Star Wars fans discovered that Luke's lightsaber prop was constructed from a Graflex Camera Flash Handle, which lead to a spike in demand and prices rising for this piece of vintage camera equipment.
Arttilx more common in military combat in WW1, but knock-offs were actually very common amongst Chinese citizens during and post WW1. Lots of resistance groups against the Japanese and Russos had fake Mauser pistols. Mausers were used extensively in both wars, it just depends on your circumstances. You wouldn’t see a Mauser on the Western front of WW2, or even the German-Russian lines of WW2, but you would find them in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, or when the Russians invaded China soon after the war.
The moment i love is when the parts are revealed and the first thing Adam examines isn't an intricate piece of metalwork or small detail piece but the scope, which appears to be the most straightforward and simple part of the whole kit. I love it because Adam went for it specifically because it's the simplest part, and so it's the one with the greatest difficulty in being just *so*. In the words of another, "you have chosen wisely." That's not the cup of a carpenter.
It was flat bottomed to enable the gun to be disassembled. The C96's upper slides back once the inner frame is removed, and with the bull barrel (which lets a longer rifle barrel be screwed unto it) being centered on the original bore a non-flat bottomed barrel would hang down low enough to where the upper receiver couldn't be slid off. So the barrel's bottom was milled flat to the right clearance depth.
What a beautiful prop Norm! You are so lucky to have a friend like Adam to help construct the blaster! Very fun to watch you both put it together. Lots of research really makes a difference in the final piece. Well done.
"When you get into the accuracy of the Han Solo blaster, you're delving into an area of esoterica and specificity that I have never even traipsed into." Now that is some esoteric Vocabulary.
For those who didnt understand 5:41 reference; the original luke skywalker lighsaber is made from a vintage flash handle with some additions. Before the movie photograph fanatics could buy these flashes from about 10 dollars, but now they are over 1000 dollars because thats what they used for the lightsaber.
JohnDoe both Luke and Vader were- they made several different styles. When I was a kid I was at my grandparents house one day going through my dads vintage photography equipment and I found several Graflex 3-cell handles; not knowing what they were I was in complete awe that my father had a whole drawer full of lightsabers 🙃
I love seeing people with such passion for things they do. Not bothered if it's considered nerdy, I really enjoyed watching these pair having genuine enthusiasm for making this replica.
Amazing how people spend so much time on recreating guns from the original trio lift when they were literally adding scraps together to make the guns look "less realistic to our world"
That's prop replicating in general. It's like trying to perfectly replicate a Jackson Pollock painting: you'll spend weeks replicating something he did in minutes.
Yeah. And now every gun, costume and prop that make it to the films are designed not only to work within the cinematic universe but to be turned into products (colletibles and toys) for fans to buy.
@@gustavofigueiredo1798 It's always funny to me to think that when someone designed the graflex flash, they never would have thought it would be being marketed as a laser sword 70 years later.
I have a lot of respect for Norm idk really who he is cuz im new to this channel but the research he did and how interested he is really shows and it's rad!
JimIBobIJones These are people who have WAY too much time on their hands....Reminds me of the scene in the movie "Rockstar" with Mark Wahlberg when confronting the other cover band about how their outfits aren't correct...lol.....
michael cochrane happens all the time. Heck, there are fans who meet stars and dismiss them as impersonators. The fans perspective is all that matters to some.
JimIBobIJones That is always the case with any reproduction project. When you're making an original of something, you can make it any way you want to. _Accurately_ reproducing that original is a lot trickier. For example, suppose a toddler scribbled all over a piece of paper for 10 seconds. You could make a similar looking scribble in the same 10 seconds, but what if, for whatever reason, you wanted to accurately reproduce the original scribble? It could take hours, weeks, months, or even years, depending on the level of accuracy you are striving for.
MaximRecoil The detail or care that went into the original Star Wars props is nowhere near the obsession of fans. Han's blaster was 3 or 4 VERY different props rather than one gun and characters regularly have different costumes between shots. Tell me fans aren't overly obsessed with details :I
Uraneum Yeah 150$ is pretty cheap in the world of good replicas. Adam is obviously very experienced and he knows the difference in prices ranges and the quality. If you want a good starter replica, 150$ is where you start and slowly work up to really really nice ones if you wanna you could just stay there if ur happy with it. Adam sounds like some rich guy goin "Hmm well 100$ is cheap" but thats literally the cheapest your gonna get a nice replica for.
I never though in a million years I would hear Adam Savage say a curse word, and have it not be censored, I was laughing way too hard when he said, 'Fucking perfect!'
Lol, the barrel and receiver only cycle a fraction of an inch and the bolt is what moves back and forth. Just watched a Hickok45 review on one. Otherwise I might have been doing the same thing.
+George Hill Make that 7. And I have never heard of mounting a reticle upside down to compensate for elevation as that would make your point of impact inverted also
How much do you want to bet that Adam was almost ready to knock Norm out, take the blaster and run away with it? The guy almost had a nerdgasm when it was finished xD
+War Machine it is a select fire 7.65 .30 cal broom handle. It was phased out before 1935 as a side arm of the Wehrmacht in favor of the more powerful 9mm Luger cartridge. The Spanish army and argentine army along with turkey still used the weapon.
hilldwler 420 Which is why I made note of the fact that it was carried for ceremonial purposes. Officers in the SS composed themselves far differently than the average Wehrmacht soldier; they had a few quirks and pomp and ceremony were among them. It's the same as how many Allied officers carried Colt .45 revolvers instead of the M1911.
