Making a KNIFE GUN

[@joepie221]

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.

[@Nevir202]

Ya, but you're overlooking the other, more important argument for a bigger wheel, make it of steel so it would have some inertia, you can see how much that thing slows down each time it fires.

[@SeanQuinn4]

Came to comments to suggest both of these things 👌 slap some more weight on that wheel, use a rubber substance for grip, bingo laser knives.

[@makethemdead8062]

@@Nevir202 exactly what i was thinking!!! turn the kinetic energy of the drill into potential in the form of a flywheel of sorts, then dump it all on the knife

[@Nevir202]

@@makethemdead8062 Yup, exactly.

[@sn31t33]

Would also build bearings under the wheel, so that the blade will not invert the force to friction on the metal plate.

[@hellsg3]

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

[@itsmehere1]

Wait, you mean to tell me that you can't build a super hadron collider in your back yard?

[@ShawnChristopher10101]

Right, I love seeing videos with "DIY Knife Gun build.....first we're going to get started with our Tormach Laser Space Gun CNC machine, thanks Tormach for sending me this $50,000 machine for free"

[@moonliteX]

except welding :( we can't legally weld in our homes over here :/

[@brandonreed9508]

@@moonliteX Really! Where at?

[@moonliteX]

@@brandonreed9508 finland.it's a fire hazard so if your home burns up because you welded there, your insuranse doesnt cover it..

[@FireballTool]

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

[@TylerBellMakes]

Thank you Jason!

[@WorksbySolo]

Should we really encourage this type of dangerous behavior...? Absolutely! :-)

[@johnmarquez3807]

Legend.

[@a.og.7130]

Whats project jason????. 😉

[@cinnamonwarrior3212]

That sounds like a threat

[@Coffeezilla]

you're going places. Great work!

[@TylerBellMakes]

I appreciate it!

[@BrothersMake]

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

[@TylerBellMakes]

What a compliment! Haha thanks guys.

[@Levi_Allen]

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

[@TylerBellMakes]

Thanks a ton bud.

[@darkshadowsx5949]

most people use a router on aluminum when doing an 80% ar-15 receiver. i've done it. its legal here.

[@nottheatf841]

@@darkshadowsx5949 don’t gotta worry about milling when you have a 3D printer

[@mackk123]

@@darkshadowsx5949 In some countries using routers on aluminum is illegal.

[@macthompson9750]

@@darkshadowsx5949 can you make an ar15 that shoots knives?

[@tropicaltanktv]

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

[@Groundbadger]

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

[@rhubarbpie2027]

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

[@MichaelAlm]

Nicely done sir!

[@TylerBellMakes]

Thank you sir!

[@TOLOSKY]

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

[@alphabloodhound6008]

Dead rishing craftsman vibe I see and feel

[@floppainflip-flops3414]

Gunfights in London be like 💀💀💀

[@godtheoneabove2145]

@@floppainflip-flops3414 bro icl so true

[@rorylobban4789]

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! 😁

[@seabass8154]

At some point, we're gonna just end up with a nail gun.

[@night760]

Definitely this guy will survive the zombie apocalypse

[@WorksbySolo]

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

[@TylerBellMakes]

Thanks Bernie!

[@iamgrays]

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!

[@lolmom5004]

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

[@H.P778]

Your channel is severely underrated, keep up the grind

[@EthanCarterDesigns]

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!

[@TylerBellMakes]

Thanks a ton Ethan!

[@thesirker9527]

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

[@RETRO-DEV]

Dont talk about me behind my back...

[@brettzolstick989]

Underrated channel

[@TMINXX]

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

[@kschabowski]

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

[@shirosenshiesq]

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.

[@jasonsummit1885]

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

[@unQiuartist]

No need for higher rpm! He did not use up the torque the motor has, Just use a bigger weel to accelerate the blades. 3x the size would still be a good start I think.

[@tlatitude8586]

How about a second motor underneath?

[@GuyFawkessupbiches]

How about using three big wheels to carry the blade instead of one small wheel.

[@Clone1961]

No Put on two, more power more destruction

[@giganooz]

How about a coil powered version? Linear motors FTW

[@AdamRich1785]

Absolutely crushed it Tyler!

[@TylerBellMakes]

Thanks Adam!

[@teunroijakkers]

The KZbin 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.

[@forg0tten]

one day, these videos will be huge.

[@florianbertram9451]

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

[@KGTiberius]

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

[@dinobuddy]

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.

[@kyleeames8229]

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

[@nottheatf841]

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

[@KJ-kw7gh]

Bauer, not Milwaukee. Yeah, I'm late to watch it.

[@zwergimuschi]

Best. Intro. Ever Good Job man

[@DarkestHourAS]

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.

[@Thepracticalengineer]

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

[@TylerBellMakes]

Haha they wouldn't even know what they were looking at😂 Thanks Emiel!!

