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Heard Adam talk about “baby fat” a few months ago while I was in the middle of building a hardware storage rack. Added 20% extra and am VERY happy I did. Thanks!

Here in the UK in many villages the former Red Telephone boxes have been turned into an honor based library

Your book cull is called “weeding” by librarians. I’m currently weeding the fiction collection of the public library where I work. Time and patron use take their toll, and we need to make space for newer books. Since this hasn’t been done for decades, the weed involves thousands of books!

Grew up with Mythbusters and its crew as role models. Adam makes me so proud to look up to him. Love that his favorite thing to do is share. He always does it with so much excitement. That is the father I want to be. Thank you for putting yourself out to the world. It really gives me hope. Congratulations.

"My ambition exceeds the amount of time I have in the day" I feel that Trying to build, film, edit, work, live, and keep up with friends all takes time, but even if I was only building stuff, there wouldn't be enough hours in the day 😅

When I was a kid, I was watching an episode of "How It's Made," the one about toothbrushes, and I don't remember exactly what was said, but the narrator said something like, "This process is shockingly sterile. Because robots handle the toothbrushes and they are never touched by human hands, you won't find any bacteria on these." That made me chuckle because I had just finished watching the episode of Mythbusters where they showed that even brand new toothbrushes had some form of bacteria on them. Later on, I was watching a documentary about the hydrogen fuel cell car, and the narrator said, "Usually when people think of hydrogen, they think of this: *Shows footage of the Hindering* But it wasn't the hydrogen that caused it to burn like that. It was the lead oxide paste." I've never laughed so hard at a documentary before. "Ah-ha-ha! I think the Mythbusters would like a word with you!" That taught me to be sceptical. Even of documentaries.

For book people, combining your library with your partners' is an incredibly significant moment in a relationship. When I combined mine, we actually kept several "duplicates" because they were different editions or translation.

My father was a professor. For the last 10 of his working years, he split his time between a major museum and the university where he taught. When it came time to consolidate back at the university house, he had accumulated nearly as many books at the satellite location as he had at home. He shipped home many boxes of books, and when they arrived there was no place yet to unbox them. As the moving van was being unloaded, the supervisor had to correct the workers who had started to put boxes in the center of the living room. He said when dealing with that volume of books, they needed to be placed along the walls, because if put in the center they could crack a floor joist.

" Future proofing" . London sewage system still works because the Victorian that designed it thought ahead,

I used to have around 40 linear feet of software and hobby books and around 50ft of movies and DVDs. I had to reduce the book collection when I moved. I still find myself looking for some of those old books. The movies were easier to consolidate. Doesn’t look at cool in binders but the collection is now in about 24inches of space. In my current office must of the self space has been replaced with all the electronics parts and tools from working on small projects. It was much more important to have access to the components than 20+ year old computer programming books for long forgotten technologies. (That is until you get the work assignment to help migrate an old application and you realized you got rid of your reference materials a few months prior.)

I love that you have magic books! I have maybe 3000 of them, plus magazines, and they’re a major contributor to my work as a maker in the magic field. I wrote one of my own too, as I feel it’s important to contribute back and help others grow. The value of a resource library can’t be overstated, it’s just so important.

Whenever I move stuff around, I've learned to leave space between furniture (not doing the "Tetris thing") because there is always a need to store large, flat items between the furniture.

In the UK the traditional red telephone boxes are no longer in service but the towns and villages where they physically remain tend to be converted to library boxes by and for the local community.

A writer & maker here :) Love to hear Adam talk about the way he and his partner organize their books. My library is as much about reading and aesthetic as it is reference and gifting, too. I'm a fiction writer and essayist, so I don't have nearly the diversity of work Adam does (no billiards books here) but I have a decent amount of books about wildlife and nature, as well as books on craft, furniture building, and memoir. I've always resisted the trend to organize by color and instead go alphabetically by genre.

My wife and I learned about Little Libraries a few years ago, and they have brought so much joy to our lives. I’d love to see your approach to making one, once you figure out a safe and secure way to show off the build.

Regarding different trolleys for different crafts (e.g. soldering trolley / jewellery/ leather / resin / etc), I have one sewing trolly (because the machine is too heavy to bother swapping back and forth from shelf to trolley), and a general craft trolley. BUT I have storage draws that also fit in the trolleys, so I take the draws I want for a specific project and put them in the trolley to move to my workspace.

