strikes again though and I'm glad it did! what a difference between the current AvE and the "shy" Ave in this vid-jao.
Thank you, really interesting and something that shows a little thought will always get the job done if one is prepared to think, … a little sideways thinking. My type of thinking does not always give a useful result, as I would and have never thought of using a harder metal to cut a softer one! Obviously my brain was not in gear.Thank you for the upload.
"Machines" are sometimes surprisingly easy to make. The first example of a primitive "lathe" was coming fromthe stone/bronze age. Even before people could write they could make stuff. A good vice and a chisel are probably more difficult to make.
Metal working with hand tools goes back 20,000 years, not 200. When pounding a piece into a hole in a flat piece of material, holding the stock in a vice by the ends deforms the material and the hole, as well as stresses the vice screw. Put the stock on a flat surface, like the vice's anvil
Dragging a file backwards, everyone sems to do it, quickest way to do 2 things. Self reliance, very important, use what you have, not what you wish you had. Cheers
Do you mean that this dulls the file? I've heard that dragging the file backwards is not good for the life of the file. Is this wrong information? Honest question.
this is... nice. i like modern AvE a whole lot but i also feel like we're kinda missing out on this all-inclusive, you-can-do-it mr. rogers AvE now that he has a mill worth more than my house
I gotta say, I just stumbled across your channel. You're fucking hilarious dude. All that's left is to not edit out every time you cuss up a storm after you cut yourself, bang yourself, or drop a tool. Thanks for taking the time to do it, gives me hope I'll stop being lazy and get my channel going (besides my several year old videos!)
He also said at the beginning that he has a milling machine. Then when the magnet wouldn't go in he got a bigger thing to set over and says there's something to be said for using the right tool for the job. Like the milling machine he has... Lol
I have a scar on my hand from a filing project back in machine shop. You had to get your block of steel from weld class, you welded up and square it up. File broke in half and dug into me. I was so angry having to do that, looking at a milling machine. What can I say, I was 14.
I used to use a cold chisel and a two pound hammer to cut the end out of a barrel, my wise ass brother asked why I didn't use a torch. The barrel used to hold petrol so I said that's a no brainer. If you cut a lot of brass and bronze you want a cold chisel and a drill bit with different bevel angles.
heres a tip......never use a file cleaning brush, the hardened steel wires will rapidly dull the file teeth........coat your file with regular chalkboard chalk, to keep chips from embedding into the file
Uncle BumbleFuck used to be a lot more tame
change with the timed
times*
Could actually understand the dude back then.
That’s because he started reading the comments on his vijeos.
@@lukebaines7785 if you watch them all up to now you can understand
Wow, I've been watching AvE for about a year, and finding this softer, kinder, almost "Bob Ross with a chisel" is somewhat shocking! SO mellow!
This was before he had babies. Go figure.
@@canberradogfarts 🤣
Holy throwback. This is the first AvE video I watched, came up in my recommended had only a couple hundred views on it. How far he has come. What a guy.
He should re upload this vid today saying youtube wants his vids like this now... haha
I would have done that project if only i had a cold chisel, a hammer, and a vice. :'(
Rusty Shacolfurd I'll get right on that.
Thats dedication at is finest
Ibwould do that if i have a stone to carve my antler
Wow... AvE, your more recent vidjeos have evolved into quite a different animal compared to these earlier ones!
Hee came out of his shell once he realized how many of us crazy fuckers like him are out there.
Shocked that the project was a success without all his special words!
I was taught in High School shop class not to rub a file back and forth like an abrasive. It only cuts in one direction and we should only press down on the cutting stroke. Pressure on the back stroke just dulls the teeth. That's been my observation for the last 40 years or so. My $.02 worth.
I think we had the same shop class
I have largely ignored that, and my files are still okay. Of course, much less force on the back stroke than forward, also to save effort.
Who cares about the dulling of the teeth the important part is that u waste your energy. Do this 40 hrs for a week and u will hate ur life
Pressure on the forward stroke only!
Only lift on the backstroke if you don’t own the files. If you paid for the tools and materials and time, do what you like.
