Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Knurling Tool Storage! 

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I’d recommend using each knurling die set to knurl a small piece of material and mount that next to the die set in this holder. That way you can get a visual reference of the actual knurl each set creates as opposed to trying to judge from the dies themselves.

I would 100% love to see a collab between Adam and Alec Steele where Adam forges his own tool

Extra kudos to the editor for the beginning and the "a few moments earlier" repeat slow-mo in black and white when Adam lost allllll the lil doobers, except that one XD Can always buy more, but the footage is priceless!

I love that you put it on your bedside table at night!

I think I’m unreasonably amused by how the tape is layered up on the clacker instead of removed and replaced.

Adam is the only person i know that can professionally assemble something backwards and still make it look like nothing was wrong with it

I work in corporate finance and I never realized needing a reset after a big project was a thing people did. It's something I've always felt I needed to do but never heard of anyone else feeling it so I just internalized it and kept working. Thank you for being honest about that part of your life. I'm going to start incorporating that into my schedule!

I love the dedication to the maker community morale by including assembling it backward and having to reassemble. We’ve all been there.

I love seeing tools I didn’t know existed

I love hearing your explanation of what’s going on in your head. It really jives with the way I think.

"how well a tool does its job is part of its aesthetic" - that is so incredibly true, in fact I would say it is the primary factor in how aesthetic it is. Nothing about a tool is more beautiful than how it does its job! A good looking tool will be ugly to you the second it fails at what you want it to do. What a bizarre but incredibly truthful insight.

It is time. Time for *Maximum! Overknurl!* (with Adam)

Everyone needs and deserves a “me day.” I love that you choose projects to do off camera. You can blast the tunes that inspire you, you can be your most personal and vulnerable self while you jam out and get weird in the shop. Every project you choose to document is all the more better for it!

I love all this little noises of revelations and frustrations adam makes when making the holding tray.

I would love to see this labelled haphazardly with a "THIS SIDE UP" to prevent mis-assembly. There's something I love dearly about exquisitely beautifully made objects that have shoddy labels attached to them

I love going back and rewatching shop infrastructure projects and having a little chuckle knowing you are going to love your future self 😂

Living a piece of my dream man. A workshop is definitely part of my endgame.

I've always liked the old wooden boxes from the likes of Starrett and Greenfield Tap and Dies. They have a charming kind of craftsmanship all their own.

Loved seeing the knurling clamp apart, hearing how it works, and seeing it put back together. Reminds me of when I would take stuff apart as a kid.

I totally agree on the addictive quality of tool making. It seems lately that I've found excuses to make at least one tool for every project I'm working on at the time. So first I make the tool, then I use that tool to make my piece. I love it! Glad to see you share that feeling!

Adam, there is beauty in simplicity and that clamp knurler is a perfect example. It's wonderful and you did a fantastic job. Kudos to you, my good man. Kudos to you!

19:56 this section looks like it's right out of a This Old Tony video, complete with talking hands and everything. Knurling was my favorite thing to do in shop class so this video just hits differently. ❤️

Not sure if he’s seen their channel before but I’d love to see Adam and nerd forge team up on something. Maybe both could build one half of a piece.

Could actually feel the joy with this one.

Everyone needs to go to a happy place just for them to unwind, recharge now & then😊😊

I’m with Adam on making My Own™ tools. I have built so many of my tools, clamps, jigs, etc., for my CNC shop-it has become an absolute obsession at times. Moreover, it is an EXCELLENT cleanser for your creative palette and/or technique to get the juices flowing when the CrEaTiVe BlOcK stomps into town…

I design tools for a living and I appreciate the detail and thought you put into everything you do. Wish I could design and BUILD like you do!

It reminds me heavily of a Kant Twist clamp (I think that's the name) very cool to be able to make your own tools, must give a feeling of great freedom. So much of life is reliant on others you are a true Renaissance man. Pleasure as always.

I really liked that style of intro.

The eccentric clamping arm is actually the very best part of this design. You NEED to make another one (trust me). Hemingway will sell you the plans alone. Also it doesn’t use circlips but much nicer clamps. Also, what kind of goof uses mdf. It’s just going to swell up with oil and look like crap.

