Making a KNIFE GUN 

At 8:10 you show an overhead of the main chassis. You can see the launch wheel. If I had to guess, maybe 1.5" in diameter. In the world of machining, and everything else too, there is a thing called surface footage. It boils down to getting the most from a given RPM. If you were to double, or even considerably increase the diameter of that wheel, the motor RPM would produce a much better result launching those knives. Its like sitting in the middle of a merry go round vs. running around the outside. The RPM is the same, but the speed is waaaaaaay different. Just move the motor up and use a bigger wheel and stand back. Nice job, by the way. Thumbs up.

love the fact that unlike other youtubers, you actually build things with what any of us meer mortals could build with. Love that.

Nice work Tyler! Im looking forward to the next project. Jason

Absolutely amazing! Colin Furze better be watching his back! Nice work dude

Using a router on aluminum is iq 1000 Stoked to see this project finished Tyler. Great work on the edit and filming as well

“Never bring a knife to a gun fight” This guy: challenge accepted

Why has it taken youtube till now to recommend you, amazing videos that im currently binge watching myself through.

Hey man . I came across from alec’s channel. You could try a larger diameter friction wheel to give you more speed and maybe a longer knife for longer acceleration time ? Only if you feel like it tho! 😁

you're going places. Great work!

Your build skills, not to mention video production skills, are very impressive! Keep up the great work!

No idea how this channel doesn't have more views/ subs. The quality of editing/ content/ workmanship/ ingenuity is top notch 🤙

Should totally put a higher rpm motor on it, now that would be even more awesome than it already is!😃👍

"I need to shoot knives. I mean come on" That's a sufficient reason :D

Since I got this is my recommendations just now tells me this channel is gonna explode any time now. Congrats! Awesome content!

Great work Tyler. This might be a personal thing but I would love to see you talk a little more about the challenge and the design you have for it before you launch into making it. It is fun to watch you making things but I'm sometimes not clear on what it is you are actually making. I hope you take this in the way it is meant and that's constructively. Keep it up!

It's been so fun watching the progress on IG, but to see the whole process here is even more epic! Amazing man! Keep up the awesome work and videos!

Praise the algorithm for sending this into my feed! I love that you're making cool stuff without a team, and tens of millions of laser/water jet/3D printing tomfoolery, just what any average builder can get their hands on. I especially loved seeing how you seemed to make tools for the purpose of assisting you - you see a problem, you make something to help you solve it. Not talking about the knife gun, just those little incidental things you make to make making easier, if that makes sense.

Awesome project and sweet editing. Looking forward to seeing what comes next!

dude the quality you get out of really accessible power tools is insane, like i dont think i saw a single tool that i dont already have

Absolutely awesome project and video man 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 As soon as you hinted to this project I knew it was going to be an absolute corker 👌🏻

This is awesome, I watched your stories on IG about your knife gun and this video turned out awesome nicely done dude 👊🏽

One of my favorites haha Love seeing the way you put it all together, good stuff man keep it up!!!

The RU-vid recommending algorithm keeps surprising me. First time I see your channel, but I love it already. Guess I have some video's to catch up to.

Very nice build. Hands on experience will pay off. Congrats

Dude. Amazing work. I love the problem solving in your videos. That thing is awesome.

Your channel is severely underrated, keep up the grind

Your FBI agent: we'll be watching your career with great interest.

You’re the good kind of insane. I’m happy to have your channel among my subscriptions.

Your content is fantastic! Deserves way more views and subs

Nice job Tyler! Your filming and editing style is awesome. Keep up the good work!.

Looks like a fun project! Keep em coming!

I swear, this channel is going to blow up here soon, this is really good content!

I feel many people just discovered this channel including me You have my sub

Why hasn't this channel blown up yet? This is some crazy stuff.

I absolutely love that you cut up the fuel for parts and built it with ryobi tools.

Absolutely love the handle you made and those knifes! Job well done.

Another really cool concept, Tyler! And I really enjoyed the video!

How is your channel only this big? Production value is fantastic, really interesting and entertaining videos, great explanations... RU-vid is sleeping on you man, seriously great stuff.

If you were ever to make a v2 of this, I'd recommend swapping the handles. Make the one you're moving be at the front and the one with the trigger at the back. Like a traditional pump action gun. With this iteration though you'll need to make the pumping part pull rather than push. I would also recommend specifically NOT to increase the speed they come out at, because that may actually bring this close to being something truly deadly.

Absolutely crushed it Tyler!

Awesome as always. To the extent you ever revisit this project, you may want to add a follower to the magazine...maybe even as simple as a small wooden block being pulled down by rubber bands attached to the exterior sides of the magazine. This would apply just enough downward pressure on the knives so that they wouldn't rattle around in the magazine and would still feed correctly. This way you wouldn't be limited to holding the gu...I mean the projectile accelerator...horizontally.

how underrated is this awesome job!

