Blacksmith Reacts to Forging Scenes in the LOTR: Rings of Power!
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the fact that Celebrimbor, the second greatest Elven smith after his own Grandfather, Feanor, needed to be told to try an alloy will never cease to infuriate me
IKR. the fact that some nobody just shows up after being almost dead and goes 'hey, maybe just do this you dummy' to a man with thousands of years of experience. It's so far from the original lore too. Ugh
I enjoyed it.
I figure elves just dont have that human ingenuity, but that was before it was revealed that *massive spoiler*
@@mr.e2643 but that makes no sense - Elves were creative.
@@mr.e2643 On the contrary.
Elves basically brought civilised culture to middle earth and their craftmanship was pretty much uncontested excepting by dwarfs using mithril which only they could procure due to its rarity in deep earth mines.
Did you realize that, with the same mix of "gold and silver", they made 3 rings of different colors ?
They are not ? Two are gold and one is silver.
Elves do things, differently.
@@Kavriel one is yellow gold, one is white gold, one is silver, yet it was all made from the same gold and silver blend. If they somehow separated the metals afterwards it would have still been less silly if they separated the gold from the silver first before melting it.
@@ShiKageMaru You really need to get your eyes checked out. They separated the metals in the clip shown and there are no white gold or rose gold rings. If you see them like that ... you got weird freaking eyes dude.
@@Kavriel I do believe you’re missing his entire point. They melted the entirety of the dagger that would have made some sort of alloy (I presume). This would have been uniform in color but then somehow came out with three differently colored rings. Baring the use of magic or whatever the case may be, that just doesn’t quite add up.
A british bloke having difficulty with "mithril" is a hoot.
It's as strong as dragon scales but light as a feather, Alec! Light as a feather!
for some reason i read it in scottish accent
@@cozierhoezier4307 me too
The antler hammer is likely designed to be used for working with silver/base metal/copper alloy. It's essentially a slightly tougher rawhide hammer and allows small rivets etc to be set without marking the metal too much
I do jewelry smithing, and the second I saw that hammer I knew I had to make one
@@marlonlernmark Someone I know does the most gorgeous 10th C Irish Sea-style sheet metal belt fittings with dome-capped rivets and swears by an antler hammer for that kind of work. I have the antler for one, but have not made it yet.
Alternate theory for the show: the hammer isn’t made of antler…it’s a dragon’s tooth. According to Bilbo, mithril is “…as hard as dragon scales”. It would track that they would need something magical to forge mithril…even when it’s at forging temperatures. 🧐
@@Myoldnameiscringy yeah but how they know how hard the mitrhil is ? in the show it's the first time they work with mithril.
(in the Books Mitrhil was known for a realy long time, it was just a realy rare Ore.)
@@kjarllan7097 You have to mine it first? I think it becomes obvious how hard something is, when for example your steel pickaxe doesn't do jack on the ore. To take up on your argument: How would they know Mithril will even form an alloy with gold and silver? They don't know the melting point. Mithril could have had a melting point of 3000°C, making it necessary to actually burn off silver, gold and steel to melt it , before they even form an alloy.
Fun fact, the Armorer from the Mandalorian was at a local convention last month. I asked her what she thought of these videos.
Her response, we had real blacksmiths on set. They told us how to do it. Then the director said no, do it this way instead because it look’s better.
True, I was one of those blacksmith advisors.
Ah yes, the same thing happened with Jennifer Beals and welding, on Flash Dance.
Why are apostrophes so hard to use properly, and get used in cases like "looks" when they dont belong?
This is true for so many things in movies and series, especially historical accuracy and insider knowledge about craftsmanship, tech, etc. Expert says A, producer says B, so the only reason they even have an expert on set is so that they can say that they "consulted renowned experts" for their production, nevermind they disregarded almost anything they said.
