@@tested Awesome sauce! I always look forward to the builds. Was a kid dream of mine to be on mythbusters. Getting to watch Mr. Savage work on his odd projects is so cool! Would love to see his process on an update to his grail diary.
Adam, over the course of the day: "Hey, look at these six pages from the grail diary!" "Isn't it amazing you have these five pages?" "I can't stop looking at these four pages" "Imagine owning three pages of the grail diary!" "Aren't these two pages stunning?" "What a precious artefact this page is" "It's a shame you didn't have any pages from the grail diary here!" *rustles loudly as he walks out*
The fact the auction house/ prop house have given permission to the team for close ups be taken of the pages is a nice thing. People can freeze frame video and make there own.
I was literally just thinking that I hope whoever gets it makes some of the imagery available online for us to remake! It doesn't really lessen the value of the props themselves and it lets poor blokes like me make their favorites!
Many years ago I used to have a website with all of my research and resources publicly available to make homemade Indiana Jones props. I spent years researching the Grail Diary, drawing and designing stuff like screen accurate fonts, with what we have seen here, I certainly could go back to work and make a major update to my latest version, yay!
I have watched all of Adams Grail Diaries videos. This video has inspired me to begin my own journey into a replica built with my Father and Grandfather. From what you have described, even if your website no longer exists, a link allowing me to attempt to find archives would be such an invaluable resource. I would greatly appreciate it if you could point me in the direction of what you've learned or perhaps some of the best places you used and maybe some that didn't exist for you to learn about the props. My gratitude is immense.
@@eladsinger9215 The website has been offline ever since I got a Cease and Desist, still have the whole site files with detailed step-by-step instructions on how to make the diary, which is a real shame I can't share it anymore.
Your video will now be a primary reference for people making their own diary. There's good HD frames for most if not all of them. Grab a copy of this video before it gets taken down! Seriously, I can imagine LOT of fans running to their computer and grabbing a fountain pen to make new master pages.
The lot winner of these pages also gets Adam Savage's fingerprints all over them! (Which is super cool.) PS: Adam, thank you for laying the pages out in the video. #reference
That’s easily my favorite Indiana Jones movie. I’m a professional scholar and totally identify. So many cool jokes! And the Grail Diary is at the heart of it all. Really a thrill to see these pages in detail.
I also love the grail diary - it's an incredibly made prop. and the Latin in there - it's correct. phrases like 'verbum Dei' indeed means Word of God, 'semita Dei' - path of God, or 'poculum lignarii' -cup of the carpenter. Latin on the grail table was also correct! Really great stuff. Sometimes in the movies the Latin is either wrong, or they're using a manuscript with completely different meaning - here they really did their homework.
Grail diary was so well made, that they even brought a similar prop in Indy 4 - Oxley's letter, which had a very similar feel to it but not even close build-up or meaning.
oh and there was of course one more page in the movie - drawing of the painting of a knight walking through thin air, while others fell EDIT: 7:14 - that's the one :D . To me that image brings to mind the picture of spiritual path to God by St John of the Cross (you can google his name and add 'nada nada nada' - 'nothing' - the drawing shows a precipitous path of real humble prayer.)
So not a one day build idea but an Adam project idea where he completely remakes the grail diary using printing techniques, leather working, book binding, and weathering!
One prop that I have always thought would be fun to recreate is a dynamite pack from Where Eagles Dare. Complete with the spring loaded draw line and clip, switch, timer etc.
ADAM, DO AN EPISODE WITH Corridor Crew! EVERYONE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU THERE! TALK ABOUT EXPERIENCES WITH ILM, GRAPHICS, LORE, ETC. PLEEEEASE! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE! AND THANK YOU!
1:10 For those interested, the book Adam refers to is titled From Star Wars to Indiana Jones: The Best of the Lucasfilm Archives by Mark Cotta Vaz and Shinji Hata.
I have a really good story version of the Grail Diary diary and I noticed that I have the page shown on the right @2:56 - which has the exact same text (laid out differently) as the page that Adam says he hasn't seen before with the knight on it @4:24. The rocks page and the knight page. I wonder if the knight page wasn't used or they just wrote the same text on different laid out pages to make up some numbers. The two pages on left in both samples are the same text as well.
One of the pages that Adam hadn't seen before, the map specifically, is repeated several times in my version of the grail diary. I purchased my grail diary from a seller on the Club Obi Wan message board at least twelve years ago. It is far from screen accurate as they did a hybrid of story/ screen accurate prop.
