- Hello and good morning,
kind friends and companions. I'm Morgan Donner and continuing with this vaguely historical-ish
cottage, cabin, barn thing, we've made the building, we've added heat, we've added a place to lie down. Next up, I'd really
like to add some light. It looks fine right now during the day, but at night, it is
completely pitch black dark, and especially the walk from
here to house or house to here. Either way, it is an absolute
ankle-twisting hazard, and that will not do. So, we need some light. Now, you might say, well, just
use a flashlight, that'll do, but this isn't exactly the most, you know, beautiful, aesthetic thing. We can do better. Something like an oil lamp or a candle, very lovely, but unfortunately, not exactly the easiest
thing to walk around with, and then, of course, (Morgan blowing) wind is a little bit of a problem. If only I could just take
this and enclose it safely in something so the
wind couldn't get at it. A lantern, that is what I need. I need to make myself a lantern, and I am particularly
fond of the Late Medieval to Early Renaissance ones that there's these two main styles that they tend to be, kind of an all-metal one
that's pierced all over or a wooden one with transparent panels around it, and they're both really cool. I was trying to decide for a little while which way I wanted to go, but we always knew it
was gonna be both, right? Now, for our metal ones, there are several extent 15th Century ones as well as just an absolute ton of images from manuscripts and paintings and things. So, we have a pretty large
selection of what they look like, and there was definitely a bit of variety. Some are just all metal, you know, pierced all over to light out
in little bits and pieces. Some of them had kind of like a little transparent window on
the front where the door was, and that was most likely made out of horn, something kind of like this guy. You would've just cut the tip off, then cut it in half and
flattened out those panel pieces, and then that would make you
a nice little window that, unlike a piece of glass, wouldn't be as likely to shatter
if you accidentally dropped the lantern or something, and this is also relatively
cheap because it's a byproduct of other industries, you know,
meat and leather and things. So, this was an excellent
little window alternative of the time, and then
for the wood lanterns, those would've been basically the window piece of
the melt, but all over. It would've been wood framing with a bunch of transparent, most likely
horned, pieces around. You'll actually see in
a lot of the paintings that there's kind of like a hint of a seam or something
going on in the middle of that transparent area, and I think that's because, depending on the size
of the horn you're able to get a hold of, you might need to stack two
pieces on top of each other to get the same kind
of profile as a candle. I was only able to find one extent version of this particular style of wooden lamp, and unfortunately, it is a
little bit post-Medieval. It's from the Mary Rose
which sunk in 1545, so it's a little bit more like Renaissancey
than Medievally, but (Morgan giggling) it's cool though because you can see in the wooden slats on the
side how there's a groove, which is where our pieces
of horn would've rested in. There's also some really
cool versions from the, like, 1800s that have a wooden
frame and then around that, they've wrapped vellum, or parchment, which is a type of paper
made from animal hides, and that, to me, it is just a
really cool use of materials. It also would've been very
durable, like, it's really neat. Anywho, let's go ahead and get started with the actual making. Let's go for the wood one first and I always like to start
out with drawing out my idea, and in this case, I kind of started getting
the rough dimensions that I had in mind for this,
and then, if you're like me, you show that to your woodworking
partner and ask pretty, pretty please if you can use their lathe with a lot of supervision
from them, and hopefully, being the very kind soul that they are, they will prepare a spare bit
of wood that they have lying around from an old project. They're gonna flatten down
the surface and then mark the center point and do
some really rough cutting so that the initial lathe
process isn't quite so rough. That piece of wood gets
really firmly attached to the face plate with screws and then the center on the
other side gets drilled out which will eventually become
the very top of the lantern. This is nice because it
gives me a really good, firm visual guide to start basing all the rest of my proportions off of, and he gave me a nice quick
lesson on how to hold and move the tool so that I could
remove all the remaining bark and start curving it into a bowl shape. Honestly, usually when it
comes to wood projects, I just hand them to him while I work on other
parts of the project, but for this one, I really wanted to have the
chance to practice using the tools and the machinery
myself and learning how the prep goes and just
getting some good practice in. - [Mr. Donnor] Oh! It's good! Have you sanded? - [Morgan] No. - [Mr. Donnor] Huh. - [Morgan] I only did the
