Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Snub-Nosed Blade Runner Blasters!

hey everybody today I'm from tents that no one from zested oh we have a one-day build today we're gonna do together Dueling Banjos or collaborating banjos and it's played on our themes it is do you know how much we love Blake when we're here on tested well Ken sorry Dave Goldberg I get Dave Goldberg and Ken Goldberg mix up you don't know who can Goldberg is but doesn't matter Dave Goldberg of Goldberg arms maker of beautiful Blade Runner kits and custom Blade Runner kids has made a kid of the Blade Runner snub-nosed blaster what Blade Runner snub nose blaster there is not no no it's his fantasy recreation of what a snub-nosed like derringer type flavor and a blaster would look like and we have a pair of kits here we actually have three kits total yeah just a case just kits I bought two of them which was the ivory grips and the amber grips and you had the clear grips but you're gonna go with the amber I like the ambergris yes totally it's a really beautiful design so this of course is the PKD the the full busts are from Blade Runner or the original of course so Dave took this idea and completely CG modeled it oh he did this in CG yeah and and then 3d printed and seen seen it like five years ago and so this is a rough assembly it's shortened it has all the characteristics how much smaller that it is doesn't there are things that you know he doesn't have the base thick on the bottom so the grips perfectly fit and it's a lovely kit we did do some prep work because that's the boring stuff do some cleanup some sanding a little bit of primer on both kits because you know any any garage kit like this comes with some bubbles and some mold making difficulties they were very few in this overall for your average kid it's incredibly clean cloud casting beautiful garage kit we're not just gonna put it together because you're gonna do some customization I am gonna do some customization first I'm going to ream ashiness some aluminum barrels metal parts yeah metal parts I want to machine some aluminum triggers okay that are nice and high gloss they won't have that tactical grooving in the front but they'll be high gloss this is an interesting shape I'm so curious how you're gonna do I can't wait to see that and and on on mine in particular I actually cut a piece of steel for the grip because I wanted it to be shiny that's a big piece we're talking about this whole piece here yeah recreated with all those complex shapes so yeah I milled down a piece of 5/8 aluminum to be the thickness of the grip and I actually machined off the two grips sides ah the to grip sides to attach back to this once I have it shaped yeah I kind of I just figured as long as I was gonna get my hands dirty you might as well go all the way all right so we'll let you get started on that I'm gonna also do a little modification to the grips in that when we cut out some long right right right great so it's not visible on this stunt pistol but on the real Blade Runner blaster the amber grips are over a aluminum grip frame that surrounds the Bulldog 44s actual grip frame so from certain angles you can see right through the amber handle of the real Blade Runner pistol and you want to achieve that on yours yes I'm going to show you how to use the scroll saw oh okay okay I was wondering how could I do that Dremel tool or no else a scroll saw so the first thing you do want to do is pull out a a small 1/8 inch drill bit and we'll get you a little platform to drill a starting hole into well I'm already getting ahead of ourselves all right and then we'll start buttoning down these pieces one by one dual blasters go Internet so I've made you a couple of stand off blocks I've gots to be able to work on this so that it's perfectly level but you can stay out of the way of the blade yeah so the first things first is to take Chuck to drill bit into the drill press and make yourself a little hole right right there and down yeah hit it hard there you go yeah so here's a scroll saw and the scroll saw is like the jigsaw it allows for very complicated cuts but what the scroll saw does is allows them to be blind so oh inside a hole you don't none like a bandsaw wonder I should have a blade that you can't get to into a hole without cutting through the outside with this we can feed a blade through that hole and then cut out from the inside and specifically we're gonna utilize what's called a 360 - I don't even know what this official name is but this is a blade that you can see is twisted yeah so it's covered with little teeth and it's twisted which means it cuts in 360 degrees so I don't have to follow any path and you don't you actually can just follow the line and the blade will go you have to go slowly right but it's it's really awesome it's got the blade is clamped in on both the top and the bottom so here is how we'll make this work and what exactly is the action on the saw the action is a vibration up and down like this so it's actually yeah it's a boom like this you'll see watch watch this here we go right and we can