I like how Adam understands that the price of something can be cheap or expensive to someone depending on their circumstances. I hate hearing youtubers call $50+ items cheap
@@greg9403 alot of review and unboxing channels actually get all the stuff they review on camera for free from the company as payment to advertise it on their channel, so you may watch someone who seems like they are buying the same product again and again just to make a video but in reality they dont pay for it at all
@@TheThirdEnergy sometimes, but a lot of times they buy it with their own money... after all, it could be their job and buying something for their channel is a work expense.. you spend 50 dollars for an item to review and make 500 from the video. also 50 dollars is cheap as fuck its easy to spend that on dinner for one lol
Another trick on the Mac: when you come across an image that the website won’t let you save, hold Shift, Command, and 4, and then you can select an area on your screen to capture. Saves it as a PNG file on your desktop or downloads folder, depending on settings.
31:30 “actually wait right there” I absolutely love how Adam talks to us as if we were right infront of him going through this experience with him, which we practically are!! Love the effort, and I love that despite all of the setbacks, you found something to take out of this; a lesson to be learned!
The "new" format to these one-day builds is really inspiring and way better in my opinion. Watching you in real time fuck up, and see you walk through the issues mentally, and verbally is almost worth way more to me, than seeing you make something perfect in a video first time. Inspiring. Keep it up.
I'd have to say his level of engineering expertise puts him in a class of man most aspire to actually achieve. I mean stick him and a body builder on a deserted island and it would be a no contest on who has the better chance of survival.
Having lived through any number of projects like this myself, I give Adam the highest praise for having the courage to show a less-than-ideal outcome for a build. Very often it goes more something like this than it goes perfectly the first time. This video is both a great demo of process and the fact that, even though the tools may be precision, we humans are not. We work with the best info we have, in the time we have, to get the best result that we can. I like this guy. I like the way he thinks. He doesn't need my praise, but I had to say how I feel.
He wanted to make a "perfect lightsaber" and not disappoint us fans. The fact is, no 2 lightsabers are exactly identical. His finished product was awesome, and i for one am amazed at his craftsmanship
Believe it or not, it's actually super helpful not only to be able to see such a talented maker not only make mistakes (reminding me that we are all human) but also to be able to observe how he recovers from those mistakes (arguably one of the most useful skills a maker can possess). Adam, thank you for sharing the whole process. Too many folks just gloss over that part of the process.
You can do it in a lot of programs' print dialogue. Even google chrome has a custom "scale" option under "more settings" that automatically tiles oversized images. I was chuckling to myself that entire portion of this video because even though I have the full Adobe Creative suite I do this exact kind of thing professionally simply to save time.
Adam Savage is the embodiment of growth mindset and I love it. Makes mistakes, adapts his plan, and finds the silver lining. Discerns what he can learn from the mistake - great example!
For a Mac use illustrator. Make the art board to the massive size you need then in printer properties set your print size to letter. Your art board will then show a bunch of ghost letter size outlines breaking up your art board. That sizing formula is spot-on. I used to use that as an artist to size up or down on a stat camera. It was also useful to size up roughs to transfer to boards for paintings. It’s amazing how many of those old tricks I use today when designing products.
This. Save yourself some time, Adam! You can even scale your image up or down in it. Save your 10" version as a pdf, print -> poster -> 117.5% (tick the 'show cutlines box' as Erik said) and hit print. Bonus tip: you can print a long-ass document as a booklet, no need to do hard math on which page goes where.
Ah yes jolly good advice my good sir🤓! Now i can finally make that life size Slave Leia print out for my dungeon👿.... Wait a sec Õ_Õ.... nothing to see here😲!! Move along, move along😤! Hah🤣
Showing Adam honestly go through the dreaded "AAArrrrggghhh! Can I fix it? Can I live with it? Sigh, .....do I trash it and start over?" process us weekend warriors go through constantly is probably the greatest public service you could provide. Mille Grazie.
Adam use rasterbator.net to tile images. I've used it many many times in the past to make giant posters of images that dont exsist. I hope this helps. There are also versions of the program you can use to print 3d objects on paper then cut out the pieces and glue them together into 3d objects. Another thing I used in the past before 3D printers where easy to get.
This video should be mandatory viewing for all high-school shop classes. Adam is a class act and shows an honest view into what really happens in a working shop. Mistakes are made, even with the best and most experienced builders. It's not about the mistake, but how you overcome and move forward.
Definitely feel we need an "Impatience Remediation" demerit badge for when you did something the 'quick and dirty' way to save time but actually made the project take *way* longer because now you have to fix what you screwed up before you can continue. I have done this many, *many* times, just as we've seen Adam do it too, both here and in other videos.
You Have the coolest job. "Print tiling" in "adobe illustrator" for large scale printing. Crop marks and join lines on overlapping areas let you print large images with ease. Keep up the good work
@@jessesisson2955 quick and dirty solution that does work, but you'll lose a lot from the original image file. Adam doesn't seem the type to accept those losses. But I also think he'd really appreciate your straightforward "in a pinch" solution, as it is resourceful and creative. ...just not ideal. Cheers!
I wish there was a way to BLOCK a site from search results. Goddamn pinterest... 🤬 (You can always "-pinterest" like Adam suggests, but why do WE have do extra work because PINTEREST sucks? Also, sometimes I swear that's just a placebo, lol.)
@@AurelTristen I was literally just goin to say something like that would be useful. Got a name? I find a plugin that reenables right click is also useful to save images directly, no need to go digging through page source code.
@@JustLiesNOR I'm using "unpinterested!" I'm sure there are better ways to do it, but this has worked well enough so far. I too use enable-right-click!