Here is Australia we call them street libraries, And it common for us to set them up on the nearest telegraph pole of the local primary/elementary schools. Its near to where it can help a lot and it gives the caretakers some privacy. High schools are also used and the content is usually weighted towards whatever is nearest.

The same goes for building a garage or shed. Double the size you think you need! You won't regret it.

wait, WHAT? you're into billiards? MOAR VIDS ON THIS PLEASE. Any aspect. Tables, cues, playing the game, physics, the pleasure of small movements.... sports psychology... any of it!

As a novice jeweler, hearing Adam talk about more jewelry projects is so exciting.

As a fellow book-lover, collector, and reader, I would LOVE to see a video of you showing off your library and various shelves. I too collect both non-fiction and reference books as separate categories, and sometimes people look at you weird. It's fun :)

Try using a magnetic knife rack for your jewelry tools - you can mount it pretty much anywhere and it's infinitely rearrange-able.

Hoping Mr. Savage will bring back the Savage Industries Sortimo T-BOXX soon. I have reserved space in my workshop in Singapore for a rack of those things.

Just make a jewellers workbench for when you're doing jewellery work with that toolset to hand

Adam could offer to make a bookshelf for inside his favourite coffe shop, with a take one leave one sign. (If the shop agreed. )

I’m curious if you managed to get on the set of Alien Romulas from what I’ve seen they used mostly practice effects for the whole movie and it looks amazing

Laura Kampf's latest video on her ... 5 rules of organization systems? ... also included the need to include extra space for unknown, future additions

Hey Adam how do you storage & organize different cables like usb,hdmi,vga,cat5 etc. when you have lots of them?

I'm fortunate enough to occasionally get books to review... if there are any that I'm not so attached to that I don't need to keep in my collection, I take them to our children's school to put in their library. :)

When are we going to have 1 day builds and projects?

The greatest gift of all; knowledge.

“On Beyond Zebra”, eh? I love that book.

Huh, the "baby fat" concept is really resonating with me right now in my current endeavor. I'm in the process of building my second case for my Eurorack modular synthesizer - incidentally learning a good deal about woodworking and overcoming my long-term fear of the table saw in the process - and the new case will have nearly four times as much room for synth modules as my first one. I _think_ that'll be enough room to keep me from running out if space any time soon, especially since I'm building most of these modules myself, but it really does take forethought to plan ahead for the things that you don't know you want to add yet. (The new case is essentially a box of ¼" plywood of assorted grades with three pairs of aluminum mounting rails across an open face, plus a power supply and distribution system inside; I'm intending to glue it together and brace the inside corners with 2×2s, fastened either with screws or dowels. The original case - which i made by installing rails and a power supply into a salvaged telephoto lens carrying case - will continue to exist, and I plan to eventually build a second, travel-optimized synthesizer into it once I have the modules to do so.)

Happy Birthday Adam

On my neighborhood walk about there are a few home made libraries. A thought on how to get around the privacy issue: You could make one for the channel, then do a give away of some sort, share the pattern, and make the structure of a second one for yourself, then you could trim the final product of your own off camera. That way, there would be multiple similar structures out there, but they wouldn't immediately identify you. Maybe you could even partner with a local group for some event that would result in a few dozen being made.

I prefer digitizing things to organize them. Any time I want to watch an old DVD or BluRay it gets transferred to my local network Plex server.

I understand the security concerns about putting a library you make in front of your own house. How about partnering secretly with some other maker who also wants to make a library, then put your respective libraries in front of each other's houses--ideally in disparate parts of the country. Of course, the other maker couldn't do a video like you would like to do as that would defeat the purpose, but you could probably find a maker who is more into the process than the publicity.

Great video sir

i have an idea for how you might make a library of your books- you could possibly photoscan them and put them on a website! i'm not sure entirely how the legality of that works, but it would be a whole lot less upkeep. if you wanted to make a build out of it you could make a sort of diorama of a whimsical library and use that for photos on the website, or even a 3D space you could walk around in virtually? just some ideas! thanks for reminding me about the virtues of extra storage space!

My husband use to have that situation! SOOO MUCH stuff! Never junk!

