[Captions by Y Translator] Guys, today, we're going to be taking a look
at how to make some sort of post apocalyptic weapons.
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There's YouTube channel called Make or Break
that has a video showing
how they made some throwing knives modeled after those seen
in the game Far Cry 4.
We thought those looked really cool,
and we wanted to try doing something similar,
but with a little bit of a twist on it.
So today, I'm here with my friend Clay,
and we are going to try and make some Far Cry 4 knives,
but in sort of a post-apocalyptic way.
We've come to an area
where there just happens to be a lot
of vehicles that are not in prime condition...
And we're going to try and harvest materials from here
that we can then use to make these knives.
Here is the basic idea.
We've got two hacksaw and some pliers,
and we're going to find
what looks like good throwing knife material on a car,
chop that off, and then shape it into what we want.
So Clay, why are we here with all these broken down cars?
Well, so in a post-apocalyptic world, of course,
they're going to be tons of broken down cars.
And that.
So logically, that's the first place you'd go,
and a new I would be a little bit expensive for the budget.
So we're going to take advantage of what we have available to us,
and use this as a source of good cheap materials.
I think what we're looking
for is some pretty straight flat-ish pieces of steel,
ideally, something
that's like around an eighth of an inch thick.
Enough thickness that we can carve into a little bit,
give it some shape,
and really make it look like what we're going for.
I think...
I think I'll take it.
What are you--
What are you asking for it?
$20.
Sold.
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Okay, we found this pretty sweet truck.
It had what looks
like some sort of carrying system built into it,
and I think we can try harvesting some pieces of that.
It has some angle iron
that I think's going to be the perfect thickness for it.
Yeah, I think we might try
and snag this whole piece off right here.
So how long its going to take us to cut through this?
Forever?
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Yes!
So this angle iron is like perfect thickness.
It's about 1/8 inch thick,
which should be the perfect size for making some throwing knives.
Very cool.
So now, we are going to take this back to our studio.
I know it said post-apocalyptic,
but I was referring to our source for materials.
We're going to cheat a little bit,
and use some not quite
apocalyptic tools to finish this bad boy up.
Okay, we've got our bar right here
that we cut off of our...
Truck.
Weirdly demolished truck,
and we've got a picture of the knife that were trying to make.
So now, I think we're going to do is print this out,
and we're going to glue that onto our bar,
and that's going to be
our guide for the shape we're trying to make.
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I printed out a picture of the knife.
That's the size we want,
and I just sanded down this piece of metal a little bit,
because it's all covered in rust,
and I want to be able
to glue this down onto the metal right there,
so we can basically just cut right around it.
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All right, and now the fun part,
which is just so very much cutting...
Yeah.
Until we have this all removed.
So right now, we're just going to take a drill bit,
and drill out these contour edges here.
So then we don't have to later
on take a file to them to really get them.
And if we cut the rest
of the profile of the knife out first,
then like we have a really hard time getting the drill bit to stay in place.
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All right.
Now, the really fun part,
we get to start cutting all of that out.
We could use a jigsaw.
We could use the hacksaw.
We can use an angle grinder,
but we can start with hacksaw while I run and get
some metal blades if you want.
Oh, so I see how it is.
You go get the metal blades for the jigsaw,
and I start with a hacksaw.
That's very fair.
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Done.
Woo.
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We've got our basic shape cut out.
What's our next step?
So, we need to take either a file,
or if you have an angle grinder,
that works too.
We just need to kind of finish shaping,
because if you noticed,
it's definitely not the correct shape we really want,
and then we also want to put bevels on the knife edge of it.
Start with the file,
and see how well we're getting things done with that.
But we actually want the handle
right here tapered outward that way.
Right.
So when we wrap the paracord around it,
it won't just slip off.
Right, not parallel.
Just not--
They're currently curved is what I'm...
>> Yeah.
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We've got the profile all cut and filed out.
Clay, what's our next step?
So we want to cut
and drill a few holes out here at the base of the handle,
so you can have a nice...
Rounded removed area from the handle.
So I think you could put a strap or a cord through it.
Yeah.
And then after that,
we're going to start adding the taper on to the blades,
right at the bevel.
Yes, we're going to do the bevels,
and we're not going to make them like perfectly sharp.
For a throwing knife,
you kind of want them dull a little bit.
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So now, we've added our little slot in the back.
And we want to start adding a bevel,
and I've marked off,
before I tore the paper off,
I marked off where we want the bevel to go on each side.
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That's basically what
we're going for is removing all of this.
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We're going to cheat,
because filing takes a really long time.
So to take slightly shorter forever,
we are going to use power tools.
Because in this post-apocalyptic world...
Everybody have this. >> Everybody has power tools.
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We got our shape pretty well cut out,
and filed and sanded and everything.
Now, we need to make
it look a little bit more like the one in the game.
So we're going to take a little bit of spray paint,
and just age it up a bit.
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So now that we've got the finished knife,
now, we're going to make the handle wrap for it.
So what we're going to do is just going
to take some paracord.
We're going to loop it around the top like that,
and then make sure you've got some extra line down here
so you can pull on that later.
And then just start
wrapping wherever you want the handle the start.
You can do this pretty tightly.
Just keep going up
until you want the handle to stop.
But make sure this loop stays above the,
where you want the handle to stop.
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So when you get to this point where you want it to stop,
just tuck that extra piece of paracord right in,
and then you just pull on this back piece,
and that will cinch it down.
It's not going to go anywhere.
And then just cut off this excess.
And if you want,
you can take a lighter and carefully melt this,
and that will really keep it from coming apart.
We've got our finished handle.
Booyah, we've got
a finished throwing knife made out of a piece of an old car.
And now of course, we need to test this out.
So let's--
Now, of course, we need to test this out.
So let's grab a scrap piece of wood,
and see if we can throw this and get it to stick.
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So I had Clay here showing us how to do this,
because he has actually done this before.
You can see he has his own knife,
and I have the one that we've made just today.
And so now,
we can just both tell them with the target.
Oh.
Yeah.
It poked through the plywood.
Yes, what?
3, 2, 1.
Oh.
Oh, nice.
Yeah.
We're Champion knife throwers.
We don't show all the takes, we just show the last one.
That's how it's done.
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