pointy tool and the roundy tool. - [Mr. Donnor] Oh, yeah. Very nicely done. Good finish. - Did you hear that? He said it was very nicely done. Then, we took that off of the
face plate and rotated it 180 and used the hole that he drilled earlier to toss the chuck in there, giving us access to
the bottom of the piece that we couldn't really reach before. He drilled the bottom using
successively larger drill bits until we had enough room
to use the turning tool to remove additional material until we were pretty happy with the overall thickness of the walls. Lastly, he burned some
decorative lines into the top, because while the inspiration pictures are mostly functional pieces, I feel like there's often, like, a little hint of embellishment around it, and I just really, really like the way that
the burning lines looks. For the base of the lantern, I grabbed a piece of the same tree, marked out the center
the way he showed me, cut out the rough shape
with my birthday bandsaw, and then stuck it onto the lathe, and then cut a channel to match the depth of the lip on the upper piece
that we had made earlier, a little bit of tidying up with sandpaper, and then I removed the screws and called this good enough. While I was working on that, he started working on the upright pieces. He got them cut to the
right width and height and then he did some quick additional cuts to make it really, really easy to just chisel off the rest of the unnecessary
parts until we were left with just the middle bit. Then, I smoothed that section out with a little bit of whittling, aiming to get it nice and round, get the corners removed, so it was kind of like a dowel. (wood scratching) Once I got that part nice and rounded out, I then wanted to make the respective holes in the previous two lantern pieces. I matched up to a drill
bit about the right size, and then I did a few
test holes on some scrap to verify what size I like
best, and then, you know, I was ready to drill in the real deal. Always do some tests on scrap, like, it's much better to figure
out what you like best in a piece that you don't care about than to to start drilling away at the thing you do care about. Most of the lanterns I saw in pictures that seem to have four or
five or six of the panels, and I decided that I like the look of six the best, so that's what we're going for. I drilled the top dome piece
first and then I matched up with its bottom mate and made
markings so that the holes would line up as perfectly
as possible with each other. In addition to the holes, I wanted to add little interior supports, so I chiseled away a
section next to each hole to the appropriate size so that my little support
piece would fit in there. You can see here how the
interior and exterior framing will kind of work next to each other, and in between those two
is gonna go my parchment. Yes, I did decide to go with the parchment even though it's not quite as documentable
as the horn would be. I just, I really dig those
18th Century examples and I wanted to see if I could make that
work with this design. Now, in my chosen reference images, I feel like you can see the
wooden supports not only on the outside of it, but also on the inside,
when you can see inside, and I like the way that looks, so I didn't wanna do the
later version of just wrapping the parchment around the frame. I really wanted to try and
achieve that more Medieval look, so fingers crossed this works. First, we need to finish
off the inside though while we still have easy access to it. I'm gonna make the actual
candle-holding part out of a piece of sheet tin. Just fold down that top
edge to reinforce it a bit, smooth it out, form it into a cylinder, and then cut the bottom so that we can flare pieces both in and out. We're gonna use these little
flaps to secure it to the base. I noticed that in a lot
of the reference images, it seemed like there
was a split in the base, and so I figured, let's go ahead and include it. I have a feeling that, so that it's easier to
clean the piece out, also, it gives it a little bit of flex depending on the size of your candle. You might want to squish
it in a little bit or let it flare out a bit. I think I'm gonna go ahead and include it just in case it's integral to the design. Next up is forming a loop
at the top of the lantern. I bought some 3/16 rod and then bent it around a roll of paper to
get it to the right shape, and then removed the
excess with bolt cutters. I drilled a couple of holes into the top and then promptly got
distracted with patterning out the parchment interior on that same roll of brown paper. Once I was pretty satisfied
that I had the right size for the paper layout, I cut it outta the parchment
and then used a bit of wood to make a reinforced edge for the door. First, I scored the surface
to make it easier to fold, did the pre-folding on all those lines, and then added a touch
of glue to the inside before rolling the wood up inside. I did let that dry for a few hours, and while it's probably okay as-is, I don't quite fully trust that the glue is going to 100% hold things, especially once the lantern's