Your videos are my comfort background noise while I'm working. You are so wholesome that you help drop my anxiety a bit. A stable source of calm in a time where there is no calm. Just wanted to thank you for creating this content. It's helped me get through some things.
I love how he expends that effort and tells the story about assistant animators while lining up the two parts of the lightsaber printout very precisely, then slides it off kilter when taping them and doesn't fix it 😂
As someone else mentioned, there is cut right before he tapes it down. If you watch the paper closely, you will see it get misaligned right before the cut, and then it "magically" becomes perfectly aligned when the cut hits, and you can see the perfect alignment once the tape is down. It's pretty subtle.
I've been binging on older vids that I might have half-watched or skipped or missed in the past - and I'm amused that Adam calls this inaccurate and kinda gives up on it out of perfectionism. If 99.99999% of us non-machinists had made that we'd be overjoyed at the outcome. The fact that the end thingy was actually a faucet knob on the original was something I didn't know, so it amuses me more to see all the effort to replicate a movie prop that was kinda thrown together out of found parts. I believe the legend is the other part was made from one of those old Speed Graphic 4x5 camera flash things that held batteries to fire flash bulbs. Before I knew that back in the 80s I can remember passing over boxes of those things in a second hand camera shop looking for stuff like that for an old Speed Graphic camera I had. I would have bought the box if I knew!
I guessed I missed the part of the movies where Luke hung out near a lathe and milled his new saber. I would have watched the heck out of that. Honestly, that makes the armorer in the Mandalorian even cooler.
High Adam. As an electronics engineer, I find it hard to believe no one. " At least to my knowledge" ? Has wondered, if light saber technology existed" then why did they not make for themselves one that was three feet longer than your opponent " lol instead of the same size. I'm sure it crossed your mind. Iv watched you for many years. Thanks for everything. Especially as the only guy on the planet to make that fella in myth busters with the daft cap. Lol. Actually smile now and then. Great stuff ".
OOOH! Posterazor is an amazing program for scaling! They even have a webtool! I use it all the time to make pdfs of battlemaps that can be printed on A4 and then taped together!
I think it's because pinterest was never really supposed to be for photos. It was more like a site linker? You press the photo and it takes you to the site that is using it, that's where you download it. But people began using it more for gathering art references and crafts and toooons of other stuff. It really should just let you download the photos though.
Words cannot fully express how happy this video made me. I worked for over a decade as a Welder/Millwright in a metal fabrication shop. The number of times people brought in a picture (or several) and said "can you build this?" and it not be the same when they get it home and match it to other pieces they had was amazing. It is NEVER as easy as it seems to build from an unscaled not dimensioned photo and get it perfect.
Mr. Savage you did an amazing job teaching about how to not barrage yourself with negative self talk because something isn't right whether by you making a mistake or an accident from unknown source. You also taught that you shouldn't quit because of a mistake or accident but learn from it & persevere as the end result will be a reminding example of the lessons you've learned.
This is actually one of my favorite episodes! Going through the PITA and trying to muscled through it and realizing its time to call it is priceless. It happens to us all and seeing it happen to someone you look up to shows they're human too. Kudos and look forward to seeing your personal saber build.
@@GovindHair Yup. This is exactly what algebra is for. Your thing is 10 inches, you want it to be 11.75 inches. What do you need to multiply to 10 to get 11.75. 10x = 11.75. So 11.75/10 like Adam did in the video.
It ends up in the same calculation, but you get to keep the unit if you set up the full equation... X / target = / X / 11.75’’ = 100% / 10’’ X = 100% * 11.75’’ / 10’’ = 115%
I felt this episode in my soul. How many projects have I invested hours into, only to realize that something went terribly wrong along the way? Then you have the terrible options of A, gritting your teeth and try to salvage what you can, or B, chucking it in the bin and starting all over again. It's endlessly frustrating. So I appreciate Adam taking the time to show us exactly that. It sounds cliche, but it shows me, a 100% self-taught amateur, that the pros have the same problems in the workshop as I do. Frustrating for them, maybe, but reassuring for me; it can be daunting to see pro after pro post a video of one flawless process after another! PS: Adam, if you're reading this, I actually really appreciated the object lessons in scaling, tiling, parallaxing, and yes, even the math you showed us. I have always struggled, and will always struggle, with numbers, but seeing them illustrated helps a ton. Even after all these years, you continue to teach me a lot!
@@GoogleVideoMan Much better, which means he would do stuff differently today with vastly improved knowledge, but he pledged to make it from old adam standpoint i.e not using the proper reference he has, but instead using images from google, or images in general.
Adam: I stubbled onto this post and am grateful for doing so. I graduated from a technical high school with a major in electronics and oddly enough machine shop. I found that mechanical fabrication training assisted me in my career as an Implant Maintenance Eng (Ion implanters are used to dope silicon wafers in chip fabrication). Watching you use lathe and horizontal mill and your skills in layout and set up just kept me engaged. Finally your ability to recover from a mistake(s); completing the task is valuable training to the inexperienced youth. Randy
Hey Adam, you can easily tile up images in Illustrator, where you can have multiple pages showing up on the same window, you can arrange them as you want and then simply put your image in the file If I was unclear feel free to respond me
I don't know anyone who has made every project petfectly! This is how craftspeople grow and learn, and this has certainly made me embrace my failures a big more! Thanks for the wonderful lesson Adam
I've come to think of him as the Fred Rogers of making. Incredibly intelligent, empathetic, respectful, & kind. Willing to share mistakes for the benefit of others. All around, an excellent role model.
Thank you for showing the complete build along with the hang-ups you faced. Just goes to show that nothing works out the way you plan and you have to have the ability to persevere though the rough points to appreciate all the good that comes from the entire process. Fantastic job sir!
