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CrazyCrowded

What’s better: crazy crowded drawers or a nice vertical organized tool stand?

I am obsessed with toolboxes. Each time there’s a sale after occasions like Father’s Day or Christmas, I seize the moment to expand my collection of rolling toolboxes. Despite the number I purchase, it feels like there’s never sufficient drawer space to properly organize my workshop, so continuous accumulation has been my solution. However, there might be other possible solutions.

Adam Savage, one of the figures behind the MythBusters TV show, possesses quite a number of tools himself but despises toolboxes. His claim is that “drawers are where items get lost forever.” He prefers an approach that allows him to locate items visibly without having to dig through layers of drawers. As for me, my ideal situation would be to set up French fittings for my tools in toolbox drawers, but I have yet to actualize this dream up until now.

Enter Adam Savage’s Tool Organizer Stand.  It’s his alternative to drawers.  Check it out:

With this novel approach, Savage achieves three ideals at once for tool storage and access:

1.  It’s portable.  If you’re tired of running back and forth to the toolbox, you’ll like this idea.  Just drag the Tool Organizer over to where you’re working and everything you need is handy.  It’s mounted on casters and as you’ll see from the video, it’s very easy to move around, whether to get to a new work area or just to spin it around to access tools on all four sides.

2.  It’s dense packed.  Savage achieves a very high density–there are a lot of tools in a very small space on this thing.

3.  You can see what you want.  Tools are logically grouped by type and everything is very visible.  Nothing hides under other tools or in a closed drawer.

He has more than one of these things.  The other isn’t shown very much, but it has the standard organizers for drill bits and other cutters.  I could see a stand like this set up to keep toolholders together with new inserts, cutters, and twist drills handy in a small CNC shop.

I am tempted to give one a try.  The stand certainly doesn’t look hard to build, and if nothing else, I’d be more likely to put the tools back where they go with a rig like this instead of leaving them on the nearest flat surface.  A CNC Router with a big enough table could be knocking one of these out in no time.

Check Out Adam Savage’s 2001 Space Suit Cosplay

I wondered what sorts of projects were being made in the workshop lately, so poked at some of the latest video uploads.  Savage does a lot of Cosplay (basically, making costumes that match movies, comics, and other media).  I got a real kick out of his 2001 A Space Odyssey replica space suits.  They’re really faithful to the original movie:

[youtube width=”800″ height=”540″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxRoK5LZa_A[/youtube]

Space suits from 2001: A Space Odyssey…

 

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Recently updated on March 4th, 2024 at 01:02 pm