Amazing Process of Cutting Gigantic Volcanic Glass to Make Crystal Balls
2023 ж. 8 Жел.
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In this episode on Tekniq, let us observe the mesmerizing process of developing a ball-shaped showpiece from glass and various other shapes from Himalayan salt.
All that glass dust and so few respirators. No ear protection in sight. Open, spinning cutting wheels with no guards for fingers, feet, knees. The skill is amazing. The conditions are criminal.
この安全管理がされていない労働環境が許される先進国はあるのだろうか…。
@@nyanco-sensei Not legally, no. Illegally? I wouldn't doubt it for a second. We are in the second great age of Robber Baron capitalism.
I agree. Sad tho, in America, many do not care about OSHA or protecting the workers. Humans give up so much to give us beauty!
@@nyanco-senseisự an toàn cho người Dân sao? Xin bạn đừng mơ mộng, đây là Trung Quốc, một nước Cộng Sản Độc Tài. 😅
The guys cutting huge logs barefoot and no gloves. Unprotected band saws. I have no issue paying taxes for OSHA and the FDA. Not to mention the business added cost of fire escapes.
I'm going to Bookmark this video for future reference. If I ever feel like I've had a rough day at work, I'll watch these Men in the Mine drilling with manual Hand Tools........amazing and much respect to them.
what is your daily occupation man?
@@_Wai_Wai_ I'm a Sr. Technical Author for a U.S. Aerospace/Defense Corporation. 😉
@@hkguitar1984 so you write repair manuals?
@@_Wai_Wai_ I do. The manuals I author are for field shelters the Military uses. My duties cover setup/strike, maintenance and field repairs. Before this job I worked authoring Ford Dealership Service Manuals. Not sure how I fell into this profession, but its been working out well for the last 27 years! 😉
@@hkguitar1984 Interesting, what aspects do you enjoy most about your job?
Now I know what I have missing in my life, a red glass ball.
these guys are a different breed. he's literally walking around with the skilsaw just spinning away lol
i said the same thing i was like o that thing dont stop lol
I think he's missing a tip on the left hand 😅
You cut glass with a diamond blade they don't have teeth on them and will not cut you like a wood saw blade if you have ever had a cast removed they use the same type of blade and sometimes it brushes against your skin all it will do is give you something like a rug burn
The grinding process for those spheres is impressively terrifying to watch.
You can't cut your fingers on the saw blades. I pressed my thumb against such a saw blade, and it didn't make a mark. What's terrifying is that nobody is using gauze masks. Glass dust is _TERRIBLE_ for the lungs! I am certain that several of the workers will develop COPD and probably cancer. COPD stands for Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Hell yes. And i have cut a LOT of stone in my life.
At least they’re already red
I’m sure those thin rubber coated gloves will protect his hands 😅
Also, silicosis... :( These people deserve proper HEPA filter breathing masks - and ear protection.
The size of the hand laid paper sheets? Is simply amazing!
You see how the guy was just slammimg the saw
That's a lot of hard and dangerous work. The worker is putting a great amount of force shaping the glass. One slip and it could result in life threatening injuries. Beautiful results with the spheres but dangerous working conditions.
Have been working with glass since 1976 and I'd rather a lot and I stress a lot of small cuts than a big one. Touch wood. It's not volcanic glass it's man made.
The same can be said of most tradesman that live in ur community from the lineman to the roofer
@@kafunkalear I'm glad you mentioned that it's not volcanic. It's pretty awful really. Just a bunch of glass balls. I mean, look how many there are, just lying around. I love beautifully made glass but this? Not-so-much. What sort of glass are you working with? I mean are you a craftsperson or do you work in the glazing industry. Glass, as you're fully aware, is not something to underestimate.
The grinding wheels are flexible and the man is wearing cut proof gloves. I'm sure all of these people have been doing this process for years. Just look at the number of spheres in the beginning of the video. They aren't saw blades like on a chop saw or a circular saw, they are grinding wheels and are flexible. It's almost hard to hurt yourself on them.
Wet saws dont cut flesh
When I first saw the picture, I thought I was looking at raw flesh of some sort. The glass is really beautiful 🤩
Yeah at first glance ti looked like a whales tail.
