Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Special Effects Syringe!
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- This may not be for a squeamish! Adam takes a vintage medical syringe and turns it into a practical effects prop! Using telescoping brass tubing and a custom machined front sleeve and plunger, this prop creates the convincing illusion of a needle injection that would be suitable for theater or film!
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I had always wondered how this special effect was done.
Tooth extractor next 😱
Hey Adam
Use some very porous sponge foam of desired colour sted of liquid... it should work i guess...
& If you want the liquid then use a insulin shot kind of injection hidden inside the plunger tube ... So that when you inject the prop then liquid will push back that hidden injection through the hole inside the plunger like reverse hydraulic
(You'll need a small hole to let the air escape from the end toward thumb so the hidden injection's rear end will have no resistance when the liquid start filling in... You'll still have air bubbles thanks to the position of hole you made for the liquid to disappear is in center... So it'll look nice)
@@mikeuk666 say "ahhhhhh"...
I was attracted to the episode because of my opiate addiction. I was always fascinated they made them in the 1800s with the precision. Given the size of the needles back then, I think most people would be afraid of them.
you haven't lived if you've never pretended that your mechanical pencil was a syringe
And make the "FSSSHHH" noise if you're pretending to be Dr. McCoy.
What about telling those that are ignorant that you now have are being poisoned by lead? Oh many a happy childhood memory.
@@asgdhgsfhrfgfd1170 I don’t believe actual lead was ever used in pencils. Graphite used to be called ‘black lead’ before we knew it was carbon.
@@asgdhgsfhrfgfd1170 That was the joke, that I was alluding to above.
@@gorillaau I was going to say "But there's always one smart-aleck in the group who'll say 'y'know pencil lead isn't really lead,'" but he seems to have already turned up. 😁
I used a variety of syringes during my synthetic organic chemistry career, including that glass gas-tight syringe you modified in this video. Definitely an underappreciated one in the labs because they're a bit finicky to use but super handy to transfer relatively large volumes of air-sensitive liquids when cannula isn't an option.
I love the off-the-wall esoteric quality of builds like these. No reason, just something Adam wants to do. These will always be my favorite. Also wondering if a graphite infused o-ring, if they even make that sort of thing, would make the operation a little smoother.
This almost feels like a "Spur of the moment" build rather than a planned One Day Build. Love it.
I certainly know "Because I want to" is responsible for 90% of _my_ makery. 😁
I also love his enthusiasm as he goes. And, as he doesn't complete his sentences while he's working out a problem. I think that rings true with most of us who make things on the fly.
@@woodandwheelz Or when he does something just out of camera view because he is so into what he's building.
It'd be nice if they gave a warning for things that wound up not working out (like flashing "nope, that's not gonna happen" on the screen when he says he's brainstorming in the beginning) I was watching that whole video anxiously awaiting how he was gonna make the fluid disappear lol
The way it presses in the skin as the needle slides back is so disturbing and looks so good!
Right?!
Is this creepy? Yes. Am I very interested also yes. Am I surprised Adam Savage has a collection of old timey syringes not in the slightest I love this!
The most horrifying bit of this was the sound of its operation! I think the disappearing fluid thing could probably be done with a plunger shaped like the original, but hollow. Have a small hole in it, and then as you depress it the fluid would be forced from the main body into the body of the plunger, seeming to disappear
yeah, I thought that was what he was going to do
Maybe make the plunger a dark color as well to hide the liquid going into it.
You could also inject the fluid into a person, effectively ‘hiding’ it.
@@GarryAndrews_ lol
I was thinking that as well, perhaps will a bladder/balloon type arrangement that would allow create a vacuum and allow/force the liquid to move at any orientation of the syringe.
I too have always been morbidly fascinated by prop syringes. I’ve worked with a few of them over the years, and they’re always so fascinating and fun to mess around with
So, when shall we expect to see the "holding one end of a piece of metal with bare fingers and heating up the other with a blow torch" demerit badge?
In the time that it took my mind to form the thought of "Wait, metal is very thermally-conductive", Adam rediscovered that on his own.
Not a blow torch, but I have lost count of the number of times I burnt my fingers soldering very tiny things. Anything with alligator clips just butchers 30 gauge wire- but fingers + some flat surface (like a table) does the job pretty well. If you're steady enough to solder between your fingers, and fast enough the heat doesn't travel.