@Tested: You can align Adam with the aiming telescope, the absent wrongly built around. In a beam view like the one used by Hensoldt the vertical beam is installed from below. At minute 13:40 you can see that it has built it from above.
It feels good to nerd out this hard! I totally respect and appreciate the tremendous amount of research and dedication given by all the real fans who helped contribute to this success!
I like his trigger finger at the end !! being a gun enthusiast even though its not a real gun proper trigger finger is always satisfying to see because its just responsible.
Review Guy that's just what I was thinking every time I saw Norm holding the pistol his finger was all over that trigger I kept wanting to yell at him at our that. Like you said even if it's a toy it's still good to be in the habit to keep your finger off that trigger.
He swore all the time on earlier seasons of Mythbusters. He had to be censored quite often, actually. The filming of the show has simply changed over the years to cut most of that out of the show, thus we really don't see much of that part of him anymore.
Darren Diaz Yea.. I miss the earlier seasons. Or rather, the way they made them back then. After they got more popular, it felt like they turned away from showing the building processes in detail, and instead added a lot more scripts and editing to the show. Which in my opinion, sucked. But I guess we have Discovery Channel to blame for that. Shows like these are so much better when they aren't full of acting, and feels more raw, in my opinion.
The Mauser C96 was actually first manufactured in 1896 and continued until 1937. I don't want to stomp on your video but just give you the most accurate information, the things that inspired the Star Wars props have a rich history and I think they really add to the whole story.
perfect in every way except for the colour. Also I had no idea the level of fucking outrageous nerdiness that could go into getting a "perfect" replica. I mean, and I genuinely want an answer for this... Who cares how close a replica it is?
Russell Morgan Sure, doesn't mean anything though. The people who now want to have things look as authentic as possible will want to recreate everything as they were in the movies.
I'll never understand why Adam seemed so amazed/shocked at the level of detail people went into for Han Solo's blaster. He's the exact same way with the Blade Runner gun, and many other of his props that he's built.
I am a gun collector. If you are going to take one of my Mausers and hack it up to make a DL-44 blaster, please make it so it can still fire. Though I love my untouched collectables, a working blaster would be awesome.
I know this is 6 years old but my Marine father would beat me if I didn’t let you know that it is called a flash suppressor. Otherwise such a fascinating series and great work!
holy crap, I don't put that much thought or effort into real shit I need, I must be a lazy bastard! great job though, I am impressed with the esoteric knowledge and detail.
Thanks Adam and Norm, because of this video I'm currently building 2 ANH Hero's (will convert one to a TFA), a Greedo Killer, Bespin and Hoth ESB Han, A Luke ESB and I have a ROTJ lined up. And a Merrson Power 5. The RPF is a dengerous (and expensive) place!
I do kinda feel it's a shame so many people are taking historical guns and scopes and turning them into personal film replicas. theres something a bit neglectful about it. Can't image how hard it is to find a good condition Cadillac Miller-Meteor that hasn't been turned into the Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters. trying to collect that car for historical preposes would be so difficult because of all the people wanting to turn it into an Ecto-1. kind of a shame?
Dude it fucking sucks. Before i was old enough to buy handguns you could find c-96s for 400 or so bucks. Ive only seen one in gunstores in the past 6 years and it was 1260. Its the same for mosins and smles all these people bought them because of games now the prices have doubled to tripled.
I'm a gun nut and a prop nerd, so for me it evens out. That and I can just make a functioning C-96 from scratch if I need either. Won't have the same history, but I'm not a history nerd 😁
I did a 3D model of that blaster based on a lot of the same research, I was really glad to see it looked the same and that I chose the right version of it!!
I made mine from a real M1896 "Broomhandle Mauser" that some idiot had nickel-plated years ago, and polished-off all the markings- so it had "zilch" collector value. It is the "ANH" version- and a functional 9mmP. :) The flash hider works great! I did NOT use a real "DYALTAN" scope- as it is worth thousands! I used a modern, .22LR scope, and changed the optics, so it would work as a pistol.
Don't know exactly what de nada means, heh, but I meant thanks for setting the record straight. (Instead of playing keyboard commando and speaking like someone who has no knowledge of military&firearms history, and just googled it.)
I would love to see them make something like the hidden blade from Assassins Creed, it would be interesting to see how much detail they would go into on that.
I think I had one of those Japanese kits from the '80s, too. Mine was a Luger. What's interesting is it has the same device to show how many bullets were left in the magazine as the Mauser (it would flip up/forward when empty.) The Luger's magazine was in the handle. The model even came with a removable clip with styrene bullets to put in it. I wish I had kept it but it eventually made its way into the trash many decades ago.
Han was a master gun smith (blaster class) - his tinkering was the reason the Captain's sidearm AKA Smuggler's always looked different. I appreciate the video.
