If you live in London I'd recommend the small armour collection at The Wallace Collection, a free to access museum in Marylebone. Taster: Link: Equestrian Armour Display
I’ve been enjoying some of the Justin Hawkins Rides Again videos. I can’t stand his music and I don’t play an instrument myself, but they’re really entertaining!
Having visited a few open air mueums in Finland last month , I really enjoyed watching these on the same cabin. Edit. Just worked out where it is & we drove past it when we went to the Infantry Museum at Mikkeli. Went up a watch tower quite close to it too. Shame we didn't know that little farm museum was there. Traditional Finnish Log House Building Process - 16mm Film Scan - English Version - YouTube Traditional Finnish Log House/Cabin in 1988 and 2019 - YouTube
Guy with the manual and a lot of patience completely rebuilds his 1950 D4 https://www.youtube.com/c/PacificNorthwestHillbilly
His privately owned Blackhawk is done. I can forgive the excitement... Vice Grip Garage. Dragging old abandoned clunkers out of 20 year+ abandonment and breathing life into them. Really quite remarkable mechanical ability, combined with very dry humour and a humble sense not exactly common on Yewchoob: https://www.youtube.com/@ViceGripGarage For the log cabin afficianado, this slightly odd chap's early videos well worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/@MySelfReliance/videos
Having been to the Dolomites in 2018 I wanted to watch some high quality images on our new tv. I came across this channel of an Italian chap who goes hiking & climbing there. He also did one of the most stylish camper van interior conversions I've seen. https://youtube.com/@BrunoPisaniAdventure
I am quite partial to James Hoffmann's ludicrously in-depth videos about coffee. He has also done some mad things like drinking Harrods coffee from the 1930s (it's terrible).
I'm certain I'm not the only one here who likes to watch a tinkerer. I've watched some of this guy's videos before but found this one interesting. Who would have thought East German hand tools would be interesting. Saying that, I have a Russian socket set I purchased around twenty five years ago that seems indestructible and is nice to use. Aside from that there is a Trabant Kubelwagen and MZ military motorcycle shown in some old footage in this video. Scott
Me! Stefan Gotteswinter: https://youtube.com/@StefanGotteswinter Ridiculously talented German machinist of tiny things, with tiny workshop. What interests me most about Yewchoob is how it's almost unimportant what the subject is if the person making videos has that somewhat intangible factor of just being engaging to watch. My interests are incredibly dull to many, and TBH most channels there literally send me to sleep, but there's enough with that strange ability to present that mean I watch almost no conventional TV any more.
As my family are from Bristol and have worked in the past in Aircraft Production, I find this interesting.
Whatever you may feel about the obscene amounts of money paid for these things, this is a fine piece of the watchmakers art
The above video takes me back to my apprenticeship in the Instrument Dept. We had Dozens of clockwork Cambridge Model B temperature recorders on the heat treatment furnaces. My job was to patrol the factory (a two mile walk three times a shift) every two hours to check them and when necessary change the clockwork module for repair. Our Chargehand was a Flight Engineer on Halifax Bombers in the war. He spent the night shifts fixing watches and cameras with clockwork timers for people in the factory. We had a box on the workbench by the door with all sorts of bits, mostly left over after I had reassembled the Model B's but the Leeds Northrup and Honeywell's could suffer similar fates. The smell of lubricating oils and Benzine buzzing in the sonic bath comes to mind. In the factory we had huge degreasing tanks with trichlorethylene fumes rising in the air. Oh, the days before the H&S at work act! What yer worrying about, nobody's shooting at yer!
Marius Hornberger. Young German ubernerd. Good presenter. Machining, woodwork, electronics, CAM, complex 3D prints in the real world, making your own wooden bandsaw, etc. etc. Want to maybe feel somewhat inadequate about your own skillset? Well worth a look. https://www.youtube.com/@MariusHornberger I mean... Really...
Adventures into history About guys who look for old hidden cemeteries and telling the stories about those who were buried there.