I milked 1000 spiders to make guitar strings!!
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I am currently going through video ideas for a next video. If you have something that doesn't exist yet that you reeeally want to see related to guitar, pianos or maybe even some other instrument. Please let me know in a comment here.
piano where when you press down the key it blows air into a recorder pre-set at that note would be funny
A beatbox with guitar strings on it to give it a boomier sound
A lyre made of human bone with hair strings.
An air instrument that shoots fireballs when blown.
A hurdy gurdy where the wheel is powered by a harley davidson bike.
An ordinary violin with a modified chainsaw as a bow.
Or all of those toguether lol: A violin with hair strings that uses a moded chainsaw as a bow, wich is powered by a harley davidson bike that spits fire 🤘
guitar with a theremin attached. idk how that would work, but theremins are cool and need to be used in more stuff. maybe a theremin guitar that plays notes corresponding to certain frets like an octave pedal?
guitar using wool you spun as strings
Airport worker: "Purpose of you visit?"
Mattias: "I am here to milk your spiders."
So i brought the homemade spidermilker 1.0 on the flight and I was really worried I would have to explain what I would use it for
"I'm here to chew bubblegum and milk spiders. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
@@FelipeMesquitasilk milkem
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO
@@Mattiaskrantz
I’m looking for the 1.01 upgraded version.
You asked for spiders, and they delivered. You asked for guitars, and they delivered. Perks of a small town. Word travels fast.
Of course they delivered anything for foreign money which has 10x its value in that country :)
That woman in the beginning invited all the money starving villagers, because he said bbc.
@@Secret_Squirrel_Scottishgamer Not enough budXD Try 20-30x
Well on one hand hes got an interesting sidequest he was trying to complete and on the other hand if you get enough crisp 1 dollar bills together you can aquire a small army of children and accomplish almost anything basically 😂😂
@@simonbionary11010 yeah 4000 Malagasy Ariary is $0.88/£0.73/9.79kr, which is apparently still not enough to buy a can of coke in Madagascar
This dude accidentally caused a massive kidnapping of unsuspecting spiders.
"They took me, they did some weird experiments and got some of my web stuff, then they let me go. It was wild!" - That's how UFO stories start.
@@kataseiko😂
I have those spiders here in Alabama. They make massive beautiful webs. We call them Banana Spiders. They're not native, but they are also not invasive.
Imagine a person with arachnophobia waking up in the morning and going in the park to get some fresh air just to see 100+ spiders on top of each other
I'd get a panic attack. They were really damn big too.
@@Electivedrop i will just die on the spot
I meeeaann.. they would eat each other. Thats too many spiders on a small area
@@mepik15 I don't even want to imagine that
@doombros9770 when it's all over you have to fight the spider who won
A crowd of people rushing to give you a spider is like my worst nightmare
Getting abducted and anally probed is my worst nightmare. Do you think it's something in our poo that the aliens want?
Like, maybe they're trying to make guitar strings out of our poo just to see if they can?
@@John-X omg you’re right…
Purification in progress
@@John-XSpider web doesn't comes from their anus, but I see your point
@@John-X 😢
"I now had one spider and one wife, but I needed hundreds more"
Oh my god, he's elevated from building pianos to building harems
Yea that was so funny! Also, just moments before he said that I was thinking "Is this woman flirting with him? It looks like flirting to me!"
Not the weirdest isekai I've seen...
She was pretty cute! I'd move to Madagascar for her.
@@LordDragox412 so I'm a spirder, so what?
Congratulations! 🎊
(You went there with the pretense of finding a spider for its webs, but as it turned out, YOU were the spider and you caught her in your web! 😄)
At 18:54 the guy is playing Ring of fire by Johnny Cash , is perfect the style of playing and singing along gives a wholesome feeling
Man, it's lovely
I loved that!!!!
gave me chills- totally unexpected!!💚
But what is played at 20:00 ??
@@fullmoonracoon9584 Misahotaka ny akama by rajery
i cant imagine the spider population around that hotel after him being there
Mattias doesn't know this, but he's started an entire industry of spiderweb guitar string making in Madagascar. In 20 years, all the best musicians will refuse to use any guitar strings painstakingly milked from Madagascar spiders
John mayer has entered the chat
"In 20 years, all the best musicians will refuse to use any guitar strings painstakingly milked from Madagascar spiders"
I think you're missing a "not"?