I have also been in a situation where I forgot that metal conducts heat. I've known of a few other people forgetting this, too. Certainly a badge I'd be earning
i never went as far as anything beyond high school prop making, but my favorite was an axe i made that was covered and dripping in "blood" i used a little pump i imbedded in the handle with a reservoir of theater blood. hallow aluminum handle panted to look wooden with micro tubes going up and running across the bottom of the "blade". small holes let the axe drip it was so real looking they thought that one of the actors got hurt. i really wish i would have pursued theater prop making.
It's never too late, my friend.
It's never too late, my profession didn't exist when I was in high school
In high school? That's amazing!
Very impressive, carbonitedreamer! I've seen countless theater and screen props, but never one that actually dripped blood (or any liquid, for that matter!). And it's definitely not too late, by any means!
It’s never too late. I was attracted to this because of my opiate addiction. Wanted to actually see what connections Adam had to addiction if any and his thoughts. I was always fascinated that they made syringes in the 1800s. And given the size of the needles, I was scared too, trust me.
PS, Once I felt what it does, that fear melted quick.
There is this optical ASMR type of quality to just watch Adam think. It relaxes me in the most difficult situations
Darn, I was really hoping we'd see how to do the disappearing fluid trick! (The spring-loaded needle is simple enough to suss out, after all.)
You just need a way to hide the liquid, for instance in the plunger. Instead of using allthread, use a thin-ish tube and make a hole for the liquid to escape upwards into the plunger stem and pusher, if needed. The comically huge plunger also holds a fair amount of liquid.
Don't worry; it'll likely end up another video!
I wonder if it could work in reverse, as if you were drawing blood?
From what Adam was doing with the glass plunger, it looks like all you need is a space into which the liquid can flow.
@@tested yes please!
Did Sweeney Todd's squirting razor once, but I expect everybody's done one of those. Same with the bleeding garrot from Deathtrap - icky and triggering but also a pretty common item. The trouble with your trick syringe (if you don't mind a little critique) is that needles don't have steps in them, and as you're not injecting anything you don't need a needle at all. Use a blunt piece of piano wire and make the retraction/travel entirely in the metal attachment collar and the metal sleeve behind it. The hollow plunger head can give you even a little bit more travel, and still give you the 'disappearing liquid' effect. Vent it on the back of the plunger and put in only as much fluid as will disappear, and you could seal the whole thing permanently.
Looks great! I would make the plunger slightly longer so there is still a small gap between the handle of the plunger and the glass of the syringe when the plunger is pushed all the way down.
I'd actually think that a second O-ring near the back of the large section of the plunger might be sufficient to keep the aluminum from contacting the glass; not as a seal, just as a bearing surface. Might still need something farther down the shaft, but it might also be just right.
I think you’re right. I was looking to see if anyone had made this comment already when I found your. It seems like the real medical syringes I’ve seen had two o rings, but 8 could be remembering wrong.
Haunted house artist here, and a few classic squeamish props include:
-Amputation tables (table w/hole for actors leg/torso/rest of body, dressed with costume/fake limbs to create the illusion of a live amputation)
-stretching racks (similar to amputation table, but with two actors for upper and lower body or simply pneumatic lower body pieces, with silicone goo attaching the connecting torso viscera for that extra squelchy/stretchy look
-spark fences! (chain link fence hooked to one end of a car battery charger, other terminal attached via long hidden cable to a chainsaw bar/knife; the rustier the fence, the better!)
-Sweeney Todd barber capes; saw one in a promo that had a sliceable flesh piece-- the safety band behind things like this are ALWAYS important to remember!!!
-there's a product called cockroach crunch which is spead on the floor of bug-themed rooms to create the feeling of stepping on insects i rather enjoy
-guillotines with drop-away neck holes
There's also some great uses of peppers ghost combined with pneumatics to create the illusion of, say, a piston smashing someone's head in (and then customers having to move past the same piston, which of course moves a little bit) or the like, where an actor plays the lead up to the smash, and then the strobe lights conceal the switch to a peppers ghost scene of a body in the same costume all gored up.
