@@theclickening6668 .......meh I'd accept it as legal currency the copper alone is worth that much probably, plus if my boss gives me any crap about it i just threaten to throw "money" at him. Who, without hearing the details, would pay ANY attention to a threat of throwing money at someone?
@@bubblesharrison2110 Not allowed to sell the metal in the pennies for a profit. No one said you couldn't use it profitably, otherwise banks would be violating the law.
@@DylanSlater-tu7hy Your problem in court would be that the actual law doesn't include that provision. The law prohibits the raw material obtained from currency being physically exchanged for profit beyond the value of the original currency. The key there is physically. As long as he's not selling the actual copper for profit, profit from the video is in exchange for the creative, educational, and entertainment value of the content and is not prohibited by the currency law.
Coin sword? Mor like Micro Transaction Sword. (Bad joke) (Enter the Gungeon has the Micro Transaction Gun DLC for real currency that shoots money in-game)
Peggy_Penguin it’s illegal to melt down pennies and nickels for their metal content so it is illegal actually bec he’s melting it down to use the metal content so. Although I’m not sure as to the context but I think as long as you don’t try to profit off it then it might and I mean just might be legal unfortunately. Or what he said in the video XD
As he discussed in the video, there are a few reasons what he is doing is not for profit. However, I would argue this IS illegal because he is producing an online video that will make him revenue. He did this solely for the money.
@@odachikazane3741 incorrect, it's illegal to deface any currency that would result with it being taken out of circulation...for example, drawing on a bill is not actually illegal so long as you do not try to change it's value, or abscure it's serial number. but the complete destruction of a coin would result with it being taken out of circulation.
Work hardening isn’t pushing the atoms closer together. Work hardening increases the grain dislocation density, which decrease the ability for plastic deformation. This is because the slip planes get blocked by the dislocations. Thus, the yield and tensile strength go up, ductility goes down, and toughness can decrease.
Saying "the atoms got closer" is grade-school level understanding, which considering he seems to teach mostly grade-school students, makes sense why he'd say it like that. I mean, *technically* the atoms ARE getting closer, arranged in disarray, but yeah. @@stevenrwh
To simplify what Wil said, basically imagine that a metal is made of crystals. Remember clevage planes? Yeah, those weaken the metal, so you want something that prevents them from sliding. Work hardening forces another crystal oriented in a different direction in the slip planes way, making it harder for the planes to move, causing the bult metal to become harder
To simplify what Wil said, basically imagine that a metal is made of crystals. Remember clevage planes? Yeah, those weaken the metal, so you want something that prevents them from sliding. Work hardening forces another crystal oriented in a different direction in the slip planes way, making it harder for the planes to move, causing the bult metal to become harder
Work hardening is not a result of compressing metal. It’s a result of breaking down the crystalline structure of the metal. Which is why it gets brittle. In the end you wind up with tons of tiny crystals interlocking instead of fewer large ones. Basically, you’re creating more surface area on each crystal, which creates more internal friction. Which creates more resistance to beding. At least that’s the way it was explained to me by a metallurgist.
This is correct except one minor thing. You are reducing surface area of crystallites but increasing surface area per volume. This is called work hardening and many metals exhibit this phenomenon. Copper and its alloys are probably most known for it but titanium and many stainless steels all-so work harden, making them quite difficult to machine.
The metal isn't getting denser when you work harden it, you are increasing the number of defects in the internal crystal structure, most of which will be dislocations. These defects are what make the metal stronger after work hardening. You are not increasing the density of the metal, you are increasing the dislocation density.
@@ZaZi-Zeta01 the only other material in steel is carbon, which only hardens the tensile strength of the alloy. And yes, some have higher and lower ratios of carbon, but nothing drastic like 80% iron. That wouldn't physically work. Steel doesnt vary as much as you think, just a gram worth of carbon makes a huge diffrence.
Actually...they definitely won't pull out a gun to stop the bank being robbed. Banks typically comply with robbers and give them what they want, and leave it to the cops to catch them. Their accounts are insured, and the amount a robber will make off with is far less than the amount they could have to pay for lawsuits and such if anyone gets hurt. They want the robber gone, simple. A dead or injured employee or customer is far worse than losing a few thousands, or even tens of thousands, that's insured anyway. Bank robbers almost always get caught before too long anyway. If they actually rob just one bank they could conceivably escape justice forever, but that rarely happens. Somewhere between the third and the tenth time, they almost always get busted, and the game is over.
Remember a couple years ago when everyone was randomly recommended "can you melt obsidian and cast a sword"? Well, it seem this guy is back for more. It only took 2 years.
HAIL ZANZIBAR Obviously. No honest man is loved, especially not enough to have memorials erected on their name. Honesty hurts, it often isn’t good to tell the truth.
Fun Fact - You cannot smell solid metals, you can only smell what is on the metal's surface. On almost all coins you can smell oils from people's skin. This fact changed how i see metals as a whole. I say solid meals because metals have TOXIC fumes that you should definatly NOT smell.
This is not illegal. He addressed it in the video, but there are a lot of comments anyway so I'll expand. It is illegal to destroy Federal Reserve issued bank notes. But the Federal Reserve does not issue coins, it only issues paper notes, coins are issued by the Mint which is directly administered by the Treasury Department. Destroy all the coins you want, Uncle Sam doesn't really give a damn. However, if you profit from the destruction of coins, that has been interpreted by the FBI as counterfeiting (I'm not sure how the court ruled) so he cannot sell this sword for more than the $5 of pennies he used.
