If you haven't seen any of his videos,You should check them out.. He doesn't say anything but watching him build everything from stone axes to tiles for his mud hut can be memorizing. I guess he's leaving the stone age and ready to enter into the bronze age... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVV4xeWBIxE

 

Drat,  you beat me to it.     Really neat stuff this guy does, and this may just about the best yet.

 

Not the bronze age, the iron age as in a bloomery kiln.     Video was posted 11 hours ago and already has 840,000 hits.

This guy clearly has way too much free time. He should go find a fat girl and make a bigger door in the mud hut for her and start a family.

I found it funny that he was trying to reproduce a modern blower than the appropriate to the tech level bellows that would actually have worked better.

I stumbled on to this video by accident, if someone has already posted it I apologize.  If not i am sure you will find it interesting. 

 

thanks

Darrell 

 

Yeah, it's been posted at least 6 times in the last couple days now. I like the guy, his videos are pretty darned cool.

Frosty The Lucky.

read the write up over at youtube he's not aware of a double lunged bellows with no pause in blowing.  Or that twin single acting bellows have no pause either.  Needs to do more research.

I guess googling bellows designs isn't sufficiently primitive.

He learned a lot of this stuff in college.

Frosty The Lucky.

Seeing the shape he made his blower I knew he has seen some cast iron ones before.

Even still, though its not simpler, might be a good excercize for new blacksmiths who need things "the real way"..

Been having a discussion with another smith lately trying to get him to realizes that his "traditional Smithing"  only applies to about 40 years in a limited area of 1 country and there is about 2000 years more "traditional Smithing" from all over the world as well.  Like If you are doing "traditional smithing" and you are the only person working in the shop---it isn't!