I thought it was too much tuna
@@dukx3986 : great name for a race horse "too much tuna" !!!! By the way, I had a wonderful cat named Tuna!
I thought it was Tuna, silly me, tuna isn't shaped like that but it did remind me of raw tuna.
For me the process start to finish of the rice-paper making was so amazing, I had no idea it took that many to work the sheets, or that when drying that it is peeled away like that per layer.
I had to come to the comments to figure out what they were making. I wish they would write it on the screen but you are doing great! That's for the knowledge, sir.
Ya thanks. I had no idea what they were making.
I had no idea traditional Chinese brush writing paper is called rice paper
Respect for the workers in performing this hard and dangerous work.
Thats nothing to do with respect. They have no choice. Disrespect for the owners of the mines. They should spent some money for personal protection equippment for the workers who are making them rich.
@@jaybee813 necrotic stage capitalism
I thought he was cutting apart a giant fish.
Looked like prime rib to me.
There's videos of people chopping up tuna
I worked a production job for many years. Machinery working at high speeds. It's fun to look at such labor intensive jobs these folks are doing. Truly amazing hand made products.
The massive paper making is incredible!
Thanks for clearing that up dude , I was so confused 😅
. *I'd like to see the printer for that.*
😅😅😅@@snoglydox
Keep the whole village employed! haha I guess it's special for art but I'd never imagined they made those by hand anywhere still.
Rolling paper 😮
The construction of the rice paper was fascinating.
I thought that they were going to use it to roll up a really big joint.
Makes you appreciate these items even more. I will not ever gripe about the price of these types of items again.
This looks extremely, impeccably, absolutely safe.
HA! Sure does, doesn't it!
Right, especially the guys making the spheres. One slip and your hand is done.
Good thing no one needs to wear a mask.
@@SaccoBelmonte It's probably not that bad, I've seen lapidarists talk about their cutting and shaping wheels--they are abrasive not sharp, and you can tell it takes an enormous amount of pressure to remove material. Not that I'm volunteering...
They all seem to still have all their fingers….so that’s a plus.
No eye protection, no ear protection, no lung protection in sight. Just living the moment. 👍
Breathing in these conditions is really damaging to the lungs.
No gloves or helmet. They don't have to worry about retirement in old age.
Probably in china then.
I wish I knew how to get one of those volcanic glass balls!! So beautiful!!
I'm looking too
try GOOGLE
Well I think we've already tried that !
It would help if you googled crystal ball or something it's not really made from obsidian like the title says, I know because I've flintknapped a lot of obsidian and there isn't and super vibrant colors like this. That's manmade glass they are shaping.
At first glance I was like… 🤔 So this is how bowling balls are made 😅
구슬이나 만들기엔 돌이 아깝다… 수작업으로 구슬모양이 잡혀가는 과정은 놀랍다!
I have a saltllamp next to my bed they're beautiful and so relaxing too, the volcanic glass spheres are beautiful too and the lady that's making the mosaics is very talented indeed , the paper making was interesting too, all these people deserve the credit for for hard work and skills they have!😊🙏💜✌️
They are certainly talented for what machinery they have available, but often very wasteful of material. There was no volcanic glass - that was all man made glass.
@@buggsy5 I agree, I think they're calling it volcanic glass because it looks like a chunk of volcanic lava due to the colour being similar to lava?🤔😂👍
The paper making scene is not in Japan. They are counting "1, 2, 3!"at 16:58 in Chinese, and the letters on the wall is not ones used in Japan.
Its says "Samsung Rice Paper" on the wall banners [with the 3 stars] and the guys tops (in red) says Samsung too.
@@user-cx4ll4rj1t The chinese Samsung then, not to be mistaken with the Korean Samsung we all know about.
@@kirkanos771And guess where Samsung phones are made?
@@harrassee My Samsung phone was made in Vietnam.
When I first see the images, I knew it was in China. Tbh, only Chinese people could work in such dangerous conditions and get out an Amazing work. I'm Chinese of origins btw
The gigantic paper making blew my mind.
