hey everybody adam savage here in my cave
am i already really filthy yeah i think i'm pretty dirty
i've already filmed one one day build today and i'm about to film a second one
uh today's one day build is about an optimal organization an optimal
organizational strategy for both storage and for use that is what i'll be talking
about recently here in the cave um i needed a
fine feed wheel for my mill this allows me to with very fine
gradations lower the quill of my will of my
lower the quill of my mill and my will um and anyway i turned this
down i made this part i made it off camera but i'm really happy with it and
i was actually so happy with it i gave it a little label
there it is i wanted a a testament to the work that i had done so i made this
little label that said fabricated 620
and then i signed it with an engraver a little electric engraver so i'm
making parts that work in my shop is something that i
i love doing and i was so happy with that one
that like i put a testament of my love for the project on it in that brass
plaque and i want to do more of that but when i think about it i am hindered by
the just the exhausting slog that it is to
go find all the letters that you need here and
look carefully and i have four different types letters i have typewriter font
normal font big and small and i have numbers for most of those
and i was thinking i want to make more of these brass plaques but i was also
thinking man i i just don't love that process it's
boring and it's a slog and then this methodology hit me that would allow me
to store all four sizes and types and fonts of my
letter stamps it allows me to store them and to use them and this is great when
the storage solution also makes the thing easier to use that
that's why we're filming this one this is this is a good one
all right so uh here are the oh yeah this one's these ones i just got i
didn't know you could get typewriter font
that is totally awesome i want the i want more of that ability
um so i've got four different letter forms here plus numbers for
two of them or even three of them
hard to say yes anyway how to store them many holes but the letters are all
consistent yes so i had this big chunk of bass wood
which i think is just perfect for this and i am going to
look at a whole spacing so here's a whole spacing which i can try
following or even get a little bit closer to
and i can just do one two three four five
six seven eight nine 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 oh my gosh 26 great
so even using this whole spacing uh i can fit 26 letters across the top of
this so i'm going to do that i'm going to
chuck this into my mill and do a ton of hole drilling
and then i'm going to have probably
this doesn't have numbers
that one does and those are numbers for that so i have two sets of numbers
great so i'll probably do four letter forms and four number forms
26 times four and then 10 times four and that should allow me to easily find
and use all the letters that i have super psyched
all right that is the holder for the letter set of my
dreams it holds four complete sets it holds
four complete alphabets three different ampersands
a period and two number sets this is fabulous this is gonna make working
with this really really easy i think i may even
make it stand up like this yeah i think that's entirely feasible that i
should do that just
let's do something like this uh you know what i want to do yeah
here's one
this is going to be neat oh not long
enough uh
oh i do have one great
here we go
so if it sits like that
i can sit here and be like yep let me grab the f
dunk like that yup great um so
so let's cut that out on the bandsaw
okay
me
you
that's the upright right yeah that is
so dude dudes dudes and do dads it's a lovely thing
all right uh yeah let's make a mark
let's make a mark
yeah i'm just gonna use my exacto as a spacer because why not
that's one that's the other pull it out like that
ah that could have been neater it certainly could have been neater
a little glue spilled on my table there we go
that is i'm really really really happy with that
that just feels great yeah all right now uh
some of you may be wondering why i drilled so many more holes than i have
letters and it's simply because i'm ambitious
i have made the letter holder for the shop i
want not the shop i have i expect that i may want at least
one more font we will see and then i may collect another couple of
number sets or other characters even um
yeah basically i've allowed some expansion to happen
and this is a really this is great this is usable in situ i may have to
open up some of these holes just a little bit
like some of them are just a little tight because i got debris in them
uh but i am really pleased i've been thinking about this for about a week and
a half now and it's great to finally execute it thank you
guys for joining me for this one day build
i'd love to see pictures of the custom shop organization
stuff that you've made to service both the storage
and the use of some of your tools thank you guys
i'll see you next time
you