No shooting?

John, you've described yourself as a "jack of all trades", and you are indeed an exceptional jack! I love watching your stuff.

I love how this guy just doesn’t quit after so many failed attempts it proves that if you keep working you will succeed

Not sure if you've figured this yet, but... To prevent shrinkage on later projects, use a "reservoir". Leave a cavity above the thickest area so that as it cools the reservoir empties into the actual desired item, thus filling it in and preventing defects. Then when it's set just cut off and grind down the reservoir.

Thank you for making this video. Love everything: the pace, the narrating, the keeping of failed ones, and the accelerating of manufacturing process. So nice to watch!

Who else watched to the end waiting for him to fire it😂

Sir, this is not just an artillery piece you’ve made, but a work of art

I tried doing this years ago with my 14 year old son. I discovered, after doing a vertical pour like you did, that we had a tremendous amount of hydraulic pressure at the bottom of our green sand mold. So much so that the cavity at the bottom would enlarge beyond the intended size of the pattern. We solved the problem by baking the mold. The cope and drag were made of stainless steel plate, so it would not burn up during the baking process. To solve the outer surface being impregnated with sand, we pounced our pattern with twice baked charcoal dust. ( the red embers left when you are done grilling your steaks.) These embers are smothered and allowed to cool before being crushed into a fine powder. Put the dust into a sock for pouncing.

When I was 14 I make a cannon just like this but only 5 inches long, with wheels and everything. It actuality worked using matches. Give it to my grandmother. It brings back memories. I am 64 now.

Mate, hats off to yours efforts... Your not quitting attitude is the most important lesson of the video

17 thumbs down, from 17 people that don't value hard work and craftsmanship. GREAT VIDEO!!!!

Wow, what a learning curve. Challenge+frustration+persistence = reward. I would say whoever made cannons back in the day....followed in your learning curve. Persistence being the most important ingredient.

I'm a university-trained metalsmith. The outcome was exquisite. 👏

I really enjoyed this. A highlight for me is how you went through NOT casting your canon until you came up with a way that was successful. Thanks for taking the time to produce and post this video!

When I was younger I would have loved to be your apprentice and gain some of the valuable knowledge that you process with all the equipment. Hope to see more of your work later on. Thanks.

As a fellow caster, I've got to agree with everything you said and will be watching the rest of your shows

As a long time engineer, I have to tell you how useful it is to see all the ways things can go wrong. Great video!

You have quite the amount of patience. I was worried that your straps would burn through and dump the bronze again. very impressed with the quality of your work sir.

I really appreciate putting all the errors and problems out front where I can learn from them. Super useful.

I envy SO MUCH ppl who have their own garages and all the tools and machines NEVER bored

Beautifully done. A pleasure to watch such a craftsman at work.

I really appreciated that you included the failed casting attempts, very honest and also instructional. I have had a crack at a few offers on KZfaq and have gone through a process inly to come to the conclusion that the results Im seeing arent quite whats shown. If I cast a cannon barrel I wouldnt bother reinventing the wheel, your process was just great. Thanks for sharing

You know He was so Happy when the mold finally came out correctly

3-rd time is always the charm, nice metal and woodworking done with the project.

OK, this explains why we did not use lost foam in the middle ages quite well. Thumbs up.

It's amazing how the speed of production changes when you swutch from metal to wood

SIR YOU ARE TRULY A GREAT WOOD WORKER “CRAFTSMAN” and METAL WORKER. I ENVY YOUR WORKMANSHIP

Thanks! That’s an awesome job! So excellent! Love the shine!

This was a great summation. I forgot how much I learned from this series. Thanks!

Congratulations mate, your a true craftsman. Its great to see someone that has the patience to try again and again until they achieve the result they wanted, something thats truely rare these days.

its only now i see how much inconsequential knowledge is taught in school. Amazing project m8 !

Thank you, your casting has turned out to be incredible, you did not get a single blowhole or tear which is amazing, I love it as I used to work in a foundry before.

WOW. So imagine how much hard work went into the original cannon.

All jokes aside, that molten copper spill was one of the scariest things to happen in a workshop by far.

I LOVED the woodburning. I was shocked how gorgeous the result was after you were finished.

