today’s video we’re going to be showing
you how to make a primitive styled glue
stick using exclusively materials made
out of trees this is a hot glue stick
it’s not the kind of that you usually
think of that goes in a glue gun or you
buy it a craft store this is sort of the
OG glue stick if you will this is made
of pine sap and charcoal and it’s a very
old recipe for how to make glue this
stuff works surprisingly well and holds
on really strong the ingredients could
not be simpler sap from pine trees and
charcoal dust here’s the basic plan
we’re going to gather up some pine sap
melt it down and mix in some finely
ground charcoal to create a solid mass
that can be melted down into a glue to
get started we need to gather some SAP
now I think every kind of pine tree
produces SAP and it’s usually not too
hard to find if you look around it will
often be leaking out of the trees
especially if the tree has had any
branches break off or something like
that let’s look around and see what we
can find and we’ll just gather it up in
this tin this used to be a bean can it’s
cut into this strange shape so that it
has a couple of handles to easily carry
you can see that gathering the SAP is
not usually very quick although this
amount is already a good start and it’s
only taken me five or ten minutes if you
spent a couple hours doing this you
could probably fill the whole Tim
sometimes you can get lucky and you
actually find spots where SAP has
dripped down off of the trees in larger
quantities I think we’ve got enough we
can now take this over the fire and
start melting it down we’ve got our SAP
in our can or modified can with the
handles so now we’re gonna take it over
the fire and we have here just some
charcoal that’s burning it’s not big
flames it’s not super hot and that’s
what we want we want fairly low heat
because too high of heat and some of
this would burn some of it would start
boiling and that can change the texture
in ways we don’t want Plus this is all
flammable and if there’s lots of big
flames it’s harder to control and it
could ignite very quickly little bits of
it start to melt and get runny down in
there that might even be going too fast
I’m trying to stir it to keep all of the
melted stuff together with the unmelted
stuff it’ll help it melt more it’ll help
it be more smooth and even and it stops
the stuff that’s already melted from
boiling too much now depending on the
SAP you’ve gathered what it melts down
into is gonna be a little bit different
if all of the SAP you gathered was
really nice and clear they’re probably
just gonna have a nice clear thin syrup
textured mixture all right this is
starting to melt quite nicely we’re just
gonna back it out of the fire so it’s
still in a warm area so it’s not going
to be boiling as we prepare the charcoal
so now what we need is charcoal and
generally the mixture that we’re looking
for is two to one of SAP charcoal so one
part charcoal two parts SAP and you can
kind of eyeball this if you’re off by a
little bit either direction it should
still work pretty well take piece of
charcoal rock I’m just gonna start
crushing this up into a fine powder
looks I think that will be about enough
you know I think that’s getting to quite
a good fine powder I’d say that looks
like should be enough let’s get our SAP
all the way melted make sure it’s at the
consistency we want you can go even a
[Music]
just mix our charcoal in we actually
need a little bit more just crush up a
little bit more this handle because I’ve
just been keeping this in low heat these
handles are actually cool enough that
can just hold on to them especially the
one that was farther away from the heat
and I can just add a little bit more
I’m just gonna use one stick to try and
attach it to the other stick it’s warm
enough that I definitely don’t want to
just grab it with my hands one of the
reasons I’m using this can instead of
something else is that whatever you cook
this in is definitely going to get
ruined
this is destructive and messy and as
this stuff cools off it sticks a time
and of course it’s charcoal so it’s
super dark very noticeable as it builds
up on stuff as it cools down it stops
sticking nearly as much and it’s fairly
cool now still quite squishy soft but
definitely getting harder and now we
want to let this cool down completely
I’ve been talking about how we want to
avoid getting this too hot let’s try and
see what happens if I get this too hot
I’m just gonna put this right over some
coals and I’m gonna blow on it a little
bit to get that going a little more
so what I’ve poured onto there is
basically turpentine and charcoal it
burns very quickly and very readily and
with a lot of smoke as you can see our
glue has now cooled down at this point
it’s quite hard you can barely put a
dent into it with your finger if you use
your fingernail you can definitely mark
it a little bit but it’s quite rigid
quite hard and it holds itself together
really well and this still could cool
down a little bit more it’s a fairly
warm day out here which is gonna keep it
a little bit more pliable if it’s cool
or if you cool it off in cold water or
something like that it gets very hard to
the point where I’m not even sure you
can dent it with your nail anymore so
now we have our hot glue stick to use it
we warm it back up and we saw how
flammable this stuff was when it gets
really hot and lights on fire we don’t
want to do that but we can just use the
heat from the fire to warm it up enough
that we can use it see it definitely
started getting a lot shinier it’s now
sticking to my glove pretty much
immediately we’re just gonna see about
gluing these two sticks together now
that is not the best kind of use of this
glue sticking to surfaces to each other
