Yeah I like that style, made for action.

When function meant more than fashion💘

Sometimes that was the case (Like slouch hats in the Aussie military uniforms in the 19th-20th C), but to my knowledge it was originally a civilian fashion first back in the 17th Century, not originally based on military practicality. (If that were the case, elaborate feather plumes likely wouldn't have been commonly included in the pinned assembly ;D )

That is also why minutemen and other soldiers with triangle-shaped hats would wear the point in the front slightly to their left or right. It allowed them to do the same with a bayonetted rifle; by pivoting the points in the back to make the straight part parallel to the rifle.

@@B01 gotta admit though, they’re pretty fashionable too

@pinned by Townsends Reported, scammer.

@@BobPapadopoulos mission accomplished, good job 👍🏻

Most coins nowadays have a high steel content or are coated steel disks, which definitely makes this endeavour challenging!

You still have the ring?

That would be a great project to try. Might just have to try it! ☺️

Gotta respect the drip

Would love to see a pic of that if possible👍

That sounds freaking awesome.

@@bmookbm Seconded :) That sounds really impressive.

@KZfaq Assasin uh oh, someone's got their panties in a twist

I would have paid more attention in class with this more "living history" type of instruction. I would also say that how everyday life was like in the past is as important to learn as the significant events that schools focus on. The everyday hardship of the past shows just how good we have it now thanks to our forebears and their hard work.

This would be more accurate too. In the south we are taught demonstrably false things as part of history to paint both slavery and the genocide of the native peoples in a better light.

@@misterhat5823 Regrettably, history is too often written to serve the needs & requirements of the present, rather than a true depiction of the past :-(

I have learned more from watching these videos then any of my history teachers that taught about American history

Agreed! Much better than the critical race theory crap!

The best Historical Collaboration would be John and Revere. IMAGINE what we’d learn. Great video John.

@@TheWarCorrespondent79 John could teach him a thing or two about military tactics, as great as Paul was he was a horrible general 🤣

@@bostonrailfan2427 Very much agreed hahah!

Brandon is an amazing metal worker. It's so relaxing to watch him pull a piece of history out of raw material like this.

@pinned by Townsends Go away, scammer.

Definitely checking this out. Thank you

Colored by his worldview? What do you mean?

@pinned by Townsends ah yes a scammer

Can confirm, didn't know trade silver was even a thing, but I've found a diamond ring while walking through the parking lot a couple of years ago.

That's amazing. How many diamond rings have you found?

@@T3t4nu5 I found 3, twice at the bottom of a public pool, once just building a sand castle I grabbed a handful of sand. Although they were all just good bands, no diamonds.

Here on the Navajo rez, I find plenty of silver jewelry from the old days, silver buttons, bracelets, lotsa silver coins, even found a hammered Spanish Cobb made into a pendant, early 1600s. Been metal detecting over 20 years now.😃

Our family has a beautiful silver & turquoise squash blossom necklace.

Sounds like a great influence.

How is the blacksmithing going? I am more interested in learning how to source metal from the Earth.

You'll be hooked now... It's addicting.

@@BaptistJoshua Sourcing metal from the earth is extremely difficult. Very very few smiths actually get their metal from ore nowadays. Iron/Steel is almost impossible to smelt (the term for refining ore) on your own and normally requires multiple days and a team of people to accomplish. Lighter metals (copper, silver, etc.) are much easier to refine, but still a lot of work. It is only those who enjoy it as a hobby that do smelting now. And industrial factories that produce metals of course.

@@matthewmason7753 Thanks. How do they get the metal? Like steel oxidizes and rusts away, back into the soil. Can that dust be reused? Or does the Earth have to produce more? I wonder if metal is reproduced by the Earth just like oil is.

And as the narrator!

@@erinhowett3630 and the cook! ... gonna have to pay him a lot 🤔😂

Then you'll end up in 3077.

@@BobPapadopoulos Isaac Arthur in that case

@@spacetexan8695 The most adowable speech impediment on KZfaq 💜

Indians.

Natives bro not Punjabi's..

He’a a real blessing on KZfaq

Same here, I always catch myself smiling through these videos.

they arent trying to take anything from you or force you to change your thoughts like so many other channels. they only share knowledge and passion for their hobbies. like youtube used to be, just sharing things you like and having fun.

Maybe because you get away from the hustle and bustle. The visual overload. It is kind of like going way out into the country. For me, driving in the country or hiking does the same, as do his videos.

Yup. One of the cool things about us humans is we love precious metals and things that look good. We also love to trade with each other. Good stuff.

Shiny things appeal to all peoples.

Only problem in that is that many of us (Native Americans) have lost an unfathomable amount of our culture, including what you're talking about. We have the US and Canadian governments to thank for that, as well as the Catholic, Presbyterian, and Episcopal churches that built and ran residential schools. My grandfather and his siblings were beaten brutally for speaking their native language or practicing cultural traditions, and as a result, they lost many things. My grandfather spent decades moving around as an adult, pretending to be Mexican so that his own children wouldn't be taken, too. My mother and aunts and uncles mostly can't speak the language either, and know very little of our culture. It was only after the ICWA that Grandpa could stop moving around, but even then, he was careful and very paranoid.

@pinned by Townsends Go away, scammer.

@@MegaKat I was just wondering the other day how much of their culture the native peoples were able to retain, seems like not much. it's really too bad, we all could have learned from the culture that was lost.