I am very envious of your talent and shop. Metal working has always fascinated me since Metal Working in high school. We actually did sand casting and I still have the drill press vise I bade back in 1964. Never got it finished but I still use it a lot. You are an inspiration and pleasure to watch.

I enjoyed the whole process, especially the wheels and axle. I would love to be able to make that part of the project...

Hobbyist he calls himself? He has more equipment than some of the shops in my town xD

What skill this man has aquired.

Simply great. I am a mechanical technical engineer...slightly drunk but also i appreciate when people are figuring Out how to solve Problems to complete their Goals....!!! I'll read my comment when my Mind ist clear again and May i am ashamed of my english and what i wrote... but...WHO dies mit Honor that Video has No Idea how important, fun and what what amount of disciplin IT affords for "learning by doing"

7:14 - very nice example of modern art - liked it

Traditionally, cannons, along with bells and hollow bronze portrait busts, were cast with the bore roughed in, to be finished by machine-boring after the pour. The core for casting the void for the bore was often made using “family recipes” handed down as trade secrets, but could use such ingredients as clay, mixed with manure, straw, and pieces of broken brick or crockery. Once the cast cannon had cooled, the inner core that had created the void for the bore was picked apart with slim hooked probes to leave the rough cast bore. That not only saved on the initial amount of metal needed, but reduced the effort of machining the bore to accept the charge, wadding, and ball. Granted, the effort of making an effective core on the reduced scale in the video could be a problem, but the metal saved by using a core for the bore void could have gone into making a larger cannon barrel.

You my Friend are a mechanical genius ! Perseverance is a Virtue.

From someone who has been involved in building a revolutionary war cannon for historic recreations and it fired a 3 pound shot. I have enjoyed your efforts and not giving up. Now you need to forge the tools that go with it.

7:15 modern art masterpiece :D

Just watched your cannon series, my hat goes of to your passion,,, ty

This is called confidence in your skills right here

Great work, perseverance produced a lovely replica indeed. Love how you have a forge on the ready... what a great workshop!

Congratulations - this summary of the series must have entailed hours and hours of editing. Those of us who watched the full series won´t be surprised not to see the cannon being fired as you explained your reasons for abstaining, but people watching this for the first time must feel a little taken aback to see the video end with the barrel still a virgin. Still, you took the trouble to transport your baby to meet its big brother, which I think was above and beyond the call of duty, and a great way to end the video.

Just lucky they didn’t have a abrahams tank parked by the side of the road hahahahaha great work

I don't know how to describe my admiration to you. You have so much to teach to the younger generation!

Watching you move from from casting to modern machining, then to blacksmithing.. I know that must have been one satisfying project!

Great series! I've enjoyed watching through this on my day off :D Thanks for being a content creator!

That was absolutely impressive! Great job brotha. Highly talented...

Thanks for showing the failures, it makes it real and helps novices like me when I'm melting brass, casting bells and having my own failures.

Dude this was the series that led to me finding your channel!

I love how you put on proper protective gear. I usually just have shorts and sandals with or without socks. One time my sock was about to catch fire and I felt something hot so I had a piece of burning something think it was wood. In my sock melting through and burning my toe. Lol I took it out before anything serious happened to me but my sock had a hole. Yes I worked with hot metals too. Lol. Meh. My dad is a great pyro so it's in my nature. My dad grabs pieces of woods and coals on fire and tosses them back in the flame I can't too. But not that durability.

esse é um grande artesão em todas às área na arte de marceneiro e de ferreiro parabéns.

Dame great job, excellent lawn art for your house. Boy, I tell you that's some shop you have all the goodies for me to wish I had.

This was the first farm craft video I watched. Immediately subbed and have been watching ever since

I liked the failed attempts best because they give an impression of how complicated the casting process is. You really are showing endurance! ;-)

“I know this isn’t the traditional way to make wheels,” he says after using propane torches and electric lathes.

That was one of the most satisfying maker type videos I've seen. Beautiful work.

Amazing video! really cool how you kept persisting even when the moulding was troublesome. And really impressive with the wide variety of skills you have

I would have kept that bronze that landed on the floor as wall art, it was pretty neet

brilliant, i really enjoyed this. Once i get my license i'll be having a go too.

