Adam Savage's Favorite Tools: Jewelry Clamps
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- Опубликовано: 2 мар 2020
- Over the years, Adam has learned to look to other industries to see if the tools, tips, and processes used by other experts could apply to his workflow. It's how he discovered emery boards work great as modelmaking sanding sticks, and where he found jewelry clamps to hold onto small and irregular-shaped objects. Good clampage is something every maker should have in their shop!
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Jewelry Wooden Ring Clamp: amzn.to/2uMsE0Y
Hand Vise: amzn.to/2VH6tEy
Sanding Sticks: amzn.to/3akHWJw
Heavy Ball Vise: amzn.to/32Mdh56
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Adam - what was being made when you smashed that nail ?
Wishing you a quick recovery :)
I used to work for Stuller did you order them from them?
Adam Savage’s Tested check out clickspring’s main channel, especially the playing card press.
I added a "universal parts holder vise clamp" to my solder station to hold the piece and use hands to position wires
Actually there are much cheaper sandpapersticks for jewelers available, sadly only in europe as it seems, as my american colleagues seem to mostly use those nail files too. Oh and normally you would put the ring much deeper into that wooden clamp, as it for setting stones (but today you would much likelier use that exact heavy ball vise instead.
I recommend getting catalogs of surgical tools and dental tools. They make all sorts of peculiar forceps, tweezers, clamps, cutters, etc. Dentists need extremely small grinding tips to sculpt false teeth, and they can be used in a Dremel tool. One of those came in mighty handy when I needed to make a precise, small-diameter, round-bottom groove in a metal plate.
I love all of these small tools that could make all the difference in a project
Sometimes it's just a change of tools itself... When my old MTB snapped in half ( i.imgur.com/WPAMXfT.jpg ) after seven years of service I, obviously, had to get myself a new one ( imgur.com/gallery/bPmp1 ) as it is my preferred choice of transportation ( can't stand public transportation despite it being top notch where I live ) and the new one had a CF Frame which wouldn't do well with _any_ CF contact making screw getting over torqued so I got myself my first Torq Wrench - A *WERA Series 7000 1-25Nm* one plus some Wera some Allen Keys and Bits all of which have the WERA Hex-Plus system preventing ( or discouraging ) stripping out of Hex Screws... And they work as I've yet to strip out a Hex Screw with them - Especially on the smaller scales...
Due to a rekindling of my RC Hobby ( imgur.com/a/GzLRqvl & imgur.com/a/fxHQqrn ) I also recently made the change from a "Do-it-all" Aztek Airbrush with like a dozen or so tips to two dedicated Tamiya ( Iwata? ) 0.3 and 0.5mm ones that blow the Aztek out of the water - ESPECIALLY when it comes to cleaning - The Plastic/Rubber Aztek is like Tupperware that was once filled with Spaghetti sauce - You'll NEVER get spilled color off it! Meanwhile the Tamiya Chrome plated ones you can easily be cleaned to a factory cleaned state which DOES kinda matter.
I just found one of those small clamps with the cone at a yard sale and immediately thought of this video. Really a great little tool.
Never ceases to amaze me how many great tool recommendations Adam has. I'm never going to run out of cool tools to get. These look really handy.
*the main problem would be the amount of funds you can realistically allocate towards the accumulation of these tools and where these acquisitions would be stored once they arrive*
I love this. I'm of the same mindset that you can find great tools and resources from different fields of work. Thank you for pointing these out.
I love falling down video rabbit holes. I've recently come to enjoy watching painting restoration videos, and I've learned a few things I think I can apply to prop making. Beyond that, it's just fascinating to watch these people meticulously clean, fix torn canvas, and then rebuild these paintings with varying degrees of additional paint.
Just wanted to thank you Adam for the thoughtful five minuet videos I love to watch at home on breaks while I work on stuff.
I absolutely love this! I watch a lot of these videos and others from whatever industry to help me with so many weird solutions for what I do most as a musician. The musical instrument repair world is full of homebrew tricks and tools to do super specific things and these clamps would definitely fit into the workshop.
