My son and I met Matt this morning at Bunker Branding. He is down to earth and we had an amazing experience. Keep it up!!

@DemolitionRanch

Жыл бұрын

Dude it was awesome meeting y'all! Beautiful family!

@gunnerroo6514

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome! One of my many checks on the ol bucket list. Grats on meeting one of the YT pew pew greats.

@Forbidden_Word

Жыл бұрын

Down to earth??? Not when he's on a home made bungie system!

@gabrielwagers7393

Жыл бұрын

It was alsome

@DignityForAllyt

Жыл бұрын

That’s cool

Anyone else thinking that Matt should get a bunch of those silencers and see how many he can screw together?

@NatedoGP

Жыл бұрын

Yesss!!!

@OMGtheEbolaVirus

Жыл бұрын

That sounds like a baffle strike.

@joshuamendoza8355

Жыл бұрын

Yes

@Germangamer-gn9ks

Жыл бұрын

BEHOLD, the "blue pills erection"

@TheGordyP

Жыл бұрын

I am now!

Since the sapphire is so clear it would be cool to set up a 100k frame a second high speed camera up a couple inches directly behind the sapphire block to see what the bullet looks like coming head on at the block and the point of impact from the target’s viewpoint.

@O2F2

2 ай бұрын

i suppose that would be the ultimate show of confidence in the sapphire's bulletproof ability because those cameras almost certainly cost more than the sapphire did. Especially given it's synthetic sapphire

@Gabriel.1985.

Ай бұрын

Yeah!!!!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@user-th3bo2yp1t

21 күн бұрын

Sapphires are actually used as the endpoint/dome of fast missiles with optic guidence. Glass isn't hard enough to handle pressures and dust and other things that could damage it mid flight.

@Gabriel.1985.

21 күн бұрын

@@user-th3bo2yp1t really?

@Gabriel.1985.

21 күн бұрын

@@user-th3bo2yp1t it does well on one of my Bulova watches, somehow I chipped the damn thing at work

The reason you can see scratches on the rough side but not feel them is because it's actually acting as a grinding surface, the scratches are a very thin layer of your knife steel. I've dealt with plenty of very hard materials because of my knife working hobby and sapphire is the only one that continues to surprise me again and again.

@bollockjohnson6156

Жыл бұрын

Could you expand on "acting as a grinding surface?"

@knob007

Жыл бұрын

@@bollockjohnson6156 so when the knife moves across the sapphire, the rougher surface creates a sandpaper effect and the blade deposits lines of metal that have been pulled off

@bollockjohnson6156

Жыл бұрын

@@knob007 ah, brilliant and succinct. Thank you very much.

@TheBootyWrangler

Жыл бұрын

@@bollockjohnson6156 it’s essentially a grinding stone in this situation to put it into laymen’s terms

@cr144mc6

Жыл бұрын

I’ve never really worked on sapphire, but my watches that have sapphire over the dial have held up perfectly to the abuse I put them through. Welding, hammering, grinding, processing scrap, going out in the woods, on the range, swimming in the ocean, never a scratch

Hundreds of years from now someone is going to wonder WHAT happened to that section of Texan woods. Obsidian, glass, lead, sapphire, brass, and random shrapnel all over the place.

@mistasluz1216

Жыл бұрын

😂 and some silver and gold (or hang on was that at the old ranch) and copper… 🤣

@kademcpherson443

Жыл бұрын

Naww. Some dude in 2122: WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED DUDE I STEPPED ON TEN PEICES OF GLASS TWO SAPHIRE THIRTY TWO BRASS AND TEN OBSIDIAN SHARDS

@andwooo9460

Жыл бұрын

Cant forget the Demo RANCH gun lube

@notbonsai671

Жыл бұрын

That's hilarious

@notbonsai671

Жыл бұрын

Matt confusing history

I'm studying to become a geologist, and I remember studying Sapphires at some point. The main way Sapphires obtain their incredible hardness is because they are made of a mineral known as Corundum. Sapphires are categorized as a high grade metamorphic rock, meaning that its formation takes place at temperatures above 320C. Sapphires require rare conditions to form, such as a low silica content and high aluminum content in the host rock. Sapphires form in rocks that are Under-saturated, which means that there is no spare quartz in the rocks it forms in (Silica is Quartz just to clarify). Corundum on the Mohs Hardness Scale has a rating of 9, second only to diamond. The main chemical makeup of Corundum is Aluminum Oxide. Sapphires are generally found in Igneous, and Metamorphic rocks, with some examples being Granite, Schist, Gneiss. Corundum can vary in color depending on the elements present in the host rock. The distinctive blue coloration of a Sapphire comes from Titanium being present in the host rock during its formation. That's all a Sapphire really is, Corundum with Titanium impurities. (Petra replied and made a very important point. Corrundum is a mineral, not a rock. I referred to Corundum as a rock quite a few times in this comment, and that was incorrect). A mineral is an aggragate of inorganic elements or compounds that have an orderly internal structure, or some other form of characteristic, such as crystal structure, or special properties. A rock is usually a composition of two or more minerals, or unidentified minerals.