The fact is that the law isn't clear, and the law that you mention (cite?) isn't relevant, so while it may be true, I'm ignoring it. There is a general rule prohibiting exporting, melting, and treating one-cent coins. 31 CFR 82.1. Clearly the portion of the rule against export doesn't apply. There are exceptions to this general rule under 31 CFR 82.2. There is an argument to be made that this use doesn't qualify for an exception to the rule against melting or treating one-cent coins under 31 CFR 82.2(b) or (c)(2). Under this theory, it wouldn't qualify under sub (b) because sub (b) refers to the "treatment" of coins, which, according to the Treasury's supplementary guidance, refers to things like a science teacher experimenting with a single coin or a child putting a penny into a penny press. 72 FR 18880-02, 2007. Unless melting down $5+ worth of pennies is considered "treatment," he can't claim an exception under sub (b). That leaves exceptions under sub (c), which exempt melting from the general prohibition if it meets 3 requirements. One of those requirements, under (c)(2), is that the melting of the coins is "merely incidental" to whatever activity the individual is doing. Clearly, the entire point of this activity is to melt down coins, and therefore this activity would not exempt him from the general prohibition on melting one-cent coins. This is legal information and not legal advice. You can check the cites and read the relevant law for yourself. At the end of the day, you're right that no one really cares and I highly doubt he would ever get prosecuted for this. At the same time, try to check your law a little more thoroughly before you (probably unintentionally) spread false information. In any case, this is a pretty interesting legal question that, like most interesting legal questions, doesn't actually matter in real life and exists mostly as a hypothetical. Hope this comment was interesting and helpful~
NileRed is awesome and definitely deserves some love and sponsorship from MEL... on the subject, I would definitely enjoy a NileRed/HTME collaboration... HINT HINT lol
@@ljk8059 That could be fun... HTME & Cody can source the materials and smelt some steel that Alec can forge and NileRed can make the Ferric Chloride (or similar) to etch the finished product...
@@KristijanKL Oh, yeah I get that viewpoint but if I were to sponsor someone I would probably only expect to see the advertisment on the channel, not that Matt (or whatever his name is) to do it. In my opinion It's a whole other thing if Beyonce were to be sponsored as her character is her whole image, this not being the case for this RUclips channel I don't see a problem.
Just a couple of tips from someone who did similar many years ago. Use a fibre brush on your grinder to do the initial polish and to draw the blade into a more inherent edge before sharpening. Use a hard cloth polishing wheel on your bench grinder to work it further. Believe me, it makes the temper more forgiving than brittle as temperature and resonance don't overwork the metal. Finally, your belt sander should be using the lower temp and finer blue honing belt not the red one. Keep up the great work, your sword is an enviable piece. Hope this helps.
12:10 this explanation is completely inaccurate. The atoms do not get compressed or closer together. What you are doing is called strain hardening. By applying stress to the metal (i.e. beating it with a hammer) you are causing little parts of the metal lattice to break and slip past other parts. This causes different regions of the atomic lattice to be misaligned, and this misalignment creates barriers that prevent other parts of the lattice from sliding past the misaligned regions.
Work hardening isn't about packing the atoms closer together. The hardening is caused by fracturing the metal crystals so the metal has many small tightly interconnected crystals.
MEL stands for MEL Educational Laboratory. The MEL in MEL Educational Laboratory stands for that as well. It is a recursive acronym, much like many things are in chemistry and science and maths.
Oh i like those. Nerded out when i learned that GNU (an operating system) stands for GNU's not Unix. PHP-> PHP Hypertext processor. Or Visa. Stands for Visa international service Association. How crazy!
yeah, you cant really "push thr atoms closer together" permanently. you will either just deform the shape or get a new crystal structure or get defects. the latter two can increase toughtess if done right
Thank goodness someone else caught that. If you are making a video and don’t understand a concept, leave the description out. If you do know the answer but you feel time would be wasted in the video giving a description, just say “look up work hardening if you want to know more.”
For those who don't know why hitting the edge of the sword makes it stronger; what they are doing is called strain hardening and it's very common. The mechanism behind this is atomic scale dislocations being created and 'pinned' in the metal. This makes it harder for the metal to deform when a stress is applied. Hitting the metal does not move the atoms closer together.
@@CrowleyRises I mean all I'm saying is his explanation is complete bs and has nothing to do with "density". But technically the addition of energy to some metallic structures (hitting it enough would heat it up) can change the atomic bonds. Iron is a good example of this.
It simply mashes the metal together closer and therefore more material in the same amount of space is harder. Picture taking a full trash bag and mashing it down then putting more trash in. It takes up the same amount of space but it is denser more materials there and therefore heavier and stronger.
martin brajkovski I always wondered if it is actually possible. Not actually slaughtering 2000 people, but doing a massive donation drive getting the blood. Or maybe get a hospital give you their excess blood (blood has a limited shelf life, so to speak).
On Corporals Corner, he made one out of copper and while testing it, he used it on a ferro rod and it threw sparks like a steel knife. These we viable weapons for a very long time, far longer than we have been using steel.
at 16:15 if hed put some strawberry syrup in there and actually gave it a real scream I would be convinced that a RUclipsr just cut 3 of his fingers off for his viewers
I'd like more vids from the sword casting guy, he explains it really well to someone who's 100% new to sword making. I feel like I've learned things haha
The entire time he was cutting stuff, I kept thinking how bad it would be to get hit by that and how easily it would cut through flesh and was feeling uncomfortable because of it. And then he pulls that joke and I recoiled hard.
