Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Snub-Nosed Blade Runner Blasters! 

Adam Savage may be a little obsessed with Blade Runner: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4DUULvPJTgk.html

It's always nice seeing Adam spending another day with his illegitimate child.

"The polishing wheels singular desire in life is to hurl the part you've just spent an hour getting ready to polish, all the way across the shop into the bin of other crap that looks like your part, and you'll never find it."

Adam pulls off a receding hairline, edgy anime hair, looking like a dad with only love in his heart, and being a serious professional dude.

Sometimes I feel like Adam could be illegally manufacturing firearms in his shop, and absolutely no-one would suspect a thing.

I like Norm's color scheme much more but I've got to say Adam did an amazing job making his look like realistic metal. Based on a picture alone I would've never doubted that. The black wash really does a lot to sell it.

Adam Savage ✔ Blade Runner ✔ One day build ✔ Instant thumbs up.

Adam's energy and enthousiasm is a joy to watch every time again.

This video has a really cool master and apprentice feel to it, almost like he's teaching norm the finer points of the craft just as much as he's showing the audience the build. Its just a cool atmosphere and relationship between the two of them there.

Adam: How are you doing with those triggers? Norm: Oh....i filed those down to nothing...

As soon as I saw that handheld jeweler's vise I paused the video and bought it on Amazon.

Poor Norm. Has to file away at the triggers, listening to Adam Sandwich going “AHHH, THAT’S THE SHIT RIGHT THERE” on his fancy aluminium grip.

Woohoo! You've one day built my heart full of joy! Love these dueling builds with Norm. I'd like to see more in the future.

When you spoke of the memory of your father, it really reminded me of how I missed out. My dad was an absentee, and we did nothing like this together. I am just glad me and my son is spending tonnes of time together so he can say, "My father would.." Awesome video Adam.

Adam, I've worked in the metal industry and we'd regularly use spirits to help with cutting or sanding aluminum. It evaporates quickly and leaves no risk of rust.

Legend has it Norn is still working at those triggers

Personally I prefer it when norm actually does things and helps rather than standing around talking. It adds to it rather than taking away from the quality of the video. Like to see more like this in the future

This production quality and editing seems much improved. Keep up the awesome making!

38:02 Strong Scottish accent "thats dead sexy is what that is, yeap" lol I love Adam

nobody: my washing machine with jeans in it 24:33

That's dead sexy, is what that is ya mhm mhm 38:03

Can you do some leather work for the next one day build? Maybe a holster or anything else.

"I am dirty because humans have used me" :(

thought this was "That Gun" from fallout

“Let me make a cardboard box” *one day later*

The fixed triggers makes me sad...

Would like to thanks Adam for coming to a you tube channel and just record his sessions in the work shop so talented as a presenter and 'craftsman'. love these one day builds thanks Tested!

Some say Norm is still working on those triggers

This has to be the best-edited episodes of a One Day Build!!! The soundtrack selection works so well with the theme of the build, the blending of clips that segway into one another and the pace of the build process is engaging from start to finish, the list goes on. Pure gold. Love your work Tested.

You can really tell adam loves what he does. Such a talented person

Probably one of the coolest build videos, loved the look of these!

Never clicked on a video so fast...

No link to the design thread on RPF in the description as mentioned at the end of the video. Just FYI.

Man, I would love to have a work shop like this where I can just tinker all day.

"You don't know who Ken Goldberg is, but it doesn't matter..." Sounds like a hot-save, Adam ;)

Adam, we're your friends, the fans, and this is an intervention. We're worried with your adiction to Blade Runner blasters. You have a problem, and the first step is to admit you have it. You need to let go of all that excess of blasters. Here, I'll take that snub-nosed you just made... ;-D

Saw a few questions about why the Blaster has two triggers, despite only having one barrel. As someone who has a fair amount of experience with firearms and love "hard scifi", my favorite post-rationalised explanation is actually realized in a VR game H3VR, and it's as follows: The gun is basically a revolver that holds 6 rounds, the "magazine" in front of the trigger guard is a battery compartment, seen with a battery already inserted with two glowing lights, and on top, there is a bolt action element that works on ejecting a replaceable heatsink. Trigger A fires the bullets in normal fashion, like any other gun with normal performance. Trigger B is the railgun mode, electromagnetically accelerating the same bullets fired from the same cylinder, but at much higher velocity that is possible with chemical ignition. This is where the battery and heatsink comes in, after firing a few rounds, the gun will heat up too much, the bolt action mechanism allows the user to replace the heatsink with a fresh cool one to continue firing in hyper velocity mode, not unlike barrel change in machine guns. This is my favorite explanation for what was essentially an aesthetically driven design based on kit bashing, and you can see it in action and the dev's explanation in-game here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hAn7FI5cdto.html

I love that you have a half built zf-1 just setting on your workbench

"That's dead sexy that's whay that is" my new favirout quote

32:51 Allow me to explain how the top works on a bottle of Elmer’s Glue.

PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH THE SWARF!!! I severed 3 fingers swatting swarf away. Nearly lost them. A good surgeon fixed them so I can still use them but not good. If it gets hooked on the chuck its like a meat saw, BAD NEWS. Please be safe. luv the work!

Bring your child to work day :)

Since he is so good at it, Adam should relic a Stratocaster for his nex One Day Build.

please dear lord does anyone know what song that was during the assembly sequence?

Adam is like that one uncle you have that's REALLY into certain things and is SO super hype when you wanna know about how those things work. Be it cars, guitars, woodworking, whatever.

This is some next level ASMR.