@youtubeSuckssNow

Жыл бұрын

Dan Hurd Prospecting actually just made a video on harvesting natural sapphires from host rock, Corundum included. (Also Dan is just awesome in general. Definitely check out his channel)

@briandix4633

Жыл бұрын

That's why sapphire without any other trace elements to cause color is also known as transparent aluminum. Without looking it up I believe the chemical name is aluminum silicate, AlSi02 I think, but again that's without looking it up so don't quite me on that. It's been a few decades since I studied any geology lol

@D1G1TALSYNAPS3

Жыл бұрын

Talk nerdy to me daddy. 😂

@octosquatch.

Жыл бұрын

Ruby is the same

@hi_tech_reptiles

Жыл бұрын

Super cool, thanks for the details dood

Matt needs to invest in one of those insane slo mo cameras that the slo-mo guys use. Would be so sick

@yungkey

Жыл бұрын

@@whatsappme-489 bruh

@jimmarks291

Жыл бұрын

Yeah nah he can just invite them along to do some crazy shit like inviting Will Smith to Use a Flame thrower 🤣💯

@afrodrift2

Жыл бұрын

I was literally telling myself that yesterday lol

@isaacpearson7398

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking have the slow mo guys shoot it straight on with a 9mm with the camera behind the sapphire. It'd be the only shot in the world of its kind

@theo55645

Жыл бұрын

You’re gonna like ballistic high speed

Honestly so nice to see Demoranch has been thriving for years, i remember watching him when i was like 13 i’m 22 now. Thank you Matt

A slow-motion camera behind the sapphire to see the bullets explode would have been genius.

@zidan40o0

Жыл бұрын

ouch, that was a missed opportunity.

@kitsunekaze93

Жыл бұрын

using a mirror, because slow mo cameras cost more than a house

The reason you could see the "scratches" on the side is because sapphire made a pencil of your knife. Sapphire is way harder than steel, so it acts as a sharpening stone, blunting the metal by rubbing away at it and leaving a trace. Pretty cool!

@mortenrl1946

Жыл бұрын

Probably a good sharpening stone with that matte surface on the sides!.. If a bit on the costlier side

@bread1832

Жыл бұрын

@@mortenrl1946 probably the most bad ass one too

@wolfy5svn945

Жыл бұрын

did you know that hardness of a gem only refers to its resistance to scratches? a diamond can still be smashed into tiny pieces with a hammer even though its the “hardest mineral” the properties most people assume are important is durability and hardness which sapphires rank about a 9 but they have a relatively weak tenacity strength making them brittle to direct blunt force.

@tricksterjoy9740

Жыл бұрын

@@wolfy5svn945 yes. And For the smooth brains: Harder=More brittle but not necessarily weaker.

@wolfy5svn945

Жыл бұрын

@@tricksterjoy9740 🤣🤣 no you idiot. a minerals hardness has nothing to do with its tenacity..they can vary between ductile, malleable, flexible-elastic, and brittle. gems as basic as diamonds and sapphires and quartz are obviously brittle and at best malleable the lower they are on the mohs scale but it includes minerals like gold, mica and other things not just basic crystal structures.

pretty damn cool. felt super anxious about the ricochets. would be interesting to see a 50 cal on a fresh block - the block probably already took some structural damage from the previous shots - chips, etc.

The problem with using sapphire for armour is that, in the right circumstances, may turn into some pretty gnarly shrapnel that would slice you to ribbons.

@planethopper335

11 ай бұрын

It would be sandwiched between lexan.

@kenningtonrund282

10 ай бұрын

I'd take my chances with that over a 308

@deathtdow

9 ай бұрын

Like one of the other replies pointed out you probably could contain most of the fragmentation. What I'm more interested in is how it would preform if it was compressed from its edges. As the compression would retard crack formation. Of course you would quite possibly have to take the harmonics into account as you don't want the compressing frame to vibrate in such a manor as to cause cracks on the edges of the shappire pane.

@viktoriyaserebryakov2755

9 ай бұрын

What if you used only a thinner outer layer and had it all contained with a frame or a case to hold it together when it cracks? Would have loved to see the .50 in slow me to see if it actually dug into the sapphire at all or if it just ripped it apart.

@ArnoldSig

8 ай бұрын

It would need to have layers of some sort of hard resin between layers of sapphire and this thing could probably stop an armor piercing round. The tendency to crack is the weakest point of hard materials and putting many sapphire sheets between some kind of hard glue would make a glass this thicc eat much bigger bullets.

That "scratch" on the matte section was actually the sapphire removing metal from your knife.