lower this down but the puzzler parts really irregular I don't think that's necessary this blows air away from the cut we start we move into the corner so you can also stay on the outside of your line yep and stand it down a little bit out yep no problem all right all right I'm gonna practice like going toward the center yeah go towards the center and cut some little curlicues and try it out and you'll see how much abuse that can take but slowly and steadily is the metric here awesome thank you look at that that's mighty pretty alright second barrel the problem I had with my second barrel is that when you drill a hole through a long rod the drill bit can sometimes wander and it was perfectly centered when I went in the front but by the time it came out the back of us off-center just a little bit so that the second barrel I was about to make looked clearly off-center and that's unacceptable so I just reversed my rod and figured out my zero and redid it and now we're about to cut the second barrel you want to see the off-center hole I was talking about okay look at that nice and concentric look at that whoops not concentric cutting stuff off on the lathe maybe one of the most frightening operations you can do on the lathe I have learned from hard-won experience to do it slowly so I set my lathe on a much lower speed to do the cut off that way things don't get out of control as quickly ah yeah a nice gentle peel really nice I'm very pleased with that all right so triggers right the next one is triggers among the very fuel tools among the very few tools that nobody should be without a blow dryer is really hard to beat just seriously everyone should have a blow dryer in their toolkit Dave does really beautiful directions but many garage kits arrived with just nothing to help you this is the absolute opposite all right we're gonna use a thing called the boring bar and it's not boring at all it is terrifying milling tool but one that is the only one that will work for something like the operation I have which is to turn and exactly 7/8 inch diameter hole which is the interior diameter of the triggers that's the most important part for me to get right and the boring bar is how I'm going to finesse the size of this hole so we adjust I'm going to cut these out these four triggers oh I see each of us you see what I've done there ah I'm gonna cut these four out and then I'm going to and then I'm going to ask you to do the final finishing on those filing down - all right sure cool two things one is it is okay to get water near your power tools like this to keep something like aluminum cool it gets aluminum is a fantastic thermal conductor and it gets hot incredibly fast and will burn your fingers handily if you do get some water on your tools it's important to just hit them with a little wd-40 WD stands for water displacement it helps get rid of water and keep rust from happening on your tools okay I'm gonna pass these triggers trigger warning I'm gonna pass these triggers on to norm for the final spit-and-polish and this is where also this is a cool note for prop replication one could get really anal really precise about how much these matched Dave Goldberg's actual triggers but at this point we're done looking at the marks these are gonna be shiny metal triggers they will take your attention and they're exactitude is less important than how nicely polished they are so that's what we're concentrating on I can clamp them here and how much what you can't see like where I'm clamping we'll never see right it's all gonna be recessed yeah you start with that mm-hmm for the insides drain it out straighten it out and then you can keep cleaning this out with this okay so don't want to get it let it get too balled up and then once you've got this to a place you kind of like its overall shape and you can actually go in and do that too with these guys we'll come back in with a dremel and we'll do some finer finishing great cool because I'm making remaking the aluminum center part of my gun I have to mill out the pocket for the triggers so that is the next thing I'm doing and I'm just making sure that I'm milling it out and setting it up correctly so what's level for the triggers is level on my mill and I think I'm there when you make a big part like this each of the subsequent operations you do to it like milling the pocket hole or tapping out the grip the the grip threads to hold the grips on each of these steps is where you could ruin your whole day you could snap a tap in here and then this part is no longer usable and you've got to rebuild it from scratch it's very hard when you're as impatient as I am to get to the finish to slow down but I've taught myself over the years to do exactly that I don't know if I've covered this in the past but the makers of some of the best machinist equipment is star at st AR r ett and they make this beautiful little sensitive tap wrench it's one of their least expensive tools it's like maybe 20 bucks I can't even tell you how important a small tool like this is for being able to feel a tap like that and keeping it from snapping