17 years from now: Adam Savage's favorite Tools ... basically every tool :D
*he'll invent a few of his own as well*
My favourite tool is always the RIGHT tool for the job I'm doing. When you have the right tool, things are just so much easier. It's the elation of being able to focus on doing the job, not on HOW to do it
Also, I just want to thank you, Adam, for not only basking in your recently acquired knowledge, but openly sharing it with us all. I know some makers who guard their methods and equipment like a dragon hoarding treasure, and it drives me crazy.
Hey Adam, Agreed! The ClickSpring channels are intoxicating. I have binged watched almost all of them. The workmanship is fantastic and the video quality is awesome.
Thanks for showing us your best tools Adam! Wonderful stories you had back in the day too. It's so great to hear about the things you love about the tools. Hopefully I can be as proud to own things like you do, one day. Keep it up, man! What I'm trying to do with these comments is be positive about things, because there is so much negativity in this world, being positive is the way to combat that. Have a wonderful day Adam!
Cool engraving video Adam mentions: ruclips.net/video/3K1OUzoV3Kc/видео.html
I feel like meeting adam would be a life changing event, honestly one of my heros.
Let me guess, father went to buy cigarrettes and never came back?
Adams like a big kid showing off his toys and it makes me super happy.
Ever since I first started doing cosplay and especially postapo outfits, I always loved researching other fields to find new tools and techniques, but also finding new uses for those tools and techniques.
I used that engraver's ball when I was 12. Had engraving lessons at school. We had to engrave for a year on copper plates. Bring nice memories.
Used many of those same tools when I worked as a Tool and Die Maker doing small delicate work under a microscope. The engraving ball vice was a life saver when repairing mold surfaces with a laser welder and .003 inch welding wire. Totally agree with looking at tools in other industries to solve problems.
One of the most knowledgeable men in the world and never heard of a nail file
Third finger on left hand shows contusion... Adam is still busy... LOVE IT.
Wow, this is so so awesome, thank you so so much for that video. Please make more videos like that, it is so so helpful.
I didnt even NEED to hear Adam explain the ball-base-weight... As soon as he picked it up and put it back down, I made that 'hoohhhhhh' gasp noise and I knew it was an awesome object!
I saw several similar engraving balls at a museum town we have in Aarhus Denmark, called The Old City (Den Gamle By). These were from the 1800s. But I really didn't understand them-till now! Thanks, Adam, you're the best!
I highly recommend sanding twigs. I just found out about them myself. They are ~3-4 mm wide emery boards.
Yes! I've always believed in "cross pollination". I've always thought we were trying to solve problems somebody else has already solved. Thanks for the video.
I feel this more and more with the passing of time. Often I have a project and need create some particularly shaped object. My instinct is first to plan on crafting it from scratch but then I've developed an internal mantra like "Wait a second. This shape exists already. Someone somewhere has made this exact shape out of some substance. It might even be in a material that can work with this project. It might even be cheap to acquire."
A good clamp is never an understatement. I need to cut down 4 bolts that were attached to rubbed mounts. I spent a literal 20 minutes using my small bench mounted vice at home that was on a ball joint. the thing wobbled a bit and it was a nightmare. I thought "screw it" and decided to take the other 3 into work and use the big old heavy duty clamp in the workshop. it took me 30 seconds each to cut through the remaining bolts, same hacksaw, same bolts, its just this vice prevented it from wobbling.
This is why I love Adams content. so many other people will try and do the whole "you can make anything with pegs, bottle caps and hot glue" whereas Adam always aims aims to have the best tool for the job.
I was dealing (very poorly) with this issue just today, so those clamps were very interesting. In fact, in lathes and milling as well, getting a good grip on your work, whilst still being able to do the machining you want to do, often takes more time than the machining.
I knew about NONE of these before this video! Thanks for sharing!
Fantastic. Thanks for that insight.
I was able to get a engravers vice that came from my great aunts jewelry store. I had no idea what it was at first! It is a beautiful and amazing tool
Best part of the engraving ball is it let's you stay in ergonomical positions, giving you better leverage and staying healthy.
Thank you Adam. I planning on retiring in a few years, and I have a few models to build.
Wow, this is amazing, this is way too helpful
As a retired jeweller myself, I can attest to the usefulness of the swiss clamp 👍
Edit - also, take a look at how jewellers make splitsticks/buff sticks 👍
Thanks Adam!