Nobody said anything about historical accuracy and that's a Greek Xiphos not a Roman Gladius, I'm peeved because he could have made a copper sword, he didn't have to add the tin and make a bronze one
Maybe not if they say he is making money from the cinematography and knowledge gained from the video as apposed to him making the money from burning the pennies. He isn't making money from making the things he does, but the information he gives in all of his videos. Even if the giveaway is a stand alone video if he makes money from that video it could be from using his likeness. But idk i could be wrong about all of this.
That wouldn't be profiting from the metal content of the swords, which is the key part there. It's not like the people receiving them are buying it with views.
@@RiverShock technically, they are... The "profit" would be very small, since the person watching probably counted as just one view out of the hopefully hundreds of thousands of views, one person getting the sword would in theory pay an infinitesimal fraction of a dollar for such object. I'll admit that argument is scratching wherever it can to say it's illegal, but with the YT's policies... You never know.
@@IrKeNoVa You're not really profiting from the fact they were made from pennies, though. The composition of the sword is completely irrelevant to the profit made. It's primarily for entertainment purposes, which seems to be covered in the exceptions. (I guess you could argue "amusement" could solely be personal, and not for others, but I doubt anyone would go after you on that point alone given how open to interpretation it is.)
As long as he doesnt export it to another country, the exceptions are pretty broad, even going so far as to say that melting stuff for "amusement" qualifies as an exception.
Also how about trying to find a way to make a blood sword or knife. Yes I know it would take a lot of blood to make a blood sword but I did the math and it is possible if you can collect the iron. Also the blood doesn't have to be human and some ethnic grocery stores sell blood to make cultural dishes. I know it wouldn't be practical or economical but it would be a neat thing to make even if the Iron in the sword doesn't have the level of quality you'd want from a sword.
Still though I do think it could be possible to make one it would still take a lot of blood so I suggest collecting all of the dehydrated solids over time and not buying all the blood at once to at least make the economics of this impractical project a little more practical (making blood dehydration a side project). Also I would suggest starting with a knife first and consider if it's just too much work for a sword.
i did the math once, and i think it was something like, youd need every drop of blood from about 76 full cows to make one long sword...so it might be a while until he can do that. im sure if he finds a slaughter house willing to help, they would do it no problem, but most sell their blood for blood meal and such. a knife would take far less though, wink wink ^.- (thats about 600 gallons of blood, or 3k liters)
Cashier: ok sir, that'll be $25
HTME: *pulls out the sword and gives it to them*
LuigiHorror 64 lol
That would be funny if HTME successfully purchase something with that.
@@theclickening6668 .......meh I'd accept it as legal currency the copper alone is worth that much probably, plus if my boss gives me any crap about it i just threaten to throw "money" at him. Who, without hearing the details, would pay ANY attention to a threat of throwing money at someone?
You’re not allowed to use them for profit! 😂
@@bubblesharrison2110 Not allowed to sell the metal in the pennies for a profit. No one said you couldn't use it profitably, otherwise banks would be violating the law.
The law be like...
“It’s illegal to profit from it, but if you use it for fun it’s ok.”
But by posting it on youtube he profiting by it?
Then it is contradicted in of itself because of the fact that it was used for entertainment. I wonder what the ruling on it is.
I heard ulamog eats pennies for breakfast... but emrakul can stomach nickels 0.0
AJ Gallego last time I checked she was stuck in a damn moon.
@@DylanSlater-tu7hy Your problem in court would be that the actual law doesn't include that provision. The law prohibits the raw material obtained from currency being physically exchanged for profit beyond the value of the original currency. The key there is physically. As long as he's not selling the actual copper for profit, profit from the video is in exchange for the creative, educational, and entertainment value of the content and is not prohibited by the currency law.
The penny sword, Lincoln's weapon of choice.
Ha! Nice!
His top hat actually had a hidden circular blade under the rim, so that if thrown it would cut into anyone who is in the way.
@@atomicwinter31 SPEEDWAGON
@@jrovy3807 IS THAT A JOJO REFERENCE?!?!?! Lol
@@carlosfuentes9807 lmao Lincoln was a jojo reference
"What did it cost ?"
*"$5"*
5 dollars pre 1982 lol
EVERYTHING
They all put their two cents worth in.
About tree fiddy
$5 you buffoon
My heart jumped when you hit the hot dog glove. Totally got me. Props on that.
Right, i havent been got by a play like that in a long time, it was well shot.
Me too.
16:15
David Gerritzen is that a lincoln assassination joke
Lol Damn y did I read comments before watching the.vid all the way
Name: coin sword
Damage: 38
Durability: 759
Description: need a lotta coin
But it's worth it
*Penny Sword
*ATK 200
*From 'that' corner of the Internet, you know the one.
Coin sword? Mor like Micro Transaction Sword. (Bad joke) (Enter the Gungeon has the Micro Transaction Gun DLC for real currency that shoots money in-game)
Every kill = 1 penny
@@FluffyEnbyneering *yes*
@@kyokeekyo3234 every kill=50 coin
Sword of wealth
- +30% more coins from the monsters
From there WALET
YOU play teeraria ? Minecraft? what do you play? and wjar game have that affect
Diablo 2 😁
But only copper coins
some one from no where +XX% Gold is a pretty popular effect
Aight lesson learned.. I must collect pennies, so incase of an apocalyptic event I could smelt it and make it into a sword.
I would cast bullets with them. Which, im already thinking about doing. Even the zinc ones would make ok plinking ammo.