You know I'm a Star Wars fan, but if I spent so much time an effort researching, getting parts, and building that, it would would better be a working blaster.
plecter labs sells a blaster core sound board and i think you can wire lights up to it as well, you could drill a thin hole down the barrel and run wires and then mill out other sections to fit the sound board and battery as well as lighting and a trigger switch plus a speaker for effects.
Dude, you have to drill into the gun to mount the scope and if you watch the video when he threads the hole, the hammer moves back slightly due the parts interfering... getting a real gun converted requires you to change it in a way it would not be screen accurate.
sure, it's a one day build if you happen to have gathered all the parts from the far-flung reaches of the planet, had special parts built, own your own machine shop and know how to use a variety of machines and techniques of construction, and all that's after you pour over a 90 some odd page detailed description. other than that, this thing practically builds itself, lol. great job, this thing looks amazing. :) i shudder to think how much this sucker would retail for. $2500? more?
ryan barker When the kit was available, all the parts seen here cost $860 plus shipping, then you have to factor in the price of the MGC replica, not sure how much those run these days, but you'd probably be ready to start assembling for about $1500 total, including shipping costs (and patience on eBay). You don't need a full machine shop to put this together, although it would certainly be faster and easier. From what we can see here, you need a hacksaw, good drill (or drill press), a tap/die set and a file. It would be a bit more work, but if you took your time and care, it wouldn't be much different. The 90-pages Norm read was not the assembly instructions, but five years of research and process leading up to the manufacturing of the kit parts, the instructions are likely a lot more straight forward than that thread :)
excuse me for posting on a 5 year old video, but the c96 has a fairly simple and very safe safety mechanism. The hammer protrudes from a ring that has 2 channels machined into it. When the safety is engaged (pushed up) a protrusion from the side of the safety fits into the channel in the hammers body, stopping the hammer from falling. there is a channel for the hammer down and for the hammer up position, meaning you can carry cocked and safe, or drop the hammer and carry it that way if you want.
Hugo Rendlesham Replicas, special effects, and authenticity/appraisals are billion dollar industries. They deal with hundreds of thousands of items each of which "maybe a few thousand" people really care about, but altogether vital to history. Maybe you don't think Star Wars is a vital part of history, but look at it this way... for every fact you know about, say, the Qing Dynasty, there's someone out there who sifted through billions of historical records and artifacts to put that little piece together. Someone else sifted through thousands of little pieces to make deductions about what happened, and to bring the most relevant facts to the textbooks. People painstakingly craft replicas of artifacts, and some try to pass these off as authentic - so others study them to incredible detail to determine what's real. It goes on and on. It's not unreasonable to imagine how many people might have voted for Regan because he named his plan "Star Wars". In truth, the plan itself didn't have anything to do with the movie (and everything to do with luring the USSR into bankrupting itself), and had the movie never existed he'd have probably called it something else. But the name caught people's attention. So like it or not, it's a vital part of history, and while that might not mean anything to you now, it'll be influencing public policy a hundred years from now just like the Civil War influences public policy today. So basically, this blaster is a modern-day equivalent of a jade elephant.
Fun Fact : Why do plants produce caffeine? It's of no use to the plant per se? Caffeine has a lethal dose, like any drug this dose is based on weight. We can consume around 2000mg for an average adult before death could occur (the heart/central nervous system shuts down) A tiny bug or aphid or something is much lighter in body mass, so lethal dose for them is much much smaller. A bug tries to suck the fluids from a coffee bean and BAM death from nervous system overload. Yep... Caffeine.... Natural insecticide.
HatesUsernames It's true. 200mg is considered a very high dose from a very large energy drink. So, ten times that. Yep, I can see why that would kill someone. Although generally a rate of mg/kg/hour would be better. Yknow, because body weight counts. Also, because timing counts. I've drunk 20 grams of caffeine. I'm not dead because TIME counts. It wasn't over a few hours, it was over a few months :P
Star Wars fans discovered that Luke's lightsaber prop was constructed from a Graflex Camera Flash Handle, which lead to a spike in demand and prices rising for this piece of vintage camera equipment.
just wanted to let you know that some world war 1 era mausers had scopes from the manufacturer
Mauser where never used in ww2.
I forgot I type this I know better now
@@koolaidmanwithariotshield5080 No they were used in both WW1 And WW2
Tomb plays Games they were more common in combat in w.w.1
Arttilx more common in military combat in WW1, but knock-offs were actually very common amongst Chinese citizens during and post WW1. Lots of resistance groups against the Japanese and Russos had fake Mauser pistols. Mausers were used extensively in both wars, it just depends on your circumstances. You wouldn’t see a Mauser on the Western front of WW2, or even the German-Russian lines of WW2, but you would find them in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, or when the Russians invaded China soon after the war.
I'd love to see Adam design and build a brand new Star Wars themed gun, something that could've existed in the SW universe, but doesn't.
TotalMetalJacket It's unreal how much I would actually want to watch Adam delve into that process.
+Jayton Hawkins ه
Boba Fetts ?
+Jayton Hawkins dood, just have someone hire Adam to do that, and it will exsist within the SW universe.
