Using Charcoal, Salt & Iron To Make Files, Reamers & Saws

Yes! Whatever happened to the paper you were doing? Did I miss something?

I love how this is not simply about the reconstruction of the Mechanism itself, but also a deep dive into the fabrication of the tools that were needed to build it in the first place.

Do me a favour folks, and share this one far and wide - Thanks for watching!

Dropped everything the moment I saw a new Antikythera Mechanism video.

"giving tremendous authority over the material to whoever is driving the file" this man has such a way with words that keeps the narration extra interesting. great video!!!!

Seven and a half years in working on this masterpiece of ancient (and contemporary) technology. Not only reproducing this long lost knowledge but also reimagining all the necessary tools that were needed to build the mechanism itself. Chris, what you have achieved is more than any other craftsman and youtuber could ever think of. Just amazing

Happy to see there's a new video in this series, it's by far my favorite content on youtube. Thank you Chris.

I honestly hope some university awards you an honorary PhD for your work in this Chris. The attention to detail, and depth of work going into understand and recreation a lost piece of ancient technology along with the processes and tools used to make it are beyond what many researchers do for their thesis

Always a good day when there's a longform Clickspring video

This is one of my absolutely favorite series. Watching someone rebuild manufacturing techniques from scratch while making an incredibly complex machine of unknown origin is endlessly fascinating. I love it~

I came 7 years ago for the Antikythera mechanism, I stayed for the tools making and all the history around. Great video chris !

4:50 I have never seen a file so sharp that it leaves such tiny beautiful swarf as that

You know what’s crazy? When he started the antikythera mechanism build, I was single. As of this video, I am happily married with a dog. This series, including these fragment videos, have been with me for a lot of life experiences and hopefully will remain for many more. These videos will forever hold a place in my life.

The attention to details like how they would've build this. What tools, and things like that, elevates this series. Like... if you just used your modern tools and made a replica, it was already going to be fantastic. But the historical take, about tools, procedures, and trying to understand the quirkies of the design and asking yourself why it's like this. Makes this a master piece. Diffidently a Magum Opus.

As a modern day career machinist, your seires is beyond humbling. Getting a glimpse of the ways precision mechanical component's might have been manufactured in antiquity is so enlightenting. There is a saying among machinists, "Anyone can make something with the right tools, but it takes a good mahinist to make quality parts using bad tools". With enough patience, evidence shown and proved, even simple handmade files can be coaxed to produce delicate mechanical features! Thank you for the time and effort you undoubtedly spend on discovering the beginnings of what i personally consider to be the true birth of the modern age. When man discovered a way to shape not a tool, but rather how to make physical the conceptions of mechanical devices.

"Here's a comparison under a microscope..." *just so you can see my work is superior to modern machines!* Absolutely fantastic work, as usual, sir!

I love that you aren’t dead 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

The incredible amount of work to complete 1 round file, my jaw dropped when you presented more!

Your dedication to reviving these 'forgotten' techniques is truly inspiring. Thanks for the great video!

Is anyone else in the world doing what Chris is doing to this level of detail? He deserves some kind of anthropological medal one day