r/oddlysatisfying • u/m1st3r_b0x • 1d ago
Close to perfection…
… but still so much work to do!
Can’t find the source. Sorry.
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u/tondahuh 1d ago
I can see the infuriating parts of this as I was getting antsy there, but I do really enjoy watching masons work their magic.
We are only seeing this in 2D but he is sculpting the edges and backside too. Also he is looking at balance. I think some forget that.
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u/TechnicalPlayz 1d ago
For sure. I actually am really happy seeing videos like this where its not the always first try perfect. This shows how actually impressive it is
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u/Positive_Try929 1d ago
Its oddly annoying! He went wrong too many times its infuriating
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u/ColoradoScoop 1d ago
Don’t worry, he’ll get more practice when he does another stone tomorrow.
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u/Quick_Extension_3115 1d ago
How can you build Rome in a day at that point?
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u/FunTXCPA 1d ago
Just need more dudes.....and more hammers. Preferably an equally more number of both.
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u/Spargewater 1d ago
My thoughts exactly. It that was me, I would be done for the day. But I don't agree with the first commenter. I find this video oddly satisfying.
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u/m1st3r_b0x 1d ago
He’s not went wrong… he can’t measure and he can’t settle by getting “close”… the stone has to perfectly fit with the other stones in many ways: form, depth, balance, good looking and so on.
He’s doing a very good job.
It will just take time… a looot of time!!
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u/Positive_Try929 1d ago
U misunderstood the point, this is r/odysatisfying, just like the failed attempts, it didn't fit!
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u/Toastwitjam 1d ago
Except they sell profile gauges today that he could take a negative and fit pretty closely to avoid like 4 of his 7 carving attempts.
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u/SoupADoodleDo 1d ago
But then he wouldn't have a 2 and a half minute video of him needlessly carving away a stone for tiktok
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u/covfefemesurprised 1d ago
This was good enough for me after the first 5 seconds. And I’m a Designer.
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u/mklilley351 1d ago
We're also watching the final 2 minutes. He started that block weeks ago so imagine how many times he got it wrong
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u/Aaron_768 1d ago
Man. I would have said good enough like 2 - 3 times before the final fit.
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u/SoonToBeStardust 1d ago
The last time he has to stuff a chunk of rock behind it to keep it in place
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u/bravosierrapolitics 1d ago
It's crazy to think about how long it must've taken to build all of the ancient and medeival fortresses, the thousands of times this had to be done...
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u/Original_Director483 1d ago
There’s a period-accurate castle being built with a video crew following the old methods if you’re interested.
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u/ValyrianSteelYoGirl 1d ago
And they’ve been going on it since ‘97
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u/Alex-Murphy 1d ago
I love that it's making millions a year through tourism. It really shows that people have a deep love for this kind of project and architecture.
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u/citizen42069101 1d ago
I think people, as a whole, want to know and learn and help build and progress society.
But since that's not always profitable, or said by people that agree with us, we throw the baby out with the bathwater and hold ourselves back
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u/whiskeytown79 1d ago
Old castles did sometimes take decades, or even generations, to complete.
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u/WhiskeyAndKisses 1d ago
And with Guédenlon, the point is not really to build a castle, but to practice medieval skills, attract tourists and do experimental archaeology. (Or so I guess)
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u/Jetman1996 19h ago
Well, they’ve been at it well before 1997 but they didn’t get their website until ‘97!
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u/jojowhitesox 1d ago
If you are interested in the construction of this there is a series available on Prime called Secrets of the Castle. 3 historians live and work at the site for a year. They live, dress, work, and eat like medieval workers.
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u/IHaveTheBestOpinions 1d ago
They mostly used rectangles, which are much more efficient
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u/HugsandHate 1d ago
This is a common misconception. We used to think they were rectangles, but it turns out they were just really bad at making squares.
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u/Hetros_Jistin 1d ago
only if you have access to iron tools. If you don't, then this method displayed above PROBABLY works a hell of a lot better.
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u/IHaveTheBestOpinions 1d ago
The method above requires precisely shaping the rock. If you have the tools to do this on site, then you have the tools to make rectangles.
I don't doubt that there are other methods that require less stone shaping, but that's not what we see here.
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u/BearJohnson19 1d ago
Just as an example, Incan masons used hammerstones for shaping blocks and did both polygonal (like the vid) and ashlar (rectangular). Ashlar took more effort because each face of the block needed to be worked, whereas polygonal blocks only needed to be worked on 2-3 sides.
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u/collin-h 1d ago
take away the internet and social media, and people will have a lot more time on their hands to toil away on the whims of their masters.
