Making an unnecessarily complex mechanical pencil 

Someone send this man a set of hole saws, a dremmel set, and a bottle of layout fluid!

he used a marker for layout, something i do often. and for small things like this in soft metal its often easier using files and saws instead of power tools. the metal comes off so quickly its easy to have a small mistake with the dremmel ruin a whole project. but yeah, i definitely would have used a band saw instead of that jewelers saw. that was just crazy.

Well its not like hes working hardened steel

It's really not that hard to work with small pieces of soft metal. People are so impressed with the most basic shit. Be impressed by the engraving, not the fact hes using hand tools.

I am impressed by the engraving, who wouldn't? My original comment doesn't state anywhere "the engraving did not impress me", but I might be mistaken or people just assume shit. I wrote about the hand tools because in the vast and growing landscape of youtube crafters it's quite rare to see someone sawing even the softest of material without a bandsaw. That's what's peculiar to me.

*puts engravings on a prototype*

He should send it to peterdraws!

Better bird than I can draw. I challenge you to draw a better one, and then I challenge you to do it with a pencil you hand fabricate and engrave.

😂

That was the *BEST* part of the video

@420 Friendly where would you get that idea?

@420 Friendly wh

I don't understand. Why would an engineer be scared by a thing like that? It was only a prototype, some parts falling off, no great deal. NASA has it all the time.

As an engineer, I'm sure he has accounted for the factors of safety attached to the mechanical pencil. The thought of such a thing failing is a terrifying thing...

I've never met an engineer that was a weeb.

I would never let anyone borrow this pencil.

Then u lose it....

i would definitely steal this pencil

Najmah T. A. ok tyrone

i don't think you could, look how heavy it is

Commie The commie it really do be like that

it would more be an a4 page or two

You think this guy could sell me one. I'll pay anything just for one.

The art teacher gave me an A- once, for the same kinda thing. B! Didn’t understand.

Hold on teacher! Let me first make a pencil

same xd

2:50am, but me right now.

Megumin what r u doing here? :v u will turn me on fire?

OMG, 3:59am here hahahaha

My clicking finger in response: "yeah, why not?"

I'll probably miss it, due to my propensity to ignore the news, so could you look me up and tell me what they say?

Bold of you to assume we'll still be around that time

If it hasn't rotted away LOL

OvAeons you wont live another 1000 years with people like this on the planet.

@@iiGraphix oh your right never mind the bad pun that I said

Surprising to see that a man that comes up with a pencil like this, is able to draw such a simple picture, eh? :D I kinda appreciate the contrast.

Guy: am i a joke to you?

Brah

The bird he drew is actually his engraver's symbol'.

*ill take 10!*

It looks like a steam-powered Victorian tattoo gun

Now, to make it fully Steampunk, how do we add steam without burning your hand? I want one, but it has to be able to print out ASCII.

DarkSeraph351, Call it a tattoo gun in front of any self respecting tattoo artist, they will usually look at you like you are an idiot. When it comes to professional type gear, guns destroy and machines create

grubbanator: What kind of tattoo gun do you own?

He prob. already makes bank.

I can just picture all the steampunk tattoo artists with handlebar mustaches swilling Pabst lining up, like "take my money!!"

hand engraved tattoo machines? why specifically are those to be hand engraved out of everything in existence made of metal.

@@myonionsmatter7843 because thats what it kind of looks like

Myonions Matter Why not?

madison king lol I just realized this

If it weren’t for the metallic scratching and squeaks then I totally would’ve just thought it was all wood.

I thought it was wood the whole time

Even at 1:31 ?

Part at 6:35 is wood.

ᗰіɢʜѕᴛ ᗩʟʟ ᑕʀᴜᴄᴋіɴɢ ᖴіɢʜᴛʏ my toughts exactly... btw, where is Chris?

chris is teaching

Ha! First thing that came to my mind too. He is still providing updates on his Patreon account. Looks like he's been working on some tools and a soldering technique.

no he's a teacher in Queensland the click spring is a side hobby

My thoughts exactly..lol

I don't care your name sounds ispanic, I approve your comment.

Yep, the only thing an accent makes me think of is where the speaker's from. And this being the future, subtitles can be added for clarification.

I don't even care that you didn't capitalize 'I' when using it as a first person pronoun, ar that you misspelled 'accent'!!! Your comment is spot-on!!!

Mev VII: his name doesn't sound Hispanic at all. German, more like. Or related, e.g. Austrian, ...

Juan Rial not even close...

I did my part and subscribed. This may not be the best or most practical pencil I've ever seen but it is the coolest by far.

PixelPunk this man need a drill press, mini lathe and a scroll saw.

