MASON TOOLS (Part 5) Mike Haduck

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[@rhondaadams4013]

Yes, thank you for the videos. I really enjoy watching how you thoroughly explain masonry. I took my daughter to shop one day and at the entrance to a shoe store were stone columns textured with rock facing. I then thought of you and what you teach through the videos. Thanks!

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Rhonda, I appreciate that, Mike

[@domilion2008]

The best explanation of chisels that I could find on CZcams. Thanks for the info Mike!

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks, Mike

[@dunep6465]

Mike. You're a Godsend to masonry. One of the best lessons I've learned from you is "It's not a big deal". I chuckle every time you say that. I've done enough of it but don't consider myself a mason. I sure love it when the job is done. The old chisels and tools are wonderful and an example of not needing the expensive stuff to get the job done. I Just completed my gate pillars all from native stone that my wife and I found in our area. I don't know how to post a photo to show you, but the idea came from you. God Bless and have a Happy New Year

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks dune. I appreciate hearing that, happy new year, Mike

[@arcee33]

Very good information on chisels, The old timers must of had grips of steel. Thank smart people for modern equipment. LOL

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks arcee, very true, Mike

[@lasaterjames366]

So cool Mike. It is a big deal and if there is a masonry trophy you certainly deserve one! Also the Smithsonian could use some of your old tools. So cool how old timers figured things out and kept it simple.

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Lasater, Mike

[@rickedwards599]

Thanks Mike. You've inspired me to get out of my comfort zone with your series on Portland Cement and Lime Mortars. Have yet to set out on a hard rock construction project but back in the day ,we're similar in age, my dad recycled granite block quarried in the 1930s WPA period of courthouse building. Those blocks acted as foundation for our patio on our sloped property in California.
In subsequent years repurposed as accent pieces in landscape work. Precious moments revisited watching your videos.

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Rick, Yep there were lots of the old stone masons around in those days, it's good to hear that, happy new year, Mike

[@rogercarroll1663]

Mike, thank you for teaching stone tools.

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Roger, Mikey

[@julietphillips1991]

Before watching your video, it is important to come prepared...either a cup of coffee, a snack or both, makes everything so relaxing whilst you learn a thing or two! I just have a few sizes of cold chisels. Why are they called "cold?"

[@MikeHaduck]

Hi Juliet, I don't know, maybe because they are blunt or the colder the harder? Thanks Mike

[@SacredGeometryDecoded]

Thanks Mike , great video and timely for me.
If you are unaware you should look into the Iraivan granite temple in Hawaii, made by traditional masons. They have great videos " Stone Bell Hole Drilling" is one, instead of a star drill they use a soft steel rod to bore a hole in a granite lintel to fix a granite bell. They have lovely granite chains there as well. The team who built it led by a man from a family that still restores the Indian temples built by earlier generations.
"Making A Granite Trough" is also a cool one. I think Wales by memory but the countryside there littered with granite troughs, some for sale on line that are much more finely worked than the one in the video.
My most recent post is on the granite lightouses of the UK and Ireland such as Smeaton's Tower. Polygonal (dovetailed) granite pieces "precisely" fit with those to the side and those above and below. Adding dimensions those ancient polygonal walls never even attempted. All built on reefs that were only available at low tide.
Bosarmund Fortress might also interest you, one of the Baltic Sea fortresses that used polygonal red granite outer walls. Unlike the so called pillowing of the more famous ancient walls there's is more flattened, I presume to make climbing the walls more difficult. The Lindy Biege channel has a great video on it, describing the history and the meaning of " spiking the guns". SPOILER: it was driving a bronze nail into the wee hole they used to fire the guns rather than a giant spike into the muzzle.

[@MikeHaduck]

Hi SGD, I just checked your channel out, very good I wish you a lot of success, keep going, Mike

[@guillermojacques6671]

When they build my pyramid, I want you as project manager. But don't spend the money just yet. Happy New Year Mike.

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Guillermo, lol, happy new year, Mike

[@PJBonoVox]

Seems like patience really is a virtue when it comes to masonry. Not sure I could do that fine detail work without going mad.