@Chillsy there is enough copper in a junkyard
They are cents, not pennies.
Also, it would be melting, not smelting.
Smelting is extracting copper from ore.
Wait, that’s illegal.
Wait, THATS NOT ILLEGAL!?!?
Edit: CPG Grey would be proud
Peggy_Penguin it’s illegal to melt down pennies and nickels for their metal content so it is illegal actually bec he’s melting it down to use the metal content so. Although I’m not sure as to the context but I think as long as you don’t try to profit off it then it might and I mean just might be legal unfortunately. Or what he said in the video XD
As he discussed in the video, there are a few reasons what he is doing is not for profit.
However, I would argue this IS illegal because he is producing an online video that will make him revenue. He did this solely for the money.
He would be arrested here in Brazil. It's considered a crime against nation's property.
y’all realize pennies are monetarily useless right?
@@odachikazane3741 incorrect, it's illegal to deface any currency that would result with it being taken out of circulation...for example, drawing on a bill is not actually illegal so long as you do not try to change it's value, or abscure it's serial number. but the complete destruction of a coin would result with it being taken out of circulation.
Your total is $5.47, how would you like to pay? Cash or Credit.
Uh...
The blod of your enemy or your own?
+etherious natsu dragneel The blood if the one to ask the question.
+Caitlin Wilson *of
Good!
Plz kill fast for no distraction later on
"Hands cashier One sword and two daggers made of pennies."
"What does MEL mean?"
M - Meaty
E - Elastic
L - Lasagna
Darn. I wanted to win. Now you will.
Meaty
Elastic
Limph Node
Yeah Jon, where's my l a s a g n a
Minecraft
Engulfed
Leard
M-MOMS
E-EAT
L-LASANGA
"I smell pennies!!" -famous last words
*finally i can keep these pennies to myself self* stomp stomp *What the hell?*
@@Mariocat99 finally they can’t take the pennys any more *pulls out penny sword*
"I smelt pennies"
You should have drilled two shallow recesses, one on each side of the handle, and glued pennies in there - one heads, one tails.
16:14 when you’re not expecting it, it’s genuinely horrifying for a second
Oof
Oof
Oof
Oof
Oof
Work hardening isn’t pushing the atoms closer together. Work hardening increases the grain dislocation density, which decrease the ability for plastic deformation. This is because the slip planes get blocked by the dislocations. Thus, the yield and tensile strength go up, ductility goes down, and toughness can decrease.
Yes, I think he misspoke.
Saying "the atoms got closer" is grade-school level understanding, which considering he seems to teach mostly grade-school students, makes sense why he'd say it like that. I mean, *technically* the atoms ARE getting closer, arranged in disarray, but yeah. @@stevenrwh
I have no idea what you just said but it sounds smart, so I'm gonna believe you XD
To simplify what Wil said, basically imagine that a metal is made of crystals. Remember clevage planes? Yeah, those weaken the metal, so you want something that prevents them from sliding. Work hardening forces another crystal oriented in a different direction in the slip planes way, making it harder for the planes to move, causing the bult metal to become harder
To simplify what Wil said, basically imagine that a metal is made of crystals. Remember clevage planes? Yeah, those weaken the metal, so you want something that prevents them from sliding. Work hardening forces another crystal oriented in a different direction in the slip planes way, making it harder for the planes to move, causing the bult metal to become harder
*Defaces US currency to make a weapon*
HTME: “I’ll let you know if I go to jail.”
Thumbs down, my Ads were interrupted by some guys casting a sword.
addblock is the answer ! i havent seen ads on youtube for like 5 years now :D
If only adblock could skip sponsored shit, but then again i like free content.
@@jailbreaker1214 just press the right arrow on your keyboard a few times to skip them or if you are on mobile double tap the right side of the screen
I think you guys read his comment backwards. Try again.
If not ads, who pays?
Next video: “Hey guys we’re gonna learn how to make a prison shank from scratch.”
*Furiously begins scratching a comb against the floor*
Mayonnaise
Toothbrush, not a comb. ;)
Ha. Scratch
William Schrimsher Thank you
I wasn't really paying attention near the end cutting montage, and I actually freaked out for a second thinking that the finger was actually cut...
Same
yah I was likeee ahhhhhh! youuu dickkk! XD
Same too
i jumped cuz i was falling asleep there 😅
I was getting a drink when he said that and I was freaked out
"Now i know what your thinking, im commiting federal crime"
Wow wasent expecting that
Work hardening is not a result of compressing metal. It’s a result of breaking down the crystalline structure of the metal. Which is why it gets brittle. In the end you wind up with tons of tiny crystals interlocking instead of fewer large ones. Basically, you’re creating more surface area on each crystal, which creates more internal friction. Which creates more resistance to beding. At least that’s the way it was explained to me by a metallurgist.
This is correct except one minor thing. You are reducing surface area of crystallites but increasing surface area per volume. This is called work hardening and many metals exhibit this phenomenon. Copper and its alloys are probably most known for it but titanium and many stainless steels all-so work harden, making them quite difficult to machine.
Next Video: How to make a prison shank from scratch. lol
Maxjoker98
We already have the Prisonshank Channel for that.
@@DASSAMWASHERELP lol theres a prison chank channel !?
Hmmmm? They'll need that prison shank. Just a little illegal to destroy currency isn't it?
@@kelleymiller7738 he just said it isn't only if he doesn't earn from whats left of the coins.