that is really nice that looking really good I think you want to round these edge at these corners oh yeah because you can feel you don't want what if you're shooting you don't want to feel that I am almost done with all the sanding operations on my aluminum grip frame and I'm close to needing to polish which is awesome okay all right start for the polishing and for the polishing I don't need to polish all of this stuff just the edges of the visible parts of the grip frame but I've done my final sanding by mounting the grips to this so I know I'm hitting the exact correct contours and so here we go I'm going to use a little bit of jewellers Rouge not a lot just like that and we'll go in that right there it's production value it all looks really good I'm really pleased with how that's shaping up damn that is Wow look how smooth that is yeah I'm very pleased with how the triggers are gonna come out looking just like that mm-hmm all right cool we are moving a pace I have to polish my ivory grips now because I've gotten some marks on them Dave Goldberg's castings are so nice this is less and exercise in construction I mean I've added some construction to this project but it's less an exercise in construction than it is in painting and fine finishing so I'm doing a lot more we're gonna do a lot more concentrating on that and I'm about to add some some raw umber is that what this is burnt umber and a couple of other colors to my ivory grips to make them look a little more ivory like yeah so I'm gonna add some then we're gonna peel that off yeah I'm really happy with that that's cool that's feeling much more ivory like for the wash on this I'm using oil paints not acrylics they afford me a lot more working time and you can peel it all the way back off with thinner if you want to in fact most of my favorite paint jobs are paint jobs that I was really positive I was screwing up until I tried to remove the paint and then it left all the oil in the little interstices and made my favorite paint jobs so oil paint is a reef or superfine detail that's gonna sell really up close it's hard to beat oil paints ivorie can tend to have a little bit of a grain to it so I'm adding a little bit of a grain in the scoring okay now I realize I have forgotten a key aspect of this which is that Dave included a couple of really nice steyr logos to embed in these and I wish to do that so where do those go this is not a style ogo it's a gold burgos arms logo of course it is so yep beauty all right so test fit here yeah Dave thanks for making it exactly 1/2 inch that's how it makes paint I once thought of auditioning for stomp all right that's got to be mixed in that here's a cool little technique you got to paint a little tiny part stick it to a tongue depressor with some double stick on it yeah that one's for free it's like everyone knows this technique come on oh it's a good cold and then these will sit in the middle the Goldberg arms yeah you know and say I was looking at a lot of pictures of ivory grips last night and I saw lots of exactly that you know little places where great ivory is it grows right so yeah I wanted to replicate that feeling of grain I may still do a little bit more but for right now we're pretty good on that front how are you doing on the triggers okay if these feel like you're feeling ready to polish I would love to take my hand try it polishing right here is I have if you're gonna polish these aluminum transfers heat really well so you want to be able to hold on to them without also when you put something up to a polishing where the polishing wheels singular desire in life is to hurl the part you've just spent an hour getting ready to polish all the way across the shop into the bin of other crap that looks like your part and you'll never find it clearly this has happened to me before so this is a little jewelers vise that grabs a part on an edge with an incredible amount you can see it's just a wedge between these two jaws and it grabs this part with a reel right that's not gonna let go turn this guy give it a little bit of Polish not a lot like that and then it's so shiny total satisfaction right and then on the inside wait to see this this is great oh my god ladies and gentlemen Wow isn't that beautiful so you may want to hit that backhand with it but you can do all four of these and work on them and work on them right right while they're in here yeah yeah yeah isn't that awesome Wow all right love introducing people to how awesome polishing is sign from painting I'm right this makes it really easy to paint yeah yours and I'll do the same those are just like bamboo sticks yep now I'm gonna paint my whole one like a shiny chrome is it which works great with the with the ivory right it's a really good question the question is how do you want to paint yours more true to the color scheme of the original I like the really shiny black on the lower half yep and then some glued metal on the top okay then you know what you can do is you could take this and that and start to do the same thing just start to drill little holes in each of your parts