I was so disappointed to here the power drill , I was expecting a hand crank to keep in the spirit .
+Rockland Kcorvic YES! When he said I am going to hand drill, I was expecting a HAND drill, not cordless - big difference!
+Rockland Kcorvic I thought that to
+Firefly Yup - me too !
agreed also surprised he doesnt have a drag chissel
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My Grand Father Johnson in the early 20th Century in Texas made Train boilers from scratch cutting everything with a Chisel. This is boiler plate; real thick compared to sheet metal. All connections were done with hot rivets. Twelve hour days back then; no unions.
Nice story. Good thing we have unions these days...
+Paul C Johnson Did you ever think to ask why we have unions?
No!
+Paul C Johnson unions make me cry. Don't cut them with a cold chisel.
I'm not pasta!! Damn it
When you said "drill this by hand" I was expecting a hand crank drill xD
Charlie webb Very impressed when I heard the hand drilling thing. Very sad when I saw it.
I was thinking the same thing lol, here comes the bit and brace. Nope! DeWalt ;-)
Wh didn't he just finger blast the holes
.......same but then I realized maybe the appropriate phrase might have been ' to manually drill' but that's not too much more specific either.
@@fabts4 recently I used a hand drill for drilling metal. It worked! Long chips.
Man, soft spoken AvE has a TOTALLY different energy than the AvE we know today. I like him
Me too man, I'm not sure which one I like better
It’s not tea bag, neodiddlyum, and some many other AvE-isms are all yet to be formed as well. Then again when he started the Boltr series he didn’t know what codes represented which “glass reinforced plaaastic” types... I remember watching a couple of the earliest ones and he picked up a lot of that from the comments.
The evolution of a manly man in the empire of dirt, canuckistania, Norteamericano, et set terra and so on, has been so very cool to watch.
Yes my friend, "There is more than one way to skin a cat" You use dial calipers like i do, I call them measuring pliers. I've done this stuff too long, and what i've learned is everybody has something to teach. 40 years, give or take a few, and i still don't know shvt. . My only bragging rites is i still have 10 fingers.
Best not tempt fate, if you really messed up... could end up seeing 20.
$20 says he's lost a leg
You still got all ten and before you answer count em’ again
Send Memez he said that he still has 10, as in 10/20
“There’s more than one way to scale a catfish.”
In the historical transition from all wood to metal and wood, millwrights formed up the sole plates for machinery in this fashion. I knew of this but I'm old. Truthfully, I'll use any easy, rapid technique to achieve the results I want including this one if necessary. Thanks for posting this.
You are my favourite RUclipsr by far. Only subscribed yesterday and I'm running through all the vids
Diesineveryfilm Customs Just got better and better huh?
As I do. Best talks ever. Laughing every second.
Now you have 500k subs crazy
@@stephenleskow7959 aye, i passed it a few months back.
I found your channel last week or so and i honestly feel like I've already learned more from you than my tech teachers in school.
I love the tear downs, the commentary, and the knowledge. Thanks so much for the honesty too in every 'vijayo'.
..just occurred to me that i've got no idea what anything other than your hands look like;
and i'd trust you more than some of the folks i see everyday.
Great video! Thanks for sharing a forgotten art! As an apprentice I was made to file, chisel and scrape flat surfaces for 6 months in my first year. Glad I learnt those skills as it helped me a lot with carrying out repairs in the field. Like you said...metalwork IS fun! Thanks again. Great job!
A recollection from my days as an apprentice - use new, really sharp files for brass/bronze. When they start to just skid, they are too blunt to cut that material cleanly, but they are just about perfect for steel. Oh, and beware the steel bristled file card for cleaning! Instead, use a left-over of brazing rod or similar along the grooves to remove any clogs. It won't take the edge off the file teeth. I hope this tip will extend the useful life of your files. ;-)
Tyvole Only the unimaginative can't think of any way to sharpen 'dull useless' files.
You can buy wire brushes with brass wire here and there. I got one that I think was meant for cleaning a grill. And definitely a piece of wire to push out stubborn chunks. It's really surprising what a good clean file can do!