@@michaelcherokee8906 Becau'se. LOL
That's me! A hammer hand model or action double. I'll take all the comments about beautiful forging. I learnt a lot about how to swing a hammer from your videos Alec and was stoked to be able to help out with this series. I was the blacksmith advisor for the numenor forge scenes and spent some time training the actors. I always tried hard to create an accurate depiction of blacksmithing, and for the most part I agree they did a great job, but some people just love the steamy quench.
Atta boy!
Love it!! Haha of course your hands do the most beautiful forging 🥲
I guess we can forgive some elements of Elvan forging as magically inclined. Celebrimbor was not Calaquendi but he was a Noldorian Elf and related to Fëanor, the greatest smith who existed on Arda/Middle Earth. What I struggle for forgive is how Celebrimbor did not know about the concept of a metal alloy and needed the idea explained to him lol.
The bloodlines of Calquendi, specifically the Royalty tend to be quite strong. Celebrimbor got that in spades. Direct descendant of Feanor. Who was the rightful High King after Fingolfin ceded it after his Feanors Exile. Until it was renounced by his last son, to Fingolfins line once again.
Anyway. My point is mostly the distinction is relevant, but does not make Celebrimbor necessarily less potent per se, considering his bloodline.
You are right though. What he got in actuality was not knowledge of alloying. It was a rarely used term, called “The Ring Lore”. Which was a technique found in the power and craft of Sauron. It did not as a concept exist without the virtue of that Maia, whose origin was found in Eru Iluvatar. It’s why even the three Elven Rings were destroyed with the One Ring. All the Rings made with Sauron contained a portion of his Corrupt Ambition. The One Ring contained most of his Power and Essence. The Elven Rings did not contain his Corruption. However all Rings made in this Ring Lore were connected to the being who brought it about. So when the being of it’s inceptions Power was destroyed, so went all the Power of the Rings one and all.
This higher connection is necessary to understand why the Rings could be made. How they were bound. The corruption inherent to all but three. Then also why the One Rings destruction was both inherently corrupting, and necessary to be destroyed. Then why they all went when it was gone. Also why Saurons evil continued to coalesce as long as the One Ring, which contained most of his Power continued to exist. After which he was a bad smell in the air, and nothing more.
@@chickenmonger123 Yes you're exactly right. Saruman even dabbled in Ring Lore during the war of the ring (though to what extent he is successful we do not know to my own knowledge.) You're also right about how Celebrimbor's lineage is very important to his capabilities. Though safe to say his ring making is of lower level than that of the creation of the Silmarils. I have no idea if having actually witnessed the light of the two trees can influence their Elvan craftmanship. Though Fëanor is a special case independent of the trees due to the nature of his birth. Their workmanship though probably has more to do with the connection to Aule and Fëanor.
Expecting movie producers to remain faithful, or sometimes even remotely accurate to a story line, is true fantasy.
I too had difficulty with Celebrimbor essentially saying "Alloys? What are these alloys you speak of?" If they wanted to make it so that alloying Mithril had been simply incomprehensible to the Mírdain, they needed to lay more groundwork as to why.
Re: Celebrimbor: The writings would permit (but, yes, not require) him to be Calaquendi. Fëanor is much older than his brothers. We don't have birth years in the writings for the 7 sons of Fëanor or for Celebrimbor. But given Fëanor's age and early marriage, all 7 of his sons might even have been born before Finrod's/Galadriel's dad Finarfin. There's a few thousands years in there to play with, so it's possible Curufin sired Celebrimbor in Aman. (But, again, yes the writings would permit Celebrimbor to be born in Beleriand. It's just there's nothing about Curufin's unnamed wife even leaving Aman with Curufin (she might have refused just like Curufin's mom did), and Tolkien wrote that he disliked the idea of the Noldor having kids in Beleriand during war/siege with Morgoth.)
@@Patrick-qed Scratch what I said. A little research finds that Celebrimbor was indeed born on Aman during the Years of the Trees. One does forget just how old Fëanor was, and despite Curufin being the last child, he's still plenty old before the Kinslaying.
