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Narrator:
Today on "How it's made"...
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--captions by vitac--
Www.Vitac.Com
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Captions paid for by
Discovery communications
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Narrator: table football
Was first patented
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By a british inventor in 1923.
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It became popular throughout
Europe with leagues
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Forming by the 1950s.
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A decade later, an american
Working in west germany
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Brought the game to the u.S.,
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Trademarking the german word
For it, foosball.
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In france, the game of foosball
Is known as baby foot.
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This company produces
Ready-made,
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As well as custom-made tables
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Like this one
Featuring biker players.
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Production begins at a foundry,
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Where workers melt
Down bars of aluminum.
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An injection-molding machine
Shoots the molten aluminum
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Into molds
In the shape of players.
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A robot removes the casting
From the injection machine.
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The mold yields four players,
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Each one sporting
The manufacturer's name
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On the front of his jersey.
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A worker places each casting on
A press then, with one strike,
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Separates the four players
And cuts off excess metal.
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A computer-guided machine drills
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A hole in the center
Of each player,
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Through which the rod will pass.
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Then the machine threads
A hole through the player's back
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For the screw that secures
The player to the rod.
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Another machine saws
A 2-millimeter gap
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In the back to allow clearance
For a screwdriver
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To tighten the player
Onto the rod.
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Once ready, the players move
To the foosball table factory,
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Where a worker sprays
On a base coat of white paint.
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Once that dries, workers
Continue painting the players
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But, now, using an airbrush.
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They mask the player's body
To paint only his head.
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The company offers
A selection of skin tones.
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Then they mask the player
With another stencil,
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Covering the skin and exposing
The shirt and socks.
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Next, they mask everything
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Except the player's
Head and feet.
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A player can be brunette,
Blonde or redhead.
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They paint the shoes black then
The player's eyes and mouth.
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Manufacturers construct
The table out of solid beech.
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A computer-guided
Milling machine profiles
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The wood components,
Drills the required holes,
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And engraves the company name.
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Workers then assemble the parts,
Starting with the four sides,
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Which connect with bolted
Steel rods and glue.
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After closing up the ends
With wood panels,
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Workers install
Wood support bars
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Which will reinforce
The table and,
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After a goal, direct the ball
To the ball return tray.
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The table now goes
To the paint shop
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Where workers either stain
The wood or leave it natural.
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For this model,
They also spray red stain
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Into the recessed
Stripes and logo.
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All tables receive
A finishing coat
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Of transparent varnish
To protect the wood.
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They install the sloped
Ball-return panel.
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When a player scores,
The ball rolls down the panel
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To an aluminum ball-return tray.
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After sliding the plywood table
Bottom into place,
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Workers turn the table
Right-side up,
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Mount the aluminum goal nets,
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And the scoring units
Right behind them.
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Then they lay
The playing surface,
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Made of green vinyl
On pressed wood,
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On top of the wooden
Support bars.
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Wood trim around the perimeter
Holds the surface in place.
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A worker mounts the players
For each line onto a hollow
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Stainless-steel rod.
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Using a template to space them
Correctly, he bolts each player
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To the rod
Then attaches a rubber bumper
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To the players at each end
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To prevent them from slamming
Against the side walls.
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He inserts a narrower
Stainless-steel rod
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Into the hollow bar
To make it telescopic.
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After preparing
Eight rods of players,
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A worker installs them
In the table.
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The telescoping handle end
Of the rod has spring-loaded
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Bearing that fits
In a hole in the table.
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He secures it from the outside.
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After bolting the opposite end,
Workers protect the top edge
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Of the table
With a plastic trim.
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After threading plastic handles
To the telescopic
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End of the rods
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And mounting the tables
On four sturdy, solid-wood legs,
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This foosball table
Is ready for kickoff.
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Narrator: marseille soap is
A vegetable oil-based soap
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First handcrafted
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In the port city
Of marseille, france,
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In the middle ages.
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This gentle hypoallergenic
All-purpose block soap
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Became prized across europe
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For washing clothes, dishes,
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Floors, and cleansing oneself.
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Marseille soap is crafted
From just
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Four traditional ingredients
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With no animal fats, colorants,
Perfumes or preservatives.
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It's still produced today
As it has been
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For more than 600 years.
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The four ingredients
Are sea salt,
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Water, on the right,
Caustic soda
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And either coconut oil,
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Palm oil or, most often,
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Olive pomace oil,
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The second oil
Extracted from olives
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After they've been pressed
To extract virgin olive oil
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For consumption.
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A worker releases the required
Quantities of oil
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And caustic soda
Into a cooking cauldron,
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Then brings the mixture
To a boil
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While stirring for 1 to 2 days.
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The fatty acids in the oil react
To the alkaline caustic soda,
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Producing a thick soap paste
Containing glycerin,
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A natural compound.