Wow that is amazing. the workman are not even gently handling the glass! They are beautiful
The glass is too.
Whoa! These guys are strong. Had no idea volcanic glass was like this.
Sad part is they probably get crap pay and the "owner" makes a ton of money. Those things are very expensive.
@newinfusion 0 seconds ago That’s not volcanic glass. The slab they were cutting at the beginning was a glass ingot made in a factory nearby. Later on, we see clear and pink balls being made there as well. You don’t get those colors or that variety from volcanic activity.
The title is clickbait. There was no volcanic glass anywhere there.
I do tree service for a living, loading logs into the Bobcat and such. That being said I wouldn't bet a single penny in an arm wrestling match against those guys lifting the stone. Respect!
That is crazy dangerous work
This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Even the sound of it is awesome.
Ebböl a Kristálybol,, lesz egy Gyönyörü szép , és dekorativ munka. Bravo..
The paper made is amazing, so huge!
Imagine how big the crayons must be! That is a labor-intensive product. The art they make with it is worth all the effort.
@@Jonathan.D LOL
So much newfound respect for these hard working artists who do backbreaking work with incredible skill in sometimes dangerous environments so that we can all have beautiful things. I just bought a Himalayan salt bowl lamp filled with salt balls and seeing these people working to make these items made my bowl so much more special and valuable in my mind now that I've seen the hard work that goes into making it.
Terrible working conditions for some people. I'll bet they're pay is equally poor.
Who ever told you love doesn't hurt?
I'm sure they'll be grateful to you as the slowly die from Silicosis. Also, salt lamps are bunk....and the factories and quarries they come from in Pakistan are literal horror shows. But the pseudohippies keeeeep buyin em. Be careful, theyll destroy most things you store near them too, including electronics, books, artwork, paint, carpet and furniture etc etc etc
alt is red in color?
Incredible skill sad to think the product is dependent on trends and mysticism. When Hollywood stops thinking Witchcraft is cool I fear for the work here
Can you imagine the particles they are breathing in?
or in their eyes?
@@richardschneider4775 Yea no eye protection = lots of small sharp things are in their eyes, for sure... Their lungs are probably not gonna last long from that either.
They have put on safety lungs.
can you imagine my particles your mom is breathing in?
Y después nosotros lo compramos en una tienda Boutique, a valores increíbles, sin pensar en los pobres hombres que labraron por migajas. Y un patrón se lleva la gran torta.
I'd never have imagined this kind of volcanic glass existed. These people are incredibly courageous and hard working. I bet they also designed most of their machinery. But damn, I'll always be appalled by the lack of basic security measures.
That's because there isn't red volcanic glass. Volcanic glass is either black as in Obsidian, or golden yellow as in Pele's hair (filaments of volcanic glass). This is "slag glass" which is glass of different colors made in such a way to produce a marbled effect. It's no more special than colored opaque marble glass.
Bc it’s not natural
Glass flag from a factory not from volcano
or ear protection
@@Kalithrasis What colors can volcanic glass be? The color of obsidian ranges widely from common brown-black to orange, green, blue, gray or even near-colorless, and is influenced by the presence of sub-micron-sized crystals. Common textures include flow banding, breccia, devitrification (including spherulites and lithophysae), and vesicular bands. there has been more red glass found in certain areas. not saying this is real volcanic glass but it could be or maybe they made it in the same manner some make pearls by seeding the lava flow.
What I admire about videos like these is that they show regardless of what a person's station in life is, they work to provide for themselves and their families. Where there are no social handouts, people do what they have to do.
what are you talking about..social handouts are a good thing
What else can they do. You either fight for life or die. I admire anyone trying their best.
Yes. Little things, like protective eyewear, are hArDlY necessary... 🙄 It might cost the employer a whole dollar. There's plenty of desperate people, if any of these go blind.
Your post is hilarious in light of the fact that guite a bit of the flim footage was shot in socialist countries! That's just too funny.
@@jstephenallington8431 Oh, ever so true. There is often a misconception of what "real" Socialist living conditions are. They envision a Nordic lifestyle although Norway is not a true Socialist economy. Most are more like the living conditions of these hardworking souls.