Or do you mean that the best musicians are going to be protesting for spider rights and refusing to use their silk?
@@nathangamble125both are possible
@@nathangamble125in 10 years the “not” will be needed but in 20 years advancements in synthetic materials and increased awareness about animal cruelty will make the previously very popular silk strings quite controversial.
@@Numbabu And also the weird "Sweden randomly stumbles into neocolonization" bit.
Saw it in a different reply chain.
imagine you're just living peacefully in your village and then a foreigner comes, pays you to find spiders, makes a guitar string, then leaves
At least you got payed
😂
@@MusicLovingCriticbro gave them each like 89 cents in USD💀
@@whynow7035 that's like a week of work for most of them
@@noodlemaster5812 yeah but if the guy sparred like 5$ extra worth of American money they’d be set for a month. 89 cents is still crazy😭
@@whynow7035 you saw how it turned out when he offered 89 cents. 5 dollars could start riots
19:03 bro I’m not even lying when I say that this guy’s guitar skills and singing voice are beautiful.
The idea of a conservation group rushing to protect a spider was pretty sus. I love spiders but they're the definition of "Least Concern", they reproduce and populate areas in cosmic numbers, you couldn't endanger most spider species in their native habitats if you tried.
Them concerning for an abundant species instead of endangered ones
Dangerous spiders, child labor, unforseen consequences and a dream... Salute to you, Madlad Krantz.
UPD: THANK YOU ALL for so much likes! (18k at the time). And also I know that these spiders are NOT dangerous, his name is Mattias and this is a joke about white colonialism.
And "wife".
Don't forget trying to exploit foreigners!
@@octaviusmorlockhundreds of them
And cannibals
Don't forget corruption
It was completely worth it. Just hearing the talent of those two young men was worth it all for us. If you didn’t go looking for spiders in Madagascar, we wouldn’t of heard those beautiful voices.
If you liked that part you should check out Playing For Change. Beautiful stuff
Agreed. Truly a magical and touching moment.
Does anyone have any idea the guy played at 19:05
@@friendgamer3475 Acoustic guitar rendition of Jonny Cash - Ring of Fire
wouldn't ****have 🙏🙏
OMG that guy in the green shirt singing Ring of Fire... ~goosebumps~
I mean he sounded spine-chillingly good...
the guy in the red shirt was amazing too.
12:11 honestly feel like they were somehow trying to hustle you.
They dont care about the spiders lol
No kidding, Sherlock
@@GaiusCaligula234 sherlock? I hardly knew her
When the locals came up and played the guitar was such a vibe. Music brings so much joy
I couldn't help but smile and enjoy it
When I heard Ring of Fire was nice, but the boy singing a local song, oh man!
People may speak a totally different language but music is universal.
This brought tears to my eyes. Going around the world and seeing the power music has to bring light... It is a gift from God. He created this power. Thank you for bringing this to all of us
Yeah that was a beautiful moment. We may see how they live and think they are poor but god damn they are probably happier than us!
Hearing the locals play was truly beautiful
Madagascar man playing Johnny cash was wild!! Super cool
Best part of the video
HI, Do you know what the name of the song is?@@Fooma777
@@Fooma777 Yeah, one of the cutest versions i've ever heard. Also super unexpected.
@@Fooma777what’s the song called?
Highlight of the video.
19:02 Sees it, takes it, performs a wonderful song.
Awesome. P.s.: The second dude is also good.
20:00 and 19:00 THESE experiences are what made it all worthwhile ❤
i know right, man. it’s so easy to start thinking that everything is doom and gloom its the moments like these that show humanity is truly beautiful.
Anyone know the name of the song at 20:00?
@@fullmoonracoon9584 Misahotaka ny akama by rajery
(I think this is the second time I’ve answered the same person but it might help others too 🤷)
@@fullmoonracoon9584I also would like to know xx
@@fullmoonracoon9584 i am also searching for it, will keep you updated, but possibly a music that haven't been recorded yet..
