Etching Top Shells To Reveal Their Pearly Beauty
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- I picked up some empty seashells at the beach - let's try to make them really shine!
These are Thick Top Shells (Phorcus lineatus) I think - common on the beaches near me, and they have a beautiful layer of pearly nacre that is hidden beneath a banded outer layer - the aim in this video is to try to remove that outer layer to reveal the shiny stuff.
What can I say - Unscripted fluent relaxed not over enthusiastic. So easy to listen to. You can't get better. Even if the subject isn't quite my thing I will have a listen and will often keep on watching. No wonder you continue to increase the number of subscribers. You may not get vast numbers of viewings on some subjects yet you carry on regardless because you are doing your own thiing whether people like it or not!!!
Agreed. This was a very good video, and it was quite relaxing
He could easily be a voice actor.
Not gonna leave a huge speech, but im just going to say this is a channel I watch to feel better. Dare i say it's one of my favorite "happy" things I do with my day is watch this channel. Greetings from Germany.
Me too man! This channel is great
lol your username. this channel is great.
The sanding shines better.
A combination of both might be the best approach. Use the vinegar to remove shell where the sanding can't reach, then polish it up with really fine sandpaper.
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Me:confused screaming
@@jamilkamaly8452 Babatunde gets early access to the videos due to how often Shrimp and he collaborate. ;)
Ma'am, could I speak with your husband? No, he's in the basement sanding his shells.
He sands snail shells by the sea shore.
Love the videos! This was fun!
@Seaworth His wife, Jenny, seems quite lovely from what I've "seen". I know they have a least one child. He keeps busy. That's wonderful!! And he's only recently retired. He's quite amiable so I'm sure they have a great relationship. Sometimes I just want my husband to leave me alone for a minute!!!
@@dawnmagee3354 it’s okay to say seen, she does appear in some of the dog walking videos as well as being the voice of the head food tester 😊👍
@Dawn Magee Sir, could I speak with your Wife? No, she's in the basement watching videos of a man sanding his shells.
Sorry, Dawn, I just had to do it.
@@rovcanada1 no worries! Lol
The thing about enjoying things as if they were your last experience of it as well as the noise perspective in this video are the two most profound and useful thought exercises I've ever of heard in my life. I'd love to see more like these, and being hit by that unexpectedly makes it even better.
Love your stuff man, never seen anything like it. Baited by the scam baiting and stayed for the weirdly different vibes your videos bring me. Thank you.
Thank you. I did wonder how well received it might be if I talked more about the wellbeing stuff, but I figured there's no difference really between telling people how much I enjoy, say, wild mushrooms, vs sharing with people how I try to enjoy life in a more general sense
refreshing isn't it?
@@AtomicShrimp AS, you give moments of calm and sanity. Thank you :-)
I think the current format is interesting as it is, nuggets of wisdom embedded in an odd activity that is really hard to come across. That's precisely why I keep watching, your activities are so different and unrelated that I'm surprised every time. Keep doing what you're doing already is what I meant.
I would have never imagined watching a man sanding Shells. I wouldn't mind even if it was you simply sanding shells for an hour or two.
One person's industrial oil refinery, with noisy go-carts, is another person's tranquil meditative retreat. Nice idea to listen to your inner peace, and separate yourself from the outside noise/bustle.
I had a friend once who got a sense of peace from industrial settings at night when everything was shut down. He said it felt like a secret that was only his, despite the chaos that was present during the day.
Not sure how relevant that is. Guess I just wanted to share.
not sure if it's the same thing, but i always loved public indoor spaces at night shut down. it feels cozy to me. Example: schools, offices, and such
@@AlienZizi I get a similar feeling. When I'm at work and it's oddly dark (like in the morning a week before daylight savings or if it's particularly overcast and there's very little light coming in the windows) I get the same feeling I got as a kid at school open-houses. I don't know if that's quite what you were talking about but I feel like it's in a similar vein.
That moment after you open the vinegar it realy looks like you were about to say 'lets have a sniff'.
Thanks for sharing all this and being you.