[@MikeHaduck]

Hi Phil, it can get to you after a while, I agree, Mike

[@johnhamilton9229]

Wow, what a collection of chisels. Thanks for taking the time to round up and laying out your bounty for us. Great video.

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks John, Mike

[@langmussen3169]

Thank you for taking the time to make this Mike.

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Lang, Mike

[@jmstew642]

I do enjoy learning from you. I have put your ideas to work and have been successful. Thanks for sharing. Joel S,. Baltimore Maryland

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Joel, I appreciate it, Mike,

[@suep4530]

that's interesting! Looked like a lot of hard work doing the old way!!

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Sue, Mike

[@Richard-qs8dn]

How cool to see how they made holes back in the days.
And all the rest.
Happy New Year Sir.
Sincerely,
Richard

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Richard, happy new year, Mike

[@Eman85515]

Thank you Mike 👍🌻

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Eman, Mike

[@BillLowenburg]

Great info, Mike. I was especially glad to learn about point and star chisels. No big deal, just think things through and get it done. Regarding the ancient Egyptians and people believing they had “help:” someday after the human race makes itself extinct, aliens might visit Earth, look at our empty cities and say, “who helped these people? They didn’t appear to have enough brainpower to accomplish this!”

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Bill, happy new year, Mike

[@adelaferreira4575]

Thanks Mike,very illuminating !

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Adela, Mike

[@Traderjoe]

You changed the bumper music from Castle? I like that theme haha

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Joe, something different, Mike

[@mikeholubek4419]

Mike,
Have a Happy New Year and Thank You for all these Videos.

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Mike, happy new year, Mike

[@barrymcclaughry9229]

Beautiful work Mike

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Barry, Mike

[@skyline289]

thank you sir definitely learned a few things again, happy holidays and new year stay safe

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks John, Happy new year, Mike

[@mistervelux]

No messing Mike.... great information!

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Anthony, Mike

[@clintprice2123]

I always look forward to your videos, there is always something to learn and it’s all given in a manner that people can grasp. There is so much satisfaction in creating or fixing something yourself.
Just in case you don’t post again tomorrow, Have a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year!

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Clint, happy new year, Mike

[@T.E.P..]

Always learn so much and you explain so well how things look when it's just been a mystery .... these videos are a joy. Happy New Year Mike ... cheers to you and the ones you love.

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Thor, happy new year also, cheers, Mike

[@krowraven7]

Another good Mike H video..thank you mike ! I learn alot from you.

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Dave, Mike

[@noconsentgiven]

Thanks Mike❤️👍!

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Sh, Mike

[@ebw_servant_of_GOD]

Mike.. Great video... Now with luck you have SAVED MANY HANDS FROM BEING WACKED... By showing what chisels as used for!👍
God Bless Ernie

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Ernie, God bless also and happy new year, Mike

[@ebw_servant_of_GOD]

Happy New Year to you too Mike👍

[@charliebendock9260]

Thank you for your videos, Mike! I first found you about 6 years ago when I was trying to figure out how to mix my own concrete to save a little cash on a house remodel. 3-2-1 no big deal! Recently I've really enjoyed your other masonry videos and your music too. Now I'm looking for some masonry and brick projects to try some of the things you've shown. Keep it up and happy new year from Seattle

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Charlie, I appreciate hearing that, happy new year, Mike

[@anthonywall5227]

Thank you Mike

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Anthony, Mike

[@peaceandfreedomeconomics8984]

Learned a lot from you Mike. I'm tempted to build my own castle. No rebar!

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Common Sense, if I was in my 20s I might be doing that too. Lol, thanks Mike

[@moorelandhouse]

Another timely video! We have started our collection of mason tools. It is going to take years to get to your level. Thanks again for helping out the novices like us who need your expertise to get things done.

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks, happy new year, Mike

[@troyweatherford9874]

Learned a lot from this video, thanks

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Troy, Mike

[@sherrismith6136]

Not fancy but very factual & informative. I liked learning a lot of new information. Thanks!

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Sherri, Mike

[@ouchymytoe]

I haven't looked to see how many share my opinion, but if I didn't look at the video, I would swear that Sam Waterston was teaching me masonry!

[@MikeHaduck]

Hi ouch, usually they say harrison Ford, lol, Mike

[@Brian-Burke]

Limestone seems to be a pleasure to work with compared to some of the other materials. Happy New Year, Mike!