Sir Lancelot: Look, my liege! [A magnificent castle stands before them.] King Arthur: Camelot. Sir Galahad: Camelot! Sir Lancelot: Camelot. Patsy: It's only a model.
yes, you put it in the UV protective plexi/glass holders. and display them in a room with no windows and non uv lights. >.> call me paranoid, but must protect the shiny.
I like it that Adam took the time to drop the pages flat so we could see them. I have b=never seen the diary up close so this is a real treat. Thanks heaps Adam for the process.
@Adam Savage's Tested I recently bought my grail diary and I found out it actually has 200 something different pages! not 40, its fully readable! 😲👍🏻👍🏻
Same. Ever since that film (and Ready Player One referencing that as a comparison to the MC's own written record of his Easter Egg Hunt), I became obsessed in creating the "perfect" Grail Diary. For two years, I spent countless paper reams and leather bound diaries (A6 ring binders, faux leather covers) reconfiguring and rearranging signatures for two years until just a few weeks ago I made one. It bears no resemblance to its original iteration (which in of itself was based on the Grail Diary) but it is still leather bound and sewn. It bore the name "The Last Journal" because my mother is rather displeased I spent much of my time making this...
If these pages are that rare, the only copies to surface, and some lucky persons' purchase - wouldn't white cotton gloves while handling the papers be in order...?
It's actually Henry Jones Snr's Grail Diary, Indy just used it, not to his father's liking when he storms a Nazi held castle. Henry Snr: I should have mailed it to the Marx Brothers. I'd really like a Grail Diary replica, but I wouldn't like one with repeating pages. The Grail could be the reason why Henry Snr studies medieval and became an Doctor of Medieval History, it could also be the reason why he visits certain countries in Young Indiana Jones while on his tour. He did visit France in that show, so he could have visited the library (former Church), I think the diary is old even when he said "He who illuminated this, illuminate me."
Oh no, now I‘m imagining the dread of the Kathleen Kennedy’s upcoming Indiana Jones 5 and have a déja-vu from 2007 when I was actually looking forward to Crystal Skull 😭
The fact that Prop Store basically just ensured Adam place to work in the Archive whenever he wants it is pretty heartwarming. A short series/collaboration on prop restoration seems like a world class idea. Perhaps as a lead up to a auction or other special event involving the featured props? "Prop Re-Store:Savage Edition", or, you know, something better from someone who can title things...😬
Brandon, if I recall I've seen him a few times on here and man, just always really professional and sharp as a tack. I really enjoy seeing people that know and enjoy their work, it really shows. OR he's just good at bullshitting. ehh, maybe both. ^_^
Over on COW we had a fairly good list of all the pages shown here and the order they were in as well! Adam, if you find the time it's well worth a look back there! You'd love the data we all worked out! Page order and the pages here you mention that you'd not seen? All listed over on the forum there! Superb video!
I like how they took several pages and had it alone in a high def frame... pretty sure those are all going to end up on Adam's computer and hopefully in a future build episode! :D
Grail Diary has always been a top build that I wanted to see but knew we would never get because Adam had already done so much with it, with these new pages see a fresh build of the Grail Diary would be incredible, I know a lot of others have already mentioned it but I hope it happens!
Adam's Grail Diary prop replica: th-cam.com/video/sdoO1kZOQS4/w-d-xo.html
New build series please!?
@@Sokattash678 Stay tuned. More to come; Adam's been working on a huge build that we'll start rolling out in October.
@@tested Awesome sauce! I always look forward to the builds.
Was a kid dream of mine to be on mythbusters. Getting to watch Mr. Savage work on his odd projects is so cool!
Would love to see his process on an update to his grail diary.
And Adam`s wallet fled the building assumed a new name and is living in an undisclosed country.
Adam, over the course of the day: "Hey, look at these six pages from the grail diary!"
"Isn't it amazing you have these five pages?"
"I can't stop looking at these four pages"
"Imagine owning three pages of the grail diary!"
"Aren't these two pages stunning?"
"What a precious artefact this page is"
"It's a shame you didn't have any pages from the grail diary here!" *rustles loudly as he walks out*
This is a perfect comment lol
Hahahahahahaha hahaha
For real though....
He tucked them in his Jedi robes.
I have no idea what you are talking about. What pages?
Listening to Adam talk about discovering "new pages" to the diary is pretty much exactly like listening to Henry Jones, Sr. talking about the grail.
