Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Machinist Tool Drawers!

Adam's been using his lathe a lot more recently while improving his machining skills, and has refined his workflow and toolset ecosystem around the machine. And to help him better retrieve the machining tools and accessories he wants in a timely way, Adam is going to build a machinist's toolbox to store everything from flat and thread cutters to steel blanks and boring bars. And surprisingly, it's the first of this kind of storage drawer he's made as a One Day Build!

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Thanks for watching!

[jaronsutton]

Please don't feel bad for doing shop infrastructure builds. The infrastructure builds are always my favorite episodes.

[TheKaptainKernow]

paste wax the drawer runners and sides, there's no wood-on-wood interface that isn't made better by paste wax

[joshh]

Have I just spent 42 minutes of my life watching Adam Savage build a set of draws? Absolutely.
Am I already thinking about making a set of draws to mimic this, but with green felt and wood-stained like the draw sets I've come to miss from my apprenticeship days? Absolutely.

I love watching content like this, its inspiring, but also oddly therapeutic!

[FectacularSpail]

Adam's pandemic one day builds have basically been the Bob Ross fix we didn't realize we needed to help us get through 2020.

[home_Grown_studio]

Im in electronics and I use small tools. These builds are valuable and save a great deal of money, Space and keep my electronics organized, , Mr Savage, Always a pleasure !!

[nermid]

"Getting better is just screwing up less"

I'd consider buying a T-shirt that said that.

[eshbuster]

I am from Germany and 14 years old and love your videos. Btw I know you from mythbusters very nice show.

[spiderlady]

"If you can't see it, you don't have it." Oh my gosh... mind-blowingly accurate!! That is how I end up with duplicates!

[khallo]

I love the embracing of our (your) desire for organization the nth degree. Radical acceptance of my quirks has led me to a much fuller and enriching life. Keep on keeping on

[dave]

I'm loving all the shop infrastructure and organization vids. They are probably helping me more than any other technique you could show me.

[elerileigh]

"drawers are where things go to die." - Adam Savage a few years ago on this exact channel but this isn't the type of drawer he's talking about, he's talking about cabinet drawers that aren't organized and/or are more then 1 tool deep, not labeled and not purpose built, things with a purpose are infinitely better then anything designed to try to fit as much as possible and look nice,

[billr]

The One Day Builds are amazing. Coincidentally, I thought about making almost exactly the same thing about 15 years ago. Took me a bit longer though. It should be finished in November. .

[fen]

The more focused he is on his work, the more profound this ramblings become. I love it.

[dashaB-slpu]

Adam''s comment a very long time ago about "drawers are where tools go to die" and it has stuck with me ever since and organization bow rules everything, and pays huge dividends, top video once more

[Celtic_Blade]

Sociological and anthropological videos are my favorite. How people do what they do and inhabit the spaces of their daily lives is like my main hobby. I read two entire books about how artists and writers went about their days( I can’t find anymore books on this subject) I repeatedly watch your organization videos and shop infrastructure and I literally (and I am not a person who subscribed to the modern figurative version of this word, when I say literally I mean literally) lost count of how many times I have listened to the same podcasts I’ve and over again just because you talked about daily life and how you live it. I freaking love these!

[bobross]

Ever since I heard of the passing of Grant I've been binge watching one day builds. Miss the mythbuster days but so happy your still around and producing amazing content Adam

[ks]

3:14 That hip swerve tells of many run-ins with the table saw.

[thomasglover]

“A kings ransom of lathe tooling” *This Old Tony has entered the chat*

[MarkLawsonYK]

Seeing is believing that if Adam can do it...so can you...with the utmost respect to the confidence of doing or at least seeing it done on video eases the stressors. Sincere Thanks for Julia. Lawson

[DaveTpletsch]

I love these Shop Infrastructure one day builds. I was taught that if you needed a solution to a problem you just buy the best thing you can find. That never sat well with me, people who know what they're doing fix their own stuff and build their own shops and make what they need. It took me a very long time to build up the skills to be less of a consumer and more of a maker because the information and training just wasn't available to me without some serious time and effort. Now I have a firm moral policy of never buying what I can make, and never settling for a half assed commercial solution to a specific problem. I love that Adam is making it clear in all these videos that you don't have to pay someone else to take care of your stuff, and you don't have to settle for crappy storage solutions when you can design and build exactly what you need, often for a lower cost or maybe even with what you have on hand. Thank you Adam.