On: Guy makes a knife from scratch. He has to make a ...

[eli]

"Charcoal has to be chopped to a specific size for the operation to run smoothly. I chopped mine during the days before the run in little chunks about a cubic inch or less."

Chopped using what?

[wisty → eli]

Later on, he uses a forge, anvil, grinder, flux, chemicals for polishing, etc. He's not using cave-man technology. I think he built the smelter because you can't really buy them.

[ChuckMcM → wisty]

I agree, and he got his ore from the Ceramic store, no pick and hammer breaking down rocks from the quarry.

[barrkel → eli]

I think he's trying to make a knife from scratch, not make a knife only using stone-age technology.

[eli → barrkel]

Hey, I get it and I think it's actually a neat project. But "from scratch" is an entirely meaningless phrase.

[stephen_g → eli]

Would you rather the title was "Man builds knife from raw materials but using modern tools, and has to build a smelter first" or something?

[eli → stephen_g]

kind of

[tomjen3 → eli]

An axe made of wood?

That is what I do in Minecraft, at least.

[RickHull → eli]

It's a good point, with recursion bonus!

[napierzaza → eli]

Looks like wood charcoal. Use your imagination.