As usual, remember to enable video captions.
Weirdly I came across this video randomly last night.
I was far more into the structure than the result, though. You could do a lot with a temporary fire tube…
I love these videos. I wish he would fully enter the iron age at some point, it’d be satisfying to watch those dots get connected in realtime. I still sometimes joke that I’m waiting for him to build an iPhone.
He did end up making a small blade at some point, but it seems like the process of getting iron ore from bacteria is excruciatingly slow. If he was in my area he’d be walking around in full plate armor by now.
How great would that be? If you know anyone who’s done that whole technology tree from the ground up, let me know.
Years ago I watched this video that demos old iron smelting technology in Burkina Faso, and these people get farther. They have better natural iron deposits (also lots of people working together helps).
Super cool, thanks!
