Adam Savage Reviews Dune Crysknife Replica Prop!

Adam unboxes and reviews the officially licensed Dune Crysknife prop replica from United Cutlery, in preparation for his own replica prop and costumes inspired by the new film. A little bit Dune-obsessed at the moment, Adam scrutinizes and appreciates this polyresin replica, down to the translucency and sculptural detail of the handle. It really is a faithful replica of a beautiful design!

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[kitraestudio]

Adam, nice review. I did the product development for the United replica. It was not cast from an actual prop. Unfortunately I was not able to get one - I rarely can with any film license other than Lord of The Rings. Legendary supplied a 3D scan and full rotation photos of the prop and color references to work with, so we started with a 3D print, then sculpted in the fine details to make the mold master. The colors came out slightly different that what is seen in the film due to the color grading, but overall I thought the replica came out great. We are doing Duncan's long sword next!

[firescale]

"May thy knife chip and shatter!" was the traditional cry before the Fremen got into a tussle.
Therefore a degree of fragility is correct to the lore!

[DaddyDoom]

I absolutely loved how they styled the Shai Hulud teeth similar to huge whale bristles. It makes total sense, instead of having teeth, since they would be filtering the sand for nutrients.
Excellent design choice.

[veryexciting]

I almost bought it, but it doesn’t come with a sheath and having an unsheathed Crysknife on my wall seems wrong.

[sebastian.stamour]

LOL of course Adam has seen Dune 4 times. Love him :)

[bmack]

In blade making/wielding terms that "tells you how it wants to be held" feeling is called indexing and I find it to be super important but not as common as it probably should be. It's pretty cool that they took the time to get that right on a movie prop.

[snower]

It was interesting in the film you can see that in some of the tight shots the blades have very little inertia (light weight). If a worms tooth is strong as steel but ultra light weight, that would be a great knife.

[miguelmontoya]

I know what I'm carving the turkey with this year.

[craigwadman]

PLEASE start making dune props!! Can’t wait for that 🙂🙂🙂

[DaveTpletsch]

So I know that someone figured out how to 3d print keratin fibers, specifically with the intention of flooding the rino horn market in an attempt to make it not worth poaching. No idea how successful that was, but if you could 3d print the knife in keratin (a long shot I know) that would feel very real to me, especially since my impression of the sand worms from the Dune trailers was very reminiscent of whale baleen.

[jeffhayes]

I agree. Dune is perfect it should have won everything at the Oscars but the set design and props were god level good. Seriously, if you just take a moment and pause the breakfast scene or Paul’s bedroom in the evening it is mind blowing how much the art dept put into that world building.

[potteryjoe]

It's always nice to have a prop that you can properly play with. Can't wait to see what you come up with for an answer.
I 3D printed the knife from the 1984 Dune, & can't wait to make one of these as well

[lutobor]

You can just make silicone moulds from this and cast any material out of hundreds presented on the market. Like smooth-On Task series, there are translucent resins that will not brake. I used Task 3 with added fibre (for concrete)- and discovered basically Adamantium which I was unable to sand or brake.

[NP-zldz]

I must not hype, for hype is the mindkiller

[Sayyadina]

YAY! More Dune content please! Would really enjoy hearing you guys just have a big ol' movie discussion about it honestly.

[karlspace]

Since seeing the film, I've been missing a good Adam talks about how much he loves Dune stream, or maybe a one-time return of the Still Untitled podast?

[jasoncutrone]

I have a resin hero knife from the 1984 movie with a gold pommel that I weathered and made a rough leather sheath for. It is my night stand relic. Well until I finish my custom lightsaber build.

[ArcticNightwind]

Are you telling me that you 'didn't' do the salute with the crysknife to end the video!! I'm a little bit disappointed to sat the least...

All jokes aside I'm more stoked to see the film now after watching this review 😄

[shootpse]

Badass knife, cant wait for the stillsuit build!!