Amazing how so much of what we use in life just mysteriously appears, yet we never know the human effort, creativity, (and suffering) that goes into producing those goods! Respect!❤️
Sounds like you've never worked in a machine shop or done construction.
@@Ogrematic My point is the average person goes through their lives never fully understanding just how much they rely on the hard labour and ingenuity of others for the materials that enable them to exist. My career involved a profession requiring years of tertiary study, and was less manually intensive. We all share our talents to benefit the whole, because we don’t have mastery of every skill to survive. No one is less than any other, and we depend upon each other more than you could believe.
@@queenslander7756 "Mysteriously appears."
Very interesting, but I wish there had been captions to briefly explain what was happening.
私もこの水晶玉を所有しています。これ程大変な作業で作られている事に感動しました。大切にします。
この水晶玉は好きですか？それはあなたにどのような祝福をもたらしましたか？
@@user-df7fr2bc8g はい。とても素晴で素晴らしいです。
вот Китайцы молодцы !!! пРАКТИЧЕСКИ ГАРАЖНЫЙ БИЗНЕС))
Un material tan hermoso reducido a una simple esfera!? Me gustaría ver las grandiosas piezas y obras que pueden hacer artistas y artesanos con este materia!
凄い、初めて見ました。 投稿ありがとうございます。
Interesting. Sorry to see some people having to work so hard. As of 14:51 I really like this woman making the mosaics. Very nice.
I don't see a single one of them working very hard
@@michaelwoods8654 Can happen if one is blind.
Why are you sad for people working hard?
The video on making paper is in China, not Japan.
I thought the glass looked better roughly cut up than made into a ball.
화산이폭팔하여도. 누군가에게는소중한. 자원으로일자리를 제공하여주었군요,? 멋지고아름다운상품 부탁합니다. 👍🙏👍🙏👍🙏👍
Remarkable, I never knew these balls existed. I have to have one.....
I was just wondering who would buy one of this, I mean there is an entire crew working to make these spheres, so they make a ton, and there must be a huge market.
@@biomorphicThey mostly sell them to crystal shops all over. Lots of people buy them.
Gorgeous crystal balls and very interesting to see how they were done.
They are made from Red Obsidian... I want some O_O
Yes very beautiful I want one!😊💜✌️
I don't like the balls at all.. the glass looks much better with edges
@@ravoniesravenshir3926 Red obsidian does not occur naturally. The balls in the video were cut from glass manufactured in a nearby factory.
@@SongMangosteen - We SAW them break huge slabs they cut. How'd they get the red out?
Mesmerizing!! Absolutely mesmerizing!!
Absolutely beautiful. And I want one!!!! And if I tried to chip away something the size of a bowling ball, I would end up with a marble.
AMAZING Thanks so much 🇺🇸
6:58 からの映像は岩塩鉱山（ Starting at 6:58 is the ROCK SALT MINE）ですね😊
The owners of that glass cutting business must hate their workers. Don't know what they did to deserve to endure such terrible working conditions. Cutting glass without any PPE is stupid, or if you have no choice, evil. I hope people who think these crystals provide healing see this.
Lol. Most of the luxuries you enjoy, like your TV, tablet, smartphone, car, etc. contain precious metals mined in 3rd world countries and use child labor and extremely unsafe working conditions. Consider that the next time your dopamine receptors are flooded by the sound of a message ping. My bet is you'll get over it! But yeah, crystals salt balls = bad.
I hate people like you very much, You could say these workers deserve better working conditions, But if you are filled with righteous indignation and think that the small boss of the factory must provide perfect conditions for these workers to work, then you are too naive and ridiculous. There are still too many places and too many people in this world who have not received enough development. At the moment, what they need more is a job to support their families. They should be grateful to the small factory boss for giving them the job opportunity, rather than caring about the relative Secondary environmental conditions, put away your ignorant and ridiculous cheap pity!
Stop being a Karen
No different than mine owners and other types of business here in America. Black lung, brown lung. My relatives died from both. Ignore the Karen insult.
Its wet cutting there isn't dust everywhere
I have to say that is some beautiful stuff when it's finished.
