If positioned the right way, paper is known to give some pretty mean paper cuts, so say to the office tethered thrill seekers of the world. Try to cut wood by running a sheet of paper against it, however, and you’ll end up a mangled piece of paper. But, perhaps we’ve been using paper the wrong way all along. Maybe it’s a metaphor for life, put an object or a person in the wrong situation and get poor results, but put them in the right situation and you’ll reap the rewards.
Think about it like this: a piece of paper is terrible at flying, but fold it just right and that baby will be soaring through the air. So, what would happen if a piece of paper was cut the size of a table saw blade and installed in the saw? Magic, that’s what.
John Hiesz of I Build It recently performed that exact experiment and put it on Youtube for all the world to see. With the power of the table saw behind the paper, the single piece of standard printer paper was not only powerful enough to slice through some other sheets of paper, but it also made pretty quick work of other pieces of cardboard and a thin piece of wood. John did mention on I Build It’s website that some of the video is sped up as much as 16 times the actual speed, so it’s not a quick cut, but it’s still pretty impressive what paper can actually do. As you’ll see in the video below, the paper was able to cut partially through the thicker piece of wood, but was ultimately overpowered. Hiesz also mentioned that the paper was not able to cut anything harder than wood, after trying to cut aluminum.
Enjoy the video!
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