I bet you 10000 years from now there's still going to be a myth about a ghost from another world hiring the whole village to milk spiders to play a guitar 😂
Holy shit.
What if that's how a couple pretty wild legends were started and just ballooned from there? Like legit. That description is a folk tale plain and simple.
A random stranger rolls into town. Collecting spiders and asking anyone who will listen to possibly help. Why? No one knows. Beyond he keeps muttering about specific spiders and guitars.
That's straight up trickster spirit/devil shit from ye olden days.
@@firebeardlongfellow5295The Legend of Spider-Man
Next video: "Music solves town rat infestation"
I wonder if the hotel staff concluded there were no more insects bothering them because of the hundreds of spiders released in the vicinity
sounds like a fairytale
Mattias casually exploiting the locals for spiders is certainly not something I expected to see XD
I mean they could buy a bottle of coke for that amount lol so I’d say fair trade
@@IsItKebabOrTurd put up posters for spiders with insane reward and then didn't deliver because of the response. typical ignorant westerner.
lol. Not sure you can call it exploitation when they're literally clamoring and plotting to get at what he's got.
@@IsItKebabOrTurdA bottle of coke or a shitton more in another country
Follow JIesus and your heart will never be empty again.
You are absolutely right.... I do not need to be needled down and milked. However, Thank you for the image living in my head now.
I wish I had the courage to take on side quests like this. A+ for creativity. This video is very refreshing compared to the content as of late.
I can imagine the village gossip was crazy that week:
1- Some crazy tourist is looking for spiders.
2- Now Spider-Man is looking for a guitar.
3- Oh, spider web guitar string.
4 - dafq
Face egbc egbd egac DFAC-
5- man im ded👽💀
As someone who lives near mada, it's more like wondering if this quirked up white boy is just here for sex. Confusion spreading as they find out this crazy mf was here to milk spiders.
I hope they have a buisness plan now... :)
Putting bounties on spiders, milking them in a midieval torture device, this truly is art
Yeah at first I was like ehhhh, then it evolved into a real quest
1000th liker lol
Midieval...
I love it
#WowThatsGruesomeLol
🤣
In Madagascar's wild, where tales do unfurl,
A bard sought webs, with a musical whirl.
With a village's aid, his quest was grand,
Each thread a gift from their helping hand.
Together they wove, each string with care,
Crafting a guitar, a treasure rare.
For his gratitude immense, he shared his art,
And they dubbed him Spiderman, with joy in their heart.
towards the end of the video when the two guys play the guitar and sing, are some of those truly beautiful moments that can only be captured thanks to a place like youtube. can’t explain it but these moments only happen once every maybe 1000 videos. thanks for two of em.❤
Yes! I was looking for a comment like this
I love how curious the locals are and how into it they get. Probably one of those things they'll be talking about for years about that one strange tourist who came and wanted to milk spiders.
They are curious but are also in for the money, can't blame them though!
Maybe they will start making strings themselves now.... 😮😅
On their place, wouldn't you be curious either, thou?
I am absolutely amazed at this. Literally at every point of this video I'm like, "There's no way he's being serious. This is obviously a joke." Immediately followed by, "Oh my gosh he's serious." What a huge undertaking. Incredible.
You must be new here. EVERY video Mattias puts out is a (sometimes painful) slow transition from "He can't be serious" to "Oh god he's serious" 😲
It's amazing, unbelievable..
No matter you succeed or failed, atleast you did it..
Where people can even think about this type of invention.
You did you..
Your patience is appreciated..
You won my heart..
honestly, this was infact, a beautiful video. the ending where he's showing the villagers what their help accomplished, especially the guy playing ring of fire and the young boy playing what i assume is a native song, its just a beautiful show of culture, and a community coming together over something so small, even if it required one man from somewhere so far. plus, you cant shit on him for the production thing, because hes one guy, not some mass market corporation like Walmart who know the issue of posting that kind of advertisement without intent of such levels of production.
The craziest thing is that you are going to be a legend in that town for decades to come. People will tell their family members about the spider man that would hand out money for whoever brought him spiders.
their johnny appleseed
The local spider silk industry about to explode.
