I Made A Custom Japanese-Inspired Champagne Sabre For A Michelin Restaurant (Part 1)

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I was asked if I could make a champagne sabre. At first, I was like, what?? And then I thought about it more and decided it would be really fun to engineer one.
I decided to make a champagne sabre inspired by the Japanese tuna swords or sakimaru yanagiba. Not quite a true single bevel of course, but something that embodied the same kind of feel and look. This is a modern take on that design, done up in my signature style with handle materials matching the theme of the restaurant.
Next video will be the delivery of these to 63 Clinton, NYC.
Edited by: me

[@owlwoodworks]

Watching you turn that into a lefty reminds me of a saying: “Life’s hard, but it’s a lot harder when you’re stupid” 😂

[@ArizonaYlcat]

There are two Legends in this video.

[@krissteel4074]

Lovely work, I'd forgotten sabering was even a thing.

[@sithbadboy]

very cool

[@emilycole6727]

FANTASTIC!

[@DonNguyenKnives]

THANKS EMILY!

[@noahnipperus7320]

17:43 Starting the handle bevels

[@zebdeming]

Absolutely killer man!

[@DonNguyenKnives]

Thanks Zeb!!

[@Logan.H.L]

Sweet video! It was fun to have a front row seat for this project! 🙌🏻

[@DonNguyenKnives]

You walking away when I made it a lefty was the funniest part

[@Logan.H.L]

@@DonNguyenKnives 😅

[@BalticBlades]

Damn what a great video, love the style of everything!
Especialy the part were you go and figure stuff out, and then try and apply it! More more more!

[@DonNguyenKnives]

Thanks man!

[@chrisdrew2110]

You should consider putting a foot pedal between your variable speed and disc sander. That way you can have both hands on the knife and operate the sander with your foot. Love your work by the way.

[@DonNguyenKnives]

I have thought about that, but haven't done it because of the reversing direction, but actually I think I can just wire the foot switch to the toggle and it'd still work as normal. Thank you for jogging my brain on that.

[@chrisdrew2110]

@@DonNguyenKnives I don't think you need to wire the toggle to the foot pedal. As long as the pedal is wired between the variable speed box and the motor I would think the pedal would do whatever the box is set up for. Like if you have your speed set half way and toggle switches to reverse it would do that when you step on the pedal.

[@jchan0425]

i want to see the demo of cracking a bottle with the sabre you made.

[@ClenioBuilder]

👏👏👏👏👏🤜🤛

[@matthewervin4173]

Would it be worth it to try to somehow use a foot pedal to control the disk sander, rather than a switch on the bench? Something akin to a sewing machine? Just curious as I'm looking to try and get a disk sander soon for flattening bevels/handle work like this.

[@DonNguyenKnives]

I think it would actually work, I was thinking about how to do it with the reversing switch but I think I don't even have to deal with that. For handles, I would definitely recommend a vertical disc. Actually, in most cases, I recommend vertical.

[@df0891]

Don't judge these wines🤣