Much of the haunted house industry is a bunch of engineers recreating effects from magic tricks, hollywood productions, and stage shows in low-budget, highly-repeatable forms. Some of these require concealment with strategic lighting, some just need repair/refreshing (see: sil-blood) from night to night, but if you're feeling extra excited about maker-made storytelling pieces that really make you squirm, i cant think of a better place to look!
These old time looking syringes would make a good prop for one of the various medicines the Hunters use in the video game Hunt Showdown. The tarnished brass combined with the bright colored fluids really stand out.
This is therapeutic for me because I have a phobia of needles, especially syringes. Knowing they’re fake in movies still bothers me, but seeing how they work helps tremendously.
Oh, good!
Oh! Hard same! I haaaaaaaaate needles and it took everything in my discipline to get vaccinated, but this is fascinating!
Same here! I've fainted getting injections before and seeing them used to make me feel sick but now I pretend they're all like movie props 😂
I dodged this video a couple times before I realized it was Adam haha, needles are the worst.
@@ianwhelan-miller90 I used to hate needles just like you two did, when I was ~13 I got Type 1 diabetes and that phobia became impractical, and boom, it was gone about a week later.
I wouldn't worry on that phobia, in an emergency it will be gone like a puddle on a warm day.
Every day, Savage gets closer and closer to completing the transformation to Doc Brown.
Hi, Adam.
You mentioned the "double helix cut hardened steel bit." Wondering: do you (or anyone we know) have a LIST of "highly specialized tools and what they're perfect for"?
(I'm envisioning a 2 column spreadsheet, so if (years from now) I want to look up "ideal for cutting a round hole in glass" or "drills square holes" or "makes the perfect pizza" or whatever, I can do a search based on the JOB and find the name of THE tool.
Anyone out there maintain such a list?
Just a thought and thanks in advance!
great idea
We print and laminate charts available online for future reference. All based on specific materials. I have never seen a single list, I imagine it would be a long one lol.
This sounds like the makings of a huge list which should be printed yearly and become a maker's directory.Or as we makers call it. The Directory. 😍
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To cut glass that would have been a carbide bit (burr). Pretty common tool, but Adam often calls things by the wrong name, so it's tricky to know what to look for.
This has to be one of my favorite Adam-builds. 😎
Glad to see the humble t-shirt is part of the working surfaces
The spring has sprung 😂 thank you for entertaining and teaching us builds!
I love the mini table saw
It would be really interesting to see a walk through of Adam's pocket knife collection!
Mental note.
I second this motion. That knife at 7:49 - a sheepsfoot with a thumbhole. That's my favorite style of pocketknife.
@@danielbaxter33 for anyone curious, that seems to be an Urban EDC F5.5
@@crenshawyeo yes, it definitely is
Cool point to note about glass syringes (if you don't cover it already in the video!) is that the plunger should spin freely inside the syringe body, it should be perfectly aligned and the tiny amount of air around it acts as an almost frictionless (or at least massively reduced friction) aerodynamic bearing. Looks really cool as it spins!
Steve Mould's video on aerodynamic bearings covers this beautifully btw if you'd like to see it!
Completely unrelated, but I've been binge watching The Expanse for the first time. And found you in an episode! Now I'd seen your episode with some of the actors and didn't think anything else about it.
I think it's really cool you got to be in this show, I'm really enjoying it. I wish I'd started sooner.
Hope you're doing well, sir!
If you need a better fit for the plunger and o-ring, look up a livestock syringe gun. The plunger has the o-ring sandwiched between two pieces and connected with threads to outside of the tube. You can turn the end and compress the ring to make a tighter or looser fit against the inside diameter of your tube.
Lube it up with some Propylene Glycol or Vegetable Glycerine. The stuff you put in the fog/smoke machines. Works really well for lubing up syringe insides.
Freaking awesome! Without going into details, I had the unfortunate experience of high gauge, large syringes used on me - I think the horror was worse than actual physical pain.