@Revelatus

Ай бұрын

Yeah I died a little inside. Poor Benchmade

You should definitely make Mere a sapphire ring out of that big chunk that was leftover.

@jimijamesjowitt

Жыл бұрын

Then shoot it off her finger!? No? Meh

@davidswanson5669

Жыл бұрын

Darn, I read this before finishing the video.

So fun fact about that sapphire. I used to work for a company, not gonna name it, that made a version of sapphire ballistic glass mixed with other ballistic materials. It's rumored that it's the same glass that the presidents limo, the beast, has in it. Capable of stopping any small arms up to a 50 BMG repeatedly or long enough for the vehicle to get out of the ambush zone. Edit: it's not that it's super hard, it's super dense. The molecules of the sapphire are tightly packed together due to the extreme pressure it takes to create it, hence the 30 day cook time. Just like a diamond (duh...)

The shattering of the screen protectors is actually a feature. The glass shattering absorbs a lot of energy, saving your phone’s glass.

@Shadow__133

9 ай бұрын

It also keeps you buying screen protectors over and over again 💵

@burnte

9 ай бұрын

@@Shadow__133 which is cheaper than a new screen. That's the whole point.

@Shadow__133

9 ай бұрын

@@burnte But not cheaper than a plastic screen protector that doesn't shatter and protects just the same, except maybe for scratches.

@velphidrow8317

9 ай бұрын

​@Shadow__133 a plastic screen protector will not work the same at all

@Shadow__133

9 ай бұрын

@@velphidrow8317 Correct. It won't shatter if you breath slightly too close to the screen.

Takes "scratches at a level 6, with deeper grooves at a level 7" to a whole new level.

@cw1161

Жыл бұрын

Lv 8 with deeper groves at a lv 9

@SublimeDiesel

Жыл бұрын

Matt should have shaved his head for that segment and talked very monotone

@VapeTime79

2 ай бұрын

Jerry does rig everything

I really think if Matt invested in one of those insane super slow mo cameras he would get some crazy clips with it

@disturbedltlman6007

Жыл бұрын

Or he could just collaborate with the right people maybe Richard Ryan

@thomasa5619

Жыл бұрын

Aren’t the Slow Mo Guys in Texas?

@woventoast9385

Жыл бұрын

Been saying this for years

@anonymousaccordionist3326

Жыл бұрын

@@thomasa5619 Gavin is, yes. Dan flies over to record a slew of videos occasionally.

@esMusicalus

Жыл бұрын

If Kentucky can do super slow-mo on his videos, Matt should be able to figure out how

I feel like if that was laminated sheets (maybe 10mm thick) of sapphire it would have performed a lot better as it would stop the cracks from propagating through the thickness.

At 20:55, I'm pretty sure small pieces of the sapphire are glowing red from heat or something

@Cryzophylax

Жыл бұрын

That faint red glow is due to corundum, which sapphire is a variation of, being fluorescent under blue to UV light in a strong red color. Since daylight contains pretty much all visible light and a bit of UV, it does cause the corundum to glow red, though this is not because of heat.

The clarity on that thing is incredible.

@MattMere

Жыл бұрын

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@manofcultura

Жыл бұрын

It’s basically transparent aluminum.

@proxyhx2075

Жыл бұрын

@@manofcultura Aluminium? No. Steel? Yes.

@proxyhx2075

Жыл бұрын

@@manofcultura I mean it is made out of aluminium oxide, but it's as strong as steel :)

@adawg3032

Жыл бұрын

@@proxyhx2075 yes it’s a material that can be either known as sapphire in its single crystal lattice form or corundum in its multi crystal form with corundum being the mainstay of what is naturally found because sapphire generally is not found in a pure single crystal form in nature but it can be done in a lab

This is actually genius advertising by them. Kinda wanna see one of their screen protectors on a phone vs 22

@blaniac6591

Жыл бұрын

Thanks youtube, for keeping the community safe. But not really though.

@micromot

Жыл бұрын

Wouldn't the shock of the impact just pass through the protector?

@nate6263

Жыл бұрын

@@micromot probably. Itd just be interesting to see

@micromot

Жыл бұрын

@@nate6263 That's true

I love the subtle pink colour of the sapphire

love how Sappire refracts light, like looking through ten inches of sapphire looks like 1cm of glass. doesnt warp image behind at all.

the lines you saw on the side of the sapphire from the knife weren't scratches, they were where the steel in the knife got 'rubbed off' into the texture of the sapphire. that 'coarse' edge is basically a honing stone.

@innovativeyetaknowledgless9035

Жыл бұрын

How did I not think of that?

@bluecreature39

Жыл бұрын

Yup, you can see the silver of the knife dust on the rough side. The noise was unbearable tho.

@punkinhaidmartin

Жыл бұрын

could use it to file hardened steel maybe.