Why not design a replica Millennium Falcon!!!
The moment i love is when the parts are revealed and the first thing Adam examines isn't an intricate piece of metalwork or small detail piece but the scope, which appears to be the most straightforward and simple part of the whole kit. I love it because Adam went for it specifically because it's the simplest part, and so it's the one with the greatest difficulty in being just *so*.
In the words of another, "you have chosen wisely." That's not the cup of a carpenter.
Notice how absolutely focused Adam is in this? Talk about passion.
Norm did his research so well that it left Adam speechless... the look of a proud teach watching his student explain a lesson.
Adams heart was filled with teacher joy
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13:03 Adam savage says "Fucking Perfect"
My life is complete!
Best moment ever
Just have a button to push with that audio clip, that would be amazing
I know right!
That's up there with "There's your problem!" for me now :D
Thank you TH-cam Algorithm for bringing this to me 5 years after-the-fact!
Lmao just heard that had to come to the comments to see if anyone else caught it 😂 love it
"why would it be a flat-bottom?" "it was milled that way". What a genius answer. Adam wisely decided to continue..
Genius way of saying, "I don't know that part..."
Sounds like time for a Forgotten Weapons crossover episode.
It was flat bottomed to enable the gun to be disassembled. The C96's upper slides back once the inner frame is removed, and with the bull barrel (which lets a longer rifle barrel be screwed unto it) being centered on the original bore a non-flat bottomed barrel would hang down low enough to where the upper receiver couldn't be slid off. So the barrel's bottom was milled flat to the right clearance depth.
What a beautiful prop Norm! You are so lucky to have a friend like Adam to help construct the blaster! Very fun to watch you both put it together. Lots of research really makes a difference in the final piece. Well done.
"When you get into the accuracy of the Han Solo blaster, you're delving into an area of esoterica and specificity that I have never even traipsed into." Now that is some esoteric Vocabulary.
It's so fascinating to see their shared passion.
One Day Builds: Han Solo's DL-44 Blaster from Star Wars bit.ly/13DG7E8
Awesome :)
Matt Heilman the besst
I honestly didn't know Solo's blaster was based of the C96 or the Mauser R713
Jack Hammar it explains why he shot first, just saying.
Lord Langford That's completely unrelated.
For those who didnt understand 5:41 reference; the original luke skywalker lighsaber is made from a vintage flash handle with some additions. Before the movie photograph fanatics could buy these flashes from about 10 dollars, but now they are over 1000 dollars because thats what they used for the lightsaber.
JohnDoe both Luke and Vader were- they made several different styles. When I was a kid I was at my grandparents house one day going through my dads vintage photography equipment and I found several Graflex 3-cell handles; not knowing what they were I was in complete awe that my father had a whole drawer full of lightsabers 🙃
Michael Serebreny were any of them ever passed down to you?
And today, as a 22 year old man, I heard my childhood hero swear for the first time. I can live now.
real
Haha I know right???? It's a lot better than just hearing beeps when he talks.
I have nowhere near the obsession levels to do something like this but I still find something charming in how enthusiastic they all are.
Best part of the video was Adam's F-bomb. lol
"Fucking perfect, excuse me"
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I was so surprised when he broke out
Tim Saxon read that just 5 seconds before he said it 😂😂
I think a close second was the Donnie Darko Frank mask in the background lol
I love seeing people with such passion for things they do. Not bothered if it's considered nerdy, I really enjoyed watching these pair having genuine enthusiasm for making this replica.
Amazing how people spend so much time on recreating guns from the original trio lift when they were literally adding scraps together to make the guns look "less realistic to our world"
That's prop replicating in general. It's like trying to perfectly replicate a Jackson Pollock painting: you'll spend weeks replicating something he did in minutes.
Yeah. And now every gun, costume and prop that make it to the films are designed not only to work within the cinematic universe but to be turned into products (colletibles and toys) for fans to buy.
@@gustavofigueiredo1798 It's always funny to me to think that when someone designed the graflex flash, they never would have thought it would be being marketed as a laser sword 70 years later.
I have a lot of respect for Norm idk really who he is cuz im new to this channel but the research he did and how interested he is really shows and it's rad!
I think its hilarious how some fans care so much more about the aesthetics and minute details of props than filmmakers themselves.
JimIBobIJones These are people who have WAY too much time on their hands....Reminds me of the scene in the movie "Rockstar" with Mark Wahlberg when confronting the other cover band about how their outfits aren't correct...lol.....
michael cochrane happens all the time. Heck, there are fans who meet stars and dismiss them as impersonators. The fans perspective is all that matters to some.
JimIBobIJones That is always the case with any reproduction project. When you're making an original of something, you can make it any way you want to. _Accurately_ reproducing that original is a lot trickier. For example, suppose a toddler scribbled all over a piece of paper for 10 seconds. You could make a similar looking scribble in the same 10 seconds, but what if, for whatever reason, you wanted to accurately reproduce the original scribble? It could take hours, weeks, months, or even years, depending on the level of accuracy you are striving for.
