Can a Lead Knife Split a Bullet? -Material Science Knives 

This takes "bringing a knife to a gun fight" to a new level

Shoutout to the Demolitia, and awesome you have a nesting pair of red shoulder hawks nearby.

I must admit, the pentagon joke caught me off guard

I smell a Chronos purchase in your future. Another great video!

(about lead split) Are you sure that was a bullet split? Maybe the bullet was deflected to one side, but parts of the knife itself got thrown to the other side.

i wish more people are like you

Generic engagement comment. Yet another great video with amazing production quality! It's so rare for me to genuinely get a chuckle while being presented something like this...let alone multiple chuckles! Keep up the awesome work!

bro your channel is fantastic! hope you succeeded

finally, youtube recommends a good channel that i like

This was surprisingly good revision for my upcoming materials science exam! Great video as usual

Regular Hawk’s nest updates please

Surprised how well the aluminum held up, tbh. Thought it'd be more brittle!

Small pro tip for the future: instead of melting soda cans to get the aluminium, I recommend going to a scrap yard and see if you can get some cast aluminum junk, broken engine parts are often available. I don't remember the chemistry but, in short, the alloy used for the cans loses a lot of its strength when remelted while the casting alloys don't. There also exists an alloy of lead which I only know as "black lead", It's pretty much only used for slugs and it's hard enough to not deform on impact (usually)

Might be my favorite video yet! Gotta take me shooting with you next time

How does this guy not have way more subscribers! I love your content and video style! Keep up the amazing work!

Right on for angling your metal targets and shooting from a distance. Some poor guy a while back decided to shoot a 50 BMG into a steel target at 4 feet and he got a good chunk of the grain embedded in his forehead. Thank you for practicing safety so we can keep watching you 👍

Sciencish needs one of those "Kentucky Ballistics" shirts!

The quality and production value is amazing! You are going places!!

-how old are you ? -Sciencish guy: somewhere between 14-40

Nice! The b-roll in this video was top notch. And the idea was pretty cool too!

Underrated channel

you could of safly sharpened the lead by hammering the edge thin

This is a great video, thank you for all the hard work you put in to making it. Keep making these videos man you are doing a great job.

Integza and Integzo for the names 😂 Great video, thanks to Integza, I almost missed it !

Tony and Ethan, the hawk brothers. Also, hardened steel would be more brittle and less malleable, hitting it with high velocities could break it instead of bend it. I saw that knife fly in your direction, now I know why I've only ever seen it done with an axe.

Dude your videos are awesome!! Keep up the awesome work!!!

Awesome video.

amazing video, very professionally filmed and presented

'my first plan was to use lost PLA casting' VegOilGuy: *eyes glow*

Typically people split .45 because it's slow, wide, and blunt. It gives a lot better "shot." I love the quips and puns too! Lastly, you can quench harden lead. It's not a major change but it's there.

Commenting to boost engagement. Love your stuff!

you need more subscribers your content is awesome

Nicely done! Interesting video and educational in a few areas too.

Novel idea! My boy split an old rod bayonet with a shotgun slug. Shocked he was!

Dude your vids are the best

This is a great video, and I think it’ll be so cool if it’s in slow motion

Smart, good-looking, and you're good with guns! You, and this channel have a lot of potential going forward. Good luck!

man should make a whole video about the hawks 😂

i love your videos since today, cant stop watching them , i wish i could be thAT mart one day, also i love the short distraction clip it really brought interest lol

Chick Names... "George & Gracie" From the comedic duo of George Burns & Gracie Allen, 2 of Vaudeville's best :-)

You really need a high speed camera! 😄

I like this guy! Great work!

If the parents are famous domestic terrorists-lovers Bonnie and Clyde, you gotta name the chicks after famous domestic terrorists-siblings: Like and Leia!

You got yourself a new subscriber. Great content

The aluminum was probably extra brittle because the hard disk platters are coated in lanthanides that might mess with the alloy.

I assume you didn't do anything with tempering the edges of the knives?

You should rent a super slow mo camera so you can see if you split it better

You deserve WAY more subs man, you got me now at least.

Nice content!!! Continue like this and you will have million subscribers with year or so.... you got my 👍

great content, will be binging

How about: Baby Face (Nelson) and Pretty Boy (Floyd) Dillinger and Capone Or good 'ol Smith and Wesson

Next video: Can you break a rock with a rock?

If the hawks are bonnie and Clyde then the chicks should be Tommy and gunner. Also hardened steel would have made a huge difference.

I like the name Bonnie and Clyde for the Hawks

You need to get a Chronos camera! ^^

I would call these birds 30-30lead and steeluminium

Great content! Keep it up

very interesting but you do need a slowmo camera

why arent you using light seconds per hour to measure bullet speed?

"Roughly hammer it into shape, and then file the rest away"... call it "grind" instead and you may be Alex Steele after all!

coment love the video hate the unit love the channel hate the low fps Seriously love the awesome work that you do, those videos are probably a lot of work on top of the naration, I would have loved to see those shots in high fps footage, but I also want to be a millionair that can afford it so yeah not going to blame you for not spending several G's on a highspeed footage... just yet ;) keep it up!

Wow! Your castings turned out great! :) Have you seen any of the research into those crazy 3D printed lattice structures that are bulletproof? Just printed with regular FDM printing. Pretty neat stuff. My suggestion for names are Romulus and Remus.

you have to make your videos more recognizable so I don't miss your videos in my feed ;)

“Medium sized ant”

I watched it again about four times you definitely split it with a plastic knife

Ah yes, the classic "San Basilio" trick: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mraK-zRfWL0.html

you need high speed camera and show slow motion

Great video and channel. Unfortunately it seems like this video pissed off the algorithm.

What about an aluminum bullet vs a aluminum knife?

This video should be made in collaboration with Slow-Mo guys :)

Could you please add metric measurements next time. Foot pounds is confusing even to most Americans. "Ounces for drinking, milliliters for science" - Uncle Rob

you can definitely buy ready made steel knives ;-)

Great stuff! But I do hope you return to rocketry soon!

I Gotta suggest Tobias (Animorphs) and Isabeau (Ladyhawke) for chick names.

If you didn’t heat treat the steel, then that wasn’t a knife 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

come on, guy *Dyna and Tylo*

your stuff is so cool >_

Demolitia represent!

Lead knife: Damage 3 Poison 1

BTW if you ever seen forged in fire one of the test is to split a bullet

yo this channel is epic 100

What a HUNK

Hardened steel knife would absolutely do a much better job with the .30-30...

"And she ate some anyway" XD

name suggestons: joe and candice

What kind of pot did you melt the aluminum in?

Doing the obligatory "thousand things". Engagement.

may the tomato power be with you

Tuco and Tico (the little chicks)

even if you wanted to sharpen lead.... you can't a knife needs to be hard material to even be able to get a sharp edge

all Imma say is...I'm here at 20K subs :)

This is so coooool

I hate the units you use. You asked me for it at the end.

Did you know you can buy steel knives?

The lead you have is a amalgamation of lead tin and antimony. Thats why its cracked

Woman:why man die faster than us Man:

Bobby and Klein

one of the two chic should be called Bianca. BTW do you have a patreon? let me offer you a coffe xD

Hmmm I think you need a high speed camera 😕

Plastic is the weakest metal. Got it!