uh hey everybody adam savage here in my cave and behind me you see my replica of the windsor crown
the crown of the royal family of england i think this is the coronation crown
uh i built this recently as a one-day build and you should know a couple things one is
this is a test crown this is my this is my first pass at the crown
um i want to make one that's more durable this one i did a lot of gluing on this and
it's it's not gonna last it's it's great for me understanding all of the different
pieces and parts and bits and bobs of the of the uh of the crown but
for the specifically when we're talking about durability of an object that has some real uh
uh uh heft to it some narrative heft this isn't the final again just a trainer crown as it were
i think the queen in the crown they had her like walking around practicing walking and you really
do need some practice on this thing but that's not what i wanted to talk about this isn't a
one-day building which i'm going to redo this crown that's a separate build that'll happen
um but what did happen was weirdly like a few hours after i finished this and
just to be totally clear with you the day i built this was january 6th yeah
the capitol building insurrection that's the day i built this the irony of me making
a royal king's crown on the day that uh democracy was under siege is not lost on me
but a few hours after i finished that i got an email from a a a friend acquaintance of mine
chad evitt who's a costume designer and builder chad and i were corresponding last year about
me commissioning a costume from him he's a phenomenal maker a designer and maker of costumes
a very active cosplayer and maker of cosplay um and you will see me wearing some stuff of his
uh in the next year but right now what you should know is that he emailed me just
like a few hours after i finished the crown and said hey i've got the king's cape uh i've got
this king's cape and i'm wondering if you wanted to buy it from me and i'm like are you reading
my mind i literally just finished the crown and he's like oh well if you just finish the crown
maybe you want to buy the whole suit from me he said i built it out of some curtains
i guess he saw it in the window and couldn't resist it lest you think that that joke is
mine it is so not it is one of the greatest jokes ever written by carol burnett in a famous episode
of the carol burnett show in which she plays scarlett o'hara from uh gone with the wind and
she's gotta get a dress going that famous scene in the movie where she's gotta put on a dress
and uh in the in the show she tears the curtains down and puts them on and it's just amazing
the curtain rod is going across and the curtains come up and she just looks she looks like a
curtain like a person walking around as a curtain and harvey corman plays rhett butler and he says
scott that dress is incredible and she said thank you i saw it in the window and i couldn't resist
it ah at any rate chad said would you like to buy this whole costume that i built for king
george iii uh it is not a stage replica of uh what jonathan groff wore for the original run
of hamilton but it is darn close and i said yes reader i said yes so he sent it to me sorry i
sent him some money and he sent me the costume we're gonna put on a king's costume right now
i know okay let's see here yeah pretty good yeah okay
chad sent two boxes and one says open me first open me first open me first
that's an exciting and exciting thing to get okay oh who's the king for the king
look at this he's even got his own wax seal that
because he's classy yes fancy pants ollies i hope this costume brings you as much joy as it did me
wear it well your majesty chad i will sir i will i said good day all right um
this this feels like okay here here's why i really dig this this this feels like what the
each of these looks to me like what royal garments would arrive in right
string wax steel that's that's what they would actually be sending them in right
oh
there's that i wonder what these are
okay get rid of the boxes
this is beautiful i'm assuming that the candy stripe
uh string this is the only package with the candy stripe spring
that that's the one he wants me to open first i'm just going to guess let's do it
oh look at that this is a beautiful oh wow this is the um
look at that that's gorgeous what a lovely piece
i you'll have to forgive me i don't know the names of any of these things um
my obsession with the windsors is only just beginning so i've yet to do
all the ancillary obsessive data gathering i normally do i'm just
at the start of this inspection not in the middle of it this is beautiful
all right
okay one part is down
oh look at this breaches breaches breaches nice breaches
yes
yup that's reasonable for the stockings
you know it's funny when chad told me that he made it out of curtains i was thinking it was gonna be
really heavy but no this is actually lovely oh my goodness it's beautiful
oh wow wow
oh my goodness gorgeous gorgeous it's just
yes yep
that's what the well-dressed king is wearing
oh yeah oh frilly oh yeah oh yeah
ladies gentlemen it's a puffy shirt wow wow
chad yeah yeah wow
okay
i'm going gonna change my camera angle
it's freezing cold so i'm going to do this while wearing my my my long sleeve shirt oh
oh yeah there we go
hello new costumes okay uh right
oh you made it tight oh oh goodness gracious oh could it be my neck is no larger than a 16
oh i may have to adjust that slightly
come on there we go uh where is the oh there it is
ah there we go yes puffy shirt
i would i would totally dress like this every day i'm totally down with this kind of style of dress
great okay now now it's getting exciting
oh this is awesome this is a fantastic edition addition
i'm delighted to add this to my costume
collection
oh now we get this
oh
oh oh right guys
oh damn yeah yeah yeah women love his snuff and his gallon stroll yeah yeah i quoted washington
washington six foot eight weighs a [ __ ] ton all right uh i've saved the best for last here we go
this is crazy oh my god this is the cape
excuse me for cursing but
whoa wow wow wow wait are there sleeve holes for this at all
oh there's an internal pocket how about that wow i'm gonna have to back up the camera
wow what a magnificent piece yeah it is literally just a cave it is just a cave okay
reset the camera i think i've gotten the shot that i needed here we go we're gonna put on the cake
wow i totally need to make the scepter now
wow does this jacket even button yo do you even lift bro
all right oh i'm definitely making a much more robust crown now
oh what comes next soon you'll see you'll remember you belong to me
yeah i probably shouldn't sing the copyrighted music but i can't imagine
that lynn or jonathan or paul or any of those guys alex would get mad at me
for it but still i mean they'd get mad because i'm butchering their songs dude this is
an amazing construction
wow i chad emmett i am
sir my hat is off to you yes this is incredible
and i am going to attempt i'm going to attempt to get a shot of this
let's see what we can do here yeah uh i'm i'm just having way too much fun with all this
uh oh yeah i mean how do you store all this i'm gonna have to make its own costume box
um this is an amazing addition to my costume collection chad the shoulders the jacket
the vest i know i need some suspenders and i need to take these breeches in and i will and we'll
also get norm over here to take some good photos of this but holy hell what a thing to add to my
costume collection it's simply magnificent dude all right these pockets are actually even real
pockets
okay
so
well that is some of the most fun i've had photographing a costume in recent memory
thank you guys for joining me for this thanks to chad evitt who designed and built this beautiful
suit that i am wearing and thanks specifically to my friends the amazing team here at city arts and
lectures that graciously allowed us use of the sydney goldstein theater today for this
photo shoot there is no better place we could have done this right now alright see you guys next time