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This Guy Made a Functional Kitchen Knife Out of Aluminum Foil in His Kitchen!
…and without using a single power tool
By Rain Noe - March 26, 2018
This is total zombie apocalypse stuff. Let's say the world's ending, there's no more electricity and you need a knife. But all you've got are a roll of aluminum foil, a source of open flame and some unpowered hand tools. What do you do?
In short, this:
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Enter a caption (optional)Admittedly, not all of you are going to have the sharpening media lying around, unless you're knife nuts or hand tool woodworkers. But the fact that this is possible at all beggars belief.
I also love the Shiba-Inu- and cow-shaped precision-spout water dispensers he used for the diamond plates:
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Enter a caption (optional)Weird, and awesome, design from Japan.
Rain Noe
Rain Noe is a writer and industrial designer based in New York City.
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I was intrigued by the Headline But after he started work hardening the foil, it came back to me that is just aluminium in foil and this is very possible, at the very least as a Jeweller and Industrial designer this makes total sense.
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looks cool, but a bit misleading from where I'm sitting. a knife only becomes a knife and not simply a sharpened piece of metal once the blade has been hardened and tempered allowing it to keep an edge.
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So Interesting, the guy doesnt own a drill, his tool shop is his kitchen counter. Yet he owns a sharpening set worthy of a fine woodworking contributor. Maybe its a japanese thing. Btw, check his other videos, he also makes a knife out of pasta.
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Very cool. I just kept screaming at the video everytime he went to a finer grit stone; 2000!! Wait, 12000!!! 30,000!?!?!
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Juan I laughed out loud at your comment!
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