Favorite Rumpelstiltskin Tools and Relationship Advice
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- Which makers did Adam Savage look up to as a child? Does Adam have any "rumpelstiltskin" tools he'd like to share? What's the best relationship advice he's ever gotten? What does he do with old props and builds? Adam answers these questions from Tested members roflcookies, Bryndamere, AlexBrumley1984 and LexLuthorJr, whom we thank for their support! Join this channel to support Tested and get access to perks, like asking Adam questions:
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Years ago (at least 30) I was looking for Forstner bits. I went to a hardware store and asked about them and the kid behind the counter tried looking them up. "Hmm not seeing them" he kept looking and typing and finally the older gentleman asked what we were looking for. The kid says "Sner bits. He needs four of them" My father and I about peed our pants laughing. The old guy just shook his head and chuckled. He knew right away what we needed.
That's almost straight out of a _Two Ronnies_ sketch, LOL.
@@SmallBlogV8 Wonder if his next question was if he had any O's.
I would buy a coffee table book of "Rumplestiltskin" tools. If you went through your shop and gave ~100 objects a pretty photo and a paragraph about it, you'd have a pretty cool book, useful as a shop reference and enjoyable to leaf through.
In my years of doing research through Google, I've never thought of a name for that search process. And not only did you tech me about the name 'Rumpelstiltskin searches', you proceed to show me an example of one that I was literally needing this past week. So thank you for that. Now I'm off to Harbor Freight.
It’s amazing how this segment holds the answers to Life, the Universe and Everything.
Such is the way.
I generally try to avoid laughing at someone else's pain, but... "these are transfer punches... ow" "metric or imperi... ow" ... I was giggling like a schoolgirl
It's all fair as long as they are "surprise" ow's and not actual pain ow's :P
It was his look of "that was dumb" that did it for me.
Right after talking about the Woodright often injuring himself on his show...
Slapstick humour is always good
I always loved the contrast between the New Yankee Workshop and The Woodwright's Shop. One had a giant, immaculately clean shop where he would use a laser-guided miter saw to take 1/4" off the end of a piece of wood. The other would use some 120 year old hand tool as soon as he could find it among the clutter on the tiny workbench. Both enjoyable in their own way.
Fun fact: _The Woodwright's Shop_ debuted in 1979 and is *still in production today.*
Or he'd show how to make a handy tool out of a log and then you'd see him casually using it for years after.
Not many shows can boast 44 years of production.
I watched TOH and WRS as a kid in grade school when both shows started , I learned a lot then NYW as a young adult I learned a lot . As a young adult I felt confident enough to moonlight in construction being a finish , paint, and masonry lead .
Greatest relaionship advice (and not just for partners but ANYONE you encounter): "Lie to no one. If there 's somebody close to you, you'll ruin it with a lie. If they're a stranger, who the f--- are they you gotta lie to them?" -Willie Nelson as Okla in Michal Mann's "Thief" (1981)
8:11 "A few months ago.. Actually, a couple of years ago" I've never related to something so much 😂😂
True. When I was young I never understood why people were so obsessed with the idea that time goes by fast, but now I get it. And it really sneaks up on you.
"It's been floatin around" would be a great name for a boat too!
"He lacerated himself every other episode. That was the hook." Proceeds to slap the tops of the transfer punches repeatedly.
My version of “Rumpelstiltskin” tools is finding the tools' names I want in Spanish. I live in Colombia but most of the tutorials I see are in English and so the knowledge I have for the things I want needs to be translated; and for the most common tools this is a piece of cake but for the most obscure stuff I have to go around with a picture of it until someone recognizes it and tells me how it's called.
The saddest thing is that sometimes the tool you are looking for doesn´t even exist in your country yet so they look at you like you are crazy when you describe what you are looking for... a couple years later it appears in the store very overpriced and like it is a new thing. Is good to have internet and people like Adam spreading knowledge worldwide
@@FlorDL904 Been there. I do leatherwork and edge bevelers didn't exist here a couple of years ago, I searched everywhere but couldn't find anything until I found a toolmaker who actually made them custom. They were a god sent for me to get the bevelers and other fancy tools
It seems like Adam is such a genuinely nice, friendly, empathetic, smart, understanding person.
