Damn it, I just spent 5 Minutes trying to figure out what was wrong with my internet connection just to hear Adam say "Sorry I was low-res for a while!".
I feel the same. This has been a saving series for me, but also has inspired more personal projects around the house even though I don't consider myself a maker.
My friend had a remote control for his 60s era TV. It was a broom stick with a nail driven into one end to push buttons and a notch cut into the other to turn knobs. The TV was just close enough to his bed that he could reach it with the stick without having to get up. I think it was one of the most clever, most lazy things I've ever seen.
I inherited an old TV that was of the pre-remote generation when I was a kid that was in my bedroom. I had a fake spear that was made out of bamboo that I discovered would serve the same purpose.
about this blood colour question; for a video we did some experiments and a mix of 70% cocoa and 30% tomato mash [leave this for a few days] gives a convincing result. dark, brow and a little reddish. Simple and effective
Adam, I am a graphic artist and printer. Many years ago, as a young man, I worked with a gentleman who had, in his day, been a quite successful and notorious counterfeiter. He was also an example of how the rehabilitative aspect of the criminal justice system can get things right. He rarely told "war stories" and conscientiously avoided glamorizing what he had been and done. Nonetheless, from time to time he'd share interesting bits of his knowledge, often in an offhand way that seemed like just mundane "shop talk." One of the things I remember him talking about, lamenting really, was the difficulty in making counterfeit currency look legitimately circulated and used. He described a number of things he'd done, but the one he seemed like best was putting the money in a feed sack or pillow case with coffee can's worth of roadside gravel and leftover fresh coffee grounds, then tumbling it for a couple of hours without heat in a clothes dryer. He'd laugh about bribing laundromat attendants to let his crew in after hours where they would load dozens of dryers with scores of bags of "money" to be aged. And, of course, immediately point out that it wasn't perfect since he'd been caught more than once. He was, if nothing else, colorful.
Hard coffee soup + light weight (or diluted with water) wood glue (not the acrylic type) + green dust used in making maquettes + and a few pinches of salt. Mixed well on a hot plate at around 20C for about an hour. Paper dipped, dried, dipped again, dried again, dipped a third time, dusty pillows beaten in proximity, left to dry then a good tumble with a steel barrel filled with broken chunks of hardwood for half an hour to an hour.
@@kj1h5kj At the end of the day the dead giveaway to fake money is the serial #. Every bill has its own unique serial #. Many counterfeiters dont bother changing the serial # as they are just using the same plates or images to make their money. All you have to do is compare a handful of bills to see that they are all using the same serial #'s.
Adam PLEASE keep making the *"Week 1,356 of lockdown joke"* , not even being sarcastic. Some of us have to keep the Dad jokes alive 🦾. It's even funnier when you explain that you should stop doing it, and then do it again 🤣.
I liked his point about not being sad about props that were made to be destroyed. In a way, the prop is not truly complete *until* is has been destroyed. There are props who's purpose is to look a certain way to the eye at rest. Other props' sole purpose is to look a certain way for a very brief moment in time, and that *moment* is the art.
DJFelixChester Neat fun fact, let me follow up with another one: Only 8% of the worlds currency exists physically, the rest are just numbers on computers everywhere
Plastic is easy. Put them in your washing machine at the hardest cycle, no heat, with a few chunks of hardwood. No sharp corners. It's actually harder to do prop money from "paper" because it tears so damn easily, unless you use the same material, at which point you get into trouble. I have a friend who does a lot of prop stuff for a few studios and he and a couple of our friends and i brain stormed various methods for a flick about a robbery or some shit like that. Funny thing is he went to their spec, but they showed so little in the flick that it wasn't even worth it.
If you make a precise machine imprecisely is it still a precise machine? This is the type of question we now ask ourselves in these times of isolation.
This is exactly how they know that it's someone pretending to be be random. Real randomness will have sequences in it that people find a meaning in, meaning that doesn't exist in the math. In a real random sequence you're going to occasionally get five zeros in a row, or four through eight in order. But because humans find those patterns to have significance we won't choose them when we're trying to be random.
@@FossilFishy instead of trying to be "random" its easier to just fold every 10 bills the same way and then when you put them all together and mix them up they come out as actually being random folds.