I was looking up chisels for woodworking and came across your video. I haven't gotten into machining yet but this makes me excited to learn it! Thanks for posting.
+AvE I deliberately avoid grinders when doing my metal work; mostly because one slip and you can ruin the entire project. A file can be a far better option because slips can still happen but the degree of control is far greater. Its very nice to see someone else who appreciates a file. You'll find that if you actually lighten up with the pressure on the backstroke it can help the life of the file since most files sold these days are made of crappy mexican or chinese steel. Also moving in a gentle full body rocking motion almost on the balls of your feet using your weight to help with the down pressure and the cut, you can file for hours without getting tired. After many cramps my master finally took pity on me and told me the secret haha
Takes me back to my high school metal shop days. We didn't have much. Workbenches, vice, lump hammer, hardened chisel, file
its summer right now so if my chisel is a little warm would that matter.
or would I have to wait until winter.
Gotta love the dad jokes
put it in the fridge for an hour and you'll be fine
And I was always taught to drag a file in only one direction on the metal. If you drag it backwards then chips get stuck in it's grooves. I find this method faster and the surface is also more flat.
Back in the day when we had real apprentice ships in the UK I was taught to cut metal with a cold chisel. glad to see you do it!
Wowsers looking back at these old vidjeos I feel like I new you back before you were cool. Well done bro from Australia.
I want to cry every time I hear those poor files being back dragged. I mean that litteraly. When dudes drag my poor files backward and round the cutting teeth over rendering them geldings. (Useless for removing metal with any efficiency). Anyway then I have to clean them thoroughly and bathe them in a solution of sulfuric acid and water. It sharpens them up. Thank you Ave I love your stuff.
Please upload a cat skinning video. I'd like to see your method.
+Jared Jeanotte
There's more than 1 way to skin a cat, but they're all fun.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/101_Uses_for_a_Dead_Cat
Yorick Hunt
methods. plural
52hubcap WHY DON'T YOU GO BACK TO HELL, AND TELL THE DEVIL ALL ABOUT IT?!!!
Nice milling machine.
I've been discovering the joy and utility of the cold chisel... and how so many tools are derived from it.
Bolt cutters and wire cutters - two cold chisels in opposition with leverage
Drill bits - dual rotary cold chisels
Hack saws and files - lots of tiny cold chisels all in a row
I just picked up a few more. One for the work tool bag, one for the truck tool bag, one for the car tool bag. For $1 each at an estate sale, no reason to go without...
I've often wondered how metal parts were made before the common use of the milling machine or lathe. Thanks for this example. I would be very interested in seeing more hand machining techniques. I don't think a Bridgeport or South Bend is in my immediate future.
I've got few power tools for metal. I use all the hand techniques you demonstrated. It may be slow, but it's effective. Filing, chiseling, hammering, bending... I don't have a forge, but much metal working is done cold, and the results can be very satisfying. Thanks for the vid!
Been watching you for years now, but these old vidjeos are some true gems!
This was you showing off your woodworking skills without using wood.
Didn't you saw the hammers handle?
I remember seeing a German steam locomotive in a museum in Munich that was cut in half in half by railway workers on their lunch hour with hammers and chisels. Chisel on!
When you said you were going to drill it by hand I thought you were going to get out a brace. That would be a lot of work.
In Afghanistan, the villagers make copies of Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles using -
1. Files
2. Chisels and hammer.
3. A hand cranked drill.
4. A foot peddled grind stone.
Some blow up firing the first round, but mostly they work, apparently.
There
I so like the opportunity to learn that a cold chisel on a vise could cut sheet metal, thanks!
I really like watching your videos, it's like having a genius friend to solve some of my workshop troubles :-)
When I saw you cutting the sheet metal with a cold chisel I couldn't help getting misty eyed.
My first car was a £30 banger (Around 50 Canadian beer tokens), It had reasonably good bodywork, But mechanically it was totally FUBAR. So, I did what any red blooded man would do........ I bought another one that was mechanically sound but rotted out.
