Sadly, I disagree....people that are willing to pay for a true craftsman are very hard to find. If a hack charges less, that is where the money goes, especially if they are a smooth talker.

He didn't say anything about that Tim S. He was merely remarking that very few people these days know how to do, make or mend anything. That they know no different than to go out and buy things. There was no mention that they bought the things off of craftsmen. Though I do tend to agree. Craftsmanship is becoming a thing of the past, few people can afford the services of a true craftsman. Equally, things move on change and improve, this is simply natural progress. Though we are definitely letting it go too quickly and readily. I think his main point was, that we no longer teach anything remotely like practical hands on skills any longer. Certainly NOT in the way I remember we used to do, And it seems as if Mr Saunders also does.

@@tims4768 Yes BUT TIM that is the sad part about this!! In my day like in this video as a kid I was taught how to use my hands to MAKE THINGS!! True craftsman as you said ARE HARDER TO FIND because schools no longer teach "trade skills"!! So Tim Saunders IS CORRECT becuase kids today are NOT BEING TAUGHT ANY ACTUAL SKILLS the are now taught to "consume, waste and throw away" and that nothing has any real "value"!!! It has killed the art of "trade skills" or "craftsmanship" as folks like myself once learned!! And looking at my grand kids I have a step grandson who watched me take old salvaged lumber and built a bench, a table and a whole DECK out of the wood I was given as "junk". But my step grand son kept telling me "You built a CRAP table!" with the joke to him being "scrap wood"!! He thought it was funny to keep telling me the table was "crap" but at the same time it saved me a ton of money and even made me money as I got paid to built the deck out of the salvage lumber I had left over from the whole load I was given for free!!! And my same step grand son was too stupid to realize I earned myself $80 for a deck I would have got nothing for had I just took it all to the garbage and PAID $90 to get rid of it as a load of trash!!! BUT you can't explain that to kids these days, because they think people just HAND YOU MONEY like it is their job to pay you for nothing!! And the real slap in the face is that his own father (who is my step daughter's husband) couldn't build a dog house out of BRAND NEW WOOD!!!! I know this as FACT because I watched my step grand son's father waste almost $150 in lumber to chop it up into firewood after he failed to build a dog house out of the wood he bought!! Showing me my step grand son has NO APPRECIATION for actual "skills" or craftsmanship and as for the bench, table and deck I built out of "scrap wood" (salvaged lumber) here today in October of 2019 I still have the stuff I build out of that lumber! The deck I made out of the same stuff is STILL on my neighbors house now 10 years after I built it, the bench and table I made for myself I use every day in the summer and sits outside year round in New York Winters!! So he can call my stuff "CRAP" all he wants.......when I built it I knew what the hell I was doing....and it lastly because I used skills he will never have!!!

ive never heard of such shops

@@gregbenwell6173 The whole point of a "public education" these days is to turn out stupid Democrats (or liberals in the UK). That way, they will always be dependent of the government.

Did You clean or wash the sand by water

@@Hbtom21Yohannes Not sure if you meant to ask me, or MyFordBoy, but if you watch from 4:30-6:00, you'll get an idea of his sand processing technique. First he sieves it to remove or breakdown clumps, then he spreads it out fairly evenly, applies some water with a mister, and checks it for the right consistency.

You should get some good castings as it's in your blood!

I agree that is one creative vibration setup!

Totally agree with you, this guy has done it all, and looking at his blog too is just super informative pop, when I have completed my current jobs then I will buy the materials and make some casting work for my American van, between the videos and the blogs it must save lots of time and expense, by doing it right first time. Thank you so very much in advance....phil

are you deaf ?? you can hear crows from time to time, and the continual swish of traffic...……………….

Yeah, I can hear the pleasant sound of work getting done. It is great!

It’s all in the wrist a brick layer told me.

I spent a lot of my working life as an electrician on my knees. My trousers have built on knee pads and are comfortable to kneel on.

I think it's a ceramic coating that's baked on.

There aren't many real journeyman or master patter makers left. I started in a pattern shop in June of 1974, at that time there were 13 pattern makers, 6 apprentices, and a bunch of us riggers and helpers. The foundry I worked at was the last large one in the area, and It finally closed in March of 2003. At that time there were three pattern makers and 4 riggers. I suspect at least 90% of the patter making capacity has disappeared from the USA since 1981.

@MichaelKingsfordGray-- Most of the losses we've seen have been due to foundry closures. I do still have some friends that have small pattern shops, but nothing like 40 years ago. I do have a friend that runs a foundry that is producing patterns with CNC machinery. They still have a couple of pattern makers to do the fine tuning.

I'd make a muller but I don't have room for it.

Practice.