Actually the fastest way to find fake random over real is fake lacks groupings. Take a coin, flip it 100 times and record that H and T on a piece of paper. Then, go to a bar, bet your friends 100 dollars that if you give them a piece of paper and a coin to toss and then walk away you will be able to tell when they are done if they actually record coin tosses or just right down random numbers. Look at your real coin tosses and you will be surprised how many more groupings of 3 4 5 and 6 occur the more tosses you do.
Words from a cashier. The easiest way to weather bills then just stuff them in the back pocket of your jeans for a few weeks. You can fold them sure or just wad the bills into your pocket. The amount of bills I get that are ripped, torn, missing a bit of it, crumpled beyond belief, etc. would boggle your mind. This is the easiest way to do it truthfully. Soaking some in sweat or a sweat like substance (as gross as this sounds it IS true) will also add a realistic look and feel
Hi Adam, I'm not sure if you read these things but I wanted to let you know how proud(that sound daft but I can't think of a better word) I am of you. I've always enjoyed watching you, but your recent Twitter comments really show your character, well done sir. Respect from the UK!
That brush is something similar to what we use in the uk, it’s called a “tarmac brush” generally used to rubbing diesel or your tools when your laying tarmac to stop it sticking to your tools
So now I learn this, how many paved drives have I closed up with bitumen and gravel, only to have my tools get sticky with bitumen. It's not quite as bad as the resin in a cable joint, but still not nice.
Boggs work is absolutely amazing! It’s sad that he passed a such a young age not being around to see his work sky rocket like his prints still do today
My favorite security feature on a banknote is the Canadian Frontier Series released in 2011. They were the first plastic Canadian note. They had a transparent maple leaf in them that was also a diffraction grating. If you shine a laser thru it you it will project the denomination of the bill. Like those cap you get with cheap laser pointers.
@@ericstoverink6579 Obviously not. Everybody knows that you run it through the heavy soil cycle of a washing machine, warm - no bleach - extra rinse, then, tumble dry on low, do not iron. Duh.
Regarding randomness, I have been painting some pictures for the past few weeks which occasionally need flowers, and it's been interesting trying to emulate a natural organic randomness of the spread of daisies or dandelions across a field. They aren't evenly spread, they are in clumps of busy patches loosely connected with emptier patches, and it's trial and error to make it look right. The tendency is to even things out in a balanced way, we fill in empty spaces and things just look too uniform, when really there are always big empty spots.
Grenadine syrup mixed with choclate syrup for blood. Start with grenadine first and add chocolate til it's a good color. Put it in a sports bottle with a sip cap and squirt it out for some nice splatter action.
*I.R.S.:* _My, that looks like a lot of weight you're carrying, let me take some off your hands!_ *F.B.I.:* _Hold on now, I need to look at it first for... uh... "research purposes"_
For fake blood stains, in the past I have used bottled watercolor inks from a company called Dr. Ph. Martin's - their Carmine has a nice fresh blood look to it, which can be aged darker by mixing it in varying degrees with their Burnt Umber to whatever darkness you want. Make sure you let the color dry before handling though, because these are inks and they will get on anything they touch while wet. They will also run if they get wet again after they dry out, so you may want to seal them with a matte spray coating if you want them to be colorfast.
Omg, story time. I'm a 45 yo father of 2 boys 9 and 14 that still run around the house playing cops and rovers with nerf guns, this well make our fake money look so much better. Thank you.
Adam: Getting excited about durable cotton US money. Everyone in Europe looking at their polymer notes: I can boil this in a stew for 6 hours, then just wipe it and it's good to go.
One of the bars I work at, received a $50 bill that says ' For Motion Picture Purpose Only'. Yes it was taken and not noticed until the money till was counted later that night.
24:44 : If my literature classes are of any help, I'd wager a dollar or two that 150°F won't make paper burn, and that you'd have to ramp it up to, say, something like 301°F more...
The part where he raised the brush above the money bucket, and I was sure that he was going to just toss the coffee down in droplets. But no, he smashed the brush into the bucket
If you happen upon this small electronic message, your mention of the slop shuffle and your clamping of money triggered my amateur magician mind. Have you ever considered doing a one day build of a playing card press. They regularly show up for many hundreds of dollars on line and I am sure you could make a lovely version of such an underated and useful tool. Thanks for all the fascinating And educationally up lifting content. It is helping my mental health thru this trying time.