in use and it's getting heated up and then left in the cold
and then heat it up and cold, and, da, da, da. I feel like it's better
if we reinforce the glue just a little bit by
marking out some even lines and then drilling those out with the tiniest drill bit I've got, and then stitching through everything with a double running stitch
using some sinew thread. That should hold this very securely. Alright, our moment of truth has arrived. It's finally time to put
all of this together. I found a gunky brush for
glue application purposes. (paper scraping wood) Aligning up the holes. (wood shuffling) (wooden lid locking) Oh, wait. Glue. (wooden lid popping) As I put the lid on for the second time, I realized that the uprights on the inside were not staying put, and
with the paper in the way, I can't really reach into fix them, so we're gonna have to
try something different. This is probably a terrible idea, (paper scraping wood) but I'll give it a try. There's enough kind of play in
the space between the inside and outside slots that I'm
hoping I should be able to just slip the paper in. A few hours later and the glue is all dry. I've cut down the excess
'cause I add some extra just to make sure I had
enough to properly go all the way around and enclose
the front and everything, and I think we are solidly done. All that is left is to toss a
nice little beeswax candle in there and see what it
looks like once it gets a little bit darker outside. (calm music) I'm really, really excited, not only to see this in its beautiful, lit up lantern glory, but also, ah, it's gonna be so cool to compare this one to the tin lantern because they let out light differently, right? This is sheer where the tin
lantern is pin pricks of light, and I have my theories about what each of them is more useful, like, what situations you'd
prefer one versus the other and, but I don't know. I won't know until I give
them a bit of a test, and I'm really, really
excited to see what happens. Speaking of the tin lantern, Mr. Morgan Donner knew
that this was in my plans to make and he saw this cool kit online where they have all the tools
and instructions all in there, all ready for you, so he bought that for us to make a pair of lanterns together. He's gonna go with a copper
version to kind of test out that and it'll be really, really
pretty if it works out. I'm gonna use the original
tin that comes with the kit and we will see how the two
methods compare in the end. (paper ripping) (indistinct speech from Mr. Donnor) - Oh. (metal sheet flapping)
(paper ripping) First things first is gonna
be the main rounded body. So, it looks like it does
have the first step B, cut the different lines in and fold them however they need to be folded, and then do the decoration embellishment. (metal sheet flapping) So now, I have marked out all of the lines for the main body of the
lantern, and on here, we've got several instructions for where to cut in and then
fold down different elements of the lantern so that they
have a nice, smooth edge, also so that some of the different pieces can lock into each other. So, next up is cuttin'. Mighty tin snips. (metal sheet popping) That wasn't so bad. I went ahead and clamped this
bar to the edge of my table to help protect it from the mallet blows that are gonna come next. It was a lot of fun to experiment with a lot of different
things we had around the house to try and complete various
steps in the process. We often ended up doing a
slightly different thing each to kind of see what might work best. - The drywall is a pretty
good surface to work into. (hammer knocking) - Nice, 'cause it has, like, a little bit of give, but not too much. - Yeah. - I guess we'll find out how the, (Morgan giggling)
(hammer knocking) how this rubber mat prepares. (mallet knocking)
(hammer knocking) We even handmade a couple of
quick tools whenever nothing we had on hand was quite
doing what we wanted. Oh. Fascinating. (mallet knocking) I suppose that make sense. (mallet knocking) More even distribution of force. Turning the top edge of the
tin makes a lot more smooth and nice to the touch, a lot less pokey and sharp
than the raw cut edge is as my hands can unfortunately attest. It's like a billion little
paper cuts on here right now. So also, if you're using Sharpie, try to watch out where you're putting the pieces of your project
because, just watch. In three, two, one, there. I am now going to have a
piece of marker on my face for the rest of this video. It's like a fun little Easter
egg. Keep an eye out for it. Alright. (hammer knocking) Next step. I was looking for an original, original, extent kind of version to copy, but I didn't see anything that was honestly terribly different from what's already here. I think that, to give
it my own little flare, maybe I will go with, like,
a heart version of the, like, the same design, just in a heart shape instead of a circle. That way it's like a
little different and fun, but I'm also not straying too far and making things super difficult
for myself, so, alright. Now, we punch for 1,000,000 years. - It's pretty much a
million years. I can attest. - You've gotten so far.