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This transformation is known
As saponification.
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Workers add more caustic soda
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And cook to 248 degrees
Fahrenheit for another day.
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They wash the paste with
Saltwater two or three times,
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Each washing lasting half a day.
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This removes
Impurities and glycerin.
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Without glycerin, the soap has
Better detergent power
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To remove grease stains
On fabric.
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Next, over the course of a day,
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The workers repeatedly rinse
The boiling soap paste
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With freshwater.
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Then they let it set for 2 days.
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They reheat the paste
For about 10 minutes
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At 158 degrees fahrenheit,
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Just to resoften it enough
To be pumped
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To a series of super heaters.
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The super heaters heat the paste
To 230 degrees fahrenheit,
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Liquefying it.
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As the liquid soap leaves
The last super heater,
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It passes through a nozzle,
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Which sprays it onto
The walls of an atomizer.
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The atomizer cools the soap
Under a vacuum,
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Solidifying it into
A dry moldable consistency.
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Motorized blades then scrape
The dried soap
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From the atomizer walls.
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The soap falls directly
Into an extrusion machine,
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Which works much
Like a pasta maker.
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The machine forces the soap
Through small round dies
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As revolving blades
Chop it into noodles.
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As the soap noodles
Fall into the conveyer belt,
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The soap workshop chief
Inspects the quality
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By assessing the color,
The aroma, and the texture.
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At the company's in-house lab,
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A technician conducts
Quality-control tests
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On samples drawn
From each production run.
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In this test, he measures
The percentage of pure soap.
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He weighs the sample,
Then heats it
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In a microwave oven
For 10 minutes
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To evaporate all the moisture.
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This leaves only pure soap
Without water.
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He reweighs the sample
To calculate the percentage
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Of pure soap
As well as the oil content,
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Which must be 72%.
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The factory sells a portion
Of its marseille soap noodles
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To companies
Who mold their own soap bars.
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It also molds a house brand
Right here,
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Compressing the noodles
Into a homogeneous paste
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That extruding
The long continuous bar.
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An automated guillotine slices
The bar into the selected shape.
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The conveyer belt ferries
The cubes
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To the stamping machine,
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Which stamps all six sides.
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Each cube bears
The company's name and logo,
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The soap's oil content,
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And the savon de
Marseille designation,
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Attesting that this is
Indeed authentic,
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Traditionally made
Marseille soap.
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Narrator: for centuries,
People have migrated back
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And forth across
The french-spanish border.
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The traditional
Laguiole pocketknife is a result
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Of the mixing of these cultures.
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It's a blend of an arab-hispanic
Knife, called the navaja,
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With a southern french knife,
Known as the capuchadou.
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These are not pocketknives
For camping trips.
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They're high end cutlery,
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Perfect for slicing through
Delicious french cheeses.
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They feature the unmistakable
Wavy pattern of damascus steel.
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To recreate the legendary
Metal known as damascus steel,
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A cutler,
Who is an artisan
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Who specializes in knifemaking,
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Stacks alternating layers
Of nickel and carbon steel.
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He then uses a grinder to even
The edges for the next step.
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He welds the nine layers
Of carbon steel
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And eight layers
Of nickel steel together.
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He begins the forging process
By placing the layers
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In a coal-fired forge
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Where they heat up
To 1,472 degrees fahrenheit.
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Step-by-step, the layers
Will be forged
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Into a single piece
Of damascus steel.
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An automated hammer
Pounds the layers,
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Forcing them to bind
To each other
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At the molecular level.
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As the powerful
Hammering process forces
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The layers together
Into a unified piece of steel,
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It also flattens out
And lengthens the metal.
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The cutler can then
Break the piece in three places
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And layer them all together.
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This triples the number
Of layers from 17 to 51.
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The cutler will repeat
This process again and again
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Until the steel
Has around 300 layers.
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Here, a cutler prepares
A specialized
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Model of laguiole pocketknife,
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Which will have
A distinctive shape.
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He continues the forging process
Of heating and hammering.
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The carbon steel will give
The knife its sharp edge,
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While the nickel will
Provide flexibility.
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This manufacturer uses
The forged steel to create
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Several different types
Of blades for its pocketknives.
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A cutler places the formed
Blades in an oven
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Where the intense heat
Will help flatten them.
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Once a blade has cooled,
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A cutler cuts it to size,
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Drills a hinge hole,
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And uses a belt sander
To reduce its width
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To about a tenth of an inch.
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Next, a worker will heat
And rapidly cool the blades
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To temper them
Before sharpening them.
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He then dips then into
A solution of ferric chloride
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To reveal the unique
Wave patterns
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In the damascus steel.
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There's more to a pocketknife
Than just the blade.
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This manufacturer hand crafts
Each component of its knives.