Just go watch The Modern Rogue for all you prison weapon needs
$5 Sword vs. $5,000 Sword (not clickbait)
I sense buzzfeed derps
@@dimitrijenovakovic7942 -your nose is broken-
@@EchoHeo So is you sense of humor
@@homosexualgayming9706 so is yours
@@EchoHeo fair point
“Penny Sword isn’t real, Penny Sword can’t hurt you”
*Penny Sword* :
The metal isn't getting denser when you work harden it, you are increasing the number of defects in the internal crystal structure, most of which will be dislocations. These defects are what make the metal stronger after work hardening. You are not increasing the density of the metal, you are increasing the dislocation density.
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Cody's Lab explained it better, he used 24k gold foil and a weight. :)
Everything is better when you're looking at something shiny though.
God thank you, this made me unnecessarily mad when they said that.
Garret Jacobs shut up
You aren't increasing the density, you're actually increasing the density.
IDEA! Try seeing how many paper clips it takes to make a sword
Yaaaasss
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@@ZaZi-Zeta01 uuuhhhhhh you do know steel is half iron right?
@@ZaZi-Zeta01 in fact steel averages around 97% iron.
@@ZaZi-Zeta01 the only other material in steel is carbon, which only hardens the tensile strength of the alloy. And yes, some have higher and lower ratios of carbon, but nothing drastic like 80% iron. That wouldn't physically work. Steel doesnt vary as much as you think, just a gram worth of carbon makes a huge diffrence.
"I'm not sure it is a sword, more of a letter opener really.." you can name it Sting as well
Mykhailo Hohol you get big ass letters
yo I was thinking that
Ah yes, the perfect thing I needed at 4:26am
I just watched this at the same hour... spooky
16:14 arhhhhh my !!!
Very strange... I’m also watching this at the same time but 5 months difference
2:00 am
1:28
Now gain those pennies back and more by using the sword to rob a bank...
Great idea!!! The person running the bank will definitely not pull out a gun to prevent him from robbing the bank
He needs to round up a posse with Lances so they can charge the security guards.
@@torresfishingFL the owner of a bank doesn't stop robbers that's the cops and security job
Actually...they definitely won't pull out a gun to stop the bank being robbed. Banks typically comply with robbers and give them what they want, and leave it to the cops to catch them.
Their accounts are insured, and the amount a robber will make off with is far less than the amount they could have to pay for lawsuits and such if anyone gets hurt.
They want the robber gone, simple. A dead or injured employee or customer is far worse than losing a few thousands, or even tens of thousands, that's insured anyway.
Bank robbers almost always get caught before too long anyway. If they actually rob just one bank they could conceivably escape justice forever, but that rarely happens. Somewhere between the third and the tenth time, they almost always get busted, and the game is over.
Yea but then he's using the casted pennies to make a profit.
next video: how to make a prison shank
Welp the next episode is: This HTME and were here in prison teaching you how to make paper knives. Crossbows and improvised prison weapons.
Wrong you use a shiv to shank someone
@Nikolaus Lihrs I wanted to post that
Yeet
its called shiv
I legit screamed when he smacked the glove with hot dogs....
Yup.
yeah my fuckin heart stopped
My heart fell into my stomach
@@NataliesChatalie lmao same
That was crappy of him. Bad joke.
Remember a couple years ago when everyone was randomly recommended "can you melt obsidian and cast a sword"? Well, it seem this guy is back for more. It only took 2 years.
Breaking the flow of the video with multiple ads is a bit excessive. Just sayin.'
gotta make money somehow, just sayin'
and illegal, as he is using the video of him destroying federal currency for profit.
@@clintonleonard5187 It is not illegal to destroy federal currency it is only illegal to alter it to make it look more than it is worth
laughing and typing this on my youtube premium
@@clintonleonard5187 He's not making money off the metal, listen from 2:45
Did you do it?
Yes.
What did it cost?
Penny
penny
Penny
pENNY
P E N N Y !
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Abraham Lincoln's sword., (The Sword Of Honesty).
except abe wasn't that honest
HAIL ZANZIBAR Obviously. No honest man is loved, especially not enough to have memorials erected on their name. Honesty hurts, it often isn’t good to tell the truth.
If he makes a sword putnof quarters its George Washington's sword of freedom
@@Tonyisgaming I get why you think so, but really... that is such BS.
The handle is made of a nice tan wood from a cherry tree.
Imagine how his hands smells after holding those pennies
Fun Fact - You cannot smell solid metals, you can only smell what is on the metal's surface.
On almost all coins you can smell oils from people's skin.
This fact changed how i see metals as a whole.
I say solid meals because metals have TOXIC fumes that you should definatly NOT smell.
This is not illegal. He addressed it in the video, but there are a lot of comments anyway so I'll expand. It is illegal to destroy Federal Reserve issued bank notes. But the Federal Reserve does not issue coins, it only issues paper notes, coins are issued by the Mint which is directly administered by the Treasury Department. Destroy all the coins you want, Uncle Sam doesn't really give a damn. However, if you profit from the destruction of coins, that has been interpreted by the FBI as counterfeiting (I'm not sure how the court ruled) so he cannot sell this sword for more than the $5 of pennies he used.