@@BrandanLee No, seriously. If someone in that village realizes what just happened, there's about to be a new industry in that village.
The other craziest thing is everyone there can play guitar
- Grandma, grandma, tell us the story about the spiderman!
- Ah yes... that one great stranger. He came out of nowhere. Europe some say, some others say south Africa. We never knew for sure. He asked the people of our lovely village to catch spiders for him. All kinds, big ones, small spiders, any type would do. And he would pay us greatly too! So quickly all the village got buckets full of spiders to the kind stranger. - The elder woman took a moment to breath - You wouldn't guess what he had done with the spiders.
- What did he do grandma?
- He made a guitar string of spider webs! A full guitar string!
- There's no way, a spider string is way too weak to be a guitar string! - One kid said and the others followed. It is true, a spider web breaks with the slightest effort of one's hand, imagine as a guitar string! Simply impossible.
- Yes, but he did it anyway. - The old woman telling the story rested her hands on her lap - He used many spiders and many many webs, the legend say He kindly asked the spider king for the string in exchange of bugs and water!
- And the spider king gave him the web?
- Well but of course. The spider king wasn't a fool like yourself.
- Ewwww no! I don't want bugs, what would I need them for?
- Spiders eat bugs you dummy! - Another kid came in the conversation.
- Yes indeed. Some people say that after everything was over, the great Spiderman went away without saying much more.
- And what did he do with the spiders?
- Oh... you wouldn't like to know. - The old woman stood tall in the front of the children. - Before he went away, some people think that he just - She got close to the kids, talking softly - HE ATE ALL OF THEM! - The old woman screamed and the children went away scared but laughing.
And that was the legend of the great Spiderman.
thanks for reading, I got carried away but it was fun to write it
Seeing a man from a Madagascar village performing an amazing rendition of a classic American music, on a guitar which one of it string was made from a native spider web, made by a Swedish guy is truly something else
What songs were they singing
@@jazmonzones Ring of Fire!
Globalization in a nutshell!
I love humans lol
no this was literally once in a life time kinda thing
I got recommended this. Totally not disappointed. You're truly a madlad.
6:15 Breaks my heart, but least they look happy. God bless them
More than an experimental video, this video was partly also a showcase of the beautiful people in the small towns in Madagascar and i love that
I like seeing reminders that you can go super far from home, meet totally different people, yet some things never change. We see this with cooking programs like Bourdain's, showing how good food or hospitality is a universal thing. This was like that with music. You can go anywhere with a tuned instrument, not speak a word, and make deep connections with people en masse.
The fact they were all so helpful too
Yeah I really loved seeing them! :] I appreciate these people's friendliness
Hello from Madagascar.
There are quite a few of these spiders in our neighborhood, they are quite docile and are not particularly dangerous or brutal even if their bite can be very painful. Local people call them "Foniala" (litterally heart of forest) and yeah, their have pretty strong webs
I love to know they are named "Heart of Forest", thank you
Golden Orb Weaver Spider.
I thought they were called Fucks
We have our version of those here in Brazil. Got many in my backyard. Anyway, thanks for sharing.
what is the second song in the video it sounds lovely
19:04 that was beautiful he is so good
What an amazing experience, I loved watching this. Seeing the two men playing and singing with the guitar at the end was the highlights for me.
Those 2 random guys who played and sang did so beautifully.
Another crazy project. Very entertaining as usual. 👍
I know it was so beautiful wow
Hey do you know what was the song the guy in green shirt played
@@ashwinrawat9622 i also want to know
@@ashwinrawat9622ring of fire by Johnny Cash
@@DionisFerizi do you know the song of the last guy?
This is a very niche request, but that last song that guy sang is called Misahotaka ny Akama by Rajery. I grew up listening to that song, and I wanted to know if you had a longer video. It like seriously struck me so deeply to hear someone actually singing it in like 2023. I’ve only ever heard it on CD from years ago. So cool.
Thank you, I scrolled down the comments so far to find this
Oh that's what the song was? I was wondering because it sounded so nice. I wanted to hear it again
Is that song from Madagascar originally? If so, how and where did you hear it? I doubt you live there or even close to it, and obscure songs like that usually don't spread around the world.
