Adam Savage’s One Day Builds: Cave Bathroom Upgrade
For today’s One Day Build, we’ve partnered with DEWALT® to use their FLEXVOLT® tools to give Adam’s cave an upgrade. In fact, Adam is showing a part of his shop that we’ve never shown before: the bathroom! Adam revamps this corner of curiosities to make better use of its space, doing the build in situ!
Shot by Joey Fameli and edited by Grant Vargas
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Something wasn’t clear to me, maybe someone can explain it. How are the back plywood sheets suspended without drilling into the marble? I see that there’s a little lip on top that latches onto the top edge of the marble, but does that mean that the entire weight of the shelves and everything on them is supported by that small lip?
Something wasn’t clear to me, maybe someone can explain it. Who keeps multiple photos of themselves at different ages in a bathroom they don’t much use except to take a leak in?
Oh wait, crap, a stash, never mind, I get it. 🙂
I was wondering whether the plaque on the bathroom door is an actual prop from the Matrix movies or a replica that Adam built later.
That taxidermy looks a little Unorthodox!!!! Are they both seuss pieces?
I can tell this is a sponsored video because Adam is actually using PPO. 😉
looks like he used a french cleat (i think thats what it is called). Take a length of timber, cut length-ways at an angle. fix one length to the wall, with the pointed end facing up, attach the other piece to the back of the cupboard. They should then lock into each other again.
Not to be disrespectful but I’ve noticed that the one day builds have been going down in quality. They started out with “Watch Adam Savage build the Star Trek Captain’s chair” and now we’re getting “Watch Adam Savage build a shelf”. Don’t get me wrong I love Tested and everything it does I just miss the old One Day Builds.
Given that he has worked on at least one of the Matrix movies, I would wager he may have made it for the movie.
You said you are going to keep your first aid kit on the shelf. My mind went straight to a Med Kit from any video game. Idea?
I have to disagree on this, the ODB two builds back was an hour long video of Adam grinding a sword from an aluminum bar, machining a pommel, handle and guard, before wrapping the handle. If you ask me, that was a top 5, ever, video on the site.
The last one-day build was the hour-long Kendama build with Michael Stevens, showing tons of different types of machining operations on the lathe. Before that it was the delightful tape-dispenser build with Laura Kampf.
If you ask me, the content is as strong as ever.
I agree
Was that the only shower in your workshop?
Is anyone else a little grossed out by the idea of storing paper plates and eating utensils in a bathroom?
Have to agree with kim here as well, the last builds and other stuff has lately been awesome, it was half a year ago or so when, to me, the ads were just terrible but recently it’s a nice balance.
The “maker movement” is often treated as a new thing but home renovation, cabinetry etc have never gone away. I don’t understand the apparent disconnect. BTW, Why build the funny box thing around the fixture? Just buy the house and take the shower out.
You may want to check out the Mythbusters episode that monitored fecal matter (FM) transmission to toothbrushes in bathrooms (yum). After a month of daily use (including toothbrushes kept in the kitchen area), they found the presence of FM everywhere (yum). To quote Jamie, “There is poo everywhere.”.
Given that my comments are based on the topic of FM, you would think that I am responding to one of Simone’s videos.
I also agree with This was part of a series of fun videos. I will be doing a similar build in my bathroom and was surprised that Adam settled on making the shelf spacing permanent.
I rather enjoyed watching Adam the tool man savage. It was nice to see the process of an ever evolving shop!
Sorry, but that edge banding job made me cry inside. WHYYYYY?
Surprised DeWalt didn’t want to pimp their cordless track saw over the cheap circular.
OK, this is, like, suuuper-insecure of me, but I have to admit that I find it just a tiny bit affirming to watch Adam doing something I’m better at, even if only slightly. Don’t get me wrong, he’s doing a fine job – but I’d just love to teach him a few of the tricks of the trade that lets you build something fast and cheap, and still have those nice little finishing details.
Like, I would have built this out of MDF because it paints way better – doing it right it almost looks like a professional industrial paint job. That would also mean that hitting the screw heads and nail holes with a bit of filler and sandpaper would have been worthwhile, which it isn’t on ply; that’s never going to look uniformly smooth anyway, so…
Pretty sure I would also have built it flat straight to the ceiling, rather than with visible stringers/slats going up over the marble to the wall (which I assume is also what’s holding the entire piece up?) – that would simply entail putting some spacers on the back and a flush panel at each side. Finally, I would have groove-and-feathered those shelves in place, getting rid of any visible supports. Maybe made them from a hefty gauge of furniture sheet, the kind with solid pine between two thin layers of ply – it’s super-rigid and weighs about half of even plywood, you could probably make shelves this wide without risk of sagging.
Also: If you’re storing eating utensils in a bathroom – one off a workshop, even (note the dust on everything) – put some doors on there. You’ll thank yourself, particularly if you’ve watched the Mythbusters episode mentioned by nidomhnail (can’t tag properly, sorry about that). Or, you know, if you were one of the guys who made it 🙂
I like this upgrade! seems a shame to have covered up all that pretty marble though.
Hey Adam, i recently found this incredible maker who is a pro at his section of the making world; Primitive Technology. I think you would absolutely love this guy’s work. This area of making is really unique and i think you would get a kick out of it. Please give it a view. he goes into really great detail about what he’s doing and how he does it. i think it be something you would appreciate. He still updates his blog and is pretty good with production value.
https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com/
Thanks!