I once had a friend who did the inverse of this (real bills that weren't weathered). He would go to a bank and $100 of Two Dollar bills (when they were fairly new). That pretty much guaranteed he'd get a bundle that was brand new and in sequence. He would then use a rubber binding set up to attach one side and a cardboard backing (the kind of thing used for note pads). He got some very strange reactions when he pulled out the pad, peeled off several of the bills to pay someone.
Austin Shoupe I know that they own the rights to them, my question was out of curiosity if Adam, or anyone who read the comments have heard about a physical release. I’ve always been a big fan and watching the explosions in full 1080 Blu-ray quality would be fun.
@@pileofstuff I don't know about that. I've caught a couple live on his youtube channel and I'm not a tested member. He usually does them in the middle of the day (noonish Pacific time) when he does stream. They had to turn off the chat when he started due to his poor internet.
I think there might be Website called Vimeo,It really is kind of stupid that TH-cam considers this illicit content, he's not encouraging people to Try to pass this as real money or leave it where people could find it and try to spend it, but TH-cam doesn't have a sense of humor apparently and are pulling down videos for all sorts of ridiculous reasons maybe this can be found on Patreon ,
They are livestreamed on this channel, but when the stream finishes they are immediately made private and are then chopped up into sections and released as edited videos like this. I wish that they just made them unlisted rather than private, as it is super annoying watching live as if you pause for any length of time and resume it ends up cutting off the stream before you finish watching it.
First I was just wondering if that's what he meant... Then I was asking my screen out loud if that's what he meant... By the 23rd time I was yelling at the screen to STOP SAYING IT BECAUSE IT MADE MY EARS BLEED! 😂😅
I love these videos but sadly this one is unwatchable. I cant see any detail on what Adam is doing. I will come back and hope a higher quality version is uploaded.
As someone formerly 'in the business' in northern califorrnia, it's not kept in flat stacks like that. It tends to be folded-in-half wads of 2500 or 5g, and then just counting out those wads. Edit: At least in any of the deals I did, but I never dealt more than 300k in a single go either.
My mom used to work in a bank. According to her, handling stacks of money over an extended period of time is pretty gross. After a couple of hours your fingertips take on a blackish-brownish color that has a not very nice smell and is hard to wash off. Edit: apparently it’s also slightly sticky. Not sure if I‘d want to smell of money. Regarding the blood stained money: there is a fountain pen ink by a company called Diamine that they named „Oxblood“. It dries a very darkish-red-brownish color that might just be up your alley. When I refill my fountain pen with it and have a spill, my desk looks like a murder scene 😅
whats the over/under on how long this video will stay on TH-cam before it gets taken down? Not saying that's right, Adam you are awesome and you gave a great disclaimer, but.... you're taking a chance even posting this with the warnings, imho
Dirty Blood Money: Weather it like Mr Savage showed. Go to the butcher shop and get a pint of cow's/pig's blood. Splatter the money with a large brush (or however you want), and then bury it for a few days in the backyard. Just an idea.
There is always a fold in the corner because of ... well people roll it for.. reasons. Most bills have the usual 3 folds and the corner. The rest is random from putting it into your pocket.
Dried blood effects? I use Windsor & Newton inks (ink solutions are so much better than paints/washes) mixed with weak coffee solution (but note that coffee solution has a tendency to grow fungus after a long while, if you keep a prop for years). The red ink shades can be mixed and matched to reflect the 'age' of the blood. (Brick Red, Deep Red, Vermilion, Scarlet, Orange, Burnt Sienna, Nut Brown if you need the actual shades). Use a pipette for measuring the percentages of mix, and make card swatches with the information written on (useful if you need to do it again at a later date). Let them dry for a couple of days, and see which mixes give you the desired effect.
The smell of 'old'? I was bought an old 'parchment' treasure map as a kid in the 1960s. It was a contemporary facsimile, but it had a smell that I could still recognise if I smelled it today.