This video is a great lesson for new makers. Things don't always turn out exactly the way you want them to, especially when you are using limited materials, information, skill, or equipment. BUT you should still press on. "Adapt and overcome" as they say. If you learn from every mistake and never make it again, eventually, there will be no mistakes left to make.
Really enjoyed this video! Working through mistakes and actually teaching us about more things than intended. You are fun to watch and learn from. You are a great teacher with a lot of patience! Can't wait to watch more of your videos!
Great video! The end product is amazing! For printing big things, I use Inkscape. It's free, and if you save the file as a PDF, you can print it in poster format. This lets you print a really big image on multiple a4 pages. :)
I watch a lot of your videos with my 9 year old and 6 year old sons and this video had a really valuable lesson. My sons watched you mess it up, admit it, brush yourself down and fix it. Good learning material!
You know what? I actually love that you showed all the errors and hiccups and explain them. In the end, it’s still awesome and I thoroughly enjoyed watching the process. Also, I’m highly envious of your workshop. I will absolutely seek out your personal design lightsaber build, because having built one myself at Savi’s Workshop, I’m becoming slightly obsessed with lightsabers and builds. Thanks for sharing this!
Dear adam savage. I grew up watching you and the Mythbusters on TV and it is just so absolutely amazing and entertaining to watch you geek out over star wars stuff. may the Force be with, Adam, always.
I can't wait to see your own personal designed lightsaber. It's always interesting to see what other people come up with for their own personal designs, and even more so if it becomes a reality. I've got one I designed myself (found a web site years ago that do custom hilts, so I had them make it), it's quite simplistic in it's design, but I'm happy with it.
Adam, in Google Chrome - you can right click anything and choose "inspect element". This will open the developer toolbar, and help you find the link for your jpg much easier!
True, except "Inspect Element" doesn't work either when the right-click is disabled. Instead you should just open the Dev tools (F12), click network tab and then filter on images (IMG).
@@footrotdog if using safari, chrome or Firefox, just go in to their settings and disable JavaScript from running. This stops websites from blocking right clicks.
If you're using Chrome, it's CTRL-SHIFT-i then if you left-click on the image you want on the web page, Developer will take you directly to the top level tag that contains the link for that image.
Amen on the Pinterest rant! dude so many times I'm looking for something only to get a million links to Pinterest with no relevant information about the subject I'm actually after!
Wow, Adam not only created a replica saber hilt, but he's a Jedi as well, he used Jedi mind trick and transported me back to 1987 and 1988, I felt like I was back in high school metal shop! I loved seeing all those heavy tools in action, I enjoyed watching that thing spin as material got side grinded off. I haven't heard these sounds since high school. I could almost smell the freshly grinded metal in the air! I just loved this video, dare I say it was kind-a "zenful"! But man, Adam's got switch to decaf, I appreciate and respect the mistakes made, but he stands there and his eye's are all over the place, sometimes nearly talking at warp speed, and like talking about 2-3 things at once but somehow bringing it all back into 1 thing! But this video was fun to watch, I enjoyed being Jedi mind tricked back to my high school days, but damn 1987-1988, sophomore and junior years of high school, graduated in 1989, this jedi mind trick of time travel, has proven my age, made me feel kind-a old, where has the time gone? This now 52 year old is perplexed. Awesome video, I'm going off to be perplexed! :)
Within Photoshop there are two options for resolving parallax. If you know the camera & lens used, which can often be found in the meta data, Camera RAW can remove the lens distortions. However, there is also a lens distortion filter for eyeballing it on the fly, which may be needed if you work from a screenshot.
In the show and tell for the ZF-1 Adam mentions he tends to build props about 10% too large and he even suspects it is due to parallaxing. I guess this is a practical demonstration of that effect. I did notice when he was measuring the "faucet" section that the bumps weren't square to the camera, so that width was always going to be off due to perspective.
@@padoco73 1. What Adam calls "parallax" is just perspective. Parallax is when the treees in the field move slower than the trees by the road when you look out the window of your car. It's an effect of perspective, but there is no parallax in a static image. Perspective has a vanishing point. And 2. The lens distortion tools in PS or any other software will never change the perspective, only things like chromatic abborations, barrel distortion and such. Perspective is a point in space, from which the photo was taken. It's not an error of the lens.
The last part, starting around 52:47 kind of confirmed something I thought was off from the start: There are SIX "crenellations" on the original, not eight.
I was literally typing that "Adam should make a personalized light saber like he's in the Star Wars universe to his own preferences." And the he said he's dong that next😎🤘 I can't wait to see it!!!
I know this isn’t accessible to everyone, but just to point out the beauty of how far we’ve come. The first 10 minutes of this video could be done it 2 with AutoCAD. I can’t imagine how hard things like this were back in the day. I’m a machinist by trade and cad designer/cnc programmer and I Love your videos man.
As he has said in numerous videos in various ways; To be good at something you should make a lot of mistakes. He always talks about how he made mistakes, and has done things wrong in the past, which gives him knowledge of what not to do.
Being a genius at something just takes 30+ years of doing it. Find your passion and follow it. One day someone like you right now will say the same thing and you can tell them how to get there. As Shia lebeof says... *Just do it.*
At the beginning of the build, the whole time I'm sitting here thinking in excitement , "how the hell is he going to machine those crenulations in one solid piece?"
Whilst it wasn’t what you’d hoped to show, I found it incredibly useful. As someone starting out, I’d not appreciated the pitfalls and limitations of using reference images. Thanks for the ‘warts-n-all’ video.
