Adam Savage Revamps Our Studio!
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- After a few years of the team working from home, Adam takes on the task of rennovating the Tested studio! In addition to building out a new camera production room to setting up our 3D print farm, Adam installs a wall of IKEA Billy Bookcases to house books, props, and other artifacts from his collection and our project library. Here's how quickly he can put up five of these versatile bookcases all by himself!
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Can we PLEASE get Adam to use a camera tripod/mount that doesn't bounce? I for one find the bouncing camera really distracting...
@@VAXHeadroomif you get a tripod that doesn’t bounce you won’t get half the shots that make this channel interesting. A static tripod means very limited shooting options.
@@catherinebhicks strongly disagree, there are many options that would work perfectly and Tested owns all of them.
It's just called 'Billy'? Boring! Not Hyllenhet or something cool?
Don't mind the astronaut; 'e's 'armless!
well I for one am SHOCKED that an empty room Adam had access to became a "glorified storage facality"
Hahaha the sarcasm is oozing
truely SHOCKED, BAFFLED even
bamboozled me for sure
how DARE that room get FILLED
Adam would never do that, come on bro !
Taking a break from assembling IKEA furniture to watch Adam assemble IKEA furniture. This is my life.
Very meta.
Holy crap, I did the same thing when we moved to our house two years ago, spent a week of assembling IKEA furniture while watching Tested and Adam. Too funny...
Somehow, it's MUCH more hypnotic when someone else is doing it...😮
This is the way.
Pro-tip from someone who has done Ikea furniture en masse for money. Especially if you know you might have to disassemble and move the Ikea stuff; drop a tiny bit of wood glue (quick setting or the slow kind) into the hole for the screwbosses before you screw them in. It will soften the chipboard while at the same time turning it into very durable inner threads as soon as it dries. And it will not glue the screwboss to the wood but make the wood more durable.
And if you know that it won’t be disassembled glue everything! It will last much longer that way and won’t get wobbly.
Another protip is most IKEA screws are pozidriv not Philips.
Makes sense. These fiberboards are damn awful on the inside...
Yep, increasing the durability by a bit
@@jefferyyoung6836 Be careful with the dowel holes. Too much glue there will cause the outside surface to pop out when you tap the dowel in. AKA put the glue on the dowel instead of filling the hole
Adam Savage assembling ikea furniture is the definition of overqualified
Yous gotta do what yous gotta do.
and at the same time, humble enough to admit he's not too good for Ikea. A true "right tool for the right job" moment.
"Overqualified" has always struck me as a pompous non-seuitur.
He’s talented, experienced and knowledgeable, but “overqualified” is not the first attribute that comes to mind.
@@MrSatyre1While it's possible for someone to use it in a pompous way, it's VERY rarely the case. You do NOT want to be over-qualified. Over-qualification creates problems just like under-qualification does, but you can't train away being over-qualified.
In this case Adam is NOT overqualified because Adam is the primary face of the brand, and it's an easy project to relate to audiences, so he's the right laborer for this work - he isn't just assembling bookshelves, he's making a video about assembling them. His on-screen personality makes him appropriately qualified for this on-screen task.
But take away the camera and put him under someone else's supervision, and then he would overqualified. His time on screen makes Tested the most money out of all the people who they put on camera. As a builder, his modelmaking and other skills also make more money. If someone else were his boss, they would put Adam on higher value work and give this job to someone less qualified. If you have 2 workers, 1 capable of doing high level work and costing $50/hr and the other not capable of that making $20/hr and you need a half hour's worth of kit shelves put together, you're going to spend the $10 to have the second employee do it. And that's what over-qualification is, he's priced out of doing that kind of work because he's too qualified.
As his own employee, though, qualification isn't a factor anymore. Adam can do things he has more than enough experience for like this, and he can do things he's not experienced enough for like his various projects where he's tried new things like the projects he used to learn machining a few years ago. No one is deciding if he is a good fit for it (ie. qualified), he's just doing the things.
That's also true of applying for work. If Mark Rober shows up for an entry level software dev position, he's probably not getting hired for that job. You generally can't pay someone that qualified at an entry level salary but you hire at an entry level because you need to pay a lower amount for lower ROI work. You also need entry level positions to grow employees into more qualified employees, so you often can't afford to waste those positions on people who already are qualified. And you need entry level employees to be entry level because they fit into positions in a team where they work with others who are growing into leadership positions...which can be a problem if the leader is perceived as less qualified than someone they lead. If you sat next to Mark Rober at your regular job, would you go to your boss for guidance on your project or would you be constantly asking Mark for that guidance? And that very human instinct would result in lower work output and disunity in guidance.