is not what it’s best at but just to
take a look at it
see what happens glue smear it on there
press these two together now let’s let
this cool down look at something that
this does really well so I have a dowel
here and a piece of 2×4 that I drilled
in the hole that I drilled is far too
big this dowel it’s not a tight fit
falls right out spins very loose and
easily that’s because I intentionally
drilled this hole too big you can just
see there’s a gap all the way around
that dowel so what we’re gonna do is
we’re gonna take some of our glue here
we’re gonna melt that down we’re gonna
heat up the end of our dowel just a
little bit and cover it and we’re gonna
wedge that down in and see how well
attached it is after the glue cools why
we’re not wearing gloves
I would not be using my fingers to clean
this off I just be using a little piece
of a stick
not even necessarily for the temperature
thing although the glue was pretty warm
as I was doing that but mostly because
it would stick my fingers all right
let’s let this cool down and we can see
how well these pieces are attached I
tried to glue these sticks together and
then because I was impatient I ran them
under cool water but the water was
flowing fast enough that it just sort of
pulled the sticks apart and now they’re
wet so I can’t glue them back together
very well but I do still have the dowel
in the 2×4 and as you can see it’s stuck
like it doesn’t just hold the dowel into
the 2×4 it holds the 2×4 onto the dowel
yeah I might be able to tear it out and
I’m gonna try but we’re gonna see how
much force this takes oh my gosh a lot
of force is the answer and that’s still
actually a little bit sticky which means
it probably wasn’t even cooled down all
the way yet and that was in there that
was stuck this stuff is powerful I’m
gonna re warm this and stick it back in
there just so it holds in but like that
stuff sticks well random fact another
interesting product that can be made
from trees is chewing gum which got its
start from the rubbery sap found in
Sapodilla trees a strong easy to use
easy to carry waterproof glue fits on a
stick and it’s entirely made out of
trees just pine sap charcoal and a stick
from the ground in terms of useful
primitive knowledge this to me is really
great because like it’s glue
who doesn’t want glue not to mention the
fact that once it’s cooled down all the
way it’s sort of a rigid plastic so
there’s probably some other tools you
could make just by sculpting this stuff
a little bit into the right shape guys
we love doing this old technology style
stuff if you’ve got anything you’d like
to see let us know down in the comments
guys there’s always more for you to see
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you how to make a primitive styled glue
stick using exclusively materials made
out of trees this is a hot glue stick
it’s not the kind of that you usually
think of that goes in a glue gun or you
buy it a craft store this is sort of the
OG glue stick if you will this is made
of pine sap and charcoal and it’s a very
old recipe for how to make glue this
stuff works surprisingly well and holds
on really strong the ingredients could
not be simpler sap from pine trees and
charcoal dust here’s the basic plan
we’re going to gather up some pine sap
melt it down and mix in some finely
ground charcoal to create a solid mass
that can be melted down into a glue to
get started we need to gather some SAP
now I think every kind of pine tree
produces SAP and it’s usually not too
hard to find if you look around it will
often be leaking out of the trees
especially if the tree has had any
branches break off or something like
that let’s look around and see what we
can find and we’ll just gather it up in
this tin this used to be a bean can it’s
cut into this strange shape so that it
has a couple of handles to easily carry
you can see that gathering the SAP is
not usually very quick although this
amount is already a good start and it’s
only taken me five or ten minutes if you
spent a couple hours doing this you
could probably fill the whole Tim
sometimes you can get lucky and you
actually find spots where SAP has
dripped down off of the trees in larger
quantities I think we’ve got enough we
can now take this over the fire and
start melting it down we’ve got our SAP
in our can or modified can with the
handles so now we’re gonna take it over
the fire and we have here just some
charcoal that’s burning it’s not big
flames it’s not super hot and that’s
what we want we want fairly low heat
because too high of heat and some of
this would burn some of it would start
boiling and that can change the texture
in ways we don’t want Plus this is all
flammable and if there’s lots of big
flames it’s harder to control and it
could ignite very quickly little bits of
it start to melt and get runny down in
there that might even be going too fast
I’m trying to stir it to keep all of the
melted stuff together with the unmelted
stuff it’ll help it melt more it’ll help
it be more smooth and even and it stops
the stuff that’s already melted from
boiling too much now depending on the
SAP you’ve gathered what it melts down
into is gonna be a little bit different
if all of the SAP you gathered was
really nice and clear they’re probably
just gonna have a nice clear thin syrup
textured mixture all right this is
starting to melt quite nicely we’re just
gonna back it out of the fire so it’s
still in a warm area so it’s not going
to be boiling as we prepare the charcoal
so now what we need is charcoal and
generally the mixture that we’re looking
for is two to one of SAP charcoal so one
part charcoal two parts SAP and you can
kind of eyeball this if you’re off by a
little bit either direction it should
still work pretty well take piece of