It may seem that way, yes...but only because deep down, he just _is._
@@K__a__M__I ☺️☺️
I remember watching all of those shows on PBS as a kid with my mom who was totally addicted to any kind of DIY/creative show.
I had this Rumplestiltskin issue when I need to replace part of my kitchen surface. It wasn'
t urgent but I was frustraited for ages as I couldn't find the right thing to replave it. Then one day I learnt it was called an "Upstand" then it was dead easy to buy one.
Bob Ross, Bob Villa/This old house and cartoons were my childhood Saturday mornings.
One 'Rumpelstiltskin' tool I sought for a long time for my shop was a kind of hemostat we had at the professional model shop I worked in. It had a specific tip design that made it perfect for fishing a Paasche airbrush cup out of the cleaning/soaking can we used in the paint booth. After quite a lot of searching, I finally found it: a Babcock Tissue Forceps. Check one out, they're affordable and quite useful.
With all the world events and horrible things going on around us, Adam just stays in his own lane and spends his time in the cave. We not only learn things. But It give us all a break from the chaos around us, getting to basically be there with him. Thank you Adam. And thank you to everyone who helps make this possible.
Twenty three years ago I made a beautifully made changing table for my son. People don’t want used baby furniture anymore so…. I still have it.
My wife asks me from time to time if it is ok to pitch it. The question only has one answer.
No.
It has sentimental significance in many ways.
We were newlyweds.
It was for our first born.
I’m a woodworker that made something worth being proud of.
On top of transfer punches, have you got any transfer screws? They allow the transfer of a threaded hole location from one surface to another. Basically a grub screw with a point and a hex drive machines on the end so you can wind them into and back out of a blind hole.
I recently had a Rumpelstiltskin moment... I was looking for the fasteners used to bind pages together (not rings) and had no idea what they were called. I asked around and finally someone told me they're called Chicago Screws. Looked them up, and BAM! They're everywhere! Thanks as always for your great insider wisdom!
0:36 So nice to hear your high regard for Roy Underhill and his Woodwright's shop. I found that show very interesting. I had already been doing woodworking with power tools as we do now but Roy showed me that you could work with the wood allowing more simple tools. And yes, absolutely loved that you could see him get winded, get sweaty and bleed. You could tell he loved his work. I also that same feeling about Mythbusters, the hosts loved their job.
For metal working transfer punches, make sure to get hardened steel ones!
If you are working with plastic pipe and the screw on or off connectors, Instead of grabbing the huge channel locks or pipe wrench, use an oil filter wrench. I LOVE the ones from channel lock the company. as I repaired hot tubs for 17 years.
Bob Vila was This Old House and the New Yankee Workshop. The Woodwright shop I'm pretty sure was was Roy Underhill. I still remember the amazing intro of him walking to work.
Loved all those shows growing up (and yes, we are roughly of "an age".)
Also @3:56 The "ow" from smacking your hand on the transfer punches is just delightful in every way.
The Seinfeld advice is huge. During the Pandemic, ex2 and I both got mentally unwell. Things ended very badly. They may have ended badly regardless, but both having a case of the crazy hit at the same time was the nail in the coffin of the relationship.
Also, many memories here as well of the Woodright Shop and New Yankee Workshop.
I love how you slapped the transfer punches. "Ouch"
I could've used a set of *Transfer Punches* many times over the past 25 years if only I had known they existed 😮
What a brilliant idea for locating the spot to drill into a door when attaching hinges, or to a base when attaching swivelling casters.
I just had a quick look, and they're available here in Thailand for about $36 (US equivalent) a set. Over 25 years, that's well worth a few pennies per year 😊
Yes. Tracing a circle and then trying to hit the center of the circle with a drill is something that most of us have experienced, often with frustrating results. Transfer punches are useful even for simple DIY stuff.
@@mm9773 Tru Dat 😁
A good tool for hinges is a center-finding drill bit. They have a guide that references against the hole in the hinge and allows you to predrill dead-on in the center every time.
There's special bits for mounting hinges called Vix bits.
I'm a FIRST Robotics alumnus and I now mentor the students on my old FRC team. I love introducing these high school kids to new tools. They usually reach for an auto punch for marking holes, but I make a point to steer them towards the transfer punches when the situation is appropriate. The 1/4", 3/16", and 3/8" punches definitely have the most worn-down tips. We also use 1 1/8" Forstner bits extensively for cutting bearing holes in wood and lexan.