While I doubt Mark will ever be hurting for work because of his work ethic, name recognition and connections, a lot of people pidgeonhole themselves into being highly qualified for a job that nobody is hiring for. They're too qualified for entry level, but not qualified for the openings with as much experience as they have because the technology has shifted. Being over-qualified is something a lot of us in technology jobs have to work very hard to prepare for. Inevitably our experience by sheer passage of time makes us overqualified for certain positions, so if we haven't diversified our experience, we get trapped.
Did you guys have a bet about if people would watch this or not?
I'm assuming Adam was firmly on the "people won't watch this" side, and the Tested team was firmly on the "you have no idea how fanatic your viewerbase is, Adam" side.
65K in 9 hours. I guess we know the answer....
I am one of those people that find it relaxing! I specifically saved the video to watch later today when I get home from work and i'm enjoying dinner 🤷♀
There's people that would pay to watch Adam pick his nose for 12 hours.
"Moving these is hard on this old body" - walks straight into a wall.
Never change Adam!
Walks straight into a wall *twice*
I'd have done the exact same thing, and have. Adam's got me by a couple years, but even at 49 I know that I can't do what 29 year old me could do.
Do you ever have that, where your brain just kind of "optimises" your path through familiar spaces to the point you brush your shoulder on all your corners, but sometimes you miscalculate your steps or something and BOOM!?
@@Taurusus I've heard this called "postural sway," I think. Moving your hips and spine around objects instead of changing the path your feet are taking
@@dragynphyre1 At age 58 I'm stronger and more capable than when I was 28, I just hurt more afterwards.
"The tedious stuff always takes less time than you think it does"
I'm watching this while eating lunch at work.
Thank you Adam I needed to hear that.
As a software developer I've been dragging my feet the last couple work days accomplishing nothing. Because the thought of doing the work is paralysing.
But if I just start and go for it, I will quickly find myself doing the better part of the work.
Hard work is easy: just do it!
Starting is the hardest part. But I put the radio on and force myself to get going and every time without fail I end up enjoying it. Today painting outside of the house tomorrow sorting the garage. Living the dream 😢
I think one of my favorite things about this channel is the realization, or maybe validation, that, with millions of subscribers, and with Adam being famous around the world, a large part of a maker's work and accomplishments have always required (and continue to require) significant time making/building/mistaking/injuring/struggling/creating ALONE in a room. No matter who you are, you've gotta put in the work. The feelings of isolation (and sometimes loneliness) inherent in solitary pursuits are all validated here. Maybe that explains why it's fun to watch Adam do something as mundane as assembling book cases in an office space. I don't know. I'm not even sure what I'm feeling or how to explain it. But I love TESTED. Thanks to the whole crew for all you do. Now I'll return to eating my lunch as Adam does all the heavy lifting.
I know I'm addicted to a maker TH-cam channel when I literally watch a half hour iPhone video of the host assembling Ikea furniture in a dark room, lol. You're the best, Adam.
We litterally look forward to watching Adam watch paint dry… So of course I’ll watch half an hour of him putting together IKEA furniture ❤
That sound every time you adjusted the camera was a war crime.
For someone living in Småland (the home of IKEA) in Sweden, this feels fantastic to watch you work 😊
I have to admit, I would have removed the baseboard along the short wall next to the outlet on the right to try and make it fit easier...or taken that off, taken it to the workshop, cut off come of the back to make it thinner and put it back vs pounding it into place, but whatever works I guess. :)
That was my first thought too.
Adam, you'd be surprised - I have 2 Billy bookcases that have moved with me multiple times and are still intact. I purchased more when I moved into this space 14 years ago, and my tolerances were similarly tight, to the millimeter where the door latch ALMOST [but not quite] touches the first bookcase as you enter the room.
Also, Billy are the most durable bookcases I have ever owned - no shelf sag despite being overfilled with hardcovers for decades.
Same here, my Billy has been moved 6 times now. So long as you take care assembling /disassembling they travel well enough
@@apexdown I never even took them apart!
You could remove the floor trim on the bump-out on the right side by the electrical box
yep, i'd have been trimming the baseboard in a heartbeat.
(me, who will never assemble a Billy, furiously scribbling notes): "middle, bottom(thats the hard bit), THEN top. Got it."
Adam seems never happier than when he’s sorting bits into storage boxes. 👍😀
That somehow reminds me: Amazon should hire Adam for some practical warehouse tips, so that their workers can take a normal restroom brake during work hours !