The fact is that the law isn't clear, and the law that you mention (cite?) isn't relevant, so while it may be true, I'm ignoring it. There is a general rule prohibiting exporting, melting, and treating one-cent coins. 31 CFR 82.1. Clearly the portion of the rule against export doesn't apply. There are exceptions to this general rule under 31 CFR 82.2. There is an argument to be made that this use doesn't qualify for an exception to the rule against melting or treating one-cent coins under 31 CFR 82.2(b) or (c)(2). Under this theory, it wouldn't qualify under sub (b) because sub (b) refers to the "treatment" of coins, which, according to the Treasury's supplementary guidance, refers to things like a science teacher experimenting with a single coin or a child putting a penny into a penny press. 72 FR 18880-02, 2007. Unless melting down $5+ worth of pennies is considered "treatment," he can't claim an exception under sub (b). That leaves exceptions under sub (c), which exempt melting from the general prohibition if it meets 3 requirements. One of those requirements, under (c)(2), is that the melting of the coins is "merely incidental" to whatever activity the individual is doing. Clearly, the entire point of this activity is to melt down coins, and therefore this activity would not exempt him from the general prohibition on melting one-cent coins. This is legal information and not legal advice. You can check the cites and read the relevant law for yourself. At the end of the day, you're right that no one really cares and I highly doubt he would ever get prosecuted for this. At the same time, try to check your law a little more thoroughly before you (probably unintentionally) spread false information. In any case, this is a pretty interesting legal question that, like most interesting legal questions, doesn't actually matter in real life and exists mostly as a hypothetical. Hope this comment was interesting and helpful~
Hu whell shit im just going to delete my coment now
this video is monetized so he is profiting
How would they even find out
@@자시엘-l1s Posting a video of you doing it on the internet.
“Riveting is kind of a lost art”
*wears fedora*
*makes sword*
Garry Reyom I don't get it
@@bennettt5380 oof
Rivets are easy to make compared to swords
Riveting is a lost art? Allow me to introduce you to aircraft maintenance.
@@HekateMGO what he means is people have started using screws and adhesives more commonly in recent history
Absolutely not a single soul on Earth...
Forged in fire:
So to test your blades hardness we're going to chop through this brick wall.
Chapzer YO! My dad watches that show!
And after we'll test the sharpnes by cutting a whole pig in half.
It will keal
Sword casting guy sounded like the guy from Mythbusters
Joseph Anderson holy shit you are right
"I'm Jamie Hyneman and this is Mythbusters."
That sword really was worth every penny
and the propane
and the sand
and the wood
Would you say Perfect for the holiday season?
@@maheswaraakram2216 whooosh
actually increased the value
Hahaha :D Good one!
16:15 legitimately made me recoil
same
He had me for like 2 seconds there. I was like. What!?!?!
my stomach twisted for a solid minute afterwards just thinking about it
I looked in the comments to see if anyone else did this right away.
ikr i jumped
How much did Mel Chemistry pay you to get 3 ads, tf
Like 20k probably
Based off what they offer me; about 1000$ per ad break so 3 or 4k probably. Then again i'm not nearly so advertiser friendly.
@@theCodyReeder Damn, thanks for the transparancy. Love your work
@@theCodyReeder What new adventures do you have planned for this year? (videos)
What’s MEL mean to you?
Coin Sword:
Damage: 12
Weight: 1
Value: 5
Yeah! Hahaha
Stolen item
*"I S M E L L P E N N I E S"*
No please no
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
EEEEEAAAAHHHHHHHH
PERFECTION
Lmao I know where that’s from
Mel better sponsor NileRed
@AT22 comeon man you getting free entertainment here, you can sit trough 1 min of advertisment. some people
NileRed is awesome and definitely deserves some love and sponsorship from MEL... on the subject, I would definitely enjoy a NileRed/HTME collaboration... HINT HINT lol
@@John-lx8iu totally agree! How about a YT dream team? HTME, NileRed, Cody's Lab and (the now America-based) Alec Steele!
@@ljk8059 That could be fun... HTME & Cody can source the materials and smelt some steel that Alec can forge and NileRed can make the Ferric Chloride (or similar) to etch the finished product...
《 LJK 》 you totally forgot Nerd Rage....
The hotdog glove part was comedy gold lol
i agree but with the snowflakes from the internet it could backfire
@@danielborbolla4677 Wtf are you even talking about
@@danielborbolla4677 Shoulda used vegan hotdogs.
that legit scared me the first time I saw it.
MEL = “make everyone learn” Chemistry.
Insert first comment on popular channel that I know
Wtf was plex doing here 😐
16:14 i was actually legit scared
same
I said "Jesus Christ"
same
On god i got goosebumps idk why
Poor hot dogs
Mel stands for "Magical Experiences Learning"
@@KristijanKL It's a sketch. I don't see how he's in any way taking advantage of them.
My expensive lab
@@KristijanKL Oh, yeah I get that viewpoint but if I were to sponsor someone I would probably only expect to see the advertisment on the channel, not that Matt (or whatever his name is) to do it.
In my opinion It's a whole other thing if Beyonce were to be sponsored as her character is her whole image, this not being the case for this RUclips channel I don't see a problem.
Your hotdogs scared the crap out of me
Why did you do that😂😂😂😂😂😂
Don't do it. 😱
@@TheUltimateMachineGod i thought the point was to make a sword out of pennies🙀
Just a couple of tips from someone who did similar many years ago. Use a fibre brush on your grinder to do the initial polish and to draw the blade into a more inherent edge before sharpening. Use a hard cloth polishing wheel on your bench grinder to work it further. Believe me, it makes the temper more forgiving than brittle as temperature and resonance don't overwork the metal. Finally, your belt sander should be using the lower temp and finer blue honing belt not the red one. Keep up the great work, your sword is an enviable piece. Hope this helps.