MaximRecoil The detail or care that went into the original Star Wars props is nowhere near the obsession of fans. Han's blaster was 3 or 4 VERY different props rather than one gun and characters regularly have different costumes between shots. Tell me fans aren't overly obsessed with details :I
JimIBobIJones
You obviously missed the point of my post, which is why your reply is irrelevant. I suggest you re-read my post.
"It's just a cheapo $150 one"
What
Well he's minted so it is all a matter of perspective
Uraneum 150 is really cheap for a replica, most of them are expensive as shit. Like that other made by Master Replicas, over 300 bucks.
I know really? Lol
Uraneum Yeah 150$ is pretty cheap in the world of good replicas. Adam is obviously very experienced and he knows the difference in prices ranges and the quality. If you want a good starter replica, 150$ is where you start and slowly work up to really really nice ones if you wanna you could just stay there if ur happy with it. Adam sounds like some rich guy goin "Hmm well 100$ is cheap" but thats literally the cheapest your gonna get a nice replica for.
+Uraneum i dont think he meant the $150 is pocket change. i think he meant that in the world of replicas, $150 for an item is on the lower end.
I never though in a million years I would hear Adam Savage say a curse word, and have it not be censored, I was laughing way too hard when he said, 'Fucking perfect!'
Adam Savage is the perfect combination of child and adult.
Yossi Lipton yeah perfectly stuck in the middle.
aka a bugman
Dude, this guy made Adam Savage nerd out. He's got some talent.
even if you dont understand why they are so passionate, its always nice to see people have an exited conversation about something they love.
finally get to hear him say fuck
That was the best part.
bleep lol
Excellent! Awesome to see a different perspective of Adam. I thoroughly enjoyed this!
Adam is pretty savage for calling a 150$ dollar replica cheap and rocking that 6000$ watch
Cheap in context with other ones. Some can rocket to 2k USD or more...
It’s in his name after all
@Jay The original prop sold for half a million dollars. The direct casts of it cost thousands.
man I wish adam was my friend, be so nice to have someone with his know how to guide us like a jedi.
whoah, I just heard Adam Savage say "fuck." I grew up watching this guy and this is THE first time I've heard him swear. neat.
Michael Quinn childish
come at me scrublord I'm ripped
Michael Quinn so scared. Probably just another fat 11 year old troll...
I'M ALMOST 13 LOSER. AND I'M FUCKIN JACKED. I LIFT MY DAD'S WIEHGTS AND DRINK REDBULL CAUSE I'M NOT A LITTLE SCRUBLORD LIKE U.
Michael Quinn hahaha aww aren't you cute! Im 15 and deadlift 120kg
6:17 Adam trying to figure out how to cycle a c96 :p
Lol, the barrel and receiver only cycle a fraction of an inch and the bolt is what moves back and forth. Just watched a Hickok45 review on one. Otherwise I might have been doing the same thing.
"fucking perfect is what that is" @ 13:02 lol
Chuck Reynolds Heh, I caught that too, had to laugh. It's not often you hear Adam swear.
I came down here to comment the same thing but you beat me to it.
lol Matthew Reagan sorry. quick on the draw.
haha its weird actually hearing adam swear :O
Chuck Reynolds
How the fuck are you verified? You have like 500 subscribers!
Adam, your scope's Reticle is inverted.
+George Hill I was going to make the same comment, well spotted sir
Thank you, Sir.
+Liamrock10 make that 5
we all have the same brain! make that 6 of us.
+George Hill Make that 7. And I have never heard of mounting a reticle upside down to compensate for elevation as that would make your point of impact inverted also
This is neat Norm talking and Adam going wow and being intrigued and asking questions.
this replica gun will confuse people and aliens thousands of years from now when they dig it up
The C96 predates both world wars... hence the 96, which stands for 1896.
I'm also pretty sure the crosshairs were installed upside down.
Indeed they are.
you can tell that Norm is totally fanned-out working on this prop. one of my favorite tested videos, i keep watching it
How much do you want to bet that Adam was almost ready to knock Norm out, take the blaster and run away with it? The guy almost had a nerdgasm when it was finished xD
WW1 handgun actually not a WW2 weapon, although it was used, but not as excessively as the luger and the p38
+Jake Weber True - the Mauser was used most often by officers in the Waffen SS as both a ceremonial weapon and an amazingly efficient killing machine.
+War Machine it is a select fire 7.65 .30 cal broom handle. It was phased out before 1935 as a side arm of the Wehrmacht in favor of the more powerful 9mm Luger cartridge. The Spanish army and argentine army along with turkey still used the weapon.
+War Machine Sorry but that information is wrong. As the others have said, they phased out the antique design in favor of the luger, and the p38.
+hilldwler 420 Depends on your model, many were in 9x19mm as designated by a red 9.
hilldwler 420
Which is why I made note of the fact that it was carried for ceremonial purposes. Officers in the SS composed themselves far differently than the average Wehrmacht soldier; they had a few quirks and pomp and ceremony were among them. It's the same as how many Allied officers carried Colt .45 revolvers instead of the M1911.
This video when it came out inspired me to make one my self. I used a mouser air soft gun and parts I made. I love it. Thank tested.