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u/jimmyxs 1d ago edited 1d ago
3 iterations ago I would have patted it and called it a job well done. 👍🏼
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u/Guns_and_Dank 1d ago
Yeah I would've let mortar fill those gaps much earlier and moved onto the next.
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u/Wonderful-Kangaroo52 1d ago
... Must be aliens!
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u/trebron55 1d ago
HOW CAN THEY CUT THESE PERFECT ANGLES WITHOUT MODERN TECHNOLOGY?! All they have is a ton of manpower and time!
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u/MoDErahN 1d ago
Yet the same people are totally unamazed that Coliseum was built in 8 years.
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u/KirbyGlover 1d ago
Well it's cause the Romans were "white" and the folks peddling the aliens "hypothesis" are racist
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u/highlorestat 1d ago
Well 'Chariot of the Gods?' was rewritten by a former Nazi using a pseudonym so it would get published.
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u/tinfoilsheild 1d ago
Googledebunkers, ASSEMBLE!
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u/YamatoIouko 1d ago edited 1d ago
cue Milo Cinematic Universe theme
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u/1800-bakes-a-lot 1d ago
Same link no tracker: https://youtu.be/uPeUUif_xE8
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u/YamatoIouko 1d ago
Ya lost the timestamp.
How could I have linked it without a tracker and with the timestamp?
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u/SusStew 1d ago
URLs have "query strings" that send data to the web server. These are delimited by a question mark (?) for the first one and an ampersand (&) for any subsequent ones. In YouTube's case the
t=...is the timestamp andis=...orsi=...is the tracking parameter and should be removed.Tl;dr: remove just
&isand everything after3
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u/NootropicBro 1d ago
This is basically like deadlifting a jig saw puzzle
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u/matej86 1d ago
Except this guys back is going to be utterly fucked at the end of the day. He's constantly lifting with his back and not legs.
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u/inerlite 1d ago
I would have to set up a bench to set the stone on. Something around waist height so I’m not bending over all day and lifting heavy stone like that.
I will give it to him, that wall looks great and will probably last long after he dead.
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u/MisterSlosh 1d ago
Anyone who says ancient builders must be aliens, nah you see how many times this guy fucked it up? They actually measured stuff back then because they couldn't just eyeball it with their copper/bronze/stone tools.
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u/Dale_Wolphen 1d ago
Good god get on with it
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u/Myke190 1d ago
You know what they say; measure never, cut 600 times.
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u/Corpsefire88 1d ago
He did measure, but he measured by holding his fingers up to the wall and then to the stone he's cutting, so I'm not sure it really counts as measuring lmao
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u/Stay-Thirsty 1d ago
What are the chances of getting very good at this before your back completely gives out on you?
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u/SolomonOf47704 1d ago
The thing that pisses me off most about this is that there's so much empty space behind in between the wall and the facade.
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u/paradox_valestein 1d ago
They'll pour concrete in later
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u/SolomonOf47704 1d ago
Unless they're doing it for every individual block when it gets placed, that is not going to be a clean process, and I still hate it.
If they are doing it for every individual block, I also still hate it because that's stupid.
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u/Imnotveryfunatpartys 1d ago
I don’t know anything about the process to be clear. But they might just be dry fitting right now lol
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u/tino3101 1d ago
A wall of this height they are almost certainly putting mortar in behind each stone to bind it to the wall behind.
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u/porn_sub_lurker 1d ago edited 1d ago
From what I understand this is the exact same method the ancient Egyptians used to build the pyramids. The only difference is they had aliens to lift the big blocks into place.
Edit: I was just making an ancient aliens joke, I have no idea if the building method is similar.
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u/notnotDIO 1d ago
It's closer the what people in like Peru were doing than Egyptians, especially since the Egyptian Pyramids were made from rectangular blocks (which have worn down over the course of 4000+ years)
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u/Resiideent 1d ago
Shit stone masons thousands of years ago were doing just for assholes on the internet to say "errrmm it's too good, these primitive dumbasses CLEARLY had help from aliens or smth"
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u/ThisIsPrettyTerrific 1d ago
My dumb ass thought people were just finding the perfect stones to make these walls.
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u/albiondave 1d ago
I was expecting the video to end with him placing a tiny pebble in the hole, surrounded by gravel.
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u/Dudinkalv 1d ago
...he does this whole process for every single stone? It taking 120 years to finish is not satisfying at all to me.
