Adam Savage and Vsauce's Michael Stevens Build a Kendama! 

If you enjoyed this build, check out another one featuring Adam Savage and Vsauce: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M4M3I0nXEMI.html

These two should have a show where they just take common myths and see whether or not they really hold up

This has big "Kid watches as Dad makes their school project" vibes and I'm here for it

I love how they are about to carve a sphere but then they get stuck talking about brittleness of swords.

I love the fact that Michel is like a little kid that wondered into his dads workshop and is trying to understand everything

I love how adam is like the wand maker from harry potter. He leaves for a second and pulls out and old wooden box for something specifically you want. Magical almost lol

When your friend invites you to his house and you get to play with all his cool toys

The knowledge that Michael has and the knowledge that Adam has complement each other so well. Like they are always teaching each other new things

Adam is such a noble guy, not cocky or bragging one bit! I love how both Adam and Michael are both very smart people and know so much but yet their individual knowledge is very new to each other and they are both learning from eachother! I want to possess the same attitude they both have as I feel that will help me so much in my life

I love how Adam just sent him home with 50 yards of string, He totally had enough of vsauces shenanigans and theoretical questions after that long ass one day build 😂😂

I just spent an hour watching 2 guys build a toy you could buy online for $10. I have zero complaints.

I started watching this and got so lost into it without realizing it was an hour long

The thing I’m most amazed about is how naturally Adam moves his hands around a giant metal spinning machine that could take a finger without slowing down. Pure hard work and practice is amazing.

"I have this dial caliper I think you'll really like" is the nerdiest sentence I've ever heard and I love it

Words Adam Savage has never said: “I don’t have that tool”

I love the 8-ball on the machine. The shop has so much personality

Whenever he mentions Jamie I always get flashbacks to that glorious stache

This video should be called; “Adam Savage builds a Kendama while VSauces’ Michael spits science facts!”

"I'm really into asymmetry right now" ~Vsauce

"I'm really into asymmetry right now" is probably one of the nerdiest sentences I've ever heard

props to either the sound mixer or the lathe manufacturer for making the lathe sound so peaceful and quiet!

I just watched two grown men making a toy for almost one hour.

I love these two working together because Michael has so much theoretical knowledge and Adam has so much practical experience that them together is just beautiful

I love how real this is, no background music or sounds needed.

I think one of my favorite things about watching Adam make things is that his shop is just as much of a character as he is. Just looking around the place it has so much personality, you can't not discover a new little detail. I've watched this video a handful of times now and still seeing more things i didn't notice before

Just seeing Adam and Mike's brains whirring away and watching Adam in his natural habitat as he shows off his cool toys is way too much fun! I'm totally hooked on this. Please consider making more episodes like this. I beg you!

Adam: "We have a 10cm ball and 1m ball..." Michael: *We're goin inches fam*

You know it's confusing when Adam Savage says, "It makes my brain hurt."

For those that want to know, a lathe spins the work and the tools are stationary. A mill spins the tool and the work is stationary. There are also power lathes that can spin both the tool and the work but those are usually 5-axis machines.

21:10 Adam moves his hand away from his ball exposing it for Michael and inviting him in. Michael cautiously approaches and gently fondles Adam's ball. "Oh yeah", he exclaimed with excitement as he enjoyed the texture. Adam's ball was so smooth. On hearing Michael's excitement, Adam let out a warm chuckle. Both Adam and Michael were happily satisfied.

Consider: A movie with Micheal as a hitman, and Adam as a gunsmith who spends the entire movie cooking up something custom for him.

you two should make a tv show together to be honest.. its a duo made in nerdy heaven

I love the adhd excitement to talk about different things to have fun with and do. It makes what would have been a super short "were making a Kendama" video into "We slowly work our way to making a kendama but then keep getting distracted about fun physics, history, random stuff at every turn"

I love how welcoming Adam is about knowledge in his field. He’s so happy to answer questions at any level. Super inviting.

I can watch these 2 do anything

Vsauce is such a great personality, he should be in more videos with Tested.

