Good and Basic: YouTube

A channel in which Joseph B and Joseph F explore almost everything in sight, generally in a way that breaks the thing in question down to its basic elements or explores what makes it good.

We usually post a couple of videos a week, plus a podcast episode. Check out our YouTube channel for the latest projects and ideas.

​Ideas for the future?​ Let us know!

Blacksmithing
So You Wanna Be a Blacksmith?
Forging Leaves: Blacksmithing Practice Piece
Can You Forge Your Own Stone Carving Chisels?
How to Make a Forge Bellows Out of Trash
Most Primitive Thing You'll Ever See: Testing the Bag Bellows
Making Damascus Clay
Burning Metal
Forging a Scythe
Testing the Primitive Forge
DIY Sewer Pipe Box Bellows
Forging with Charcoal (Ragnar Forge)
Historical Blacksmithing (Ragnar Forge)

Charcoal
Barbecuing Wood into Charcoal
Making Charcoal Underground
Making Charcoal: A Tale of Two Retorts
Making Charcoal in the Snow

Smelting
Intro to Metal Smelting: Learning from Failure
First Attempt at Copper Smelting
Iron Smelting Epic Fail!
Bloomery Iron Smelt
How to Make Iron from Scratch: Success 
But Is It Iron? Post Smelt Primitive Forging
Hunting Bog Ore with Cody'sLab
Hunting Bog Ore with Cody'sLab: Part 3
Building the Furnace
Smelting with Cody'sLab
Forging an Old Bloom (Smelted with TKoR)

Pottery
Can You Make Pottery Clay from Dirt?
What Makes a Good Clay?
Coil Building Pottery with DIY Clay
How Hard Could It Be? Pit Firing
Making a Kiln from Used Bricks
First Firing: Brick Kiln
How to Make an Oil Lamp from Scratch
Throwing Pots in the Hobbit Shed

Fibers & Spinning
Vikings Didn't Knit! (Nalbinding)
How to Carve a Nalbinding Needle from a Ham Bone
How to Make String from Weeds
Felting a Hat
Drop Spindle Gavel
World's Simplest Spinning Wheel
What's in This Thing? Unboxing
Teaching Joseph to Spin Wool with a DIY Drop Spindle
Tutorial: Indian Hemp/Dogbane Processing
DIY Viking Wool Combs
New Zealand Flax/Harakeke
Treadle Spinning Wheel
How to Design and Make a Spinning Wheel
​Felting Human Hair

Grain & Harvest
Sickles are Not Scythes
How to Make a Scythe Blade without a Forge
Testing the Scythes
Harvesting Roadside Rye
Threshing the Roadside Rye (Fail?)
Scything the Lawn
Can You Eat Acorns?
Processing Acorns in the Toilet
​Feeding Toilet Acorns to My Family
Corn is Amazing!
How the Iroquois Planted Corn
Am I Dishonoring My Ancestors?
​Harvesting Blue Corn
​Making Tortillas from Concrete? with Zested
Salad from Common Weeds
Making a Concrete Quern (Millstone)
The Original Daily Grind: Testing the Concrete Quern
Double Daily Grind (Quern Loaf)
Cattails
Superfoods and Weeds

Primitive/Ancient Technology
Frisbee Golf with Boomerangs
Playing Hnefatafl with Dog & Thimble
Making Fire is Hard! (Friction Fire Plow)
Playing Nine Men's Morris with Dog & Thimble
Stone Axe: Will It Chop?
​Making Fire is Hard: Part 2
​Playing the Royal Game of Ur with Dog & Thimble 

Philosophy
The Tao of Trash
The Alchemy of Doubt
Kevlar Cows
Value Theory and a Giant Stone Sphere
Objective Gratitude
​On Meat and Moderation
Enthymemes
You're Not as "Logical" as You Think
University Resources
Old, But Good
Ideas that Self-Destruct When You Think Them Through
Happy Endings and What We Fight For
What Good Are Lawns?
Will the Grey Jedi Be the End of Star Wars?
Don't Begin with the End in Mind
How to Keep Your New Year's Resolutions
Everything Is Made of Dirt
Imagine the Past, Remember the Future
All Analogies Are Invalid
Relativism: If You Think I'm Wrong, You Then You Think I'm Right
Science Isn't Logical
To Be or To Do?
Why Math Isn't Everything
The Problem with Pure Democracy
Things You Can't Google
How to Get Bad Grades in Law School
​Chesterton's Fence and Open Floor Plans
Why Go to College: Education as a Monastic Vow
The Virtue of Forest Fires
On the Value of Hippies
​Yin and Yang Don't Represent Good And Evil
The Terror and Promise of Entrepreneurship

Home Manufacturing
Total Beginner Sets Up 3D Printer
Getting Started 3D Printing
Touring a Metal 3D Printing Business (QRP)

The Good and Basic Podcast

The official Good and Basic podcast (better and more complex!) in which we take a deeper dive through long-form conversation into the topics of the YouTube channel.

Use this link to find the podcast on your favorite podcast platform:
Anchor.fm/goodandbasic

Use the RSS feed to manually subscribe to the podcast:
https://anchor.fm/s/a7cf218/podcast/rss

Watch the podcast on our YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPXAOUDhQDCoB4Ui6CF1CIVQKnbPUOax3