For the record, I would watch every single second of Adam building a new Grail Diary
Ditto
Same
Noted!
Same
Absolutely.
that is so cool, I would love to see Adam redo his grail diary that would be so awesome to watch.
Totally possible.
The fact the auction house/ prop house have given permission to the team for close ups be taken of the pages is a nice thing. People can freeze frame video and make there own.
I was literally just thinking that I hope whoever gets it makes some of the imagery available online for us to remake! It doesn't really lessen the value of the props themselves and it lets poor blokes like me make their favorites!
Many years ago I used to have a website with all of my research and resources publicly available to make homemade Indiana Jones props. I spent years researching the Grail Diary, drawing and designing stuff like screen accurate fonts, with what we have seen here, I certainly could go back to work and make a major update to my latest version, yay!
Dude! Drop the link!
I have watched all of Adams Grail Diaries videos.
This video has inspired me to begin my own journey into a replica built with my Father and Grandfather.
From what you have described, even if your website no longer exists, a link allowing me to attempt to find archives would be such an invaluable resource.
I would greatly appreciate it if you could point me in the direction of what you've learned or perhaps some of the best places you used and maybe some that didn't exist for you to learn about the props.
My gratitude is immense.
You absolutely must drop this link!
Send us a link, please!
@@eladsinger9215 The website has been offline ever since I got a Cease and Desist, still have the whole site files with detailed step-by-step instructions on how to make the diary, which is a real shame I can't share it anymore.
I love that there's a warehouse behind him, Adam is _literally_ in The Archives.
It wasn't Indiana's diary. It was Henry's diary. "I wrote it down so I wouldn't have to remember."
Thank you!
@@tonycicerone I assume they mean the diary from the indian jones 'films'
Good call randy 👍👍
@@elevown makes sense, but still seems odd. You could say “the star wars lightsaber”, but it’s usually connected to the specific person.
Adam has probably never wished he was still making "TV Money" more than while filming this video.
3:03 Adam subtly photos each unknown page - um for reference…
Your video will now be a primary reference for people making their own diary. There's good HD frames for most if not all of them. Grab a copy of this video before it gets taken down!
Seriously, I can imagine LOT of fans running to their computer and grabbing a fountain pen to make new master pages.
the real question is how much Adam is going to end up paying for these when the auction is over.
@@2000jago Uh, yeah? That was the point of the comment.
@@2000jago many former professional athletes have thought that too.
Oh, no, he's not bidding on or buying anything. He just uses access to the items to make his own.
@@2000jago wrong
So cool they filmed it all on location at the warehouse from the end of Raiders ...
Top. Men.
@@pjabrony8280 Fools. Bureaucratic fools. They don't know what they've got there.
The lot winner of these pages also gets Adam Savage's fingerprints all over them! (Which is super cool.)
PS: Adam, thank you for laying the pages out in the video. #reference
I imagine they’ll likely break them up into individual sheets.
Please, PLEASE make another Grail Diary Adam…
That’s easily my favorite Indiana Jones movie. I’m a professional scholar and totally identify. So many cool jokes! And the Grail Diary is at the heart of it all. Really a thrill to see these pages in detail.
They look like they’re in the archive supervised by “Top Men”… Top… Men.
Adam sitting with these is super-cool. A series with Adam looking at cool props with their owners would be great!
I also love the grail diary - it's an incredibly made prop. and the Latin in there - it's correct. phrases like 'verbum Dei' indeed means Word of God, 'semita Dei' - path of God, or 'poculum lignarii' -cup of the carpenter.
Latin on the grail table was also correct! Really great stuff. Sometimes in the movies the Latin is either wrong, or they're using a manuscript with completely different meaning - here they really did their homework.
Grail diary was so well made, that they even brought a similar prop in Indy 4 - Oxley's letter, which had a very similar feel to it but not even close build-up or meaning.
oh and there was of course one more page in the movie - drawing of the painting of a knight walking through thin air, while others fell EDIT: 7:14 - that's the one :D . To me that image brings to mind the picture of spiritual path to God by St John of the Cross (you can google his name and add 'nada nada nada' - 'nothing' - the drawing shows a precipitous path of real humble prayer.)
So not a one day build idea but an Adam project idea where he completely remakes the grail diary using printing techniques, leather working, book binding, and weathering!
One prop that I have always thought would be fun to recreate is a dynamite pack from Where Eagles Dare. Complete with the spring loaded draw line and clip, switch, timer etc.