Tim Hunkin. His series “The Secret Life of Machines” is on CZcams. He also has a Maker series about materials and components that is quite good. Also on CZcams.
I grew up watching Norm Abram too, there will never be television as peaceful or educational made again, loved every episode!
Best relationship advice I’ve received: don’t get in a relationship with someone you wouldn’t marry.
You probably won’t pursue getting married with every partner you have throughout your life. But if you honestly can’t see any possibility of a future with that person, as they currently are? It’s probably not gonna work out, and you (and that partner) are gonna be better served looking for something better for you.
This helped me notice a number of red flags and dodge bullets when I’d think early on about spending the rest of my life with someone and catch myself going “Well, if it wasn’t for (insert major thing about this person)…”, instead of making excuses for their flaws or glossing over our incompatibilities (like we all tend to do at the beginning of new relationships when everything is fun and exciting).
The Woodright's Shop was Roy Underhill.
I gave sets of transfer punches to 2 of my co-workers at an engineering company for Christmas 20 years ago. They were both more experienced and skilled than I, but I had somehow discovered the usefullness of them as punches, scribers, and measuring devices while they had never heard of them. I got so much satisfaction from giving them something so handy and efficient, especially when they soon were using them every day.
Like you said, about 8 or 10 bucks a set at Horrible Fright.
Transfer punches are also available Ina threaded style. You can thread in a hole to transfer to a bracket etc
My rumplestiltskin moment was trying to find a jar opener. You can find a lot of plastic/silicone ones of varying usefulness but I was looking for one I grew up with that was two long metal rods with a hinge coated in rubber. Great grip, great leverage, the cheap stuff I was finding online was only one or the other. Finally I found it: it's a canning tool called a jar wrench. Got one, works great.
An addendum to the “Don’t go crazy at the same time” advice, from hard-won experience:
If one of the partners is experiencing an extended “crazy” time (protracted physical/mental health issues, loss of job, etc.), the other partner needs to take extra good care of themselves (and the “crazed” partner needs to encourage/facilitate/respectfully insist that it happens) so that their life is not consumed/overtaken by the first partner’s issues.
Roy Underhill on The Woodwright’s shop is a legend. Such an amazing maker and teacher.
I got lucky with my high school wood shop we had almost every kind of wood working tool you could think of we even had these tubes for streaming wood so it could be bent and shaped into what you needed.
Did a lot of work with punches when working in sheet metal. You'd draw out what you wanted to do on paper, tape the paper to the metal, then put small punch marks at important points. Then pull the paper off, and cut it out.
Transferring a cylindrical "T" duct is an exercise in mathematics (for the drawing), and then how good you were at cutting a smooth curve in a piece of sheet metal that was going to then be made into a cylinder, and attached to another cylinder. We had to convert a 3D object into 2D correctly (for the drawing), so that when we cut out the 2D material, it would change into the 3D object we wanted.
This is why you need math, kids!
q&a here has become something i find just verdent. its like this "have a conversation with someone really cool and interesting" instead of "have a conversation with someone who happens to be famous" its lovely
Many years ago, I wanted to make take apart bookshelves: wood shelf with holes in the corners, dowels with drilled holes in the ends, and a piece of hardware I didn’t know the name of, but I could describe it. I went to several hardware stores and said, “It looks like 2 screws stuck end to end without the heads,” only to be met with blank stares. I finally learned the name of my Rumplestiltskin item: stair-bolts! The bookcase never got made, BUT! I now own a copy of the book, “A Guide to Everything Found in Hardware Stores”. 😎
Norm Abrams only stopped The New Yankee Workshop when he felt he’d just start repeating projects. He then went on to learn how to build boats because he felt like he should never stop learning new skills!
Learned about Forstner bits in high school wood shop. Also learned that the larger ones we had overheated and burned the wood very quickly if we weren’t careful!
Thanks for mentioning the wood right shop. I use to watch that with my dad.
I bought my first set of forester bits just last week because Adam keeps bringing the up. I love them.
The song "Call and Answer" by the Barenaked Ladies has a verse that conveys the same message regarding 50/50-100/100 in a relationship.
