adam savage here in my cave with a tool tip that involves
coconut things yep um i also frequently get a question as to are there any legacy tools in
my collection that have a lineage that go into my ancestry and the answer is yes i do i have
a couple of my father's screwdrivers i have a few of his paint brushes
and maybe one of my favorite pieces is i have my grandfather's awl now an awl is basically
a sharp point with a handle there are many versions of alls and i have many versions of alls
uh i cannot stress enough how important it is to have like a sharp a sharp thing to stick
into things it's something to push through fabric something to push through leather
something to mark a position between two things uh and the many different form factors
of alls here comes there look at this one i mean that that's almost like a drift pin
uh i'm here to tell you that i use all's on almost a daily basis and every single time
i resist making a pun about giving it your all although i could not resist it here on the slate
um this is my grandfather's awl it is a beauty it feels great in my hand and uh i hope i never lose
it um when savage builds got robbed they stole one of my dad's original screwdrivers that i had
and it was the screwdriver that i thought of as quintessentially his it was an old uh uh craftsman
clear handle they made a bunch of clear handled screwdrivers in the 70s and 80s and this was one
of them it had blue on it because at one point i painted a blue paint on all my tools so you
could separate them when you're a journeyman and you show up with your own tools frequently you'll
want to come up with a color scheme for your tools and mark every one of them with a little
bit of that color so it's clear which is yours and which is not because tools can walk on a job site
that's one of the universal rules of a job site so the more you have colors on them
actually i'll show you i've been doing this forever wait wait wait where is it
ah here we go at one point i decided instead of going for color i'll go for stripes and this right
here is the yellow and [ __ ] orange color scheme i had for years in the early 90s this is literally
my first cordless battery and it no longer holds a charge but i'm holding on to it because it's a
it's like it's legacy man i build thousands of things with these nike hats uh and this was my
color scheme uh for my drills for my batteries for my tools for everything but i'm getting uh out and
beyond my my purview here i wanted to talk about pokey things like alls see how different those two
tips are uh depending on the need i may use one or the other i may heat them up and stick them
through synthetic fabric to make a nice hole that is pre-cauterized around its around its perimeter
um this one actually has some melted plastic because i used it to do that very thing just a
few weeks ago um suffice to say you probably want more watch out make sure you wear steel-toed boots
you probably want more than one all i'll include some links to ones that i like in the comments
below but this is always something that you could find at an antiques mall and frequently it's got
some great old look at that the phone number this is pre-pre phone numbers when you called you said
uh wow yeah you you actually called a switchboard operator that's how old this is um antique stores
antique malls great places to find your alls and i did not mean to rhyme that lin uh that
was just that was freebie uh thank you guys for joining me for this quick and dirty tool tip
get the and all get the two poking i will see you guys next time you know what i i
don't want to end the all video just yet because i realize while i'm talking about
i might not have been specific enough i i consider this a completely necessary tool to have in one's
workshop if one works with materials of of nearly any kind whether you're a woodworker a ceramicist
and all or maybe even a couple of different sizes of all can benefit you but you also
you'll have a need to poke things in other ways and that's where punches come in
uh this is a standard punch it's got a knurled handle that you can hold onto and a
fat top so you can give it a hammer and varying degrees of thickness in different arms
so that you can push out different things this is if you had to remove a spring pin from some kind
of mechanical arrangement a punch like this is exactly how you do it and i have many many punches
i have in the past tended to be a little bit over vigorous with them and i can bend them which is
never a good thing to do uh and i have them that go down very small actually show you my drawer
of punches here are some of the more key punches i use going down very small and i'm very careful
with these guys because i don't want to hurt them uh yeah i got some nice these blue ones were all
gifts from erwin tulle thank you erwin uh and to be honest i find i'm sorry about that to be honest
i find i can't have enough punches around the shop maybe it's not enough maybe it's that i can't have
too many punches uh i've certainly had projects where some recalcitrant thing was pressure fit
into something else and i broke one punch getting it out and i had to break out another punch
um i use the ah i use the punches often enough that they live over here among my
regular kit of stuff that gets very frequently used um but punches are of a piece with the
awls they're they're they're long pokey things for getting into places other things wouldn't get and
giving you a mechanical advantage in those places that other materials and other things wouldn't get
a wooden stick it's just not going to do the same thing as an awl yeah uh thanks for letting me add
that little codicil at the end i know codicil is not the right word but you know what i mean