When shortcuts lead to longcuts 😐 It’s hard sometimes to nip these in the bud. I screwed up a job last night. I thought I would finish the job at 11:30 and it ended up being 2:00 am ⏰🙄
it's completely insane to me how you can obsess over something that *might* be a couple of thousands of an inch out, but then in the following sentence say that you're 'just going to eyeball' something
Hey Adam! Regarding tiling images, you can tile directly out of the Adobe Acrobat print dialog! It's a function I use fairly often in the architectural industry to print scaled drawings. Hope that helps cut down your photoshop time! Cheers
The Answer!! Black Flight models makes a program called Tile Print that is what you want. Open an image with it. Use the measure tool to tell it how big the object is and print. Perfect tiled image every time. Love love love this program.
I like how Adam understands that the price of something can be cheap or expensive to someone depending on their circumstances. I hate hearing youtubers call $50+ items cheap
Or buy a whole lot stuff to test out. Who can afford it?
@@greg9403 Eh? Isn't that the ideal situation they test it out so you can save money and buy what's good
@@greg9403 alot of review and unboxing channels actually get all the stuff they review on camera for free from the company as payment to advertise it on their channel, so you may watch someone who seems like they are buying the same product again and again just to make a video but in reality they dont pay for it at all
@@TheThirdEnergy sometimes, but a lot of times they buy it with their own money... after all, it could be their job and buying something for their channel is a work expense.. you spend 50 dollars for an item to review and make 500 from the video. also 50 dollars is cheap as fuck its easy to spend that on dinner for one lol
@@RywokastDarkstar5000Where are you buying dinner? There's only a few restaurants in my whole city where you could 'easily' spend that much.
Tiling on a Mac: make it into a pdf, open in adobe acrobat reader. The print options there allow you to print a poster on tiled sheets.
Yes!
And for Windows: Use MS Paint! It's found within the print options menu
Yes. Most PDF viewing software has tiling functions. I use it often for 1:1 jig layouts...complete with registration marks for alignment.
Another trick on the Mac: when you come across an image that the website won’t let you save, hold Shift, Command, and 4, and then you can select an area on your screen to capture. Saves it as a PNG file on your desktop or downloads folder, depending on settings.
I came here to suggest the PDF poster option for tiling also. I use it all the time on windows to make stuff for my classroom.
I really appreciate you showing us the mistakes and how tough these builds can be, even for someone as skilled and experienced as yourself.
Could not agree more literally all of his builds seem flawless, which most are
Sometimes it's the journey, and not the destination
Do you think he even noticed that he did 8 bits on the pommel instead of the 6 it's supposed to have?
I was coming to the comments to say the exact same thing.... Thanks Adam
Amen sister
31:30 “actually wait right there” I absolutely love how Adam talks to us as if we were right infront of him going through this experience with him, which we practically are!! Love the effort, and I love that despite all of the setbacks, you found something to take out of this; a lesson to be learned!
Were you also screaming "USE THE DRILL PRESS!!" ?
55 minutes of Adam resisting the temptation to violate the limitations he has put on his own for-fun project.
The "new" format to these one-day builds is really inspiring and way better in my opinion. Watching you in real time fuck up, and see you walk through the issues mentally, and verbally is almost worth way more to me, than seeing you make something perfect in a video first time. Inspiring. Keep it up.
Makes sense, that was the best part of Mythbusters after all
I believe that Adam is one of the best examples of the saying; "Boys don't grow up. Their toys just get bigger."
I agree 👍
To print scales up images on multiple pages use adobe acrobat reader
Bigger and/or more expensive.
Not bigger. More expensive.
I'd have to say his level of engineering expertise puts him in a class of man most aspire to actually achieve. I mean stick him and a body builder on a deserted island and it would be a no contest on who has the better chance of survival.
Having lived through any number of projects like this myself, I give Adam the highest praise for having the courage to show a less-than-ideal outcome for a build. Very often it goes more something like this than it goes perfectly the first time. This video is both a great demo of process and the fact that, even though the tools may be precision, we humans are not. We work with the best info we have, in the time we have, to get the best result that we can. I like this guy. I like the way he thinks. He doesn't need my praise, but I had to say how I feel.
What is your occupation that allows you to do this on a daily basis and how do I start???
He wanted to make a "perfect lightsaber" and not disappoint us fans.
The fact is, no 2 lightsabers are exactly identical. His finished product was awesome, and i for one am amazed at his craftsmanship
It'd be nice to see him do his own lightsaber design. Darth Savage sounds pretty badass!
He’s stressing about marring when Star Wars is all about that
First time I find a ODB within 10 mins and its a lightsaber. Perfect.
12:27 I wish I had a slightly longer piece... don't we all Adam Savage don't we all.
The timestamp should be 5 seconds earlier.
The diagonal cut on the tile print is the simplest solution I didn't know I needed. I will for sure use that one day and think of this video.
Believe it or not, it's actually super helpful not only to be able to see such a talented maker not only make mistakes (reminding me that we are all human) but also to be able to observe how he recovers from those mistakes (arguably one of the most useful skills a maker can possess). Adam, thank you for sharing the whole process. Too many folks just gloss over that part of the process.
Adobe Illustrator does automatic tiling. Import your image, size it, and choose whether you want to tile page or image area (eliminating margins).
You are bang on. Acrobat will allow you to do the same.
You can do it in a lot of programs' print dialogue. Even google chrome has a custom "scale" option under "more settings" that automatically tiles oversized images. I was chuckling to myself that entire portion of this video because even though I have the full Adobe Creative suite I do this exact kind of thing professionally simply to save time.
Ok but how do you do all that? Lol
On illustrator
I would create this in a 3D modeling program, import the texture map from Illustrator or a similar program and then 3D print it.
You can also get an 11x17 printer.