The ask stated is: "It's time to make this something that is more than only fair." The implications being that you won't have a full relation if both parties only go 'tit for tat' with helping the other and being good for each other.
To put another way: Many amazing relationships involve tasks/goals/work/etc being shifted 'disproportionately' between persons. From far away, this looks "unfair" (uneven), but from the people in the relationship, it can be both of them going 100/100 for each other.
This makes the second Rumpelstiltskin on his channel that I immediately recognized :-). A side effect of growing up with a grandfather that would be considered a 'maker' were he alive today.
My personal favorite "Rumpelstiltskin Tool" Is a Dado blade. I once had a customer come into the depot asking for "A really wide saw blade, but it's adjustable." No one in the store knew what this guy was asking for. They eventually brought him to me, and I named it immediately. The look of relief on this man's face... Sadly, we didn't carry them, but at least now he knew what he was looking for!
3:51 "You can get these in metr-OW" Classic lol
Always a font of great Maker and life advice.
Thanks Adam
Transfer punches, used them allot doing sheet metal work in the aviation industry.
My nerd-friends and I would watch The Woodwright's Shoppe, but our internal name for the show was, "The Clumsy Carpenter" :-)
I love the incredible range of topics that come up on this channel.
Rumpelstiltskin Tools
parcord weaving tool with threaded end - Chicago bolt :)
You are really encouraging me lately to get on with my projects although I am still finding it hard to fit my projects into my schedule. Have so many invention prototypes that I need to finish. Love your videos (and obviously Mythbusters).
The old paint rack. Do you or anyone close to you have a cat? The base would hold a litter tray for a small cat and the top could be padded for a rest spot and the higher sections could be for water, food, and treat bowls. For larger cats it could be the key piece for a cat tree or add-on to an existing tree/play area.
For a small dog it could be a holder for food and water bowls with closed off storage.
I got the name and use of transfer punches from a previous video of yours and was very happy to hear about them. Happen to have just bought some, at Harbor Freight in fact. My Rumplestiltskin tool is a zero-flute countersink. I saw one for the first time on a Punished Props video and knew I had always wanted one for chatter-free countersinking. I asked what it was, and Bill Doran replied, but not usefully. To him it was just a countersink, and apparently he didn't realize that other kinds were more common. I had never seen one, and it took a lot of searching to actually find one, since they are not what comes up when you search for countersinks.
Adam, you are an endless, altruistic wealth of knowledge and kindness that I truly hope the world will come to treasure forever.
I make lathe turned pens and those transfer punches are great for disassembling a pen when you press fit something the wrong way or need to repair a part. Find one that fits snugly in the pen tube and gently tap the part out without mangling the brass (most of the time).
I saw that paint cart topper and instantly remembered the land speeders. It could be used for a Star Wars themed building or even an open air, covered market. There are a ton of model buildings that can be done from it as it does look like the frame of one.
The woodwright's shop was so good.
I saw word Rumpelstiltskin, and the transfer punches and could only see a hackle... can't unsee it.
What drives me nuts is that tools can have 10 different names and they are region specific. For the longest time people would ask about “Chicago fittings”. It’s an air hose quick disconnect.
My personal stiltskin tool is, I feel stupid for not figuring this one out, was a plumbers wrench for tightening fittings under the sink. It’s literally called a basin wrench. 😅 So handy for twisting things in places I can’t get a hand into. 😂 It’s as if that is exactly what it was designed to do! 🤣
This video in particular was exceptionally delightful for many reasons.
You can get transfer punches that fit into dowel holes. Easy way to do it in non-through hole situations. Most recently I used it to mount a water filter faucet for my under sink RO system.
Love ya man thanks for being you.
Transfer punches were my Rumpelstiltskins for a while. Now they are my transfer punches.
Woodwright’s Shop was great to watch why tools were left in a drawer to rust. That man mangled himself on dull garbage every episode 😆
Roy Underhill is a treasure. There are few people that I’d like to meet, and Roy is one of the very few.
Wow what a video! Thanks for the lead on transfer punches- but the relationship quotes are massive!
Great video Adam , so so interesting .