As for the alloys...I mean I'm semi prepared to accept that Elves work with such high quality metals that are infused with magic that the branch of metallurgy that facilitated the discovery of metal alloys was redundant to Elves. But then they make such a big deal out of the dagger being a rare source of 100% pure silver and gold that would have only been possible on Valinor that eh...Pushing the limits of my suspension of disbelief.
I asked if I could create the rings, but they told me Orcs don't play with gold :(
Then they settled for less than the best.
Yeah they do. Although, I don't think looting it from them in EQ quite counts.
🤣🤣
XD They just can't have a guy outshine their prop designers. The poor guys need to earn their money too. ;P
I mean, you really asked!?
That’s there loss then my my man.. your stuff is absolutely amazing
That fire-starter thing looks like a Driptorch. Firefighters use them for starting backburns and burning piles.
Great video by the way.
I was about to write the same thing.
Firefighters that do wildfires to be a little more specific
I just commented this and then saw your comment, glad to see I was thinking along the right lines
first thought in my mind, it’s just dressed-up but is definitely one…and it’s likely they’d use some of the oil to help start the charcoal, he just went after it yet it’s clear it’s not going directly to a full coal fire just burning the excelerant
came here to say "drip torch"
I don't want my piles dealt with by drip torch
My biggest "what?" moment was how absolutely perfect their cast billets were. I've never seen pristine billets that come out looking like they were just polished.
gold and silver are pretty neat just out of the mould.
Clearly you've never worked with mithril.
@@styx85 You've got me in a box here.
I mean, they're Elves. If anyone can cast a perfect billet, it's the Elves.
To bed fair they are elves and are supposed to be spooky good at that.
The biggest thing that bothered mw with that blade melting is how it all melted perfectly evenly and smoothly at the same time at the same temperature as if it was all the same metal which it obviously was not and also the bottom would begin melting far before the rest of the piece as that would be the hottest point but no, the entire piece melted at the same instant lol. When I watched that scene I instantly thought of your reaction videos. I'm so very happy you made one!! Keep up the good work!!
This, and the fact that the various metals all separated again after being melted together.
@@chrisash7948 Oh yes!!! You are so right 😂
And they didn't skim off the dross!
The moment they went melted the dagger I’ve been waiting for this video to appear 😅
the sharpening stones they use on alot of sets are actually flint stone and when you use iron or high carbon steel on them they shoot sparks like crazy.
About the twisted bars: I have read somewhere that twisted bars was a method during middle age used to make them stronger. Steel was low quality compared to today's, with weaknesses and cracks. Twisting it helps spreading the weaknesses in all directions, which makes the bar evenly strong in all directions.
Very weird to see someone I recognize reacting to stuff I made, I was the props blacksmith on the show and made the half-forged things the actors were forging on screen as well as some of the hammers and tongs, especially during the rings scene with the weird dagger melting tray thing
Amazing work. :) more blacksmithing to come?
@@chrisjohn6901 thanks! Nah unfortunately not from me since the production left New Zealand, unless they reuse some of the assets from this season
Great stuff my Dude
@@henrywilliams4266 right back at you Mr antler hammer
ayyy the gang's all here
The orcs forging weapons in the original LOTR films was the actual smiths for the films in costume forging actual weapons that would be used in the films
I might be wrong, but I believe that “oil can” could be an older version of a drip torch. Drip torches are typically used in controlled burns, so it’s interesting to see one used to start a charcoal forge here.
That firepot that was used to start the Elves' charcoal fire is similar to what Foresters use to light a back fire. It's filled with some oil and a wick at the spout keeps it going.
I really appreciate the attention to detail here, especially about the background objects and tools. You should review/consider making Feanor's hammer that they show in the show to see if it actually be a good blacksmith's hammer or what you have to do to make it into one.
Feanor's hammer was a jeweler's hammer, not what you'd think of as a blacksmith hammer
@@edwin5419 Ah, that makes sense since it was for making the Silmarils, but it'd still be cool to see one made.
