hey everybody Adam Savage here in my cave with another tool tip and this one
is a wearable tool tip I'm actually wearing it right now I am using an apron
I I was a shop apron guy for a while at Industrial Light magic inspired by my
friend Dave Fogler I bought a Ben Davis split leg green canvas apron and I used
it pretty much for years at Industrial Light & Magic I really liked the ritual
of putting it on and clipping it in feeling like that was at work but for
Mythbusters I never wore it for none of the heard for how do I say this I didn't
wear an apron on Mythbusters nor for any of the subsequent shows that I made and
produced over the years and there's a you know I just didn't like the
constriction of it I didn't need it I didn't have tools that they need on me
and everything I was doing was so climbing all over the place an apron
didn't really make sense and so it sort of fell out of favor it fell out of my
consciousness but over the last few weeks during the lockdown I've been
doing so much more work and precision work with my machine tools that I
started realizing I needed things like my calipers near me at all times
I needed a pencil and a scribe on my body that that the efficiency the first
order retrieve ability that I prize in this shop needed to be localized to my
body and that's what an apron does it takes the first sort of retrieve ability
of your mission-critical stuff and it puts it on you and it's so much better
than a belt I don't like the feeling of a belt I like the way this is spread out
I've got my key things and I am happy to walk through with you my apron every day
carry oh I didn't even expect that I would do that but let's totally do that
so here are the things that I consider complete mission critical to have on my
body at all times especially when I'm doing precision work number one I've got
pencils and I'm obsessive about running out of pencils so there's always two if
not three pencils on me I have a thick and the thin Sharpie I also have a pica
pen for pattern transfer marking I have a beautiful starett scribe a sanding
stick okay that's the top pocket I don't have anything in these two pockets
they're sort of freeform I put rags in there occasionally I've got calipers
that actually was the main thing that I needed on me all the time I kept on
losing my calipers and it was driving me bananas I'm going to talk about these
calipers in a separate tool tip but the apron was I went and got the it this
sacred by the way has been hanging on the back door of my bathroom for years I
think I bought it as part of a potential costume for something I was going to do
and then I never touched it and I when I needed a neighbor and I was like well
there it is that I pulled it down and I really like this one okay also I have a
a blade this is a little box cutter I slip on me whiteout pen obvi for marking
things in my shop inside here I keep oh look I have a second whiteout marker
that's just a testament to me not wanting to run out of them a small
machine is where a pair of nippers just a little pair of flush cutters that's
specifically because I was doing a lot of work on the milk that was I was
getting rid of a lot of zip ties and they needed that oh and a little Frakker
I know this isn't a sweater I built last week but that's because I don't need a
lot of weight on its record this is more this is a plastic ended hammer right
finish hammer this is a lovely piece this Hickory hammer I really really dig
it it's great it's got some weight it's a steel head I'll figure out who makes
this so you guys can you guys can get one this is a great little hammer
and look I have been finding that I need this minimum amount of stuff on me in
the shop at all times and when I have it I am much more efficient it's funny that
it took me until now to apply my first order retrieve ability to my everyday
carry within the shop but that's what's happened and it really it makes me
faster it makes me more efficient and both of those things
make me happy so I am a very pleased camper about the apron and its addition
to my workflow it is just fantastic now see how quickly everything kind of
settles in I'm not trying to overdo it I've been very organic about adding
stuff to it I don't need a second one of those why not mentally put that away I
also really find this cross-back designed to be very comfortable I am
going to replace eventually this bow with a couple little half-size dog Clips
simply because I don't need this thing to be adjustable to anybody else but me
so I can replace these these shoulder straps which for me are just a little
too lightweight they tend to they can twist up on themselves and I don't like
that I'm gonna replace those and make just clips for a single size and when I
do that this will be my apron for years it's well made it's got oiled canvas and
in leather and I couldn't be more pleased with it I don't know if someday
I may design my own apron but for right now this is the one I'm wearing and I'm
a very happy camper about it thank you guys for joining me for this tool tip
today I will see you next time you