[@Will-Parr]

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

[@AceWolf456]

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.

[@alexmannion4721]

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

[@owenc5478]

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

[@EC100_]

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

[@BruceAUlrich]

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

[@TylerBellMakes]

Thank you Bruce!

[@timsworkshop85]

Looks like a fun project! Keep em coming!

[@TylerBellMakes]

Thank you!

[@mountainviewturning5319]

Great looking knife gun

[@TylerBellMakes]

Thanks!

[@Didgeridoo42]

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

[@MtPhillipMetalWorks]

Awesome well done man

[@TylerBellMakes]

Thanks Chris!👊🏻

[@stanwolford9743]

Time for a Steele -vs- Bell challenge?

[@davebauerart]

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

[@TylerBellMakes]

Thank you!!

[@thepalleteer9301]

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

[@TylerBellMakes]

Haha thanks man!

[@TylerBellMakes]

Haha I had to look up what Corker meant! Thanks dude😂

[@thepalleteer9301]

Tyler Bell Sorry it’s an English expression 😂😂😂

[@michaelhayduk2904]

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

[@jonathanfinger712]

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

[@GTL77]

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

[@TylerBellMakes]

Thanks Glenn!!

[@staveandhorn7301]

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

[@TylerBellMakes]

Thanks dude!

[@zoeyhostetter5447]

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

[@ddwharton]

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

[@TylerBellMakes]

Those are my favorite parts too. Thanks David

[@jonwills1957]

Yes it is ridiculous...ridiculously awesome!!

[@TylerBellMakes]

Haha! Thanks!

[@BuildsWithV]

Awesome video. Extremely entertaining

[@KanakaMomona]

Awesome project bud. Keep up the good work

[@TylerBellMakes]

Thank you very much

[@WinstonMakes]

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...

[@TylerBellMakes]

Totally! Thanks Winston. I'll be keeping an eye out for that!

[@StanCrafted]

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? 👏

[@TylerBellMakes]

Thanks a ton. Working on it!

[@clayhanson9220]

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

[@TylerBellMakes]

Thanks a ton!

[@Tannerarbuthnot]

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

[@TylerBellMakes]

Haha thanks Tanner!

[@FigmentsMade]

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

[@TylerBellMakes]

Haha thank you 😁

[@scotttaylor3334]

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!!!!

[@genisis53]

Nice video editing!

[@aguyyouwillneverseeagain1178]

would love to have this. except it is illegal in Florida.

[@keatontaylor3612]

Your content is fantastic! Deserves way more views and subs

[@albert_skin]

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

[@patmancrowley8509]

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!

[@daniellamb7828]

Velocity bug could probably be fixed with a larger diameter friction wheel

[@Adrak-Hiano]

how underrated is this awesome job!

[@itzmrfizz]

Was that a harbor freight drill?

[@AdrianGarcia-dm4ep]

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

[@FredMcIntyre]

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

[@TylerBellMakes]

Thanks fred!

[@archangel3237]

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

[@mohammedabb985]

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

[@garagemonkeysan]

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

[@TylerBellMakes]

Thank you very much

[@stewpacalypse7104]

Bravo on nice fabrication technique!

[@ParadoxAAA]

Remember don't bring a gun knife to a knife gun fight

[@borisdamjanovic416]

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

[@codyuttich7048]

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

[@potatoman9742]

meanwhile his neighbors: hello, um, 911? there's a man shooting knives at a piece of wood outside his house...

[@Troy-Sheets]

Should name it "The Knifemare"...

[@leisabell7440]

Wow! You are unstoppable!

[@TylerBellMakes]

❤❤

[@vn7906]

When you bring a knife to a gun fight but its you'd had enough

[@BlinkRepeat]

How the hell do you only have 80k subs?

[@dunklematerie3990]

this reminds me of that one kids toy that shoots discs, but this is just the far deadlier version

[@MaltandMake]

Next a home run machine knife shooter!

[@TylerBellMakes]

Oh boy. How about a bunker before that?😁

[@Yezpahr]

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

[@themeddite]

Sounds like a gun with extra steps.

[@ajysuperfly7788]

The shooting sounds like a minecraft door opening/closing

[@keepironman14]

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.

[@dragoncracker]

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

[@xxmustard_boixx]

This is something that someone would make in Fallout.

[@havardantonsen]

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

[@googleboy253]

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

[@natertot7952]

This man’s the cod gunsmith

[@Luftbubblan]

Fun design :)

[@funone8716]

The most expensive least effective bullet EVER

[@Felix.Fictus]

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.

[@Felix.Fictus]

I don't even know why I'm being so mean about it but maybe it has something to do with my disappointment in its final performance.

[@JonnyBuilds]

Fantastic!

[@TylerBellMakes]

Thanks Jonny!

[@southern_merican]

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