I enjoyed this particular video so much! I have been collecting Nutcrackers for over 40 years. My Late Husband always gave me a new one (or two) for my birthday which in in late November. I presently own over 370 of them... It varies from extremely inexpensive to several hundred dollars. I have Nutcrackers from 4” to 60” tall! Never mind the “Elf on a Shelf”... I had my children convinced that my Nutcrackers were spying on them for Santa! As much as l love them, l would gladly give them all up for one more Christmas with my beloved. Please don’t ignore pain... Pancreatic Cancer is a silent killer. It’s not always your Gallbladder, please always get a second opinion! Happy Holidays and may we all enjoy a Happy & Healthy New Year.
I used to sell Christian Ulbricht nutcrackers, along with other German brands. Over half of the Ulbricht nutcrackers and smokers we'd receive would have detached limbs, trim and accessories. They REALLY need to use a better glue. I'd have to go to town with the wood glue just to make them saleable. Otherwise, they looked great ... loved that the wood grain showed through the strain or translucent paint.
when i visit most Goodwill stores i make it a point to grab one or two nutcrackers everytime i see them now i have a bunch of them and my nieces & nephews love staring at them on my christmas shelving!😊🎄🎅🏻
Tea Zidic Small nutcracker ornaments can be bought in American dollar stores after Xmas for $ .50 apiece. There are collectible nutcrackers that are expensive but most nutcrackers cost $10 or less here.
Sweetie, that is a husbands job. - yours is to make the decision. He wont notice them in the end. Cant tell one from the other. Just slide them in, background the first year and then up front and center the next year. Repeat.
@@mortyjansen399 oh, but when a husband does so with tools, collectibles, guns, videogames or whatnots, then it becomes "irresponsible economic decisions"
This is distressingly lacking in lever closeups or any kind of crafting authenticity, but surprisingly honest about supplying life-sized versions of these knicknacks, presumably for the purposes of executing rival drug lords or whoever has money to burn on such things in the most humiliating manner possible. *CRUNCH*
Germany has some of the best craftsmanship. Honestly, out of the whole world it's the Germanic countries that put the most time and effort into the quality of their work instead of solely focusing on quantity with cheap materials for some extra bucks.
if it was square it would knock harder against the lathe bit, making it more likely to chip and splinter the wood. the lathe is a radial tool so a good rule of thumb is to get as close to radial as possible before taking the workpiece to a lathe. a square isn't so bad, but imagine an extreme example. say you had a piece of wood with a cross section shaped like a giant cross + with long arms. or something like a windmill shape. since the workpiece is spinning about its central axis, the angular momentum of the far surfaces of the piece is very high. so if something were to get smacked by it, head on, it would cause massive damage. with a roughly cylindrical shape, this doesn't happen - the full angular momentum of the piece is never transmitted to the bit, because the angle of incidence between the bit and the workpiece surface is very obtuse. there's still a lot of friction, but as you can probably imagine, you're cutting into it rather than knocking against it. but if you switched to a + shape, the arms of that + would swing with full force into the bit unless you approached the workpiece very slowly and precisely. it is possible to do that, but the reason they're able to do this so fast and automatically is because the bit is pretty aggressive. to safely spin down a square into a cylinder would require slower, more deliberate movement, since the maximum angle of incidence would be much more acute for a square than for an octagon. a dodecagon would be even better. but you get diminishing returns at a certain point, since the number of cuts you need to make to add an edge continues to grow linearly, but the reduction in angle of incidence gets smaller with each edge. going from 4 sides to 8 reduces the angle of incidence from 90 to 45 degrees. a massive 45 degree difference, a full 50% reduction. going from 8 to 12 only bumps you down to 30 degrees, a relatively small difference of 15 degrees or just 1/3. and with every 4 sides you add that ratio gets smaller and smaller. so at a certain point you just have to make the leap from polygon to circle. and it seems like in most cases that's an octagon, though in some cases, like with plastics, a hexagon is used instead. it's not really necessary to have a 45 degree angle, 60 is good enough in most cases. but an octagon is easier to fashion in most cases: the most common starting materials that will end up being spun on a lathe are tubes, rods, bars, and planks. whether it's metal or wood, you usually either already have a cylinder, or you have a rectangular prism. and since a rectangular prism has 4 sides it's quite easy to turn it into an octagonal prism. but turning it into a hexagonal prism is more difficult and more wasteful, since 6 is not evenly divisible by 4. for that reason octagonal prisms have become a very common form for bars.
Not sure but life size or 40 foot tall, they aren't using them to crack a black walnut. Those things are insanely hard to crack. Squirrels will pass them up unless they are desperate.
literally did not know that thing was called a nutcracker because it actually is a fancy ass nutcracker. i thought it was some folk thing some kinda character from a story or something im 24 and im mindfuckinblown
they use the fur from rabbits that are being eaten, its better to use all of the animal than to just use the meat or fur and throw the rest away. theres a industry for everything. fur, bones, meat, and organs. some just dont want to find them.
@@PrenticeBoy1688 someone posted a horrible video on Facebook of an Asian person actually ripping the head off of a dead rat with his teeth and chewing on the head. I put my hand up to block it and then I scrolled away. Just sickening.
This "skin color" accusation about Nutcrackers is simple insanity and really doesn't deserve the attention of anyone with half a brain. Yet here I am. Ha, ha, ha. It triggers us to reply so as to not let the idiotic claim stand. This is the oligarchs dream come true. "Keep them tied in knots spending time and energy over meaningless absurdities while we loot them of their patrimony." They are laughing while they take our birthright unopposed and then watch us spiral downwards into poverty, unemployment, and desolation. Give yourself a moments peace and watch the nice documentary about how nutcrackers are made in the country where they originated. Leave the stupid cries of racism for some other time. Can you imagine an European complaining that the handmade Peruvian children's dolls are racist because the skin material used reflects that of the ethnic peoples who make them? As I said above in another reply "Why don't you have a nice hot cup of Shut the Fuck Up?"
