hey everybody adam savage in my cave uh doing some question answering
i've got some quest you've got some questions i've got some answers uh these questions come
courtesy of tested patrons and this one comes from tested buried or buried berry
tessa says over the past year you've redesigned and upgraded and over the past year you've
redesigned and upgraded a number of stations in your workshop if you were totally to strip
the cave and rebuild it from the ground up is there any major changes you would make
okay let's define our terms here tessa uh do you mean this cave
because if i was going to redesign this cave i think i've nailed it this room which is
it's so small it's like 400 square feet is the room i do all of my building at
um i need some more room hello sweetie oh noodle um my dog mag is here come here
so um i would have a quieter space for maggie to hang out she doesn't love it here at the shop
um she's with me this morning because my wife is working um and i've taken her on a
big walk this morning you don't need to know any of this if i was to redesign my shop um
i i'm really happy with how this space works for me i i you know there's still an ever a
never-ending series of little things to take care of oh sweetie oh there you go come here you can
sit down there um yeah maggie is 15 years old she just got a super clean bill of health from the vet
she's doing great she is mostly deaf and i think also losing her eyesight just a little bit but
she has a sweetie um but tessa the idea of dismantling my cave and rebuilding it from
scratch is very attractive to me in fact uh the tested production manager ryan geyser and
i are the only two people on our team not freaked out by the idea of moving my cave
and it's something that i'm considering because i really do feel like i've run out
of available space for the kind of projects that i've been doing and if i was to move
into a space the biggest change would be size the second biggest change if i was oh
yeah you know one of the big changes that i would make is lighting uh the lighting in this space is
very um catches catch can like i've got lights in each station but i i've added them as needed
it's an imperfect system um and i just the led light above my lathe just crapped out you know the
issue with led bulbs when they say lasts for 10 000 hours that's great the hardware it's mounted
to doesn't last that long the power supplies often go out uh sorry that's just a side complaint um
i would love to have a much more monolithic lighting solution i would still have
individual adjustable lights at each workstation as i currently do but i would love to build a grid
that went over the whole shop and allowed me to hang some nice bright lights in it you you really
can't have too much lighting in a shop hold on just a second where was i ah yes lighting lighting
is a lighting is the biggest change i would make if i was rebuilding this shot from scratch uh and
it definitely is when i eventually move this shop lighting will be one of the very first things i
worry about the second thing i could really use is more wall space but i don't know how i get that
i would love to be able to pull my car in here i would love to have a space that i could pull my
car in and work on it at this point the shining maze almost crippled this shot because it's too
big so it's way far i mean i could there's a loading door over there and i could redesign
the whole back of the shop and pull a car in but it's just not the kind of thing i'm interested in
i don't know maybe i will redesign this whole space that's it's not out of the question
the answer so
tess i i appreciate your question and the answer is that i'm constantly thinking about
what i would do differently if i had to do it again uh in terms of shop setup and layout
it is an ongoing it's a process it's not a yeah that's the thing
where did i just see that
a buddhist teacher said this isn't a problem to solve it's a paradox to manage and she
was referring to life and it is a great outlook on life so the shop is never done
the shop itself is a process it looks like it's done because at any given moment you look at it
it's not moving around but it is constantly changing in regards to my needs in regards
to what we are doing here in regards to the kind of projects i am bringing in
yeah it is not a problem to solve it is a process to manage
um the moment i heard that specific phrase i realized how applicable it was for me across
the whole swath of the way i think about stuff and i really appreciate that that framework in
terms of an approach to something because when you think of something as done or not done
like the ants from once in future king when you think of something as done or not done
you're thinking of it in static terms and very few things are static
yeah um again we are i am not a problem to solve i am a process to manage we are all processes and
this is just an extension of mine um tessa i hope that answer was useful to you thank you for the uh
the intellectual exercise of thinking through what i would do differently i appreciate it
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