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While I doubt you are going to be reading this, kydex also works great for creating “holsters” for other tools, such as pliers for linemen and other people who need odd shaped tools kept on their person. I bet Adam knows a tool or two he would love to keep on his belt around the shop, if so, he should make a kydex “holster” for it or them.
@@tested Thanks for the answer. ))) In the next video I noticed that there was nothing on the right hand anymore)) I was very curious about what kind of drawing it was)
Adam, have you ever thought to make a clock that goes really slow? that way when you do the timelapse, the clock is going at normal speed. Like a little easter egg.
Could be done with a mechanical clock, with a programmable driver - set it to match whatever you think the time lapse rate will be. Or make it go REALLY fast and sync up to multiple rates
I have watched so many of these videos now, and nothing is more satisfying than watching Adam make things and watching his process throughout the project. I often times catch myself just absolutely lost watching him machine things.. it's fantastic!
Somewhere an eBay seller who specializes in odd wall-thickness pipes, is going thru his old invoices thinking "Savage Industries...I knew that sounded familiar!"
Wow, this brings back memories. As a kid in the 60's I had a vacuform "toy". Incredibly, children were allowed to soften plastic sheets over what was essentially a hotplate, then flip it over to vacuum it down over a form. Life was great before product liability became a thing!
You need a camera jib that slides along your ceiling (or somewhere above your head) to position your camera anywhere in your shop so you can get those closeups anywhere.
@@jakobgood8831 Yeah, me too. I did one for myself and there are many others on the internet. I would love to see his design brain on that type of task.
I get so used to watching the tool build/shop upgrade videos, that I forget what a capable machinist Adam is. The aluminum part fabrication was quite impressive.
Fun! UA-cam wasn't serving me these videos anymore, only those of Adam answering questions. So glad he mentioned it, and I found a treasure trove of making videos to watch!
It's like looking back when Adam was younger, always an exciting person back then, especially when it comes to something that I knew Adam Savage would enjoy.
The start of this video is giving me big happy flashbacks to the late 90s, sitting in the chillout tent at a rave somewhere in somerset, sun coming up, listening to ambient tunes and being entranced by the projections screen showing all these massive industrial machining processes on a time-lapse. Not related except in the most superficial way to the content of this video but lovely stuff nonetheless.
First. Thanks for answering the tattoo question! Second: I found the band saw operation enlightening. The close up shots of the drill was ironic. Look how big it is, oh wait! that bit and piece are tiny! Can't wait to see how the rest of the parts come together!
I had to watch this video twice to see where that new (not new, not tattoo) was and I found it at 15:30 if anyone was curious. He either laid his arm down on a wet inked material, or he drew it on. The mystery continues!
I cannot help but think if Adam Savage ever got very, very deeply into theoretical physics, to the point where he's discovering theoretical stuff that he then applies in his engineering work, he'd the be the most joyful mad-scientist on the planet.
I wonder do you teach younger makers? There must be so much knowledge in you that needs passing on. These videos are a delight and a priceless resource.
The eyes have it. I have been making Eye Mechs on my 3d printer and scaring the hell out of people for a while now. I'm working n a head in a pickle jar for Halloween!
Did anyone else notice that the hole on that aluminum pipe wasn't properly centered when Adam was cutting it on the lathe? Not by a terrible amount, but watching the center hole bob up and down while the outside stayed stationary made me notice and upset my graphic designer heart.
I also noticed it, it would have been a waste of time to use a boring bar to clean up the ID, but I still wanted it. I would never have made it working in a model shop that needs to get things done on time...
I assume he noticed it, weighed up the time spent in fixing or making from scratch against the acceptable tolerances of the ID not being perfect, and decided to go ahead
Yeah, I'm sure he noticed as well, but for the intended purpose of creating an eye lid where that would be on the inside and being that it would be a non issue, it's just wasting time for no reason to address it. Also life and organics are always asymmetric. So yeah, for the job it's needed for, its pointless to waste going through the extra effort in my opinion. :)
Fixtures, or jigs, were my favorite part of being a cabinet maker 😁 so, so many operations in making customized furniture & stuff like that are so, so much easier to do well with a fixture, even if you don't have to repeat that operation tons of time - and yeah, that means spending a lot of time on something that isn't the end product but you spend WAY less time on that operation & the result is so much better!