Adam Savage is the embodiment of growth mindset and I love it. Makes mistakes, adapts his plan, and finds the silver lining. Discerns what he can learn from the mistake - great example!
For a Mac use illustrator. Make the art board to the massive size you need then in printer properties set your print size to letter. Your art board will then show a bunch of ghost letter size outlines breaking up your art board. That sizing formula is spot-on. I used to use that as an artist to size up or down on a stat camera. It was also useful to size up roughs to transfer to boards for paintings. It’s amazing how many of those old tricks I use today when designing products.
I know on PC that the newer Adobe PDF Reader programs have that function buried in the print menu tabs, probably Mac too, but don't own one to check.
When I blow up images to poster print I save the image as a PDF and Adobe acrobat will let you tile it over multiple sheets complete with cut lines! 😁
This. Save yourself some time, Adam!
You can even scale your image up or down in it. Save your 10" version as a pdf, print -> poster -> 117.5% (tick the 'show cutlines box' as Erik said) and hit print. Bonus tip: you can print a long-ass document as a booklet, no need to do hard math on which page goes where.
Yep, this.
Yup I do this all the time
Ah yes jolly good advice my good sir🤓! Now i can finally make that life size Slave Leia print out for my dungeon👿....
Wait a sec Õ_Õ.... nothing to see here😲!! Move along, move along😤!
Hah🤣
When Adam Savage has to become his alter ego: Adam Salvage.
I was about to write the exact same comment 😂
I wrote this comment and then deleted it
when I saw yours.
Fittingly all Savage had to do to get to Salvage was to take an L
I think the most inspiring thing about your videos is watching how you recover from mistakes.
Showing Adam honestly go through the dreaded "AAArrrrggghhh! Can I fix it? Can I live with it? Sigh, .....do I trash it and start over?" process us weekend warriors go through constantly is probably the greatest public service you could provide. Mille Grazie.
wow I wasn't expecting to see Adam so truly disappointed. These are honest mistakes showing his vulnerable side. That makes me like him even more.
"Big Print" by mathias wandel is exactly what you want. He's one of the original crew that developed BlackBerry.
I had no idea he was involved with BlackBerry, every day's a school day.
that is someone different to the youtuber woodworker/engineer or is it the same guy?
@@najtrows same guy
Adam use rasterbator.net to tile images. I've used it many many times in the past to make giant posters of images that dont exsist. I hope this helps. There are also versions of the program you can use to print 3d objects on paper then cut out the pieces and glue them together into 3d objects. Another thing I used in the past before 3D printers where easy to get.
Came here for this. I knew someone would hear him say that and be like "I've GOT that tool!!" Thank you for posting. :)
I think I made a mistype. It took me somewhere else.
Awesome thanks
Haha i yelled at the screen “Rasterbate it!”
Did anyone actually read the name of the link before clicking on it
This video should be mandatory viewing for all high-school shop classes. Adam is a class act and shows an honest view into what really happens in a working shop. Mistakes are made, even with the best and most experienced builders. It's not about the mistake, but how you overcome and move forward.
For tiling you can import the image into excel and turn on page lines. You can also use the grid sizing to help size/center.
I loved this...brought the human element to this build without the “sanding and patching” of production. Thank you for this video!
Definitely feel we need an "Impatience Remediation" demerit badge for when you did something the 'quick and dirty' way to save time but actually made the project take *way* longer because now you have to fix what you screwed up before you can continue. I have done this many, *many* times, just as we've seen Adam do it too, both here and in other videos.
Yup guilty, will take one of those if you don't mind **holds head in shame**
You Have the coolest job.
"Print tiling" in "adobe illustrator" for large scale printing.
Crop marks and join lines on overlapping areas let you print large images with ease.
Keep up the good work
Pinterest: You cannot save this picture.
Adam Savage: Only a Sith deals in absolutes.
Adam: you're underestimating my power!
That's why God created screenshots.
@@jessesisson2955 quick and dirty solution that does work, but you'll lose a lot from the original image file. Adam doesn't seem the type to accept those losses.
But I also think he'd really appreciate your straightforward "in a pinch" solution, as it is resourceful and creative. ...just not ideal. Cheers!
I was wondering why he didn't just hit the printscreen button and crop out in word or photoshop.
On windows anyway I do "Windows+Shift+S" and it captures what ever is on my screen.
Pinterest is killing any useful google images results
It's so bad that I have a Chrome plugin just to add -site:pinterest.* to every Google Search.
I wish there was a way to BLOCK a site from search results. Goddamn pinterest... 🤬 (You can always "-pinterest" like Adam suggests, but why do WE have do extra work because PINTEREST sucks? Also, sometimes I swear that's just a placebo, lol.)
@@AurelTristen I was literally just goin to say something like that would be useful. Got a name?
I find a plugin that reenables right click is also useful to save images directly, no need to go digging through page source code.
@@JustLiesNOR I'm using "unpinterested!" I'm sure there are better ways to do it, but this has worked well enough so far. I too use enable-right-click!
@@AurelTristen And here I came to comment on also not liking pinterest. Thank you!
Build a DARKSABER, This is the way!
This is the way!
This is the way!
to hook onto the top comment, jspaint.app is all you need to scale photos by percentage. It's literally from 1995 and works great as a website.
this is the way!!
This is the way.
Your videos are my comfort background noise while I'm working. You are so wholesome that you help drop my anxiety a bit. A stable source of calm in a time where there is no calm. Just wanted to thank you for creating this content. It's helped me get through some things.
I love how he expends that effort and tells the story about assistant animators while lining up the two parts of the lightsaber printout very precisely, then slides it off kilter when taping them and doesn't fix it 😂
That was amusingly frustrating to watch happen! :D
The video does cut at about 11:53 (I assume in order for him to realign).
