Building the World’s Largest Scissors
Building the World’s Largest Scissors started with a challenge from FHK—a young builder and filmmaker whose two channels, FHK (link) and FHK Fries (link), have been growing through large-scale engineering builds and travel-based food content. In the middle of a production week, he walked into the shop at Kamish Studios and said, “Let’s build the world’s largest scissors.” The idea sounded excessive, which made it worth doing. Turning an everyday tool into a twelve-foot sculpture meant treating the object like a piece of public art: sketching the silhouette, refining proportions, and building the form so it reads instantly as “scissors” from a distance. At this scale, materials disappear behind the silhouette—foam, wood, composite coatings.
Designing a Giant Object
The oversized scissors also connect to a clear lineage in contemporary art. Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen took ordinary objects and enlarged them to question how scale changes meaning, and that influence is intentional here. The original plan was to build this piece for another creator known as Cizzorz and deliver it as a physical object entering digital culture. That chapter shifted, but the project continued. The scissors became an original Kamish Studios build directed by FHK and backed by a studio that knows how to fabricate at scale. The result demonstrates how online ideas can turn into physical sculpture when supported by real engineering and craftsmanship.
Putting It Out in Public
Once the paint dried and the piece stood twelve feet tall in the studio, it needed a world around it—not a wall. We loaded the sculpture into Minneapolis and walking around the Walker Art Sculpture Garden, a landmark for public art. Walking the scissors among permanent monumental works shifted the context immediately. What could have been a stunt turned into a sculpture. Visitors stopped, pointed, took photos, and kids climbed into the handle loops like a piece of playground architecture. No caption was needed; the scissors fit in with the other sculptures, like they had been there all along and the form communicated on its own. The entire build—from the first sketch to finish and public reaction—is documented on the FHK channel (link to the exact video), closing the loop between fabrication and storytelling.
Learn more about how Kamish Studios develops custom sculptures from concept to installation on our Capabilities page.
How the Story Twisted
The original plan included a surprise social hack to another YouTube creator Cizzors— a social experiment about the internet becoming physical. That chapter didn’t play out the way we imagined. The scissors never left our hands, and in the end, that turned into the best outcome possible. Instead of disappearing into someone else’s content stream, the piece came home with us and became part of Kamish Studios’ story, and part of FHK’s journey as a builder and storyteller. The rejection made the sculpture stronger. It allowed the focus to shift away from the reaction and toward the record: we built the world’s largest scissors, installed them in a world-class sculpture garden, and documented the entire process from start to finish. The piece now stands as a proof point — what happens when a young creator’s imagination runs directly into a studio that knows how to fabricate anything he can think up.
See other projects where we’ve blended digital tools with traditional sculpture on our Works page.
Final Thoughts
At the core, big work isn’t about size for the sake of size — it’s about following an idea further than most people think is reasonable. A pair of scissors is so ordinary that it disappears in your hand. Make it twelve feet tall, and suddenly it becomes surreal, funny, bold, and weirdly poetic. This project was a turning point for FHK — showing him that if he has an idea crazy enough to chase, Kamish Studios can engineer it into reality and turn it into content that lives beyond a screen. For our studio, it reinforced something we’ve always believed: art doesn’t need permission. It needs space, tools, and the confidence to go all the way. From sacred bronzes at Notre Dame to a twelve-foot pair of scissors in a sculpture garden, our mission stays the same — turn impossible ideas into objects that stop people in their tracks. If you want to see how this one came to life — from the first sketch to the moment a crowd surrounded it — watch the full video on FHK’s YouTube channel, and catch the follow-ups on FHK Fries as the story continues.