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.
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10 mo on HNTim Ewald - Clojure: Programming with Hand Tools
8 mo on HNDick Proenneke in Alone in the Wilderness
9 mo on HNOrigins of Precision
6 mo on HNThe Art of Making a Nixie Tube
5 mo on HNBuilding The World's First Computer - Greeks, Clocks and Rockets - Antikythera Mechanism Episode 1
4 mo on HNSmelting Iron in Africa (A DEMONSTRATION)
4 mo on HNBuilding Prototypes Dan Gelbart part 1 of 18 Introduction
3 mo on HNClockmaking - How To Make A Clock In The Home Machine Shop - Part 1 - Making The Clock Frames
3 mo on HNHow To Sharpen A Knife In About 5 Minutes With ONE Stone | EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FAST! 2023
4 mo on HNTelescope Building with John Dobson
3 mo on HNPrimitive Technology: Cord drill and Pump drill
3 mo on HNAmerica's Iron Giants - The World's Most Powerful Metalworkers
3 mo on HNEC's Big Announcement
3 mo on HNAdam Savage's Epiphany on the Science of Measurement!
3 mo on HNGridfinity: Your Ultimate Modular Workshop is FREE!
2 mo on HNARROWS vs ARMOUR - Medieval Myth Busting
2 mo on HNBuilding the Moroccan Court
2 mo on HNSaw Stop - This guy puts a finger into an active table saw blade & comes away without a scratch!
2 mo on HNGlass engineering - designing and making photochromic glass
2 mo on HNFor the undying 9/11 MORONIC JET FUEL ARGUMENT
2 mo on HN[1147] Locksmith Says My Videos Are BS... Loses $75 (Maybe)
2 mo on HNPrimitive Technology: Forge Blower
2 mo on HNTable Saw Safety: My Accident and How to Avoid Your Own
2 mo on HNHigh precision air bearing CNC lathe and grinder
2 mo on HNThe Antikythera Mechanism Episode 9 - Making The Epicyclic Pin and Slot Gearing
1 mo on HNHow the pantorouter works
1 mo on HNPrimitive Technology: Stone Axe (celt)
1 mo on HN[756] Sentry Safe Cut in Half FAST!
1 mo on HN10 Bullets, #8: "ALWAYS BE KNOLLING". By Tom Sachs
1 mo on HNIBM Computing Cheese Cutter [Restoration]
0 mo on HNRailroad thermite welding
0 mo on HNWorld's Second Best Speakers!
0 mo on HNMarble adding machine
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