I know this video is 4 years old now and it's probably not important to Michael anymore but there are a few things about this design that stand out to me as a kendama player. There are some important qualities to a well designed kendama that are missing here. One of the major qualities is what's called Lunar Balance. Lunar is a trick that is performed in "tama grip" (the ball held in hand as opposed to your default "ken grip") where the ken is swung up and landed on either the small or big cup resting balanced on the tama. (imagine it's oriented sort of how a telescope would be pointed towards the sky) It's important that the base of the ken isn't too heavy relative to the weight of the sarado (the component of the kendama which features the big and small cup) so that you can easily achieve a stable balance. Another important quality that was missed here was the bevel on the tama hole - it was omitted by choice - but it really is important as a wider diameter bevel, particularly as wear is presented on the bevel edge, makes Stall tricks much easier. Stall tricks are where the tama is landed on points of the ken and sarado other than the cups or the spike, such as landing the tama on the top rim of the sarado leaned against the spike (a "Bird") or inversely in tama grip where the ken is landed balanced upsidedown resting on the tama hole (a "Stilt").You would also find that other tricks such as "Jumping Stick" would be very difficult to perform without a tama hole bevel. Another aspect of kendama design is weight matching. When performing Juggles or a trick in which the grips are switched mid-trick, it's ideal to have matching weights between the two parts for consistent feel in the hand and muscle memory. I won't even get into tama grippiness but I can assure you that most tricks beyond landing the cups and spike are going to be very difficult if not impossible with a tama as slick as this sanded delrin. As far as string/tama-hole friction goes, it is common now for kendamas to feature a steel mini bearing that rests between the end of the string knot and the tama string hole. It wasn't very common at the time of this video shoot (typically it was a plastic bead bearing) but now the steel mini bearing is typical. I can't imagine this comment would be very useful to Adam or Michael or that this build would ever be revisited but I figured I'd leave this here just in case. It's this kind of nerdy stuff that makes the engineering and designing so fun. Not to mention Kendama is still really cool, I think!

The amount of tools Adam has and the organization he has is extraordinary The level of educational knowledge both of these men have is amazing Just a great video.

Their Knowledge compliments each other so well. Michael is more inquisitive while adam is more engineering and building.

If there was a show that came out once a day or a few times a week that's just the two of you building geeky stuff in Adam's shop and talking about A) science and B) engineering... I would subscribe to RU-vid red purely for that show. This is not hyperbole. I love the way you guys work together!

I love the chemistry between them, both incredibly smart in different fields, learning and questioning back and forth

Two balding dudes made a ball. As a balding dude, I salute.

Watching two geniuses make toys is amazing.

You're a good dude Adam, I saw the tension in your face when he asked about threading it, yet you decided to give it a go anyways. well done.

I love how Adam is blowing his own mind with his building. You can see him go from hardware mode back to regular Adam.

I thought this would be like a 10 min video... Thirty minutes in and I just realised it's a little longer then 10 minutes.

I love Adam Savage. "oh, you want to do (insert idea)? I just so happen to have all of the proper tools and materials to make that happen"

This was insanely entertaining. Michael know all the right questions. I dig it.

I love how excited and how much energy Adam gets while he is involved with a project. Its so contagious that you are willing to stay and watch the whole thing without a second thought.

"Adam Savage and Vsauce's Michael Stevens Build a Kendama... or do they? Hey, Vsauce, Michael here."

If I had this many tools, I'd be looking for hours to find what I need

"I'm happy with this" -Adam I'm also happy 28min in watching Adam Savage polishing Michael Stevens ball.

It amazes me every time again I see a video from Adam how deep his well of knowledge is combined with not only theoretically talking about but the actual ability to practically use it to create whatever he wants. OUTSTANDING!

44:55 Michael: That is really nice and gentle. Adam: Yeah. (whispers) That was the whole point

"would you like. would you uh. yes." wise words from adam savage.

I really wish Jamie and Adam were able to keep their working relationship after Mythbusters; even if much less frequent collaboration. The two vastly different, yet equally ingenious, methodologies produced some of the coolest solutions and approaches to problems I've ever seen.

As an Engineering major. Adam Savage is my life goal. Such a beautiful art!!!!!

It's always fun to see Michael and Adam interact. Their energy and excitement is fun to watch. It's like they both speak the exact same dialect of nerd and get excited over all the ideas they think of implementing in whatever project. But they also make a really good team because you've got abstract physics and practical implementation coming together.