One trick I’ve learned is to stick things to these things to work on them. This can be as elaborate as soldering a small brass part to a larger chunk for machining, embedding in a pool of wax, to mounting plastic with double sided tape or superglue to a temporary base.
as an engraving student it would be so cool to see you try your hands at engraving!
I've never seen one so clean
Very Cool tools , Adam !!!!!!!!!!!!
Love this video!
Would love more of these kind of tool videos :)
Nail E-File bits are fantastic for carving EVA foam. Multiple grit, multiple shapes and sizes. Nail dotting tools are great for embossing and shaping. Clear nail builder gel and a UV light for curing is a great glass simulation.
As a studying jeweller, I love this!
My buddy has a bunch of different vices for his fly Fishing Lewers . Adam always has cool stuff
Watch repair shops always have at least one little handheld vise with a pointed rod that threads into one side. They're used for pushing pins out of watchbands in order to remove links, and if you ever need to do a similar job there may be nothing else that works so well.
Great video this time around, Tested!
I'm a bit late but, as a amateur locksmith we use the hand vise to hold keys while making new keys for locks. I personality love jewelers tools.
Many, many tools like this and many other interesting ones in the Micro Mark catalog!
Those tools are awesome for 1/6 scale stuff. Even the old wooden Ring Clamp.
I glued up craft sticks and tongue depressors and made my own ring type clamps for my hobbies. must have made a dozen tweaking my design, they work great.
I do leather work and those ring clamps would be fantastic for when I need to grind and modify conchos and other small metal stuff. Awesome... Thank you.
also search for "hand vise"
I have a handheld jewlers vise that has pegs like the engraving ball shown, and it works great for painting tabletop miniatures since it can hold the base and have a better grip and center of gravity for moving it around.
That awesome orb clamp is gonna be incredible for my Costume work, hand-sanding individual pieces for resin casting has never been so easy! :O
I'd love to see a video on hold-downs for drilling or sawing small parts.
Cool tip. Thanks for sharing
I love you adam thanks for cool advices!
Gracias tio Adam!
I love this!
That blackened finger nail is coming along nicely!
Love Clickspring. So nice to watch.
Great tools!
I made 6 of these out of ironwood with a wedge that gets inserted from the back working with a centered nut/bolt that levers the opposite end (working end) to pinch with varying degrees of strength. The working ends I glued leather to so as not to dent wood. My boatbuildi g inatructor showed us a simple version of this for lapsiding wooden boats. Still have them.
That black fingernail makes me say ouch every time I see it
Yeah it does look pretty bad doesn't it. I wonder if it hurts or not?
@@zackkros7528 those hurt for the first day or the few hours or so then it's pretty normal.
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The mechanism of that first jewelry clamp... My mind broke with the simplicity of the whole device. Such a straightforward solution!
I assume the hinges need to be of high quality though, since everything about them is trying to pull them apart.
Nice adam recently subbed and I’ll stay you do amazing stuff and good content
Definitely need to get these tools. Been looking at them.
i really love this!
Thnx i was looking for a clamp like this, i recently picked up my old hobby of miniature painting and need a good clamp to hold them while painting
One of my favorite tools for holding onto small things is a jeweler's pickup tool. They work just like the ubiquitous bendy pickup tools you use when you drop something on the floor, except they're about the size of a pen and not bendy. Normally used for holding beads or gems, but they work well for screws, and they'd probably be handy in model building as well.
These are great! I was working on a small piece and was having a hell of a time keeping hold of it, so I ended up super gluing it to a piece of wood. I thought “screw it, I’ll deal with getting the glue off later” Well getting the glue all off took longer than the actual project itself
I would like to see more self-made tools for very specific types of work.
Some Savage clampage right there
Ya it is worth looking at other industries for tools i have found some very cool items
3:21 *i've seen one of those made from a bowling ball with a section cut off with a ban saw and held with a small tire*
Got two ! I'm a silversmith;) ooooh there's more Adam I've collected some ingenious jewellery tools & clamps in particular but engraving does have its own great tools i stick my ball onto a leather wrapped sandbag. Never thought I'd say that !
A Victor Ball Vise is definitely on my to get list.