Saw that too but for the use of the pic for length,it was close enough,lol
As someone else mentioned, there is cut right before he tapes it down. If you watch the paper closely, you will see it get misaligned right before the cut, and then it "magically" becomes perfectly aligned when the cut hits, and you can see the perfect alignment once the tape is down. It's pretty subtle.
"I have chosen a different path in life" is my new favorite answer for everydamnthing. Hilarious. Oh, cool video. 🤘🥴🍻
I find the sound of you moving around your workshop, the footfalls, the boxes shifting and the drawers, oddly calming.
Watching Adam fummble around is my new meditation. It's like my new Bob Ross.
It's like watching your dad work on a project when you're a little kid. You know, minus the swearing 😂
Yes me too. He definitely needs to jump onto some ASMR videos in the near future.
I've been binging on older vids that I might have half-watched or skipped or missed in the past - and I'm amused that Adam calls this inaccurate and kinda gives up on it out of perfectionism. If 99.99999% of us non-machinists had made that we'd be overjoyed at the outcome. The fact that the end thingy was actually a faucet knob on the original was something I didn't know, so it amuses me more to see all the effort to replicate a movie prop that was kinda thrown together out of found parts.
I believe the legend is the other part was made from one of those old Speed Graphic 4x5 camera flash things that held batteries to fire flash bulbs. Before I knew that back in the 80s I can remember passing over boxes of those things in a second hand camera shop looking for stuff like that for an old Speed Graphic camera I had. I would have bought the box if I knew!
I guessed I missed the part of the movies where Luke hung out near a lathe and milled his new saber. I would have watched the heck out of that. Honestly, that makes the armorer in the Mandalorian even cooler.
My Grandmother as a sign in her home that read... "The Hurrier you go, the behinder you get." That explains the issue with the mess up.
I'd love to see a lightsaber hilt designed by Adam.
EDIT: I hadn't seen the end of the video. Awesome!!!
High Adam. As an electronics engineer, I find it hard to believe no one. " At least to my knowledge" ? Has wondered, if light saber technology existed" then why did they not make for themselves one that was three feet longer than your opponent " lol instead of the same size. I'm sure it crossed your mind. Iv watched you for many years. Thanks for everything. Especially as the only guy on the planet to make that fella in myth busters with the daft cap. Lol. Actually smile now and then. Great stuff ".
OOOH! Posterazor is an amazing program for scaling! They even have a webtool! I use it all the time to make pdfs of battlemaps that can be printed on A4 and then taped together!
YES! Whenever I search for reference images Pintrest is the bane of my existence!
I think it's because pinterest was never really supposed to be for photos. It was more like a site linker? You press the photo and it takes you to the site that is using it, that's where you download it. But people began using it more for gathering art references and crafts and toooons of other stuff. It really should just let you download the photos though.
Words cannot fully express how happy this video made me. I worked for over a decade as a Welder/Millwright in a metal fabrication shop. The number of times people brought in a picture (or several) and said "can you build this?" and it not be the same when they get it home and match it to other pieces they had was amazing. It is NEVER as easy as it seems to build from an unscaled not dimensioned photo and get it perfect.
Mr. Savage you did an amazing job teaching about how to not barrage yourself with negative self talk because something isn't right whether by you making a mistake or an accident from unknown source. You also taught that you shouldn't quit because of a mistake or accident but learn from it & persevere as the end result will be a reminding example of the lessons you've learned.
Adam quoting The Talking Heads is so wholesome to me, knowing he has good music tastes
This is actually one of my favorite episodes! Going through the PITA and trying to muscled through it and realizing its time to call it is priceless. It happens to us all and seeing it happen to someone you look up to shows they're human too. Kudos and look forward to seeing your personal saber build.
My way to remember sizing is " the size you want divided by the size you got"
I always just did algebra. This is gonna save me a lot of headaches. Thanks a ton
Target / source = scale factor, exactly
@@GovindHair Yup. This is exactly what algebra is for. Your thing is 10 inches, you want it to be 11.75 inches. What do you need to multiply to 10 to get 11.75. 10x = 11.75. So 11.75/10 like Adam did in the video.
It ends up in the same calculation, but you get to keep the unit if you set up the full equation...
X / target = /
X / 11.75’’ = 100% / 10’’
X = 100% * 11.75’’ / 10’’ = 115%
@@han5vk i graduated high school with many people who could not add or subtract 2 digit whole numbers
I felt this episode in my soul.
How many projects have I invested hours into, only to realize that something went terribly wrong along the way? Then you have the terrible options of A, gritting your teeth and try to salvage what you can, or B, chucking it in the bin and starting all over again. It's endlessly frustrating.
So I appreciate Adam taking the time to show us exactly that. It sounds cliche, but it shows me, a 100% self-taught amateur, that the pros have the same problems in the workshop as I do. Frustrating for them, maybe, but reassuring for me; it can be daunting to see pro after pro post a video of one flawless process after another!
PS: Adam, if you're reading this, I actually really appreciated the object lessons in scaling, tiling, parallaxing, and yes, even the math you showed us. I have always struggled, and will always struggle, with numbers, but seeing them illustrated helps a ton. Even after all these years, you continue to teach me a lot!
aww, grogu on the desk wearing his mythosaur pendant is so cute! i miss that little bastard more than my own mother
Yeah Baby Yoda.
Adam was so tortured this episode! Seems like building this as “past Adam” with “future Adam’s” knowledge was a struggle
Is he better or worse than he used to be?
@@GoogleVideoMan Much better, which means he would do stuff differently today with vastly improved knowledge, but he pledged to make it from old adam standpoint i.e not using the proper reference he has, but instead using images from google, or images in general.