@Serjo777 the artist is a known musician In a band who tours all over Africa and Europe. Many many people have heard the song before. It's literally on Spotify, some of his songs have millions of listens
@@McGeek23 That explains it then ^^
Amazing freaking video. Loved it! Thank you so much for sharing
This video was very interesting , Thank you !
I said WOW a fair few times watching this , your ideas to problem solve are amazing
I'm so glad that Mattias became an engineer. He could have been a tax accountant, a community organizer, or a non-attorney spokesperson. I especially liked how he faced down the local politicians who tried to make him stop.
"Local politicians" lol Mattias is lucky he didn't get robbed. I was scared for our boy.
@@jhandle900 nah. looking at that small village, I think he was relatively safe. If they were locals who don't know their rights or people who aren't backed up, that would be a different story.
@@jhandle900that’s messed up to think 😅
@@Zamkuma they were clearly trying to take advantage of him
They were just run of the mill scammers, likely working with the hotel person who was "translating" - pathetic attempt, their smirking thinking they're gonna get a payout..
The shot of the local guy singing as he played the spiderweb string guitar made the 8 days worth it. It’s really a priceless moment if you think about it. Beautiful
was searching for this comment! Absolutely true.
Yeap! Totally agree
Yeah it was really nice singing, playing in the madagascar style!
at that moment I hit the like button! Finally some Beautiful music and song we heard - and the video get finalized with this songs in the end and happy moments for the villages!
Anyone know the name of the song he was singing?
2:24 “I now have one spider and one wife.” Aaawwwwee 🥹❤️❤️❤️
Amazing! haha this is the craziest thing I've seen in a long time. Happy to hear no one was harmed in the video ^^ I must thank you for putting a smile on my face during the entire video :)
Fun fact that I never had time to say in the video. I did get qoutes from spiderlabs that could do the milking for me during the period of 6 months. They do the exact same process, except not using a bicycle of course. The qoute for a full set of guitar strings (128km of spiderweb if I calculated correctly) was 200 000 USD. Even if this is probably very expensive since it’s niche and targeting science labs, it goes to show just how unique and labor intensive the process is
It's even more impressive if you consider that some mad folks have made a gown/cape from golden orb weaver silk from Madagascar. It's hard to imagine how much labor that must've taken.
I can just see some weird Olympic sport being created where they require spiderweb guitar strings from Madagascar for every competition
Given the attentiveness of the locals, if one were to administrate the process there domestically it looks pretty possible. If they have so much labor readily available, it could be profitable for them if you could train, administer, and distribute.
At the beginning of the video, my first thought was "why tf not try ukulele?" - 4 short strings, less tension... Good proof of concept.
But I'm glad you did come so close to E, I'll count it that you made it!
I think the string was too thick to be an E string on a regular guitar. Probably would have lasted a lot longer as a B or even G string.
If you made it slightly thinner you would have accomplished the E.
Really curious about the math you did on how much web you need for it, but then again, you didn't calculate that Ukulele would have been a more attainable goal, so can't trust your number on the string requirements either, can I? :D
But hey... MASSIVE PROPS for the project. I have a pet tarantula and I'm not letting you anywhere near it, but still... Well done!
That means the string you made was almost $10k!
Dude playing Johnny Cash on the guitarlele with the spider string literally brought a smile to my face. Thank you!
he killed it!!!!!!!!!!
They should've put that part on a clip about their experience and travel to Madagascar.. that would've been so great at the end of the video!
He sounded incredible
Yeah that was awesome
What’s the song called?
truly an amaizing adventure you had thanks for sharing this was insane
hes swedish and trades with villagers, literally minecraft
19:10
Love is a sticky thing
And it makes a spidery string
Bound by wild desire
I fell in to a string from spider
I fell into a scary string from spider
Went down, down, down
And the webs went higher
And it burns, burns, burns
The string of spider
The string of spider
Brilliant!
Beautiful
I was absolutely in shock and incredibly impressed the entire time. My favorite part though was 100% the locals playing the guitar. That moment was just incredible hearing that.
the guy at 19:13 is so soothing
The guy almost went down in history as the sole author of an extinction event lol
All for some UA-cam clout
All outlier projects are awesome. So much learning.
