PickVidsBest Woodworking, metalworking & workshop skills Videos
The 34 Woodworking, metalworking & workshop skills videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 5 intermediate, 26 for a general viewer, and 1 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Clickspring, Primitive Technology, LockPickingLawyer.
The Antikythera Mechanism Episode 9 - Making The Epicyclic Pin and Slot Gearing
Clickspring makes the pin-and-slot epicyclic gearing of the Antikythera Mechanism, the module modelling the Moon's variable motion in the Greek theory, by hand.
How the pantorouter works
Matthias Wandel shows how his pantorouter, a template router machine, works.
Primitive Technology: Stone Axe (celt)
The Primitive Technology channel shows the making of a stone axe (celt) using only primitive tools and materials, from shaping and polishing a basalt head to making the wooden handle and hafting it.
[756] Sentry Safe Cut in Half FAST!
LockPickingLawyer shows a Sentry fire safe being cut in half with a saw in a few minutes.
10 Bullets, #8: "ALWAYS BE KNOLLING". By Tom Sachs
A one-minute clip from Tom Sachs's Ten Bullets series on the rule "Always Be Knolling", which means constantly arranging and putting away unused objects.
IBM Computing Cheese Cutter [Restoration]
A 47-minute restoration of a 1920s IBM computing cheese cutter, a machine with parts patented between 1901 and 1907.
Railroad thermite welding
A short video of railroad workers in Storfors, Sweden, using thermite to weld rail sections together.
World's Second Best Speakers!
Tech Ingredients builds a pair of large Voigt speakers and explains ported, transmission line and horn designs.
Marble adding machine
Matthias Wandel shows his wooden machine that adds binary numbers using marbles.
[1422] Did I Cheat On This Challenge? (Tamper-Sealed Abus)
LockPickingLawyer examines a challenge involving a tamper-sealed Abus lock and shows how the tamper seal can be defeated.