YouTube rabbit holes you fell into

[Conager]

It's never for no reason at all, but YouTube will pop up seemingly random things and it's amazing how well they curate things for you. Things that fascinate you, but you had no idea you were looking for it.

While back, I met a guy that sells the better guitars that a chain of pawn shops get in. He puts them online and maximizes the return so he was going to kind of keep an eye out for me but I sort of lost track of him. I was looking for was some lesser guitar that somebody had worked over because I like the idea of somebody putting way more time, love, and effort into something than it's worth.

That led me to occasionally looking at videos where they're putting real fender parts on a clone or something like that.

The other night I was watching father and son that make custom guitars. A couple of them a week. Acoustics. High-end. Beautiful wood, like Kona. Lots of handwork but they've got all kinds of great machinery and jigs and whatnot.

This popped up tonight. He's building a guitar from scratch using nothing but hand tools. In the middle of it he cheats briefly using a fine router when he's working on a pretty complicated inlay, watching them take a log and some other scraps of wood and building a beautiful 3-piece neck is something else.

So where did you lose an hour that or two that you didn't intend?

 

[Tryharder62]

It keeps showing me Dr. Phil. Should I be worried?

 

[Conager]

Dr. Phil should be worried. . .

 

[HisArpy]

I did a search a long long time ago on steam engines and steam traction engines/equipment. You tube now gives me all kinds of suggested videos on that category (and others).

Recently I've been watching vids of people finding old abandoned equipment and making it run again. One of the vids was funny, they hauled an old Cat crawler out of a frozen lake in Minnesota in the middle of winter. At the end of the vid they asked for donations to help restore it.

What they don't realize is that the crawler is covered in US Army insignia and the government still owns it no matter where it was when they "found" it. Military property always remains the property of the government unless/until they SELL IT. There is no "right of salvage".

Those guys could fully restore the crawler and the US Gov could then swoop in and take the property back without even a thank you. And there's not a thing anyone can do to prevent it. You don't get your money back either. However, if you really want the thing, the Gov might be convinced to sell it to you. How much do you want to pay for a fully restored Catapiller?

 

[oggbashan]

I was looking for a particular piece of brass band music and ended up with these:

https://youtu.be/Q504PDYrKRM

https://youtu.be/jhOe_RlYxx8

 

[Ziggins]

Cuban DIY invention, engineering, and improvization

 

[Richard_C]

The land of YT has some weird stuff. For example, I guess there is this phenomenon of teenage girls living out of a van. The reality is none of them do! Yet, they all do these videos and pretend and make insane money off it! Bizarre!

 

[MaybeMae]

The land of YT has some weird stuff. For example, I guess there is this phenomenon of teenage girls living out of a van. The reality is none of them do! Yet, they all do these videos and pretend and make insane money off it! Bizarre!

Yes! Van Life videos are a trip! Particularly the families with small children who choose to do this.

 

[FGB]

I did a search a long long time ago on steam engines and steam traction engines/equipment. You tube now gives me all kinds of suggested videos on that category (and others).

Recently I've been watching vids of people finding old abandoned equipment and making it run again. One of the vids was funny, they hauled an old Cat crawler out of a frozen lake in Minnesota in the middle of winter. At the end of the vid they asked for donations to help restore it.

What they don't realize is that the crawler is covered in US Army insignia and the government still owns it no matter where it was when they "found" it. Military property always remains the property of the government unless/until they SELL IT. There is no "right of salvage".

Those guys could fully restore the crawler and the US Gov could then swoop in and take the property back without even a thank you. And there's not a thing anyone can do to prevent it. You don't get your money back either. However, if you really want the thing, the Gov might be convinced to sell it to you. How much do you want to pay for a fully restored Catapiller?

I reckon you know all about this then...

https://www.smokstak.com/

 

[handysr]

Car Dismantler

I get stuck watching many things, and my latest is Car Dismantler machines.

It's basically a big machine that has a claw to rather precisely take junk cars apart into individual pieces for either trash or recycle. Now if someone would make a computer interface for it to work over the internet, you could do this naked from your kitchen table and work from home...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P7GAiQ_L7Y

 

[InsightRiot]

I can’t wait to get lost in this one:

Special Feature: SAFIRE – THE BIG PICTURE

I assume it is going to be a series.
Just a little backstory; the vid was produce by the Thunderbolt Project which is a proponent of the Electric Universe theory. SAFIRE is a lab that successfully transmuted periodic elements out of an electric current.

This electric universe theory may be a piece of the solution to Schrödinger’s cat wave function collapse. Time for the ‘Established Science’ of gravity based quantum mechanics to move out of the stoplight.

 

[RejectReality]

Researching wood-turning for a story, just looking for a few terms to flesh out the setup, and I ended up subscribed to five wood turning channels.

That started popping up sawmilling channels, and now I'm subscribed to one of them and watch a couple of others every so often.

One of the wood-turning channels is more of a maker channel, and that started popping restoration channels. Six of those now.

Somehow, that started popping lock picking/lock sport channels. Two of those.

I've worked mentions of wood-turning and terminology from the sawmilling channels into another story, added a little turning for flavor to a character in another story, and have a lock-picking themed story going, but the original story idea that sparked the dive? Still not written. LOL