I love how Adam created 3 different things while the whole time norm was just filing down his handle lol

@18:10 "You could snap a tap in here and then this part is no longer usable". Not necessarily true. A solution of alum and water will dissolve the broken ferritic tap but not the aluminium. Well, technically speaking it will eat up the aluminium as well, but at a much slower pace than the high speed steel or carbon steel tap. Immerse the workpiece, or if it's too big simply build a little dam with clay around the hole and fill with alum solution. It can take several hours for the tap to dissolve. But the important part here is that a broken tap in aluminium doesn't always ruin the part. And one of the best tapping fluids for aluminium is regular denatured alcohol, it not only works every bit as good as WD40, it has the added bonus of not leaving a residue that would otherwise contaminate the part prior to painting.

HOLY SHIT! Did you see the ZF1 @ 19:41! Man this shop is SAVAGE af! ZF1 is Zorg's gun from Fifth Element ;)

in Time 6:45 When you use lathe and chip comes out in long string. DO NOT hold it by hand. Speciallity NOT by bare hand, use saw protctition gloves, but better if you use thin iron bar whit hook to guide string out. if the string catch a lathe head, it will cut your fingers of.

Question to the camera man. The manual focus looks really good. Is the pull done fully manual by just looking at peaking? Or is there some assist and AF focus loss - which would mean a phase detection sensor...

the scroll saw blade is called a "spiral blade", and it is awesome to see you using one..

A stunning pair of builds. While Adam's has the edge on finess (obviously), Norm's is right up there. Thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish. I know these 'day' builds are taxing, but these are what I come back for

Am I the only one that feels like Norm should not be allowed to ever use power tools without direct supervison?

This Video has somehow become my favourite movie. If I have had a bad day or I have a little bit of a creative blockage in the brain tubes this is where I come. 11/10, watch it easily twice a week

I’ve always thought I’d be fun to make an ivory handled DL44 with chrome parts.

This video was actually great. If anyone is confused or intimidated by a project of this standard, Adam literally teaches Norm. Norm is the *everyman* of Tested.

Aw yiss. It's half past 12 at night in Australia and I have been gifted a one day build. My sleep time is yours Mr savage

I love the ivory plastic grips with inlaid medallions. It reminds me of an Armi Galesi Brescia or an RG Rohm 10. It fits well with the snub nose.

37:01 exactly is the difference between prop makers and scale modellers. Adam has allowed dust to contaminate his chrome. For the film camera this means nothing. In a model show this means everything.

Who's playing the guitar at around 28 minutes? Sounds amazing.

I love Adam's attention to detail.

If they every filmed a biopic about Adam they should cast Gary Oldman for portraying him.

also... how do you get to work in ADAM SAVAGES workshop... without knowing how to use a scroll saw or polisher????

He should’ve used a wire brush, not an x-acto blade, for ivory grain.

Adam is a great workshop mentor

Love seeing these videos, the ones with Adam are the only episodes myself and others watch. Haven't been on Tested in a while. Adam is never around.

Very cool project, I really enjoy watching these!

24:34 Definitely gave me a flashback to MythBusters. I can just imagine Jamie in the corner shooting him a disapproving look.

Ivory definitely violates the tenets of Mercerism. Could Adam be a Replicant?

Well this day just got 100x better!

That noise at 11:40

Where did you get the kit? Please provide links in description to kits you build.

I wish I would have found this channel a long time ago! There is clearly no end to your creativity and skill. Very interesting..

Can we buy any of Adam's props? This is real craftsmanship. It deserves to be in a gallery, if not a museum.

Yeah, as soon as you got that Jeweler's rouge out, I was immediately in nostalgic bliss.

Anyone else think Norm looks awkward with tools.

“Tactical Grooving”... Adorable...!

"the polishing wheel's singular purpose in life is to yeet your part into a black hole of a parts bin clear across the workshop" 🤣

That thing reminds me of the 5.56 pistol from fallout new vegas.

Adam watching you do this one day build reminds me of my days of working in my father's machine shop. I miss those days!

scroll saw was trippy af

Adam gets excited with the grips when the logo ar exactly half an inch ( 24:24 )

Adam's enthusiasm is infectious! You can't help but be interested in whatever he's talking about

13:52 Adam says, "Trigger warning."

this is awesome to see, my family and I know dave Goldberg personally. It's awesome to see one of his works is being shown on this channel.

my fav video series is BACK AGAIN! WOOHOOO

Adam, I was thinking of your polishing requirements. Have you ever thought of using an ammo polisher (the ones used for tumbling brass casings) ? I know they would not be good for your one day builds as they take a while to work, but for other prop work they achieve excellent results.

I thought it was the 5.56mm pistol from fallout new Vegas man

thank you for the trigger warning

"Im going for the pieces i care about least!!!" .... an goes straight for the trigger guard .... Face meet palm

This is wholesome father son workshop day content. loving it! Keep being you Adam

Super cool!! The attention to detail is astounding! It's nice to see trade techniques shared rather than kept secret. Also, does anyone know the song around the 43:20 mark? Thanks!

19:39 Fifth Element ZF1 Gun to the left of Adam. I REALLY hope this is an upcoming 1 day build.

Adam Savage and the Blade Runner blaster - The greatest love story of our time.

dear adam i have a one day build idea for you and owen the idea is to create your own custom star wars blasters they can be pistols, carbines or rifles but they have to be based on your own original charector ideas the blasters can use the base of a pre exsisting blaster but they have to a custom unique look and the blasters cant be a pre exsisting character.

WOW! I never knew that's how you mix paint! Does it require paint?!

i really loved Adam's take on the customization, it turned out beautifully.

WOW!!! I hope Norm realizes the value of what he has gotten here. Can you imagine what it would cost to have Adam hold your hand and teach you these things one on one? Plus the value of having his years of experience passed on to you. Wow, am I ever envious of you Norm.

Omg I love his vids there so satisfying I almost fall to sleep