After swapping all the decent running gear into the good shell I was left with the rusty one to get rid of. At that time scrap steel was worth less than dog sh!t, And everyone I called wanted me to give them my actual cash money to cart it away !?!?! So, To get rid of it I decided to cut it up into small enough chunks to take to the dump.
I started with an angle grinder, But it soon dawned on me that it would cost me a fortune in discs. So then I started with the cold chisel. I made some reasonable progress with that, But it was back breaking work. It was at that point I thought up a MUCH quicker way....... A 6lb axe sharpened to a razor edge!!!!!
Jesus !!!! That thing would zip through 12" of body panel on a single swing ! After about 3 evenings of slog with the cold chisel I'd stripped down the whole front end, But only 5 hours with the axe had the rest chopped into bits small enough to fit in the back of my rebuilt car.
If I'd had the money for discs I wouldn't have looked beyond the angle grinder. If I'd been really flush with folding money I'd have probabbly gone out and bought an air chisel or reciprocating saw, But I wasn't and I didn't, So I improvised a cheaper way to get the job done. That was just one of many lessons that being broke taught me back in the day, And I feel that I'm a better person for learning them.
dude thank you. this was very informative for someone like me who wants to get into metal working on a limited budget. Loving ALL your vids!
3:50 "good body positioning" camera positioning well... hehe.
The famous "arm pit angle". Every body learns that at art academy.
Crazy to think you made this the same year I graduated High School. It's cool to see how much your style has changed.
1:24 "Metal working has been going on for 200 years" .......
...give or take...
I was like try at least 6000 years. Mesopotamia comes to mind
"drill it by hand" goddamn your hands move fast!
Why are there so many comments about his filing method? If your file is being "ruined" by dragging it backwards on a peice of pretty soft brass/bronze, chances are your file isn't properly hardened, and thats what you get for buying dime store harbor freight files. Dragging the file backwards is a perfectly acceptable technique, and often recommended to maintain an even surface, so long as you arent putting significant pressure on the backstroke, and it doesn't seem like he is. I would love to see some evidence to prove that hes ruining his file, else it seems like a lot of people are spreading wives tales.
Learning cold chisel and mortise chisel work at the gunsmithing school here in Belgium ;) Old way-Best way ;)
Would like to, building a new blaksmithing workshop now :) Any advices ?
Thanks a lot ;)
Thank you for the motivation. I'd be glad if you post more about why you won't need a milling machine.
I'll be teaching metalworking at my summer camp this year and this is the coolest thing i've seen.
Nice Video Ave. Thanks for emphasizing self reliance with interesting projects.
My college machinist teacher told us they would give them a round bar to file into a perfect cube. You just showed it to be true. Ill probably never do this, but...its in the minds toolbox for sure!
And I thought I was the only one who still does that nothing like making it yourself you appreciate it so much more thanks for sharing
You have come a long way in your teaching videos.
Still loved it.
Please keep them coming
man sometimes i love these old videos of showing how you don't need cool new stuff to make it happen.
but i do love the new ones....Damn.
AvE now: This Makita has the shmoo in the dingle berry!
Did you get this recommended for you too?
@@hayesginther897 you too? Lol
Not a single swear word either... I'm not even convinced this a real AvE vid.
No focus issues either.
Most of my dream projects I would do if only I had a welder. I'm probably gonna have to make one with a couple of microwave transformers (poor man's stick welder).
Thanks for the video.
Very cool video! Hey, that cold chiseled surface was beautiful shining in the light like that!!!
You have Shown me and a lot more People , That things were done that way for hundreds of years , Can be done the same
In today's world , without all the fancy tools of our Age !
Most people seem to forget litterally all of the tools, technology, and other items that we make started with the simplest of tools a stick and a rock, 2 sticks, 2 rocks, who really knows what the first two actually were but that was the start of all of our current technology
That's not bronze, it's brass. There's a difference.
EDIT: Just to clear things up, it could be brass or bronze. I thought that it was brass because of the color. Brass has zinc as its main alloying ingredient because zinc is cheap. Bronze usually has a much lower or zero zinc content because there are better ways to improve the properties than zinc. Bronze is usually redder than brass because it has a higher copper content (lower alloy content, usually ~10% tin and other elements, vs brass' ~40% zinc content, although there is no technical standard), but it could have any alloy content. This was most likely phosphor bronze, because he has used that in other videos, but has never used brass.
