Adam Savage Builds a Magic Prop Knife!
EXTENDED SCENE (MEMBER EXCLUSIVE): Hollow Grind on a 13″ Prop Knife: https://youtu.be/fpxcnyMjbEY Adam builds a prop …
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April 3, 2025
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EXTENDED SCENE (MEMBER EXCLUSIVE): Hollow Grind on a 13″ Prop Knife: https://youtu.be/fpxcnyMjbEY Adam builds a prop …
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i liked the part where you used a vice to hold another vice.
Ah yes, the vice in a vice 👌🏼
9:11 bro that story about the spinning aluminium sounds terrifying D:
27:09 Really cool build but please take the gloves off, I have seen people get the glove caught on the cutter and the results are not good.
He's some free "add-vice":
You should reinstall the vice (see what I did?).
Thank you for your wonderful vids. 🙂
Was hoping to see Adam use a forge and pneumtic hammer, but this was still interesting. Definately not a duty knife tho being aluminum. I'd be afraid to break it wiping the butter off.
Coming back to this, after him talking about hole saws and how to get a precise hole… I see that wobble now! OMG, I never thought… but yea, steel bends… way more than you'd think… watching him put the drill bit to the side of the blade and how it just creates that illusion of a see-through edge… my goodness.
My iPhone is coming up on 5 years old so anything I buy will be an upgrade. I’m waiting for the colors of the 16 to be officially released. If I don’t like them then I’ll likely get the green 15. I’m particular about the color mainly because if I’m spending significant money on something I’d like it to be exactly what I want or at least close to it
Interesting. It looks a lot like a dive knife. First time I came across one was in the scifi show Farscape; a character named Ka D'argo had one.
can i get a link on the drill bits, i work in sheet metal, i think the drill bits are awesome
can you guy convert the system for us in AUS, PLZ
Thanks! Yet another nice one!. I have HEARD so many of youur videos. I tend to do a lot of tinkering and making stuff while listenig to youur videos and only look up when you are exited about something 😀 Today i added some small cooling fan to the amp on a PA speaker to prevent an annoying whining noise when it get hot sometimes. Might need to change the amp chip aome day but, this will do as a patch for now 🙂
It looked like you used a Trizact Gator belt at one point, those are my favorite for grinding blades!
That's not a vice. Now THAT'S a vice.
Does anyone drop things more than Adam Savage?!
Sir, your enthusiasm for things is infectious. I also imagine that you just have a box of those plugs somewhere just in case you need a greebly or embellishment on a prop build.
Nobody expects the objects to make holes!
Adam should be wearing a mask to prevent aluminum dust from getting in his lungs but as we can see he obviously doesn’t care.
How many times in a build do you look back on the tools you used and realized that you totally forgot about one of your tools that could have done the job better, or if not better with less effort? 🙂
How do props like this get around the laws about knuckle dusters? People in California have been arrested for PLASTIC knuckle dusters.
How balanced is it?
I've had a smaller version of the same knife for years, that's pretty cool to see it scaled up so big.
@8:40 – If you want a drill to be precise as an other cutter, than you need drills that fit standard colletes, and the collete holds the drill as close to the drill point as you can, instead of the drill shank. Drill chucks are the problem, not drills.
@8:20 Somehow the manufactures of hole saws think that you need an entire set of saw teeth for every hole size. So, if you are using any kind of hole-saw with a significant circumference, it quickly becomes ineffective in harder materials, and cheaper spindles.
good job with the hollow grind. that time with peter lyon served you well!
My money is on Penn Jillete
I think all families need a Adam.Anything need to be made or fixed we just take it to Uncle Adam.It amazes me every time what Adam does.From model making to everything else.Absolute Genius!
is not there 4 blade drill bit with flat head
When Adam chamfered those holes, he should have used the depth stop on the mill spindle so all the holes would be beveled the same amount. Maybe his mill doesn't have a depth stop?
You drop almost every prop you make. To be fair, its a credit to just how well you make your stuff. It would have been heartbreaking if it had landed on the tip and chipped the knife.
I still remember the time you were making an enclosure for that impossible glass blown object, and managed to drop it.
My god were you lucky that thing was tempered glass because every time i saw it in your hands i was like "hes going to drop it, here it comes" and every time you either didnt, or nearly did and fumbled it around. But the time you actually dropped it and seemingly caught it with your foot or somwthing and saved it… my god man just please.. put down some soft flooring for an area when you are working on other peoples, or fragile things lol.
You could also zero your DRO and then move 1.2. 🤣
They are the best cutters ever. I have a whole set of them for my mag drill.
Aluminium
You are such a good friend adam I am sure he will love it!
LOVE this! Thanks Adam
I’ve still got the original Tekna version of this dive knife.
Some scholars say that Adam is remembering more ways to drill holes to this day.
NICE WORK SHOP!!
21:41 did you just lick your sanding belt to check the grit?