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Can you turn a baseball bat into an actual sword? If you have ever seen a baseball bat before, you know that they're not very sharp, but I want to change that. You see, baseball bats have been around for hundreds of years, but the design has barely changed. So, I started wondering, what if we kept everything people love about the baseball bat, but hit a fully functional sword inside it? So, here's what I'm thinking. If we cut this baseball bat directly down the middle, we can hollow out both halves and carve a perfect slot for a real katana to fit inside. Then, we'll split the bat right here, separating the handle from the barrel.
The handle section will lock around the sword itself, with the top half becoming a giant wooden sheath. Once everything is glued together, we'll sand it smooth, wrap it with batting grip tape, and make it look like a completely normal baseball bat. But, the craziest part is going to be the releasing mechanism. Instead of relying on friction like a normal sword sheath, we're going to use hidden magnets inside the bat. The goal is to make the magnets strong enough to keep everything together while you're holding it, but weak enough that a full speed baseball swing rips the sheath off automatically. Meaning, if everything works perfectly, the bat should transform into a sword in the middle of
a swing, and slice straight through a baseball. At least, that's the idea. But, there's just one problem. I don't know how to play baseball. But, Falcon does, and he's actually incredibly good at it, and played it for a more than six or seven years. At least three. Maybe two. Ever since I was about yay high. So, he's going to be the baseball samurai expert throughout this entire project. Do you think it's actually going to work? No. What? Do you think this sword is going to slice a ball? I am easily slicing a ball in half. I don't even think it'll be difficult. The difficult part is building the sword. That's going to be the hard part. Once it's built, easily slicing a ball in half. It ain't going
to build itself. All right, let's get to it. Step one of secret sword baseball bat, we need to cut a bat perfectly in half. And it's pretty hard to do that unless you create something like this. Tell me about your jig, Falcon. Uh so, I thought, you know, a piece of wood is pretty flat, and another piece of wood is pretty flat. So, I got two boards on both sides of the bat, clamped it down, and then I cut out two little small pieces of wood to fill the gaps where they're perfectly the same width. That way, when I cut a line down the bat, it's perfectly straight. Maybe.
Hopefully. It's pretty simple setup. Uh I have a concern. No, you don't. Stop it. I'm actually terrified to cut this in half. Couple reasons why. One, we're sawing clamped wood. That clamp is going to clamp the bat around the saw blade, and it could send that bat through the wall or through one of us. No, no, no, no, no, no. Once it cuts through the wood there, it's past that point, and it's not like the clamp is getting tighter, so it just cuts straight through it. Big brain. One way to find out. I don't want to find out. That thing. Wibbly wobbly. I hope it does that while we're cutting it, so that it launches into our neighbor's Missile into the neighbor's Making sure it's all as low as we can get it without touching the metal.
And you see, we bought four bats. Just in case the first one's perfect, because we don't need extras, because the first one's going to be perfect. so? You see that blade? Does it center this line right nice? Probably. Yeah, that looks about right. That looks centered on this end. Does it look centered on this end, though? It does look Oh. Come here. Does that blade look centered to the baseball bat? I think it is. Oh, now you're really going to hate me.
We got to push this way. It might be smarter to start with this end. got to unclamp it and flip it around. Unless I just Flip it upside down. Yeah, okay. So, the Home Depot wood is so bent and wonky that it's preventing us from perfectly cutting our bat in the two pieces. We have these super premium sword boxes that you get with some of our swords, and it's actually really high-quality wood that is perfectly flat. That ain't coming from no Home Depot. So, we're going to take the lid off of one and see if we can jig it up.
Just rip the mess out of it. There you go. Oh. That's a premium lumbar. Is that enough? I say we cut it down the middle. I guess it doesn't have to be double the width of the bat. So now you got to measure out how wide this is and cut that in half. That looks about centered. Let's get cutting. How did we eyeball it that bad? It's like a foot and a half off. Pretty good to me. What about the other end? What do you think? Did we fix our problem? Okay, so we have the boards on both sides. We have everything lined up, we believe. And now we have our blade at the perfect height where it'll cut through the entire baseball bat. So now we have to see if we can cut this perfectly in half. I'm scared. Here we go. Yeah, go ahead and turn it on.
No, nope, nope, nope, nope. I don't know if you saw it. The bat, you know, it was coming in. It started to get to a point it was starting to come up. What? And I'm I'm over here. That bat is about to fly at me. But if it just The blade is in here and this slightly rotate, it's going to grab the blade and just The vibe is we got to about a quarter of the way through and the saw really wanted to kick back and I think it was because of the jig, but Kelly had an idea here and it might be banging. We're just going to slide this thing through. And what we did, we wrapped tape around the end that is the same diameter as the front. So this should work and there's going to be no problems, I guarantee it.