@@skillaxxxGlad someone said it
There is something weird about watching an amazing maker like Adam assemble something as mundane as a Billy bookcase. :)
The wide angle highlights one thing I adore about Adam's aesthetic values. Totoro to one side, an astronaut spacesuit on the other. And it fits perfectly.
at 23:34 I like to take matte black basic acrylic paint and paint in the peg holes for the shelves to make it have more of a seemless look for my black bookcases :) I find using a tight knit cheap q-tip are great for twisting into the holes.
Something I’ve learned after lots of IKEA builds is to use a driver with a torque setting so you can dial it back and it won’t strip out the wood. It’s just one less thing to worry about.
And if you can it will likely be better to staple the back boards in instead of using the nails
I love how you stress assembly line production in a case like this when making many of the same item. I'm watching this while working on product for my shop and I have also found that working on all of one stage before moving on to the next stage to be the fastest way to get through everything. If there's a part of production that I hate, well, now its done and I never have to do it again (until the next time I work on a batch of this item 🤣)
Batch grouping is actually the slowest way and it's a big no no in a lean manufacturing environment. By the time you get every unit to the last step, you could have completed an entire unit.
Adam, this was great. I have a few IKEA products in my shop and four Billy’s in my wife’s sewing room. I am always amazed at the precision IKEA uses such precision in their manufacturing process. I could not make my storage rack for what I bought it at IKEA. I agree many time the products are a one time build for the most part. I also appreciate the change of pace and technique of IKEA assembly.
This is exactly what I did to help my elderly parents when they moved into their new home. One entire wall of their living room is Billys with Oxberg half-glass/half wood doors. My sister and I set up a production line and in one day built nine Billys, a TV stand, a coffee table, a dining table, a sofa bed, two end tables and a desk.
After watching this video I realized that I would watch Adam paint a wall if he posted it because it’s Adam doing it and there could be some sort of golden nugget of information I could learn from him
Yes the Billy bookcase has changed colors over the years. I have 5 in the now discontinued color of brown. At some point I'm going to expand the library so I'm hoping when I do they will have brought back a brown that is a close match.
The dark brown? I chose that for my library too, and it sucks that it's not available anymore. At least I grabbed several extra shelves and extension units since I was paying for shipping anyway. That'll give me a little reserve capacity or repairability for the future, but I do really hope they bring it back. It's a great mellow color compared to the white or light wood options, but still warmer and more classic than straight black.
Great work! I have spent decades assembling that type of furniture and it can be a pain in the butt. In fact, one part of my first job at Eckard's drug store was assembling that type of disposable furniture for store displays. Just FYI, if you put a bit of wood glue along the raw, particle-board edges of the joined pieces, the furniture will last 3 to 5 times as long, seriously. Love the show, and hope to meet you one day. Maybe you could make a trip down to Austin TX at some point...
I find it very comforting to know I've always build Ikea stuff the Savage way!
My brain so gets yours in every way Adam! 😊. Loving all your videos.. I'm going through them all now I've found you. Its like i've a creative buddy in the room whilst I create various items too. Great storage ideas too.. Thank you! ❤❤
Adam is the only person on Earth I'd watch build Ikea furniture.
I'm about to assemble a couple of Billys (Billies?) tomorrow, this is giving me some helpful insight into the build. thank you, Adam.
On tedium, or really any unpleasant task, I'm fond of the quote from Mark Twain.....
"If you have to eat a toad, don't stare at it for too long first.
If you have to eat two toads, eat the big one first. "
,-)
Ikea should hire you or at least recommend this video as a way to help people who need a system so they can put together multiple Billys and not to get frustrated.
Building IKEA furniture is one of my favorite things to do. I've even considered getting a job assembling it for other people because I enjoy doing it so much!!
Hi Adam you cool 👍🔥🔥❤️🔥:-).Cool studio! Give me a heart under the comment) it will be nice!
We use those exact bookshelves several places in our house. Can't recommend those cheap shelves enough. They hold up quite well and are easy modified for different use cases. And they look way better than you expect for the cost. One suggestion: ditch the nails and use a power/air stapler/nailgun to attach the backs.
And now I’m going to spend the whole time wondering about the things he can’t show me.
Did I just watch Adam assemble Ikea Billy bookshelves for a half hour. Yes. Yes I did.
I will say this for Ikea, they rarely never revisit legacy designs and figure out ways to improve them. I've assembled a fair number of Billys over the decades, but none recently, and the parts your showed when organizing them showed definite improvements.
