Here’s how metal mirrors are made. #artisan #metalwork #handcrafted
Here’s how metal mirrors are made. #artisan #metalwork #handcrafted
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Actually, pretty sure both the internet and, well, anyone with a mass spectrometer knows how much goes in. How dumb are you?
wait a minutes…
everything is reflective if you polish it very good enough…
How come everyone wants to sound like npr/ted talk. Wooof
That’s just bronze with 3x more tin. Copper and tin. It’s still a great craft, but let’s not pretend like there’s some super-alloy in these things.
How It Works. Greate show. I love how beautifully American it is. This should be a part of the show. Maybe our Public Schools should invest in this as a trade to teach and continue its practice.
My guess is that this is a craft that Egypt and others may have acquired in trade and tributes so, so, long ago.
My favorite thing about these stupid stories is “ohh it’s a dying craft and this is the last family that makes them”. If those families have a damn about their “tradition” they would stop being selfish and teach others outside their family
The formula is 70% copper 30% tin
Aranmula Kannadi has been very famous across ages although in today’s day and age it is not a lucrative thing for many. Hope the art form of making such beautiful mirrors continues for many more years.
Alloy isn’t very important if you get a good finish on it
The metal composition is a carefully guarded secret that has never been
"cracked" by the most powerful examination techniques known to science.
The last know auction price paid for a small mirror of this type was 1.5 million USD, in 1986.
I always hated when people say shit like "only these specific guys know exactly how this is made"
Like… can’t anyone else just try and find out? We know what’s in it, it’s not like the Krabby Patty secret formula.
This is racist
Any Mistborn fans here? 😂
Nice this before glass? 👏🏿👌🏿👍🏿
😮 secrets 😂
Okok make something and place a mirror above it😂😂😂
Wow
🙏🏼✨🙏🏾
Mirror mirror on the wall, what is the most badass mirror of them all!
Anyone else selling that alloy to the Varrock general store?
Total bullshit
Aarnamula kannadi.
The combination two different metals turns into a mirror.
The shine is the result for the past combined efforts of tamilnadu and kerala.
Ancient craft using sandpaper
They are so creative.
Total waste of effort,, when you all had to place mirror inside that !!
So it’s just a work-intensive brass mirror of well-known composition…
There’s a couple reasons humans stopped doing it this way, no need to spread literal misinformation just to glorify the craftsmanship of days long gone
Bronze?
You can so that with any metal. You can get a mirror polish on a goddamn pocket knife for god’s sake.
Bronze. Tin + copper = Bronze
This is so sad😢… these people are absolutely disgusting human beings
nice
Make it a bit bigger so that one can see his face easily without getting blind.
I have heard that some people in mesoamerica used iron to make mirrors. Would have been cool to see it
"made of tin and copper…" uh… you mean bronze? Isaac Newton used it for his telescopes. not much of a secret. people stopped using it because they learned how to apply metal coatings to glass, which is objectively more reflective.
Interesting. Thank you.
Ofc it’s "hand made"
Dang, that’s ineffective. 😅
I love these old crafts done by hand, the idea of passing skill along, the feeling like a little bit of the maker is in every product. Not a soulless factory made item from a machine.
ആറന്മുള കണ്ണാടി ❤❤
What if you scratch the mirror surface?
I guess most of the metals when polished will give a mirror finish to its surface probably.
Try throwing a stone in India and not hitting something holy XD
Tin and copper? So it’s bronze then?
wait till they realize normal mirrors are metal plated glass
so… bronze?
This mirror only made Kerala in India. It’s mirror is called Aaranmula mirror.
So it’s made of bronze, I guess…
Literally the dumbest videos with all there lies
30% tin to 70% copper You’re welcome😂
VERY intresting if ever go to india I’ll try to buy one must be expensive though😂 great video