My 3 yr old son, who I mentioned loved your lightaber build, also thoroughly loved this video, specifically when you say "Fat diamond pattern" 🤣

Ohh my heart felt for that poor lonely circlip at the end 😄

This is incredibly beautiful Adam.

Chisels with pretty handles get used with more care and more frequency. My dad made me strip, sand, refinish my brand new trim hammer's handle "because [the manufacturer] makes those handles for everyone's hands, not just for [my] hands. And a little burr or bump makes a big blister at the end of the day."

I absolutely love the fact that you used the knurler you were actively making to creat a part for ITSELF! The chicken before the egg! Or, the chicken is the egg?

Beautiful knurler!!! Came out gorgeous!

A lovely design and build.

34:30 The art of making art is putting it together.

You have such a good work flow and confidence with the tools you use that it always looks like you are doing it for the hundredth time. Only later do i learn you are doing it for the first time and trying something new. That's one of the things that makes it so entertaining to watch you work.

First time I've ever spent 34 minutes watching something I normally never would have such as this making of knurling tool storage lmao.

K. I appreciate all this knurled knolling knowledge!

same view, different optimism sums up so many situations in life

Adam, you really need to see a beautiful little tool. A inner wire bird caging tool, you'll enjoy its simplicity and the results. It's used to make motorbike cables more secure usually.

I doubletook because I used to attend (old) SiliCon as a teen Now I have a new con to check out when I'm visiting!

Right from your beginning you've been full of talent, thank you for these years of entertainment

I am glade i am not the only person who puts things i recently made. and i am still excited about on my nightstand for a few days😅

+1 for Hemingway kits. Some very useful tool kits with very good instructions.

Again my good sir like the milwaukee socket sets, this is a tool I need to get and add to my shop. Thank you for your videos and allowing us insights into the Savage mind.

Love these builds and the commentary!

Oh yes making your own tools is interesting. I 3d printed a small chop saw that uses a rotary tool. customizing and adapting tools to your own work flow. Also finding or making handy tools.

What a gorgeous useful elegant piece-of-art tool! I love it by proxy! And now it has a bespoke home tucked right where you need it.

I know what you mean about the feel of creating tools! Absolutely loving it, and what a beautiful outcome!

Your execution was knurly perfect!

Adam: That tool is gorgeous. No further words needed. If I'd made it, I'd be carrying it with me for weeks, looking for things what need knurlin'.

I loved metalworking class in high school. My favorite parts were working on a lathe and mill where I built a small table vice that my dad still has mounted to his workbench (which I also built) and still uses.

Super satisfying build!

Im so pleased to see that you made the parts rather than bought them. There is something to be said about the joy of making a tool, and then using that tool to improve your craft. It scratches some primal itch. It's gorgeous, btw.

Milling MDF looks fun.

nicely knolling the knurler

I can totally relate to carrying around, staring at, and playing with a tool I've just made for days and days just admiring it. When Adam said he slept with it on his bedside table I had to laugh because I've done the same. I'm sure I'm not the only one either!

Oh I love me some knurling.... That's why I think Marathon GSAR and CSAR are two of the best watches out there. Best looking and best bang for your buck, Swiss made/ auto diving / pilots watch. The knurling on winder is sooooo good.

completely get it. You already do more on camera than I would ever want to. When I am fabricating, I get in the zone and don't want anything disrupting that process. So I would hope you do have those times as well. Which you display here. Great job as always. Beautiful piece. ABATW

i'm going to call that bit dusty from now on lol holy cow the dust it threw around.

Beautiful work.

33:05 when he used the endmill instead of a thickness planer you could see the machinist brain in action.

The miscalculation actually created a nice divide between the straight and diamond wheels

The camera angle of the drawer at the end had a real This Old Tony feel to it, to me anyway. Great tool and great build.

I don’t blame you Adam, it’s a beautiful piece of work. I would sleep with it under my pillow!

How awesome would it be for a contest where the prize is a day or 2 spent working with adam in his shop

It seems that Adam can do very little planning and redo most of the job multiple times and still end up faster than most people doing careful planning before completing the job with zero mistakes.