a shop i worked at specialized in physical media props. we made a lot of basic easy sale items but we also did custom orders. At one point we got a request to make a prop weapon out of a drill press. Concept we were given is the drill bit will push down on someones head to kill them. the main issue with this is functionality, they wanted no CGI work on it meaning the bit and everything needed to spin and as such also needed to retract and expand. this required A LOT of work. We had to basically strip an existing drill press down to its shell and build custom internals. the retraction and the expansion was actually very simple, We used a wire and pulley system very much like an automatic window on a car, the bits were made of soft matte coated plastic, we installed near the base of where the drill press would get close a detection system that measured how far away the object was under it, based off this we would then push out fake blood and fake brain matter made out of a mixture of cauliflower, bread, and gelatin. we also provided them with replica heads of the actor that had the remaining of the sensors needed to set off internals. was far more complicated than I explained in here but it was one of our favorite builds on account it was so outside of the box and the contractor was very specific on what they wanted, We originally planned on just making a hard plastic mold of the actors head, have a per installed hole in it, and place fake skin over it and just have the blood and brain mix in the head, but in testing the contractor did not like the look of it. sometimes the simplest solution is the best one, but this was not one of those cases.
what a brilliant thing . Adam your a genius . well done and thank you for the video .
I love what you do Adam please never stop
Great video Thank you for sharing. Keep em coming, everyone keep yourselves and love ones safe and healthy.
That plunger end Is so pretty
Dude this has to be one of the neatest things ive ever seen
sidenote: maybe try cutting foil ball with a portaband while its in a vice
We're sending the ball to the Waterjet Channel!
I’m a sucker for ambiguous phrases like, “Starting to look like a thing.” They are among my favorite requirements in any process.
Adam, your laugh is infectious! Used to laugh with you in the "Mythbusters" days.
Now I'm really curious as to how Adam planned to do the disappearing fluid trick. Maybe run it up the inside of that threaded rod and out a tube to somewhere?
Needle is sealed, the plunger is hollow, when you push the plunger the fluid just goes inside the plunger head and the threaded tube
Stay tuned; he's been thinking about it.
The trick is you need a hole in the end of the plunger to allow air to pass through as the plunger is plunged/retracted Otherwise the liquid has to compress the air. I'm not sure if you can avoid the liquid squirting out of that hole by having a much larger volume in the plunger as compared to the volume of liquid.
You would have to be pointing the syringe downward as you use it to prevent the liquid from just dripping out via gravity, but you can put your thumb over the hole before you use it so you can orient it however you like without issue.
@@tested I'd originally thought something like a water hammer arrestor, but looking forward to finding out
@@tested 2 of "1 way valve" sort of system on the hollow but "both sides closed" plunger's head,
one at 12ish o'clock lets liquid in the cavety,
one at 6ish o'clock in reverse lets it out......
plungers head must be hollow and able to contain the required liquid amount (or bit more), till that liquid is no longer visible.....
You could hide some of the liquid on syringe's head as well (so the plunger does not get to the actual end of the syringe, solving any troubles about escaping fluid from inside the plunger)
-or make the syringe's head the conteiner of that liquid it self (that would solve the visble valves holes on the plunger problem, but someone could thing of them as screws for the plunger head as well)
1 way valves do exist ???? XD
you could also make an airvent through the plunger's tube / rod back to where your finger is pushing it. you can just block / ublock that vent's hole with your finger any time you operate it to let air out / in as nececery.
Or make an colored (as nececery) tranparent acrylic tube that fits infront of the plunger (beeing it the liguid),
wich hides in the syrinnge's head when it moves forward and comes out when the plunger retracts. Giving a shot / taking blood....
It’ll be hard for the piston to move smoothly using a rubber gasket inside that ground glass syringe. The original glass piston Adam didn’t use was designed to be used with stopcock grease to both lubricate and seal the syringe when it was used. Rubber gaskets generally work better on smooth surfaces than on ground surfaces.
The first minute of this video made me laugh way to much 🤣
I have been Diabetic for 43 years ( since I was a year old) and I cannot tell you, hOW MUCH I HATE NEEDLES ( lol kinda crazy, no?) and I have NEVER been more excited to try to replicate a one day built lol my shrink is gonna have a field day with this lol
I'll never get over the practicality of Adam's tattoo
Not only does it speak to who he truly is as a person, it's also incredibly handy for making rough measurements on the fly
Genius really, but I espect no less from the Savage
Hardly the first person to have a ruler/measuring tattoo...
@@AdamByers001 yeah man, a good bit is a good bit :)
At 27:00 Adam jumps to a top down view of his work table, and the word "Dignity" is written in sharpie on the work surface. Has he ever mentioned why he wrote it there? Was in in another episode?