You broke my heart when you didn't fire it. Still liked seeing you make it.

love the cannon, job well done. Also you took me back to my dad, he was a wood pattern maker for 40+ years, and some of the mold halves, shrink rules and different metals they poured at the foundry. Those were good memories. Also the problem with glues are they will be waterproof, but they will not bond and permeate the wood. there remains a barrier from epoxy and wood. So the best way is to build the wood wheel and put a hot steel strap around it, let it shrink to hold everything together. Then use it for the next20 to 30 years. Thank you I enjoyed it.

17:20 that canon's got some "Phimosis" issues 😁 Great job! Takes a lot of patience to undertake a project like that.

yeah I'd like to see the cannon fire

Civil War Yankees are smiling down upon you at your ingenuity and jack-of-all-trades talent. I've read about Union regiments taking over abandoned mills and forges and getting them up and running to put a dazzling polish on their musket barrels, a creek where bored Union pickets had made waterwheels, sluice gates, and water powered contraptions out of old fruit cans.

Beautiful build, but without both form and function, you basically have a nice looking doorstop. Can you imagine whittling a baby grand piano out of a tree trunk? What makes a piano truly beautiful is the music it makes.

Damn you really want that cannon. I like it, nice work.

To imagine they had a build The full-size Canon by hand

Whether it fires or not, you got my full attention on this video. I have loved cannons since I was a kid and made them on the lathe starting in 7th grade. I'm 52 now and still dream of making something like that.

LOVE that you show the failures!!

Very nice job! Looks great

7:13 dang a spectacular failure :) battle scars for the garage floor lol

I am in awe over what this man did. Something so simple you think turns out to be a testament to one man's knowledge and talent. I know there are people out there thinking "Oh I could build that if I had all the tools he has" ! I say to you keep dreaming. The knowledge he has obtained over a life time. I just wish he would have fired the canon using canister shot! Some called it grape shot. I liKe to see him make a Colt peacemaker but in a bigger caliber like a fifty caliber

Imagine having to do all this without modern tools, and with the added pressure of knowing it might actually need to kill people, or save your buddies lives...

And now you will have a lot of respect towards the artisants gunsmiths, founders, carpenters who did better than you with less powerful tools! But your achievement is beautiful I subscribe, I like and I activate the alarms.

This is incredible but what is more incredible is somebody who has time to do these things. I really wish I did.

I really enjoyed this, and am inspired to try small castings in my Bar-Z Hot Shot 360 metal treat oven!

7:15 thats actually a work of art ! you missed it ! coulda buffed it up and sold it to a gallery for $10,000

Awesome video 👍👍👍

This channel is well underrated!! 👀💪

That was really cool. Great video. The wheels came out great. I also like how you drilled out where the trunions sit.

come on man you got me all excited doing the tensile strength test making me think you're going to fire the thing during this video

I asked this guy for tips on metal casting and he told me to pound sand, how rude!

That's an amazing build. Crazy. Love your process and envious of your shop!

I really enjoyed watching this. Thank you for your efforts ! I like especially the parts in wich not shiny metal, gets mirror finished !

Me: ... KZfaq: ... Me: ... KZfaq: ...Soo, you wanna watch a guy make a cannon?

А мужик упертый! Лайк от меня Казахстан г Астана Нур-Султан 🇰🇿

It a beautiful and awarding project. It seems like every project that you thought would be easy takes a lot of time. It does for me. Your final product you should be proud off.

Not only did you do an excellent job building the cannon, you also did well on producing your video !

Методом проб и ошибок, у него всё-таки получилось 👏👍 Руки наверно накачал хорошо, 4 раза по 60кг поднять и + вес тигля ))

Does the second ammendment cover making a cannon in your garden? 😂

I like how your never gave up until you got it right . You were very determined to get this cannon made by any means necessary after four attempts you finally casted the cannon which was the most challenging part , i watched the original video's i seen the hard work you put in and the fails . And in my opinion it looks worth it all in the end , very nice cannon looks better then the original , i hope a year later today you still have it and it still looks nice and shiny. It would look nice in a front yard or even inside a large living room area.

That is beautiful craftsmanship. 👌 Nice work. 👍

Ok....i need to know. Wasn't there like, a 4mm deal inclusion in the bore? How'd you fix it? Or is it just a pretty piece?