I'm truly proud of this community
I concur
We are pretty awesome now that you mention it.
The variety of content that your channel offers is really impressive, especially when you do things like wax poetic while sanding a blinkin' shell. This was fun lol
A lovely little video about one of natures beautiful little gems. This channel is like an encyclopedia of every day randomness... and I love it.
I've double sided taped abrasive to my finger in the past when doing similar stuff. The tactile feedback is most satisfying.
I love the new board too ❤️
@@nonsensicalhumanoid Every. Time. It's not hard to work out. There's private access before publishing
@MasonFreelove He is friends with Atomic Shrimp and he gets to see the video before publication.
@@swanningabout But he doesn't have a patron
@@nonsensicalhumanoid hes his friend
Hi Babatunte
I adore all your videos... You have strong Bob Ross vibes and I adore it
Bob Ross has been quite an inspiration to me. I have said before and still believe it: if you watch Bob Ross and don't want to be a bit more like him, you weren't really watching
Im literally binge watching your videos this weekend! A good way to start the day 😊👏👏👏
you won't be disappointed - never seen an AS video that i don't love
The new board made me chuckle, also this is some great content, very interesting!
its amazing what beauty is under the surface of seemingly dull things
This guy has the modt relaxing voice, just by him teaching makes me want to listen more.
I love how diverse this channel is. Scamming, cooking, seashells... Keep it up ☺️
I grew up next to a busy trainline. When the express trains flew past the floor would rumble and the walls would shake. As a result, I learned to tune noises out and literally not hear them when I want to. I can sleep through anything. When I wake up, for the first five seconds or so I'm in total silence, until my brain turns the noise back on again. It's quite something what the brain can do in search of tranquility.
I've experienced the same thing: While I was growing up, my family moved from big-city Edmonton to a much smaller town to be near some relatives, for a year. While we were waiting for a new house that was being built to be finished, we were renting an old house... less than a block from the tracks. Trains came by a couple of times a day, and there was one that came regularly about two or three am. At first we'd wake up, then go back to sleep when it was gone. Then we'd wake up, "yup, there's the train" and be falling asleep *before* the last of it was gone. Then we learned to sleep right through it.
Then one night I woke up, and heard nothing but silence - not so much as a cricket. I checked the clock on the dresser: "3 am. Wheres the train? It should be here now." I woke up... ...because of the silence, when the train was late for some reason 😁.
You can get so used to something that you just tune it out... and then be disturbed because you miss it when it's gone.
@@LindaGailLamb.0808 Thanks Linda, that's interesting!
Do you think your brain was tuning out the noise when you didn't even hear a cricket? That's what I used to notice, my brain developed a 'world master volume' dial, and I could dial it right down, and sometimes I forgot to dial it back up again prior to waking :)
ps. I never had the trains NOT come lol, they came every half hour and we were right by the station where they stopped too.
I have loads of those glass ramakens from the GÜ cheescakes at lidl, too.
Your videos never fail to entertain me, the variety, and how you go straight to the point is what makes your channel a lot of fun!
I used to watch some of your more popular videos in the past, and after getting a recommendation for the pudding for 1 pound I just started binge watching your videos.
Really love what you do! the randomness of the videos is great :D
I honestly love your varied content. It's always such a great surprise to see what you make a video about each upload. So glad I found your channel
I remember si finds making a button out of oyster shell. Love this video. Thanks👍
Finding beauty in things is a beautiful thing by its own. Be it the industrial shore or the seashells.
Great video 👍
There's a thing I do that reminds me of this channel: looking up. I try to just look up from time to time in my daily activities. It's astounding what kinds of beautiful sights you can see just looking up. Supermarket ceilings, clouds, light filtering through tree canopies, tall buildings etc.. It's something that brings me joy. I hope the fact that it reminds me of your channel brings you joy. Now go look up!
