Alec Steele - A hyperactive Brit makes swords in Montana

Invitica - essays on ancient civilizations

Wintergarten - a Swede in France making a musical marble machine to millisecond precision. Good project management tips are included.

Man At Arms ReForged - Baltimore swordsmiths make ridiculous videogame sized swords that are mostly unusable.

EDIT: A few others

Bon Appetite's "Brad Makes": A New Jerseyian mumbles his way through fermenting anything edible. Frequent field trips ensue.

Kiwami Japan: A very very strange Japanese man makes the same knife, over and over, from various materials such as jello, underwear, and pasta. ASMRy.

Primitive Technology: The journey of a mute, nearly naked QLD programmer in the forest and his attempts to make a nuclear reactor from local mud. Turn on English subtitles.

Contrapoints: A trans PhD dropout comments on current issues through the lens of grad-level philosophy and copious innuendo. Impeccable set design and pacing.

You can't mention Brad from Bon Appetite and not mention "Half-sour Saffitz"! She recently got brought back onto the team to continue her "Professional chef makes oreos/twizzlers/twinkies etc" videos.

Yes! Brad's "it's alive" and Claire's "Gourmet makes" are both great. I started making Kombucha and Sauerkraut because of Brad's video on the subject. Giardiniera next!

OMG, they're my favourite youtube people. So, much, joy.

Thanks, I've subscribed to them as they all sound really interesting :)

I use it for free audio books: for example, HP Lovecraft is great for medium car trips.

Joe Pieczynski, mrpete222, clickspring: machine shop skills. I finally bought a lathe due to these videos.

Shango066: revive old TVs and radios in Los Angeles

Mustie1: revive old engines in New Hampshire

ADVChina/Laowhy86/Serpentza: x-pats in China. If you really want to know about life in China, watch these.

Mine Explorers: shango066 underground

Scott Manley: rocket science

w2aew: RF electronics

Applied Science: for the garage science lab

Isaac Arthur: futurology

Kombi Life: living as a VW bus nomad

Curators Corner: some shorts from the British Museum

Machine Thinking: history of technology

CuriousMarc: old computers

Practical Engineering: civil engineering

bigcliveotcom: for his soothing voice

glasslinger: DIY vacuum tubes

Lots and lots of food channels: recently I enjoyed the "Modern History TV" ones on medieval food.

Also I watched the YouTube original "Origin" recently- not bad, but not quite at the Netflix level.

Great list. I love when people do this, as I inevitably find new channels to follow.

Thanks,

Good list! I met Rick Beato at Summer NAMM this year. Really nice guy.

12tone - Excellent music theory in fast, whimsically illustrated episodes

agadmator - Best chess channel I've found

I'll second you on agadmator, the explanations are excellent.

I'd recommend adding Ishitani Furniture to your woodworking list. Very relaxing and the he makes gorgeous stuff.

Brilliant, added!

Nerdwriter is just psuedo-intellectual trash that panders to already popular opinions

I'm not really qualified to be able to tell the difference; what makes you say that?

He tends to over-explain things and perhaps looking too deeply into things that aren't there. He does have a substantial following, so there must be a lot of people who like that style.

Example, his 9 minute explanation of the Las Meninas painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKRKrpz09Fk

I much prefer this shorter 3 minute explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loMy3sbW64g - concise and easy to understand

Contrapoints - applied philosophy, set design.

I already liked Contrapoints but I hadn't subscribed until now. Thank you!