This fascinated me. I wish I had taken a different path for my career. I would love to problem solve all day, and at the end have something tangible and permanent to show for it. I love this, and sci-fi has always been where my head is. It's true what they say about regret. It's better to regret something you HAVE done rather that regret something you HAVEN'T done. Oh well. I'll continue to watch and live vicariously through your backlog of videos.❤
Might just be me, but the sound being made when the bit is lowering around the 9:33 mark, reminds me of the sound the power loaders make in the movie Aliens. My mind just immediately went there.
7:44 if you want a great example of what Adam talked about drill pieces do warp and move, look close here at how much that drill bit wobbles even as it lines up with the pre-drilled bits.
Wonderful video. I can’t imagine any more satisfying mode of production/creation than high-precision turning/milling. Of course I can’t think of any more expensive mode to tool up for either. 😕
i love that adam has to put his hands behind his back while waiting for a mill to be complete, like he has to actively prevent himself from messing with it during the process
1:34 I know that as "Reagents" when playing World of Warcraft, when leveling up a profession (mostly Engineering and Mining). Although, with engineering i think they were just called "Parts", now that i think of it, but my point was, i never saw the word "fixtures" when talking about ingredients that were made solely to be used up into making the end product.
I'm always amazed at the precision you accomplish with such bouncy floors... Would it be worthwhile (or even possible) to access your floor structure from underneath and double up the joists or add support piers under some of the heavier equipment and/or workbench? Is a very beautiful but old structure I imagine...
A quick tip about the vacuum former. The bottom tray / bed is removable. Pry it off the base like a coffee can lid to reveal a flat bed on the base underneath. You don't have to cut your forms from a deep dish.
As a maker, how much of what you do with the different jigs and techniques is from having observed it or do you just come up with some of these on the fly? It's fascinating to watch.
Hey Adam, maybe this might be helpful for you in the future who knows, but since i work a lot with 3d printing and thermoforming, there is much easier ways to achieve your results. For example you could transform your 3d printed part into plaster either by printing the mould or by making the mould out of alginate. Thermoforming and cutting plaster is way easier. Alternatively you could use a resin printer since the material isnt thermoplastic its also great to work with.
my first thought on some of these is "No cutting fluid?" but that's because I listened to the audiobook of 'Everything is a Hammer' again over the weekend...
A lifetime spent working to produce things to sometimes brutal and impossible deadlines has instilled a sometimes spastic sense of urgency to your movements and actions that you are obviously ruled by in the moment, even when time is not pressing. But the other side of that long coin of experience is that it all works. And works well. Endless kudos.
Hello, Adam, I know you most likely will not see this comment, but still, I would like to send you greetings from Ukraine and thank you for a happy childhood, you are one of the people thanks to whom I began to develop diversified, I hope if I survive , then in my old age my “cave” will be similar to yours =) Long life and peace to you, Adam.
Oh so fixturing is like building framework to do a specific kind of jig or even mold making would be creating a fixture that you use with your mold material
± .0000 tolerance??? Damn that's tough. So glad to see Adam has gotten over his prejudice against digital calipers. Maybe it was the numerous advantages they provide over purely manual ones? It's sometimes hard for older workers to accept change. Bravo Adam.
I wonder if the striking resemblance to the eye robot on the door of Jabba's Palace is a coincidence, or if its design was inspired by these sorts of mechanisms
Adam, an idea for a video it would be really cool if you made a bigger vacuum machine to make copies of props and masks, because with a rigid sculpture underneath, you could make a lot of masks
NOTE: ADAM DOES NOT HAVE A NEW TATTOO! It is a temporary tattoo from the Silo activation at San Diego Comic Con.
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While I doubt you are going to be reading this, kydex also works great for creating “holsters” for other tools, such as pliers for linemen and other people who need odd shaped tools kept on their person. I bet Adam knows a tool or two he would love to keep on his belt around the shop, if so, he should make a kydex “holster” for it or them.
@@LTCDRRAZOR He did a sheet metal holster for a multi-tool several years ago, but it turned out too small!
I dream of when I have enough money to retire and spend the rest of my life sitting in my workshop building weird crap
@@tested Thanks for the answer. ))) In the next video I noticed that there was nothing on the right hand anymore)) I was very curious about what kind of drawing it was)
@@CandygramMongo if he is getting paid for it, is he really retired?
Adam, have you ever thought to make a clock that goes really slow? that way when you do the timelapse, the clock is going at normal speed. Like a little easter egg.
I love this idea! Very clever
I really hope Adam sees this one. lol
Could be done with a mechanical clock, with a programmable driver - set it to match whatever you think the time lapse rate will be.
Or make it go REALLY fast and sync up to multiple rates
but let it run backwards. so everytime he starts timelaps time goes back :D
You mentioned the slate being 4 years old now. I watched you make that on here. I can not believe its been 4 years now lol.