Love the idea of this experiment and the talk about being able to go out and find your own place to relax and be one with nature! As expected, your voice always seems so soothing to me. It’s nice to feel calmed in times as crazy as these. Sending you best wishes from America ❤️
PS: I like the shirt you chose for the video, very colorful
i want to do this and then varnish them and make them into earrings!
love your videos - they really help me on days when i’m feeling particularly anxious and lonely. thank you for making content and being you! :)
I highly enjoy the message boards in your videos. Thanks for the chuckle.
The rhythm to your videos is very relaxing. Very enjoyable subject matter too, much appreciated.
That was fun. Reminds me of a pair of earrings my mom had, from Hawaii. Same shape but somehow looked more like stone when polished.
That is the t- short to end all t-shirts!
Thanks for the fun again. 😁👍✌️🐚
Loved the section about inner peace and calm amidst the chaos. Would love to share that section with others! Seems like a needed message right now.
I love your posts . Very interesting all the things you do . I like the little board comments too . Thank you for being a small oasis in these crazy times .
hmmmm,,,, i have an experiment of my own to do now. i have a bunch of broken and now very exciting shells to play with... and i'm a pysanky artist. one of the things i often do is use beeswax resist (drawn on with a kistka) and vinegar to etch away eggshell and leave a raised design. now i want to try it on shells and see if i can expose some mother of pearl under a lacework design of outer shell. very exciting!
I really wanna see it when its done .. where do you upload your work?
I really wanna see it when its done .. where do you upload your work?
I understand what you mean. I was raised in my formative years in "the country" where background noise was wind through the fields, birdcalls and on special occasions, thunder. I lost that by the time I was 8 and we moved to the city, but I've managed to find tranquility with long walks through the city. My favourite times are when there's a cool mist or drizzle in the autumn. For some inexplicable reason I like a stroll during a cool drizzle on a grey day. One of the reasons I like your channel so much is this return to my childhood tranquility.
And the scambaiting is fun too. I got interested in scammers since I learned of "The Nigerian Letter" in a newspaper article I'd read back in the late '80s. Soon after I read the article my dad received one and he didn't know what to make of it until I told him what I'd read. Not long after that I was getting them myself via internet. I still have that letter as an historical keepsake.
I remember my Mum had a jewellery box or a trinket box with the same silvery pearlescent shells on it. I’d completely forgotten about it, so thanks for the memory :)
Completely agree with your point about how watching busyness can calm you down. Case in point: watching someone eagerly working on sea shells while you relax on the couch yourself. 1 hour shell sanding video _when_ ? ;-)
I like your content, youve got all sorts random.....um.....stuff!!! Seems like you're interested in everything......my dads like that.....everything is interesting to him. Keep up the good work.
Why am I even saying that, like if I didnt say keep up the good work youd stop creating good content lol.
There is something very spiritual in what you are saying about finding calm amongst the noise and about something beautiful waiting to be exposed in the shells.
Now I'm rummaging through drawers looking for shells to sand! Loved this video, and the verbose letterboard.
I do find your side board very fun, you have an interesting and clever sense of humour. Love your videos, thanks ever so much, keep up the awesome work. Greetings from Canada 😊👍
Love the sea ! So calming ! Winchelsea beach at about 9pm just before Christmas was amazing when you dipped down past the initial ridge of pebbles the wind noise stopped and it was just the moonlight sea and distant boats bobbing along ! Really nice to go appreciate somewhere like that ! Especially in these horrible times
I appreciate the variety you have on your channel, it may be niche content, but it sure is interesting and fun to watch just about anything you post.
Having seen Brandon's comment on the well being topics, I wanted to add my couple cents to it. I'd meant to say this while you were sharing how you enjoy your beer, but it seems even better here.
I thoroughly enjoy you discussing your tips on how to be more tranquil and mindful.
One, because they don't come across as some self-help guru trying to make a buck. "10 easy steps to be a better person, just give me your money."
Two, because while it's the same information that can be found in a book on meditation, you say it like a layman. No jargon, no references to previous topics that make a listener feel they've skipped a step, nor like it's some new age mystical.
Three, (and this is the big one), you're sharing with us how YOU do it, not telling anyone how THEY should do it.
So, please, keep sharing your advice and philosophies and thinking.
