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@30:19 I was waiting for the door and the tote of screws to fall to the ground. Of all your videos, this one made made you seem the most relatable and human, what with talking to the door as you're fixing, dropping tools, forgetting measurements and spilling coffee. Thanks for not editing out any of these little shop time moments.
I 100% agree with your philosophy on "pockets of light". When we moved into our house that was built in 1962 and left mostly originally intact, the house came with no less than 12 or so lamps of various sizes and I've got them scattered all over the house and it's a very cozy feeling.
well its probably also hot and produces a lot of smoke and smell i also found out that not lighting up your oils and cutting fluids lets them work a lot better, althoug the scene of burning oil is quite cool 🙂
I just installed accent lighting in my crappy power tool rack a few weeks ago and I still get joy walking by it and flipping the switch on then back off lol
With how attracted to light Adam is, I can't help but imagine him drawn as a little moth who's obsessed with building things with all sorts of little lights in them!
Odd Adam talks so much about light in this video, as he is using a flashlight (for the first time I've seen) in places that already have lights shining on them. RU-vid darkens videos (or at least used to) so it should be bright enough to not need a flashlight.
Using a syringe for glue is an awesome idea that I would never have thought of! Love getting tips and tricks from more experienced makers, always helps me look smarter than I is.
My late father, an MD, had an assortment of syringes (and forceps) in his workshop. He used an amniocentesis needle to get glue to bubbles in veneer, coming in from the edge.
I think there are 3 types of glue people in wood work. 1) put as much on as possible worry about it when sanding 2) use either glue spreading brush or little silicone spatulas and or your finger then cleaning up squeeze out with a wet cloth (most common for larger furniture/panels in my experience) 3) extremely precise needle application if I had to guess it probably comes from model making experience/need to be abundantly clean.
@@treyreppe4348 ideally you do glue clean up while the glue is in the fleshy state. Then it peels off cleanly. Otherwise you risk finishing failures by clogging wood pores with wood glue. But Adam was gluing a finished piece so you can just wipe it off wet then. A proper glue job there's always squeeze out so forget about precision application.
Loved the rant on lamps as a fellow lamp enthusiast, being able to control the area of lighting instead of indiscriminate light everywhere is just so much warmer and calmer.
Everyone struggles, and if they say they don't, they lie. There's never the perfect screw driver tip, always just two measures bigger or smaller, blunter or sharper. :))
With slotted screws you have to embrace the idea of modifying screwdriver tips to fit the screws you're working with. It's a skill. There should be no slop whatsoever. With positive engagement slotted screws are the best. OK maybe Torx is the best? But slotted screws look better. Phillips drive was designed for hamfisted amateurs.
Totally with you on the "pockets of light", i never use the ceiling lights in my livingroom, and i never use white light, i like a darker room with some orange glow, it reminds me of wooden houses and candle light.
I'm a big fan of indirect, peripheral light, i.e. around where the walls meet the ceiling, in addition to task lighting where it's needed. Indirect lighting reduces shadows by diffusing the source, and placement at the periphery also reduces shadows. Workshops, IMHO, need to be well lit with full spectrum light, for a healthy mind. I also love diffused light from skylights & windows.
Completely agree about pockets of light being more inviting. Never even thought about that, but it has been my preference as well. That's what this channel does for me, exposes new ideas and viewpoints about things that make me introspective about my own workspace, life, etc. Cool stuff as always!👍
rule one of removing old cabinet doors - bring four times the number of screwdrivers that you think you need because all of the screws are different sizes and are probably stripped out.
I watched in amazement as Adam relentlessly fired one pin/brad after another into that tiny door. I simply couldn't believe the overkill. But then I counted them up and everything became clear. 42 - the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything (including how many pins/brads should I use for this repair?)
I am enjoying my gift membership! Watching you work in your shop does great things for my self esteem. I am a writer and artist, and I can finally feel okay about my rows and stacks of art supplies and laptop arrays and printers. ❤😂 a craftsperson needs her tools close by! 😊😊😊
So what's hate doing for you? Why don't you just find out how to do it right? Don't hate, appreciate. I know what you're doing wrong. Your screwdrivers suck. Most do. Most screwdrivers don't fit any slotted screws right. If you can't snap a screw onto the end of the driver and it holds up held horizontally then it doesn't fit. It should fit that good. If it don't then you need to grind it until it does. Grinding a flat head screwdriver really good is a bit of a deft skill kind of a thing. Ideally you want to hollow grind it so the tip flares out an imperceptible amount. Exaggerated the cross section looks like this )( Then the screwdriver will bite into the bottom of a screw slot. It'll have a grip then. It's called a gunsmithing screwdriver grind and it's very arcane tool nerd knowledge. You do it by placing your fingertip pad on the screwdriver flat and presenting the other flat to the top of a grinding wheel. In doing so you may have to make a blood sacrifice to the tool gods. If you survive the trial by fire you get a check mark on your man card. Toxic masculinity boost!