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Damn it, I just spent 5 Minutes trying to figure out what was wrong with my internet connection
just to hear Adam say "Sorry I was low-res for a while!".
lol , you wern't the only person
right there with you
Thank you just saved me from rebooting everything trying to figure why I'm losing connection.
"There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture."
Lol, he wasn't "low res", he was no res.
Quarantine is the best thing to ever happen to Tested members that enjoy the shop talk and building. Thank you so much!
It's awesome it's the only reason I'm subbed and now I get hours of it a day.
Garage Barrage cardboard, tape, and razor blades! Use coffee, shoe polish and dirt for weathering, and paint is pretty inexpensive!
@@XX-hz2bs no it isn't but you didn't use logic to get to that position so I can't use logic to get you out of it.
I feel the same. This has been a saving series for me, but also has inspired more personal projects around the house even though I don't consider myself a maker.
My thoughts exactly. I love these super long videos. Please keep doing it after!!
24:30 150 degrees Fahrenheit should be fine, I've heard paper only ignites at Fahrenheit 451...
but that's BOOK paper
My friend had a remote control for his 60s era TV. It was a broom stick with a nail driven into one end to push buttons and a notch cut into the other to turn knobs. The TV was just close enough to his bed that he could reach it with the stick without having to get up.
I think it was one of the most clever, most lazy things I've ever seen.
I inherited an old TV that was of the pre-remote generation when I was a kid that was in my bedroom. I had a fake spear that was made out of bamboo that I discovered would serve the same purpose.
about this blood colour question; for a video we did some experiments and a mix of 70% cocoa and 30% tomato mash [leave this for a few days] gives a convincing result. dark, brow and a little reddish. Simple and effective
You are the Bob Ross of engineering, I can watch your videos and just relax, it's really amazing, keep it up Adam!
Adam, I am a graphic artist and printer. Many years ago, as a young man, I worked with a gentleman who had, in his day, been a quite successful and notorious counterfeiter. He was also an example of how the rehabilitative aspect of the criminal justice system can get things right. He rarely told "war stories" and conscientiously avoided glamorizing what he had been and done. Nonetheless, from time to time he'd share interesting bits of his knowledge, often in an offhand way that seemed like just mundane "shop talk."
One of the things I remember him talking about, lamenting really, was the difficulty in making counterfeit currency look legitimately circulated and used. He described a number of things he'd done, but the one he seemed like best was putting the money in a feed sack or pillow case with coffee can's worth of roadside gravel and leftover fresh coffee grounds, then tumbling it for a couple of hours without heat in a clothes dryer. He'd laugh about bribing laundromat attendants to let his crew in after hours where they would load dozens of dryers with scores of bags of "money" to be aged. And, of course, immediately point out that it wasn't perfect since he'd been caught more than once. He was, if nothing else, colorful.
I feel like there is a money laundering joke to be made here
Seems unwise to take a bribe from a counterfeiter. Even if they claim they are paying you with legitimate currency... who is going to trust that?
A coffee can worth of dirt can't have much value, it won't be worth much at all.
Hard coffee soup + light weight (or diluted with water) wood glue (not the acrylic type) + green dust used in making maquettes + and a few pinches of salt. Mixed well on a hot plate at around 20C for about an hour. Paper dipped, dried, dipped again, dried again, dipped a third time, dusty pillows beaten in proximity, left to dry then a good tumble with a steel barrel filled with broken chunks of hardwood for half an hour to an hour.
@@kj1h5kj At the end of the day the dead giveaway to fake money is the serial #. Every bill has its own unique serial #. Many counterfeiters dont bother changing the serial # as they are just using the same plates or images to make their money. All you have to do is compare a handful of bills to see that they are all using the same serial #'s.
Build the "Back to the Future" Briefcase that was full of Bills for "Emergency" :)
Adam PLEASE keep making the *"Week 1,356 of lockdown joke"* , not even being sarcastic. Some of us have to keep the Dad jokes alive 🦾.
It's even funnier when you explain that you should stop doing it, and then do it again 🤣.
Do we know it is a joke? Maybe it's Adam accidentally admitting to be broadcasting from the future.
YES FINALLY footage of Adam using his ruler tattoo!! I have been waiting so long to actually see it in use.