One of my favorite movies ever!! Those dynamite packs are the bomb!!! (🤣🤣🤣 )
ADAM, DO AN EPISODE WITH Corridor Crew! EVERYONE WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU THERE! TALK ABOUT EXPERIENCES WITH ILM, GRAPHICS, LORE, ETC.
PLEEEEASE! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE! AND THANK YOU!
Could we possibly get a Dropbox or post somewhere of the photos that Adam likely took of the pages and the other pictures? 🙏🏼
Just visit Club Obi Wan (IndyGear's forum)... ALL of these pages have been photographed and discussed over there at length.
IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!
1:10 For those interested, the book Adam refers to is titled From Star Wars to Indiana Jones: The Best of the Lucasfilm Archives by Mark Cotta Vaz and Shinji Hata.
I wonder if Adam managed to get copies of those pictures?
Adam mentally throwing away all previous diary templates
The grail diary? How WONDERFUL! That would be such an amazing thing to own!!!
How about the "Ark of the Covenant"...
Where is it?
I don't think they have found the original real thing
I'm sure it's being cared for by top men.
Careful flapping those pages around! They belong in a museum...
the girl from Petersen Museum always wears white gloves when touching artifacts ... wheres yours?
I have a really good story version of the Grail Diary diary and I noticed that I have the page shown on the right @2:56 - which has the exact same text (laid out differently) as the page that Adam says he hasn't seen before with the knight on it @4:24. The rocks page and the knight page. I wonder if the knight page wasn't used or they just wrote the same text on different laid out pages to make up some numbers. The two pages on left in both samples are the same text as well.
I hope Adam takes a ton of reference photos and shares them with the community members who have replica diaries, I hope he’s allowed to do this!
The background being a touch reminiscent of the end of the first film... the final resting place of the ark of the covenant... Is just fantastic.
Where is the diary sign by Adolf Hitler? What page?
Sir we can make real flying iron man suit I know how to do this.
Adam: "There's only one Indiana Jones movie."
Grail Diary: "Sup."
Adam: 👀
There are two Indiana Jones movies. Raiders and Last Crusade.
One of the pages that Adam hadn't seen before, the map specifically, is repeated several times in my version of the grail diary. I purchased my grail diary from a seller on the Club Obi Wan message board at least twelve years ago. It is far from screen accurate as they did a hybrid of story/ screen accurate prop.
I'm imagining displaying the pages like the Vampire bible from Blade.
Sir Lancelot: Look, my liege!
[A magnificent castle stands before them.]
King Arthur: Camelot.
Sir Galahad: Camelot!
Sir Lancelot: Camelot.
Patsy: It's only a model.
Adam will definitely have to make another grail diary using a copy of all the photos of the original hero version.
yes, you put it in the UV protective plexi/glass holders. and display them in a room with no windows and non uv lights. >.> call me paranoid, but must protect the shiny.
I like it that Adam took the time to drop the pages flat so we could see them. I have b=never seen the diary up close so this is a real treat. Thanks heaps Adam for the process.
I know he probably did, but I hope Adam had the time to photo/ copy the pages and reference materials.
Love to see Adam geek out. And to have Indy memorabilia be this historical is amazing.... excuse me while I get my cat burglar tools.
Man that is cool. A big thing with the diary over a regular prop is it expands the lore. And if there are 30-40 original pages, wow!
@Adam Savage's Tested I recently bought my grail diary and I found out it actually has 200 something different pages! not 40, its fully readable! 😲👍🏻👍🏻
I still have a subtle obsession with that notebook. I have numerous leather-bound notebooks I've bought but never used. My wife hates it.
Same. Ever since that film (and Ready Player One referencing that as a comparison to the MC's own written record of his Easter Egg Hunt), I became obsessed in creating the "perfect" Grail Diary. For two years, I spent countless paper reams and leather bound diaries (A6 ring binders, faux leather covers) reconfiguring and rearranging signatures for two years until just a few weeks ago I made one. It bears no resemblance to its original iteration (which in of itself was based on the Grail Diary) but it is still leather bound and sewn. It bore the name "The Last Journal" because my mother is rather displeased I spent much of my time making this...
Just realized that that movie had *two* macguffins (at least)
When Connery received the script for the Crystal Skull he reportedly said 'They should have mailed it to the Marx Brothers!'
If Adam worked in that space he would probably unearth the ark of the covenant. Like the literal ark of the covenant somehow.
If these pages are that rare, the only copies to surface, and some lucky persons' purchase - wouldn't white cotton gloves while handling the papers be in order...?
