Adam Savage here from tested in the cave talking about a new piece of shop
equipment this past year 2019 at Silicon Valley comic-con I appeared as star-lord
and a key part of my costume was of course star Lords walkman now I didn't
want to spend $400 on a walkman so we did a one-day build where I made it from
scratch using sheet styrene and it looked awesome
now I'm not taking all the credit for it looking awesome because we hit a lot of
the crimes by using a very precisely vinyl cut set of silver letters that
said the walkman logo and those man when you see like a crisp logo like that it
just hides all this other crappy detail that might have ended up on the model
and that vinyl was cut by a brand new piece of kit we've introduced here into
the cave the cricket maker the cricket maker the cricket maker it is expanding
what we can do here in the cave and cosplayers all over the world are
pushing the limits of what this thing can do let me talk to you about how a
piece of kit gets integrated into our shop Jen come on in
so Jen Schachter was in charge of making the cricket work and sing and you did
and then I said hey maybe you should make a rolling stand for this and you
blew my freaking mind this is amazing Thanks okay talk to me about this
beautiful beautiful cart well i styled it after a lot of the other carts that
you've built here in the shop so like rob plywood locking casters and
obviously the ability to take it anywhere with you
so handles hands dirty handles you use the beautiful arctic birch ply where i
also notice you use a piece of the crappier ply in the back yep well done
well allocated isn't this glorious stuff to work with I love this I've actually
never worked with the Baltic birch before and once I started seeing how
this cuts against the other stuff it's like all of the builds are a notch above
what they used to be isn't that that like it's it's harder to find yes as
we've just got it but it really makes a difference um so what what what did you
determine were the key like since you worked with the cricket you built a
stand that allows for a work flow based on your experience is that correct yeah
I mean one of the things that I find the most used
for shop the organization in general is as you've said being able to grab for a
thing and it's there exactly where you want it when you need it like the brayer
yep so there's little custom holders for everything I made little you know
notches that everything can fit into and you can also see it so instead of it all
being jammed into a into a holder into a drawer it's the essential tools are laid
out right where you're gonna grab for them so you open up the machine mmm it's
got a nice little that's awesome there it is a little vinyl cutting element in
there you can grab all your mats from in here and there's also some on the side
oh I see right right right here with some little holders to keep them in
place so basically yeah amazing you feed you know you feed your mat into the
machine and then all of your vinyl rolls and sheets are here okay so you can
clearly see what you got at your disposal yep down here's some transfer
paper we've got this really awesome dispenser for it for heavy duty yeah so
that has a home and that's for sticking that to vinyl as it's coming out so that
you can do a transfer of vinyl positively on something in its
orientation exactly see the vinyl comes out of the machine you weed out all the
negative space transfer paper peel the back off and then it goes onto your
object now you do have a couple of drawers yeah some some drawers this is
some bigger storage smaller accessories less used accessories can go in here we
can add some dividers maybe this is my favorite part
oh that is fabulous oh look at that I see what you've done
yeah so they're removable no it's just 1 inch PVC tube and the front has a
through hole in the back it's just you know 3/8 of an inch deep recommendation
yeah but magnin in here and on the other side of here and then at least they have
a reason to stick around yeah it's a little challenging to find the hole yeah
so we could camp for that hole and put magnets in there and it would shoot find
its way right into place that like I just want to ask the obvious question
but what is it you find so satisfying about this party
particularly I don't know just its simplicity finding a way to have the
storage that you can actually use the thing in its place you don't have to
pull it out and fiddle with it we've got your exact tows there so you can trim it
and then I've also been working on some drawings so I did my god
Jen I didn't even see this wholly crapballs
yes so I'm working on plans for how people can make this themselves amazing
thing we've I've spoken about Jen's drawings on the podcast on tested before
but each time I get to see one up close this is yeah you're having fun oh yeah
this is a blast and it's funny because normally I do the
drawing before I build the thing this one I kind of just slapped it together
and figure it out as I went so now I'm reverse engineering it so that I can
replicate it and other people can replicate it later I often find drawing
after the fact to be a very satisfying way to keep recapitulating the build and
keep understanding what I liked about it yeah and there's already things like as
you pointed out there's already things I've seen that I'm like oh I have a
better way I can do that now let me change it in the drawing this is
beautiful I just I came back I was away for a week I think we were filming with
the expanse people and I came back and I saw this it was like it was just it so
exceeded all of the expectations it's just magnificent nice work thank you and
well we'll put some links to different accessories and things people can find
and hopefully I'll get these build plans online so folks can build their own at
home absolutely and like I said cosplayers
all over the world are trying really radically cool things for this cow but
Crunchie showed us an incredible broke pod they did using one millimeter
self-stick foam cut in the cricut cutter with overlays also they got really deep
amounts of detail out of this thing one of the loveliest things about a good
piece of kit is that even the makers aren't positive of all of the scope of
the things that it can do and the makers of the machine yeah and then the makers
out in the world that use it push its envelope yeah I'm really excited to do
more projects with this awesome thanks very much this has been a tested
tool check-in