Adam Savage Inspects a Prototype Machined Brass Pen!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ส.ค. 2024
- Adam unboxes a set of new writing tools from the designers at Makers Cabinet. First off is a their Ferrule pencil holder that grips a standard wooden pencil using a machining collet. Adam also checks out a prototype of their new Lazlo ballpoint pen (named after the inventor of the ballpoint). The springless mechanism deploying the pen is so satisfying!
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I'm a huge fan of metal writing instruments, especially steel and brass fountain pens. This looks like it would be a really nice companion piece. Thanks for sharing!
Metal fountain pens are 🔥🔥, love them. Have you ever had to remove the lacquer finish from one? I’ve got a brass Delike pocket pen, and I really want to see that patina of everyday use/abuse, but it’s coated.
Now if only someone would invent a solid metal demonstrator! 😂
I've got a metal fountain pen. It's got a glass tube with a plastic syringe for the ink sucker, but otherwise is entirely metal, but painted black. It's got a bent nib because it was intended for calligraphy, but I use it for everything.
As a photographer, the Iris spoke to me. I didn’t realize it was a circle-drawing tool until I checked their website. !
It's also perfect for measuring varying widths of pipping, which is otherwise quite difficult
*you see iris's like that in steampunk/noir(ish) influenced movies such as the french film City of Lost Children and i saw it in the 1994 alec baldwin film the shadow*
“I don’t have a pencil sharpener so lemme go use the belt sander” is quite possibly the most quintessential Adam Savage sentence ever
The belt sander is a great pencil sharpener. I use it all the time in my garage. Sooo fast, and the tips get super sharp.
*could have used a cordless Dremel tool...what would have worked as well*
😄 right
and then uses the disc sander instead.... belt sanders dont have much in the name of momentum to still hear the sanding after he killed the power.
I use the pen blade on my pocket knife.
If I'm not using a pen I use a carpenters pencil anyways, but while I have a sharpener for them it does not give them the flat chisel point that I prefer.
The modern ballpoint pen was invented by László Bíró, a Hungarian-Argentine inventor, patented in Paris in 1938. That might be where the name 'LAZLO' comes from.
And the French word for pen: biro
Correct!
@@B-M.B Isn't Crayon the french word for pencil..
And here I was thinking it was from the character in Real Genius. Although given his story in the film could be where his namesake originated.
@@B-M.B I think that "biro" (and "stylo") is the French word for "pen" not pencil, which is "crayon" (as another commenter noted)
Going to sharpen the pencil and hearing the sander boot up is the best thing ever lmao
Haha! We also make a pencil sharpener but it's not quite as efficient as Adam's disk sander...
My dad showed me how to sharpen a pencil with a pocket knife when I was but a lad. I do this for my college students every now and then when their pencil breaks during an exam, and they're invariably astounded that there's a way to sharpen a pencil without a dedicated sharpener.
@@makerscabinet Didn't you guys send him a miniature block plane/pencil sharpener a while back? I think I remember seeing that on one of his videos...
I love brass, it's such a perfect material for making tools and fasteners. It's corrosion resistant, durable, malleable, firm but not brittle, it takes a nice polish but it still looks amazing with wear, and it has a pretty gold-like color.
Plus, there is no metal that looks better with walnut, mahogany oak or a bunch of other hardwoods.
Totally agreed.
It's also antimicrobial! Which isn't always quite as useful as its other properties, but certainly comes in handy in places.
@@forgotn42 Oh yeah, I forgot about that. But definitely, if you see doorknobs, handrails, etc. made of brass then they are more likely to not be contaminated (but don't be silly with it, no licking).
@@PikkaBird i actually prefer copper with any darkly colored wood while brass is marginally better with bright ones
The pencil holder reminds me so much of the old blackboard chalk holders my teachers would use in class.
A knurled texture where you grip the pen to write would be good.
Man that is such a satisfying click the Laszlo makes.
*very tactile...a higher class of fidget toy for the exceptionally geeky maker/designer/artist*
Adam, invite us for a drink at Lazlo sometime? When you're next in London, come visit our workshop and then pints at The Victory - our local pub in Bethnal Green: sticky shag carpets, a dodgy pool table, a jukebox with a very random mix... but always well-poured Guinness 🍻
Adam, in the wood lathe hobby community, pen and pencil making (using kits, but making the shell) is a common sub-branch of the hobby. If you're not already aware of it, look up "pen kit" in any of the woodworking online companies. People use wood usually, but acrylic, bone, and metal are also used.
Are you doing okay? That's the cleanest I've seen your hands. And no bandage in sight.
I always wonder how Adam cleans his hands, what he uses to get under those nails.