The way he just threw the screw box on table and left it hanging halfway... Then running around it cleaning up the coffee.... dropped the door on the box with such confidence..... STRESSING ME OUT!
As someone who moved from the US to Canada, I can say that: FORGET PHILLIPS! Try out robertson (square head) screws. Absolute game changer. Almost never have old Robertson screws strip out on me. The head more often shears off the shaft!
Whilst Robertson is a great little gimmick... it's neither spread enough to be economic, nor is it suitable for all sizes. Figure that there's people in Europe and South parts of US that have lived a full life and have neither seen nor heard of them. F and P won the war and you can sure do a lot more with flathead screwdrivers and phillips than you can with square ones outside screwing things. Don't hate the messenger, i just carry the "how it is". :)
@@aserta I use torx for just about everything nowadays. I use robeertson for my kreg jig and everything else is Phillips if It needs to b a different typ of screw.
There's something comforting about watching Adam futz around with getting screws out of the hinges -- it suggests that the issues I have with my projects aren't just me...
*ding* wait, what? Mol-yb-de-num. Hol up... *crack of thunder* O.M.G. 'Lets Talk about lighting...' No, lets talk about your new editor! Lol. Awesome stuff.
As a lighting designer for events and attractions I take your point about have heaps of different sources of light. Whilst you have quite a few they are washed out by I presume the skylights in your cave. If you used some rolls of ND filters , curtains or some “fripp” treatment on the skylights , or even shot at night, your RU-vid vids would have more of that feel visually. In the RU-vid world that you are in I think that both Laura Kampf & Casey Neisat nailed this perfectly in his NYC studio.
Love this video. Reminds me of my one year stint I spent as a maintenance guy. I went from having basic tools at home, to having a workshop filled with everything I could need for my job, and more! Your vids make me dream of filling my garage with all the tools and workbenches I can afford, just because: "if I have the right tools for the job; I'll do it, it'll get done!" Otherwise, NOPE!
Love watching you start something, get distracted, move out of frame, grab something, then something else, haha. Just cuz you've got something on hand to use or show us. A well stocked workshop.
Hats off to Josh the editor on this one. All the little additions (lightning sound, arrows, ex...) made it more fun and compliment Adams nerdy excitement.
This build started to turn into one of mine, with stuff everywhere falling off where it's supposed to be. As always, if the job's done, and you're satisfied with it, then it's all good.
8:53 - This is the reason why I bless all those who make stuff like this with hide glue - and is the reason why I use it whenever possible on all the things I make. Given the age you think this piece is from, it would be highly likely that they did use hide glue, in which case you could have tested this with some hot water and and acid brush into the joints and follow it up with the heat gun. That would be sufficient to dissolve the joint and you would have been saved a lot of bother. Tightbond is a great product but hell on restorations and reversibility.
@@1pcfred yes! Put away the mortise and tenon joints and break out the biscuit joiner, there's modern woodworking to be done! That said, I wouldn't say no to a Festool Domino. That thing is pretty sweet.
@@yoyopg123 Domino machines are pretty expensive. Lordie the kit is over a thousand dollars. I always say the green on Festools is concentrated tool envy.
@@1pcfred That's funny. I'm going to steal that with full attribution to you Paul. Of course, I'll just use your first name and people will think I've just made the pomposity jump to referring to myself in the third person.
I'm totally similar with using the pockets of light in my apartment :D Basically the only time I turn on the ceiling lights is when I have lost something that I need to find.
Adam's kids and grandkids are so lucky.... Maybe I only think that because I'm a fan and I'm in my mid-40s, but listening to him just work on getting the door off reminds me of my grandfather under my mom's car working on it for a few days.
It does take longer to get on the floor nowadays and back up. I accuse my wife of “lowering” the floor on me when I’m not around. I don’t remember it being that far down yesterday…😂
credit to the editor showing some fun flares throughout the episode. Please do more! i loved the episodes of its alive with brad from bon appetit. Its nice seeing the comedy of the editors :D
I feel the same way about lighting! I can't relax in a room with overhead lighting. There's something about a room with lamps and low lighting that's just inviting! Great video Adam
I love the explanation, “pockets of light” now I have the verbal descriptor to help others understand my views of light too! I hate overhead lighting of any type, except for up-lighting that reflects off the ceiling or other surfaces.
I got some stand lights with a green screen setup that I quickly abandoned. (the background behind my camera is pretty nice). These have become my lights for my game room, angled to shoot light up my hanging art. The light bounces off the wall and fills the space with an uneven warm glow, and makes the art look fantastic. I never turn on the overhead light. So, I understand you feeling. A difference between us, and maybe this is just because of filming, is that I like a dim room over a bright one, with bright pockets in a gloom.
