Adam Savage Reacts to Hacksmith's Newest Lightsaber!

Adam welcomes James Hobson -- aka the @thehacksmith -- to the cave while he's in town for the Open Sauce convention, and to check out components of Hacksmith Industries' latest proto-lightsaber hilt! James walks Adam through the anatomy of the hilt that is designed to allow for a safe mix of propane and liquid oxygen to create a wieldable plasma beam. We can't wait to see the end result when they complete this project in the coming months!

Shot and edited by Joey Fameli
Music by Jinglepunks
Additional media courtesy Hacksmith Industries

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[hacksmith]

Pleasure visiting the Cave Adam! Happy to report Bogdan's fully recovered from the accident now (this was filmed a month ago). He's gonna do a react video to this video for our members to fill in any of the parts I missed for our lightsaber backers ☺

For anyone interested in learning more about the liquid oxygen lightsaber, we've got more than 20 videos over the past year on the development process for anyone whose a member on our YouTube channel, or for anyone who has bought a mini-saber from our store! You also get a challenge coin to prove you helped develop the world's first lightsaber with every purchase!

[AnchorJG]

What I love is that Adam Savage, someone we all look up to with the highest of the highest order of respect and admiration, is himself a fan of all these other makers and looks up to them and it's this wholesome spiral of respect.

[DieselGateFox]

Born too early to live forever, born too late to afford a house, born just in time to see a damn near real lightsaber being produced

[cobhallagames]

I think choosing to show someone like Adam first; who understands and can communicate how difficult what you did is, was a really good choice.

I am very excited to see it working once you can do it safely. As impressive as this project is, I really appreciate that you are taking care to be as safe as possible.

[sealdoggydog]

-"Why is Bogdan crying? Is he in pain from the car accident? Is it because his Tesla was destroyed?"
-"No... He's crying because he didn't get to meet Adam Savage."

[spitfireGamesVR]

I’ve watched mythbusters religiously when I was in middle school and I’ve seen Adam excited, but never putting his hand over his mouth at the idea of someone having a level 100 clean room. That’s not something I’m used to seeing from him, but this project that hacksmith is doing…. This is literally revolutionary stuff

[gamefreak]

"we wanted to build a real lighsaber, so we built a rocket engine you can hold in your hand"

[Adam-fned]

When Adam Savage applauds your ambition, you know you're flying close to the sun. Don't get burned, Hacksmith

[forgiven]

... Hard to tell who was more exited here... Adam needs to visit Hacksmith. Seriously, he needs to be present for the first "lighting" of the saber.

[ts]

So glad to see James happy, excited and working. I know doing the YouTube thing was doing a number on him, but spending time with Adam seems to bring joy to everyone.

[proudtexan]

0:44 Adam’s totally flabbergasted off the cuff reaction is beautiful… just the rarity of him genuinely getting totally blindsided and left speechless.

[BertyBertsson]

I love Adam's reaction at around 50 seconds in "what?! 😲". I've never seen him react like that before. He was genuinely surprised and amazed. So cool to see that I replayed it several times.

[jphanks]

All of this from someone what is Bogdan now, 23? Brilliant. James was SO nervous. You did brilliant, brother!

[MonolithproductionsT]

If we got Mark Hamil and Hayden Christensen in the same room with a real life lightsaber I would rent out a theater to watch that video

[Diago]

My favorite thing about this video is the stunned expression on Adam's face about the clean room . shows he really understands how crazy that is 😆

[sabretoothstudios]

That 90 second duration could be an INCREDIBLE storytelling/tension device. Should be plenty of time for dealing with one assailant, but imagine a situation where you have to hold off against multiple, and your saber is about to deplete!

[vhaelen]

0:40 "so we actually spent the last year now we built a class 100 clean room at our facility to make our own liquid oxygen parts"
i have no idea what he is talking about, but adamns reaction is ALL I NEEDED TO KNOW

[Willysedom]

The next step is obviously the fully fledged arc reactor at that point, these guys are outstanding.

[edwinwatkins]

14 minutes of James being completely star struck and it is fantastic, you can just see the joy and happiness in James face the entire time. getting to meet one of your hero's and they end up actually being as cool as you always hoped, that's one off the bucket list for sure, and yes I am more than a little jealous. anyways, one of the best and most heart warming videos I have seem in some time, cannot wait to see the lightsabre in action. no words for how cool this is.

[DaReapa]

The honest joy and surprise on Adam's face at the biggining is worth the whole video.