Regarding the whole silver dagger-twisty twisting machine-etc sequence, they're elves. They make magical stuff, they decorate things just to decorate them, and generally overengineer everything.
Except his excitable nature, Alec would fit right in.
Elves basically used magic to light the coals (a.k.a. an accelerant). And the silver and gold blade was used because it was forged in Valinor, where the Valar (basically Greek/Norse-style gods) lived. It was able to be used to make a blade that had any utility at all, because magic.
I mean, “magic did it” is such a cop-out, but in this story of gods, wizards, and beings of power… 🤷♀it’s actually why.
They could have just used jewelry from Valinor, The women all hade necklaces, rings, and bracelets and the making of jewelry was far bigger than weapons.
@@JETWTF I guess in theory, but the point in the story was the Galadriel needed to sacrifice something important (and get some character development by setting aside her quest maybe?). It's a bit of a plot hole, yeah, but I get it.
@@JETWTF As the other person points out… I can only BS post hoc explain things only so far. It’s not like this is anything but the loosest of adaptations of stuff that Tolkien hadn’t himself published.
But the idea of a silver+gold blade being better than steel is a pretty common fantasy trope, and it only works through magic. (The idea being that silver and gold being precious can inherently hold more magic than simple mundane iron.)
@@201bio She wasn't even involved in the making of the rings according to lore. She certainly didn't do combat, she was a mid level aristocrat in Valinor that became royalty in Middle Earth. Being she was born in Valinor she was greater than elves of Middle Earth so she had that atleast.
@@JETWTF Well yeah, it's a high budget fan fiction.
At 2:59 you can see how the first anvil actually tapers down too. It’s only that frame where Alec stopped the video first, that the taper is not visible due to the angle.
Yeah, I think its a pyramid shape, so there is more meat under there but the angle of the camera kinda hides it
@@DarrenPoulson I just commented about that too, you can just spot it in that first clip, for like 2 frames.
I instantly know this will be far more entertaining than the entire run of RoP.
Why didn’t you like it? I thought it was decebt
@@dannydevito5312 because you were not in it
100%
@@DannyBob526 gotta pay the troll toll
@@dannydevito5312 side note, I love that you watch Arlo too
Alec, this show has given you, your next several projects. Would love to see them.
Jamie the MVP for actually watching the show. Couldn’t have been easy
It is SOOOOO bad.
Elf bro #8: "No need to facet the jewels mate. No one will see em."
Celebrimbor: "You know what he's right. Just shove them on the rings and call it a day."
probably done on a Friday afternoon before a long weekend?
The anvil At 3:17 seems to represent what "dishers" (German plattner) used. Some smiths today (especially eastern europe) still dish out armor by hand and occasionally have carbonized tree stumps worked out like that with a middle divet and round edges.
i have been following you since Barker st. You have given me a ton of knowledge. Thank you and God speed. This is amazing.
Been waiting for someone to roast the forging scenes!
Maybe the crucible and the 'oil can' were actually 'magic material' and that final crucible that the 'silver & gold' was in was a magical machine that added heat! Also, loved seeing you call out all of the anvils and period correct comments!
This will literally be the only parts of that show i will watch. Fun video lol
Im so glad Alec did this because when I was watching the show and saw t he dwarf quench red hot i thought to myself "oh man alec is going to have a FIT if he sees this"
Thank goodness I don't have to watch the actual show. You made my day.
😁
I have to admit, when I watched them melt the knife the first time, I thought of how much Alec would “love” this scene lol.
In about 2012(?) I did some work for a movie called 7th Son, they had a real blacksmith come to rehearsals to show actors some techniques. I think the on camera stuff was pretty legit?
The can looks like a drip torch. We used it to set the forest on fire when I was a Wildland firefighter. It's filled with a mixture of unleaded gas and diesel. One makes it set on fire faster, the other makes it burn longer. You dig a fire line, then drip fire onto the forest floor and burn back the forest to meet the rest of the fire.
