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Make It Primitive
Germany
Registrace 31. 12. 2019
I experiment with making stuff the primitive way: Only from natural materials that I gather myself, and using only tools made in the same way. As my outdoor workshop I have adopted a small cave in the forest.
Please don't take me for an expert. There are lots of people with far more knowledge and experience on CZcams. I have listed a few of them in my "Featured Channels" for your convenience. Have fun!
Please don't take me for an expert. There are lots of people with far more knowledge and experience on CZcams. I have listed a few of them in my "Featured Channels" for your convenience. Have fun!
Primitive pottery 4: Firing pottery black ⚱️
A shorter video this time, showing an experiment in firing primitive pottery deep black by enclosing it in a container with organic material during the firing. Said container didn't quite work out as planned, so I had to improvise a bit.
0:00 firing the container
0:25 firing a small pot and two bird sculptures black
2:02 success
2:43 outro
The black color is caused by the ceramic absorbing the sooty tar coming from the organic material as it chars in the intense heat. It serves little practical purpose, but it looks really nice on some pieces and was therefore practiced by many neolithic cultures. It can be achieved by different methods, this is just one of them.
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0:00 firing the container
0:25 firing a small pot and two bird sculptures black
2:02 success
2:43 outro
The black color is caused by the ceramic absorbing the sooty tar coming from the organic material as it chars in the intense heat. It serves little practical purpose, but it looks really nice on some pieces and was therefore practiced by many neolithic cultures. It can be achieved by different methods, this is just one of them.
#primitivetechnology #pottery
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Making primitive bark sandals
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As much as I like walking barefoot in nature, it does limit your activities, slows you down, and forces you to keep your eyes on the ground much of the time. Training will mitigate this a bit, but there is a reason why shoes were invented eventually. In this video, I make simple sandals out of willow bark. The idea was originally inspired by Chad Zuber's video on yucca sandals (czcams.com/video...
Making primitive birch pitch from scratch in one day, without pots
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Birch pitch as a primitive hot glue is a much older invention than pottery. So how did people make it before they had pots? In this video, I explore one of the proposed methods of pre-pottery birch tar production. 0:00 Intro 0:14 First attempt: promising, but needs work 3:47 Second attempt: some progress 7:02 Third attempt: almost there 9:08 Fourth attempt: success at last! 10:36: Outro nightin...
Making primitive birch pitch using two pots 🔥
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Birch pitch has been on my to-do-list for a long time - not the simple, ineffective method I tried out on my earlier video, but proper pitch production with reasonable yields. For this, I made two specialized vessels out of clay, fired them and then used them four the double vessel method. 0:00 Intro 0:07 Making the vessels 4:11 Gathering birch bark 5:18 Preparations 6:29 Hand drill fire 7:55 F...
Primitive Basketry 5: Making watertight spruce bark containers 🧺
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When nature gives you fallen spruce trees in spring/summer, it's time to make bark containers. So I put aside the project I was originally working on, harvested some juicy spruce bark and set out to find a way to make watertight (at least medium-term) containers out of it. 0:00 harvesting spruce bark and roots 3:09 folding the box 5:15 making a stabilizing frame out of a willow branch 9:56 wate...
Stone tools 7: Gathering and knapping flint / chert into primitive tools
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There are some sites in my area where one can find chert / hornstein and possibly flint (I still find them hard to differentiate when I only find fragments). In this video, I visit these places, gather some nice pieces and then try out my the knapping skills that I have gleaned from watching flint knapping experts on CZcams, and from trying out their techniques on vacations at the Danish coast ...
Carving spoons and bowls using primitive stone, bone and beaver tooth tools
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The beaver tooth woodworking tools I made on my last video were just begging to be used for spoon carving, and I happily obliged. A freshly fallen birch tree provided the necessary raw material in the form of suitably shaped crotches. And while I was at it, I also harvested a piece of its trunk and carved a wooden bowl out of it. Primitive tools used: - Beaver tooth carving tools (czcams.com/vi...
Bone tools 3: Primitive woodworking tools using beaver teeth 🦴
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Earlier this year, I stumbled upon a recently deceased beaver. Once only the bones were left of the carcass, I collected its sharp teeth and made primitive wood carving tools out of them. In the next video, I will be using them for some wood carving. 0:00 Intro 0:35 The dead beaver 1:28 Gathering the beaver's teeth 2:31 Grinding the teeth into tools 4:19 Making tool handles 5:50 A first test I'...
One week vacation build: Making a stone axe at the beach
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As the year before, I spent a week at the Danish coast in 2021 and used some of this vacation time to work on primitive projects. The first one is this stone axe, made from a rock found at the beach and shaped into a stone axe head by pecking and grinding. 0:29 finding the perfect stone 1:18 creating the rough shape by "pecking" 2:18 grinding 2:50 more pecking and grinding 4:11 making the axe h...
Primitive music 5: Easy DIY flutes and whistles from impatiens stems 🎵
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Usually I only work with materials native to my area, but I couldn't resist trying out some flute / whistle types out of himalayan balsam (impatiens glandulifera, AKA "policeman's helmet", "touch-me-not"), an invasive species that is found abundantly in wet places in our forests. It grows and spreads very fast, often reaching heights of over two meters, with some of the hollow stems wide enough...