13:01 First time I've ever actually heard Adam swear (usually it's bleeped). It's like seeing a double rainbow.
This is so much more interesting than Myth Busters, ... and you don't have to deal with the content being all cut up, & full of commercial breaks.
the beauty of the internet!
@Tested: You can align Adam with the aiming telescope, the absent wrongly built around. In a beam view like the one used by Hensoldt the vertical beam is installed from below.
At minute 13:40 you can see that it has built it from above.
Hmm. That's not what I expected. My "one day builds" are more like "One day I'll build a flamethrower."
It's amazing how much time people are willing to put into all these details, borderline insanity but pretty awesome aswell :) Great video!
I had no idea I had been watching these videos for 8 years. Absolutely love them.
1:40 Such an amazingly human and heart-warming moment right here.
13:02 Such an amazingly human and heart-warming moment right here.
Did Adam lick the grill piece at around 4:43? Maybe I've missed something; is he a cyborg that lives by consuming anodized aluminum?
yes he is
+bombbuster72 It's just a quick way to determine if a part is made of plastic or of metal.
xD I just busted up laufhing my ass off.
+Chris Hansen XD
Its to feel temperature cold means metal room temp is plastic. You can also test if an object is tastier than the other objects yummmm.
It feels good to nerd out this hard! I totally respect and appreciate the tremendous amount of research and dedication given by all the real fans who helped contribute to this success!
I like his trigger finger at the end !! being a gun enthusiast even though its not a real gun proper trigger finger is always satisfying to see because its just responsible.
Review Guy that's just what I was thinking every time I saw Norm holding the pistol his finger was all over that trigger I kept wanting to yell at him at our that. Like you said even if it's a toy it's still good to be in the habit to keep your finger off that trigger.
Adam didn’t always do that in earlier videos, I wonder if he had further firearms training in the last few seasons of Mythbusters. 🤔
Yeah, but when waving the others around he pointed it at Adam several times.
Scope sights are upside down, wtf.
As much as I love your expertise in modelling and crafting, your vocabulary is worthwhile to listen to.
Adams hair gets a little messy and suddenly he builds faster,
Thats when he goes into super saiyan mode!
He and his hair reaches their flow states simultaneously
Woah Adam saying fuck really surprised me
He swore all the time on earlier seasons of Mythbusters. He had to be censored quite often, actually. The filming of the show has simply changed over the years to cut most of that out of the show, thus we really don't see much of that part of him anymore.
Darren Diaz Yea.. I miss the earlier seasons. Or rather, the way they made them back then. After they got more popular, it felt like they turned away from showing the building processes in detail, and instead added a lot more scripts and editing to the show. Which in my opinion, sucked. But I guess we have Discovery Channel to blame for that.
Shows like these are so much better when they aren't full of acting, and feels more raw, in my opinion.
And apparently Jamie is even worse when it comes to cursing.
Zach Morford does no one but me remember the swearing helps pain myth that was just 5 minutes of beeps
I didnt see that one lol
The Mauser C96 was actually first manufactured in 1896 and continued until 1937. I don't want to stomp on your video but just give you the most accurate information, the things that inspired the Star Wars props have a rich history and I think they really add to the whole story.
perfect in every way except for the colour.
Also I had no idea the level of fucking outrageous nerdiness that could go into getting a "perfect" replica.
I mean, and I genuinely want an answer for this... Who cares how close a replica it is?
People who like accuracy cares.
Trust me, if you start to go into propmaking/costuming, inaccuracy will become the bane of your existence.
NEEEERRRRRRRDDDSSSSSS!!!!!!!
Deetozine the prop-makers themselves didn't care! He even said they screwed parts on backwards in some scenes.
Russell Morgan Sure, doesn't mean anything though. The people who now want to have things look as authentic as possible will want to recreate everything as they were in the movies.
I have to hand it to them, their attention to detail is impeccable.
Adam on the scope: "Fuckin' perfect, thats what that is!" 13:02
I'll never understand why Adam seemed so amazed/shocked at the level of detail people went into for Han Solo's blaster. He's the exact same way with the Blade Runner gun, and many other of his props that he's built.
I am a gun collector. If you are going to take one of my Mausers and hack it up to make a DL-44 blaster, please make it so it can still fire. Though I love my untouched collectables, a working blaster would be awesome.
"Fucking perfect, is what that is". hahaha
I know this is 6 years old but my Marine father would beat me if I didn’t let you know that it is called a flash suppressor. Otherwise such a fascinating series and great work!
holy crap, I don't put that much thought or effort into real shit I need, I must be a lazy bastard! great job though, I am impressed with the esoteric knowledge and detail.
"That is such a pleasurable object!"
hearing Norm talk about something he's familiar with and researched is a nice change of pace
YES!! Finally he said fuck.
WEHN??!
+Gustajuy
13:02
+vinzhell I couldn't believe it lol
+vinzhell i had to turn it up when i heard that because I couldnt believe it myself LOL "FUCKING perfect is what that is" lol
+vinzhell no I'm sorry he said fuckin not fuck
"thanks for helping me make this" translation: "thanks for making this for me"
Adam is a legend it'll be a honor for your gun to enter his collection
I understand striving for perfection but man... spending an afternoon finding the amount of holes on a muzzle is fucking dedicated but strange...