@hirudoKamishi

Жыл бұрын

@@punkinhaidmartin Would indeed work quite well. I use both honing stones and fine grit (5000+) sand paper that are based on corundum (which sapphire is a variation of) on my knives and it's the only thing that actually does something to the hardened steel. Since steel files are typically hardened steel themselfes, both tool and whatever object you have either do nothing against each other or similar amounts of damage.

@punkinhaidmartin

Жыл бұрын

@@hirudoKamishi it's how to file a file.

The "scratches" on the side of the block are actually the metal knife being sanded down on the frosted surface rather than scratches to the sapphire itself.

@KainYusanagi

Жыл бұрын

Was gonna say the same thing, hah!

@overdose4789

Жыл бұрын

I was gonna say that too. Sapphire is sooooooo much harder than any steel. No whay that knife will scratch it.

@beardymcbeardface69

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Was thinking that a large one of these could be great for honing my razors. Love to know what equivalent grit size that frosted side would be. Finest grit stone I use is a Chinese 10,000 grit, to finish on before stropping.

@emanuellukenda5164

Жыл бұрын

Was thinking the same

@hohladych

Жыл бұрын

poor knife

I can't get over the optical clarity of saphire. It's 3 inches thick but it's like looking through a regular window.

Matt, you are an amazing video author. I love all of your videos and keep up the good work!

Synthetic sapphire is such an interesting material and they use it for a lot of military applications too, like helicopter optics.

@nunyabiz4460

Жыл бұрын

Yep!

@bingobanger

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if they layered it with polycarbonate the same as regular bulletproof glass how it would perform

@levianderson80

Жыл бұрын

They use it for the canopies as well

@gaslampnation735

Жыл бұрын

Fun fact, sapphire is aluminum rust. Al2o3

@damienweeks8581

Жыл бұрын

@@gaslampnation735 cool!

I think the "scratches" on the side of the block were actually metal from the knife. Since it wasn't polished smooth, it was abrasive to the metal.

@baconboi4482

Жыл бұрын

Even if it was polished smooth, the metal unless it was made to be harder than it, would scratch off

@Mopki3

Жыл бұрын

This is the comment I was looking for.

These are also used on watches- while super strong and almost scratch proof, it can shatter. They can easily break when pressing the crystal into the watch case. Impressive to see how it holds up to bullets hitting it!

Don't tell mare. Love your channel I have watched you grow and you are awesome . I would like to see you shoot adamantium

If you covered the sapphire in a thick layer of polycarbonate and then placed it in a steel frame, i think it would probably keep together even if it shatters with 50 cal, and may be able to handle more than just one shot.

@scottstewart3884

Жыл бұрын

I was just going to mention a frame. It would have probably still cracked all to hell, but it wouldn't have exploded like it did.

@GEEOttv

Жыл бұрын

Good idea, hope he's gonna consider doing it again.

that first 15 seconds is exactly how I've always imagined Texas hunting works. All that was missing is the yell "It's comin' right for us!"

@jonduncansakurawallknifegarden

Жыл бұрын

Wait we’re not supposed to take RPG’s out when we hunt or camp 😬 I mean I don’t do that or anything or know anyone who does or who ever has. That would be blasphemous. 🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫😅

@belowaverage19

Жыл бұрын

Thats because hes not in colorado.

@mrmaxepik

Жыл бұрын

Be careful with that, you can spill your beer

This is pretty awesome here at 9:56, you can see the projectile traveling about halfway

Am I the only one who thinks Matt could be Chris Pratt’s brother

@JacksonMarquez-zp9br

16 күн бұрын

No, I had the same thought once 😅

@Rediphoenix0812

6 күн бұрын

Lmao same I thought the same thing

I had chills running up my whole body while Matt was scratching the sapphire with the knife tip 😂

@tannerdoberenz2992

Жыл бұрын

What about at the end when he wipes the edge across the cinder block multiple time? I think I dies a little

@thejudgeexecutioner

Жыл бұрын

Anyone thinking of that's what she said jokes when he mentions the word erection.

@Coyote66MB

Жыл бұрын

Nails on a chalkboard

@hipflip-ve6lm

Жыл бұрын

yeah it was awful hearing it

@samuelstearns3262

Жыл бұрын

I actually had to take my headphones off for that. about 15 min in. I hope there is nothing like that again.

I'm super impressed with Matt for keeping a straight face through this one.

@mikespectre4153

Жыл бұрын

It took me a minute to finally realize that there's no way that mouse joke in the beginning was true 😳

@OutlawLotus

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing through the whole video LOL. Still a neat little gun, and hot damn is that synth sapphire tough AF.

@mikespectre4153

Жыл бұрын

@@OutlawLotus im wondering if someone cut that sapphire into some 10x12 swimmer cuts..... just saying if it becomes a thing remember who had the idea lol jk

@Razgriz__1

Жыл бұрын

The way he was looking at that gun at the end I was half expecting him to lick the suppressor lmao.