Right?!
I love it, and it tells such a story on its own.. Like his "Keys to Hell" box. I bet Adam's work will outlive him by at least half a century.
I know right - 4. YEARS. !!!
@@spoon8682 he needs to continue at least until its depth surpasses its height and width
feel you there!
I love how you can see Adam thinking with his entire body. : )
“I need two, I have five.” Definitely part of the maker experience. XD
Every time I order at pcbway 😅
And then he couldn't use any of the five 😭
I have watched so many of these videos now, and nothing is more satisfying than watching Adam make things and watching his process throughout the project. I often times catch myself just absolutely lost watching him machine things.. it's fantastic!
Somewhere an eBay seller who specializes in odd wall-thickness pipes, is going thru his old invoices thinking "Savage Industries...I knew that sounded familiar!"
Wow, this brings back memories. As a kid in the 60's I had a vacuform "toy". Incredibly, children were allowed to soften plastic sheets over what was essentially a hotplate, then flip it over to vacuum it down over a form. Life was great before product liability became a thing!
@pollodiablo522 my brother had one.
Back then kids were actually capable of reading Instructions... Alas, those days seem over...
“Replicating a drawing” followed by 2 desk taps with combined head nods… such an Adamisim, that’s why we ❤him… oh and all the making stuff of course
this guy is still in his workshop doing crazy stuff :D awesome!
i'm rewatching mythbusters on youtube at the moment.
I need to find more joy in life like Adam does. For now, his videos make me smile. 😊
You need a camera jib that slides along your ceiling (or somewhere above your head) to position your camera anywhere in your shop so you can get those closeups anywhere.
Like the mirror tubes they have in supermarkets
He needs anything but that wobbly coolant hose garbage he uses today...
Would kill to watch him make that
@@jakobgood8831 Yeah, me too. I did one for myself and there are many others on the internet. I would love to see his design brain on that type of task.
@@PJ-ku5lpit's like a character on the show these days. It belongs here 😁
I get so used to watching the tool build/shop upgrade videos, that I forget what a capable machinist Adam is. The aluminum part fabrication was quite impressive.
Fun!
UA-cam wasn't serving me these videos anymore, only those of Adam answering questions. So glad he mentioned it, and I found a treasure trove of making videos to watch!
It's like looking back when Adam was younger, always an exciting person back then, especially when it comes to something that I knew Adam Savage would enjoy.
I wish I could get half as excited about anything as Adam gets about everything.
Adams talents are limitless its such an honor to be apart of his journey in making
Adam (Tested channel) got me through covid lockdown… I would look forward to the daily upload and that has continued, much ❤ to the whole tested crew
Thank you so much!
“I just do eyes. I design *your* eyes.”
“If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes!”
The start of this video is giving me big happy flashbacks to the late 90s, sitting in the chillout tent at a rave somewhere in somerset, sun coming up, listening to ambient tunes and being entranced by the projections screen showing all these massive industrial machining processes on a time-lapse.
Not related except in the most superficial way to the content of this video but lovely stuff nonetheless.
First. Thanks for answering the tattoo question! Second: I found the band saw operation enlightening. The close up shots of the drill was ironic. Look how big it is, oh wait! that bit and piece are tiny! Can't wait to see how the rest of the parts come together!
I had to watch this video twice to see where that new (not new, not tattoo) was and I found it at 15:30 if anyone was curious. He either laid his arm down on a wet inked material, or he drew it on. The mystery continues!
Thought it was a vacuum tube circuit schematic at first glance
It is just a temporary tattoo from the Silo activation at San Diego Comic Con.
the dancing lined up very well with the groovy music, made me laugh so much. *high-fives*
I cannot help but think if Adam Savage ever got very, very deeply into theoretical physics, to the point where he's discovering theoretical stuff that he then applies in his engineering work, he'd the be the most joyful mad-scientist on the planet.
I wonder do you teach younger makers? There must be so much knowledge in you that needs passing on. These videos are a delight and a priceless resource.
It's just not a Tested build if you don't have a moment where you're sure that this'll be the last known footage of Adam with all 10 fingers
The Adam booty shake dance was worth the price of admission!
The eyes have it. I have been making Eye Mechs on my 3d printer and scaring the hell out of people for a while now. I'm working n a head in a pickle jar for Halloween!
Thank you very much, Mr. Savage. I have never thought about using my annular cutters in that way. Will now.
I wish you showed how you created the curves to the ends of the tendrils. Such a beautiful detail, visually and functionally.