You just watch and see. It's a perfectly straight board. We didn't have to use like a ratchet strap to unbend it because it's already straight. So now we can just turn it on and use this straight board and the saw and we'll have a nice clean cut bat. You ready? You got your safety glasses on? Kids, don't try this at home. I need a ride. You got safety glasses. You ready? It works. We got a clean cut, brother. That worked so well and it was simple. Are you ready to see the inside? Here we go. Three, two, one.
Wow. What does that look like? IT'S GOOD. AND YOU know what's the best part? This was just the practice bat. Now we got to do it on the real thing. That was just a warm up. This is the real deal. [screaming] All right. Now that we have the official bat, we got it all taped up. We're going to cut it in half and then we'll get this sword bat project started. Let's do it. [screaming] That is looking scrumptious. Look how clean that cut was. You can't open it up. It's taped shut. we can't make a sword bat.
Show us the reveal. two one Ooh. Ooh, that was bad. This side looks better. I'm surprised that worked so well. Well, that still looks baseball bat shape. That still looks pretty dang good and we can shave it down once we glue it together. Have a sword inside the bat, that's going to be the coolest thing. Now that we have our first bat cut in half, we thought what if we took our practice bat that we don't need anymore? Can it still hit a baseball without breaking? So, we're going to test it out and see if we can hit one. I don't think it's going to break the first time. Not the first time.
Maybe after a few if I hit a baseball or softball clean enough. I think it's too flimsy and it's snapping right here. You got three hits. I would say breaking in one. Here, come. Are you ready? Yeah. three two one Didn't break. Hold on a second. I heard something. It did crack. All right, here we go. Three, two, one. three What did I say? It's going to break. Three, two, one. Didn't even break on the third hit. three. I didn't say it would it'll break after three. That's what I said.
What do you think? Is this a break? We got the bat perfectly sliced in half. Next steps actually are going to be a lot easier than the first steps. Now all we have to do is just place the sword right in the middle of the bat. Take a fine Sharpie and trace it. Then we just have to hollow it out the bat that way we can fit the sword inside and we have our build finished. I don't think it's going to be easy. It's going to be way easier than step one. Bro, we thought step one was going to be easy.
It was easy. We got it done. Three bats later. Now our first idea was to use wood chisels and we would just chisel out the shape of the sword, but that would have been very difficult and very inconsistent. And I went online and found this Dremel attachment piece that lets me perfectly carve out the exact width I need. That way the sword can fit perfectly in the bat. This honestly kind of makes me nervous cuz if I mess up, there's no going back. This is the last bat we have. Let's get to it. All right, we have a problem. So the problem I had with putting the baseball bat in the vise is because the bat isn't flat in the vise is, it would teeter-totter and if I mess up because of that, I'm going to be upsetty
spaghetti. So what I'm thinking is to clamp the baseball bat to the table that way it doesn't teeter-totter and I can carve it out perfectly. That's going to be a big problem. I don't think that was supposed to happen. These two have a pointed tip and this had a flat tip, so I don't know if these are going to work, but to save us a trip to the store, we're going to use it and see if it works. It ain't working. So the pointed tip is definitely not for cutting side to side. All right, we're going to go to the store. We're back in business. Let's get to it.
Now that the bat is completely hollowed out on both sides, we can take apart the sword that way we can fit it inside and start gluing. Now I've never taken apart one of our Sasuke grass cutters, so this might be a little bit of a challenge. Now, you can see the mekugi that's on the handle, but I don't know if I can just hammer those out, so we're just going to do some test. That was actually a lot easier than I thought. Now, the next part we're running into is normally a sword has a big tsuba on it. Well, this one doesn't, so I don't have a whole lot of room to hammer this handle off. We're getting somewhere. And to make sure this sword fits nice and snug in our bat, I'm going to have to do some major trimming to the section
right here, that way I don't slice my thingies. Now, I just have to drill out some holes in the handle, that way I can fit these little wood pieces called mekugi in the handle, that way when I swing the sword bat, the sword doesn't come flying out the baseball bat. And the reason I drilled these two pilot holes is because I'll lay the sword flat on this side of the bat, that way when I put this half of the bat on top, I can tape up both sides of the bat and now have two pilot holes, so I can drill straight through the sword, that way I'll have perfect holes for these little mekugi. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Ow, they work really good. That tip is ruined. Woah, he's sticky with it. That is the least centered I've ever seen anything in my life. What? This feels like one of those little mini bats. We're quick with this. That looks so We spent so much time on this and it looks dumb. It looks so dumb. It is going to look better. It's going to look like a real bat. The one thing we noticed now that we're putting the sheath back on is that section of wood that got cut out isn't as flush as we want it. I
think our solution is to take this back apart and Dremel out the top where the blade would sit. And we got some professional baseball grip, so it looks like a professional bat. So, first what I'm thinking is we just lube this up with some JB Weld, stick the sword in the handle, then put this on top, let it dry. What are you thinking? Yep. That sound good? Lube and JB Weld are the complete opposite. Let's slang some glue up in that thing. Oh my gosh, it's on my fingers. Put it in the blender. Smell good. It's going Put it in the blender.
