(footsteps)
(door creaking)
Welcome to what's about to become
the new Strange Parts Shop.
This is going to be the grinding, welding,
sawdust, messy part of the shop.
And then in past this doorway here,
this is gonna be like the machining part of the shop,
mill, lathe, laser cutter.
And then upstairs is gonna be
the proper clean part of the shop.
So this is computers and electronics, 3D printers.
I had been working on getting this ready
for the past like month.
The garage here hadn't been finished.
It just had drywall hung,
but it hadn't been mudded or taped
or painted or anything like that.
Little did I remember how long drywall takes,
but I finally got it done.
I'm ready to start moving in. I am so psyched.
I'm so, so ready to be making videos again.
(footsteps tapping)
That right there is my microscope
and it's heavier than it looks.
That's gonna take me a while to bring everything upstairs
and get it all set up.
But there's something else I need to address,
which is there's no railing on this staircase.
And I keep being afraid
that I'm just gonna tip over the edge here.
And I don't need another concussion anytime soon.
So, time to make a railing with some Strange Parts flair.
(tools clanging)
(tools clanging continues)
(brakes screeching)
(tools clanging continues)
The railing's in. It looks awesome.
But now I need some desks to go along that wall.
These two aren't cutting it.
The machine shop, the clean shop here
is starting to come together.
I've been putting stuff on shelves.
I just, I couldn't deal with the chaos.
The dirty shop on the other hand is looking pretty sweet.
It's finally functional.
I have lots and lots of room for the welding table here
so I can get on all four sides of it.
Let's build some desks.
(tools clanging)
(tools clanging continues)
(tools clanging continues) (electronic beeping)
(tools clanging continues) (electronic beeping continues)
All right. One desk in place, let's make a second one.
There we go. They look good, but they look kinda empty.
That's more like it.
I'm not quite sure about the layout,
'cause all the electronic stuff
is kinda crammed down at this end but there's a reason.
It's 'cause I wanted the computer here
because when I sit down, this is my view.
Next I need some lights
where these wires are sticking out of the ceiling.
And I think I need something with some personality.
So let's see what I can whip up here.
We got these cool oversized GE light bulbs
that I thought would go really nicely in here.
Check this out.
That looks pretty sweet.
I wanna do something else in the middle.
I wanna do a flood lamp like this
just to light the room a bit better.
These, if they're too bright, they're just gonna blind you.
So I'm thinking that there,
but I don't want this to be bare.
I was thinking I'd make my own hood
of mixing bowl from the grocery store.
Or I've got paint bucket.
I think that looks too cheesy.
I think I'm gonna go with this.
(tools clanging)
(tools clanging continues) (electronic beeping)
(tools clanging continues) (electronic beeping continues)
(electricity buzzing)
Not bad. Not bad at all.
(tools clanging)
(presenter sighs)
Hey, hey! It's looking pretty good.
I've got one more big thing I wanna do.
This space up right here feels very empty.
- This is my grandfather's Heathkit,
ham radio that he built from a kit way, way back
when my dad was a kid.
And this is his old Morse code signal key.
This is from the UV Printer video.
This is homeless Elvis and I have plans for him.
(equipment clanging)
I am super pleased at how these shelves turned out.
It finally feels like a real shop and it feels like,
it feels really close to done.
But there's one more thing I think I have to do,
which is I need to make this floor a little quieter
and a little bit more interesting than painted plywood.
And I have just the thing.
(presenter sighs) (footsteps tapping)
Now that really ties the room together.
I feel like I've only barely scratched the surface
of all the things I've got going on in this new shop.
So I made a much longer shop tour video
covering things in way more depth.
You can watch it on my streaming platform, Nebula.
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