Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Barbarella's Space Rifle

It's time for another One Day Build! You know the drill: Adam tackles a project at his shop from start to finish, explaining his build process along the way. Today's build is a replica of Jane Fonda's iconic Barbarella rifle. The challenge: this iconic sci-fi prop only appeared once, on the cover of a 1968 issue of LIFE Magazine. That's not a lot of reference material to work with!

Shot and Edited by Joey Fameli
Music via Jinglepunks

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[dennisrichards]

13:25 "sometimes I like to imagine while I'm making these cuts, I'm thinking about the crafts people who made these same cuts 50 years ago" 

I can't explain why this comment is so profound. It means a lot to me as an engineer.

[lennypearl]

I love that there's no background music to this. Real old school instructional film with a cool guy without overproduction!

[DFriendly]

It's kinda weird/interesting going back to some of these older build videos and seeing how much Adam's shop has evolved over the years

[TonecrafteLuthiery]

My woodshop teacher never bought new sandpaper. Every year used the same tattered, uselessly weathered sandpaper from at least 2 years prior. It was so bad in fact that it would take us at least 2/3rds of our total time working on a given project to sand and finish it. Made me hate working with wood all through high school. The kids in that woodshop class are probably still using the sandpaper I used my freshman year.

[ScottClarke]

Looking forward to seeing Adam cosplay as Barbarella :D

[pedromiguel]

watching him working with that band saw and jig saw always gives me the chills

[awakenedape]

I love listening to Adam think out loud... I can hear in his voice that he can already see the final product in his hands

[kevinotoole]

Adam savage is a genius!!!! Used to watch Mythbusters avidly and then recently discovered a whole wealth of things to watch via Tested on YouTube. Love watching Adam at work, his skill, practicality, enthusiasm and generally a truly talented man. Love winding down before bed with a one day build vid, keep them

[SamChaneyProductions]

9:47 This is such a good point. I love when Adam waxes about capturing characters and gestures. That's something that many engineers lack and part of what makes him an artist as well as a designer.

[TomDuhamel]

I love watching Tested. It's just like watching cooking tv shows: You're learning a lot of techniques that you won't ever use.

[stedunn]

Norm reminds me of little kids watching their big brother or fathers working on something and you can see them excited so badly wanting to help, it's kinda sweet.

[GadgetAddict]

You have the trigger guard but no trigger, doh!

[MrVERMONVILE]

The one day builds are by far my favourite videos on Tested, need more of these.

[Jamesah]

Broke every health and safety rule in the book. For this, I love this build and video. I doff my cap to you.

[krowe]

Watching you work Adam I have to remind myself you are actually a celebrity. You are like the crazy cat next door that has the neighbors worried. Using the jigsaw to cut the center out of the eyelets while holding it in your hand is crazy. I do that same stuff all the time and have cut myself on bandsaws, jigsaws, and even a wood jointer got ahold of a finger. But it's faster to just go for it sometimes. I have watched you over the years in your various endeavors and have developed a lot of respect for your work. It's fast paced mayhem that in the end is freakin amazing. Thanks for sharing!

[TrasteIAm]

Spoiler Alert!
Comicon 2016: Adam Savage incognito in the Barbarella space suit.

[GSYdrums]

I feel like this could be a tv show, "Adam Savage builds stuff" and once a week we could sit down and watch Adam work

[DangitBobby]

Adam's one day builds: the whole reason why I subscribed to Tested. I'm not familiar with Barbarella, but that was really cool!

[saintsfisherman]

this is stupid but one of my favorite parts of this video is at the very beginning where Adam was able to accept that he had made a calculation mistake and say "Thank you" to the correction. Seeing how smart each and every person is on this show I am sure that it takes quite the drop in pride to admit that a mistake has been made. But I want you to know that it was observed and appreciated.

[salvatoreaversa]

Could you imagine being that good at anything.