Me: Wow! This is an hour long! I'll never watch this. Also me: Wow! I just watched this entire video from start to finish.

"We can enbiggen it if we need to", Savage terminology! My favorite "Mad Scientist", love it!

I love how for Adam, this is just a normal day at the shop, but Michael is in total astonishment.

Adam: makes stuff Michael: plays with stuff

I have a wierd feeling that adam savage bought a lot of delrin for a project that failed and now he has to get rid of it

Adam has a vast body of knowledge, but I find his eagerness to teach someone else even more impressive. It really feels like he truly enjoys what he does.

hey tested adam here

I wasn't smart enough to understand what they were talking about most of the time, but boy did I enjoy it.

Good job Adam! Now we just need 49,999 more for the curiosity box. You have 2 weeks. Thanks!

Adam makes such a great teacher because he's always SO enthusiastic about what he's doing and gets excited like a little kid. It's brilliant

"They're friends dispite their different philosophies" - Michael Stevens on his pair of kendamas.

Continually amazed at the versatility of lathes

Who wants to see a new Mythbusters-like series with Adam Savage and Michael Stevens?

I love when Adam trails off with the random sciencey knowledge that he has. Mythbusters really got me into science as a kid.

Vsauce Michael and Adam Savage should do a lot more videos together. Topics are not important because you work so well together, anything will fly!

I saw the length of this video and told myself I was just going to watch 10 minutes, now I'm sitting here with a completed video, woops.

Remember when he was in a box for three days

i love how adam has the "i can do this somehow" mentality with literally everything like if you asked adam to make a black hole he would actually think about it and eventually he'd figure out how to do it

I love how Michael just watched Adam do his thing from the side like a kid. They are both such intelligent people in there own specific ways

27:13 "and this is the drawer where i keep my various lengths of string."

My vocabulary has been embiggened today.

31:11 In the background you can hear Vsauce say let’s smoke some weed 😂😂

I love Adam's head shake at 56:21, but he doesn't have the heart to tell Micheal no.

Two of my favourite people in the world together.

Work hardening of metals is not just a phenonmenon of fatigue, but it is employed in metal manufacturing to precisely harden metals. The metal is guided through a series of rollers of predetermined diameters and distances apart to dial in a specified hardness. And the last roller is calibrated to make the metal straight again.

I would watch hours of Adam explaining all his tools to Micheal. It's like a young boy showing off his favourite toys!

Adam: *creates a ball out of nothing* Michael: ItS lIkE a DoOrKnOb!

the title should be changed to "Adam Savage Builds a Kendama while Vsauce's Michael Stevens watches"

43:32 YT translated sounds of the lathe to "[Music]". love it.

"It's like Brian May's hair" Ya'll I just choked 🤝😂

hey Vsauce Adam here

the drilling out of the center sounded like a mechanical choir. :) i love that machine 26:45 edit: added time

7:46 Adam "Let's say we have two balls, one a *meter* in diameter and one 10 *cm* in diameter and we w-" Michael "We want to make napkin rings out of them that are just 1 *inch* high" Adam "1 *inch* high. So we have a 1 *inch* high napkin ring that's a *meter* high in diameter and a 1 *inch* high napkin ring that's 10 *cm* in diameter." Oh god this is why we need to use metric

i think a shared thing that i love about these two is how distracted they get while remaining extremely excited

vsauce + adam = mythbusters 2

19:18 you can hear the dimensional fabric of whatever unholy material the blade is made of tearing through the 37th level of hell to cut the plastic efficiently. A side effect of this is some of the damned souls that blade has claimed in another life can be heard screaming, which permanently weakens the centuries of stored power in the blade, until it finds flesh once again. This is proven at 22:29 because the souls don't scream as loudly, indicating less power.

1:56 Veesas Michealheer almost said a bad word

I loved watching Adam's craftsmanship. What a great demonstration of the fun in engineering and artistry! Working on a project with Adam seems like a dream come true

When I was in middle school, they didn't let us have our kendamas because someone was doing a trick and it flew out of their hand and hit someone on the head

"Adam Savage builds a Kendama while Michael Stevens watches" should be the title.

Who else thinks Adam should be Vsauce 4?

The timelapse cut at the end was great to see! The shop looks like utter chaos at first glance, but everything has its place