The Primitive Technology YouTube channel is wildly popular, its videos of a man silently crafting everything from grass huts to drills out of materials found in nature garnering millions of views.

Here’s a tale that warms our hearts. [Gord] is helping out the local living-history museum by rehabbing a historic woodworking tool that they want to add to their live demo woodshop. It’s a ...

FITCHBURG — While blacksmiths cranked their forge blowers and hammered their metal projects, the light whiff of smoke completed the experience at Saturday’s Blacksmith Art & Music Festival. Now in its ...

For a few years now, the YouTube channel Primitive Technology has been teaching viewers how to build old world devices like forge blowers and water-powered hammers using nothing but their bare hands ...

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