@SounderMusician

Жыл бұрын

The joke is true.. b&t are hilarious. They’ve mentioned it in interviews before

23:17 In the epic montage... Watching the barrel. Pop forward with each shot... That's pretty cool.

Looks like such a solid gun. I love these things

I love that Matt basically does for a living what I used to do in my backyard with an air rifle as a kid, but with actual guns. You’re livin the dream brotha and I am here for it!

@RageUnchained

Жыл бұрын

@Adam Korzeniowski and I’m sure he’s as passionate about veterinary medicine as he is guns. But he still gets paid to do this stuff even if it’s not his entire livelihood

The combination of laser straight edges and perfect corners, paired with the clarity through only two sides is basically hypnotizing me.

Understand the fear of bullet coming back. Side shooting deflects so much energy. Hence slopping armour. Shoot straight on from now on and use protection. Great video

One of the best skits you’ve come up with Matt hahaha

I miss these type of videos. I remember when you used to shoot different type of metals and finding out which calibre goes through. I used to love those videos.

For the sapphire pieces that came off, have you considered taking a small run to a jeweler to get cut and polished for jewelry? That could be cool.

@captaincouldverc

Жыл бұрын

I believe this is not "jewelry" quality synthetic sapphire. It'll shatter during the machining process.

@thehypercarkittycats175

Жыл бұрын

@@captaincouldverc most likely

@SouthJerseyBaitReviews

Жыл бұрын

@@captaincouldverc Nah it would work there isn't a such thing as jewelry quality sapphire there is grades of sapphire that dictate the quality of the sapphire but. Thats it they could all be used for jewelry but would range in prices depending on the quality of the sapphire. This is synthetic sapphire which is used for jewelry but cheaper price overall.

@captaincouldverc

Жыл бұрын

@@SouthJerseyBaitReviews It appears, after a little quick research, you are correct. Fascinating they've been doing this for so long with sapphire. I even started looking into synthetic rubies as the process is the same, just with a few different ingredients.

@SouthJerseyBaitReviews

Жыл бұрын

@@captaincouldverc yea I hope u didn't feel I was trying to prove u wrong just wanted to inform ya but. Glad u didn't take it that way. An yea synthetic gems in my opinion is just as good as natural ones and quarter of the price. Most people wouldn't even be able to tell.

Sapphire is usually used as a transparent window for experiments or aparatuses that would normally have a really hostile environment that would destroy other materials. High pressure vessels I believe are a common use. And/or high temperature are the usual applications but I'm sure they're used for other things.

as soon as he starts to flex his new gun, you know there gonna be that EPIC MONTAGE later in the video. Keep goin dude I love your channel

Matt is shooting even better than usual, with an invisible target...

@unknownuser8454

Жыл бұрын

this is better?

@neoieo5832

Жыл бұрын

Of shattered glass*

@TheHiro21st

Жыл бұрын

matt your the 🐐

@vulkunvision

Жыл бұрын

@@neoieo5832 all the .22 shots*

I feel like a frame around the sapphire block would strengthen it a lot and make it hold up to more shots and possibly a bigger caliber

@clayblaze1327

Жыл бұрын

Thought the same thing, if they could have it grow around a carbon nanotube frame as well it would I suspect be the toughest armour we would have as the tubes would solve the shattering issues

@JathTech

Жыл бұрын

They usually do armored windows in laminate layers, with a more flexible layer in between each layer. This prevents the cracks from going all the way through to the next layer, and the flexible layers hold everything together.

@Fella48

Жыл бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking

@14:30 "thuper thonic nine milimeter thrtaight on the thaphire" 😂😂😂😂

Thanks for the info... Now i know which gun and bullet to use now❤❤

My company grows sapphire. It's used for little windows for sensors and stuff on the outside of fighter jets, among other things. It's a pretty insane material. Edit: just saw your question about humvee windows. Yes, it would be wildly expensive, and like you saw, wouldn't be able to withstand multiple hits. When they mentioned "30 day furnace cycle" or whatever, that's referring to how sapphire is actually grown as a single crystal. You have to melt aluminum oxide at ridiculously high temperatures, then seed a single crystal, and slowly draw out that single crystal from the melt over weeks to months, depending on the size of the crystal. It's extremely finicky, and the larger you want to go, the more difficult it gets. To get chunks of sapphire big enough for a window would probably be possible, but my gut says they'd cost somewhere on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars up to maybe millions per window. Part of that too is that you'd basically be taking up a whole furnace for several months just for one window.

@herrhaber9076

Жыл бұрын

I tried to imagine the value of that large piece then compare it to the price of a similar size Tungsten block. Pretty sure sapphire beats tungsten !