It'll burn tomorrow. It's already mixed, bro. OSHA certified. Timer has begun. Okay, we didn't really come up with a plan. We just know to glue the sword in the wood. He's putting swirlies in his, so I'm going to put swirlies in mine cuz it adheres better to swirlies rather than just smooth glue, you know? I'm nervous. Never done this before. My first time. You need wood glue? Wait, do we use the ultimate wood glue? But this one's yellow and this one's white. Well, this one's less empty. You have You never used wood glue?
No. It's I just use Elmer's. 6 minutes IS GONE. I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS 6 MINUTES. I THOUGHT IT WAS MORE than 6. It doesn't look like it's seated on this side. Well, before the glue, it fit perfect. There was no misalignment or whatever. Are you confident on this? Yeah. My toes are crossed. Now that we have to wait 4 hours for this to dry, I'm going to go make me a custom sword. Ooh. Oh, that was in my way.
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right, now that the glue is dry, we're going to go disassemble the clips and see how well our sword looks. Oh. The glue should be fully dry by now because we gave it 4 full hours to cure. That's pretty solid. That is in there. Look at this. No wiggle either. That epoxy cured actually pretty well. I would say this feels almost like I'm swinging a wakizashi. Definitely going to slice a baseball in half. Anyways, I think we could still just sand it down. These edges are good, and then I can wrap it, polish it, and then we test to see if it could still slice a baseball in half.
I just finished sanding these, and it looks so much better. It actually looks like a uniformed bat, minus the giant crease that there is in the middle, but that's where this next piece comes in. It might just be the most important piece of this entire build project, this little guy. What we're going to do with those two magnets is drill out two tiny holes on both sides of the sheath and the handle. That way I can glue the magnet in those tiny little holes, and when you try to sheath back, that's what's going to happen right there. Cuz without it, our sheath just tends to fall off because we didn't add this piece called the habaki, right? Cuz the
habaki keeps it nice and snug, but because we weren't able to add that, we're going to need some sort of device like the magnet to hold together our sword bat. Oh, that looks so clean. It's so attracted to the blade itself. I guess I just hold it in there while I glue it. Kelly got it flat, so now we're going to mix up some epoxy and glue these magnets in. All right, we got to move quick. This is that 5-minute stuff. Oh, I'm glad I didn't goop that up. Placing the magnet in there. That one side looked clean. This other side don't look clean. Now that the bat is finally finished, it is time to see if it actually works. You think it's going to work, Kelly?
I think if you're skilled enough, it'll work, for sure. So, what are you saying? So, I'm saying it's up to you. It's up to me? It is up to you. Do you think I'm skilled enough? It's up to you. I just said that. So, the whole goal of this is to swing while it's sheathed. And when I swing, the force is going to cause the sheath to come off, shoot flying over there, and the blade's going to be exposed for me to hit a home run. Actually, if it slices, it's going to go very far. I don't know. I don't think it's going to go very far if it just slices. All that matters is this might be the first sword that you
can sneak onto a plane. X-rays can't see wood through wood. That's just a baseball bat. So, for reference, this is what a normal baseball bat hitting a ball should look like. I have no idea what that looks like. I've never seen it before. This is what a normal baseball hit should look like, but I'm not a batter. Oh, that actually went out of the park, but I'm not a batter. Yeah, I could do it. You think you can? No. [screaming] Can a katana baseball bat actually slice? All right, this is it. Test number one and hopefully the only one.
Three, two, one. Did you forget that it's shorter? Three, two, one. Slow is smooth, smooth is fast. I'm aiming like that far low. Three, two, one. This is actually pretty clean. I thought I hit just the very top of it. That is a good chunk in half. Although we sliced it, it was not perfectly in half. So, we're going to keep going until we get it in half. You all ready? Three, two, Ooh! That might be it. That might be the one. Baseball bat in the ground. Ooh. Ooh, that might be the one. Dog, this is so cool. Look at this. Now, look at this. The baseball bat sword actually worked. Thank you guys for watching this
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