Adam Savage Builds a Custom Screwdriver Stand!

My dad was a carpenter and I swear he spent half his time in the workshop building more workshop to make building more workshop easier.

The whole, "I should clean, but I'm going to make a thing instead," thing is such a relatable vibe. I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels it.

Watching over the years as The Cave fills up with machinery and done projects like a screwdriver stand...how much more can one stuff into a closed space? Never change, Adam! You rock!!

Hearing "I messed everything up" after 10 minutes of speechless work montage was hilarious.

The time lapse with the music gives that sequence a very Oceans-11 feel

The scrap nylon spinning on the drill press's bit looked so ethereal.

At 7:52 it's cool how your LED lamp's strobing causes the spinning swarf to freeze in position, like helicopter blades on film. Neat!

I aspire to enjoy my job half as much as your sound editor does

Color coding works a lot better with colors than initials for colors, doesn't it?

Niice. I've been making a bunch of electronics/watchmakers screwdriver tool holders myself. I use what's cheap locally (pine), ~60cm long. Make a nice edge with the router, drill ~10 12mm holes and 12 staggered 4.8mm holes. For the thin holes I cut 5mm copper brakeline pieces roughly 2mm longer than the thickness of the wood. Deburr and gently nock each piece through the wood, then lay it on the anvil of my bench vise and hammer the top ends until they're practically flush. It makes the copper tubes mushroom and expand a tiny bit inside for a solid friction fit without adhesives. Then surface scorch the wood lightly with the propane torch and stain it red mahogny with this stain-laquer combo thing, giving it a very slight extra coat to get a shiny finish (one regular coat soakes so well its like stain only). In the 12mm holes I then press and epoxy cuts of 12mm black PCV pipe, and finish it off by taking a cone-deburr drill to the top surface of the copper pipes to remove any stain-stains and inward mushrooming, and get a nice tapered bright copper opening that ends flush with the wood. Really cheap to make but looks really nice.

Watching how much effort went into this, I went from "Cool! I need one of these. Maybe I'll copy Adam's" to "Cool! I'll just 3D print it instead"

I too am going to start autographing my finished projects. Nothing says done like signing your work, and better yet, furniture generations rummaging through a garage sale will think, “Man, I have to buy this. It must have been made by someone really famous!” 😂

8:50 That murder floss is kinda hypnotic to watch.

My grandfather was a jeweler and half of his shopware looked exactly like the end product. This was a nostalgic build, loved it!

:_Sigh::_Gah: yay!! Another gr-r-r-eat build 👍🏼Tested Assemble 🔩🔨🔧🗜📐🖊

Great idea! I love that people can even recreate it on a filament printer.

Watching the stuff peel off the stock is so satisfying

The shutterspeed vs tool speed in this video is wild.

AWESOME IDEA!

I didn’t know about the portable band saw stand. Thank you, Adam!