Good idea Jamie!
My first thought when I watched the epic scene of them making the rings was "I wonder what Alec's reaction to this would be?" 😂
If you take a look at the anvil as the camera is starting to pan away, it does have a thickness to it, but the first camera angle is a bit weird and makes it look like thick plate.
Don't wanna watch rings of power,almost didn't watch but it's Alec so I clicked anyway.
Alec, this is a FANTASY movie and not an blacksmith educational material or a documentary. That's it!
Honestly, not the worst part of Flaming Dumpster Tra- I mean, Rings of Power.
All tools, process and materials are made in "scenarium" and, more specifically, in fantasy scenarium. But Alec's reactions and explainations are priceless.
Very cool to hear all these thoughts! I was curious about what you'd think about the rings being different colors, but alas
Alex, the "oil can" used to light the one forge looks like a stylized version of a drip torch. Here in the states, the wildland firefighters use them to start controlled burns.
thats what i thought (australian here) but i see his point; a single drip of flammable material is enough to light some dry brush, but cold coals take quite a consistent long-lasting heat to catch. but like the sparks in the grinding scene, i can accept tweaking a few things to make them faster or flashier :)
7:33 Alec, that thing looks a lot like a medieval stylized Drip Torch. They are used by wild land firefighters to start controlled burns. I have used one myself helping with controlled burns for brush removal in Texas.
I feel like golden silver is a single fantasy material that can have different surface colors ranging from silver to golden, just like titanium or stainless can be treated to have different colors.
Please make the ladle/ crucible. We need some good old school forging from Alec.
Alec and Jaime forgetting the crucial fact that makes an Elven silver blade feasible: MAGIC, BABY!!!!
Alec, hearing you talk about bellows... Have you seen the bellows build and blacksmithing setup that the Townsends channel put together for their US 18th century frontier homestead project? They've got a bunch of videos of them sourcing and building (with period accurate tools and techniques) their whole setup.
Surely I’m not the only one who wants to see a return to making elaborate blades/tools in multi part series
With how excited you are for the anvils, there’s a pretty interesting orc forge right near the beginning of the first episode. No forging there, but you see the ruined shop.
At 7;30 that's a drip torch
We use those for starting back burns for fire fighting
I would want a Sliver blade for fighting werewolfs that could be possible in their universe.
Irony being what the original owner of that blade died fighting...
A lot of good points, I appreciate how excited he was to see some realistic forging on screen.
I guess he didn't notice how they somehow managed to get two gold rings but also one silver all from a single crucible full of a gold silver alloy 🤣
They also needed "Gold and silver of the highest purity" but they didn't bother to skim the dross off the top of their melty dagger soup before pouring it into their alloying crucible. Nenya, Vilya and Narya all have lots of Gladriel sweat, orc blood and travel dust mixed into their bands I guess.
Jaime, I'm so sorry you had to watch through the whole show to get that montage. Although, I have to say, it was really cool when Guyladrielle jumped off the golden gate bridge to escape magneto and general zod before they could pour the seawater up the mountain into mount kilamanjaru to create flubber. THAT was pure genius storytelling.
Thank you Alec! I do the same thing when I watch a show or movie with my wife, mostly when I know more about the topic then the director.
One of the other hours there on the bench was a farriers hammer used for driving horseshoe nail! Looked great though!
As the camera moves, you can see the square horn does actually have a lot more thickness to it beneath, it's just the ridge and the camera angle making it look so thin.
I'd use this opportunity to request for a brand new, piping hot, straight out the forge Steele vs Stelter. Pretty please?
Only if Alec moves back to the US or Will is moving to the UK. And both is very unlikely.