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Brian, happy new year, yep limestone is the most used for carving and building, Mike

[@wayneferree5053]

NICE JOB MIKE

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Wzyne, Mike

[@raymondkarkoff6577]

Nice tutorial very interesting

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Raymond, Mike

[@luisfernando-mm3jt]

Nice work.. Happy new year

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Luis, Happy new year, Mike

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

Nice video Mike, I have a good selection of chisels rarely used these days 👍

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks, yep everything is powered now, happy new year, Mike

[@bricklayersworldwithandy6277]

@@MikeHaduck Same to you Mike 👍

[@paramtrx9558]

"You know how these go, and I told you about the Pyramids" haha Happy New Year Mike! All the best!

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Pata, happy new year also, Mike

[@kjpw147]

Hi mike. I have a bunch of like stone quarries around me. I was going to build with cut blocks but I found out these are all blast quarries so I’m going to try to use irregular stones and mortar. Thanks I have been really enjoying your videos

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks kirk, I am sure you will do fine, Mike

[@paulsimkins3895]

Always wondered why there were so many different kinds of chisels thanks mike

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Paul, Mike

[@TylerNieves-ty7ns]

Mike long time subscriber you truly are a master mason. id love to see a discussion video on your opinions and thoughts on why the trades within masonry become more separated. masons in recent years are specializing in 1 trade only. brick/block, stone, stucco/plaster, flatwork concrete, or concrete walls. But when I started masonry it was always full service doing all trades/skills in residential.

[@MikeHaduck]

Hi Tyler, I am going to do a video on " should I go in my own business " and that's a great question, I would say the environment of all the rules, laws, permits, inspections and limitations placed on business have a lot to do with it, I will have to get into then, thanks for the idea, Mike

[@alforliniteaching5670]

Good show.:-) :-)

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks al, Mike

[@gwaynewilcox2702]

I cut my own bits for hydraulics. But a have the hand tools for small jobs.

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Wayne, happy new year, Mike

[@seanm2818]

Happy New Year, Mike! From Harrisburg (the place were PA's taxdollars go to waste! Haha!)

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Sean, happy new year also, Mike

[@raymondhirst3315]

Great video Mike. Have you considered selling some of your old tools? Hammers, chisels, trowel, etc on eBay or something similar? I would have to have a Mike Haduck autographed trowel.

[@MikeHaduck]

Hi Raymond, I been giving a lot of stuff away, winding down a lot, trowels are either lost or broken though, thanks, Mike

[@anthonypalumbo7883]

Great segment Mike one chisel has an edge on it do you try to sharpen to get edge back on it.

[@MikeHaduck]

Hi Anthony, I guess it depends what I am doing, thanks Mike

[@MM-op6ti]

The Han Solo of masonry.

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks M M, Mike

[@Untheiceman]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks , Mike

[@patrickcooley6849]

Excellent video Mike.
I have a question. On the bigger field stone jobs I've done they normally draw a steady crew of spectators. Something I've heard over and over but have never seen with my own eyes is how back in the day stone masons could visually look at a field rock and know where to hit it to induce the desired break. Such stories come from people who have zero masonry experience. Then they would ask why I couldn't/wouldn't do it.
Ok, once and for all......was this at one time a standard masonry practice?

[@MikeHaduck]

Hi Patrick, most stone. Sandstone, bluestone, even limestone and marble have seams in them, and when they were quarried or even picked off the ground you always look for the seams first and go from there, bur most cathedral carvers look for a solid piece with no seams and chisel away from there, I guess that is my best answer. I do have that series " rock facing and shaping stone, thanks Mike Thanks Mike

[@Traderjoe]

I think the reason why people (myself included) have the feeling that the Egyptians had some kind of help with a lot of what they did was with what the historians say that they used to create the things they created and the precision of certain things. There are perfectly drilled holes in some of the hardest stone on earth, and vessels that are clearly turned on a lathe of some sort with scratch patterns that must have been made by, like you said, something harder than the material being cut. When you look at the stones, they were boring holes into diorite. The only thing harder than it is diamond. I know the Egyptians had time and had skills, but look at some of the stone vessels found. Look at the boxes in the Serapium. So perfectly flat and also made of diorite. The corners meet each other at perfect 90 degrees from top to bottom. These were people just out of the Stone Age. Also, look at the Meidum pyramid. It’s collapsed and you can see the core of it. Look at the walls of the core, it certainly looks like it was manufactured by some type of machine. It’s very interesting. One theory is that the pyramids and a lot of these objects were found by the Egyptians and possibly created by a race of people which existed either before the ice age or during it and had gone extinct. People that might have left africa a hundred thousand years before Homo sapiens.