16:15 you got me
same, my butt puckered for like 100 milliseconds
You've been gnomed
My hotdogs
@@slartbarg "My butt puckered" is my new favorite phrase
IKR?? scared the crap out of me ;;
12:10 this explanation is completely inaccurate. The atoms do not get compressed or closer together. What you are doing is called strain hardening. By applying stress to the metal (i.e. beating it with a hammer) you are causing little parts of the metal lattice to break and slip past other parts. This causes different regions of the atomic lattice to be misaligned, and this misalignment creates barriers that prevent other parts of the lattice from sliding past the misaligned regions.
Psh nerd
i learned this in school lul
$5 for a sword!? count me in.
5 dollars and some time in federal prison!
And hundreds of dollars for the tools
@@JackassCass457 only if you sell them.
@@anonmouse4357 No its illegal to destroy federal currency on camera.
@@ZazairS7N except pennies
Me: *Reads the title*
Me: “Less then it takes to buy a sword.”
I don't know or really care what it stands for, I'm just glad youtube has a way to quickly skip ahead.
The sword is now worth more than the pennies you used
the copper is too
But you can't sell it because it's illegal
too bad it's illegal to profit from it
@@elpato20001 so, does that mean he could theoretically sell it for the amount of pennies he used to make it?
How whould the government ever know if you profited from it?
Mel=Mostly Easy Learning
KenKaneki __981 most easiest learning
When someone says “Penny for ya thoughts” but want no information
16:14
OHMYGOD WTF ARE YOU
"No! My hot dogs!"
WHY
Why? Yes!
It slices, it dices, it even works under water!
I'll TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK
Also in prison!
Robert Webster ILL TALK YOUR ENTIRE STOCK
Hi, My name is Robert Webster, and I am here with Flex Sword.
SHUTUPANDTAKEMYMONEY
That scene when pennies melt, though. Satisfaction.
“How many pennies does it take to make a sword?”
My entire piggy bank....
Mr. Krabs had a heart attack after watching this
He can kill for the money
@@sovietww2radiooperator141 *with his money
@Infinity Sim the feeling is mutual. You especially
*How ye destroy me money!!!*
Mel chemistry stays for;
Making
Elemental
Language
Clear,
Halcyon,
Entertaining,
Mysteriously intuitive,
Simple,
Tremendously revolutionary,
Yo
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Yes
Work hardening isn't about packing the atoms closer together. The hardening is caused by fracturing the metal crystals so the metal has many small tightly interconnected crystals.
MEL stands for MEL Educational Laboratory. The MEL in MEL Educational Laboratory stands for that as well. It is a recursive acronym, much like many things are in chemistry and science and maths.
Stefan Lopuszanski
MEL Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library Educational Library
Oh i like those.
Nerded out when i learned that GNU (an operating system) stands for GNU's not Unix. PHP-> PHP Hypertext processor. Or Visa. Stands for Visa international service Association. How crazy!
Dammit, I was thinking the same.
12:08 - it's not compression, but defects in the crystal structure that is making it harder to bend.
yeah, you cant really "push thr atoms closer together" permanently. you will either just deform the shape or get a new crystal structure or get defects. the latter two can increase toughtess if done right
Thank goodness someone else caught that. If you are making a video and don’t understand a concept, leave the description out. If you do know the answer but you feel time would be wasted in the video giving a description, just say “look up work hardening if you want to know more.”
For those who don't know why hitting the edge of the sword makes it stronger; what they are doing is called strain hardening and it's very common. The mechanism behind this is atomic scale dislocations being created and 'pinned' in the metal. This makes it harder for the metal to deform when a stress is applied. Hitting the metal does not move the atoms closer together.
What? You mean striking metal with a small hammer won't change the bond between atoms? No way! lol
If iit becomes more dense then atoms are closer together.
@@CrowleyRises I mean all I'm saying is his explanation is complete bs and has nothing to do with "density". But technically the addition of energy to some metallic structures (hitting it enough would heat it up) can change the atomic bonds. Iron is a good example of this.
No it changes the layout of the atoms
It simply mashes the metal together closer and therefore more material in the same amount of space is harder. Picture taking a full trash bag and mashing it down then putting more trash in. It takes up the same amount of space but it is denser more materials there and therefore heavier and stronger.
It's 2am and I fell asleep watching this, but I woke up at 8:55 because I thought someone was whispering "that's so pretty" in my ear
7:42 Stop! You have violated the Law!
Pay the court a fine or serve your sentence.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
It's lav
Saves
Murders the whole village
Loads
*Resist arrest*
"Then pay with your blood!"
you have comitted crimes against skyrim and it's people. What do you say in your defence?
_The Sword of Lincoln._
Perfect name.
I like the comment, but why would Lincoln weild a sword made from his own melted faces?
_Why not?_
The sword to chop a nation in half
@@keatoncrandall2471 The statue would...
who else was kinda thinking of the guy from forged in fire saying "It will kill" I sure was at the end
Was actually looking for this comment
He probably didn’t slash dead animals for a season because he stubbed his toe.
IT WILL KEAL
*sells penny sword for profit*
*Goes to jail*
Me: "It's not breaking the law it's currency exchange"
MEL stands for Massively Educational Literature.
Either that, or Michael's Elephant Library, but that doesn't sound quite right.
It takes the blood from more than 2000 bodies to make a sword
martin brajkovski I always wondered if it is actually possible. Not actually slaughtering 2000 people, but doing a massive donation drive getting the blood. Or maybe get a hospital give you their excess blood (blood has a limited shelf life, so to speak).
What if sword vampire?
Sounds like a hero sword..