Savage dropping relationship truthbombs casually. I’m rapidly approaching my third anniversary, no where near how long yours is but it still feels like less than a year and I can guarantee if we had both gone crazy at the same time it’ll be a different story
My nickname was Bob because cause of Villa!! I loved watching this olde house!!❤❤❤😊
Trades are rarely zero sum, if a trade is zero-sum in my opinion it's not worth doing, you should always get something you value more than what you're giving away, and the same in reverse, this applies to everything from work and wages to buying in a shop to trading things you have made and gifting.
I've been watching you for years and years, and the one thing that always gets me is you rapport with the camera. You are excellent at this type of show; there are a lot of people who aren't! Tanks, Adam! P.S.; I have the same watch, but what strap is that? I really like it! ✌️❤️🙂🇨🇦
I love the idea of Rumplestiltskin tools but I have another category of tools that should have a similar name but I can't decide what it should be. For me the exemplar is the hinge drill. For years my DIY projects were hampered by misaligned screws. The hinge drill is the perfect tool to correct this but not only did I not know what it was called I didn't even know it existed. I found my first set uears ago browsing a catalogue (pre-internet for our younger viewers) and no tool before or since has had such a positive impact for so little money. I generally refer to these as the unprayed answer tools but I think something snappier should be available.
My son and his friend got to meet you in Cincinnati last weekend. He said you were really cool.
A sharp forstner bit will drill impressively large holes in perspex or other acrylic without shattering it.
I love transfer punches, soo useful
By far the best trades is when both sides feel like they got the better side of the trade due to the new item being more important to that individual than the item they traded for it and vice versa.
I guess I'm lucky with regard to Forstner bits. My dad had them in his theater scene shops that he managed at various Universities, and my grandfather (master cabinet maker) also had them in his shop.
Seriously, I thought everyone knew about these things. Nothing special really, just a good way to make a larger diameter hole than a basic drill bit.
And here I am watching Adam tell us that most people don't know about them!
adapt your old paint rack to hold one of your Bambu Labs ABSs - if it is close enough in dimensions.
I got some transfer punches to make jump rings for jewelry making. Very handy! 😁
The hole through the head was hand-drilled. The one on the convex I used a guide for.
PBS was my childhood so besides 3-2-1 contact, square one TV, Bob Ross.. obviously Bob villa's this old house, new yankee workshop. Seemed like almost everything that Norm built involved rabbit joints.
When Adam says "... the other one comes from Jerry Seinfeld, of all people," I thought he was referring to the next Patreon question he was answering. My first reaction was, "that can't be right..."
I know there is so much out there about bottles !
Wait, so the dude from the fairy tale is called "Rumpelstiltskin" in english? It's funny because it is written exactly the way an american would mispronounce the german name "Rumpelstilzchen". 😂
Edit: I just checked and that is exactly the reason it's called that. Because the translation is nonsense, they just took something that sounded similar. Only problem is that most people can't pronounce the diminutiv at the end; "-stilzchen".
"It's been floatin' around".
I also loved "This Old House", "New Yankee Workshop", and "The Woodwright's Shop". I never cared for Bob Ross, but I can understand and appreciate that Adam would.
HAHAHA... Yeah, The Woodright's Shop... That guy's workbench resembled mine all too often. Tools just falling off because he never put anything away. LOL
best relationship advice came from my dad,after 3 marriages, he said "you can be happy, or you can be right"
We watched this episode on our anniversary!❤
Hey Adam, i can imagine Many of your fans (including me) would love if you can give away stuff. Such as tools or projects that you no longer have use for. Big fan and really appreciate your content!
Dude, yes!! Mine is a laminate slitter. It took me forever to find the tool I needed, until I one day stumbled on a category of tools called slitters, and suddenly the thing I hand been searching like months to find was right there in front of me with a ton of different options.
Adam, HF Transfer punch set $11.99. Still totally worth it!
There's 4 sets. There's the numbers, the letters, fractional sizes and metric.
Any good maker is a bit of a horder. Without materials, it is impossible to make physical objects, so anything that might be useful some day is difficult to throw out. As long as you keep everything organized and have the room for it, then it isn't really a problem.
6:20 - so true
oh wow 28 piece set at harbor freight is $12 for the transfer punches
Woodwright's Shop! Lol... right when you said that I thought "that guy is a train wreck that managed to impale himself on darn near every show"! Then you said the same thing! Bwahaha...