Mattias is living every man's dream. Traveling and milking spiders 😂.
@@DontReadMyProfilePicture.185 what
I can confirm, this is not my dream
@@margathapai4010me when I tell lies...
@DontReadMyProfilePicture.185k
and finding wives
19:30: a random dude from a Madagascar village playing a Johnny Cash song on a spider silk string milked by a Swedish pianist and all the kids from said village.
😂😂
hey what's the song
@@Conven468Ring of Fire
2:22 Rizzing up the local cuties, you sly dog.
This is the 4th video I am watching back to back after I found the 360 guitar neck (which looked like a machine g..n by the way! if you ever bring it in LA I'll give it a spin haha) - Amazing job on the videos, informative and super funny, great job Mattias!
Being an arachnophobe but also a fan of Mattias is a bit conflicting today, ngl
60% in the video it should be spider free pretty much!
same lol i definitely had to look away at some parts
being arachnophobic in 2023?? wow smh...
@@Mattiaskrantz spider full* (arachnophobe too)
@@Mattiaskrantz Okay, I watched it fully and my blood pressure is slowly recovering. It was a really good video, about 60% enjoyable!
But for real, insane idea and glad you proved them naysayers wrong!
Freaking insane. I can't believe you're continuing to break the mold on this platform, time after time. Well done, dude.
Thank you!🙏 otherwise there’s no point of putting it up!
@@Mattiaskrantzsup
19:00 i love his voice
This is such a good video well done guys
Dude. His determination to travel halfway across the globe to milk spiders makes up for the whole video
so just because someone traveled to another place in a video means its good?
I hear that the spiders are after revenge. They are on a plane with a bag full of six foot long pins to milk him. @@TrueTruthHonest
I think you're underestimating your own willpower and creativity if you were to be given the money and resources. Being a UA-camr is a highly sought out job for a reason, because it's something many of them deeply enjoy and get to create art in doing. He is making money off of this. That's great for him, and I'm glad he can to make these videos. I really liked the video too.
The overwhelming majority of people who will watch this video probably can't quit their jobs, and likely *will never be able to go on an international trip for similar passion projects for 6 months* , because they are too poor, because that's how economics and numbers work, because that's how statistics work. Because odds are, most people, will not 'beat the odds', because that literally is contradictory. He is making money and the project is securing his future. Most people's hobbies will never amount to anything financially gaining (which is not necessarily bad)
@@Stomo444 bruh. chill
@@TrueTruthHonestyup most likely
The part where you played Spider-Man tho-
Mwah! 🤌
Can’t believe so many people knew it from just the first notes!
I love your vids 😊
one of the best part @@Mattiaskrantz
16:19
@@Mattiaskrantz
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This is one of the most WILD youtube videos I've ever seen lol. SO cool. Love this. subbed.
In Brazil, this would get you arrested for molesting local fauna and biopiracy.
I like how he released all the spiders in just one location.
ffa
he released all of the CANNIBAL spiders in just one location.
Bunch of feisty women, there is gonna be carnage.
@@MaxTheFireCat Its for another project, battle royale
just offloading them so he can put the token line about not wanting to hurt them etc etc.
Mattias, this was NOT a waste of time. That spider web string has a unique sound to it. There should be a way to strengthen the spider web somehow either through chemical reaction or the way you weave the individual webs together. This video kept me smiling and engaged.
I’d say he just needed more spiders per string. Or a different method for harvesting.
Its entirely possible since the tensile strength for the web is compared to steel of the same size as said silk web i believe its just a matter of how many spiders can you get to weave it together to make it more durable for playing on
@@unrealsavage9463 Yeah, just needs a lot more spiders. It would also be more helpful if they were using lab bred spiders that they could guarantee the health and diet of the spider and resulting in a more consistent quality of silk. However golden orb weaver silk is incredibly expensive and time consuming. A few years ago people made a cape out of the silk, it took 8 years and is valued at around $400,000. It would be much more efficient to use silk moth caterpillars, which are what are usually used to make silk. Would love to see a guitar strung entirely like this.
thought emporium has a project to make custom silk using the silk genes found in a variety of spiders which can be tuned for different uses. its an old video now but there are even opportunities to use genes that no natural spider uses to give the silk even more interesting properties. basically GMO silk. its pretty interesting and would take much of the animal harvesting right out of the process. getting rid of the "sticky" genes can make durable natural silk replacement and IDK if it was in the video but depending on the genes you can make it bulletproof or stretchy or stronger than rope etc.@@avaleloc1513
Follow JIesus and your heart will never be empty again.