Thanks - yeah - some of this stuff I have learned from others who were explicitly teaching it; other bits I just sort of discovered for myself (although I'm sure none of it is especially novel). I just sort of recently realised that I've been talking for quite a long time about how I like to enjoy, say, mushrooms, but not so much about how I like to enjoy living, thinking and being.
Now I'm regretting not getting any shells the last time I went out to the beach
I love all thies random videos you make, even nore than your scam baits thst made me subscribe.
Keep it up!
Good morning shrimpy.
Only just got notified, so am late...clicked like and am writing this before I watch.
Please accept my apologies for well, pouring my heart out and sharing rather a lot to, erm, well whomever actually may have read that comment a couple of videos back.
I shouldn't share online and at my age? I should know better love.
right, now going to watch video. x
Hey Mike, a useful tip I learned during my time working in the electroplating industry… If you heat up a solution it speeds up the rate of reaction, meaning warm vinegar would have cleaned up your shells quicker, although you don’t come across as a man in any hurry, just thought I’d share the tip.
When I moved from the permian basin to east texas, which is far more densely populated, I found it a bit frustrating to wander around in the boonies and find that people were everywhere. And then I moved to Dallas......and eventually decided that nature means what is natural and even if humans made it, we are natural, ( I mean we're not invaders from Dimension X.... are we? ) so find the beauty. Mental attitude counts for a lot.
nature and natural means not made by man, a car is not nature even though it is made from things in nature, because wind. water and time did not make them
@@robchissy Is a beaver's lodge not natural because it was made by a beaver? A honeycomb not natural because it was made by a Bee? We are organisms too. A being of superior intelligence would probably regard our cities the way we regard termite mounds.
Ah that's so lovely! Something to do with my grandchildren. Art and science lesson in one...and a field trip to the Swansea bay....They've been learning more since schools are shutting!
I often find the hustle and bustle of a busy city centre to be a surprisingly tranquil space rather than the vast openness of the countryside. If you can detach yourself from the surroundings and become a passive observer and watch people rushing hither and tither with purpose, the sheer sense of connectedness to other people you get as you hear sirens wailing imagining that could be a new person coming in to the planet or the last journey of someone who has seen it all, it can be a disarmingly relaxing situation. Certainly better than travelling miles & miles from civilisation where there's nothing but trees and grass to look at nothing to keep you entertained but the nagging thought that you might break your leg and be unable to get back to the car, be snacked on by wild animals as you lay there slowly starving to death and your remains not be found for months, if ever. Also you might not be able to find a cashpoint when you need one.
Just wholesome man. Your channel has a little bit of everything love it been a fan for years don't ever stop
So chilled content for the end of a busy week!
Found your channel today by an accidental click! Love your delivery and slightly upbeat common/practical sense attitude I shall certainly be looking for topshells the next time my family and myself are out on the Solent shore
Sanding shells obviously takes time and patience... one of which, too many people have too little of. But, with more time to spare lately, maybe people can relearn patience 😉. We can hope.
Love the beach footage; especially some of the shots with the sky and the light on the water 😁.
Hey Manuel, You weren’t kidding when you said your channel is not one category.. 🤣🤣
That was so cool! I think you really hit the nail on the head, about these being so non-descript, yet beautiful on the "inside" as it were. I live a stone's throw from the beach, and this is one of those perfect craft experiments during Covid. Thanks for the vid!
Keep up the fine selection and variety of videos always a pleasure to watch 👍 , nearly at 600 thousand subs 😃
Random stuff at random times. ;-) I still love this channel so much :-)
Lots of times when I'm actively searching for tranquility I want to get rid of as many human noise as possible, yet that also results in more sensitivity on that topic, resulting in restlessness and agitation. Yet on the best, most balanced and truly tranquil moments everything has a place, at least right there and right then. I can certainly enjoy myself on a industrial kind of beach with some people around, especially when I know I'm going there with purpose. But not every day, for sure.
Please find my comment somewhere here. I've never met another person who refers to noise as an irritation. I'm not alone thankfully.