Anytime I hear "Lazlo" I immediately think of Real Genius. He could throw those sweepstakes clear over those mountains, man.
Great.. now with the tattoo available I expect there will be dozens of Adam cosplays at Comic-con.
Adam... once again... Wow! You find / get the nicest things... Just impressive workmanship in what we take for granted, the humble pencil... so satisfying and nice!
I've loved pens since I was a kid, I have a quite large collection of them from fountain pens to glass pens, to feather and normal ballpoints, I love the Fisher space pens, any writing tool I am into! This is very nice, I love brass, one of my favourite fountain pens is a Kaweco Brass Sport!
Hooooh boy I gotta get one of those when its in full production. Pens are something unmatched when made correctly.
A disk sander to sharpen pencils... Things that make perfect sense, that I never would have thought about.
This would have been the perfect time to use the Hovel pencil plane that you got with the Iris!
Crazy how he has everything but a simple pencil sharpener. That’s great
Why use a pencil sharpener when you have A LITERAL MOTORIZED SANDER at your disposal?
Adam…the king of over engineering! And I love it!
*if a things worth doing it's worth overdoing*
using your industrial disk sander to sharpen pencils is like hunting mice with a minigun.
"I don't have a pencil sharpener here." Uses a disc sander. Dude! LOL!
I don't have a pencil sharpener, so I'm gonna use the belt sander. 😂😂🤣🤣
Love your brain, brother. . .
That is some real tight tolerance there. Beautiful work.
No! Don’t encourage dangerous madness!
Before this video, i spent hours trying to find a mechanical pencil without plastic. Best I could do was a half/half
Rotring 600/800? Pentel Graphgear 1000? Lots of drafting pencils are majority or full metal.
Check out Modern Fuel. Beautifully machined pens and mechanical pencils with a similar aesthetic to the piece on this video.
I was sold at 3:00 in when you said it will extend the life of my pencils. I usually throw them away when they are a third way used since they are too short for a cup holder. Didn't know I needed this until now. Unfortunately, the price is outside my budget.
Find a bit of hollow bamboo the right size, bind it a couple of inches from one end and split the short end to the binding. wrap an elastic band round the end, then you can push your short stub into the end and it will give you a new "handle"!
My dad was a draughtsman.
👍
You can find aluminum and plastic versions really, really cheap at most tool stores. They come in square and round pencil sizes. The replaceable eraser is a nice addition on this one though. Most either lack them or have a fixed eraser built on (most guys just carried one extra pencil extender with an eraser tube put in instead of a pencil).
They should make an exacto knife!
If you want a well designed exacto knife, use proper scalpels! That shape is called "figure 11" and you can buy them as "single use" plastic handles or proper stainless steel handles that have exchangeable blades. The blades sold as scalpel are usually of a much higher quality than the exacto blades, while being cheaper too.
While you are at it: I would recommend to also get a box of mixed "single use" scalpels with different blade shapes (figures 10, 12, 15, 21-24) - you will be surprised how much the shape of the blade influences what you can do with it! E.g. while a figure 11 (a'ka exacto) is great for cutting into something, a figure 10 or 21 allows you to scrape paint from a surface without scratching it.
I'd love to hear Adam talk about his Bullet vice, why everyone seems to try and get those old Wilton vices. Just like his thoughts on it, what makes them good as opposed to just a modern vice from the store.
Would be so cool if they made an architect's pencil.
I have never ordered anything so fast as I did just now - I am a pencil person. I love all my mechanical pencils and still have the ones I used when I took my bar exam back in the early '90s. In fact, I still have the cheap orange mechanicals that Adam uses which I bought in college in the 80s - the erasers have been replaced many times. My everyday desk pencil is a beautiful enameled Waterman, but it's heavy and I don't write enough longhand to become accustomed to the weight and the width. The Ferrule looks like the perfect compromise. I've also had my eye on the Iris and the Hovel sharpener for a while and finally decided to splurge.
Lazlo is way to fancy to convert into a scribe for the shop, but it would be cool if their pencil had a scribe insert, or even a Silverpoint insert. I’m assuming that it will hold a welder’s pencil just fine.
I want a sticker that says "pencil sharpener" with a disk sander on it now!
Small update, the Schmidt cartridge that was in my pen, had a slightly bent tip that was interfering, new cartridge fixed the problem pen is working perfectly.
However, the mechanism is very temperamental. It has a satisfying click to extend the pen, but it requires quite a bit of force to rotate (too much if I’m being honest) to extend, but once extended it’s very loose and retracting takes almost no force and happens with little warning.
