Youtube and Internet Woodworking Influencers - Where did they all go?

I never see ads on YT or anywhere else due to using an ad blocker and I doubt I would watch YT anywhere near as much if I had to suffer looking at ads. If you want to watch an absolutely top series watch Clickspring, he built a clock in the first series and is now building The #Antikythera Mechanism. He has been at it for some years now and him and Old Tony have built something of a relationship over the years. The reason it is taking so long is he has gotten involved in academic research to build it. It has to be one of the top YT channels in production quality and his handwork has to be seen to be believed.

The link to his first series=PLZioPDnFPNsETq9h35dgQq80Ryx-beOli&ab_channel=Clickspring
 
Seldom do I have to "suffer" from watching any YouTube ads because I always download the videos before I watch them (fibre optics and unlimited data in my case). I also seldom watch the whole duration of any long-winded clips by fast-forwarding.
 
I have been watching Abom79 for years. I especially like the shaper videos.
There is a newer channel called Inheritance Machining. As the title says, the guy inherited his grandfather's machine shop equipment. He moved it to his own property/out-building and is in the process of setting up and reviving the machines. He apparently worked with them some as a kid, with his grandfather. He's very detailed and knowledgeable, gets into drafting by hand too.
 
squall_line said:
I miss hand-drafting.  I even printed off a bunch of isometric grid paper a few years back because I missed it so much.
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Designing tools & drawing layouts of machines or machine tools/parts by hand and pencil, now & then known as drafting, is indeed rather fun and a throwback to almost 50 years ago when computers were nonexistent for such pedestrian tasks as "simply designing". Who can forget the Timely drawing templates?

Computers at that time were reserved for more arduous tasks and drafting with computers was considered a waste of time and engineering resources. These computers were all tape driven machines that needed to be installed inside a climate controlled atmosphere with limited people access to preserve the climate controlled condition.
The computers were hundreds of thousands of dollars and the most avant grade computer terminal at that time was an Evans & Sutherland 3D screen that cost $250,000 for a single screen. 3M with 200,000 employees had only one of these screens in 1979.

Just a quick history as to how far we've come within the last ???? years.

Your latest iPhone has more computing power than the computers of 40 years ago.
 
Crazyraceguy said:
I have been watching Abom79 for years. I especially like the shaper videos.
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I love metal working and foundry work, and especially shaper videos, there is something just beautifully soothing about watching a shaper in action. I bought a small one a year or so back that I hope I get time to rebuild!
 
luvmytoolz said:
Crazyraceguy said:
I have been watching Abom79 for years. I especially like the shaper videos.
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I love metal working and foundry work, and especially shaper videos, there is something just beautifully soothing about watching a shaper in action. I bought a small one a year or so back that I hope I get time to rebuild!
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Yeah, it's soothing, kind of that ASMR thing.
 
I think what happened is the "market" got mature and saturated.

After all, there are only so many topics your *casual* watcher/user will need to view to get a basic understanding. And those were the ones which drove the views and income.

Once the base topics got reasonably covered, the "thirst" for such subsided and newcommers did not see such exponential income rises as the pioneers and the 2nd gen saw.

Also the veterans now know better, the cometition is stronger, so focus on more quality to quantity. Seems natural.
 
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