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u/metalguy91 1d ago
Would be a lot more satisfying if they measured and marked before taking multiple tries of breaking the rock and failing to get it right. More like r/mildlyinfuriating
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u/MagicSunlight23 1d ago
I found it quite annoying how 3 times it looked right but he decided to chisel some more away. One of those 3 times, it got worse after he had chiselled away.
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u/OldFcuk1 23h ago
He is always biting from 2 sides when only one is not fitting. Some guys just make their life more difficult and they also have energy to go that extra mile.
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u/sunlightsyrup 1d ago
Really makes me think that standardised bricks might be a better construction tool
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u/myleftone 1d ago
It’s even worse when you realize these are bricks. Molded cement forms designed to fit like Lego, and easy to shape where needed.
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u/Merryner 1d ago
I was just waiting for that joint in the scaffold directly below him to give way and put him and us out of our misery.
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u/voododoll 1d ago
Stonemasonry and bricklaying are arts. Half of Europe is a living proof. There are phenomenal buildings, that withstood the war of time, and above all - us…
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u/Breezerious 1d ago
How strong is this wall, if only the front part or the rocks rest on eachother? while the backs are much smaller and offer no support
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u/Shot_Nerve 1d ago
The wall behind is like a cement backer board for the tile in your bathroom. They pour cement behind the rocks to lock them to the wall, like grout goes behind your tile.
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u/Erazzphoto 1d ago
This looks like it may be something you enjoy when you first started doing it as a living, that very shortly would turn into pure misery
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u/Whiterockltd 1d ago
Entretien d’embauche:
-Vos qualités?
- La patience
Vos défauts?
- Je suis perfectionniste.
-Vous êtes embauché
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u/Robcobes 1d ago
what kind of shitty scaffold is that?
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u/Underscored_323 1d ago
I was impressed that the two planks were connected by the piece of plywood on the bottom...
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u/Impossible_Past5358 1d ago
This looks torturous...like, is this reserved for descendents of Sisyphus?
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u/Mattdav1601 1d ago
Or just measure it mark it cut it once save yourself time, the back ache, and the strength to do 8 more stones in the same time. If he nailed it first try it would be satisfying but this is very uncomfortable vibes
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u/Majestic_Ad_7133 1d ago
And yet there will still be some fools that think you cannot do this without power tools.
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u/Restart_from_Zero 1d ago
Wow, the rocks in that wall are so close together you couldn't put a credit card in between them.
I bet aliens made it.
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u/Conscious-Loss-2709 1d ago
Me: <whack> <whack> <whack>
Hmm, almost there
<whack> <whack> <whack>
<sigh> time to get a new stone. Hope this one will fit a smaller spot elsewhere
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u/Dense_Boss_7486 1d ago
Annoying to watch. Didn’t even make it to the end. Also, won’t that whole wall be top heavy and come crashing forward? Will it be cemented or something?
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u/fluffysmaster 1d ago
Hard to see but it may not be vertical but leaning a bit preventing a collapse.
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u/LabOwn9800 1d ago
Machu Picchu and Cusco the blocks touch the full way against their adjacent sides. So that’s like a sq foot or more of contact with each stone. This wall only the outsides touch for a bit.
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u/SadiSusi 1d ago
Yes, every now and then they mix a bucket of the stuff and pour it behind. That's why the rock is pointy at the back. To free up space for the cement
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u/miki88ptt 8h ago
A bit more hammering and the stone would fit perfectly as it would be a grain of sand.
Not a very good artisan
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u/MiserableScot 1d ago
This was painful to watch, end result looks great, but that was really frustrating!
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u/myleftone 1d ago
I’ve done this. I feel like a failure if I have to reset even twice. Oddly satisfying would be a trick shot where he takes one whack at a completely different part of the stone and it settles perfectly.
This just looks like making fun of the new guy.
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u/minnimamma19 1d ago
Reminds me of the Father Ted episode where he tries to get rid of a tiny dent in his car
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u/sessionclosed 1d ago
Hunched over lifting heavy stone multiple times.
He sure wasnt having a good time the next day if he really did this labor all day
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u/HabitAcceptable8621 1d ago
I remember watching some "New Age" bullshitter back in the 90s claiming that the Aztecs (or Incas) had some kind of magical "science" that enabled them to siften an mould rocks. The "proof" of this was walls of perfectly fitting rocks ...like this guy is doing. (Except it was done to a higher standard with bigger rocks)
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u/Drewdc90 1d ago
Lame versions of stone masonry. The good ones don’t really cut the stone. It’s basically weird shaped bricks at this point.
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u/Unfair_Buddy5871 1d ago
The amount of times through this video i would have stopped and said: "...CLOSE ENOUGH" is more than i'd like to admit