Very cool - it's practically a "build your own Grail Diary" kit.
To see Adam geek out like that is just heart-warming. I would have done the same thing.
would be awsome to own a grail diary :-)
I think I want to reconstruct Bridget Jones' diary.
Indiana Jones and you're in a ware house.... You might want to look for a wooden box...
The reason Adam can't work there, is because he would've found the Ark.
Mind blown. That caliber can measure the thickness of a piece of onion skin.
Tho whomsoever bids on the pages:
"You have chosen wisely."
I would love if they sold a replica copy.
Anyone else think the shot with the storage in the background and the roof looks like that shot at the end of the film with the endless storage? Haha
Well we now know what adam's retirement plan will be 😂
can i borrow these....and do you have a photo copier ?
God, Adam gets grabby. Dipping into annoying fan boy territory.
The roof reminds me of the last scene from "Raiders".
Who made the original prop? Did George Lucas make it or?
They say at 1:40 who made it, someone in London.
Keir Lusby and his team made it, along with many of the props in The Last Crusade.
Another example of why great movies are so expensive.
Is it autographed by Adolf?
Are there any scans of these pages?
NO😢
It should be in a museum.
This man knows more than the man that knows u know what I'm saying?
Adam documented these for his own future uses didn't he?
Anyone else see the ghost face on the leather cover at 5:05? Top left side.
It's actually Henry Jones Snr's Grail Diary, Indy just used it, not to his father's liking when he storms a Nazi held castle.
Henry Snr: I should have mailed it to the Marx Brothers.
I'd really like a Grail Diary replica, but I wouldn't like one with repeating pages.
The Grail could be the reason why Henry Snr studies medieval and became an Doctor of Medieval History, it could also be the reason why he visits certain countries in Young Indiana Jones while on his tour.
He did visit France in that show, so he could have visited the library (former Church), I think the diary is old even when he said "He who illuminated this, illuminate me."
Oh no, now I‘m imagining the dread of the Kathleen Kennedy’s upcoming Indiana Jones 5 and have a déja-vu from 2007 when I was actually looking forward to Crystal Skull 😭
Sounds like a contract to me-- with thousands of witnesses... The Savage Restoration Office, Prop Store...
Isn't that the warehouse where they stored the Ark?
ironic that they are reading this in the top-secret government warehouse that houses the Ark of the Covenant...
"Do you know how long I've been after this Marcus?"
"All your life?"
"All my life"
But, does it lead to the actual Holy grail?
The fact that Prop Store basically just ensured Adam place to work in the Archive whenever he wants it is pretty heartwarming. A short series/collaboration on prop restoration seems like a world class idea. Perhaps as a lead up to a auction or other special event involving the featured props? "Prop Re-Store:Savage Edition", or, you know, something better from someone who can title things...😬
Brandon, if I recall I've seen him a few times on here and man, just always really professional and sharp as a tack. I really enjoy seeing people that know and enjoy their work, it really shows.
OR he's just good at bullshitting. ehh, maybe both. ^_^
ONLY THE PENITENT MAN MAY PASS! 🤔... Adam obviously 🤣💪
Over on COW we had a fairly good list of all the pages shown here and the order they were in as well! Adam, if you find the time it's well worth a look back there! You'd love the data we all worked out! Page order and the pages here you mention that you'd not seen? All listed over on the forum there! Superb video!
Adam, plans for a 3m tall Wampa suit?
I like how they took several pages and had it alone in a high def frame... pretty sure those are all going to end up on Adam's computer and hopefully in a future build episode! :D
The big X and a name for it. Nice
Grail Diary has always been a top build that I wanted to see but knew we would never get because Adam had already done so much with it, with these new pages see a fresh build of the Grail Diary would be incredible, I know a lot of others have already mentioned it but I hope it happens!
I'm literally building my own right now. Shall wait for Adam to build again so I can follow the master
I enjoyed the several times in this video Adam almost folded them in half
Is there ANY way to see what is on ALL of these photographs?
Are they somewhere on display?
悲しいですが無いでしょう
...and you present it in a warehouse and have TOP MEN on it.
Right now everyone is taking screengrabs and rebuilding their grail diaries.
Good to see you to Adam "
I've dated my picture for you.
Hope you like it.
How's those grapes..
this mans widows peak is so intense
So, this is from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" right?
4:01
So Adam has a grail diary of the Grail Diary?? Of *course* he does!
Fuckin love indiana jones