@NickShelden

Жыл бұрын

you got any input on how heavy this block (6"*6"*3") would have been? I noticed it seemed to sit on the table better than most similarly sized objects I've seen shot.

@NickShelden

Жыл бұрын

oh, just realized that a significant portion of the energy of the shot goes into the bits of the bullet that are splatted off to the side, rather than being absorbed by the target through penetration. That may also affect how much the block moves.

@SnivyTries

Жыл бұрын

I'm now curious how difficult it would be to produce a single sheet of sapphire roughly the size of an armor plate. And of course, how much thickness would a sapphire actually need to have to not just shatter from one pistol caliber shot...

@herrhaber9076

Жыл бұрын

@@SnivyTries Interesting thought, it would probably be madly expensive though :) I assume a few layers of Kevlar or other material would help spread the shock thus reducing the risk of shatter ? Imagine that... non newtonian fluids over sapphire... You still have to deal with the kinetic energy in the end, no matter how great your body armor is.

The lines on the rough side of the sapphire is actually micro dust from the knife. Basically like a super fine sand paper

@OnTheRiver66

Жыл бұрын

Would make an excellent fine hone for his knife.

@CDCI3

Жыл бұрын

That was my guess, he was just dulling his knife instead of scratching the sapphire.

@SergeyMorsin

Жыл бұрын

Sandpaper is made of corundum (Aluminum-III oxide) grains glued to paper or canvas. Sapphire and ruby is also a corundum with some metal contaminants giving them color. So technically it's not "like sand paper", it IS sandpaper to the extreme. A single-grain uber-sandpaper without any paper at all.

@ledocteur7701

Жыл бұрын

@@SergeyMorsin the true 1 grit.

@DrAdityaReddy

Жыл бұрын

@@SergeyMorsin it's like sand paper

Subsonic with the suppressor sounds crazy

All I can say is this is cool (especially the first weapon and it's suppressor). And I don't say that much anymore. Thanks!

For those who don't know, both ruby and sapphire are varieties of corundum, which is crystallized aluminum oxide. Corundum is also used as "emery", an abrasive used in certain kinds of sandpaper.

@tokimcbongrip8751

Жыл бұрын

instantly thinks of the star trek movie where they go back in time to bring whales back to the future "Transparent Aluminum"

@tcp3059

Жыл бұрын

@@tokimcbongrip8751 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@r0nb0h0ju

Жыл бұрын

@tcp3059 Thanks for that knowledge drop. I'd imagine you have heard of "aluminum glass"? We need to get some of that to Matt lol. Your statement helped me tie information together.

@marblemarble7113

Жыл бұрын

Aluminum oxide is incredibly hard. Harder than tungsten in fact.

@The_Ballo

Жыл бұрын

Someone actually made transparent aluminum (to replace the glass on the shuttle), but then the DOD stepped in and made the formula secret

in the scratch test, it was actually the knife that got scratched and left residue on the sapphire block, not the other way around.

i really enjoyed the quick montage at the end .

REALLY surprised at how shatterproof that sapphire block was! Decent quality watch crystals are made of sapphire (Hardness 9), lower quality are made of 'mineral glass' (synthetic quartz) with a hardness of 6. Less scratch resistant, but better shatter resistance.

The edge of that block of sapphire is great for touching up knife edges. The visible “scratches” on the side of the block was metal left from the knife’s point.

@TheUmdexMan

Жыл бұрын

Holy shit these bots

Cool man! My eyes turn purple! Danny Hall!

Such a good experiment!

I liked the part where you were trying to scratch the rough edge and said you could see the scratches when in reality the metal from your knife was probably just getting filed off and stuck in the roughness.

Can we just appreciate how smoothly and straight faced he said erection multiple times without breaking into laughter?

@Caninecancersucksrocks

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! Dude is a rock - not even so much as a saucy sparkle in his eyes. Kinda makes you wonder how many takes he needed to manage it.

@markoltedal198

Жыл бұрын

They grow up so fast

@AreUmygrandson

Жыл бұрын

The magic of editing

@mircat28

Жыл бұрын

Why would he break into laughter? He’s no longer 12 years old.

@ricoweapon1694

Жыл бұрын

@@mircat28 because people can have a sense of humor?

was curious and a quick google revealed the army is actually using this stuff as shielding for sniper canopies (don't know the official term, sorry) on humvees. So yeah...I'd say it works really well. Cool stuff!~

Love my B&T APC9 pro. It's like shooting with a cheat code. Amazing gun. Gmh is ok, the apc frame though, just sick .

Fun fact: RUBY and SAPPHIRE are made from the same mineral CORUNDUM. Sapphires are available in many colors, that is why this block is colorless and transparent. Some sandpaper is coated in ruby crystals. Rolex watch crystals are also made from lab grown clear sapphire.