[@MM-op6ti]

It’s certainly possible, anatomically modern humans have been around for ~250,000 years. That’s enough time to go from the agricultural revolution to the modern era over 20 times! From what I learned in my bio anthropology class the ancient past was a lot more like middle earth, with several human-like species existing at the same time until humans “won”. So who knows! Could’ve been made by Neanderthals who had larger brains than us and came to be over 200,000 years before the first humans. Crazy stuff huh.

[@MikeHaduck]

I know the Egyptians had diamonds, I can't see why they couldn't embed them in copper and use them for saws or drills thanks Mike

[@Traderjoe]

@@MM-op6ti when I saw the Meudun pyramid, it’s core really surprised me how it almost looks like poured concrete. The usual paradigm is that we started pouring out of Africa near the latter part of the last ice age. But there was an event called the Younger Dryas that sent the planet back deeper into the ice age again. If there was a different species of hominid that was more advanced than we were in the 1800’s equivalent that died out during the Younger Dryas, the people who became the Egyptians may have found their pyramids and megaliths and just moved into these vacant cities and we all assumed that they were the builders. Who knows?

[@TheVcasf]

I appreciate all you videos and your honesty.
I have to ask, why do you dismiss the skeptics so fast regarding the pyramids. They don't focus on limestone shaping. they have a long list of issues to consider. ie, the marble and granite boxes with mirror finish and perfect corners. Not to mention how they were positioned there. or the larger obelisk in the world with scoop marks beneath it. awkward position to be using stone chisels. or the exploration holes that a human can barely stand in, let alone work the stone. I have to add that you're working with iron, which they didn't have at the time. Try working granite with copper chisels. or with another piece of granite.

[@MikeHaduck]

Hi, I did a video called " carving stones with ancient technology " not a big deal just time and effort, and all those pieces is not as perfect as they think, I think the cathedrals are much more impressive, thanks Mike

[@TheVcasf]

@@MikeHaduck Thanks for the reply Mike.

[@TheVcasf]

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[@Chris.Davies]

I'm so sorry to have to tell you this, Mike, but working stone is impossible.
🤣

[@MikeHaduck]

Thanks Chris, sometimes I feel the same way, lol, Mike

[@domilion2008]

Could you please make a video about splitting paving stone and removing part of it. There is not much information on CZcams about it.

[@MikeHaduck]

Hi, I have a playlist called paver installation and another paver repair, Mike haduck mostly today they saw them, thanks mike

[@domilion2008]

@@MikeHaduck Thank you Mike!

[@fordguyfordguy]

MIke is the file some kind of bastard file or a wood rasp? Does it wear prety hard when you use it on stone? thank you.

[@MikeHaduck]

Hi Andrew, there are companies that make those tools, my friend wayne ferree. Has some videos on thar, but the harder the stone the sooner they wear out, thanks, Mike

[@JoeSmith-sj4uz]

Mike, where can someone get a decent set of chisels that aren't very expensive?

[@MikeHaduck]

Hi Joe, I found a lot of good chisels at flee markets, or I have a amazon site with some or just look up stone chisels on internet, thanks Mike

[@rom14141]

When I tell someone to "go pound salt" which tool should they use? 😉

[@MikeHaduck]

Hi Brian, don't know, but I do know that the Roman soldiers were paid in salt, that's where the saying " you ain't worth your salt" came from, lol, Mike

[@PWN_Nation]

Happy New Year, Haduck family!
Mike, what's your thoughts? Do bricks secretly WANT to be arches? czcams.com/video/zT7lLgKqInI/video.html

[@MikeHaduck]

Hi PWN, happy new year, maybe bricks have a mind of their own, lol, Mike