Interesting fact: Knurling is the only machining process that does not involve material removal, and afterwards, the piece is a larger diameter than before.

great build. Been after a decent knurling tool for a while but this is definitely something I'd be up to trying to build scratch too. A rare earth magnet drilled into the wood just under the circlip indent would be an idea..

id recommend a spring clip with tabs. they are much easier to (re)install for changing rollers

I would imagine adding a magnet behind the circlip pockets would help keep them from accidentally relocating.

Very nice tool!!

The uneven spacing between the wheels winds up separating the straight from the diamond. Also, MDF dust is not good to breathe.

Love when you make real/functional stuff. while I like non-functional props for their cosmetic artistry, my passion is for things that perform an actual function.

Adam, great job! I have one of the original Marlco knurling tools and I love it! It would be great to see you build a Hemingways kit anyway!

To the editors: Cool that you are recording the location sound in stereo, however, the stereo sound imaging seems rather hollow and off-centre towards stage left... Thanks!

Adam, and fellow makers in the comments, I want to share a fun little trick for the application of CA liquid accelerator that I've found incredibly useful and I assume you would too. This is a trick I learned after I started working at the Taylor Guitars repair shop at the factory in El Cajon, CA. Everyone knows that over-accelerating your CA glue can cause it to harden too quickly and puff up, giving you voids, and turning white. The aerosol cans seem especially prone to this. There's one company called GluBoost that has developed a really great formula that prevents this from happening, and it's really wonderful stuff. However, the cans don't hold a lot and are kind of expensive. So I usually save that stuff for critical situations like repairing finish cracks where the voids and whiting will ruin the work and I have to scrape it out to start again. The team at Taylor Guitars developed a little trick for this that works brilliantly, and I've fallen in love with it since I started working there. We use liquid accelerator in a single-action air brush. (The specific brand we use is Zip Kicker, but I imagine it would work great with the BSI Adam uses or any other liquid accelerator on the market.) Every bench in the repair shop, and the production facility for that matter, has air. We all have a regulator to drop the pressure down from the main line to about 10-15psi, and hook up a small single-action air brush with a jar containing liquid CA accelerator. This will let you feather in the perfect amount of accelerator when you need it to kick the glue off without over-doing it. You can adjust the air pressure as needed for the best results, I've found between 12-15psi is great. We use a siphon-style single-action airbrush so the control of the fluid and air mixture is constant once you set it, no need to feather it in by pulling back the button, however I'm sure that would work if someone wanted to try it.

Would be cool if you had a sample of the knurling next to the different wheels to show there different finish

Awesome!

I would thoroughly enjoy seeing you do a one day build of a Framon key impressioning tool. I don’t have one yet and the mechanism is a bit of a mystery to me.

I too enjoy making things to make things, as much or more, than I like making things with the things I made to make them.

7:19 I couldn't agree more.

Add a magnet in your E clip divot just for fun. Maybe underneath.

I found another RU-vid channel that I think may bring you some joy for making tools. It is called INHERITANCE MACHINING.

Knurly dude! 😄

Thanks.

You could sink a strong magnet from the backside under the c clip recess. That will keep them a little more secure in their spot

Man, I would love a set of drawings for this to be released on the subscription based channel! The kit at Hwmingway seems a bit small for my lathe,as well as the capacity of the knurling tool. Great video! Love these One Day Builds! Cheers Terence

"are you kidding me? its bumping against..." made me laugh :D 😂😂😂

Idea for ya! How about recessing the ser clip slot a bit more, so you can fix a magnet in the slot. This way they don't fly off if the base is moved! There you go - you can have that one 😉

Thats great

Boy do I want a lathe and knurler.

I wondered how long it was going to take to work out he'd built to the wrong way round :-)

tok a quick look at how Knurling is done. Seems lite the pattern is crushed on. I always thought it was cut. I bet it would look better cut. someone should make that ;P

In Germany, I believe, this would be enough to become a master craftsman. It just simply looks like a masterpiece in appearance. Have you learned this on your own? You're not a machinist according to my memory...

Adam have you heard of the knurling pattern story behind Eleiko barbells from Sweden? The pattern was originally from a waffle iron Eleiko manufactured before deciding to put their hands to barbells. These barbell are now the preferred barbell at the Olympics (weightlifting) and at international powerlifting competitions