I have Billy Bookcases in my own home, and I love them. They've lasted me nearly 8 years now and have survived 4 moves. I feel lucky too as I got mine when they still offered them in colors so mine are red, but they are the smaller sized Billy which is about half as wide as these I believe. Since I have the older ones, they also do not have the small notches in the back of the base for floor trim, so the tops of them lean slightly back towards the wall.
Awesome.This has to be one of my favourite channels on youtube.Adam is a absolute genius and always has the most interesting and entertaining content on his channel.Always love watching him tackle new projects and he makes it all look so easy.Keep it up tested.
5 Ikea bookcases in 2 hours? That's got to be a record! So cool that they fit perfectly.
Built a couple of these 2 weeks ago, and that was already quite a bit of work. Well done putting 5 together that fast! That assembly line approach clearly bears its fruits. 💪
to prevent little screws and things from rolling off a table when sorting in that way, I bought a dice tray. it has snaps on it to put up the 'walls'. nice multi purpose device. works for sorting like this, dice, and even as a makeshift mouse pad. kinda a multi-purpose device.
Billy the bookcase says hello
And so does a table whose name is Ingo
And the chair is a ladder-back birch, but his friends call him Karl
I too just built a bunch of Ikea Billies for my office refresh.
"The tedious stuff takes less time than you think" is such a big part of how I manage to get big projects done. That and, "it has to get done so you might as well do it now."
"This Old House" has a great video on using these diy shelving units to make a bookcase that looks built in, very nice finished appearance using trim pieces.
This video show me how I've inadvertently been doing things a lot like Adam does and that makes me kinda happy in a weird way
It is so pleasing to see that i am not the only person in this universe that sorts EVERYTHING.. I´m restoring an old BMW E30 and i´m sorting and packing and labeling every little screw and bit and bob i take of the car. To me this almost as satisfying as the first turn of the key when the cat is finished.
21:01 We'll I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want.
IF YOU WANNA BE MY LOVER something something .. friends.
Love you Adam, you are one my spirit animals. Sixth ghostwriter Spice Girl? :)
All the love, all the best
I managed to move a huge Pax wardrobe (2 x double + two single ones on the sides, sliding doors and all that jazz) between houses and they've survived exceptionally well. They are probably sturdier now when I assembled them (with great care and attention to details) instead of the first time when we paid (probably underpaid) workers to do it for us as we couldn't find the time...
Watching a random man assemble an Ikea furniture: No thank you
Watching Adam Savage assemble an Ikea furniture: dimming the lights, taking a soft pillow and watching him assemble 5 bookcases.
I’ve got exactly the same set of Billy bookshelves in my study at home, BUT the big difference is that I live in a building built in 1860 and none of the floor, or walls are flat nor are they at right angles! Which means we had to hang the cases from the wall with packing shims. It was a whole day project 🤣
I like how Adam points out that for every job that's to be done there is am element of fun. When you find the fun, then SNAP! the job's a game. Soon, every task you undertake becomes a piece of cake. #MaryPoppins
11.35 in I can not take the sound of and the earthquake... when you are moving the camera... migraine in the membrane... it's soundglitter...
It's funny...as I get closer to bed time, I'm more likely to watch these videos at 1.5x speed. This video approached "Gilmore GIrls" speed of delivery, which for my Northeast US self, is pretty normal. But I was watching the hat book video last night, and when Adam runs down the hall to get his Seville hat, at 1.5x, it was like watching a gleeful toddler off to get his favorite toy.
Thank you for such interesting content, never lose your sense of wonder over the otherwise banal.
So *this* is the content that can be expected of the Tested brand these days? IKEA furniture building? What's next, toy unboxing?
I'm sure parasocial simpletons would clap like seals for this sort of content, but they'd also frame Adam's used tissues.
What happened to all the contributors that were part of the team?
I started working for IKEA a little over a year ago, first in the "Recovery" department where we build a lot of furniture for the store and for sale in As-is. I grew up in a production environment (my father had a pretty large printing company), so i knew all about proper assembly line approaches and the importance of doing the same motion only once.
Anyway, everyone at IKEA made fun of me when i grabbed a simple muffin baking tin to sort all my parts. I couldn't get anyone to understand why it was an important concept, even when only assembling one piece of furniture. It's so frustrating.
If only now i could get any of these short attention span people at work to watch this video!
Fun fact: Ikea uses Pozidriv, not Phillips! They look similar but PZ is more angular and resists camouts better. Using these bits instead of Phillips makes things way easier.
Funny thing, Norwegian and swedish is very simular. and the word "Billig" the name of the shelves, literally translated; Means "Cheep" so now you knwo :P
Adam, as was my life building libraries/studies for myself & others, you can use a hand truck, cock your head to the side. Easier on "vintage" bodies!