Ha, I'm loving that he's machining (and dancing) while wearing a Speedmaster
Did anyone else notice that the hole on that aluminum pipe wasn't properly centered when Adam was cutting it on the lathe? Not by a terrible amount, but watching the center hole bob up and down while the outside stayed stationary made me notice and upset my graphic designer heart.
Yeah I saw that too.
I also noticed it, it would have been a waste of time to use a boring bar to clean up the ID, but I still wanted it. I would never have made it working in a model shop that needs to get things done on time...
Yep. I noticed it too.
I assume he noticed it, weighed up the time spent in fixing or making from scratch against the acceptable tolerances of the ID not being perfect, and decided to go ahead
Yeah, I'm sure he noticed as well, but for the intended purpose of creating an eye lid where that would be on the inside and being that it would be a non issue, it's just wasting time for no reason to address it. Also life and organics are always asymmetric. So yeah, for the job it's needed for, its pointless to waste going through the extra effort in my opinion. :)
Gratuitous Savage dancing made me laugh in recognition of that moment when you know it’s going to work or it’s just great fun in the doing
Fixtures, or jigs, were my favorite part of being a cabinet maker 😁 so, so many operations in making customized furniture & stuff like that are so, so much easier to do well with a fixture, even if you don't have to repeat that operation tons of time - and yeah, that means spending a lot of time on something that isn't the end product but you spend WAY less time on that operation & the result is so much better!
This fascinated me. I wish I had taken a different path for my career. I would love to problem solve all day, and at the end have something tangible and permanent to show for it. I love this, and sci-fi has always been where my head is. It's true what they say about regret. It's better to regret something you HAVE done rather that regret something you HAVEN'T done. Oh well. I'll continue to watch and live vicariously through your backlog of videos.❤
nice 6 jaw buck chuck and multifix tool post!
that's a nice lathe set up.
When you said "CAD files", I at first heard that as "Cadfaels", and pictured some people cosplaying as 12th century monks showing up at the cave. 😄
Oh, I've never noticed before! What's new Adam's tattoo mean? Is it from some franchise or game? It looks so interesting!
The tattoo on the inside of his left forearm? It's a ruler. He got it about 5 years ago.
@@slashingraven Other arm?
@@Havok448 I don't see a tattoo on his right arm. Where is it?
I'm so glad I'm no the only one, that's a groovy looking bit of ink and I'm hella curious about it.
@@slashingravenyou can see it around 20:00
Might just be me, but the sound being made when the bit is lowering around the 9:33 mark, reminds me of the sound the power loaders make in the movie Aliens. My mind just immediately went there.
😂😂
My OCD is all over the place watching impatient Adam :)) But I love it!
7:44 if you want a great example of what Adam talked about drill pieces do warp and move, look close here at how much that drill bit wobbles even as it lines up with the pre-drilled bits.
The lids cut into strips remind me a LOT of the robot eyeball that pops out of the gate into Jabba's palace in Return of the Jedi!
Am I the only one who saw the thumbnail and thought he was gonna make "the corinthian" from sandman as a cosplay
Yes! Just made this comment and saw yours after :D
Wonderful video. I can’t imagine any more satisfying mode of production/creation than high-precision turning/milling. Of course I can’t think of any more expensive mode to tool up for either. 😕
Thanks man. I am on my way to rehab today. I was....so sad. Thank you for all your uploads.
Best of luck
when Adam starts singing the Vonage theme song you know it was a good vacuum form pull
While watching, I was fascinated by the armour above the machine. It looks a lot like K2S0 from the back, and now I can't not request a K2S0 build! :D
Fantastic project and amazing video editing! Anyone knows the name of the song that starts at 12:43?
Curious if a heat gun over the vacuform while the actual forming is taking place would help.
Well done!
"Relaxing machining" this should be the name of the channel 🤤
i love that adam has to put his hands behind his back while waiting for a mill to be complete, like he has to actively prevent himself from messing with it during the process
1:34 I know that as "Reagents" when playing World of Warcraft, when leveling up a profession (mostly Engineering and Mining).
Although, with engineering i think they were just called "Parts", now that i think of it, but my point was, i never saw the word "fixtures" when talking about ingredients that were made solely to be used up into making the end product.
I'm always amazed at the precision you accomplish with such bouncy floors... Would it be worthwhile (or even possible) to access your floor structure from underneath and double up the joists or add support piers under some of the heavier equipment and/or workbench? Is a very beautiful but old structure I imagine...
WOW this is Adam Savage! I like you
The slate getting thicker and thicker just gets funnier and funnier.