Tell us more about your scar! I have an almost identical one - transverse rather than vertical and only 5 stiches, roughly the same timeframe. Got it trying to dig out the window holes on a B-52 plastic model. I found out how brittle X-Acto blades are, and that they still cut pretty well after they break and you cram the knife into your palm. Live and learn! Love the channel, cheers!
Inch-and-a-half "needle!" Wow. I'm not a medical professional, but I regularly inject myself, intra-muscularly, with a medicine using a 23 gauge one-inch needle. Yours really gets into "scary" territory, especially with the gauge of the "needle" you use.
Mach II should have a hollowed plunger-shaft, and some mechanism wherein you can have a coloured liquid in the syringe, which disappears up the plunger shaft as you depress the plunger.
I was hoping you'd be making one similar to the syringes in Dark City... Those are perhaps the most aesthetically pleasing syringes I've seen.
Thank you.
I 3d hinges for mounting dental castings. Paint them up to look like corroded bronze. Nice balance between gothic and steampunk.
10:12 one other note: when you turn pull spring into push spring by pulling it, it becomes thinner. It would've fit.
7:09 - You should add safety eye pro to the top of your glass for when you can't use your glasses. Not sure how to go about it but it's just an idea.
Now i really want Adam to make a prop Plague Doctor's mask
I spy a Vox F5.5, amazing knife! One of my all time favs 👊
Nice end to an early day.
When he touched the solder my brain exploded. I don't know how many times I have done that and burned myself badly.
I would love to see a recreation of the syringe from dark city!
should add a small magnet to the concealed end of the needle to hold it in place a little harder for the initial movement to simulate that skin popping affect these larger needles tend to have
This is amazing.
Would it be possible to fill it with a liquid and fake an injection?
A great tool for the shop would be a paintball barrel squeegee they are no more more than an inch to 2 inch in diameter and would be perfect for certain builds
"Animal veterinarian" :D Sorry Adam, coudn't resist. It's such a cool prop, especially for someone who is still afraid of getting injections. Got boosebumps the entire video :D
i love how Adam sometimes think we can hear his thoughts and replies as such, or simply continues the conversation from inside to outside his head,
and dues, us only hearing half of the conversation LOL
Reminds me of the vitality shot from the video game Hunt: Showdown
You missed a part that would have solved your issue with the aluminium plunger hitting the glass as you pushed it in. The part is a cap with a hole that the plunger shaft goes through. The cap fixes to the top end of the syringe tube and helps keep the plunger straight while you push it in.
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No sure what you are doing with the fluid but if the plunger was hollow then the fluid could go into the plunger when it is pushed. You would have to have a way for air to be pushed out without fluid but might work.
Protip: when soldering something that you HAVE to clamp in a vise, I've successfully clamped tweezers in a vise, and used them to hold the part, but for larger/slippery items, even a single sheet of paper or napkin can provide enough thermal brake to let the torch keep up.
And yeah the paper burns, but not right at the contact patch.
"Jesus Wept" - thats got to be my favorite minced oath now.
I think copying the magic emptying babies bottle toy might be effective; fluid is held between nested clear cylinders; with the centre volume being hollow. The syringe would appear full, but would only requie a small volume resevoir to hide it in when the plunger is depressed
I have needed FX syringes for more than one show over the years and thankfully we were able to just hide the actual act of the actor being injected, but just yesterday I was watching a movie where someone was injected with one and I said to myself I really need to revisit this and see if I can make one. And then this video came up!!!!!! I'd like to see how the liquid works in this.
I have become the go to person amongst my theatre friends for gore/blood related props. The most gruesome prop I've made to date were Scotty's intestines for Evil Dead the Musical. First time I made them I used plastic shopping bags and pantyhose to soak up the stage blood and make them squishy. The second time I still used plastic shopping bags, but I covered them in layers of liquid latex to make them more slimy.
Long marshmallows covered in blood make good guts
I think Adam wimped out and didn't make the liquid disappear part.
I wish I was good at making things like you.
Nice. (I really wanted to see how to do the disappearing fluid though)
Will we see a 1 day build for display case (mobile) of all the syringes in an appropriate Night and Blood motif. ?