Adam wanted this to be his gun. I think. they made it sound like it was to complete his collection. Probably built another one like 2 days later.
at 16:36 adams ring reads parvis, like sic parvis magna from uncharted, nates ring
I was thinking the same thing, took to the comments section to see if anyone else noticed
you can see that it says magna on the other side at 12:42
Holy shit, using screen grabs from entirely different movies in entirely different *galaxies* to figure out what a gun looks like.
Thanks Adam and Norm, because of this video I'm currently building 2 ANH Hero's (will convert one to a TFA), a Greedo Killer, Bespin and Hoth ESB Han, A Luke ESB and I have a ROTJ lined up. And a Merrson Power 5. The RPF is a dengerous (and expensive) place!
Adam is such a cool guy!
Thanks
I do kinda feel it's a shame so many people are taking historical guns and scopes and turning them into personal film replicas. theres something a bit neglectful about it. Can't image how hard it is to find a good condition Cadillac Miller-Meteor that hasn't been turned into the Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters. trying to collect that car for historical preposes would be so difficult because of all the people wanting to turn it into an Ecto-1. kind of a shame?
Dude it fucking sucks. Before i was old enough to buy handguns you could find c-96s for 400 or so bucks. Ive only seen one in gunstores in the past 6 years and it was 1260. Its the same for mosins and smles all these people bought them because of games now the prices have doubled to tripled.
I'm a gun nut and a prop nerd, so for me it evens out. That and I can just make a functioning C-96 from scratch if I need either. Won't have the same history, but I'm not a history nerd 😁
I did a 3D model of that blaster based on a lot of the same research, I was really glad to see it looked the same and that I chose the right version of it!!
One day build, 500 hours research :-)
chris4072511 Isn’t that the story of all prop replica builds?
I made mine from a real M1896 "Broomhandle Mauser" that some idiot had nickel-plated years ago, and polished-off all the markings- so it had "zilch" collector value. It is the "ANH" version- and a functional 9mmP. :) The flash hider works great! I did NOT use a real "DYALTAN" scope- as it is worth thousands! I used a modern, .22LR scope, and changed the optics, so it would work as a pistol.
It was used before WWI, NOT a "WWII pistol". It was adopted in 1896....
Patriotgal1 Thank you.
De Nada ! No worries, been playing/collecting guns for 45 or so years now. If I don't/haven't owned something, I prolly know a little bit about it! :)
Don't know exactly what de nada means, heh, but I meant thanks for setting the record straight. (Instead of playing keyboard commando and speaking like someone who has no knowledge of military&firearms history, and just googled it.)
Mexican for "think nothing of it"... :)
I just discovered this channel June 2018 and I love it
am I the only one who sees how bummed Adam is when he realizes the gun is definitly not gonna be his hahaha
Pretty sure that was established before they started.
Yah, he was just so focused on the challenge of it till the end when it hit home...Why only one Norm?
I would love to see them make something like the hidden blade from Assassins Creed, it would be interesting to see how much detail they would go into on that.
Not a one day build and adam is a very busy man.
I think I had one of those Japanese kits from the '80s, too. Mine was a Luger. What's interesting is it has the same device to show how many bullets were left in the magazine as the Mauser (it would flip up/forward when empty.) The Luger's magazine was in the handle. The model even came with a removable clip with styrene bullets to put in it. I wish I had kept it but it eventually made its way into the trash many decades ago.
lucasfilm in 1977: "it's alright, nobody's gonna notice this anyway"
star wars fandom: "hold my blue milk"
"cheap $150 one"
It's a relative term
for some reason your icon and that comment combined made me literally LOL.
Emphasis on the word "cheap" and the figure 150$
for a Han Solo blaster? you're gonna want to dip into your 401k if you really want to get authentic.
it aint easy being rich
Han was a master gun smith (blaster class) - his tinkering was the reason the Captain's sidearm AKA Smuggler's always looked different.
I appreciate the video.
You know I'm a Star Wars fan, but if I spent so much time an effort researching, getting parts, and building that, it would would better be a working blaster.
I really would like to see a build video of the A280C
Or a DLT-19 or T-21.
+Edward Griffith Battlefront kicking in ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
+Edward Griffith The DLT-19 is literally just an MG34 with some rails on the barrel.
plecter labs sells a blaster core sound board and i think you can wire lights up to it as well, you could drill a thin hole down the barrel and run wires and then mill out other sections to fit the sound board and battery as well as lighting and a trigger switch plus a speaker for effects.
Did adam steal it from you afterwards?
I do like this video but did any one notice that the German T4 Reticle is mounted upside down?????
Maybe Adam is secretly Russian.
Gabe Hartman first thought i had watching the video....
The amount of detail and accuracy of how star wars fans actually figure out astounds me
You should do this with a real mouser and fire tracer rounds, that would be just way to awesome
I think you have to drill into the gun to add the mount for the sight...so that would probably make the gun unfunctional or dangerous
Multilocolocoloc Loc nope all of them are outside of the gun.