Extending takes 3/4 of a turn and quite a bit of force. Retracting takes a quarter turn and almost no force, so it is extremely easy to simply have it snap out and immediately back in when trying to extend it (you can actually see this happened a couple of times in this video)
My new favorite writing instraments is a set of metal, 2mm lead holders
Laszlo, after Laszlo Biro, the inventor of the ball point pen. (and why pens in British English, are called Biros).
Lazlo Biro invented a mass produce-able version of the ball-point pen. He is the reason why most Brits call a pen a "biro"
Surprised the pen prototype isn't slightly knurled for better grip
Thanks Mr. Savage. your passion is wonderful!
It’d be really cool if Maker’s Cabinet joined forces with CrushMetric and did an upscale version of Noah Deledda’s pen.
Tactile Turn makes some great machined pens and pencils too!!
Talk to InkBox, they do temp tattoos that develop on the skin and are pretty robust. In theory they do custom ones, so I could just make my own ruler, but it would be cool to see a colab.
Belt sander as a pencil sharpener. I wonder if Adam uses a flamethrower at a bar-b-que? Always use a tool that will definitely get the job done :P
Wow, reminded me I bought a brass pen on KickStarter many years ago and never received it.
Gotta love the serendipity of Adam making an Owen Wilson "Wow, Loki" joke about a pen that turned out to be made by Odin.
They make some nice stuff. I actually have one of the Iris myself. I would really love a nice 2mm lead holder and pointer made of solid metal. Most are plastic with just a bit of metal. I like the heavier weight when sketching. It’s like it helps smooth out some of my shakiness with its weight.
Vintage metal mechanical pencils are a thing of beauty. Can still find modern examples.
Kaweco makes an all metal lead holder (AL Special line). Also their Sketch line. Rotring 600 I think has a lead holder version. Lamy Scribble.
Wish I could see you sharpening the pencil on the belt sander, would have been very satisfying.
That pen looks nice as frick! I have a few machines pens from an American hot rod company and I can’t get enough of how they feel to write with. So much nicer than cheap pens
*you might appreciate a good quality fountain pen as well...goulet pens has a good selection of high quality pens...you can find inexpensive pens there such as the Jinhao X450 which is awesome (yeah, i have one so kinda biased on that one) but if you have the means you can spend a LOT more on many that are listed there...another thing that's cool about this place is that they carry over 800 different ink shades some simple but others more classy that include shimmer or sheen qualities...hope this helps or has been interesting to read*
Yep, I do own a couple of nice fountain pens too. Though for EDC they are not so optimal, had one leak a bit so sticking with ballpoint for that. But I do enjoy writing with them, if the paper is right. Few brands I got are Platinum, TWSBI and Parker. Have some cheapo one too that I forgot the brand of but think it's like Platinums low end brand.
@@ficklampa *i've actually found some good pens on wish which suit my design/sketching needs/requirements at the moment...i know they make disposable fountain pens such as the pilot varsity so if you lost one not much of a loss...i enjoy the tactile nature of fountain pens the most and their expressive qualities as well*
@@scottmantooth8785 Alright, yeah there's some nice ones. I used to have a pilot resevoir pen, was made from plastic and was not refillable. Was one of my favorites. Not sure what model it was and if it's still available. But I do like my refillable ones too. Too bad they are prone to leackage... hehe.. I usually wear a polo shirt, the ones from 5.11, since they have pen pockets on the left arm sleeve. So I guess they get swung around too much
@@ficklampa *kinda addictive once you start messing about with a really nice quality fountain pen...especially one that works left handed...also nice that mentally (at least for me) they put you in a more focused space while writing...my handwriting is still not the best but not as bland and generic as it would be using a standard ball point*
Adam Savage, Wielder of the Odinpen
I have some excellent pencil extenders from Derwent that cost about £1 each, and I still want the ferrule.
The pen really reminds me of the kaweco brass range - you can get it raw so it develops a patina with age and use
*that's what i'd want...the patina and wear patterns that developed over time would be unique to my left hand sketching techniques*
László Bíró ; Ladislas Jozsef Biro Ladislao José Biro · Hungarian Argentine · Inventor of the first commercially successful ballpoint pen
Now you have a use for all the small pencils from past rounds of golf.
Right now my favorite pens are from tactileturn. They’re also made in the U.S!
For those wondering what the QR code is that you can see a couple times in the video, it was for the Kickstarter for the Lazlo. Since the campaign is over, the URL redirects to the Kickstarter homepage.
I love me some brass. I'm in as soon as they are available.
I assume the pen is called Lazlo in honour of Lazlo Biro who invented the modern pen and rescued us from feathers and inkpots but almost robbed us of the art of calligraphy
My handwriting turned to sh.t once Biro replaced fountain pens. I am left handed.