@tedstriker4278

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, next Time I get robbed with small calibre, I deflect shots with my (non Rolex) Watch 😀

@Belfor09

Жыл бұрын

I don't think he received a real sapphire, a blue corundum. I think it's a sapphire crystal, a synthetic one which is just aluminium oxide treated with high temperature

@SoloRenegade

Жыл бұрын

made of rusty aluminum

@SoloRenegade

Жыл бұрын

@ArborialAspect what parrot?

@greylocke100

Жыл бұрын

The "Glass" in several Attack helicopters like the AH-64 Apache are made from sapphire, the same for the vision blocks of tanks and armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles.

Love your videos. Keep doing them. Or else.

@razorcrestriding6745

Жыл бұрын

@BombDefusedOnKZread Mere will be told

@williamgray9088

Жыл бұрын

@BombDefusedOnKZread We all gonna cry, that's what.

A combo of layered acrylic and sapphire sheets? Lots of fun shooting and blowing things up.

after the second time you had issues seeing it, i couldn't figure out why you wouldn't just put a red marker or something behind it considering it's clear. great vid as always!

God, that scratching sent shivers up and down my spine

@hardluckclub7271

Жыл бұрын

glad someone else was in utter pain! the minute he put knife to that block, volume went off in anticipation.

@aidanberlin2139

Жыл бұрын

Can’t tell if your speaking from a knife persons perspective or the sound lmao

I suppose now the question becomes "how many sapphire screen protectors does it take to make your own body armor?"

@joshuapostill4952

Жыл бұрын

This

@Stealth639

Жыл бұрын

I like your thinking.

@knrz2562

Жыл бұрын

To heavy and it'll just shatter

@jimdarhower4945

Жыл бұрын

He did do that about a year ago.

@antaine1916

Жыл бұрын

@@jimdarhower4945 They weren't sapphire crystal, just tempered glass.

I like this video. 😮 nice collection!!

The fact that the sapphire can stop the almighty lung blower just goes to show how hard that stuff is

@SoloRenegade

Жыл бұрын

rusty aluminum

@chriskyle151

Жыл бұрын

ISLAM promotes terrorism and stone women for adultery and behead non-muslims for mocking Islam

@theKashConnoisseur

Жыл бұрын

@@SoloRenegade aluminized oxygen

@bobjohnson1633

Жыл бұрын

Lol it isn't rusty aluminium because rust is iron oxide. This is aluminum oxide.

I think you might find that the "scratch marks" at 03:18 are really bits of metal rubbed off your knife point, sort of like a crayon on concrete. Synthetic sapphire is aluminium oxynitride, after all...

@claponclapoff6

Жыл бұрын

Transparent aluminum like from the Star Trek movie where they made the tank for the whale

@blacknoir2404

Жыл бұрын

sapphire is aluminum oxide. aluminum oxynitride is the "transparent aluminum" that everyone keeps talking about.

I was really hoping you would use .5 cal, I am so glad you did!

GHM9, the weapon you get when you glue the top of a sawn off Thompson onto the bottom of an MP5. I approve. ❤❤

The sapphire is harder than the knife, the "scratches" you're seeing are metal residue from the knife tip, on the smooth surface there is nothing to scratch the knife

7:38 I don’t know how he said that with a straight face 😂

Subsonic with that silencer sounded cool

10:20 watching this in 2024, I realized I completely forgot about the shot up gun safe..... Ahh, good times. Glad the good times have kept rolling for demoranch

Quote of the year goes to Matt for this gem: You didn’t say we couldn’t explode them!

@colbullsigh6823

Жыл бұрын

You ought to send some 50 carat pieces of the sapphire to those who buy merch! It would sure make a better gemstone than cubic zirconia!

@chriskyle151

Жыл бұрын

ISLAM promotes terrorism and stone women for adultery and behead non-muslims for mocking Islam

@andyappleton3353

Жыл бұрын

It's the best way to hunt them. No preparation necessary. Just instant ground meat.

@MortenBulskov

Жыл бұрын

You can't eat red mist 😂

@RICDirector

Жыл бұрын

(Inhales) What? You didnt say we couldnt breathe them!

I love seeing the waves in the sapphire where it broke. I imagine that's what it was doing for an instant before fracturing along some point of the oscillations.

@GaiusCaligula234

Жыл бұрын

No, it's just a fracture profile of sapphire

They use sapphire on the optics for the f35, if you look at the bottom of the nose, you'll see the sapphire lenses that hold the imaging suite.

I love how the 50.bmg just demolished the sapphire awesome!

Another geologist fan of yours here. You could have a lot of fun with a video shooting through the whole Moh's hardness series. A BB gun might take out hardness 1 stuff, but it would be neat to see what it would take as you get up to 8! (Since we just saw what happens at 9 and you're sadly unlikely to get any diamonds from folks to shoot) It would be, dare I say, gneiss!