@@LetsTakeWalk This channel have a video of that If im not mistaken!
Sufficiently advanced made a blood sword before
On Corporals Corner, he made one out of copper and while testing it, he used it on a ferro rod and it threw sparks like a steel knife. These we viable weapons for a very long time, far longer than we have been using steel.
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anyone else panic at 16:15 "OH GAWD, MY HOTDOGS"
Ohhhh noez not the hot dogs... NOT THE HOT DOGS NOOOOOOO!!!
at 16:15 if hed put some strawberry syrup in there and actually gave it a real scream I would be convinced that a RUclipsr just cut 3 of his fingers off for his viewers
9:23 Best $5.00 Ever spent!
I agree
That's what I call a copper shortsword. Next step is the Zenith
Dude, you were so wrong for this 16:14, i literally jump out of my chair!!!!
_This gives new definition to 50 cent sword lol_
I'd like more vids from the sword casting guy, he explains it really well to someone who's 100% new to sword making. I feel like I've learned things haha
Gaz would be proud, your Mellon slashing skills are impressive.
16:14 scared the crap out of me lol
AlphaCharlie4 No kidding, i also thought the worst
bruh i winced
i died XD
The entire time he was cutting stuff, I kept thinking how bad it would be to get hit by that and how easily it would cut through flesh and was feeling uncomfortable because of it. And then he pulls that joke and I recoiled hard.
i thought "oh ok"
Just like the ancient Romans. Using their sink to cool then cleaning the edges with their angle grinder 😎
Nobody said anything about historical accuracy and that's a Greek Xiphos not a Roman Gladius, I'm peeved because he could have made a copper sword, he didn't have to add the tin and make a bronze one
@@philanthropical5520 I did
@@Justin-Outdoors
lol
Who said the greeks didnt have grinders?...
@@allangibson8494 🤔
MEL: Monthly Educational Laboratory or Make Everything Lumpy
Or could be Make Everything Lately
Lol
congratulations you now have the copper shortsword from terraria
Mel stands for “Mythical Experiments for Learning.”
Benjamin Holbert Meth*
A penny saved is a penny sword.
MakoRuu well technically 500 pennies saved is a penny sword
@@subswithoutanyvideos-dw3jw r/woooosh
IanVelesGDツ I don’t think that was a whooosh
IanVelesGDツ dude I could say r/ woooosh cause I was making a joke
IanVelesGDツ so r/woooooooooooossh
If you monetize the sword giveaway video that might actually be illegal.
Maybe not if they say he is making money from the cinematography and knowledge gained from the video as apposed to him making the money from burning the pennies. He isn't making money from making the things he does, but the information he gives in all of his videos. Even if the giveaway is a stand alone video if he makes money from that video it could be from using his likeness. But idk i could be wrong about all of this.
That wouldn't be profiting from the metal content of the swords, which is the key part there. It's not like the people receiving them are buying it with views.
@@RiverShock technically, they are... The "profit" would be very small, since the person watching probably counted as just one view out of the hopefully hundreds of thousands of views, one person getting the sword would in theory pay an infinitesimal fraction of a dollar for such object. I'll admit that argument is scratching wherever it can to say it's illegal, but with the YT's policies... You never know.
@@IrKeNoVa You're not really profiting from the fact they were made from pennies, though. The composition of the sword is completely irrelevant to the profit made. It's primarily for entertainment purposes, which seems to be covered in the exceptions. (I guess you could argue "amusement" could solely be personal, and not for others, but I doubt anyone would go after you on that point alone given how open to interpretation it is.)
As long as he doesnt export it to another country, the exceptions are pretty broad, even going so far as to say that melting stuff for "amusement" qualifies as an exception.
2019: a neat way to make a sword
2020: a very ironic way to fight back against the bourgeoisie and government
16:15 I legit though he had cut he's finger off
It kinda made me jump for a moment. X3
*I SMELL PENNIES*
Nooo I was going to make this joke
*pulls out sword*
NOT TODAY
i swore i read *"penises"*
@@MrBraffZachlin i swore it read "small" too
@@supermario12295 lolol
Abraham Lincoln wants to know your location
fbi open up
that pfp tho
I did not get the joke please can you explain ?Abraham Lincoln and copper sword.
moe joe Abraham Lincoln is on the penny
Man with beard 1: Hey son! Let's work on Mel Chemistry!
Man with beard 2: Yay!
Also how about trying to find a way to make a blood sword or knife. Yes I know it would take a lot of blood to make a blood sword but I did the math and it is possible if you can collect the iron. Also the blood doesn't have to be human and some ethnic grocery stores sell blood to make cultural dishes. I know it wouldn't be practical or economical but it would be a neat thing to make even if the Iron in the sword doesn't have the level of quality you'd want from a sword.
Oh great!!! Does this mean I can recover my own health anytime I use it against a live object of some kind?!
+lifesteal
Livebearer Fancier hope he sees this comment it’s dope!
Still though I do think it could be possible to make one it would still take a lot of blood so I suggest collecting all of the dehydrated solids over time and not buying all the blood at once to at least make the economics of this impractical project a little more practical (making blood dehydration a side project). Also I would suggest starting with a knife first and consider if it's just too much work for a sword.
i did the math once, and i think it was something like, youd need every drop of blood from about 76 full cows to make one long sword...so it might be a while until he can do that. im sure if he finds a slaughter house willing to help, they would do it no problem, but most sell their blood for blood meal and such. a knife would take far less though, wink wink ^.- (thats about 600 gallons of blood, or 3k liters)