I agree. Alec is awesome. This Old Tony would be another good one. He's a great machinist.

Wrong. More people need Uri

What is your profile pic I can't tell

Chaitanya Singh me

Aaaaamen!

Actually a grain of truth to that.

There is actually a grain of truth to that as the internet was originally conceived as a way to share information across vast distances

No, it is for damn cat videos

Don't you mean RU-vid

Sweet baby Jesus

sweet zombie jesus*

Sweet mother of Jesus

Allahu Akbar

sweet crap of jesus

M B that's a great idea, thanks! I would probably keep this one as a prototype for now with all its goods and bads. But for the next one I'll be sure to make the necessary modifications to get it right.

Looking forward to it. Ringing the bell

Worm gear is what it needs.

Moraren thanks! Have much more to learn though, the extra amount of detail hide the inaccuracy of the spirals quite well.

Whatever you say historian

Wdym it can clearly be labeled under the steampunk genre the retrofuturistic feel of the pencil combined with the gears and Victorian aesthetics dictate this... besides who are you to say it isn't you aren't the creator of the culture and if the majority says it is then unfortunately u will have to embrace it

and 21st as a car enthusiast, I can confirm that BMW German overengineers everything

The Archimedes Mechanical Editable Drawing Contraption. :3

@@AtlasPicking just because majority rules, doesn't automatically mean majority is correct, just pointing that out.

xD wtf

It's 2:14am i can confirm it's scary ;-;

drugs would do it to you. for sure

Finn MacCool lol I am left handed too but yea idc either:)

Thats why you need to learn to use both hands

FartyFat Or, people could care more about left handed people and make tools that they can use easily.

@@matthewwong1670Matthew Wong more like Matthew wrong we should all strive to be able to use both hands B)

paroxysm What’s the point in becoming left handed when there is almost no benefits besides having another arm to write with if the other gets injured? Besides things like tools are made for right handed people. Is it not possible to give left handed people break and make tools especially for them?

If you were hoping it would break your evil.

It would have been a great joke, tbh.

No 😂😂

you not alone

Forest Armstrong i was like “oH nOOo iTs gOinG tO brEak” tHen my mind made a sound of it breaking then I be like “ nOoOoooOoOooOooOooO”

They're sure are! But a good set of files (or even mediocre ones) make a surprisingly quick work at eating away brass.

@@urituchmanpigeon 0

@@urituchmanpigeon 0

Well, was there any reason to expect otherwise? 🤷🏼‍♂️

That is sad to hear

Walt H thanks! will do!

Crawl IntoTheCalm why don’t you just make a gear cutter I got tires of fitting them and broke down

500 now

please have a look of this video of mine too ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l8vTc0Sxv20.html this needs to blow up too

@@CraftsmanShengCanweget10KSubs your content looks great but the desperation makes me hesitate

I'd love to know too!

Most likely he used Silver(I)Nitrate as it is a commonly used compound. With this type of surface plating, part of the Brass surface gets dissolved and replaced by elemental Silver in a Redox reaction. You can make Silver(I)Nitrate solution yourself by dissolving pure Silver in nitric acid but you have to figure out the stocheometry (and thereby wheights) yourself. Do this outside as the reaction might form toxic gases and Hydrogen. Silver Nitrate solution can spoil (precipitate out) when exposed to sunlight or when it gets too old, so only make it in small batches as needed.

@@Psychx_ thanks for that awesome answer!

@@Psychx_ not to mention silver nitrate is also an explosive lol

+Philie Spiess it is an oxidizer such as many, if not all, Nitrates but it cannot spontanously detonate through heat or friction. Explosive reactions might occur with strong reducing agents though.

Plastic Fork but that was some fancy crafting

Bold words coming from a fork

UnfortunateFreakNo1 yesss indeed 👍

Jack Peng step 1: aquiar 500000 nukes.

Your comment is quite negative, care to follow your own advice?

Christopher Savignon care to comment on someone else's comment you fucking communist

what specifically made you cringe?

Sulle Probably his slapdash way of marking and cutting as he went rather than prep. But don’t get me wrong his guy is incredible.

@@sulle8943 the way he used his tools. Calipers specifically. The file using both the cut stroke and the pull back with pressure. And some other stuff

As a machinist, you don't have a say as you rely on a machine to do what he did with simple tools.

@@Peyto23, as a machinist, you should then probably be familiar with a filing machine, the one that has a table and the file moves up and down? How do you control your backstroke on that? Simple answer is you don't as it doesn't make any difference...

He's Israeli, living in Berlin. He's next level isn't he?

a madlad

Is that Hebrew?

Yes its hebrew

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