Regarding the weathering process, most $100 bills that I've run across are, in fact, rolled up tightly 🤣
Or have been, in their recent history. They weren't stress tested though, they got the 'sniff test' where they were checked for foreign odors....
I see what u did there ❄️💰😂
Such wholesome lockdown content, listening to Adam telling stories is so satisfying
That money really looks dirty, you're gonna have to launder it!
Ha!
For an accurate "wear" of the money it also have to carry some "interesting" traces of various substances.
@@ehsnils, for authenticity, clearly!
I liked his point about not being sad about props that were made to be destroyed. In a way, the prop is not truly complete *until* is has been destroyed. There are props who's purpose is to look a certain way to the eye at rest. Other props' sole purpose is to look a certain way for a very brief moment in time, and that *moment* is the art.
"Destruction is part of the job."
How many t-shirt slogans can Adam
Toss out when not thinking about it .
Adam is the person I most want to meet in person, followed only by Matt Mercer. Thank you for making me feel good about becoming a maker.
8:24 As long as you keep coming out with all these live/one day builds every week, you can upload at 140p for all i care.
That will look great on my 21" monitor ;)
Coffee is such a universal stain producer in prop making. I shouldn't be surprised you're using it.
Finally!
I learn how to make perfect fake money!
The only problem... We have Euro in Germany.
Over 50% of United States currency is circulated outside the USA, so especially in black markets you can still spend your fake dollars!
DJFelixChester Neat fun fact, let me follow up with another one: Only 8% of the worlds currency exists physically, the rest are just numbers on computers everywhere
@@dismiggo oh sh*t, how can you weather fake digital money?...
Plastic is easy. Put them in your washing machine at the hardest cycle, no heat, with a few chunks of hardwood. No sharp corners. It's actually harder to do prop money from "paper" because it tears so damn easily, unless you use the same material, at which point you get into trouble.
I have a friend who does a lot of prop stuff for a few studios and he and a couple of our friends and i brain stormed various methods for a flick about a robbery or some shit like that. Funny thing is he went to their spec, but they showed so little in the flick that it wasn't even worth it.
@@takix2007 Change a few 0's to 1's or vice versa
If you make a precise machine imprecisely is it still a precise machine? This is the type of question we now ask ourselves in these times of isolation.
“Human beings are bad at being random” as he folds 10 bills exactly the sane
Most bills will be folded that way in their lifetime.
I, personally, only fold my Bill's 1 at a time before I store them.
This is exactly how they know that it's someone pretending to be be random.
Real randomness will have sequences in it that people find a meaning in, meaning that doesn't exist in the math.
In a real random sequence you're going to occasionally get five zeros in a row, or four through eight in order. But because humans find those patterns to have significance we won't choose them when we're trying to be random.
@@FossilFishy instead of trying to be "random" its easier to just fold every 10 bills the same way and then when you put them all together and mix them up they come out as actually being random folds.
Actually the fastest way to find fake random over real is fake lacks groupings.
Take a coin, flip it 100 times and record that H and T on a piece of paper.
Then, go to a bar, bet your friends 100 dollars that if you give them a piece of paper and a coin to toss and then walk away you will be able to tell when they are done if they actually record coin tosses or just right down random numbers.
Look at your real coin tosses and you will be surprised how many more groupings of 3 4 5 and 6 occur the more tosses you do.
Today was great weather around Philly actually. 83 and sunny. I've actually got the sliding door open late at night for the first time this year.
In response to Adam's query about youtube not being able to give good feedback, i wonder if you could generate word clouds based on comments?
Wolfram has such AI tools for video.
Words from a cashier. The easiest way to weather bills then just stuff them in the back pocket of your jeans for a few weeks. You can fold them sure or just wad the bills into your pocket. The amount of bills I get that are ripped, torn, missing a bit of it, crumpled beyond belief, etc. would boggle your mind. This is the easiest way to do it truthfully. Soaking some in sweat or a sweat like substance (as gross as this sounds it IS true) will also add a realistic look and feel
Then you realize the prop money is worth more than real currency from Zimbabwe
Hi Adam, I'm not sure if you read these things but I wanted to let you know how proud(that sound daft but I can't think of a better word) I am of you. I've always enjoyed watching you, but your recent Twitter comments really show your character, well done sir. Respect from the UK!
