Adam Savage Builds His Dream Hardware Storage System!

Savage Industries Sortimo: adamsavage.com/products/savage-industries-sortimo-… Adam's One Day Builds: Savage Sortimo Storage Cabinet: https://youtu.be/nNHDs3qlYIg Adam's Dream Storage System Prototype: https://youtu.be/QjIvuFLn_xY

Explaining at the beginning how critical it is to have have the drawers identical and telling us the importance of creating jig/template...and then NOT creating a jig at the end for the critical part of installing the drawer arm receivers exactly parallel....that's peak Adam Savage right there.

Adam has an entire shop full of hardware that he exclusively use to build more storage for more hardware. Its an endless circle of hardware.

I genuinely love how Tested has become basically Adam's personal channel where he just shares what he's doing in a day. It's genuinely perfect.

Thank you so much Adam for making me feel like I'm not the only person in the world who sees the value in spending 18 hours of labour to make a way to do a 10 minute task in 8 minutes.

Adam is such a relatable builder. He fails to follow his own rules, his builds often have nagging flaws. He’s really excited to begin a build and really loves having the thing at the end…. We’re all that guy….

Having worked in an industrial facility that produced utility bodies for trucks out of sheet metal, for something like this we would nest each piece in a 4’x12’ sheet and punch them out on a cnc turret punch table. Notches and holes would be done and each part would be ready for the cnc press break. 70 of these would take about 4 sheets of aluminum, processing each sheet of parts on the turret punch table would take about 10 minutes and breaking them another hour. We made thousands of similar drawer units this way only ours had rolled edges for rigidity and were made from 16ga galvanized steel. It’s a testament to the power of automation and modern processes how fast we would pump these out. It’s humbling when you have to design a process done manually and makes you appreciate the planning stage all the more.

I have to tell you that I have a ten week old baby & in the early days of her life we watched two seasons of Mythbusters in a tired blur & my daughter has a real appreciation of your voice. My husband will put on one of your videos & she will calm right down & watch you build absolutely anything with as much joy as a ten week old can muster. Thought this might make your day! We'll be working through your back catalogue of videos bit by bit for a good long while. 😂

Blessed is the person that inherits this workshop.

As a hobby tinkerer I cannot express how much of a pleasure it is to be building or fixing something, and being able to know exactly where you need to look to find the part or piece you require. This is on a whole other level. Very cool.

2010s Adam: “Can’t deal with drawers, drawers are where things go to die” 2020s Adam: “Let’s build hundreds of expensive drawers”

When I first started watching these videos I couldn't for the life of me figure out why I enjoyed them so much. I grew up with Myth Busters but of course, this isn't that, so why am I so absorbed? I finally realize why now, they're pure stream of consciousness for makers.

Man discovers drawers, 2024. Colorized

If you're still looking to add additional complications to your sorting method, you could have alexa/echo recall which draws contain what items when asked. This could also be useful when guest builders are using the space too. " alexa, where are my RCA connectors?" answer: drawer 45.

"I just want to stop and tell you I don't want to clean up right now, and yet I'm cleaning up. " Atta boy! Great attitude. Thinking forward to tomorrow-you walking in to a clean shop. What I like is that you can totally clean up while in a bad mood, but it's hard to be inspired during a bad mood. So going ahead and doing what you're fit for means that your best can be used to do your best.

I love how his shop looks so disorganized and organized at the same time

I love the sound of the "creaking" as Adam adjusts the camera on the loc-line mount. It adds to the personal 1-to-1 feel that he has so well cultivated.

This build was Adam in a nutshell. A brilliant plan, squirreliness during the build, and perfection at the end. I love it.

One of the things I really love about Adam is that he almost always provides Metric measurements as well as Imperial. As a Metric user this is so nice!! Thank you Adam!

I've heard more people quote Adam Savage than ANY OTHER PERSON that "drawers are where stuff goes to die". I disagreed then and I disagree now. The trick it to make sure the drawer has a specific place for each thing in it. RANDOM drawers can be bad. Purposeful drawers are awesome! Welcome back Adam! :)