charcoal rock I’m just gonna start
crushing this up into a fine powder
looks I think that will be about enough
you know I think that’s getting to quite
a good fine powder I’d say that looks
like should be enough let’s get our SAP
all the way melted make sure it’s at the
consistency we want you can go even a
[Music]
just mix our charcoal in we actually
need a little bit more just crush up a
little bit more this handle because I’ve
just been keeping this in low heat these
handles are actually cool enough that
can just hold on to them especially the
one that was farther away from the heat
and I can just add a little bit more
I’m just gonna use one stick to try and
attach it to the other stick it’s warm
enough that I definitely don’t want to
just grab it with my hands one of the
reasons I’m using this can instead of
something else is that whatever you cook
this in is definitely going to get
ruined
this is destructive and messy and as
this stuff cools off it sticks a time
and of course it’s charcoal so it’s
super dark very noticeable as it builds
up on stuff as it cools down it stops
sticking nearly as much and it’s fairly
cool now still quite squishy soft but
definitely getting harder and now we
want to let this cool down completely
I’ve been talking about how we want to
avoid getting this too hot let’s try and
see what happens if I get this too hot
I’m just gonna put this right over some
coals and I’m gonna blow on it a little
bit to get that going a little more
so what I’ve poured onto there is
basically turpentine and charcoal it
burns very quickly and very readily and
with a lot of smoke as you can see our
glue has now cooled down at this point
it’s quite hard you can barely put a
dent into it with your finger if you use
your fingernail you can definitely mark
it a little bit but it’s quite rigid
quite hard and it holds itself together
really well and this still could cool
down a little bit more it’s a fairly
warm day out here which is gonna keep it
a little bit more pliable if it’s cool
or if you cool it off in cold water or
something like that it gets very hard to
the point where I’m not even sure you
can dent it with your nail anymore so
now we have our hot glue stick to use it
we warm it back up and we saw how
flammable this stuff was when it gets
really hot and lights on fire we don’t
want to do that but we can just use the
heat from the fire to warm it up enough
that we can use it see it definitely
started getting a lot shinier it’s now
sticking to my glove pretty much
immediately we’re just gonna see about
gluing these two sticks together now
that is not the best kind of use of this
glue sticking to surfaces to each other
is not what it’s best at but just to
take a look at it
see what happens glue smear it on there
press these two together now let’s let
this cool down look at something that
this does really well so I have a dowel
here and a piece of 2×4 that I drilled
in the hole that I drilled is far too
big this dowel it’s not a tight fit
falls right out spins very loose and
easily that’s because I intentionally
drilled this hole too big you can just
see there’s a gap all the way around
that dowel so what we’re gonna do is
we’re gonna take some of our glue here
we’re gonna melt that down we’re gonna
heat up the end of our dowel just a
little bit and cover it and we’re gonna
wedge that down in and see how well
attached it is after the glue cools why
we’re not wearing gloves
I would not be using my fingers to clean
this off I just be using a little piece
of a stick
not even necessarily for the temperature
thing although the glue was pretty warm
as I was doing that but mostly because
it would stick my fingers all right
let’s let this cool down and we can see
how well these pieces are attached I
tried to glue these sticks together and
then because I was impatient I ran them
under cool water but the water was
flowing fast enough that it just sort of
pulled the sticks apart and now they’re
wet so I can’t glue them back together
very well but I do still have the dowel
in the 2×4 and as you can see it’s stuck
like it doesn’t just hold the dowel into
the 2×4 it holds the 2×4 onto the dowel
yeah I might be able to tear it out and
I’m gonna try but we’re gonna see how
much force this takes oh my gosh a lot
of force is the answer and that’s still
actually a little bit sticky which means
it probably wasn’t even cooled down all
the way yet and that was in there that
was stuck this stuff is powerful I’m
gonna re warm this and stick it back in
there just so it holds in but like that
stuff sticks well random fact another
interesting product that can be made
from trees is chewing gum which got its
start from the rubbery sap found in
Sapodilla trees a strong easy to use
easy to carry waterproof glue fits on a
stick and it’s entirely made out of
trees just pine sap charcoal and a stick
from the ground in terms of useful
primitive knowledge this to me is really
great because like it’s glue
who doesn’t want glue not to mention the
fact that once it’s cooled down all the
way it’s sort of a rigid plastic so
there’s probably some other tools you
could make just by sculpting this stuff
a little bit into the right shape guys
we love doing this old technology style
stuff if you’ve got anything you’d like
to see let us know down in the comments
guys there’s always more for you to see
that box up at the top will transport
you to our last video you should check
that out the box at the bottom will show
you what YouTube thinks you should be
watching next and if you aren’t you
subscriber hit this bomb in the middle
and that way you’ll never miss out on
any of the fun don’t forget to ring that
Bell and we will see you in the next one talk to you then
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