Two of these a week please
Every workshop should have Parallel pliers. also check out the GRS benchmate. And for holding different gage wire a “Pin vice” which is super cheap and handy.
this makes me think about the cases i buy for my kits. I have a snowboard bag for my lighting kit and a riffle case for all my camera gear go pros and lenses for my dslr. Its alot cheaper and very nice for keeping things safe.
I love ring clamps, but I’ve broken the wood a couple of times-you can make a super sturdy version with square tubing!
I also believe in looking at other industries. I have a tool catalog given to me by a sculptor friend and I once went down a rabbit hole of guitar repair videos.
Great cramps there Adam.
I totally agree with looking to other disciplines for tools. For example: I found that a pair of textile scissors is perfect for cutting horse hair. The ridges hold on to the coarse hair where smooth scissors would slip.
That sphere is really cool. As for the clamps I feel like I would just use vice grip pliers
4:15 Love the word he used, "clampage"
One tip on the nail filers, if you maybe didn't knew. The ones made from glass if you use them on soft materials like plastics or foams, they just need a wash and last FOREVER.
From the title i was thinking about Clickspring, and behold! You mention his engraving video :D. I also suggest watching any video from Uri Tuchman
One of the greatest tools I've discovered, especially with electronics work is simple BlueTak. Way better and way cheaper than helping hands, just smash whatever you need to hold into some BlueTak and press that against another surface and it holds it perfectly still for nice soldering joints.
Clickspring has some videos that show a few really simple clockmaker's tools, including basically a larger version of the jewelry clamp. Best thing is that with some of them, there's even videos where he makes them
One of those ring clamps would work well for a miniature conversion I have planned. 😉👍
After looking into engraving last year and the tooling (including cost), I really wish I could just see something as expensive as a ball vice and say Oh! Im gonna go buy one of those.
A leather sand bag can be a greatly useful thing for engraving, if you don't have a ball vise. Some things can't be clamped in a vise (like trophies) and must be held, or set, on a sandbag... Speaking from experience here.
Adam, I’ve always wanted to know the story behind your yellow hair dryer. Near the cosmetic aisle with the nail filers is also the hair aisle. You should see the things new hair dryers can do! 💛
jewelr's supply places also pretty much always have premade sanding sticks in various profiles like half rounds and in specific grits
They actually make smaller ring vices, which are actually nicer. I would also reccomend jewelers/silversmithing file sets. I really like that you covered this, cuz i do smithing, really fun and useful tools.
Very cool clamp looks like a watch movement holder. I use a presto pen engraving tool it's a dental tool but for fine engraving it works great👍🏻
I also make my own wooden pocketwatch holders I use wood because it's non magnetic if it's metal it would possible need demagnitized
I once used an icing bag and tip to form a flexible tree branch with a wire inside. Worked great but gummed things up when it dried.
I feel like asking the question "Is there any amazing tools you never see outside (a/your) industry but everyone should know about?" should be a standard "Adam Interview's" question when he does shop tours or meets other makers.
Hey Adam, I work as a jeweller, making reparing and resizing jewellery. We've gotten rid of a lot of these tools because they're too big and inconvenient. If you have somewhere I can send you pictures, I'll show you the stuff we use now.
Adam, look into stone-cutting clamps, vices and especially lifting hardware. You are working on a small scale here, but have you ever wondered how medieval stone masons lifted large, pre-shaped stones with no visible grasps on the outside of the stone? Dove-tailed Lewis are the most remarkable clamps because they work from the inside.
I correctly guessed what the engraving video was going to be!
A suggestion I would give to any maker is to get some physical tool catalogs, and just flip through them. I've learned about all kinds of weird tools from thumbing through the Micro-Mark catalog. Also, go walk around a hardware store and look at the tools. Look at the fasteners. Look at the shapes of things. See what's there. Think of what you could repurpose. Think of what things can do, not what they're made to do. My airbrush cleaner is made from a cheese shaker. My spray booth started life as a medicine cabinet. My paint thinner container was pickles, I think.
I use all kinds of clamps in model building. One that I've found a lot of use for recently is basically an alligator clip on a stick. They're great for holding small parts for spray painting, but they're made to hold placecards on a table or something. You can get them dirt cheap off Wish.