@knrz2562

Жыл бұрын

Diamond is weak hardness doesn't mean anything You can use a hammer and just break pieces off That's why most armors are made of fabrics or composites Or light weight metals

@WorkInProgressX

Жыл бұрын

@@knrz2562 that’s brittleness or low resilience. What you described is the resistance to sudden forces, hardness is how much a material resists to being penetrated by another one. Usually hard materials are also brittle

@knrz2562

Жыл бұрын

@@WorkInProgressX is there perfect material?!. That can resist everything?!.

@MattMere

Жыл бұрын

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@maliki14

Жыл бұрын

@@knrz2562 nah, pros and cons to all

This would be fun to watch a slo mo guys version of this.

@woody369

Жыл бұрын

Slow mo camera behind the glass, focused on the front. Just seeing bullets split apart.

@jochenreichl796

Жыл бұрын

@@woody369 If seeing the glass (mirror) split apart is OK, they've done that: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eWFqt7B-YJzRh5M.html

Matt, have you heard about sapphire scalpels? They’re one of the sharpest objects known to mankind, the edge of the blade is so thin and fine that incision will heal significantly faster than those made by a normal stainless steel scalpel.

My Citizen CC9015-54C watch (which was top of their range at the time and cost over £2,000 when I bought it), has lots of great features like GPS and radio time signal reception. However, I think the best thing is the sapphire crystal. After 12 years, it looks as good as new, despite some scary scrapes over the years. But I’m not prepared to test it by firing a bullet at it, especially if it’s on my wrist at the time.

Very cool that they were able to manufacture that piece, truly a marvelous achievement.

@joshp6061

Жыл бұрын

Silicon wouldn’t make an interesting shooting video though lol, a 9 mm would shatter it

That's a new form of art

That explosion thought is very very much something that I would think too man accurate positioning indeed😂

The ideas never end for this channel

@dest891

Жыл бұрын

brooooooooo its sick to see you here. much love brother, stay on that grom life.

@herrhaber9076

Жыл бұрын

I can only imagine a huuuuuuge number of people arrived to the channel after reasearching an insane idea they just had. Nothing wrong with that :)

@redgamr27

Жыл бұрын

yooo it's fooligan!

@Spacecruizer203

11 ай бұрын

Was actually looking for a Hickok 45 comment but a fooligan will do 💯💪🏼 good to see other tubers on here you would think there would be more comments from peeps you know they be 👀👀👀

The amount of forms and stamps you have filled out over the years must fill up an entire house.

@Xander081987

Жыл бұрын

No way bro! "Shall not be infringed" Right? hahahaha

@stereotypicalwhitemale848

Жыл бұрын

@@Xander081987 tell me you live in a desert and you think that the government is after you without telling me….

@Masterchief0521

Жыл бұрын

I think if he registers them to his company it's faster

@stereotypicalwhitemale848

Жыл бұрын

@@Masterchief0521 Yeah nothing like waiting 6-8 months to get a freaking gun because you had to fill out extra paperwork.

@stevenreyngold7121

Жыл бұрын

Forms?

Sapphire like ruby, is made of corundum a crystalline form of aluminum oxide. It is the 2nd hardest next to diamond. Hardness does not equal strong. Typically the more hard something is the more brittle it is. Hardness means how easily a material can be worn down or scratched. The only thing keeping this from shattering by even a hammer is due to it's massive thickness. The shockwave must fracture ll the way through for it to shatter. Cool video!

my mind didnt want to laugh at the opening skit, but my body knew it was hilarious😅😂

Sapphire is awesome stuff. The aerospace industry uses tons of the stuff for when you need to see in very hostile environments. It is also used as the crystal on a lot of high end (and nowadays not so high end) watches. Because it is so scratch proof and tough. Another fun one is silicon. The crazy thing with that is if you get an IR camera you can see through it, but with visible light it's totally opaque.

@brycearmstrong2891

Жыл бұрын

What if you use the sapphire screen protector on the outside of bullet proof glass?

@EJ_D._Kidd

Жыл бұрын

@@brycearmstrong2891 the best place would probably be behind the glass instead of outside the glass

@xeon39688

Жыл бұрын

Sapphire is also used on phones

@minekush1138

Жыл бұрын

​@@xeon39688 dura phone's have sapphire screens

@jirikurto3859

Жыл бұрын

My favorite is aluminum which you can use to wrap sandwiches.

Something clear like this would be amazing to see shot in super slow motion! Watching the bullet deform would be sweet!

@b.a.beterman8455

Жыл бұрын

It would be awesome to get multiple angles, one from the side and one directly behind the block.

@peacefuljeffrey

Жыл бұрын

I think that the best part would be watching the cracks propagate.

Think of your trigger hand as pushing up and out, then other down and in. Will keep the bounce down much more than just pushing it straight out from you in sling.