@@Seelenschmiede maybe film their challenges separately and use the magic of editing
The oil can looking device is actually a us forestry service fire starter they use it in brush burning or to stop forest fires from spreading
Alec having no idea how to pronounce Mithral is so pure, Alec is very much not a nerd. XD
I really enjoyed the use of the green screen. Great work Jamie!
edit: Typo
Dude! This rocks man! I love seeing your reactions to movie stuff! One day, maybe they'll learn to stop quenching things wildly!
@ 1:00 as the camera moves out, you can see the horn of the anvil has triangular girth to it. Not sure how else to describe it lol. But its not thin and flat as initial camera angle would suggest.
My biggest issue with the rings is that they created them before the 16 lesser rings, which makes no sense. Sauron, in the guise of an Elf of extraordinary beauty named Annatar, taught Celebrimbor to make the rings, and the 16 lesser rings given to Men and Dwarves were "essays in the craft". Sauron then split, and Celebrimbor created the 3 Elven rings. They didn't know Annatar was Sauron, though there were suspicions. He didn't know they created the 3 rings until he put on the One, and his plan was then laid bare to the bearers of the 3. While he had no hand in crafting them, they did use his techniques, so they were tied to the fate of the One.
They couldn't use the name Annatar or have him be an Elf, because that's only in the Silmarillion, which they do not have the rights to use. So I can forgive the showrunners for having him be in the guise of a Man. But they really should have done the lesser rings first.
Question time!
1. If they needed silver, and they're nobles, why do they need to use her knife?
2. If the crucible they pour the silver into is hot enough to mix metals then why use the forge? Why not just throw the knife in the crucible?
3. Why are they making mythril at a time when it should've already been in existence?
4. Why does a master smith like Celebrimbor not already know about alloys, a basic of forging?
I have been waiting for this video.
Japanese Katanas are covered in clay and dipped in while it's red hot so the edge of the blade cools faster than the spine producing curves while reinforcing the blade. The More You Know. It's quite common to quench a red-hot katana. That's how they're supposed to be made actually. When making curved or patterned blades you normally use this method of heat treating.
I don't think the silver blade is that much of a problem. In the backstory, the smiths of the Noldor (the group of elves that Galadriel and Elrond are part of) were trained by Aule, the Valar of crafts, and it's reasonable to say that dagger was made by Feanor himself (Galadriel's half-uncle, Celebrimbor's grandfather), the greatest of elven smiths to ever live, so I think he would be able to make a magic blade out of silver.
Considering Galadriel didn't like Feanor, i kind of doubt that.
Should probably watch the episode where they are melting the dagger and creating the rings. The reason for using the spinny pot was to gently alloy the mythril with the other material. The original method of attempting to alloy the metal didn’t work (through pressure) and it exploded the chamber. While this may may. This may or may not have much basis in reality, that was the explanation given in the show.
The final scene with the rings on a “platter”. That platter looks like stone mold with a few sprue on the edges
First video on youtube that says something good about Rings of Power. And Alec take and listen/read the Lord of the Rings books
@7:29 that looks like something they use to set the cane fields on fire in North Queensland with.
helle alec been watching your content for years love the chanel no matter what you are making.i belive the shot where they use and (oil can) type canister, seems they may be trying to emulate a drip torch wich is used by fire fighters to burn a line to try and stop a forest fire by taking away the fuel. i do miss the blade smithing tho just had to say it
Sparks are most likely ferrocerium. Same stuff that use for flintstones. Practically every kind of steel possible makes great sparks with it.
Hey Alex have you ever considered making a forge where you can light it by hitting a striker on top with a hammer to light it? I think you’d come up with a cool and unique design for this idea. Keep up the good work 👍
Pharaoh Tutankahmun had a ceremonial still razor sharp golden dagger in his tomb. It's a thing Alec and pure gold blade and all I'm guessing that was used as reference material here. It looks like they were making an electrum alloy of silver and gold or doing the silver in a seperate melt. Spinning the crucible might be explained by having implements imbeded in the bottom of the crucible for mixing instead of seperating much like modern sauces like ketchup are made. Anyways the vice was a stretch along with the red hot quenching as usual.