*objects like this would and are most likely become heirloom pieces...and a good example as to why i'm constantly broke...as it happens to me a lot whilst obtaining art supplies and on going related fabrication concepts*
I love that iris they made you. Ever since Aliens and Stargate SG-1, I've found those to be so cool.
Right? They're art.
They really did it. Makers Cabinet steered into the 'thing, Japan' meme.
But Mr. Savage, you failed to mention the real raison d'etre of the ferrule: it's to allow users to use their pencils down to the nub and still have proper control of it.
did you know that the stand for the iras also acts as a center finder I saw you do the unboxing video and noticed that you didn't mention it
Greasy blue ball point pens are so nice to draw with.
I have been using the same crappy pencil extender for like 17 years now. I found it on the floor at animation school. It needs a piece of paper to be jammed in with the pencil for it to grip. I really shouldn't spend a hundred bucks on a new one but ooooooooowouldn'titbe nice? But dang, how do Blackwings fit in one of those?
i hit pause because im in the middle of making coffee
i just wanted to chime in on brass and hand utensils, when i was in high school my dad took us to monterey calif and we went into a brass shop and bought a whole set of brass silverware. we opened a few settings worth and uhm well the smell that would happen because of the interaction of skin and brass, we just couldn't get over the smell
I cannot help but sigh lightly and say “Laaaaazzz-looooo…”
Adam - you need to look up their pencil sharpener - Hovel. It's amazing. I have one & their lovely pencil too.
Their pieces are beautifully made & heavy. I'm sure the pencil could be used as a tactical weapon 😂😂😂
Brass pencil, brass pen, now you can get down to brass tacks!
I knew a teacher had one when I was in elementary school in silver that was 30 years ago
Like the pencil holder and does it have a scribe and soapstone option
If we ever wanted to send something for the whole Tested Crew, how many wonderful human beings would that be?
The "About" page on their site currently lists 13 members on the team.
Wow.. nice machine work 🤘🏼🇺🇲
Thank you Robb! Come by our workshop in London if you're ever here
@@makerscabinet thank you so much, I'll take you up on that!
"This is not a quid pro quo" . "Thanks for sending me free stuff"
Wow, Loki!
What is it with engineers and cedar pencils? My grandfather was an aeronautical engineer until he retired in the early 90's and other than his drafting pencils, which were mechanical, he used cedar pencils almost exclusively. Is there a benefit to them over a standard #2?
Have you heard of tactile turn?
Maybe not, Adam is not a fancy pen guy. He would probably like the company though.
When Adam said "Laslo. Interesting name I love it." I thought he was going to say how the inventor of the ballpoint pen was named László Bíró, and now he got a pen from Laslo. But no, it's just the café around the corner.
László Bíró was 100% the inspiration behind the name!
You should do a video on your watches.
So cool!
looks like you need to do a fancy "over engineered" pencil sharpener now
Would have been cool to have had a pencil sharpener under the eraser
Didn't these people make a miniature hand plane pencil sharpener? I swear I've seen Adam with a bronze mini hand plane before.
What kind of refilled is the pen take?
It takes any Eurostyle insert but comes with a Schmidt Megaline 4889M
@@makerscabinet would it fit a Montblanc Refill?
I would love to meet this guy
Very pretty.
I have just one thing to say about the Lazlo: BAT!
Thanks.
Adam, have a request. I am a maker and want to increase the size of my industrial sewing machine hand wheel for slower sewing. I am using a larger standard equipment pulley now, but want a machined bolt on adaptor to the original hand wheel. I have looked around and nothing available. I don't have a mill nor 3D printer. I thought maybe this would make a great one day build video. Cheers, Anthony.
Metal writing tools testing good sir.
3:43 *sanding noises*
that iris seems very stargate iris like :)
it just occurred to me that if adam did not go down his career that he did i could totaly see him in a bad that toured for years.he would be a gitarist. thats my random thought
I don't have a pencil sharpener... excuse me while I use the belt sander. ROFL Such an Adam statement...
Hey Adam - Have you ever seen any of the tools by MetMo?
Lucky !!!!!
What style of refills can lazlo take?
Euro
Should have used their elegant pencil sharpener.
Love their stuff, but it's hard to justify the cost 🤣
Awesome but there's absolutely no way I would pay for that. $96 before tax and shipping is insane.
There's a market for it so I'm sure they'll do well.
I believe a ballpoint pen was used to write Anne Franks Diary
@@freighter1097 you mean Meyer Levin right? The guy the New York Supreme Court ordered Otto Frank to pay $50,000 for writing the diary.
But can it write upside down?