Adam Savage here with another one day build. I am in my cave and today's one

day build is a display one day build my cave is separated into two broad

sections this is the shop section I'm sitting in now and just to decide of me

the west of me is my display section with all of my lit billy bookcase

cabinets from Ikea filled with glass shelves and lit and because I like the

museum type aspect of it I have started in the last couple of years to take more

seriously the display of some of the more precious objects that I have and I

love the way museums display things and carefully soldered brass clips that make

sure they don't impart any marks to the piece I love it when I see the little

metal supports for bird skeletons and stuff like that and one of the first

exercises I I played with was with this subject right here now this is an object

of incredible history history this is one of Bob Dylan's harmonicas through

various channels a friend of Bob's gave this to me a few years ago and I had it

sitting on a shelf here and then I was visiting a musician a famous musician

who's a good friend of mine and he had a Bob Dylan harmonica and he had it in

this big picture box with this sign it said Bob Dylan's armonica and I thought

if he pays that much respect to Bob Dylan's harmonica what kind of asshole

am i that I have it just sitting on a shelf so I built this display for it and

this is comprised of a very careful little brass holder with a little

pressure reliever on the side of the harmonica and it sits in this bell jar

bass and there you have it that is my Bob Dylan harmonica display now this is

just as by way of showing you an example today I am building a new display for a

new object I have just got recently I was lucky enough to participate in a

performance at New York City's Radio City Music Hall

a legendary Palace Theater I mean it is an unbelievable venue

never been inside it's gorgeous from top to bottom it's over a hundred years old

and the crew there the local union crew that oversees it is deeply proud of

their beautiful venerable building and several of them took pains to show me

around at some of the stuff they found most fascinating so I got this

incredible ground-level tour of this amazing piece of engineering and it is a

piece of engineering there are three lifts on the stage at Radio City that go

up and down like 40-plus feet on these hydraulic and air pressured Rams that

are over a hundred years old in fact the hydraulic elevators of

aircraft carriers that move planes around the first ones were based off of

Radio City's lift so during World War two Radio City Music Hall was a

protected site it was a military secret yeah so as I was getting the tour

downstairs of the hydraulics of the mechanics the ancient boilers and the

amazing marriage between the old and the modern in order to operate this

equipment safely the guy showing me around was saying that different seasons

different things can fall through the cracks of the stage of course because

these lifts they move up and down but there's gaps between them you have to

have a little tolerance and stuff falls through those gaps and depending on the

season you find different things and it turns out that over Christmas one of the

things you find is Rockette jewelry yes the famous New York Rockettes Christmas

show happens every Christmas season at Radio City Music Hall it is a New York

tradition one that I have never partaken in and I now will having seen some of

the scope and the scale and the amazing performance they do but here is two

pairs of Rockette earrings and they were given to me on my tour and I am

gratefully adding them to my collection and I thought I want to make a nice

display for these Rockette earrings and so that is what my one-day build will be

today they display a proper museum type display for Rockette earrings now I

recognize that these are inexpensive pieces of costume jewelry but it's the

history that they describe that makes them interesting because they're worn by

the famous Rockettes I've got two pairs here

and I think I'm just going to make a display for this pair this pair I will

keep nearby but I'm not gonna make a second display I guess I can they're

clip-on so I can just wear them for the duration of this build as for how I'm

going to display them I have an option which I like which is to display them

inside this shadow box here but then I was thinking like what is the best way

to display them in a shadow box and I thought about an object then I was

wondering if it existed and I went onto Amazon and sure enough it does silicone

ears so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make a frame for the rock head earrings

in the silicone ears oh look at that yeah we'll probably do it like this oh

wait oops it's getting it wrong there we go that's it look at that so I'm gonna

display my rocket earrings in this on the silicon ears suspended in the shadow

box it's actually going to be a pretty straightforward and quick assembly but I

think the end results gonna look pretty darn cool it's dusty and I've had this

thing for years I like building displays into these window boxes these shadow

boxes they're fairly inexpensive so that one slips in

yeah let's see by 3 inches 1/2 inch they're like three and a half okay so if

three and a half is the middle then three and four in the last few months

I've done a couple of different styrene scratch-building videos and I can't

remember if I've actually covered cutting a hole through the middle of

styrene but I am going to cover that right now because it's an important

skill to know if you're going to be scratch building with styrene you don't

have to use saws to cut holes in the middle of styrene you can actually just

use well the technique I'm about to show you but first let me get this set let me

free these two pieces of styrene from their home so I can start to work on

them individually score score this is what I love about

styrene one score pop it out oh it's the best

doink now I have two identical pieces that should fit inside of this they do

and I'm going to cut out the holes for the ears I'm going to cut out some ear

holes

obviously one could laser cut this if one was so inclined and I certainly

could I really this stage in my life I just prefer doing it by hand all right

so now I have a piece of styrene which has the scores for popping out these

windows but if I start to bend this on this I could easily torque it or break

it so in popping out internal windows and

you could do this with I've done this with every shape imaginable from circles

to hexagons to squares here is my method I go from one corner to the other and I

simply score an X across the diagonals of my rectangle and I want this score to

be fairly deep with styrene you can get a good snap with even a shallow score

but I want this thing to favor breaking on these lines first so I'm gonna give

it a double score and cut quite deep actually okay so now I've got a window

with these two Center holes and I'm gonna just start just gonna start

manipulating it across those until I hear a telltale snap oh there we go

I felt it rather than I heard it there we go

okay so you can see now it's starting to separate so again I'm just sort of

riding it along those seams without trying to get them to extend any farther

because styrene breaks can propagate and you don't want them to do that this is

something you'll get better at with experience now I've actually separated

across both of the axes of both of my X's so now popping out these windows

should be as simple as there we go popping out a triangle I may have to do

a little clean-up on this at the other end but still it's a lot easier than

using a scroll saw tell you that there goes one that goes the other

there's the third there we go so I got a little bit a little bit of cleanup right

there or and there yeah not bad this is really neat when you start cutting out

large circles out of big things when I was doing the we bows for flubber this

is how we cut out all the internal holes on the thing and we're all done by hand

with an exacto blade it's really you can do some fairly sensitive little cutouts

it's quite a versatile technique we go and oh now that's gonna be the hero side

I can't even describe to you how soft these ears are they really like they

they feel exactly like real ears except without the cartilage so absurd so

absurd okay come on there we go it fits inside this window box that's looking

pretty good needs to be just an inch and 50 so that means I need this whole

distance to be an inch and fifty thousand since the glass yeah I'm gonna

have to put the glass in the bottom to it so it's a little bit under pressure

make a mark here all right that's nice all the way around so

all I got to do is take this frame down to that line and this whole thing should

assemble quite nicely

my frame is cut let's assemble this guy there we go

her fagged oh I love it I'm so happy about this it's great

just a little bit better yeah air on this

yep a little bit of positive pressure there we go ladies and gentlemen my

museum type display for Rockhead earrings I'm really pleased with that

that came out loves me some shadow boxes

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