How many time have you accidentally contribute yourself a papercut after excitedly tearing open a delivery from Amazon ? AsJapan ’s most resourceful tongue makerdemonstrates , those papercuts could be a lot worse if youspend hours fastidiously turn those composition board boxes intoa razor - sharp chef ’s knife .

The process involves soaking the composition board in water , repeatedly turn up it over on itself , wedge out all the moisture , pounding it vapid , and trying to get the composition board to dry as thin , impenetrable , and stiff as possible . There does n’t look to be any liquid credit card rosin added as a stiffener , but at one point the surplus composition board is tear up , soaked , and boiled , presumably to extract all the glues holding it together , which the cardboard blade was soak in to meliorate rigidity . So while the results successfully slice and dice , this is the last utensil in your kitchen you ’d want to toss in the dish washer .

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