This was the first AvE video I'd ever watched. Sorry about this comment.
+AvE www.diffen.com/difference/Brass_vs_Bronze ( just info ) and takes away nothing from the video for me
+craigmancool brass=copper+zinc. Not sulphur.
+ROTTK9 Huh... I always thought any alloy primarily copper was bronze, but brass was specifically copper plus zinc, making brass a specific type of bronze. I guess I was wrong about that.
+stuffstuffa it is difficult to separate brass and bronze because they looks the same. bronze - cooper witt sn
brass-cooper with zn and haow you can know who is who in video.
davids lapins Isn't bronze TYPICALLY more brown/pinkish-orange, while Brass is typically more yellow/gold? I know color blind people have a particularly hard time telling the difference, but I can usually tell if something is brass, or 'something else'(bronze).
I had to do something similar. I simply used a circular saw and slowly 'cut away' at the softer metal, bit by bit. Worked for me.
There was a time that viewers could understand you right way ;) Always great content.
that was before internet
Sweet. This vid. just gave me an idea on how to approach a problem I'm having with my lathe restoration project. Thanks man!
Some good tips and tricks in there, and yes, it does show how much can be done with simple tools
Love the technique appreciating modern machinery more when i see olden days techniques
I'll do this
I have a pretty skookum vice and some nice bits of copper bars, I thought about doing some soft clamps out of the copper, but I did not know how.
Thanks for this, I have all the tools required, it would've never occured to me to do this with just a chisel, file and saw.
Ive seen all your videos at least 3 times. I love um. It is interesting to see the way you and your camera setup has progressed over time.
I just use aluminum angle as soft jaws
nickwoo2 its not about the product it’s about the process
I used to use a timber chisel when installing locks etc into aluminium doors, worked a treat!
Cloth or premium sandpaper wrapped around file or something flat can help level quick too with a smooth finish depending on your grit. If you don't have many files, it's an easy and fairly cheap way to get around some issues. With soft metals, get an abrasive restorer block which is like a mega pencil eraser and will clean the grit up and extend the life of the sand/emery paper.
Such a calm chillness to you in this video. Kinda weird. Still enjoy all your videos. Thank you
All the youtubers I watch talk weirdly. You're no different. Right up there along with Dave Jones
Great video! My only power tools are a drill and an angle grinder, so I do use files and chisels on occasion, and they work!
great tricks in this one! thanks!!
Laura Kampf, your channel is one of my favorites also.
ive been in the busness for 33 years and ill use the mill with an 3 flute endmill thanks . good vidioe
Hacksaw is not a very old invention. In the 1880s they became generally popular, but it was in the 1980s that bi-metal blades came on the market. Before that they tended to break a lot. Before hacksaws people would use a V-shaped cold chisel for the grooving, and then follow up with a flat one, like you have in this video. Die makes still used chisels until CNC took over.
Old school technique, and it works!.... I have, in the past, cut front sight grooves in pistol barrels with a 'graver' which is a narrow cold chisel (like a woodworking mortice chisel).... Piece of cake... took me less than ten minutes to do the job. It would have taken at least that long to set it up in the mill and mill it out. So cutting steel is also possible (and not too difficult) with a chisel....
My god, going back and seeing older uploads where his vice was a bit fresher makes you really appreciate the battle scars visible in the newer vids...
I learned that pulling back any file doesn't cut anything, but rolls the edge so it becomes duller quicker. Pushing the file forward then lifting the file off the work piece and returning to the beginning edge will actually get the job done faster, as it won't be getting rolled over and traping the wee shards of metal between the folds. AYEEEEEEEEE!
Been watching AvE for years now, what a ride. The RUclips algorithm strikes again though and I'm glad it did! what a difference between the current AvE and the "shy" Ave in this vid-jao.