Please design a t-shirt with "It's hard to remember all the things" :) on it
I’ve been mesmerised with prop money since I saw the Cincinnati Kid with Steve McQueen. Love playing cards with prop bills.
Adam. FYI, Leicester is pronounced 'Lesta'. Don't worry, everyone gets it wrong 8-)
Greetings from Leicestershire.
You mean Lestasha? 😀😀
😀
It could have been Wors('ta)
Molestershire
True
"I hope that you and your family are safe" *leans through the screen to check on your family*
That brush is something similar to what we use in the uk, it’s called a “tarmac brush” generally used to rubbing diesel or your tools when your laying tarmac to stop it sticking to your tools
It's the Nimbus 1000.
I use a similar style brush set for both cleaning car rims and in my parts washer. And obviously not the same set of brushes.
So now I learn this, how many paved drives have I closed up with bitumen and gravel, only to have my tools get sticky with bitumen. It's not quite as bad as the resin in a cable joint, but still not nice.
I met JSG Boggs once. He was staying at a hotel I worked at at the time. The owners accepted his money as payment. It was pretty cool.
16:17 I believe those are used by witches for flying on.
Boggs work is absolutely amazing! It’s sad that he passed a such a young age not being around to see his work sky rocket like his prints still do today
Love to see weathering jobs, just so satisfying to watch the before and after!
My favorite security feature on a banknote is the Canadian Frontier Series released in 2011. They were the first plastic Canadian note. They had a transparent maple leaf in them that was also a diffraction grating. If you shine a laser thru it you it will project the denomination of the bill. Like those cap you get with cheap laser pointers.
16:43 made me bust out laughing - he starts like he's going to be so dainty with it and then just starts smashing it
Went looking for this comment. Glad I found it lol.
You made a precise machine accurately.
Money laundering: step one
That's not how money laundering works.
@@ericstoverink6579 Obviously not. Everybody knows that you run it through the heavy soil cycle of a washing machine, warm - no bleach - extra rinse, then, tumble dry on low, do not iron. Duh.
Regarding randomness, I have been painting some pictures for the past few weeks which occasionally need flowers, and it's been interesting trying to emulate a natural organic randomness of the spread of daisies or dandelions across a field. They aren't evenly spread, they are in clumps of busy patches loosely connected with emptier patches, and it's trial and error to make it look right. The tendency is to even things out in a balanced way, we fill in empty spaces and things just look too uniform, when really there are always big empty spots.
Grenadine syrup mixed with choclate syrup for blood. Start with grenadine first and add chocolate til it's a good color. Put it in a sports bottle with a sip cap and squirt it out for some nice splatter action.
“Cooking with Adam”. Totally need to have Alton Brown back.
Alton's been streaming weekly throughout quarantine, go check out his youtube channel!
36:10 Maggie doesn't like the word "Destroy".
38:19 Those "air quotes" you did made me laugh haha
Could you use a rock tumbler with random items to get a similar effect on the bills?
I reckon, or a lotto cage or (if you can remember) a hand washing machine called a sputnik...
On old floppy bills. I use spray starch and and a cloth diaper and a hot iron to stiffen them up.
Leicester is pronounced “Lester” not “lie-sester” or “lie-Chester”
Came to the comments looking for this
then what the fuck are all those other letters doing in there?
Just like Worcestershire sauce is pronounced 'Woostashire sauce'
Ok fucking grammar police
I wasn’t trying to be a dick sorry...
It's really frustrating watching you spend all thus time crumpling and uncrumpling fake money and not being able to help.
*I.R.S.:* _My, that looks like a lot of weight you're carrying, let me take some off your hands!_
*F.B.I.:* _Hold on now, I need to look at it first for... uh... "research purposes"_
don't mind if no side wins that fight
Battle of the crooked agencies. 😂
For fake blood stains, in the past I have used bottled watercolor inks from a company called Dr. Ph. Martin's - their Carmine has a nice fresh blood look to it, which can be aged darker by mixing it in varying degrees with their Burnt Umber to whatever darkness you want. Make sure you let the color dry before handling though, because these are inks and they will get on anything they touch while wet. They will also run if they get wet again after they dry out, so you may want to seal them with a matte spray coating if you want them to be colorfast.