Primitive basketry 4: Weaving spruce bark strip baskets 🧺
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In this video, I continue my exploration of the uses of spruce bark. A recent storm has felled a large spruce tree, providing me with fresh bark to be harvested, cut into strips and woven into primitive baskets. I tried two techniques, the first using a dense weave of perpendicular strips, the other with a light, hexagonal weave. The latter is more demanding and the results so far are a bit won...
Primitive basketry 3: Spruce bark containers & axe sheaths 🧺
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Making things out of tree bark has been on my to-do list for a long time, but I had to wait for an opportunity to harvest bark without damaging living trees. I stumbled upon a batch of spruce timbers from trees that were felled due to a spruce beetle infestation. This animal bears the latin name "Ips typographus" (in German: "Buchdrucker" - "book printer"), because it digs tunnels under the bar...
Working on new primitive flutes 🎵
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I'm trying out CZcams's #Shorts format with this preview of my two newest primitive flutes. Over the past months, I have been working steadily to improve my flute building tools and techniques, and to gather a good supply of suitable elderberry branches. I'm not quite done yet with my experiments, but there should be new DIY flute videos in the near future. (Please excuse my very limited flute ...
Bone tools 4: Primitive bone tweezers & tick remover & water drop magnifying lens 🦴
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It's tick season again. Every time come back from a trip through the woods, I bring along a couple of these bloodsuckers, despite using copious amounts of repellent. And they are more than just annoying, they are vectors for many serious tick-borne diseases, such as Lyme disease or TBE. Of course I have good tweezers, tick removers and a magnifying glass at home to deal with this problem. But I...
Bone tools 3: Making a primitive bone adze 🦴
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An adze is similar to an axe, but with a horizontal edge. It's a very useful woodworking tool. I made a primitive adze from yew wood for the handle (like Ötzi's famous copper axe) and a head from a deer metacarpal bone that I had first shaped into a bone chisel on a previous video: czcams.com/video/YyMMyifVfeY/video.html For a first real-life test, I used my new tool to improve one of my earlie...
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Stone tools 6: Primitive cord drill / pump drill with a flint tip 🪨
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Stone tools 6: Primitive cord drill / pump drill with a flint tip 🪨
Primitive basketry 2: Weaving willow baskets 🧺
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Primitive basketry 2: Weaving willow baskets 🧺
Make it Primitive: One year of primitive projects!
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Make it Primitive: One year of primitive projects!
Stone tools 5: Knapping hand axes and other primitive tools from beach flint 🪨
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Stone tools 5: Knapping hand axes and other primitive tools from beach flint 🪨
Make it Primitive: Christmas decorations (straw stars, resin candles) 🎄
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Make it Primitive: Christmas decorations (straw stars, resin candles) 🎄
Bone tools 2: Primitive bone knife, chisel & awl, antler pressure flaker 🦴
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Bone tools 2: Primitive bone knife, chisel & awl, antler pressure flaker 🦴
Primitive music 4: Limestone lithophone 🎵
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Primitive music 4: Limestone lithophone 🎵
Primitive pottery 3: Firing pottery in a camp fire ⚱️
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Primitive pottery 3: Firing pottery in a camp fire ⚱️
Making primitive birch tar glue, the simple way 🔥
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Making primitive birch tar glue, the simple way 🔥
Primitive music 3: Ice age flute that plays two notes at once 🎵
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Primitive music 3: Ice age flute that plays two notes at once 🎵
Primitive basketry 1: Burdock coil basket 🧺
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Primitive basketry 1: Burdock coil basket 🧺
Bone tools 1: Making bone needles and container 🦴
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Bone tools 1: Making bone needles and container 🦴
Stone tools 4: Primitive stone hammer 🪨
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Stone tools 4: Primitive stone hammer 🪨
Stone tools 3: Primitive stone axe progression & comparison 🪨
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Stone tools 3: Primitive stone axe progression & comparison 🪨
Obrigado por ensinar , excelente trabalho. 🇧🇷
This brings back memories when I was a little lad. My father used to make me one from using his pen knife...🤔
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Should fire some of the clay first to use as grog.
Man the experiments on your channel are just awesome.
You are crazy creative.
I wonder if prehistoric people made instruments like this but we never figured that out because to an archeologist they would just look like a random pile of stones. :D
I am currently trying to make birch pitch myself with modern tools and in my last attempt I got nothing while using roughly the same amount of bark as you are. Your video helped me realize that all my potential pitch escaped as gas and simply burned off. Well at least I carved a nice boomerang/throwing stick while waiting for my pitch. :D I assume you do this experiment because of the fact that use of birch pitch predates use of pottery in the archeological record by tens of thousands of years? Very interesting. :)
An amazing and thrilling experiment! I really enjoyed watching how you tackled the challenges and innovated during the primitive pottery firing process. The final result was truly stunning and reflects ancient beauty and craftsmanship techniques. Thank you for sharing this fantastic video! Please continue making more videos, as I'm excited to see more of your adventures and creations.
