So a few weeks ago, I got this idea to build a bed of razorblades. Everyone told me it wouldn’t work, and that I would die, but I built it anyways. I tried it yesterday, and here is the youtube clip of the worlds first bed of razor blades attempt.
Wow! COol!
wow thats awsome
thats wicked!!!
good to see another connecticut brotha doin some crazy stuff…HARD HITTIN NEW BRITTAN man…haha that insane
cool! i was going to ask why but then i realized it would have been the type of thing i would of done.
Very nice.
How long did it take you to construct it? (In case you answered that in the video, I had to watch it with the sound off.)
Awesome man.
Uhh…why?
any word yet on whether or not someone else has done it?
you shulda called up the world record book company to get your name put in it when you did it
i just googled it and got nothing
Why not?
It took me a few days to build. I used my huge cordless 24 volt dewalt set in my living room. My roommates are used to this kind of thing by now. Building the wooden bed probably took an hour or 90 minutes to build, and then another hour or 90 minutes to cut all the slots using the cordless circular saw.
The biggest challenge was getting all the razor blades without spending too much money, (Ebay), I ended up buying twice as many as I needed, I thought I’d be able to double them up in each slot (it worked in the mock up I made), but the blades from Ebay had slightly thicker bases, and would only fit single file.
I don’t think anyone else has done this. When I got the idea, and was building it, everyone I talked to thought I was going to get get to ribbons, with a good possibility of death. I’m pretty sure this is one of those things that people just didn’t think would work, so no one bothered to try.
I built it because everyone does a bed of nails, so I wanted to do something no one else had done. Once I got the idea, and people told me it wouldn’t work, I knew I had to do it. I did think about this for a while before I decided to go ahead and try it, and I did a very frightening test using two bananas and several heavy books, but I was fairly sure that I’d live through the experience. I probably should have sought Harpers advice.
Thanks for watching the video, I appreciate it.
The whole thing is tres cool.
I don’t know if you want to share any of this with the wider world of “freak” show type acts, but there are a few people I can think of who might be interested and possibly know if it’s been done before.
There is the Coney Island Sideshow School.
There is David Smith who is an active member, last I knew, of the Philadelphia Juggling club and a very talented and clever “One Man Sideshow”. One of his bits has him laying down on a bed of nails and having a cinderblock smashed over his torso. (You should try this.)
And lastly there is David Kaplan, a former member of these forums. I’m not really sure what he’s up to but I know he had a gig at Coney Island and may even have attended the Sideshow school there. I think he used to be a regular at the NY Unicycle Club meets.
By the way, who is your life insurance carrier and can I be added as one of your beneficiaries?
Nick, don’t try it. It won’t work, and you’ll die.
That’s pretty cool, though. For some reason, the bed of razor blades seems harder to pull off than nails…did you lay out the blades in parallel lines, or were they all at different angles? I wasn’t thinking about it during the video, so I didn’t watch closely.
I guess if you’re just trying to get in the World Record book…but I guess I could think of cooler things to do.
Not that it’s not impressive, cause it is, don’t get me wrong, but it seems like one of those “why bother” things (yep, like unicycling). Power to you if you enjoy it, though.
That is why I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
If that’s a line from a song, it went over my head.
If you got one friend to grab your arms, and then another to grab your legs, and got them to push and pull you alternately…
You’d have the smoothest, most hairless back ever.