Monday, December 07, 2020
Adam Savage's One Day Build: Sticky Storage!
Tested: Today’s One Day Build is an workshop infrastructure improvement, creating storage and organizational spaces for the numerous sticks that Adam uses in his every day building. These include things like tongue depressors, skewers, acid brushes, and swabs that are used for everything from mixing epoxy to holding up model kit parts to prime and paint. And like every other shop infrastructure build, it requires some introspection as to how Adam thinks about and uses these tools.
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Adam is such an enthusiastic person and an amazing educator, which I think almost all of us who grew up watching mythbusters can attest. I mean, who else could captivate me with a 20 minute long video about building a box for sticks? There really isn't anything super groundbreaking in this video, but it still has valuable information that we should think about in our own process. Specifically, he mentions right at the top about how he is constantly monitoring his own habits in his shop, and thinking about ways to optimize his workflow. We spent a substantial amount of time during the TD1 shop layout project doing exactly this in order to rearrange things based on our own experiences. Simple things we came up with were limiting the distance needed to get tools and supplies so people weren't running over to the paint area to get one small thing. Even though he doesn't primarily use tongue depressors in every project, that little bit of organization can go a long way, especially when you combine that with several other small layout changes. Besides the lesson in the video, though, its just nice to listen to Adam as he works in his shop and goes on tangents about fake blood!
This was a very fun video to watch. I always enjoy getting to see projects Adam Savage is working on, even if it is as mundane as an organizational rack for sticks and brushes. This video made me think about how important form factor and location are to how you store your materials and tools in a shop space. Adam talked about how it has taken him years of being annoyed by how his stick-like materials before he came up with a solution that he knew would work well and then actually make it. I think that goes to show how finding the optimal organization is not a one and done or a quick and dirty task. Perhaps something that we could do in our shop is have a running list of organizational solutions we think of for common annoyances we have with how things in our spaces are set up, and then once an idea feels like it would be effective in reality, we can take time during all the dead time we have at the end of the year to actual do shop improvement projects.
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