It looks so good though. - Yeah. - I really love putting
together projects like this, especially when there's a
little bit of wiggle room to add my own slightly
different decorative touches. I think that the heart design
variation worked out really, really well for this. I'm about halfway through my punching with my little heart design here, and you are all done punching. You've also made it
into a cylindery shape. You've already started on your
next piece here, which is? - This'll be the base. - For the bottom of the lantern?
- Yep. Yep. - Nice. So, I have finished the kind
of outlines of the hearts here, and next, I can switch from the little pointy punch
tool to the one that, like, makes cute little lines,
which looks really, really, really nice on his, so I'm excited to get to
work with this one now. Now that I've finished up my heart to my heart's content, I'm gonna go ahead and also roll it into a little tube like this, which is gonna be very fun. It does not want you to
do rolling right now, and then after that, I will cut out the little bottom circle, which he's already moved
on to trying to attach the tin to the bottom
so that it has the thing that holds the candle. That was all very excellently worded, but I'm sure you get the idea. I have not yet made the little circle bit that'll hold the candle yet, but I feel like I wanna
test how well I can make the pieces solder together
with some scraps just to verify that I'm able to make that happen. So, let's take some scraps
to do some test pieces. So now, I am gonna go ahead
and connect my candle holder to the base of the lantern,
and unfortunately, we had to go through several rounds of
different solders and leads and fluxes and things trying to figure out what combination worked
'cause it's very fussy, but I think I hit upon
the winning combination with my little testers, so let's see how we do. First thing is going to do
a teeny tiny bit of flux on the seam here where
the two parts connect. So let's, (hammer knocking) let's give her a go. I think that is a success. We have a stuck little candle
holder dooble here, and now, I think I can put this bottom into the bottom of my lantern itself. So ideally, I should be
able to lock these edges in (tin crinkling) so that they overlap and kind of (tin clanging) do a, (tin clanging) ah! (tin clanging) Do a this thing, you know, lock in. (gentle music) Alright. (gentle music) attempt number two. (tin clanging) Turns out I need to pull
out my little edges here just a little bit more. See now if it's happy. (tin clanging) Yeah, I got one seam to kind of see in. Whew. (bright music) Alright. (bright music) Got more soldering to
help keep it all in place. So, I have finished my bottom, my body of the lantern so I'm gonna also cut out a
little semi-circle sort of piece and start punching away. I will probably go ahead
and actually properly just do the pattern as per, oh, no! You're changing it up! You're doing a, whoop, whoop- - Uh-huh.
- Sort of. - Uh-huh. - Nice. - Yes.
- I like it. (tin sheet flapping) Time to do the cone of mine
and I'm going to add some flux all the way down here so
that I can solder it closed. Now that I have completed
my own little mini hat to go on top of my lantern here, I next need to make the little tabs that are gonna help provide
something for this to hold onto. Now, I could, in theory, just sort of attempt to solder
those two edges together, but the instructions
have some little clips, tabs that you add into the inside to help make a separate little
thing to solder stuff too. We ended up finding out that
you can't actually quite follow the instructions exactly
as given, or you could, but it would block some of the holes, which would be a bummer,
but whatever the case, we were able to make the tabs work, and then we got them soldered in place, and then for the top, I made this little ruffled
piece by folding back and forth on my marked lines until it condensed down to make kind of a fluted cone shape. Now, the older lanterns seem to have quite a lot of variation going on. Some are just the smooth cone part. Some are a more ridged, or
fluted, cone at the top. Some of them have multiple
pieces or just the one. This particular pattern did include this little ruffly bit at the top, so I figured I'd go ahead and add it. I did accidentally make
the hole of the smooth cone just a little bit too big, so I had to make a second
miniature little fluted cone so that I could hold the wire, but once that was added in, I was able to thread all of
these top pieces together, including the final ring, which is just a strip
with the edges folded over so that they're not as sharp
as they would be otherwise, and then I tuck the wires
in so that everything was very neat and tidy. Last part is just going
to be making the door, which is a lot more well-thought