Cut the nettles. Wait 36 hours. No more stinging when you process it.
FINALLY a channel that does it with hand tools rather than yet another person with a dremel. Very useful for a reenactor like myself 😊
Love the boots
Can you do this with yucca fibers? Wondering how stiff the fibers need to be to be inserted in that tubs to feed into the coil of the basket?
I did a pvc transverse flute... this is more elaborate.
What kind of wood is this
Elderberry
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Does birch tar hold any advantages over pine pitch? Or are they comparable?
Great video, I find it extremely difficult to fold bark without it cracking to make it waterproof. It takes just the right piece of bark. It is a very underrated skill. Thanks for sharing ! I've posted a few bark baskets on my channel as well, but haven't made many waterproof ones. I've subscribed. Have a great day, Steve
I love how smart we are as humans
Great work! Was very impressive and satisfying to watch.
Great video! Im going to try this.
cool video
For someone just getting started, is there a step by step field guide book on making bone tools, what to look for, which bones are better than others, etc, that could be taken out in the field?
Muy bonito trabajo, y una buena idea para mis próximos trabajos.
Interesting. You should try flint pecking stones, they work great and resharpen during use. Pecking with flint is what the old timers also did. Grinding is also faster without the sand, as you just spent energy and friction crushing and rolling the sand to dust. Also when pecking, it is good to put the wristwatch aside ...
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Wow I love the tool you use to keep the fibers together. Gonna make one of those today
This video makes me appreciate all the more what an nativeAmerican went through to make the one I found in a field!! Excellent job!!
Birch tar is called "Russian oil" in Sweden... According to Siberians and Inuits the only way to keep the mosquitos at bay...
Do you still use your bone chisels? Do you know how they compare to stone chisels?
Maybe use a sheet of bark with holes poked in it as a filter or strainer in addition to the twig grid? Under it to catch finer particles. Maybe make it double layer and roll it into a cone, the outer layer as a funnel and the inner layer poked full of holes, kind of a like a coffee filter.
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Very nice 🌹🌹💞
Good job. I would recommend carving the hole for the needle eye earlier and then sanding the needle down to fit the eye. I would think it would be easier without risking breaking the edge of the eye wall
your videos are awesome! Im so glad I found your channel
What's the matter can you speak English
omg those are so cute, i love the crow and owl especially
they turned out to beautiful. great work man. the effort was worth it
will dead birch bark work for this?
Absolutely! It works just as well, but it's a lot easier to harvest (if the wood is already a bit punky and mushy). Plus, you don't have to injure a living tree to obtain it.
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How important is it that the branch be perfectly straight? Is it ok if there is a slight bow to it?
As long as it doesn't prevent you from getting all the pith out, the shape doesn't really matter in my experience.
How should they be cleaned/disinfected as to keep there strength and integrity. Not boiling correct
When I found these bones, they had already been lying around for quite a while, and were picked clean from any remaining tissue. Pieces that I wanted to disinfect I would cook in hot water for a short while, I don't think that would affect stability much.
Can you tell me the uses of the tree bark oil? I know its been used as glue but id like to know its other uses in history. I know it can be used as an insect repelent and a form of medicine but in neolithic times did they discover this or was this found much later?
A paper published in 2019 took a look at a 5700 year-old birch pitch chewing gum from Denmark (so this is pre neolithic). They were able to derive not only the DNA of the woman who chewed it from the material, but her oral microbiome as well. The pathogens she apparently had in her mouth suggest a medical use. (Also, the stuff apparently tastes really disgusting, so it probably wasn't chewed for pleasure.) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6917805/ Apart from this direct evidence, birch pitch had been used since at least 200.000 years. I'm pretty sure its other uses besides glue (especially as a bug repellant) were observed and utilized a very long time ago.
@@MakeItPrimitive thank you so much
My heart dropped when you broke the skull for the antlers!! I would've loved to turn that into a piece of art. I live in Colorado, but the only things I've found are mostly prairie dogs and i do have 2 legs from a deer or something. Thanks for the idea tho, I need to make a bone chisel. What state do u live in?
I live in Germany, and I have a couple more deer skulls in storage that are in a nicer state of preservation, in case I ever want to use one for decoration. :-)
Very interesting technique. I love your videos thank you for sharing
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Personally I’d say both of your handaxes are very impressive and are beyond Habilis technology.
I’d also say It’s nice that you got the luxury to work with flint, as a self taught knapper myself I wish this resource was common where I live. Instead of flint I have lots of experience working with finer grained basalts with some even being comparable to flint if you go to Montana (some specimens even ring like a bell when struck!).
And as a final note if you want to gain more flint knapping knowledge I’d highly recommend watching Will Lord’s videos, he’s been doing it for 50+ years and is a master at his art.
How do I know if there are any human transmitable diseases in my area?
As far as I know, there aren't any around here. But if I lived in a place where there was CWD (Chronic Wasting Disease) in the wild, I would stay well clear of any deer remains.
@MakeItPrimitive ok I will look up if any of that us near me thanks 😊
@MakeItPrimitive so there isn't any of that near me
Seems that your a person who respects nature. Like that you have given the beavers teeth a second life, it is very spiritual.