Aa for a free library in your area, ask around at different businesses. Some may welcome donating a book shelf or small space to a free library. then build something to suit, even if it only holds a few books and a sign, can't hurt to ask.

This is helpful!

I've seen so many of these vids, I already know what he's going to talk about lol.

Adam, I have a project for you that could point a spotlight on lost ancient technology. Predynastic Egyptian jars made from granite displaying precision akin to a 5 axis CNC machine.... I just fell down this rabbit hole. If you could recreate the precision without a cnc machine you would disprove the theory! If you can't, then you could be the first to do it with a CNC machine - and therefore the first one for thousands of years to make such an object.

Other KZfaqrs create studio sets 🎙️.Adam just has his workshop and an R2 D2 with Chewbacca's ammo belt casually slung on a shoulder 😂

Happy Birthday!

I'm trying to read Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (at your recommendation), but it's struggling to grip me with its first few chapters. So far it feels like how I felt about Lord of the Rings, where someone is describing a journey in exhaustive detail, oftentimes describing things that I struggle to see how they're necessarily relevant to what the book is trying to say. I'm sure that's part of some of the theming of the book about taking trips on motorcycles vs in cars and taking backroads vs highways, but I kind of just want it to get on with it a bit?

Thanks.

Interesting vide Adam .

Put the library in a public park?

Give your books to the local library.

Ok, can we get a library tour?

Do you feel, keeping low temp solder in the shop is a good / useful thing to have?

8:05 For anonymity: You make thirteen little libraries-each slightly unique so they’re not all immediately identifiable as coming from the same shop and the same carpenter. Record video of the construction and maybe speak to making things at scale with variations/customizations. Give away twelve under a pseudonym. Keep your thirteenth a secret and keep it for yourself. Publish the video a while after all are installed. Lie and say how you wish you had one at your house but the bookstore owner next door complained that it clashed with their dinosaur statue and has got the HOA on their side.

Could always donate the books to your local library.

2:43 - WHAT!!?? R2D2 is now a place to store your gun belt and revolver!!??

VAULT DOOR!!!

If you are buying tools as a jeweler and have the money (you want to buy the best tools), go for Tronex pliers and Fretz hammers (even though you didn't ask).

Hey Ada, are you going to Dragon Con this yr?

Good lord you are a pro hoarder of actually valuable things.

Regarding the "little libraries", I see many reports of them being vandalized or one person taking all the books for resell. It is a sad statement on where we are today.

on the library... build it in front of your house and say in the build it is not in front of your house.

As a Brit I can’t say saurdering, soadering. I spent that whole time trying to say it. we put the ‘l’ in it so we can say it better. Soldering. There, I did it 😂 Americans need some baby fat in their words so they can find all the letters. Aluminium.

First! Thank you for this Adam & team

Instead of a little free library, find out if your local library has a book truck.

I’ve got healthy baby man fat 😂

The pliers ladder should be called the "Pladder". 'Oh you need pliers? Help yourself to anything on the pladder'

BABY FAT for the win!

thanks for the wish

Happy birthday Adam!

You could find a fellow maker willing to make their own little library and swap

"Baby fat" also known as: No such thing as too much storage.

Bro is letteraly james gunn lost brother

Is this a repost? I swear I've heard the exact same story about him discovering the term "baby fat"

Do you play billiards I would love possible playing against you if you did

“Politics is in non-fiction.” HAH‼️More like non-FACTion. Doesn’t matter where one sits in the political landscape Truth ≠ Facts. Paul Harvey had little factoids about history called, “The Rest of The Story” that was enlightening. Now I always wait for the rest of the story whenever “news” is reported.

Disagree. I had to have it explained and still don't feel it.

Hi love your videos ❤ KitbashCarnage hear at the age of 31 iv recently got back into the warhammer/kitbashing community agen after taking 15year brake to pay bills and so on . I have taken the leap head on and started a youtube channel along with Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok. It's hard with this algorithm thing is somthing to get used to along with editing and so on but my love and the flame for my lost passion has been reignited more then ever and dont plan on stopping soon . Along with having lots of content plans and already in the pipeline and also a Revamp to all social media with new header picture and profile picture from a digital contractor I sorced I hope to just gain more traction to the community iv came back to 🔥 Regards KitbashCarnage