Make Your Own Gilded SWISS ARMY KNIFE
Published January 14, 2022 · 6:38 · 137,699 views
About This Video
You might need to sharpen the wood-burner tip. Van uses a drill and a file. He practices writing what he will engrave, makes sure it fits. The knife is a Rambler. He uses a little velvet desk he made because the plastic scratches easily. The pencil tip should be about as thick as the wood-burner tip. No coffee beforehand. The key is to commit and go at the speed that melts the plastic to the right thickness and depth.
He has done this probably a hundred times and still screwed up the seven. Not crazy about the eight either. He keeps a Post-it note nearby because he gets disoriented when engraving and cannot stop to think what letter comes next. The gold leaf paint is 18 karat, and he believes the package. The nib pen drags paint into the channel without breaching the walls of the numbers. Six minutes of process. I love this one. The gilded Swiss Army knife is a gift that costs almost nothing in materials and everything in attention.
Transcript
you might need to sharpen the wood burner tip I use a drill and a file obviously you plug in the wood
burner after sharpening I like to practice writing what I'll engrave and make sure it fits on the thing I'll be
Engraving I'll be engraving both sides of this Swiss army knife this one's called A Rambler great names for these
things I use that little velvet desk that I made because the plastic on these knives scratches very easily try to use
a pencil with a tip about as thick as the wood burner tip we'll do the date side first five times Optimizer I use an old knife to check
the Heat and thickness of the wood burner tip this one's a little too thick but I'll manage this takes practice and I have
bad handwriting no coffee beforehand and the key is to commit and go at the speed that melts the plastic to the right
thickness and depth I've done this probably a hundred times and I still screwed up the seven and I'm not crazy about the eight
either I keep the little little post it there because I get disoriented when I'm engraving and I can't really stop to
think what letter I'm supposed to be writing next so I can just glance at the side and not think just
right pretty good the package says 18 karat gold and I believe it with vice grips you carefully pull the tip from the barrel not the other
way around and that lighter fluid is to clean the nib tip but we'll worry about that later there's a little ball bearing in
there that we want to dump with the paint there it goes this is called a nib pen and I use the nib that's about this
big just the tip this part is important you got to blot the paint so it doesn't DP R these ones are good this one's too much and will ruin
your gilding this paint is almost impossible to remove from the plastic the idea with the gilding is that you want to pull the paint then
drag it into the channel without the paint breaching the walls of the numbers or the letter you can go
slowly but you don't want the paint to dry on the nib if it does you use the lighter fluid to wash it you can use an
extra fine tip paint pen to get a feel for the gilding if you're not ready to commit to Gold um use Sharpie brand or
Deco color but it must be a paint pen and it must be the extra fine tip uh I've only been able to find the
18 karat gold paint in the fat tip kryon pen so that's what for the nib and jar and all that pretty good not crazy about the
eight and seven but from far away it will look pretty Factory it takes 15 minutes minimum to dry and just to be safe I cover the
Gilded side with a poit so it doesn't mess up when I do the other side I do a much better job with the letters
if you're really Brave and feeling confident you can Guild The Edge Ridge of the letters but I don't do it here
because I'm out of practice and it's it's a teeny tiny knife I don't really have precise artist coordination I don't have that artist
touch or Precision with my hands naturally uh one of the reasons I do so many handmade activities is because when
I was a little kid my handwriting was so bad that my teachers suggested to to my parents that uh they buy me scale model
cars to to build to work on my dexterity and hand eye coordination that was probably 40 years ago dinner thank
you that little wooden block keeps my hand at the right height in relation to the letters in this shot I'm just trying to show you
the pooling and dragging technique I put a lanyard on them because it makes it easier to fish them out of your your pocket and easier to
find when you lose it and you will lose it and this one's for a three-year-old so I took the edge off the
blade they come razor sharp out of the box I have something for you what here come around here this is from your uncle
Scott what is it it's a wasami knife what's in it can you open it yeah I'm going to show you how I'll do
it can you show me how nice fantastic this week on patreon my first ever live stream answering your comments uh the link is right there
Products & Tools Mentioned
- Victorinox Rambler essential — Swiss Army knife model that is gilded in the video
- Krylon 18 Karat Gold Leafing Pen recommends — gold paint pen used for gilding
- Harbor Freight wood burner recommends — used for personalization/engraving
- Sharpie uses — used in the gilding process
- Deco Color paint pen uses — paint pen used in customization
- VHB tape uses — 3M VHB tape used in project
- nib pen uses — used for detail inscription work