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To create the bolster component,
A cutler starts by heating
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A third-of-an-inch
Stainless-steel rod.
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Once the steel reaches
1,562 degrees fahrenheit,
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He then stamps it into a mold.
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The production process
Can stamp out 20 bolsters
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In just 12 seconds.
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Once they've cooled, a cutler
Spot-welds them to a blade.
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To shape the spring plate,
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Which forms part of
The folding mechanism,
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A cutler heats one end up
To 1,562 degrees fahrenheit.
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He uses a specialized tool
To stamp the top portion flat.
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This flat surface will be
The starting point for cutlers
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To create the bee figure,
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An emblematic feature
Of laguiole knives.
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Workers start by reducing
The surface
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To a triangular shape.
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Using a series
Of different files,
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The cutler carefully sculpts
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The bee's eyes, body, and wings.
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It seems that
Pierre-jean calmels,
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The inventor
Of the laguiole knife,
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Used a bee symbol in 1829,
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And the cutlers
Have been using ever
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Since to set the knife apart
From other types.
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Cutlers shape the entire
Spring plate,
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And it takes more
Than skilled work
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With a few files to complete.
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Stay tuned to see
How high-tech instruments
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Refine the images
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Before workers assemble
The rest of the knife.
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Even the simplest
One-piece knife
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Requires 109 production
Steps to complete.
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Narrator: in the 1820s,
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Cutlers began
Crafting laguiole pocketknives
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In aubrac, france.
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The tradition came to an end
After world war I
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But was revived
In the late 1980s.
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Today, the artisans of aubrac
Blend time-honored craftsmanship
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With advanced technology.
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To carve each unique
Spring plate, a cutler starts
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By placing one in a vice.
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With the metal stabilized,
The cutler can focus on carving
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With the aid
Of powerful magnifiers.
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The tungsten carbide
Drill bits he uses are no larger
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Than four-tenths
Of a millimeter.
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No wonder the details
On each spring are so precise.
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To temper the steel,
The cutler heats it
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To 1,886 degrees fahrenheit
For several minutes.
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Next, he cools it suddenly
In a bath of oil.
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He will then heat it
To 446 degrees fahrenheit
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For 1 hour to complete
The process.
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This manufacturer
Makes the knife-handles
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From different materials,
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Including antlers,
Wood and bone.
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When making a handle from bone,
A cutler starts by slicing it
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Into sections with
A specialized blade.
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He then cuts the slices
Into smaller sections
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That approximate the sides
Of a knife-handle.
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Cutlers can use the bone
With its natural color
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Or immerse it in a stain
For several hours.
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All of the components
For this laguiole pocketknife
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Are complete.
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The cutler uses a belt sander
To give the spring
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A light sanding.
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Next, using the same tool,
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He begins working
The bone handle components.
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With the framework of the knife
As a template,
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He carefully reduces both
Of the components
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To their required dimensions,
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Achieving a perfect fit.
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With the metal as a guide,
He uses a drill press
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To pierce holes in the bone.
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With the practiced hand
Of a skilled artisan,
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The cutler drills
The famed shepherd's
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Cross pattern by eye.
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The shepherd's cross is another
Signature of laguiole knives.
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The cutler connects the spring
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To the components
Known as scales,
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Which form the internal
Structure of the knife.
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To join the parts, he inserts
Stainless-steel pins
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And hammers them flat
On either side
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To hold them firmly in place.
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He inserts short lengths
Of thin steel wire
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Into the holes drilled
To form the shepard's cross.
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He now begins adding
The bone side covers,
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Which will form
The knife-handle.
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He carefully screws the bone
Covers securely to the scales
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From the inside with three
Stainless-steel screws per side.
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He then snips off the ends
Of the screws that protrude.
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Now, he can install
The damascus steel blade.
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He does this by inserting
A stainless-steel pin
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Through the hinge hole.
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Teflon washers will
Keep the opening
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And folding operation
Smooth and functional.
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The cutler uses
A specialized clamp
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To grip the knife
As he installs the pin
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At the back of the spring.
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This pin, together with the one
That holds the blade,
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Are the two essential elements
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Of the laguiole knife mechanism.
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With the belt sander,
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The cutler now refines
The handle,
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Smoothing the pins,
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And rounding the edges
Of the bone covers.
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A final polish gives the bone
A shiny finish that highlights
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The iconic shepherd's cross,
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An innovation introduced
To allow shepherds
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To celebrate mass,
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Even when far from a church.
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A cutler puts an extra fine edge
On the finished knife
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With the help of a belt sander
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That has a fine-grit sandpaper.
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The cutler makes several passes
On a piece of leather
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With a practiced hand
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To give the knife
Its final edge.
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This knife is now ready
To join the legendary company
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Of other laguiole pocketknives
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And peel a ripe apple
Or slice some aged cheese.
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Bon appétit.
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