We knew this one was coming. As I was watching the show. I wondered what Alec would say?
The anvils barring the huge one at the start we’re all sourced from a French vintage anvils supplier. I bet you know who it was too Alec. ;-)
This will be the most I ever watch of this show.
The oil can looking thing, looks to me like a drip torch used by Wildlands firefighters for controlled burns
drip torch! used by wilderness firefighters for controlled burns. very cool
The horn of the anvil at the beginning of the video is actually not that thin.
You can see this at 1:00 as the camera zooms out.
It just has a squared up top.
alec, si me permites decirlo, si la daga es decorativa puede ser de plata, acá en Colombia tenemos la espada de simón bolívar llamada "la espada del Perú", cuya hoja está hecha de plata además de oro, hecha por un orfebre peruano de la época llamado chungapoma
One note I will make: temperature color on camera can be a little deceiving. More often than not "the camera adds 3 shades" lol
I've been waiting for this
11:00 jewelry, especially gold rings with detail, are typically made in a centerfuge. Maybe they’re trying to get some of that imagery
when i saw the dagger melt like butter i knew you had to see this
8:59
They are saying that the dagger is made from metal that comes from the Elves' home, Valenor. That's why they are melting it down to make rings, because they need this to allow the rings to link to all elves.
I mean that's cool and all but I know I'm not the only one craving to see you make something super sleek, super sexy, over the top, and a truly custom Alec Steele 1 of 1 masterpieces. Even if its something as simple as a badass full size axe. I'm thinking something maybe similar to a Helko Werk splitting maul could be a very nice start..but with an Alec Steele twist applied. Thise axes are simple looking yet also so beautiful and they perform absolutely as well as they look. Obviously has to be a Damascus head, but it would be awesome to see a custom design that you wouldn't normally see. With like a deep coffee etch or something idk hell I basically have one designed I just cant build it bc I'm do broke it almost hurts to think about it. So I'm pretty much guiding you yiesrds building a fully custom axe of your choosing that is actually more like my dream axe that I cant build but want to see cone to life 😂
Legitimately though please do some custom crazy functional weapons again. Watching you make a small single old padlock just feels so wrong when you see your shop and what's capable of being produced. It diesnt have to be knives, we know those get old making over and over. But how about some kind Of BADASS WRECKING BAR/Axe combo with a lot of quirks and features that I'll ker you pick this time
Feels like no-one is mentioning that they made an alloy, cast it 3 times, and one of the castings is a different colour metal to the other two!
That oil can is actually a drip torch
Knew this was coming when I saw the scene in the show XD
I like how the PUREST GOLD AND SILVER made a thick layer of SLAG when melted.
10:10 You're going to tell me Alec has never heard of Mithril?
...mithril. The most famous and classic fantasy Ore? That is like an engineer never having heard of Iron Man.
Making a ladle like that would be a great video
Goldsmith here: I find it strange they had a prue. There’s literally no need for it whatsoever when you’re casting a simple bar, or at least not in that way. In stead, we’d just have a cast with (yes, a funnel shape at the top but also) room to spare so that you simply get a larger bar. The top doesn’t need to be perfect, since it’s pretty mucht such a basic piece of material that literally everything about it will change. A sprue would more be used if they were actually directly casting the rings or something. Then a sprue would be left after casting.
3:33 The Númenóreans are human, too, but they are much more sophisticated as a culture. They originally lived for around 300-400 years, and had many dealings with the elves in their early history. The village you see here is much farther to the east, and the elves tend to settle more in the western regions. Those two places having different tools etc still makes sense, but the reason is a different one.
Love you’re always wearing the Tyler Bell shirts
Drip torch, mostly used for starting controlled burn forest fires. modern ones are a bit different but same premise.
Spinning the molten during casting is standard in alot of metal casting applications. Dental castings use this method to ensure full material through all the sprues.