Thank you, really interesting and something that shows a little thought will always get the job done if one is prepared to think, … a little sideways thinking. My type of thinking does not always give a useful result, as I would and have never thought of using a harder metal to cut a softer one! Obviously my brain was not in gear.Thank you for the upload.
So interesting going back and hearing AvE talk without all the charismatic camera confidence.
"Machines" are sometimes surprisingly easy to make. The first example of a primitive "lathe" was coming fromthe stone/bronze age. Even before people could write they could make stuff. A good vice and a chisel are probably more difficult to make.
Metal working with hand tools goes back 20,000 years, not 200.
When pounding a piece into a hole in a flat piece of material, holding the stock in a vice by the ends deforms the material and the hole, as well as stresses the vice screw. Put the stock on a flat surface, like the vice's anvil
Dragging a file backwards, everyone sems to do it, quickest way to do 2 things. Self reliance, very important, use what you have, not what you wish you had. Cheers
Do you mean that this dulls the file? I've heard that dragging the file backwards is not good for the life of the file. Is this wrong information? Honest question.
You must drag the file backwards, that how the file gets rid of the material. I learnt this in school, so no comment!
You had me laughing--"when you're absolutely certain its mixed, mix it a little more!" That's exactly what I always do.
this is... nice. i like modern AvE a whole lot but i also feel like we're kinda missing out on this all-inclusive, you-can-do-it mr. rogers AvE now that he has a mill worth more than my house
Stumbled across this gem.... your hands are so young looking and your vernacular was definitely different 5 years ago.
I gotta say, I just stumbled across your channel. You're fucking hilarious dude. All that's left is to not edit out every time you cuss up a storm after you cut yourself, bang yourself, or drop a tool. Thanks for taking the time to do it, gives me hope I'll stop being lazy and get my channel going (besides my several year old videos!)
Should have used a brace and bit to drill the holes. I never even thought about using a chisel to cut sheet metal, or as and end mill. Great tips.
THESE magnets are very brittle, so lets grab captain bfh and do a lil rattle boo bang-arang on this mother and slam her home....eh
:-D.... I thought I was the only one who noticed that.
+Ryan Barbolt He should have used the vice to press it in.
+Ryan Barbolt reminds me of my family dentist.
Is he a realist too?
He also said at the beginning that he has a milling machine. Then when the magnet wouldn't go in he got a bigger thing to set over and says there's something to be said for using the right tool for the job. Like the milling machine he has... Lol
This feels "Bob Ross" / "This Old House" old-timey tool working. I'll take the modern crotchety surely AvE thank you very much!
Just like all of your videos, I learned and laughed a lot. Thanks and keep it going.
you mean 5000 years right
Add amother 2000-3000 minimum please.
think it was a joke
Classical music, the almost exstinct metal workings, music to my ears... my hands dont agree after a long night of machining and drinking
Ah the good old days, when AvE was innocent and young sounding.
Reminds me of my days in a bronze foundry. If I couldn't grind it or cut it, I chiseled it. Used to use rock-cutting chisels.
That drill sounded mighty electric. I expected a hand drill. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.
I have a scar on my hand from a filing project back in machine shop. You had to get your block of steel from weld class, you welded up and square it up. File broke in half and dug into me. I was so angry having to do that, looking at a milling machine. What can I say, I was 14.
I used to use a cold chisel and a two pound hammer to cut the end out of a barrel, my wise ass brother asked why I didn't use a torch. The barrel used to hold petrol so I said that's a no brainer. If you cut a lot of brass and bronze you want a cold chisel and a drill bit with different bevel angles.
It's physically painful to see that file Drug back over the work.
+Steven Simard Drug? Really?
Vexed Films Would you prefer "dragged".
No I would prefer Dreggered
Mi bad i hef 2 werk n mi engrish
nw i fel leik im txtin u in da 2000s
heres a tip......never use a file cleaning brush, the hardened steel wires will rapidly dull the file teeth........coat your file with regular chalkboard chalk, to keep chips from embedding into the file
When my dad was a kid he made a working pearl handle .22 cal revolver with hand tools from a piece of railroad track he found.
Watching this in 2020 and I knowing what I know now. This right here is an extremely restrained AVE