I see you have constructed a new lightsaber. Your skills are complete.
Adam: I stubbled onto this post and am grateful for doing so. I graduated from a technical high school with a major in electronics and oddly enough machine shop. I found that mechanical fabrication training assisted me in my career as an Implant Maintenance Eng (Ion implanters are used to dope silicon wafers in chip fabrication). Watching you use lathe and horizontal mill and your skills in layout and set up just kept me engaged. Finally your ability to recover from a mistake(s); completing the task is valuable training to the inexperienced youth. Randy
Hey Adam, you can easily tile up images in Illustrator, where you can have multiple pages showing up on the same window, you can arrange them as you want and then simply put your image in the file
If I was unclear feel free to respond me
yeah sure. But should that kind of thing really require a piece of software that's like 60 bucks a month?
"The greatest teacher, failure is." - Yoda ^_^
As part of their training, a Jedi must construct their own lightsaber.
I don't know anyone who has made every project petfectly! This is how craftspeople grow and learn, and this has certainly made me embrace my failures a big more! Thanks for the wonderful lesson Adam
Adam Savage is the wisest, and most genuine public figure I can think of. I respect this guy so much.
Mike Rowe: hold my dirty job...
@@rapid13 ahhh I cant forget about my dude Mike. Probably the most humble of the all.
@@rapid13 Mike Rowe is a charlatan and a grifter who has disguised himself as a working class Republican despite being a liberal Hollywood elite actor
@@crimsonvampyre602 Crawl back into your mom's basement and let the adults talk.
I've come to think of him as the Fred Rogers of making.
Incredibly intelligent, empathetic, respectful, & kind. Willing to share mistakes for the benefit of others. All around, an excellent role model.
I REALLY LOVE THIS VIDEO!!! I'm an amateur builder seeing Adam explain his mistakes, really encourages me make my own mistakes and learn from them!!
Thank you for showing the complete build along with the hang-ups you faced. Just goes to show that nothing works out the way you plan and you have to have the ability to persevere though the rough points to appreciate all the good that comes from the entire process. Fantastic job sir!
This video is a great lesson for new makers. Things don't always turn out exactly the way you want them to, especially when you are using limited materials, information, skill, or equipment. BUT you should still press on. "Adapt and overcome" as they say. If you learn from every mistake and never make it again, eventually, there will be no mistakes left to make.
Really enjoyed this video! Working through mistakes and actually teaching us about more things than intended. You are fun to watch and learn from. You are a great teacher with a lot of patience! Can't wait to watch more of your videos!
Great video! The end product is amazing! For printing big things, I use Inkscape. It's free, and if you save the file as a PDF, you can print it in poster format. This lets you print a really big image on multiple a4 pages. :)
Merit badge idea: oil can with a red slash across - for when you put off regular maintenance of a tool until it fully breaks down.
I watch a lot of your videos with my 9 year old and 6 year old sons and this video had a really valuable lesson. My sons watched you mess it up, admit it, brush yourself down and fix it. Good learning material!
You know what? I actually love that you showed all the errors and hiccups and explain them.
In the end, it’s still awesome and I thoroughly enjoyed watching the process.
Also, I’m highly envious of your workshop.
I will absolutely seek out your personal design lightsaber build, because having built one myself at Savi’s Workshop, I’m becoming slightly obsessed with lightsabers and builds.
Thanks for sharing this!
You gave me a heart attack everytime you reached for the swarf when the chuck was still spinning.
*You must be new here*
@@cosmicrider5898 haha brilliant comment
Is that you Hal?
Yay! Beautiful build even with screwups.
I think Adobe lets you tile when you print.
Yeah I'm pretty sure you can tile pages in Illustrator, mostly because I always turn tiling off (the little dotted lines always annoy me visually)
Dear adam savage. I grew up watching you and the Mythbusters on TV and it is just so absolutely amazing and entertaining to watch you geek out over star wars stuff. may the Force be with, Adam, always.
I can't wait to see your own personal designed lightsaber. It's always interesting to see what other people come up with for their own personal designs, and even more so if it becomes a reality. I've got one I designed myself (found a web site years ago that do custom hilts, so I had them make it), it's quite simplistic in it's design, but I'm happy with it.
Literally looks basically perfect to me lol. Just shows how much of a perfectionist you are.
Adam is a national treasure. It’d be awesome to just hang out with this dude for a day.
Adam Savage is like a really cool uncle
Yes I'm here after The Mando S2 Finale, what a great show!
I was so close to cry, but i was very happy more than nostalgic.
@@Ivan_Berni It hit different cuz we finally got to see how did Luke at his peak look like, I'm sure many had said the same.
40:30 Excellent choice of calculator
Woah it's Dave, I just ordered a DM42 after seeing your video on it. Keep making the great videos man!
I prefer 16:30 Texas rulz
trade school I went to we're required to use them
Damn I love that calculator, had to get my most recent one on eBay since the solar II came out
he should have used a compass to split that section though
Adam, in Google Chrome - you can right click anything and choose "inspect element". This will open the developer toolbar, and help you find the link for your jpg much easier!
Was just about to comment the same. Much more direct!
True, except "Inspect Element" doesn't work either when the right-click is disabled. Instead you should just open the Dev tools (F12), click network tab and then filter on images (IMG).
@@footrotdog if using safari, chrome or Firefox, just go in to their settings and disable JavaScript from running. This stops websites from blocking right clicks.
If you're using Chrome, it's CTRL-SHIFT-i then if you left-click on the image you want on the web page, Developer will take you directly to the top level tag that contains the link for that image.
37:23 It's amazing that he knows (almost) where all of his tools are stored.
this was my favorite one day build adam, by far the most valuable.