So much talent that’ll never get the light they deserve. Amazing what you can achieve without having a phone thrown in your face 24/7.
Makes me want to pick up a guitar.
The amount dedication you put in your videos is phenomenal 💯💯💥love from New Zealand
So funny enough there’s a new species of spider that had been discovered in Madagascar called the Darwin bark spider who now holds the title of strongest webs
Though they are related to the golden orb weavers
We found a few of those! But they were only like every 1/30 of the spiders so quite rare and hard to find enough..
@@Mattiaskrantz ah i figured, well it’s still quite amazing that you were able to get enough for a guitar string. So I think you guys succeeded with the resources available
What if it's the same spider, but in a symbiote suit, GASP!
@@joeblankenship377 great now I’m imagining two spiders pointing at each other like the Spider-Man meme
"A spider that lives in FUCKING Madagascar" This got me 😂💀
This ain't yt shorts
@@DoTheFloppokay and?
"Well howdy do"
-Spider from DreamWorks' Madagascar
What got me was "we are from the B B C". So the woman probably though he was from Pornhub 🤣
Fantastic video, you're gonna be a legend haha - this is how folklore begins :)
So wonderful. The people at the end, playing, smiling, laughing, that is truly village life in those countries. What a great experience for you. "My heart soars like a hawk". Also very glad its not one of those videos: "We restored a barn find 1931 Mercedes using only a paperclip!!", when actually they used the paperclip to hold 56 cheques worth 14 million dollars to pay experts with dedicated facilities to do every piece of work.
Stay gold.
i love that they went to show the locals and then found some GREAT players! honestly they sounded fucking fantastic
Great musicians are everywhere making great music with anything. We just need to keep an ear out and an open mind.
It was 100%! Worth it! Only 8 days and 6kms? Done in a tropical hotel room? I mean come on, this was super impressive! I can't wait for someone to ramp this up and do a full guitar!
Mattias is such a goat that those spiders felt obligated to goat aswell
They got to make the body out of spider string aswell 😭
I just watched a dude use a bicycle to milk spiders to make a guitar string. Rad.
ONE OF THE BEST VIDEOS I HAVE EVER WATCHED, I GAINED SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE, IT WAS A PERFECT MIX OF DRAMA, HUMOUR, INFORMATION, SCIENCE, literally the best.
Mattias: "It's for a project."
Staff Lady: "What kind of project?"
Mattias: *laughs*
You are a true madman. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone more committed to a project.
@DontReadMyProfilePicture.185 Don't sugma
did you see that 360 degrees guitar at the end of the video? crazy
And there is a village in Madagascar where people will tell their grandkids about the white Swedish Spiderman
I didn't think this would work at all! Sure showed me! Great job!
I genuinely connected with him and his camera man's surprise, the moment they saw the milking machine working, because we all have those ideas that we never try😂
Bringing up the lawyer was a BOSS move, if you're interested in LIVING in madagascar, central or south america, this is the key to happiness. Lawyers move those worlds!
It's the right move in any corrupt country tbh
Locals WILL try to swindle you, they don't see you as human but as stupid prey
Getting an orb weaver to bite you is actually kind of impressive LOL they're so friendly
they wouldn't be if they were bigger. fuck arachnids.
Hell, I’d bite someone who’d been milking my *ss glands for the past hour as well, no matter how friendly I am.
Orb weavers are my favorite types of spiders
you're fucking horrifying@@blitzworldace
@@blitzworldace Same here. There's so many of them and they all have cool quirks that make them different.
20:00 that was beautiful
I would be so happy if I could learn the name of the song.
Im so glad YOU did this. Very cool.