Just came across your channel on my recommendations yesterday, looking forward to what you get on! Something you could do as an improvement to this would be to utilize the racking mechanism to add additional forward force. Racking back would latch a spring, racking forward would pull on the spring storing up force. Then once you have racked forward enough it would unlatch the spring letting it compress all in one go and propel the knife forward onto the wheel which can then add the additional force it can. Should be a lot more repeatable too since its not necessarily dependent on how fast you can rack it forward.

Your videos are brilliant mate, you will definitely blow up to a huge channel soon

Dude! You do not make enough videos. You know I'm a big fan and videos like this are the reason why. This was intelligent, fun and well made. What else is there? 👏

Followed from Alec Steele collaboration. Nice channel, buddy! Creative, problem solver, challenge yourself, and entrepreneur. You rock!

Your videos are absolutely amazing. :)

That's one crazy machine. It was great watching you figure it all out.

Really cool Tyler, awesome job! 😃👌🏻👍🏻👊🏻

Awesome project bud. Keep up the good work

Found your channel yesterday, it's amazing. Your editing and creativity are next level dude!!!!! Here goes the day, binge watching your vids 😂

Ridiculous and insane but also a fantastically fabulous, um, design challenge! 😁

Such a great concept. Awesome video too. Clean design. Mahalo for sharing! : )

Why isn't this guy at a million subs, love this channel.

Unbelievable what you manage with basic tools. Awesome build... And now you got the gears turning in my head of how I'd make this on a CNC...

Bro this is awesome it even has slamfire, you should make a full auto version

Nicely done sir!

I know I'm late to the party on this video with my comment, but I just had to say a couple of things: I love how you are doing these videos to motivate others to challenge themselves to do difficult things. There is absolutely not enough of that in this world today. But, however, the best in this video - "and that problem being, I need to shoot knives". It's freaking perfect.... I think I've mentioned this before in comments on a couple of your videos, but you are my favorite lunatic!!!!

Best. Intro. Ever Good Job man

Dude! How do you only have 13k subs??? This is sick content! Big things are coming for you, I'm sure of it! Keep it coming

Honestly this was a brilliant idea. You came up short on performance but that is where team-think can bring out the best in a design! Now someone, somewhere, is going to be using this idea and working out the velocity bug and making the design better!

Yes it is ridiculous...ridiculously awesome!!

Awesome well done man

Definitely this guy will survive the zombie apocalypse

Underrated channel

Definitely getting this recommended to me because of going axe throwing recently.. But i think you could get extra range if you added extra motors, maybe one spinning the other direction so you could place it on the other side. Or motors under the knives as well as on top.

Awesome video. Extremely entertaining

Thanks for the inspiration. I finally have the inspiration to build that nuke I saw on reddit!

Love the vid! Perhaps its just my knowledge level but I would love a little more explaining about what you are doing when you are doing it. keep it up bud!

tip for potential V2, you can have a bigger wheel and then attach a flywheel to the shaft, it'll help take some of the load off the motor and deliver more energy into the knives

When they say not to bring a knife to a gun fight he just made it more interesting

How do you have so much different tools? That garage is a man's heaven

I have always thought of this as a kid now I can finally see what it would look like.

Almost like the saw gun of Unreal Tournament. This type of weapon always was my favorite in games.

Fantastic!

pretty fun toy my dude. very cool. love the construction techniques.

No officer, think of it as a design challenge 😂 Epic project Tyler! Your editing and lighting make me a bit jealous

Bravo on nice fabrication technique!

Nice video editing!

I am amazed that you were able to glue that plastic, i worked with it once and had to use fasteners because nothing would stay stuck to it

The drill and tap at 6:13 was very impressive!

Wow! You are unstoppable!

Awesome Idea! possible ideas for Knife Gun 2.0 could include a faster motor with an idler pully and belt system, similar to a tank's tracks, to grab the knives sooner with longer and more consistent contact with the knife to propel them farther.

one day, these videos will be huge.

Looks like you brought a knife gun to a gun knife fight

Great looking knife gun

other than increasing the wheel diameter my only other suggestion would be to move the motor closer to the knifes so that it engages the knives sooner in your trigger pump stroke.

you shoulda told us what you were doing as you did it. i skipped over a lotta build stuff, because i had no idea what you were doing or why. it would make it not boring still a really cool invention

Lovely work 👍 👍

man this content is too good for this guy to have only 28k subs

Thank you tyler bell for teaching me how to stop the neighbors dog from barking. Absolute problem solving!

Fun design :)

NICE! cant wait to see a V2 with 3X as much POWAH!

Not the first time I have seen something like this (somehow), but still very cool

He basically just made one of those automatic nerf guns that shoots knifes instead of nerf rounds.

Boy its a good thing you said that stuff about this not being about making a weapon because the Penetration and range on this thing definitely disqualified as an actual weapon.

This brings flechettes to mind.

You really deserve more subscribers. But I think you could be a bit more consistent with uploads, easier said then done I know. But you quality is spot on, keep up the good work.

I wish you made a cross bow shot gun hybrid that used blanks and somehow used that power to accelerate the knife.

The Slingshot channel would be proud