20:19
If you just keep skipping through the video with the 10 seconds skip, you can see the money shrink down as it dries
Holy shit !
Omg, story time. I'm a 45 yo father of 2 boys 9 and 14 that still run around the house playing cops and rovers with nerf guns, this well make our fake money look so much better. Thank you.
Adam: Getting excited about durable cotton US money.
Everyone in Europe looking at their polymer notes: I can boil this in a stew for 6 hours, then just wipe it and it's good to go.
I need an Amazon link so I too can smell like old books lol
Ahhh 240p we meet again
Great. Not just me then.
One of the bars I work at, received a $50 bill that says ' For Motion Picture Purpose Only'. Yes it was taken and not noticed until the money till was counted later that night.
24:44 : If my literature classes are of any help, I'd wager a dollar or two that 150°F won't make paper burn, and that you'd have to ramp it up to, say, something like 301°F more...
Paper burns around 450°
@@TheRealUmbellaCorporation Fahrenheit? 450 or so?
@@TheRealUmbellaCorporation Actually Fahrenheit 451 ;)
@@fishothy I'm no FIREFIGHTER but this seems about right.
Loved when he measured the metal on his arm tattoo...classic!
I love how dainty Adam ISNT! Just throwing, banging stuff around. Great stuff!
The part where he raised the brush above the money bucket, and I was sure that he was going to just toss the coffee down in droplets.
But no, he smashed the brush into the bucket
If you happen upon this small electronic message, your mention of the slop shuffle and your clamping of money triggered my amateur magician mind. Have you ever considered doing a one day build of a playing card press. They regularly show up for many hundreds of dollars on line and I am sure you could make a lovely version of such an underated and useful tool. Thanks for all the fascinating And educationally up lifting content. It is helping my mental health thru this trying time.
Hi Adam, is your finger allright? I hope it is. Thank you for everything.
I once had a friend who did the inverse of this (real bills that weren't weathered). He would go to a bank and $100 of Two Dollar bills (when they were fairly new). That pretty much guaranteed he'd get a bundle that was brand new and in sequence. He would then use a rubber binding set up to attach one side and a cardboard backing (the kind of thing used for note pads). He got some very strange reactions when he pulled out the pad, peeled off several of the bills to pay someone.
Any chance of discovery releasing every episode of Mythbusters on Blu-ray?
Also rust leaves a dried blood like colour on paper and other fabrics.
You'd probably have to harass discovery about the Blu-ray. They likely own the copyright.
Austin Shoupe I know that they own the rights to them, my question was out of curiosity if Adam, or anyone who read the comments have heard about a physical release. I’ve always been a big fan and watching the explosions in full 1080 Blu-ray quality would be fun.
Is it possible to not love Adam?
Where are these livestreamed? I haven't been able to find them and Id love to watch along live.
Live on this channel :)
Probably livestreamed as private with the link shared to paying members on tested.com, then edited and uploaded for us to enjoy for free.
@@pileofstuff I don't know about that. I've caught a couple live on his youtube channel and I'm not a tested member. He usually does them in the middle of the day (noonish Pacific time) when he does stream. They had to turn off the chat when he started due to his poor internet.
I think there might be Website called Vimeo,It really is kind of stupid that TH-cam considers this illicit content, he's not encouraging people to Try to pass this as real money or leave it where people could find it and try to spend it, but TH-cam doesn't have a sense of humor apparently and are pulling down videos for all sorts of ridiculous reasons maybe this can be found on Patreon ,
They are livestreamed on this channel, but when the stream finishes they are immediately made private and are then chopped up into sections and released as edited videos like this. I wish that they just made them unlisted rather than private, as it is super annoying watching live as if you pause for any length of time and resume it ends up cutting off the stream before you finish watching it.
So just under a year later we’re still under quarantine
you know it's Adam when he gets excited about old book colognes
When I was a kid I was at my dad's office and photo copied a dollar bill. It was black and white of course but I still felt like such a bad ass. Haha.
16:42 Ådam Såvåge the Swedish chef låundering møney
I just started the video and saw your comment. Had to check it out; love the Swedish Chef. He does resemble him cooking there. 😂🤣😂👍👍✌✌
The large brush you used looks like the Japanese ones for writing large kanji for signs.