8:11 what’s crazy is that 4,000 Malagasy Ariary is only $0.89 - so they were getting less than a dollar per spider and still so many people were out looking for them.
The value. In my country you can literally have one good meal with those.
88c for a spider in a little village is a lot
That’s 1.4% of the average monthly salary in Madagascar. ($64 USD)
Bro i live in mexico and 1 dollar buys a big taco with double tortilla, beans, mashed potatoes, and grilled steak plus unlimited salsas and toppings. I can imagine the money goes even further in a small village in Africa. And the tacos are big like 2 are enough to fill you up three to stuff you. They are also delicious.
Its a lot 💀
If Matt lived in a D&D setting, what weird things would he try to make guitar strings out of? Other than car-sized spiders.
Would he make a piano out of a mimic?
I could see him being the kind of person to be the origins of mimics, like it starts with building pianos, and they eventually gain sentience the more iterations he makes
@@nathanmiller9381 Maybe he should try to make that piano from Super Mario 64's ghost level.
He'd track down a mimic shaped like a piano, tame it, and play Rush E on it
isnt it kind dangerous to tell children to hunt for spiders arent there any venmous spiders on this island?
They live there. I bet they know. 😂
man its worth it it might be a heck of struggle but at the end those people showing off their talent was worth it thanks for everything ❤️
apprentice luthier here, gotta say this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen, I've seen and worked with all types of strings but I've got to say the tone of the spider silk is great, I'd love to see this produced on a larger scale (though the ethics of that are questionable at best) and used on a guitar more suited to them (imo smaller, lighter bodied guitar, maybe an acoustic-electric to better amplify the unique sound). the idea alone though is something straight out of a fantasy book and I love it.
Tbh how ethical is the corporate farm industry in the first place lol
Silk farming boils silkworms alive while spider silk farming has spiders lie on their back while they're milked. Spider milking is MUCH more ethical than the mass silk farming we have already.
The biggest issue is time and energy. While silkworms happily eat and coccoon together, spiders attack and eat each other, so they have to be trested and milked individually.
Are you not bothered at about 6:30 when he's "tuning" the string, which is slack, while the pitch is obviously not from the same string?
Doesn’t spiderweb S T RETCH ? 😂
Put the spiderweb on and play Spanish Fly 🤘🏻
@@edwardmorris3453 I think the string only looks like it's slack because of the camera's frame rate.
He kept saying "this was a waste of time" but seeing the Madagascan culture was so cool. The small community and all the kids helping and at the end with the guy sining and the people clapping was soo cool. It really showed what music was all about no matter what language music can bring people together. Cool video.
More than cool it was sad. All those villagers like in extreme poverty...
They didn't look sad to me. I would even hesitate a guess that they are far more fulfilled than a lot of concrete jungle dwellers here in the west.
I concur @kartoffelwaffel
No, music doesn't bring people together
Smart people have the hardest life
I’m at 1:03 and I’m going to guess it’s a Golden Orb Weaver
Wait when does he reveal the spider type??
I just looked it up and you _can_ find golden silk orb weavers in Madagascar so I see this as an absolute win. WILD KRATTS NEVER LETS ME DOWN BAABBBBYYYYU
Man their guitar skills are good, and their music relaxing
I'm shocked that was even remotely possible. In fact I had NO CLUE spiders could be milked.
I’ve tried doing this myself when I was little just without the milking part and it did not work of course lol
its cruel.
@@user-wd6wi5wp3lthey'll be fine
@@user-wd6wi5wp3l how is that cruel
@@user-wd6wi5wp3l it's literally normal lol doesnt cause any harm to the spider
this is one of the wildest videos i've ever seen on UA-cam, i had no clue milking spiders was even possible, much less making a guitar string out of their silk?? and you flew to Madagascar to do it?? man. Amazing video; absolutely love seeing all the local village people excited as well and how much they and the staff helped you out, so cool!
There are labs genetically altering goats who make spider silk. The silk comes from their milk. So it would've been more efficient
this is my first video ive ever seen from this guy, and i must say i love this content lol like bro is probably responsible for a small outburst of spiders in that local area but the idea is really cool lol