too to be able to hang on to I have spoken and gushed before untested about how much I love the molto chrome pens if you can buy an Amazon they also sell the paint refill for the pens in these handy tubes I bought a whole bunch of them you can see how crazy shine it is look at that it's like it's mercury yeah and I have actually broken out a second airbrush this airbrush it is the inaugural journey for this airbrush it's the first time I'm using this new posh a because I don't want to keep on there may be other colors and I don't want to keep cleaning it out every single time of course I'll clean my airbrush out don't get upset I just am NOT gonna cross the streams because crossing the streams is bad so I'm gonna do some painting tests and see what what I can achieve while we wait for the strength of black as a base works really well with Chrome it makes it shine more exactly that's yeah and that's why I've coated mine and black yours is black because it's gonna be black for many of them except for your barrels gonna be the gunmetal yep that's right and I have some really good lacquers down here the flow quills yeah you can take a look through those I might have a gunmetal down there oh it's it's deep there's a like hundreds of feet of bottles and many of them are the same but take a look to see if I've got a gunmetal I'll do ya all right okay look at that beautiful I'm gonna keep on going here we go Adam you have so many engine blacks and Harbor Gray's but the very last one here the dustiest bottle you found good manners so glad you found it the operation is that there is a there is a needle that comes up with a hole in it like that right so that's Hollow and on top and there's some threads here and on top of that goes this cone with a hole in the top of it right and this cone threads down on top onto these and so if the needle is sticking out all the way you have very little flow because there's not a lot of gap between here and here so you increase the flow by loosening that that cone so you usually start out with a fairly wide and then you bring it back and you want you want very little you want yeah like that you know it's like Photoshop anyone less opacity I knew I could speak your language so I'm going halfway over each line and it's not covering perfectly because I want you to least wonder that a little bit and you just keep on passing each line crosses over half of its predecessor that's basically how you do it half half half half now all right no starting the pieces I care about least look at that classy yeah that feels like those are ivory grips to me now I'm very pleased with those so the biggest problem that propped replicators and makers have with chrome paint is protecting it it tends to be volatile even when it's been dry for a couple of weeks it tends to rub off and leave residue and so I was looking on some forums recently and on the RPF someone claimed to really like this all clad all clad makes this the premier chrome painted but it's a very touchy system that requires great precision in its application and I think maltol is a bit more forgiving but that's not the point the point is that ahead makes a gloss clear coat that supposedly works great with this and doesn't inhibit that's the problem is if you try and clear I'm getting ahead of myself if you try and clear coat a chrome paint it goes like grey ruins it dulls it you lose all that reflectivity so this supposedly is a clear coat that that solves that problem that's awesome that's a clear coat that does not inhibit the gloss no and I mean it's still a little still a little wet but holy hell that sets quickly and it doesn't turn the gloss gray so I'm gonna clearcoat all in my chrome here so I'm pulling out this stuff this spray blowing fluid which is for markup on machine tools but it's a transparent blue lacquer and when I was looking at some old beautiful shiny derringers with ivory handles on Google Image Search last night I found it there were lots of blued elements to it like subtly blued little things usually screws I'm gonna try that but I'm also gonna try at least one completely blued part it might be like this one you know like along the side and accent yeah as an accent so I'm about to spray some of this into a cup and then pour it into the airbrush and then airbrush it because this is paint that's too much oh look at that that's dead sex is what that is yeah mm-hmm that that works for me is what that does dude check it out blued screws it's totally working I was terrified that it wouldn't but it does and it gives me this extra little bit of this extra little hint of Awesome nervous but touching these parts so I'm gonna make up a you know what what we really need to do is let everything dry for a little while so let me set up a cardboard box for this and we'll put a blow-dryer in it and sort of baked everything great it also means that you're gonna dirty up your blasto let that chrome I am gonna bring it down just a little bit with a little bit of I think oil paint I'm not positive that's the that's actually next thing we could try while this is just that