@Tech Gorilla Oh we are not alone my friend. We can only wish we could be ;)
Seriously though, lots of people are sensitive towards certain sounds and I'm think I'm also one of them to a certain extent. To me it's mostly association and sociophobia I guess. I hate people being everywhere, always, all the time and crowding both nature and me. I live in the Netherlands, and that's just a tiny, crowded country when it comes to being alone in nature. I try to disconnect but I get reminded almost every second of other humans by barking dogs, shouting children or even just calmy talking people or knowing anyone else but me is nearby. It's frustrating, but a lot of it is also me being easily agitated by that kind of stuff. On the worst days I just get tired, overstimulated and have to get inside again.
But then there are those other days when everything is very tolerable for some unknown reason. Those are the days I try cherish to the fullest. I can't really seem to actively seek it out. It just happens when it does.
@@ahandsomefridge I could not have described me any better if I tried. That is precise. Some days, it's pleasant as punch, and others feel like an assault on my soul. Though even a string of good days can become tiring and require recuperation.
I have a vacation house at the Jersey shore directly between the beach and the bay. I like to go down in the winter when it's empty and just walk around; it's quite peaceful and relaxing compared to the bustle of the summertime. I also have a ton of shells I've picked up. Going to try this. Nice video +1
Just love all the tranquility of this whole video. 😀
I wish your other content was as popular as your scam baiting vids, this vid is informative and great.
they're beautiful! there's something so theraputic about taking something dirty and spending a lot of time to make it look nice, i'm into coin collecting, specifically commerative 50p coins, and whenever i find a circulation coin that i haven't collected yet i always get a toothbrush and soap and give it a good scrub for 5 minutes and spend a lot of time to make it perfectly clean and strip all the oil and dirt off
i like the board on the right, really ties the room together
I never know what I’m gonna get with this channel, I love it
I loved the video was super fun, and very calming too.
Please keep doing the content like this, it's just all so relaxing and intresting.
I haven't even watched yet and I'm this will be a satisfying video lol
Thanks for the video! I have said so before, but I really love that you care for all life, even the tiniest things inside a shell! I wish more people were like that - especially the salmon farmers, who, in our fjord have killed almost all shells, shrimps, small fish with all their chemicals - to the extent that the sea birds are gone, they find no more food. It is heartbreaking and the salmon they produce is not fit for human consumption. Please, everybody, join me in the pledge to ban salmon!
I wish I was as creative and cool as you, really know how to get the most out of life
I wonder if you could use some sort of a buffing compound with a sponge or cotton swab instead of the sandpaper? Or after sanding, to polish it.
What’s great channel this is! I’ve been bingeing weird stuff in a can!
I wouldn't use hydrochloric acid for this unless you make it extremely dilute, because it reacts incredibly fast with all forms of calcium carbonate, so it's easy to go much further than you want to when taking layers off. I would recommend using citric acid instead, for several reasons: First, it's cheap, since you can buy it as kettle descaler, a purpose for which it works brilliantly. Second, it's non-toxic and won't damage your skin or eyes (though it will of course sting like an angry wasp if it finds a cut anywhere) if splashed or spilled, so is safe to use.
Also, you can make a far more concentrated (and therefore more acidic) solution of it than you can get with vinegar, since it comes as a solid and can be dissolved at more than 50% by weight in water (vinegar is typically 5% acetic acid), though up to 80% by weight in boiling water. Which leads onto another advantage - you can heat up a solution of citric acid (of any concentration) without acrid fumes coming off, which is something you definitely don't want to do with hydrochloric acid and isn't a particularly pleasant experience even with vinegar.
Finally, citrate ions have a chelating effect with calcium ions, which helps to accelerate the reaction of the citric acid with calcium carbonate. The product of the reaction (calcium citrate) has an auto-buffering effect (weak acid plus it's salt both in solution at the same time = pH buffer), which limits the acidity. Also, the solubility of the product is far lower than the acid itself (around 1 gram per litre), which tends to slow the reaction down over time, ensuring that you can't go too far even if you left a shell sitting in the acid solution overnight.