Adam did the same thing I did recently while soldering... "Let's hold this piece of metal in my hand while I quickly apply heat... OUcH! Why did that burn me?.... Oh... 😞"
Thanks for the flashback to my first 11 stitches back in 1984.. lol.. loved it when they had to clean the wound with the wire brush too 😆 ( it was stiff plastic, but might as well been a wire brush..lol )
Gah!
so freakin cool!!!! thank you sooo much for sharing! always enjoyable to watch
Beautiful build. We still use ground glass syringes for spinal taps, because the ground glass plunger to ground glass syringe cylinder fitment can be made so closely that the syringe can actually bounce on just the air pressure in the syringe, or the fluid pressure in the spinal canal, with a tiny bit of resistance. The seal is actually made from the water's surface tension between the two ground glass surfaces. I think this worked against you in this setting, as the inside of the syringe is not smooth, which makes an imperfect seal against the O-ring, preventing it from mating and sliding as expected.
Shouts out to everyone who did this with a mechanical pencil in class.
I wonder what percentage of people have fear of needles? Personally I have no fear of them what so ever, nothing. When I was a kid back in the early 60's the Dr would give you a shot then snap the needle off and give it to you the syringe as a mini squirt gun. It got to the point that I once cried to get a needle so I could get that cool little mini squirt gun. The Dr said "I think the is the only kid that has ever been in here and cried to GET a needle".
Nice one! Thanks for video :)
Adam that is awesome
When youi solder metal. You heat the metal, then touch the solder to it, and the heat draws the solder through the whole join. If you heat the solder, then you end up just solding part of the join. Silver Smithing Lesson!
Pretty nice, but I want to be able to put a fluid in it and have it magically disappear like it's going out the needle, when in fact it's going up a hidden tube in the middle of the plunger :D
"I don't love needles"
>Has an entire collection of antique syringes
I would love to see you make your own sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who
It would be cool to make a syringe like that where the fluid trick works to look like it's being drawn from the body and could then be squirted on an unsuspecting victim lol Maybe by hiding opposite facing one-way valves in the plunger and end of the syringe. Fill the plunger with something gross and ideally the suction would draw it into the syringe and then the pressure would shoot it out.
I would of thought the Plunger Cap where you place your thumb would be better concaved as it seams more natural for a Plunger?
i thought adam would put some liquid mechanic into the tube as well, so that you could actually pump a visible liquid into a hidden cylinder, to "empty" the syringe. just have a hallow cylinder int he middle, maybe nicely in brass, and have the liquid push in and pull out of there with a nice valve in between.
that would make for nice effect. you could even put a lever on the valve, so you can empty and refill the syringe for real and put like Fake Blood into it. so it can look like youre taking blood out of someone.
Love to see one day build of something off of gear concert props your pick Adam what do you remember from gwar
Who else would pretend that their mechanical pen was a syringe lol
Again, I don't know what type of steel cutter you have there but the rest of us would require carbide for such a glass cutting task. Maybe you have an exclusive, pre-production Rex 15,000 steel cutter.
For the disappearing liquid, maybe some kind of hollow handle 🤔
I became a type1 diabetic as a 3 year old in 1976, so I remember glass syringes with screw-on needles only too well. As a particularly small child the syringes were getting on for the size of my arm, I can only sympathize with my mother having to insert a comparatively Massive needle into tiny me as I can still remember how much I'd cry!
Hmmm. I thought you would be able to pull up liquid and have it seemingly disappear when the piston would be pushed all the way in.... that would be a nice effect... use the retractable needle to pick up liquid (maybe have a one-way thing in there, a small iron ball that would not let it flow out or be pressed out), then when the piston is pushed, redirect the liquid somehow or just let the air escape from the piston end so the liquid can go into the space in there... I would definitely go full circle with the illusion there :) Love what you do Adam!!
me - nervous twtich when adam is using blow torch with bare hands near is finger, thinkign how is he not burning himself or feeling the heat ?
Adam seconds later - oooowwwwww omg omg OW
Me- Adam pls.
I have the exact same scar from when I was a kid. I was foolishly trying to cut a piece of rubber by holding it between my thumb forefinger and slicing it with a razor knife towards my hand. I'd be curious to hear how Adam got his.
I was like. " Where is your flux, for flux sake?".........LOL
As someone who hates needles. Thanks for helping me overcome my fear of them! a bit. maybe.
Adam never ceases to amaze me with his skill, imagination and enthusiasm.
Tooth Extractor next 😱