out than my wooden door, if I'm gonna be honest. We'll do the decorative design first, draw it in, punch it, and then there's these little
metal hinges that we're going to bend so that they fit
nicely around the sturdy wire, and then that's gonna go tucked right into this notched area of the door. We pinched down the
remaining edge of the frame, and then the wire stays put. It's so easy, so clean. By the way, Sharpie is really easy to clean off with ispropyl alcohol, so if you messed up your
design earlier in the process and wanna redo it or you
just want to clean off any remaining parts at the end, keep that in mind. One thing I did not keep
in mind was the fact that the hinges are gonna
go here on the side, which means I'm going to have to cover up parts of the
heart, which is not ideal, but, say la vie. I doused it with flux and
solder until the hinges stuck. This isn't exactly my
most neat and tidy work, but it's functional. I'll take it. I also saw
it on a little latch. It's just made with a pinched piece here so that it sticks up off the edge, and then this little loop-de-loop part that gets threaded on there, easy peasy. I would say that if I
were to do this again, I'd make this hand-holdy
part a bigger loop just so it's easier to grab. This is a little tight. Alright, we are outside testing our first-time candlelit
lanterns and checking out. Obviously, I feel like the
camera is not picking up any of the shadows, but you can at least see
the the nice candlelit-ness. (Morgan laughing) You're just some, oh, we can kind of see you now from far away. (upbeat music) Yay! (Morgan laughing) (upbeat music) So, yeah, like, this is
definitely, I know, again, camera's not great at picking it up, but this is absolutely
enough to like walk by in the middle of the night
when it's really dark. - Not to mention it's glowing
pretty solidly right now. Probably, like, 15 mile an
hour winds and these candles, they're flickering a little bit, but not going out by any means. - [Morgan] Oh, yeah, like,
there's a lot of wind and these, I don't think we're in danger
of the candles going out. It's trying.
- [Mr. Donnor] The wind. - [Morgan] The wind is trying so hard. (Morgan laughing) - And they both survived. - Yay! A little fun fact, tin is actually the traditional 10-year
anniversary gift material, so if you are looking for a fun project to do with your partner, I can recommend. It's very fun. The initial light-up tests with the lanterns went
pretty well, I'd say, but I'm really curious
to see them together side by side in the dark. Look at those (energetic violin music) pretty little lanterns. It is very bright. This is very pretty in, like,
the way it puts out light. I am seeing how well I, (cinematic music) I can see our face. It was really neat to get to
see the two lanterns together and how they really put
off light very differently, and I can absolutely see
how they would be useful in some circumstances more than others. I notice in a lot, a lot, a lot of the imagery I saw was that often, the front door is open, and this is very flashlight-esque. (cinematic music) If you're wanting to get from
point A to point B and not, like, kind of blind yourself,
that's a great way to go, 'cause you can have the door facing the direction that you're going, whereas with the wooden one,
because it's light everywhere, to me, that makes it feel like it's better if maybe you've got a group of people, so, like, everybody's trying
to kind of see, and in fact, you actually see a lot
of scenes where someone has it kind of held up really
high so that multiple people in the scene can probably
see what's going on. Like, that makes more sense to me now that I've kind of seen it in action, which is really cool. I dig that part of making projects. Alright, I had a lot of fun. I hope you guys had fun watching, and I will see you guys next time. (bright music) Hello. What are you still doing
here, you silly gooses? Well, I guess while you're still here, I feel like I should maybe
tell you a little bit about my next planned project that's noodlin' around up in here. I'm thinking something a little bit kinder to my hands, maybe paint. Wouldn't that be fun? Maybe painting something very big. Yeah? Wouldn't that be fun? You know what, I think I could
use y'all's input on that. Like, wouldn't it be cute
if I included a bunch of everybody's favorite
flowers and animals and tools? I love tools. Yeah, why don't you, if you're
interested in participating, pop on down to my description where you can find a link to my Patreon. I think I'll post a poll
or maybe a form or some, I'll post something there, and you guys should enter in
what you think I should add to this big painting project. Yeah, that'll be great. I hope to see you there. Okay, but for reals, I gotta go.