@@MegaKat thank you so much for sharing your grandfather's story with me. It is truly horrible what was done to your people. Which is why I feel it is even more important to teach your history. However horrible it was. I believe that history must be taught both the good and the bad. How are we, as a society, to make a better future if we don't learn from the sins of the past? If it makes you uncomfortable all the more likely that you are going to make a change for the better. I love learning about different cultures and peoples. It makes life so much more enriching. So many different ways of seeing the world we live in.

@@SimpleDesertRose I get what you're saying and I agree with it; my point was not to get your hopes up about learning anything at all about pretty much every tribe. Sure, there's a few of the bigger tribes that managed to hold onto shreds of their cultures, but they lost a lot. Tribes like mine, we lost almost everything and nothing was passed down due to the astronomical number of Natives killed off or forced into residential schools, where they were separated from their families so they *couldn't* be taught about their cultures. Trust me, I'd love to learn about my people as well, but there ain't much left to learn when our government made doubly sure to eradicate everything there was to learn.

It's never to late to learn

Ya ta hey Navajo guy, you need to get you a metal detector and roam the rez, old sheep camp sites, it's amazing what you can find, I can start a little museum if want to. I also do Smithing, silver, gold or metal.👋😃

Are you sure??

@BLAIR There might be a few that can contend, but I think anyone would be hard pressed to find another channel that has the same sense of community and togetherness that Townsends has!

@@BuleBelle are YOU sure ?

@@BuleBelle aber natürlich!

How is it going in Deutschland? I hear the government is really going crazy against the more educated who do not get jabbed.

Same.

Same here this show Rocks!!! *With Nutmeg*

@@II__DAVE__II oh dear

Same here! I'm like, "yay new video!" but I gotta do some dishes first. 😄

@@II__DAVE__II creep

What tribe are you? I'm Lakota

@@gnostic268 Navajo and Apache.

Seneca here. Mostly German. I am related to Queen Aliquippa, through her daughter.

I'm part Cherokee, Mohican, and Lenape.

@@tonyholder4326 hmm. I have not heard of Lanape. Do you know who they are closely related to?

Humans have always been trading goods and ideas, taking one’s style and changing and adapting it to their styles and available materials. In the case you’re referencing, there is plenty the Romans borrowed and adapted - especially military and clothing ideas - from the Celts in Gaul, Britannia and Hispania and the Teutonic tribes in Germania, as well as other cultures and corners of the Empire. That’s why the recent idea of ‘cultural appropriation’ to me is absolutely stupid., and much like the Romans we Americans excell at adapting something and making it our thing. For a recent example, I just learned last week what ‘Chinamen’ (St Louis style fried rice) is, and am looking forward to trying some at a local place. I’m from/in the south but have family in St Louis and never heard of it, so that tells me it can’t be that old of a thing (at most a few decades).

Know of any great channels on KZfaq similar to this one but covering the Viking age?

It really is very cool

I believe the YT channel is "clickspring". A lot of content on how these first-level tools are made and how a complex mechanism like the Antiktheria device is built using them.

The images came from artists. You really didn't know that?

@@bigguy7353 i meant photos and drawings depicting native americans wearing metal jewelry. Since they didn’t have the knowledge to work metal in that way I just wondered where they got those items from.

Where do you obtain the pins

@@cecilyerker you can get enamel pins from a lot of places for example: etsy, redbubble, online shops run by artists, merch stores (even innersloth sells them!), gift shops, and amazon

@@ccaffie1231 Making them is also an option! I've had a chance to make some cool ones with a button press

Still very cool to know about!

There is evidence that it wasn't just the natives here but those from the ancient Mediterranean as well who mined copper out of the Great lakes area. Really rather fascinating!

I believe it was the bronze cultures around the great lakes, there's a great video about it on here somewhere, but I don't remember the title. Sad to think of how much history on this continent that we'll just never know because of how many oral histories were lost in the native american genocide.

@@KaikanoSei ...what?

I'm not sure about copper as decor, but all the Anishinaabe peoples used it for making tools. It's a cinch they had it on hand.

Mothers know their children in a way that fathers can't. I remember reading that in some first nations' cultures the mother's brother was more important that the presumed father.

@@dbmail545 yes. That's how it was for mine. But the US restructured families under men in the late 1880s to early 1900s. My grandma and great grandparents had to go to mandatory schools and forbidden to speak in our native language. Despite all that our language is still here although most don't speak it. Chahta Anumpa anumpuli la hinla. I can speak some. My grandma taught me some when I lived with her a bit.

**Native Americans. "American Indians" are Indian Americans, with roots in India. (:

@@msmltvcktl Apologies! You are absolutely correct! Thank you for pointing that out.

The indigenous people in the Ohio Valley had been trading for precious metals for centuries if not millennia by the time the Europeans arrived, but didn't have access to the raw metals. In that region, the incoming, venturesome Europeans saved the indigenous people a lot of travel.

Yes sterling has to be 92.5% pure silver hence the 925 mark

You are correct in what you say about coin silver, but it's not that straight forward. British coins were sterling silver until 1920, when they were reduced to 50% silver. Given that money was "real back then, nobody particularly cared were coins were from as long as they were of high quality, I think that in colonial frontier America you would have founds lots of British, Spanish, and French coins as well as American coins, and their value would depend on their silver or gold content.

No, but you can make coin blanks out of sterling, and he did say he was using sterling coinage.

I bought a bunch of silver coins that are 99.9% pure. I bought them in the 1980s. I'm pretty sure they were available back then if people looked for them , not all of the coins sold are currencies of a country. Lots of collectible coins for sale

"You can't turn coin silver into sterling... but you can turn coin silver into sterling."

@pinned by Townsends Try getting a job, scammer.