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Brian Unger and Lou Bloomfield try their luck at sewing together a moonbounce. Later, they head to a Zamboni manufacturing plant in order to see how ice resurfacers are pieced together. Finally, they head out in order to see just how sand is turned into wind-resistant windows.
Hosts Brian Unger and Louis Bloomfield travel to the Gibson guitar factory in Nashville, Tennessee to handcraft a classic six-string Les Paul electric guitar, a high-voltage work of art. Then, they head for the Batesville Casket Company in Indiana to discover the secret ingredient built into caskets to make them last. Finally, the duo heads to Burt's Bees in Durham, North Carolina to find out why the company's amazingly popular lip balm melts on your lips and not in your pocket.
In this episode, hosts Brian and Lou find themselves at the Ebonite bowling ball factory in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where they discover the centre of bowling ball isn't round. It's specially designed to improve the odds of bowling a strike... every time. Next, they meet Herm Roland, the Willy Wonka of jellybeans, to find out why Jelly Bellies aren't your basic bean. Finally, our duo ends up making an environmentally compliant toilet at Kohler in Wisconsin.
Lou and Brian travel to Wisconsin's Henning's Cheese Factory to understand how cheddar cheese gets its distinctive flavour. There, they find a microscopic world of enzymes and bacteria. Then the guys run over to New Balance in Lawrence, Massachusetts to get a custom-fit running shoe that perfectly balances cushioning and stability. Finally, our hosts build a Steinway piano on Long Island, doing everything from shaping the wood to helping rig the piano's 230 strings
Brian heads to Japan to make the perfect steel knife with the descendants of Samurai sword masters, while back home Lou reveals the molecular properties of steel. Then the duo lands at the John Deere factory in Wisconsin, where they assemble a lawnmower. Finally, Brian and Lou travel to the country's oldest chocolate factory in San Francisco to find out how a bitter bean becomes a scrumptious treat.
Brian and Lou take a swing at making high-tech golf clubs engineered to improve a player's shot every swing. Then they cross the pond to Austria to build a redesigned BMW diesel engine that's no longer slow, noisy or dirty. Back on U.S. soil, the duo goes underground to blast salt out of the mines.
Hosts Brian and Lou travel to Kentucky, Brian and Lou's activities in this episode include distilling whiskey, creating a cat's eye marble, and building a boat that cannot sink.
Join Brian as he learns the painstaking process in which crash-test dummies are assembled. Next, Brian travels to a company that make old-fashioned kettle chips.
Brian travels to Dublin Ohio, home of Sutphen fire engines to learn how to build one. Then, Brian travels to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas to see how pure, white, refined sugar is made.
Join Brian at the Leatherman factory, where they make their cool new tool-the Skeletool. Then, Brian heads to Simmons in Charlotte, North Carolina to uncover the science of how they make the Simmons Beautyrest.
Brian travels to Eugene, Oregon to work with the Bow-Tech craftsman to create a state-of-the-art compound bow. Next, he goes to Monrovia, North Carolina where the legendary Ludwig drums are pounded out for rock stars & wannabes all over the world.
Brian Unger travels to Easton, Pennsylvania to make...washable crayons, the much-loved tool of young artists. Then, he heads to Orrville, Ohio to build the breath-taking pipe organs that Schantz installs in churches nationwide.
Brian travels to South Pittsburg, Tennessee to the Lodge Cast Iron Cookware to learn how to make cast-iron cookware. Then, on to Old Town, Maine where for the last 100 years the craftsmen of Old Town Canoes have made some of the world's finest watercraft.
Brian Unger heads to the home of country music, Nashville Tennessee to assemble the city's 100-year old newspaper. Join Brian Unger as he heads to Portland, Tennessee to learn how to build a world-class pool table.
How do you build a semi tractor-trailer capable of pulling up to 80,000 tons and make it fuel efficient? Brian Unger finds out at the Peterbilt factory. Then, he heads to Upper Sandusky, Ohio to make a shotgun that's been around since 1937.
Brian tries his hand at making bread in San Francisco, and then hops over to the East Coast to take a look at a rigid-inflatable boat.
In this episode Brian visits Honda ATV factory to see how an ATV is manufactured Also a look round the Alcoa Aluminum plant to observe the making of aluminum foil.
Brian examines tennis balls in Arizona, and then heads to Maine to look at some kayaks. Also: silly putty.
Included in this episode Titleist golf balls; panty hose at Holt Hosiery. Also: a segment on the tape measure.
