professor craven do you have an end of life plan for your shop oh man yeah do you plan to
he says they i don't know if professor craven is here or she when they say they said
when my grandparents passed away we were left to sort through cool things like still-in-the-box
railroad lanterns to hazardous things like store displays for selling ddt
oh my god somebody walked into this shop about a year and a half ago and said wow
look at all the stuff your family's gonna look at
all the crap your family's gonna have to deal with when you're dead
uh yeah um
i think about this all the time i think about this all the time professor craven yeah what
to do with this stuff you know one thing that i have done is i have inventoried all the costumes
that has been a key uh occupation over the past few years uh occupy there's over 80 now and by
costumes i'm including movie costumes but also safety gear like my bomb suit or my red man suit
or fencing equipment or my beekeeping suit all of this stuff all of it's archived uh numbered
in a google doc that can be shared by my whole team so we can go find stuff when we need it
um and that's also that helps me now but it is also part of an end of life
plan for all this stuff and i plan to do it for all the rest of the things because there's
aspects here if someone finds this nobody but me and tim are well now you all know what the
hell this is or why it's here so i got to start making you know going through my stuff
i mean the other aspect of kobe is i haven't been able to have an assistant in here working with me
uh and i doesn't look like i will for another seven or eight months um but suffice to say i
think about it all the time i do i don't want us i don't want to saddle my kids
or my wife or my family uh with having to sort through all the stuff i would love to
leave a bunch of it to a place where it will get appreciated uh you know a museum that would
deal with it correctly or a collector uh who would apply the love that the objects i've collected
here need um and to that end i have friends who are collectors who i have considered in my head
of like would you take the bulk of this if i go um yeah i know i know okay um let's see here
jamie rawlinson wants to know do you have a big prop in the making similar to the hellboy glove
that you can share right the hellboy glove was like multiple years in the construction wasn't it
um doing the hellboy samaritan which is still not done yet actually here i'll show you
you're gonna love this here is the hellboy samaritan currently uh i have taken all the parts
and cleaned them and tumbled them i'm going to send them out for blacking and the only reason i
haven't gotten around to it is because i have two or three other projects that also need blacking um
but the hellboy samaritan which is more like a month-long build than a multi-year build
i am looking at some more stuff like that i told you know one thing i'm gonna do this
year is corbin dallas's blaster and i'm gonna do it from scratch i'm really psyched about
that one i i haven't really liked any of the replicas i've seen of corbin's blaster
um and so i'm gonna do mine all out of uh plastic and aluminum and with good electronics um but no i
i don't think there's any uh you know what speaking of the hellboy glove there is a
fairly involved machining project which is there's a thing called the millenbaum motivator at the
bottom of the glove and it's the thing that went like this like a little typewriter or stenography
machine um sean charlesworth when i built the glove the first time uh was the uh he helped me
he drew that in cad and printed it out for me and printed out the parts was a lot of collaboration
um and we have talked in the intervening years about reprinting it in metal because
it's falling apart um simply because it's got some torsion on it and the
3d prints from 10 12 years ago or just don't have the tensile strength i want to sorry norm
i'm getting some deliveries and poor norm has to run and answer the door
um i want to remake the millenbaum motivator from scratch i want to machine it i think i am a good
enough machinist now not not as good as millenball but i am a good enough machinist now i think
to tackle that piece and it's going to take me probably the better part of a week to get it yeah
um how are we doing here we gone just about an hour should i wrap it up yeah
okay we're going to wrap this up with this last question um katie kelly wants to know
katy kelly uh katie kelly your name is very close to a star from my childhood kitty kelly
who is a writer and a patient of my grandfather's actually katie kelly wants to know
uh i'm creating a maker type place what would you include that isn't on the usual tools list
that's good what would you include you're making a maker type place
hmm that's a great question the first thing i would say is craft paper if that's not on
your list you will never regret having a roll of craft paper in your space and really you
just need one one roll of 36 inch wide or 24 inch wide craft paper will last you for the
rest of your life i think i've gone through two rolls in my life and you can think through
the amount of making that i've done yeah one role is going to last you for a good portion
of your life that's definitely one what would you put on the list you know hanging hardware
um i'm a big believer in spaces that provide inspiration and for me
when i visit maker spaces one of my first comments is there's not enough crap on the walls
crap on the walls to me is inspiring i call it visual cacophony other people can be overwhelmed
by myspace but i like feeling overwhelmed by the space so by design for me hanging stuff up
is it's a motivator and there's a lot of different ways to hang stuff um i mean
if i had to okay i will move from this space into another space probably in the next five years i'm
just guessing that i'll probably move and when i do i think i may be much more directed about
hanging stuff on the walls by like putting up a heavy-duty uh top wainscoting that i can hang off
of maybe even out of welded steel so that i can i don't have to worry about well that's brick and
that's drywall and that's i don't even know what that is uh because i like to hang stuff so much
but other things that aren't on the usual tools list
um oh i'm just i'm sort of looking around and thinking what if you want a maker space i mean
it's not about see when i think about designing a space i really try and think
