{"id":2286,"date":"2019-05-09T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2025-09-23T08:49:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T08:49:56","slug":"when-furze-met-swifty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/2019\/05\/when-furze-met-swifty\/","title":{"rendered":"When Furze met Swifty"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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With over 7.8 million subscribers to his YouTube channel, a background in TV and a cult favourite \u2013 Colin Furze is the Inventor for the 21st Century. Renowned for inventions that even the most imaginative of people wouldn\u2019t envisage \u2013 his repertoire includes the world\u2019s fastest mobility scooter, a spinning belt of knives and a bike with wheels made of solid ice.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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His YouTube videos have reached an audience of more than 824 million and inspired children to go to school dressed up as him for world book days. He is doing for STEM perhaps what David Attenborough did for plastic pollution \u2013 raising awareness on a subject that has always been present but has been largely overlooked.<\/p>

His workshop houses an arsenal of tools, equipment and scribbled designs on bits of old ply, but it\u2019s his newest addition that is the jewel in his crown. Citing it as \u2018life-changing\u2019 on his\u00a0website, The Swifty has been an exciting and innovative addition to his collection. What blew him away was just how easy The Swifty was to set up and run \u2013 he wasn\u2019t expecting to be creating within hours of receiving it. The machine\u2019s capabilities are extraordinary and he has been impressed with just how much he can do.<\/p>

When Swift-Cut asked Colin how he was getting on with his machine, his exact words were:<\/p>

\u201cI love it. If you tried to take it off me, I\u2019d fight you!\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>

It\u2019s no understatement to say that he\u2019s thrilled. Prior to The Swifty, he either struggled with an angle grinder or he simply couldn\u2019t create his designs. Being held back by substandard equipment was stifling, such creativity and imagination needed a machine that could translate it and bring it all to life.<\/p>

Asked where he gets his ideas from, Colin laughed,<\/p>

\u201cSometimes they\u2019re born in my brain, sometimes from films, YouTube subscriber comments\u2026the world around me really\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>

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It\u2019s not hard to see why he has so many followers on social media. When haven\u2019t you wanted to watch someone let off hundreds of thousands of fireworks at once, just because?\u00a0 His irreverent, almost skewed imagination has created some of the wackiest inventions ever seen. But more than that, they work \u2013 they showcase an exceptional engineering brain and skillset that is years in the making.<\/p>

He now uses The Swifty for pretty much every project. He\u2019ll often start an invention without intending to use it and then realise that utilising The Swifty could make it better, or easier, or add an extra element to his invention that he hadn\u2019t previously planned for.<\/p>

Fitting nicely into his workshop, The Swifty\u2019s portability and footprint were two big reasons Colin chose Swift-Cut.\u00a0 And as much as he would also love to add a Swift-Cut Pro machine to his collection, one gets the feeling that the ingenious and gutsy Furze and the small but feisty Swifty are actually a match made in heaven.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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With over 7.8 million subscribers to his YouTube channel, a background in TV and a cult favourite \u2013 Colin Furze is the Inventor for the 21st Century. Renowned for inventions that even the most imaginative of people wouldn\u2019t envisage \u2013 his repertoire includes the world\u2019s fastest mobility scooter, a spinning belt of knives and a bike with wheels made of solid ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15],"tags":[18,80,79,25,31,49,16,23],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swift-cut-case-studies","category-swift-cut-news","tag-cnc-plasma-cutting-table","tag-colin-furze-inventor","tag-colin-furze-youtube-influencer","tag-metal-cutting","tag-metal-fabrication","tag-swift-cut-case-study","tag-swift-cut-news","tag-swift-cut-pro-plasma-table"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sugarmarketing.co.uk\/EL26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}