Category: Knife Videos (page 2 of 5)

Viral videos are often lame, but every now and again a video permeates the knife community by perfectly capturing what we have known all along and what the world at large often forgets: knives are awesome.

Behold, the knife kid.

i just laughed for 15 minutes straight pic.twitter.com/zAMgWglksE

— madison meyers (@madmeyers) September 17, 2017

Welcome back. You undoubtedly watched that video at least five times in a row. It’s not your fault necessarily since some videos may be scientifically impossible to watch just one time.

Here’s the back story before we get into what I love about the video.

According to an interview with The Washington Post, 22-year-old Chelsey Ryan was hosting a party Labor Day weekend when she Snapchatted a video of her 5-year-old cousin who was being particularly rambunctious that day.

That’s when the hilarity ensued.

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So much content exists out there that it’s easy to miss something that’s really cool and informative. Even a guy like me who’s paid to notice everything that goes on in the knife world can miss a thing or two. But some things are still cool even after they’re a little old.

Brandmade.TV is a YouTube channel that makes pretty interesting and in-depth videos on how famous products are made — like a Pelican Case, Samuel Adams Beer, and Pyrex Measuring Cup. Although the channel hasn’t put out videos for a year, three of the videos in the archives focused on iconic knives. Let’s take a look.

Buck 110 Folding Hunter

The 110 is one of the most iconic knives of all time and became so prevalent that any knife in that style is known as a Buck knife. The video features an interview with CJ Buck, who’s the chairman and CEO of the company, on the process the knives go through to get to their final state.

Wenger Swiss Army Knife

Remember Wenger? In case you don’t, Wenger was known as the maker of the “Genuine Swiss Army Knife” (vs. Victorinox’s “Original Swiss Army Knife” tagline) before it was bought out by its main competitor Victorinox in 2005. Then, in 2013, Victorinox announced that there would no longer be two separate brands and merged the two together under Victorinox. Although some Wenger designs still exists, they’re under a different name.

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They say, “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Well, if you’re a knifemaker, everything looks like it could be a knife.

Us normal people would see a rusty wrench and think it’s nothing but a rusty wrench. But to Steve Miller of Miller Knives, that rusty knife could be a functional knife with a ton of personality.

In an easy to digest video, Miller takes a rusty wrench and transforms it into a knife you can do some light batoning with, feather wood for a fire, or use as a throwing knife.

To me, the best part of Miller’s videos is the wordlessness. You hear nothing but the comforting sounds of the workshop as Miller does his thing.

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I’ve said it countless times before but if you’re not following Steve Calvert’s Green Beetle YouTube channel, you’re doing something wrong with your life.

Steve is a national treasure (if you narrow the scope of “national” to knife community and “treasure” to nominally entertaining). I kid, of course, because Calvert makes some of the best knifemaking videos out there.

He usually conducts entertaining experiments and tries new things when making knives in his videos (like his ‘Murica Knife, which uses bacon, fries, beer, and Tums, and his most-viewed video on making a knife from a cable).

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I have a confession: In my spare time, I like to watch knife restoration videos in the background.

It may sound odd but there’s something satisfying about taking a knife from a rust-covered dull piece of steel to a functional work of art.

Now, millions of people know how I feel.

If you’ve been on YouTube in the past week or have visited any knife sites, you’ve undoubtedly seen the top-trending video from Jun Yoshizuki about restoring a $3 knife to its previous $100 state.

Watch with awe.

I saw this video shortly after it came out and it has now garnered more than 11 million views as of posting.

Jun, who is a YouTube personality and chef,  is known for making videos with his American wife Rachel about their experiences with Japanese culture. (He’s also known for making videos with his cat Kohaku in the background.)

On his own YouTube channel, his previous videos also garnered a few million views (including his second most popular video, which also deals with knives) so this isn’t necessarily a rags to riches story, but it’s always cool to see a knife-centric video get some love from the wider Internet.

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If you’re not following the giant robot wars going on across the world, you’re not paying attention.

The team at the YouTube channel MegaBots Inc creates some awesome robots that they are planning to use to battle another giant robot very soon. Throughout the last year, they made the Mk.III robot, which is 16 feet tall, 10 tons, and worth $2.5 million.

So what does this have to do with knives?

Well, at the start of the year, MegaBots Inc teamed up with Simone Giertz — who is a non-engineer known for making awful robots — to make her infamous chopping machine significantly larger with the help of the Mk.III. Take a look.

Because that wasn’t part of the final design, the team had the leftover 500-pound knife that they decided to drop onto a used Toyota from a crane for laughs.

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The team of blacksmiths at Man at Arms: Reforged from the AWE Me YouTube channel is back at it again with another creation from pop culture.

With the release of Wonder Woman imminent, the team decided to create her God Killer sword that appears in the new film. (They made her shield in the last video.)

The sword only appeared pretty recently in the Deathstroke comic but it has a pretty interesting back story if you’re into comics at all.

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“I have no idea where I’m going from here, but I promise I won’t bore you.”

That’s a quote from the late great David Bowie and it’s a creed we should all live by. I guarantee you Steve Calvert of Green Beetle approaches every video he makes for YouTube that way.

Just a few weeks ago, we highlighted his thoroughly hilariously and ingenious video in which he forges the “Murica Knife” using fast food materials like french fries, bacon, and beer. In my humble opinion, his latest video simply titled “Forging a Bowie Knife” is even better.

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Everyone knows we should never arm robots.

Robots are our servants and should only be forced to work in the factories, vacuum, and occasionally dance. Unfortunately, there’s always going to be that one person who wants to give robots just a little too much power.

Today, that person is YouTuber Irfon Automation. He wanted to show off his skills so he attached a knife to a Staubli TX40 and programmed it to play the knife game or five finger fillet or whatever you want to call it. Here’s what happened:

Sure, it’s downright impressive that his neighbor (or sacrificial lamb) did not get his fingers cut off, but I don’t think it’s quite the best use of a machine that’s known for doing mundane work like precision lathe loading and unloading (whatever that means).

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Miller Knives is at it again.

The Miller Knives YouTube channel is well-known for making an array of knives, including transforming old pieces of junk like hammers into functioning tools like a throwing ax. In fact, Miller Knives was featured in a recent post looking at 12 knives made from old pieces of junk.

In a video released about a month ago, Miller took a 100% inert (let’s stress that) .303 British caliber bullet and in under five minutes of video time, transforms the bullet into a functional knife.

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