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Woodworking, metalworking & workshop skills Videos Recommended on Hacker News (34)

Woodworking, metalworking & workshop skills is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 34 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2012 and 2026 — 102 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Making: woodworking, metalworking, welding, blacksmithing, machine shop, lathes, tool sharpening, knife making, workshop tips, hand tools, craftsmanship.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on Tim Ewald - Clojure: Programming with Hand Tools: “I loved this talk on how as your tooling becomes more complex and automated, you start to lose sight of simpler solutions to problems.” — an HN commenter, 2018.

10 mo on HN

Tim Ewald - Clojure: Programming with Hand Tools

ClojureTV
9 HN recommender · 2014–2024
8 mo on HN

Dick Proenneke in Alone in the Wilderness

swererbob
10 HN recommender · 2012–2023
9 mo on HN

Origins of Precision

Machine Thinking
11 HN recommender · 2019–2025
6 mo on HN

The Art of Making a Nixie Tube

Dalibor Farný
6 HN recommender · 2017–2026
5 mo on HN

Building The World's First Computer - Greeks, Clocks and Rockets - Antikythera Mechanism Episode 1

Clickspring
7 HN recommender · 2018–2024
4 mo on HN

Smelting Iron in Africa (A DEMONSTRATION)

Christopher Roy
4 HN recommender · 2015–2024
4 mo on HN

Building Prototypes Dan Gelbart part 1 of 18 Introduction

Dan Gelbart
4 HN recommender · 2015–2022
3 mo on HN

Clockmaking - How To Make A Clock In The Home Machine Shop - Part 1 - Making The Clock Frames

Clickspring
3 HN recommender · 2017–2024
3 mo on HN

How To Sharpen A Knife In About 5 Minutes With ONE Stone | EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FAST! 2023

OUTDOORS55
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026
4 mo on HN

Telescope Building with John Dobson

Dobson Astro-Initiatives
4 HN recommender · 2017–2025
3 mo on HN

Primitive Technology: Cord drill and Pump drill

Primitive Technology
3 HN recommender · 2016–2018
3 mo on HN

America's Iron Giants - The World's Most Powerful Metalworkers

Machine Thinking
3 HN recommender · 2019–2024
3 mo on HN

EC's Big Announcement

Essential Craftsman
4 HN recommender · 2018–2022
3 mo on HN

Adam Savage's Epiphany on the Science of Measurement!

Adam Savage’s Tested
3 HN recommender · 2022–2023
3 mo on HN

Gridfinity: Your Ultimate Modular Workshop is FREE!

Zack Freedman
3 HN recommender · 2022–2024
2 mo on HN

ARROWS vs ARMOUR - Medieval Myth Busting

Tod's Workshop
2 HN recommender · 2020–2025
2 mo on HN

Building the Moroccan Court

The Met
2 HN recommender · 2015–2021
2 mo on HN

Saw Stop - This guy puts a finger into an active table saw blade & comes away without a scratch!

Anthony Prezutti Comedy Mentalist
2 HN recommender · 2015–2018
2 mo on HN

Glass engineering - designing and making photochromic glass

Applied Science
2 HN recommender · 2017–2022
2 mo on HN

For the undying 9/11 MORONIC JET FUEL ARGUMENT

purgatoryironworks
2 HN recommender · 2017–2023
2 mo on HN

[1147] Locksmith Says My Videos Are BS... Loses $75 (Maybe)

LockPickingLawyer
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
2 mo on HN

Primitive Technology: Forge Blower

Primitive Technology
2 HN recommender · 2016–2018
2 mo on HN

Table Saw Safety: My Accident and How to Avoid Your Own

MrFixItDIY
2 HN recommender · 2018–2020
2 mo on HN

High precision air bearing CNC lathe and grinder

Dan Gelbart
2 HN recommender · 2019–2025
2 mo on HN

The Antikythera Mechanism Episode 9 - Making The Epicyclic Pin and Slot Gearing

Clickspring
2 HN recommender · 2020–2022
1 mo on HN

How the pantorouter works

MatthiasWandel
1 HN recommend · 2014–2020
1 mo on HN

Primitive Technology: Stone Axe (celt)

Primitive Technology
1 HN recommend · 2019–2023
1 mo on HN

[756] Sentry Safe Cut in Half FAST!

LockPickingLawyer
1 HN recommend · 2018–2025
1 mo on HN

10 Bullets, #8: "ALWAYS BE KNOLLING". By Tom Sachs

Tom Sachs
1 HN recommend · 2017–2024
1 mo on HN

IBM Computing Cheese Cutter [Restoration]

Hand Tool Rescue
1 HN recommend · 2021–2024
0 mo on HN

Railroad thermite welding

Wolfgang Lendner
0 HN recommender · 2017–2024
0 mo on HN

World's Second Best Speakers!

Tech Ingredients
0 HN recommender · 2021–2025
0 mo on HN

Marble adding machine

MatthiasWandel
0 HN recommender · 2013–2021
0 mo on HN

[1422] Did I Cheat On This Challenge? (Tamper-Sealed Abus)

LockPickingLawyer
0 HN recommender · 2023–2025