21:07 It’s pronounced “Lester”
Thank you! I was just coming here to put that.... 👍🏼
Can confirm. I live in Leicester.
First I was just wondering if that's what he meant... Then I was asking my screen out loud if that's what he meant... By the 23rd time I was yelling at the screen to STOP SAYING IT BECAUSE IT MADE MY EARS BLEED! 😂😅
Never stopped working.
“I’m going to...” *smashes money*
I've found instant coffee with red food colouring makes decent blood, but it can get sticky again if the weather gets hot.
Just watch "To Live and Die in L.A."
That's what I thought of too
Also - MC Escher had designed incredible currency for The Netherlands.
Discord is a cool thing for letting audience to give some live feedback. I would happily connect to your videos :)
A close friend of mine works as a santa durring the holidays and im designimg million dollar bills with his Santa portrait on it
too bad for video quality...
I love these videos but sadly this one is unwatchable. I cant see any detail on what Adam is doing. I will come back and hope a higher quality version is uploaded.
Only time I've ever had a million is in Indonesia when buying a flight..spent ages just looking at it and chuckling
congrats on 5 million subs Adam BTW you are so cool this is a relay good video don't stop the content!
back 20 yrs ago when Canadian money was paper i knew a guy that would iron his money to make it crisp.I kinda like that idea..
As someone formerly 'in the business' in northern califorrnia, it's not kept in flat stacks like that. It tends to be folded-in-half wads of 2500 or 5g, and then just counting out those wads.
Edit: At least in any of the deals I did, but I never dealt more than 300k in a single go either.
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6:37 "Can I get some more dem pixels?"
I kept waiting for the Secret Service to come in from behind!
My mom used to work in a bank. According to her, handling stacks of money over an extended period of time is pretty gross. After a couple of hours your fingertips take on a blackish-brownish color that has a not very nice smell and is hard to wash off. Edit: apparently it’s also slightly sticky. Not sure if I‘d want to smell of money.
Regarding the blood stained money: there is a fountain pen ink by a company called Diamine that they named „Oxblood“. It dries a very darkish-red-brownish color that might just be up your alley. When I refill my fountain pen with it and have a spill, my desk looks like a murder scene 😅
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whats the over/under on how long this video will stay on TH-cam before it gets taken down? Not saying that's right, Adam you are awesome and you gave a great disclaimer, but.... you're taking a chance even posting this with the warnings, imho
This channel totally satisfies my inner kid!
chestnut ink makes a good old blood. it's brown with a hint of red
23:23 Im gonna go pick up some librarians now...
16:40 "I'm going to..." * drip drip * ... * WHAP WHAP WHAP! * i just found that slight pause hilarious even though it was such a small thing.
Dirty Blood Money: Weather it like Mr Savage showed. Go to the butcher shop and get a pint of cow's/pig's blood. Splatter the money with a large brush (or however you want), and then bury it for a few days in the backyard.
Just an idea.
There is always a fold in the corner because of ... well people roll it for.. reasons. Most bills have the usual 3 folds and the corner. The rest is random from putting it into your pocket.
If you are looking for good dried blood staining, try a fountain pen ink call Ancient Copper from Diamine.
Dried blood effects? I use Windsor & Newton inks (ink solutions are so much better than paints/washes) mixed with weak coffee solution (but note that coffee solution has a tendency to grow fungus after a long while, if you keep a prop for years). The red ink shades can be mixed and matched to reflect the 'age' of the blood. (Brick Red, Deep Red, Vermilion, Scarlet, Orange, Burnt Sienna, Nut Brown if you need the actual shades). Use a pipette for measuring the percentages of mix, and make card swatches with the information written on (useful if you need to do it again at a later date). Let them dry for a couple of days, and see which mixes give you the desired effect.
The smell of 'old'? I was bought an old 'parchment' treasure map as a kid in the 1960s. It was a contemporary facsimile, but it had a smell that I could still recognise if I smelled it today.
One interesting thing about US currency is that in the blend for the paper they use old blue jeans in the blend.
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There is old book smell?! I found my scent! :D hahahaha