new video on victorinox factory

jatrias · **on:** March 04, 2011, 05:04:37 AM

Hi!

Just saw this new video on the production process in the victorinox factory. Very good video quality and in german, enjoy!

jatrias

stressmaster5000 · **Reply #1 on:** March 04, 2011, 06:52:04 AM

Great!

theonew · **Reply #2 on:** March 04, 2011, 07:16:16 AM

Awesome!!! What a beautiful and well made video. I think that's the best thing I've ever seen on youtube.
Thanks for the link

North Man · **Reply #3 on:** March 04, 2011, 10:40:34 AM

Hi

This was a fantastic video!
NM

nsa-x-file · **Reply #4 on:** March 04, 2011, 10:45:21 AM

Great video, just downloaded it in 1080p, looks great. thanks

victor7000 · **Reply #5 on:** March 04, 2011, 12:37:48 PM

cool thanks for sharing

ICanFixThat · **Reply #6 on:** March 04, 2011, 01:49:03 PM

Great! Very cool that the new cheese blade is in there. There new video section has lots of good stuff.

jatrias · **Reply #7 on:** March 04, 2011, 03:04:46 PM

Wire Edge · **Reply #8 on:** March 04, 2011, 05:33:02 PM

That was wonderful! I don't speak a lick of German, but the video really tells the story. I'll have to show it to my girlfriend, she's Bavarian, so maybe she can translate

JRAmmon · **Reply #9 on:** March 04, 2011, 07:26:55 PM

Nice to see the floor of the Victorinox factory and some of the process. Since there is no tour at the factory... you would be finding me in the gift shop... and for the entire day!

Jmora · **Reply #10 on:** March 05, 2011, 12:12:26 AM

the blade edges aren't actually hand ground are they? that is just for show. Its ironic that it says that the steel comes from France and Germany, wasn't the original intention of Elsener to make a swiss knife so that they would not be dependent on Germany?

Gareth · **Reply #11 on:** March 05, 2011, 01:44:30 AM

That's an excellent video, it's just a shame I could barely understand a word of it.

Sidhartha · **Reply #12 on:** March 05, 2011, 02:03:42 AM

Quote from: Gareth on March 05, 2011, 01:44:30 AM

That's an excellent video, it's just a shame I could barely understand a word of it.

+1

anyway excelent video! thanks for sharing

J-sews · **Reply #13 on:** March 05, 2011, 03:24:04 AM

Very nice.

I shall go to sleep this evening dreaming of The Bins at 4:20

Vemo · **Reply #14 on:** March 05, 2011, 06:24:03 AM

Great video!
I couldn't work out how the flexible steel pealed off the giant roll somehow becomes inflexible bits for the knives, I'm obviously missing something very basic here.

Dunc · **Reply #15 on:** March 05, 2011, 09:57:34 AM

Very good , I enjoyed that .

J-sews · **Reply #16 on:** March 05, 2011, 01:22:37 PM

Quote from: Vemo on March 05, 2011, 06:24:03 AM

Great video!
I couldn't work out how the flexible steel pealed off the giant roll somehow becomes inflexible bits for the knives, I'm obviously missing something very basic here.

At around the 3:22 mark, the metal blades are being heat treated for hardness

Sparky415 · **Reply #17 on:** March 05, 2011, 05:22:28 PM

DOH, They stamp the nail nicks in to them, I wondered how they ground them

Great Video thanks!

jatrias · **Reply #18 on:** March 05, 2011, 06:02:48 PM

From the video i see a machine grinds the sides of the blade and them the final edge is done by hand. Funny that in one of the other older videos of the vic factory, they kept the whole sharpening process a secret.

Vemo · **Reply #19 on:** March 06, 2011, 08:56:28 AM

Quote from: J-sews on March 05, 2011, 01:22:37 PM

At around the 3:22 mark, the metal blades are being heat treated for hardness

Got it!

Gareth · **Reply #20 on:** March 06, 2011, 12:48:03 PM

Quote from: jatrias on March 05, 2011, 06:02:48 PM

From the video i see a machine grinds the sides of the blade and them the final edge is done by hand. Funny that in one of the other older videos of the vic factory, they kept the whole sharpening process a secret.

You're quite right and I was thinking the same thing. Wonder why the change of heart?

Mr. Whippy · **Reply #21 on:** March 06, 2011, 01:02:45 PM

Just a guess, but,

To distinguish Victorinox from a mass produced soulless object, they want to show that hands on craftsmanship turns their blades into a traditional Swiss crafted product.

Carlos · **Reply #22 on:** March 06, 2011, 03:17:48 PM

Hmmm I think it was just a marketing play, that of not showing the sharpening process, because that's not such a big deal. Here is another video that shows that step.

There's a video on the making of wusthof knives (my favourite kitchen knives) and they also use a manual, laser controlled, process to sharpen their knives.

By the way, what is the model at 0:30 (of the first post video)? It's bigger than the CT41.

alelser · **Reply #23 on:** March 06, 2011, 04:59:57 PM

Great video! Really well produced.

radioz · **Reply #24 on:** March 07, 2011, 05:33:46 AM

Quote

By the way, what is the model at 0:30 (of the first post video)? It's bigger than the CT41.

I think that one is the XLT. Notice the spatula blade?

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