as wide philosophically as i can so to me it's really about like the questions you're
asking me this question because you're in the middle of solving this problem presumably
and if you're in the middle of solving this problem you're in the middle of the exercise
of how will this space serve my particular or the group i'm building this for is particular needs
how will it fulfill my particular needs and so i don't know if there's any specific tool item
i have that would help you because i have engineered this space to fit
my particular needs and nobody else's i mean it becomes useful to other people simply because
i'm well organized but you know you walk in here you could become overwhelmed by where the hell
stuff is and it might take a while to get into it but if you're in the middle of the exercise
of wondering how to create the space to meet your needs you're asking all the right questions
and you should know that you're not going to get it right
because it's not a problem to solve and then be done with as you progress
as you progress your needs will change for instance one of the things that covett has
done for me is it has radically increased my understanding of the infinitesimal
because i've been doing so much more work on the mill and on the lathe
where you know when you're working in carpentry plus or minus a a 32nd of an inch is yeah it's
about where you're working 30 seconds of an inch that's 30 000. am i right about that uh yeah um
but as a machinist you're dealing with like one thou and the degree to which i
have invested my brain with a deeper and deeper understanding means that i've been doing a lot
more expenditures on tools that allow me to work very precisely at super super tiny increments like
i never had a right angle block for my milk look at this beauty i would have never bought this
a year ago i wouldn't have considered it something that i needed in my shop but now i
do and it engenders by necessity a storage system that can accommodate it because i think i'll be
using something like this maybe once a month um so the machine area of my shop is undergoing a
shift right now that shift is in my brain as i'm starting to gather these new tools i just bought
myself a hammer gauge for registering the mill i've gotten some gauge blocks and some oh some
beaut but tomorrow i'm shooting a one-day build about one of my new measurement tools uh and i'm
super excited about it but it's also in a gigantic box and takes up a ton of space and i think that
one of the things i do this year is i may have to make my own machinist's tool cabinet because none
out there supply me with the sheer number of storage solutions that i want for the way that
i work which is like i want my machining area to be like a fighter pilot's cockpit with everything
where i need it when i need it and accessible without sitting there rusting in the open air
katie i hope i've given you some help with this um as you can tell from my answer i like
zooming out and zooming out and zooming out and zooming out and i that's also that's also part
and parcel of my meditation practice right of the watching of the watcher and the paying attention
john cabot zinn says that meditation is nothing but paying attention and that's definitely
where it's at for me uh and in that paying attention you keep finding new ways in which
to pay attention to yourself to your processes to your reactions to things to your proclivities to
the things you do that do serve you and the things that you do that don't serve you um
so you are asking all the right questions and ask everybody by all means go to every
maker what should i get what should i get because i'll say things like i mean
all of my tool tips are things i think that makers like me will want in their shops and
will benefit from um but as far as like secret hidden items that you might not realize i mean
one thing i will say is you can't have too many expendables you can't have too many exacto blades
or and this one is something that is really really uh neglected is single-edged razor blades can i
tell you that industrial light magic these were hard to find at jamie's shop these were hard
to find and this is maybe my first maker tool this these were ever you know my dad used these
and i remember sneaking into a studio to use them um single edge razor blades are fantastic
they're cutters they're scrapers they're straight edges they're phenomenal and they're
pennies so make sure that you build your space to accommodate the expendables
that you definitely don't want to run out of on a sunday afternoon at 4 30 p.m when everything
is closed that is my least favorite hour in making is when i've broken the last of my blades
and it's sunday at 4 30 and that you know i'm looking at the hard worst i'm looking i have
i have suffered the ignominy of going to the hardware section of a walgreens to find a solution
to a tool problem on a sunday afternoon and that's no fun um one more thing i want to say about
blades and the use of blades in your shop um and it is that um when you are done with a blade throw
it out but don't throw it in the garbage because the people that collect your garbage are human
beings and they're made of soft flesh just like we are and that can be injurious to them you should
have a repository in your shop of used in old blades so that every blade it's a sharps container
right they have it in your hospital you should have it in your shop this is where all your old
blades should go and when it's time to throw them out tape it up and toss it in the garbage
now it is safe for people to handle um don't toss those blades in the trash that's that's just bad
mojo and you know if um if the good place is real and you could go ask the universe uh did is there
anything i did that had unintended consequences and and they told you that yeah you put your
blade in the garbage and cut up some guy's hand and couldn't work anymore you would be really
sad about that again yeah think about that so repository for your blades be kind to each other
and to yourself thank you guys so much for joining me for this live stream uh i really
appreciate it i love the interaction and i will continue to do it throughout 2021 and beyond
um tested patrons your questions get better and better and better and i really appreciate the
depth to which it feels like this conversation is getting to and continues to go to uh and so it's
all gratitude from here um you guys be well wear your masks take care of each other see you next
time