How Do They Do It

[RayzBladz]

I recently posted about an episode of How Do They Do It on the SciHD channel, filmed in Ibach Switzerland, on Victorinox production. It showed again today, but if anyone is interested, it will air again on 5.22 at 6:30 PM Central Time, and also at 1:30 AM on 5.23. It's channel #284 if you have DirecTv.

[sergemaster]

Amici,
thanks for the heads up, will try to DVR it whilst I'm at work..

Cheers,
Serge

[borgwarrior]

If someone could rip it for us, who live across the pond, would be appreciated...

[user24]

If someone could rip it for us, who live across the pond, would be appreciated...

+1

[turnsouth]

Here as a video from "How its Made" that shows the rarely seen hand sharpening process:

http://science.discovery.com/videos/how-its-made-swiss-army-knife-assembly.html

[Currahee]

Here as a video from "How its Made" that shows the rarely seen hand sharpening process:

http://science.discovery.com/videos/how-its-made-swiss-army-knife-assembly.html

thanks for that video link! it's really hard to imagine how they can assemble 35K knives a day, as was stated in a recent article. having never personally attempted to mod an SAK, after watching that video, i am curious how you guys that do mod these knives manage to dis-assemble them considering the way that they are pressed together? perhaps one day i will try to take one apart? kudos to all of you who create some of the mod'ed masterpieces i have seen in this forum!

[borgwarrior]

Here as a video from "How its Made" that shows the rarely seen hand sharpening process:

http://science.discovery.com/videos/how-its-made-swiss-army-knife-assembly.html

"We're sorry, but this video is not available in your location." 

[MirrorEdge]

Here as a video from "How its Made" that shows the rarely seen hand sharpening process:

http://science.discovery.com/videos/how-its-made-swiss-army-knife-assembly.html

"We're sorry, but this video is not available in your location." 

"This video is not available in your area."     

[kreisler]

I recently posted about an episode of How Do They Do It on the SciHD channel, filmed in Ibach Switzerland, on Victorinox production. It showed again today, but if anyone is interested, it will air again on 5.22 at 6:30 PM Central Time, and also at 1:30 AM on 5.23. It's channel #284 if you have DirecTv.

How long is the video?

the link given in this thread points to a video of 2min30sec length (afaik) and isnt available in all viewing regions

[turnsouth]

Let the proxy be your friend 

http://www.xroxy.com/proxy-country-US.htm

[MirrorEdge]

Let the proxy be your friend 

http://www.xroxy.com/proxy-country-US.htm

This site is blocked in my country 

[borgwarrior]

hidemyass.com doesn't work either...

[turnsouth]

Let the proxy be your friend 

http://www.xroxy.com/proxy-country-US.htm

This site is blocked in my country 

[Sazabi]

Let me find a decent sharing site and I'll upload the video; it's only about sixteen MB.

[MirrorEdge]

Let me find a decent sharing site and I'll upload the video; it's only about sixteen MB.

YouTube might work

[Sazabi]

Here you go: 

[turnsouth]

Here you go: 

[silentio]

Thanks for uploading that. Wow, the sharpening part. I always thought Victorinox kept that a secret. Or is this not the way it's normally done?

[turnsouth]

Thanks for uploading that. Wow, the sharpening part. I always thought Victorinox kept that a secret. Or is this not the way it's normally done?

I believe that this is for the more complex SAK's and that the machine sharpening of the mass produced models is still considered a trade secret.

There is another video somewhere showing the Classic's and the similar sized models flowing out of a machine like water out of a faucet. And in that video (or perhaps even a third one) it shows a worker rolling a bin of those blades into a room where cameras are not allowed.

[borgwarrior]

Thanks for the upload!