This has to be the best and funniest thing I have watched all day. I love his face when it all slides off the bench onto the floor🤣 We are all our own enemies. I see my own crazy shop capers in this episode…just a bit more swearing😇
I used to do a lot of fine PVA gluing and found a soccer ball air pump needle (cut/sand the very tip off if spherical ended) threaded into the plastic nozzle of a glue bottle was excellent for this sort of stuff. Make it a good/tight fit in the nozzle (don't over-trim nozzle if trimming it) and you can squeeze quite hard on the bottle to force glue places. Seal well when not in use (or swap out with std plastic nozzle and wash it out) and get good quality brass/stainless needle - cheap/steel ones will rust.
It's great to hear you calling flat heads names, I do the same everytime I find them on a job and it's even worse when they are mixed in with Phillips heads too. Then I normally start cussing the previous person for only replacing a couple of the flat heads with Phillips instead of replacing all 6 or 8 flatheads with phillips.🤣🤣
Phillips screws were designed so unskilled workers could not damage coachworks while assembling them. The screw would cam out before the bodywork was stripped. So now what does you saying you prefer Phillips screws say about you? Slotted screws work fine as long as you have a driver that fits them. If you do not have a driver that fits them then you need to modify one until it does. That's generally done on a bench grinder, in case you didn't know. Gunsmithing screwdrivers are hollow ground. The Flats are concave. Makes the screwdriver blades bite into screw slots better. Basically if a screw won't stay on the screwdriver in the horizontal then the screwdriver does not fit the screw. It should lock in that tightly.
Re. the tangent on lights, I've never heard something before which perfectly encapsulates my own feelings on room lighting. A single source bright light in the center of the ceiling feels so stark to me, I simply can not relax in a room where the main light is on, but a handful of lamps dotted around the room to highlight the areas which need to be seen is perfect. I used to think it was due to personal history, my brain associating brightly lit rooms with sources of stress (arguments, late night homework etc) and the movement to ambient light the removal of that stress, but now I think it might be something more universal.
Adam, I don't know if you are aware of it but phillips head screws were designed for the automotive industry to prevent screwdrivers from slipping off & marring the surface. Another design factor of the phillips screw is that it was designed to strip out once tight enough. Slotted head screws are definitely more difficult to work with than other driver types if you don't use the correct size & type of screwdriver. You really should always use the proper sized gunsmith style screwdriver when working with slotted head screws. When you don't have any slop & the tool is not trying to lift itself out of the slot you will find it much easier to work with than your previous experiences.
I caught a total eclipse once and the weirdest part was right before blackout when the sun was just a single point of light. It really was otherworldly. Usually the Sun is omnidirectional light. Outside usually doesn't have a spotlight effect to everything.
I love having pockets of light. I've done a similar thing to you in both my home and work offices for decades, and it's much more comfortable than using the ceiling light.
I work in a scenic shop and we've been using a wood glue made by Jowat. Jawat 110-60. It's marvelous. It's a little thicker than the other wood glues = less drippy. Strong as hell, sets up fast, dries clear. Leaves titebond in the dust. I hope you have the opportunity to use it sometime.
I can relate, on a few things. Grew up in a hundred year old house, where we used table lamps exclusively. The only exceptions were in the foyer and the kitchen. Neither room felt... homey. And as far as floors go? When we are babies, the floor is right there as we crawl along and first learn to walk. As we grow, the floor gets farther away. One would assume that, when we reach our full height, the floor would stop getting farther away. Newp. As I've grown old, I've noticed the floor seems like it is getting further, and further away.
As I'm starting to get older I think they move the ground further away. And I agree with you about the lights. I use a lot of battery powered lanterns that I can move around when I'm working.
Adam, you really made me hold my breath at the 30:00 minute mark and at 30:19! That Sortimo box of screws was right on the edge! Then to put your newly finished door on said teetering box, I couldn't breathe! I was about to pull my hair out seeing it all on the edge like that! As your coffee fell, from I presume sitting on the edge of the table, all I could think was, one nudge of the table and that Sortimo and his door are crashing to the floor in a magnificent spray of loose screws! I know that floor is a bit wobbly too, being all built up on plywood. I'm the kind of person that can't stand seeing an open glass of water within a few inches from the edge of a table, and always push it farther inward. So to only be able to watch as you're always setting things right on the edge is torture! I wanted to reach through my screen and push it farther onto your workbench! I mean, not even three minutes earlier at 27:55, right as you turn to throw away your rag, you move your hand and the door falls to the floor because it was teetering on the edge! I could see that coming and there was nothing to be done! You're always moving so fast, I just want to see you take a deep breath, and really think about your next move, but I also know your mind works at a mile a minute. I also recall you've had your Sortimo boxes fall before and had to sort out hundreds of screws by hand! I feel like there's a message in all of this...
For someone that talks so much about speed and efficiency in a shop, you going off-screen to grab a vice to hold a wooden door upright while literally working on a woodworking table with an integrated vice really shows how much chaos is in your head.