Greets from Germany mr Savage 🤘🙋♂️
A quick tip about the vacuum former. The bottom tray / bed is removable. Pry it off the base like a coffee can lid to reveal a flat bed on the base underneath. You don't have to cut your forms from a deep dish.
that dental vacuum forming machine is nifty as heck
Wow, your love-affair with precision continues. How does it feel to be growing in such leaps and bounds this far along in your career?
12:43 It's called a dance break. Apparently this happens in musicals as well.
As a maker, how much of what you do with the different jigs and techniques is from having observed it or do you just come up with some of these on the fly? It's fascinating to watch.
@12:43 I concur! Sometimes you just need to dance it out!
Hey Adam,
maybe this might be helpful for you in the future who knows, but since i work a lot with 3d printing and thermoforming, there is much easier ways to achieve your results. For example you could transform your 3d printed part into plaster either by printing the mould or by making the mould out of alginate.
Thermoforming and cutting plaster is way easier.
Alternatively you could use a resin printer since the material isnt thermoplastic its also great to work with.
my first thought on some of these is "No cutting fluid?" but that's because I listened to the audiobook of 'Everything is a Hammer' again over the weekend...
Love the technical terms like flippy floppy.
15:28 Tattoo/drawings on his left forearm showing up again. I'd 3D print these. I don't have all that cool equipment to machine them.
This is the stuff i subscribed for!
The joyful childlike "blink blink" at the end was perfect! 😂
Great work sir
Tested in 20 years time: Adam has to add an extension to his workshop to accommodate the thickness of tape accumulated on his slate.
Dang! I was hoping to see his homemade vacuum former come out to play!
Adam getting jiggy with it.
We need a compilation clip of every slate snap from all the videos! Watch it build up and up
Yes please!
Why no slitting saw? 10:05
A lifetime spent working to produce things to sometimes brutal and impossible deadlines has instilled a sometimes spastic sense of urgency to your movements and actions that you are obviously ruled by in the moment, even when time is not pressing. But the other side of that long coin of experience is that it all works. And works well. Endless kudos.
Hello, Adam, I know you most likely will not see this comment, but still, I would like to send you greetings from Ukraine and thank you for a happy childhood, you are one of the people thanks to whom I began to develop diversified, I hope if I survive , then in my old age my “cave” will be similar to yours =) Long life and peace to you, Adam.
Hope you survive and get your workshop mate.
Ok I’ve got to ask, is Matt Winchell related to Paul Winchell the puppeteer and inventor of the artificial heart?
I wish I had 1% of your talent!
Oh so fixturing is like building framework to do a specific kind of jig or even mold making would be creating a fixture that you use with your mold material
What a great video. I would love to see the animatronic where these will be used. ^^
Oh, you will see it soon!
Adam is the physical embodiment of the song Mana Mana.
I find fixtures to be some of the best tools.
Think I heard a bit of the the 6,7,8’s from killbill in there @ 21:40from just before the fight with the crazy 88’s
± .0000 tolerance??? Damn that's tough.
So glad to see Adam has gotten over his prejudice against digital calipers. Maybe it was the numerous advantages they provide over purely manual ones? It's sometimes hard for older workers to accept change. Bravo Adam.
It was interesting Thank you. I really want to see the finished version of the eyes in action.) New tattoo Radii on the right hand? ❤
It is just a temporary tattoo from the Silo activation at San Diego Comic Con.
@@tested Thank you ❤️😄👍
The coil at 4:07 woooo
The hunk of wood @10:16 is giving me alien Romulus m4a1 handle vibes
I wonder if the striking resemblance to the eye robot on the door of Jabba's Palace is a coincidence, or if its design was inspired by these sorts of mechanisms
Quick question: Why are there so many more tapes with project names on your slate that with dates? Did some fall off?
Watching this while working on an animatronic eye mechanism of my own.
Adam, an idea for a video
it would be really cool if you made a bigger vacuum machine to make copies of props and masks, because with a rigid sculpture underneath, you could make a lot of masks
Fascinating!
A new tattoo? It looks like an extraterrestrial compliment to the ruler. I hope we get a show and tell of it at some point
Silly vacuum forming question. Would some venting in the bucks help the crispness of the form?
What is the machining center you’re using?
Are the senses in your fingers not dulled working without protection for so many years?
12:47 I know you're dodging copyright claims~ I must know what was actually playing in the shop.
I am curious as to whether if and/or when the stickers on the slate fall/rip off due to the sheer weight
We're curious too!
This video made me realize I would like to see a collab between Adam and James Bruton