I watch so many chemistry channels, and now you are doing this? Pretty cool
Rock/mineral searching would fit into you last uploads scheme. Thanks for the videos :)
He's mentioned that he has a rather good metal detector so perhaps that type of content is coming soon!
Fascinating stuff. Would love to try this myself some time, whenever I can next get to the beach.
By the way, your camera quality has improved! Are you usung DSLR? Just curious...
Still just a smartphone (and other assorted consumer stuff for the other angles) - I guess I have just learned how to control it a bit better
Mike I live not far from a huge port by the sea, but love to go down to the viewpoint there and lisyen to the sea, I find it relaxing
RE Sounds and noises - I happen to be odd (and probably on a spectrum of some sort,) but noises and sounds drive me up a wall. For instance - a barking dog in the distance would shatter my well being if it kept up. Extraneous noises often leave me in an agitated state. I once slept in an apartment where the neighbor upstairs had an oxygen generator that ran all night with a low-frequency vibration without any regularity. After several weeks of trying to work with the management and the tenant to place a sound barrier (at my expense) under the oxygen unit, we finally had to move. I mention regularity because once I am able to identify and pinpoint a sound, it somehow lessens my irritation.
Others, when finding out about this, often laugh at me and tell me to "tune it out" not understanding that if it was THAT EASY, I would have done it long ago. It's kind of an example of what that chap was on about in one of your videos. Where he said that the phrase "If I can do it, so can you." was somehow non-productive to some. I think I understand what he meant now upon great introspection. I'm a strange bird, so I am. It's part of the reason I find this content and you personally so refreshing and calming.
I will attempt to use your logic and strategy when dealing with my deficiencies in the future.
My favourites by a huge huge load are the scam baiting, but I dig the fact you do all sorts of shit. Awesome man.
I love reading what is on that board.
You sir are the true gem
I see what you did there...
If that's Netley/Hamble kind of area (that looks like Fawley to me), you can find some amazing oyster shells buried in the sands too!
By the way, really enjoyed your reflection on inner quietness.
After the course sand, sand with a finer paper, then tumble with a polishing compound. It makes them turn out beautifully.
To me noise is peace. I have really bad tinnitus, without noise to distract me all I can hear is a loud ring that's constant and never stops. So the businesses and commotion is more peaceful to me then a quiet space
Just found out I wasn't subscribed to you, whoops. I've since fixed that. Your videos bring such peace to my days.
Looks like great fun! Save some time/energy by using disposable manicure emery boards for your sanding!
Very interesting!! I wish I had some shells to try it with.
Another fab video... love the board BTW lol
One thing about sea shells is that you can make quick lime and then limewater. Strange enough, there are several desserts in Thai cuisine that use limewater. They usually use freshwater shells because they are more available, as one can get those from nearby canals or rivers. I wonder if these sea shells can be used in the same way. I guess that chemical composition should not be that different from freshwater shells.
Those small glass containers from Gu desserts are handy. Good to see someone else finding an effective use for one.
I think a nail buffing block would work very well, especially the ones that have different abrasions on different sides.
Just subbed. Find your videos relaxing. Keep up the good work!
i use to find those shells all the time and collect them when they were pearlescent looking
You in the UK may also be able to find citric acid in the shops. It can be mixed to a higher concentration than acetic acid (vinegar) Also, rinsing with water doesn't destroy the acid, it only dilutes it. A teaspoon of sodium bicarb in the rinse water will neutralize the acid properly.
If this is overstepping by bringing this up in your comments, I am truly sorry, and I would feel no offense if you decide to delete this, but I just want to deeply and profoundly thank you for this video. I speak for all decent people in America when I say that your videos are exactly what I need to overcome the recent terrorism. You are making me smile again. Thank you.
Also, if there are responses to this comment that become evil, I will delete this comment myself if you don't first.
Congrats on 600k 🎉🥳
Very interesting. I live in Fareham and I quite often go down to Hillhead at low tide where you can often find fossilised shark teeth.
You're dangerously close to 600K subscribers, mate. I'm excited.