Dude, you have to drill into the gun to mount the scope and if you watch the video when he threads the hole, the hammer moves back slightly due the parts interfering... getting a real gun converted requires you to change it in a way it would not be screen accurate.
"mouser"
sure, it's a one day build if you happen to have gathered all the parts from the far-flung reaches of the planet, had special parts built, own your own machine shop and know how to use a variety of machines and techniques of construction, and all that's after you pour over a 90 some odd page detailed description. other than that, this thing practically builds itself, lol.
great job, this thing looks amazing. :) i shudder to think how much this sucker would retail for. $2500? more?
"priceless".
thinking more on it, perhaps more on the $5K end would be more realistic. do you think they'd take a third-party, out-of-state, bad check?
ryan barker When the kit was available, all the parts seen here cost $860 plus shipping, then you have to factor in the price of the MGC replica, not sure how much those run these days, but you'd probably be ready to start assembling for about $1500 total, including shipping costs (and patience on eBay).
You don't need a full machine shop to put this together, although it would certainly be faster and easier. From what we can see here, you need a hacksaw, good drill (or drill press), a tap/die set and a file. It would be a bit more work, but if you took your time and care, it wouldn't be much different.
The 90-pages Norm read was not the assembly instructions, but five years of research and process leading up to the manufacturing of the kit parts, the instructions are likely a lot more straight forward than that thread :)
excuse me for posting on a 5 year old video, but the c96 has a fairly simple and very safe safety mechanism. The hammer protrudes from a ring that has 2 channels machined into it. When the safety is engaged (pushed up) a protrusion from the side of the safety fits into the channel in the hammers body, stopping the hammer from falling. there is a channel for the hammer down and for the hammer up position, meaning you can carry cocked and safe, or drop the hammer and carry it that way if you want.
Can I just ask who actually cares this much about detail than maybe a few thousand extremely dedicated fans?
Hugo Rendlesham Replicas, special effects, and authenticity/appraisals are billion dollar industries. They deal with hundreds of thousands of items each of which "maybe a few thousand" people really care about, but altogether vital to history.
Maybe you don't think Star Wars is a vital part of history, but look at it this way... for every fact you know about, say, the Qing Dynasty, there's someone out there who sifted through billions of historical records and artifacts to put that little piece together. Someone else sifted through thousands of little pieces to make deductions about what happened, and to bring the most relevant facts to the textbooks. People painstakingly craft replicas of artifacts, and some try to pass these off as authentic - so others study them to incredible detail to determine what's real. It goes on and on.
It's not unreasonable to imagine how many people might have voted for Regan because he named his plan "Star Wars". In truth, the plan itself didn't have anything to do with the movie (and everything to do with luring the USSR into bankrupting itself), and had the movie never existed he'd have probably called it something else. But the name caught people's attention. So like it or not, it's a vital part of history, and while that might not mean anything to you now, it'll be influencing public policy a hundred years from now just like the Civil War influences public policy today.
So basically, this blaster is a modern-day equivalent of a jade elephant.
I dont really but im sure a lot of star wars fans go nuts for stuff like this
15:48 Ouch.
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Still one of my favorite videos of all time... Nice work !!
If it had to be a proper pistol I'd want a proper stock Red-9 9mm parabellum C96.
But for airsoft I might be talked into a replica of the DL-99.
ShadowFalcon seriously tho, nobody cares
Noah Knappenberger After 2 years ... yeah
@Eat Pants
You cared enough to make a reply...
Replying doesnt require any amount of caring tho
BicepIsDie, actually it does. If you truly didn't care, you wouldn't have replied.
Fun Fact : Why do plants produce caffeine? It's of no use to the plant per se?
Caffeine has a lethal dose, like any drug this dose is based on weight. We can consume around 2000mg for an average adult before death could occur (the heart/central nervous system shuts down)
A tiny bug or aphid or something is much lighter in body mass, so lethal dose for them is much much smaller. A bug tries to suck the fluids from a coffee bean and BAM death from nervous system overload.
Yep... Caffeine.... Natural insecticide.
That's cool and interesting! I'm glad I got to learn that :3
thats 2 grams... so thats a big fat lie, more like a few tons in a single day.
No that is actually pretty accurate but it'd be drinking 70-100 servings of energy drinks/ coffee. Depending on the caffeine content and all that.
HatesUsernames It's true. 200mg is considered a very high dose from a very large energy drink. So, ten times that. Yep, I can see why that would kill someone. Although generally a rate of mg/kg/hour would be better. Yknow, because body weight counts. Also, because timing counts. I've drunk 20 grams of caffeine. I'm not dead because TIME counts. It wasn't over a few hours, it was over a few months :P
but thats energy drinks, they also have a shit ton of other chemicals and shit in it, NOT JUST CAFFEINE.
Hearing Adam swear after watching myth busters since I was 13 is the most satisfying thing ever. I'm 22
did anyone notice at 13:10 Adam is wearing Nathan Drake's ring?
ban assault blasters
Agent Bill Wilson actually Han Solo did a bunch of illegal modifications to his Blaster pistol so it was already band by the Galactic Empire
Actually Hans blaster was a modifiable gun that could be modified into a high powered rifle