Beautiful and inspiring video. I’m going to give it a try..

Over the years I've cut literally thousands of quills, and am delighted to find someone who really knows how to too. Perfect detail, beautifully explained. Miles better than other videos!

More people need to see this.

For those in the US, please be careful when collecting feathers. Many many birds are protected under the Migratory Bird Act and having their feathers is illegal, so always double check a feather ID before taking it home.

Haha! I was not ready for that! 😂 Thanks for the tips!

I am detecting a serious issue with depression here. With such a bleak outlook, you could hate anything and everything.

it out of topic but ngl his house looks cozy asf

You need to come back and address all this AI stuff

I would like if you could show us wood quill! Pleaaaaaase. Thank you

Skyrim isn't interesting enough to throw 200 hours in. I couldn't last less than 40 hours.

Very wise. Thanks Douglas!

When you referred to universities as 'tuition factories' I had to pause the video and laugh out loud for several minutes! Absolutely true! That aside, I enjoy watching your videos. It gives me a reality check and lifts me up.

Why are you using such a pathetically tiny knife?

I think you should focus more on this. I went to your channel to see more blacksmithing and was surprised to see the low video and follower count, honestly. This is a quality video, great videography and voice over, as well as great forge work.

Big ass Bowie and a plastic fork! 😂

Up until about 8 years ago, my entire life was wrapped up in video games. One day I realized they were everything wrong with my life and walked away from them cold-turkey. It was a hard struggle actually trying to discover my true identity. I had no clue what to do with myself for years. I'm still finding myself, and trying to work on social skills. You hit the nail right on the head. Video games were an absolute was of my life, with zero skills gained and nothing to show afterward.

Wow what a ray of sunshine

Thank you for taking the time to think through your thoughts and put out this video. I had never heard of you until today but your words are inspiring. Again I thank you and may good things and opportunity present themselves to you

Uhm, problem, my steak is to big to fit in my volcano Forge 😶🤔

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Love the octopus bottle opener! And you now have a new subscriber sir. Well done!

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Great steak, do you every smash hot steel?😁

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I think you would make a good hypnotist.

you said it

Great video and great message!

Great video!

Cool video have made them before but this is a much better technique. Thanks

Loved this video. Well said and presented. Everyone has an art within them, many just don't know it. There are few things in life as rewarding as honing a skill and producing something with your own hands and imagination. I was fortunate enough not be attracted to video games. I can imagine a bigger waste of time.

My experience, very similar to how you described the process, was “that’s such a neat thing…I’d like to try it…” I finally took a week long blacksmithing course, and learned (what I thought) was a TON. I really did learn a lot from the course, but what I learned most was that I knew nothing except that I wanted to learn more. I then slowly built a beautiful coal forge, and practiced (practiced…practiced…) and have made many things that I’m very proud of, but every time I’m there I approach it as an apprenticeship. I wish I could afford to learn from a master and skip a lot of the errors/lessons I’ve experienced with each heat, (and I am NO master smith by any terms) but I can’t help but feel at the very least connected with an ancient trade that can be as simple or as complicated as you make it. Douglas, I really do appreciate and respect your approach to what you do. The passion really translates well in the videos, and it’s made me want to try harder. Thanks!

“Make things that are worth the effort you put into them.” Love that.

But why Krom threw pieces of Giants to water?! Like... fire... 🤔 😉 Actually you need to develop your body to raise up riddle of steel in you significantly. It is connected to steel making impacts to abs with changing of overall invariant materials co-adapting. Of alive type materials to. To chi and whatever easy contact... 😏

Skyrim sucks.

Miss you man!

At the other end of the scale myself. Bought a PS3 to actually keep me from working ALL the time. Agree with what you said though.

It's the same with welding.

You make a good point. "What doesn't kill [break] you makes you stronger."

No need for garlic either. Great video.

wonderful video ... wise words

At first I have to admit I was a bit put off by what seemed like self righteous negativity, but your message at the end really brought your point into focus, and challenged me to be more creative. For whatever reason, I have always collected bottle openers, and I love hand-forged ones, whether boring by your standards or not. But I REALLY love that octopus opener and am glad you challenged yourself to come up with something interesting.

fantastic take on the craft.

This should be required watching for everyone on the planet.

I'm not sure what is more stealing in meaning.. the parsing of , or the riddle .. good talk Morlock :)

holy .. and unholy crap I can't believe I FOUND a tribe member in c'ford .. sweet

Interesting that you should say "if you can't tell you're talking to a robot you're still talking to a robot" that made me stop and think as I was working on something while the video was playing and could not see the screen, it's funny how you know something is scripted as you listen to it, I had to stop and check to see if I was being duped by an algorithm because it didn't sound natural. (please, no offence meant). So what is a 'fake' ? the dictionary tells us it's a :-forgery, counterfeit, copy, sham, fraud, hoax, imitation, mock-up, dummy, reproduction, lookalike or something of inferior quality.... if you take a painting by one of the masters in oils then reproduce it - it takes far more skill than the master had to recreate the bumps and ridges in the oils because the master had only the visual aspect in mind, and in blacksmithing... would one be producing 'fakes' if you have not drawn out the pig iron and mixed in carbon to create an alloy to get your steel oneself? or if one use any type of powered item or did it under electric light would it be a fake? we live in a progressive world and have to roll with the times, as you said earlier in the video, people get hung up on the romanticism of blacksmithing, what they don't realise is they have to pick a specific date and area, I live not far from the heart of the Black Country in the UK where most of the worlds ironmongery was forged at one point in time, a quarter mile from me in a now very urban road are the remains of a home nail maker shop that the fires only went out in 1940 (way after the industrial revolution) because he could not afford the power hammer to produce the quantity and quality of nails required for society's needs and as this was his mainstay he had to stop and look at other trades. Today 'the blacksmith' is a couple of machines that can roll, flatten, bend, weld and polish with some old bean standing there passing the material to-and-fro, all this whilst doing it at a greater speed and with less cost. I love to see the old tradition of smithing and the skills involved so keep on doing what you do and do not let any old duffer like me take anything away from your craft, more power to you good sir for taking on an old trade and making it work for you. Stay safe and carry on forging.