that's all you need yep that's it you know I get it into the corners and then pull it back off and it's just this little bit of like I am dirty because humans have used me and I'm not killing my chrome because we got over it with the claw you're clear yeah yeah you can get much finer into the corners with oil paint than you can with acrylic under most conditions yeah just that right leg up even that helps sell some scale awesome okay so that's probably the last thing that I do is hold on to the blaster and kind of go through it and take out I'll do the same thing this idea of having a tester yeah to play with the number of times on mission-critical things I've sprayed I've actually accidentally sprayed a hero prop with super 77 thinking a twin 4:00 in the morning I was using clear coat you just glued everything yeah just had the strudel like two hours of solid work to undo this one second of screwing up yeah so having a tester that you can play with this really really smart and we're lucky enough that your tests are this time is the exact same resin face exactly this is great I mean this is I can't wait to hold on to the final product I know it's no fun to listen to us talk while the blow dryers going so we're gonna clear out of here and we'll see limit you're going to work on assembly on yours parts are basically you have two things do you assembly and weathering it's true yeah I have a little bit more to do before assembly I'm gonna take this piece and get this pewter it up with some rubbin box oh yeah yeah then I'm gonna assemble what are you gonna use to assemble I'm a crazy glue okay cyanoacrylate yeah I you know I hate glue no epoxy nah dots of CA will do just fine and if I want to change anything later I could pop it back off all right and especially with your grips that's not even gonna be glued you actually have hardware I do yeah no I'm super-psyched and that's the last part I'm putting on as the grips awesome uh wait no I have to put on the grips to see how everything fits together okay here we go I'm very very happy hey Dave in your 3d drawing of this gun I really appreciate that you made the the screws perfect on either side because on the hero it's not quite like that Oh looks so good I know it's kind of insane doing a final weathering pass with oils and turpentine it doesn't seem to be negatively affecting the the paint which is great and it's just really settling all these pieces into each other so that they really resonate and work with each other although I'm noticing a little bit of a weird craving that's happening all right I think I have to put this away and let this dry overnight because it's now getting a little too well getting a little friendly alright you know I think it's okay that's not one day we think wouldn't there's no such thing as one day but it lasts one day yeah I got away from glue to dry they're real close they're really close looks so good I'm so pleased with this this is a really lovely little lovely little sidearm Rome and ivory chrome and ivory alright we're gonna take a little break it's gonna be like a whole weekend for us but for you it's just gonna be like that well it's a little bit past the weekend it's Tuesday we had a wee we couldn't get this together on Monday and I actually got inspired yesterday oh yeah and I you know we were airbrushing and we were hanging the air verses over there I only have this little air burst and so I made a new air burst and in fact it clamps to any table I used an adjustable clamp that I have it holds its own a regulator it's got a whole host of different air brushes plus for holding your paints plus the repair tool freer yeah I made an all-in-one and now to thing was it was becoming such a pain in the ass to pull a of our stuff out and put it all together that I was resisting airbrushing because of that ah and I I don't that's one of my key things I watch for in the shop infrastructure if I'm inhibited from exercising a utility that the shop has because it's too hard to put it together then I make it easier and we couldn't work on this because they want to do that for you so where are we right now because you did get started a little bit of your weathering before we wrapped the previous deck I did I did some I did some weather and I'm very pleased with in the interstices of these I decided that I'm going to gun blew this the the little I guess it's a target excited yeah this site that site and we're gonna I'm gonna put a little LED in there so I'm gonna gun blew that and then I was also thinking of a few little rust spots and I was thinking of adding just some small dots of russin I was gonna use some raw and burnt umber powder to do that I was going to put some little dots of clear clear lacquer and then sprinkle the dust on top of that to get a dry rough spot type of thing is this already as dirty as you're gonna want it to be it's mostly as dirty I just wanted to feel a little more aged and I want to get some black inside the barrel there it's still a little too shiny for me yeah same with maybe the trigger on the trigger guard hmm it looks amazing I mean