At the beginning you'd almost think they discovered huge quantities of rock candy and unearthed it. Amazing how beautiful all this is!
An OSHA inspector would have kittens watching them use the power saws so close to their hands with little to no safety. I wonder what their accident rates are.
I wonder if you can fold that paper 7 times.
The paper making is amazing!
I never knew how they made bowling balls. Thanks!
They look pretty but I am worried about the health of the workers.
No safety glasses cutting glass 😢
Would obviously be nice if having narrated the video whereby providing some explanations for the origins of the glass, beginnings of the glass being harvested, uses of the glass, etc etc
increíble trabajo, felicidades maestros.
Quite the production to create those giant pieces of watercolour paper.
Lindo o trabalho da artesã.
Es buen trabajo y lo sobrante lo reutilizan o queda contaminante al planeta
Wery hard work, amazing crystall balls. Respect!
Absolutely awesome video, thank you.
Its not volcanic glass, it's just plain man made glass. You can colorful glass slag all over the US as well.
Wonder how many horrendous accidents occur that are never shown?
That's a lot of Balls! Takes a lot to grind those things for sure!
Que trabalho magnifico.
the skill of the woman making the tile mosaics is extreme...she is also very easy on the eyes... :)
I thought she was hot, too - and WITH all that talent!
Does anyone remember the "aquarium glass" you used to find at the pet store in the 1980's I used to find those big chunks of slag glass to be very satisfying. Never put one in a fish tank tho, and honestly never seen a fish tank with them... Trying to carve that into a ball looks SO dangerous!
i use that in my aquarium now...
Was that in big chunks of green glass? In the 70's as a kid a friend of mine's father worked in a glass factory and had these decorating his front garden
Yeah, I remember that- so cool
I would love one of those just for display.
Those mosaics are particularly beautiful. Talk about something that will stand the test of time...
How to create a crystal ball from a very interesting stone. I have watched this entire video
It is NOT a stone. It is slag glass from industrial smelting. The Chinese lie like this CONSTANTLY.
That was pretty cool, now if only I had a volcano!
Those guys also don't have a volcano. Volcanic glass my ass, this is totally manmade glass. As you can see it comes not only in bright clear reds, but also greens, clear, blues, yellows, whatever someone is willing to pay for. Geology doesn't work that conveniently.
Mis respetos para estos trabajadores ❤
Outstanding! Craftsmanship! 👍🏽
Why wouldn't you want to sell slabs of these? Desks, tables etc....
I agree, the slag glass would be way better as furniture components. The reason they are doing crystal balls is to sell them to fools in the New Age spiritual movement as well as novices of gemology and mineral collection under the claim of being a natural material when it is not. The balls are also easier to ship. China is a huge source of scam minerals and gems.
Salt doesn't ship well
Exactly! As soon as I saw that huge block I said oh my God they are grossly misusing it. Can you imagine what a magnificent altar, desk, table, sculpture, or light window it could be made into, just to name a few ideas?
@@brotherowl It's just slag. They'll make more.
That is what I thought as well!!!!
this is the kind of working conditions you get without unions. damn the man.
Without unions? Try without freedom... Looks to be China.
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
Wow the skill of those men is impressive really impressive to make an almost perfect ball with minimal equipment. I hope they get paid well. It’s an art.
This makes me never want to buy a volcanic glass ball.
A slab of that would make a cool coffee table!
Beautiful cinematography!
Is there that big of a demand for these? They seem to be making lots of them.
Hard to reconcile the amount of labor and strain on the body these artists suffer to produce a single artifact when the person who buys it may have earned the money with a single mouse click. No doubt been the case throughout the ages.
Artists? They're slaves. If you didn't personally hand $200 to one of these people for their so called art then you are the reason they suffer these conditions.
these guys are DANGEROUS with power tools! HOLY CRAP!
it said on one label the salt is iodized, new to me as my pink sea salt is not. lol, if the lamp breaks, you can use it for table salt. volcanic glass art - pretty cool!
This video is very good.
This is back-breaking work and the workers have little to no protection.
6:59 Great to see all JHA's completed before commencement of labour.