I would watch a show called "Adam Salvage".
Amen on the Pinterest rant! dude so many times I'm looking for something only to get a million links to Pinterest with no relevant information about the subject I'm actually after!
Wow, Adam not only created a replica saber hilt, but he's a Jedi as well, he used Jedi mind trick and transported me back to 1987 and 1988, I felt like I was back in high school metal shop! I loved seeing all those heavy tools in action, I enjoyed watching that thing spin as material got side grinded off. I haven't heard these sounds since high school. I could almost smell the freshly grinded metal in the air! I just loved this video, dare I say it was kind-a "zenful"! But man, Adam's got switch to decaf, I appreciate and respect the mistakes made, but he stands there and his eye's are all over the place, sometimes nearly talking at warp speed, and like talking about 2-3 things at once but somehow bringing it all back into 1 thing! But this video was fun to watch, I enjoyed being Jedi mind tricked back to my high school days, but damn 1987-1988, sophomore and junior years of high school, graduated in 1989, this jedi mind trick of time travel, has proven my age, made me feel kind-a old, where has the time gone? This now 52 year old is perplexed. Awesome video, I'm going off to be perplexed! :)
"Ok, one of the issues I'm gonna deal with here, or I'm actually NOT going to deal with here, is called paralaxing..." 13:16
Within Photoshop there are two options for resolving parallax. If you know the camera & lens used, which can often be found in the meta data, Camera RAW can remove the lens distortions. However, there is also a lens distortion filter for eyeballing it on the fly, which may be needed if you work from a screenshot.
(sung to tune of Lumberjack Song) "Oh, it's some parallax, and it's okay..."
In the show and tell for the ZF-1 Adam mentions he tends to build props about 10% too large and he even suspects it is due to parallaxing. I guess this is a practical demonstration of that effect.
I did notice when he was measuring the "faucet" section that the bumps weren't square to the camera, so that width was always going to be off due to perspective.
@@padoco73 1. What Adam calls "parallax" is just perspective. Parallax is when the treees in the field move slower than the trees by the road when you look out the window of your car. It's an effect of perspective, but there is no parallax in a static image. Perspective has a vanishing point. And 2. The lens distortion tools in PS or any other software will never change the perspective, only things like chromatic abborations, barrel distortion and such. Perspective is a point in space, from which the photo was taken. It's not an error of the lens.
The last part, starting around 52:47 kind of confirmed something I thought was off from the start:
There are SIX "crenellations" on the original, not eight.
Currently 41ish minutes in and I’ve been hoping he would notice...
Perfect or not, I would still love to have anything he has built in these. Keep up the awesome work my dude!
I love how casually you assert that “your” emitter will be slightly smaller than a “normal” emitter. Just cracks me up! 😂
I was literally typing that "Adam should make a personalized light saber like he's in the Star Wars universe to his own preferences."
And the he said he's dong that next😎🤘 I can't wait to see it!!!
I just sat through that thinking, “I can’t do ANY of this. SO. AMAZING.” Totally mesmerized by the process. 🍻
With your removable hilt "you can end the Emperor rightly, he has foreseen this!" 😉
Jeez i completely forgot about that meme.
I know this isn’t accessible to everyone, but just to point out the beauty of how far we’ve come. The first 10 minutes of this video could be done it 2 with AutoCAD. I can’t imagine how hard things like this were back in the day. I’m a machinist by trade and cad designer/cnc programmer and I Love your videos man.
This man is a genius, sometimes I don’t feel smart enough to be a viewer because my mind is always blown away by his knowledge lol
As he has said in numerous videos in various ways; To be good at something you should make a lot of mistakes. He always talks about how he made mistakes, and has done things wrong in the past, which gives him knowledge of what not to do.
Being a genius at something just takes 30+ years of doing it. Find your passion and follow it. One day someone like you right now will say the same thing and you can tell them how to get there.
As Shia lebeof says... *Just do it.*
At the beginning of the build, the whole time I'm sitting here thinking in excitement , "how the hell is he going to machine those crenulations in one solid piece?"
This might be my favorite ODB yet-entirely because of its poignant lessons about the reality of building. Thanks, Adam 🙏
Whilst it wasn’t what you’d hoped to show, I found it incredibly useful. As someone starting out, I’d not appreciated the pitfalls and limitations of using reference images. Thanks for the ‘warts-n-all’ video.
When shortcuts lead to longcuts 😐 It’s hard sometimes to nip these in the bud. I screwed up a job last night. I thought I would finish the job at 11:30 and it ended up being 2:00 am ⏰🙄
it's completely insane to me how you can obsess over something that *might* be a couple of thousands of an inch out, but then in the following sentence say that you're 'just going to eyeball' something
Watching an engineer work is flipping awesome! Absolutely amazing content Adam!
I love Adam but he’s not an engineer and doesn’t have an engineering degree.
I just want to say, watching you work and build brings me so much joy Mr. Savage. You are a treasure!
@tested I'm pretty sure Matthias Wandel's printing program can do what Adam is looking for.
Except Big Print is Windows only. :(
I was so stoked when Adam mentioned he also -pinterest on his google searches. Nothing beats being on the same wavelength as your spirit animal.
Hey Adam! Regarding tiling images, you can tile directly out of the Adobe Acrobat print dialog! It's a function I use fairly often in the architectural industry to print scaled drawings. Hope that helps cut down your photoshop time! Cheers
And Illustrator also has print tiling.
I personally have tried to accomplish it on excell worked with no problems
The Answer!! Black Flight models makes a program called Tile Print that is what you want. Open an image with it. Use the measure tool to tell it how big the object is and print. Perfect tiled image every time. Love love love this program.