really so nice pleased with how how it looks and also how different it looks you've gone with a very classic Blade Runner and it looks fantastic so I want to ask you cuz this is - 95 percent assembled - the LEDs how do I tie this all together how do I make the materials look consistent so it doesn't look like that's just painted resin um you might do some stuff lid with with some silver around some of the edges just to just to show where some weathering is you might try my rust technique a little bit you can also by all means grab a little oil paint and do some oil wash in some of these you've done that an acrylic wash here yeah I actually use your leftover oil oh okay great I think you could add some more in there ah right right there as well that catches my eye also definitely in there where that brightness is and in here also in there ya know same thing I'm gonna hook up a little black in the airbrush and you and I can both do inside that inside the barrel there or else you know you might pull these off and do a little more silvering on the inside there on those holes because I can see them and it actually would be a nice little bit of detail got it also maybe a little you know maybe it's a little worn around here and some of the some of the leading edges that would get dinged breaking it up ties it all together exactly yeah precisely I like how different they are that makes me very happy so satisfying yeah I did the barrel so much better that looks yeah just a little subtle it's black in there yeah you want me to do yours here yeah yeah yeah you're working on this okay spring a little in there and pour a little bit of that in here look at that that is such a convincing anodized look I'm just gonna go with a little bit of raw umber as well oh just just for the extra color also I tend to I tend to go looking for like what's right and what's not right you know so it eats from each angle I'm I'm looking at the prop from I'm trying to think what shelves from this angle right like this side done you know I'm really happy with how that works it's a trigger stuff in here but like that side I'm really pleased actually I'm gonna get a little more there from this side this front yeah I'm okay with that yeah I gotta get a little bit down in there you know and then okay and this side let's get a little bit there like look at it in different lights funny when my father was painting as he finished a painting he would like look at it from far away look at it look at it upside down just to see the composition was i he'd hang it upside down and then go look at it in a mirror from across the line you see if the composition really held up oh cool I want to put my crops back on alright oh do you want to do a wash on the on the handles of your grips yeah okay so let's talk about how to do that that's um ah I think we want to kind of an off white acrylic wash um now I'm taking too much off uneven total works right and lo I will did I get you okay good that I'm happy with okay oh what's so good yeah and it is just very subtle on both sides I give it a little bit of a little bit of a kick a little bit you never know when the introduction of a new solvent like zip kicker is gonna mess with one of your other solvent based paints and I can't even tell you how many times I've done the worst possible thing spraying the wrong thing on the wrong thing and having the whole paint job noise yes yeah yeah weld on three will ruin your day norm I think we have that Bulldogs this is a really really fun build this has been up on the shelf for a couple of years yeah since I bought these from Dave and I'm super happy with how that came out and you can go totally as as in the movie yep or or you got your little your little done the gambling riverboat nine 1901 there side piece there like look out revolution oh yeah now the holster yeah of course part of me wants to do a Travis Bickel like machine like that but I don't think I'm going to the future build awesome thanks to Dave Goldberg for designing and making a beautiful kit that actually is beautiful castings this is the garage kits are often an exercise in varying degrees of disappointment from right from opening the box Dave's castings are phenomenal his directions are really clear and and give you great guidance that you need and we'll put links to his own design thread and build thread on the RPF in the comment section below but until then we'll see you guys in a future

Channel: Adam Savage’s Tested

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Id: 9XB4Be6TjHU

Length: 55min 21sec (3321 seconds)

Published: Thu May 03 2018

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I've never seen Norm referred to as "Norman" before. Feels strange.

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That’s such a cool build

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Submission Statement:

In honor of Blade Runner Month -- November 2019 -- I present two grown men geeking out like little kids over a non-functional firearm. Enjoy. :)

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Adam Savage for president.