I didn’t know there was such a demand for crystal balls.
They are tired of life! This is not normal glass that has been in the tempering oven for hours after production. This stuff can be under a crazy amount of tension and explode at the slightest mechanical impulse, like a hand grenade! Anyone who has ever seen a large chunk of obsidian "explode" and the centimetre-long splinters stuck in the wood will get goose bumps at the sight of such dangerous working conditions!
Welcome to most of the world. Even in the west it's only in like the past 30 - 50 years that we've started to even pretend to care about worker safety. Look up the working conditions for miners in the UK as well as in the US up to the 70's and 80's. They were terrible.
@@spracketskooch well we got politicians these days who are working very hard at rolling back worker safety. they do it by calling it job protection: because worker safety "chokes the profits out of business." that's why capitalism is a race to the bottom of the barrel. whoever agrees to work for the lowest wages in the worst conditions gets to keep their job. the only rights they want for labor is the right to accept a job or the right to leave it. otherwise, the employer is your overlord.
Sadly true. Most workers around the world, know the hell, every day of their too short lives. @@spracketskooch
@@yaddahaysmarmalite4059 I agree to an extent. Like, clearly the version of capitalism we have today is utterly unacceptable to almost everyone. The problem comes when a business gets too big. The power shifts radically into the employers direction. If it's a small to medium sized business, then the workers can get together and demand certain things. They can actually have an effect because the employer relies on them just as much as they rely on the employer. Also, when the government will step in and save giant, failing businesses, it essentially just strips the workers of any leverage they might have had. Keep government out of business, they always fuck it up, regardless of their intentions. Also, this mindset of endless growth needs to stop immediately. It's literally impossible to grow forever. And if one attempts to grow something endlessly that growth will eventually take over completely and kill everything else. What is cancer but a cell that grows without limit, with no regard for the rest of the body?
I agree these working conditions are insanely bad. That said, this glass is from industrial smelting, not real obsidian. They are scammers for calling it 'volcanic glass', but such is the nature of Chinese gemology. They always pull shit like that.
This is simply glass, not volcanic.
That was really cool especially the glass balls and the paper being made at the end
That something different. New experience. I like it
Imagine their lungs after 20yrs.
Leadlight glazier and stained glass windows is my trade, getting a bit to dangerous now with lead poisoning and silicosis. When I first started no PPE (safety gear) was used. A lot of people die to early in this industry. Look up what chemicals are used in the paints for stained glass windows.
Take care of yourself, man. I'd rather have you around than a stained glass window.
Thanks for the kind thought but I've got one foot in the coffin and the other on a banana peel😅
cutting each little piece of colored stone making those .....pictures i guess, tiles , whatever is really cool.
Wizards must go through a shitload of crystal balls these days
🤣
Is this truly volcanic glass,” obsidian” or is it Himalayan salt? How and where do they get these giant slabs of glass or salt?
I've seen this being done at a quarry between Da Nang and Hoi Anh. The sculptures they can make from it are amazing. Most all of it comes from the on-site quarry or nearby mountains. I saw one that was a giant koi fish that was at least 3 meters long and 1.5 meters high. Amazing artistry!
I should mention that the first was volcanic glass, and the second was the salt. Two very different places.
This is man-made. Not volcanic
Where in the world do you find volcanic glass that is almost all red.? That’s why I was questioning is it truly nature made volcanic glass or something man-made? I noticed in the videos, but they were starting with look like big slabs that had been poured out and folded over and that’s not natural. I live in Oregon on the West Coast of the United States and our state is a volcanic state and I’ve gone to the Lava beds in eastern Oregon and picked up volcanic obsidian and it’s almost always black with may be a few streaks of red through it.
@@marionfisk7926 There are at least 12 different colors of volcanic glass. It can be dark or black, with some being tan, green, blue, red, orange, brown, and yellow. It can be completely clear or have streaks of one or more colors. The different colors are caused by impurities and/or inclusions. Iron crystals give it its normal dark color. Sometimes, it even comes in what looks like a rainbow. If you learn how volcanic glass forms, you will understand how the lump in the video formed. Where and when it formed also affects the way it looks.