I need to approach IKEA furniture assembly in the same manner as Adam. All these years I've been torturing myself 😂🤣😂🤣
While you’re at it, any chance you could give Norm better camera lighting? He currently looks like he’s being lit by the Pixar logo table lamp.
something cathartic about building my own IKEA Furniture while watching this
Spacesuit as cable tidy, well that was unexpected?
As to Billy, couldn't agree more. Nice work. Always 'Oak' for me though.
The design has evolved subtly over the years, which is great until you need to dismantle and reassemble different generations. And some of mine are on their sixth (and final?) relocation. Just be careful dismantling and moving. Careful Adam.
I have white shelves from different generations - the color has slightly shifted from an off-white to a brighter tone (it’s not just yellowed).
Birch for me. I have 7 Billy in different widths and heights (one width is for sure discontinued), as well as matching Expedit desk & shelf, and some old CD shelves that are probably discontinued.
TH-cam: hey watch one of your favorite TV show hosts from the 2000s build ikea furniture. Me: ok
Billy glass shelves (and drilling extra holes) enabled me to have 5 rows of Blu-rays in one half of the cabinet. Could only have 4 with wooden. And glass was cheaper too.
Everytime Adam moves the camera I understand how Bart felt whilst being strangled by Homer
How about WD40 for that camera mount! Jesus! Do you listen to the audio before posting!
what camera does Adam use?
its usually fine but in this lower light? it looks bad
Another tip on assembling Billy's, before you slide the backs on, mark the center shelf on the sides and then just use a straight edge to give yourself a nailing center line since that one becomes blind once the back is in
typical fail -- measuring the space and forgetting that the baseboards might not be parallel (or forgetting to consider them at all).
shows as 1080p but looks like 480p, is it a YT ploy to try to make us pay to get 1080p premium or is it just bad?
Bullet 8: Always be knolling.
I actually really liked the old look of the Tested office wall a lot but yeah, seeing as the studio was used maybe once a year at most it makes sense transforming it to something perhaps a bit more useful.
They’re not Phillips head screws, they’re Pozidrive.
Man I wish there was like a museum tour of Adam's stuff.
Dang he needs a silent camera stand. All that clicking is annoying
And the bouncing...
All the time's that baseboard has been painted without stripping the old paint off :)
I can't be the only one that gets a heart attack every time I see Adam just tipping things out, shoving things around and knocking them over, knowing how close he's coming to just losing tiny screws and other bits in the kit.
I would have preferred 5 of those magnetic part dishes. Cheap but keep parts from rolling under things !
I use one for sewing as well. I always know my needle & pins are ! If you have pets, it is a sensible precaution. (I worked as a Vet. Tech. years ago & watching a cat get surgery to remove needle & thread stays with you. The cat was lucky & survived. Thread will cut intestines, needles will also do damage! )
Jokes on you i've moved 8 times with my kallax 4x4 shelf
Sorry, but that Stanley has long been overtaken by Wera in the grip department.
Please, Adam, build a silent camera arm instead of that monster sounding one 🙂
I started the aluminum foil ball challenge today Adam!
Laying out is something I learned from this channel and it’s the best thing ever, I do it with basically everything I do. Get everything prepped and on place so when I come to Doing The Thing it’s SO EFFICIENT.
The internet said "we'd watch Adam build IKEA furniture!" and Tested answered with this video. 😂🤣😂🤣
"And I forgot to press 'record'", lol classic Adam
Staple gun those backs on. Much faster!
Ah, Adam introducing the world to the joys of the Billy bookcase!
I've got one of those right next to my workspace, holding a lot of huge books, binders, and tchotchkes!
Adam! I love you and your videos so much, but the squeaking from that gooseneck the camera is attached to is absolutely killing me! Lol can you design a new one that is smooth and quiet?
PLEASE ADAM, PLEASE!
Only Adam could turn a mundane task building shelves into a pleasure and masterclass in production-line thinking ❤
I usually use a little bit of wood glue when installing an ikea furniture to make them stronger :D
Bring the second half!
Only adam savage can have my eyes glued to screen watching 5 identical book shelves being built
Good choice. When I was planning my study in 2009, Billy bookcases were the only ones that made sense for me. They've been wonderful.
I’m working on installing my Billy bookcase wall as we speak….watch… 😄
Filmed on a webcam from 2008
So fun to watch Adam work on large simple things and make it seem like small difficult things are easier. : )
It's always good to have a Billy around! 😉