Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Foamcore House!

Today's One Day Build is a homecoming for Adam, in a few ways. Using only one type of material and one cutting tool, Adam builds an architectural scale model of the house he grew up in. It's a walk down memory lane, and a return to modelmaking basics!
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[@ericcuascut2475]

I would love to see u teach us how to make a small battery fog machine. Very useful for some cosplays

[@numberjackfiutro7412]

That's a great use for a time machine, to go back in time and buy a large house at a bargain price!

[@user-mb7kk9uf1t]

@@ericcuascut2475 ㄷㅊㅌ ㄷㅊㅌ

[@druxle]

Would love to see it painted and furnished, maybe with a little Adam at his work bench making a little model like this. 🤔🙂

[@Kittieslovetacos]

@@ericcuascut2475 dry ice in a thermos maybe?

[@nedg-m4205]

Me - Oh sweet the house is almost complete! Adam - Yeah so that's the basement done.

[@aquaforgegames6207]

I was thinking the exact same thing !

[@benw4185]

Dead lmao

[@xpert39]

haha good point! :D

[@bassemb]

I thought the same!

[@drachenflame8608]

Ned G-M he had a freaking mansion for a house as a kid

[@TalonSei]

YO RICH KID CHECK OUT YOUR BIG HOME!

[@TheHappyRiderX]

+Talon Seitzinger haha

[@Zach_Films]

Damn, you beat me to it!

[@FearlessLeader2001]

gg

[@evren.builds]

+Talon Seitzinger Watch 12:53 :P

[@TalonSei]

+Evren Uçar I know I was just joking haha

[@joseantonioesteveztejeda4902]

As an architecture student, it is highly pleasing when after so many months taking lots of time to even do a third of what he did, you start to notice how to work faster and better. Your awesome dude.

[@jetekadriu4763]

I would've put magnets on the corners of each floor so the house stays together but it isnt completely shut and is easy to open

[@WILLYLYNCH.]

You wouldn't do shit, that's a fact shit bird.

[@vin3084]

@@WILLYLYNCH. the fuck?

[@jacobdeore8533]

WILLY LYNCH ahahah fuckin idiot, people like you piss me off

[@pontrex1772]

@@WILLYLYNCH. You're a terrible person

[@JenovaDragon]

@@WILLYLYNCH. LMAO!

[@JurassicCollectables]

You know what I love about Adam - his energy. As much as he is a skilled craftsman, this guy is a brilliant and energetic communicator. What a great guy

[@hannesjakobsson765]

So true! Adam is just great

[@user-yk1cw8im4h]

Yep ! I'm better though.

[@WabbitSeeson]

check out Colin furzes channel, it's great

[@fmlproductions7178]

love your vids JurassicCollectables

[@roberttalada5196]

From what I know of him he's in a perpetual state of suspended exhaustion.

[@astropgn]

What I thought it was a big house turned out to be just his basement...

[@emilygerstorff7556]

Marcos Vinícius Petri was searching for someone who felt the same way 😂😂

[@Epooc]

Marcos Vinícius Petri I know right

[@thatclassydude7242]

Marcos Vinícius Petri same

[@lighterfawn4083]

Marcos Vinícius Petri. ikr

[@miles2419]

honestly, aha geez

[@sassysaguaro4906]

I'm an architecture student and I make with this stuff all day everyday. So fun to see a non-architecture channel make a model with it! House looks great!

[@NatJediMASTER]

This reminds me of my mom when we were building a new house. She made some drawings to show what she wanted to the architect. He said he couldn’t do what she wanted so she rolled her eyes and came back with a model she made out of foam core. Turns out he could do exactly what she wanted

[@foodsstuff]

no insulation, no dry wall, no plumbing or electric. its amazing the code inspectors allowed construction to continue.

[@mz7315]

XD OMG that's genius!

[@jeremypascall]

Not even a roof!!

[@BradCozine]

Foam core IS insulation... as for the other stuff, well, why do you think it was so affordable?

[@maddox2329]

Lolololol

[@c.a.k.comedy692]

And at the end he said his house was big... pfft yeah right my house is literally 24 times the size of that thing

[@daxshell242]

me: "wow, thats a big house!!" adam: "and thats the basement!"

[@drewdebrocke2656]

yea lol i was like.. damn adam used to be just like me and then he said... HERE GOES TTHE SECOND FLOOR

[@marksmithwas12]

The 70's sounds like a great era to buy big houses

[@19seventy97]

It was. The 1970s built some of the biggest commercial homes

[@FreakyFirestorm]

People that bought houses then and are trying to sell them now are finding it difficult to sell their homes for 4.5 million dollars. Imagine that.

[@joankney8484]

My folks bought a three story brand new house complete with gold shag carpeting and avocado appliances for TWELVE GRAND in 1970. They upgraded a few things like grass, fencing and a completed basement which brought the price up to 16 thousand dollars. My parents sold it for 25K after VN war ended. Today the house has been sold twice for over a half million dollars.

[@benrichey2593]

Yeah if you wanted a 17% mortgage rate it was awesome.

[@Hebdomad7]

​@@benrichey2593 Considering your average middle class wage could easily afford such a rate I'd take it! The key element is time taken to pay it off. But thanks to widening inequality, and property being used by the wealthy to stash their cash, owning a home is becoming more and more out of reach to many people.

[@alexherrera6525]

adam:*puts blade in soda can* 2 hours later *drinks soda*

[@dennisthonhofer184]

Thanks now i have a image of adam swallowing a whole soda can in my head.

[@myfinalheaven9590]

Right. Because Adam doesn't have the common sense to not drink out an empty can he just put an exacto blade in.

[@MrHendrix17]

@@myfinalheaven9590 you're fun

[@A_Sturdy_Door]

It's a different can

[@briantriplett2455]

im more upset that he throws away perfectly useable blades and probably has for a long ass time, just because it wont cut the soft material youre working with well doesnt mean it doesnt have another application

[@ranwolf76]

Me: Hmm where's did I put my soda? Oh there it is... Adam: NNNNOOOOOOOoooooooo...

[@tristangumm9252]

w

[@kemphoss-4791]

oh wow im going to crush this can with my foot....

[@BrianCofer]

+ranwolf76 You know how I got these scars???

[@ranwolf76]

Brian Cofer I do now... *whimpers in pain*

[@Goretantath]

... 👍 💉

[@AndreCrema97]

I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY "Damn, Adam was LOADED growing up". He fucking read my mind. Nice going, man

[@nutsandgum]

He always does this. I start to think something about the project and bam, answers it for me.

[@joshua.snyder]

I loved this project and completed my own favorite childhood home, foam core model last week! Didn't have the benefit of blueprints, but with old family photos and Google Earth tools, I nailed it. Thanks, Adam!

[@LuDaCo93]

As an architecture student, when I saw his pencil I was like “Hells yeah! Blackwing!”

[@catmann8276]

Ok

[@occipita_ca]

i guess adam grew up without a roof over his head

[@Avanthera13]

+Nick Revine Ba-dum-tiss.

[@jonathan__g]

+Nick Revine I thought the same thing

[@31415936536]

+Nick Revine He did say that they weren't rich. Roofs are expensive and lacking one made the house much more affordable.

[@kruleworld]

+Nick Revine. I'd hope being a modeler at heart, he will one day finish off the house with a roof and cladding.

[@VloggingCountry]

+Nick Revine lol I know this adam had a roof

[@lucyx3008]

My dad has said before that it figures the kid he never talked to in high school was Adam Savage.

[@N1ko0L]

epic fail

[@erichu5828]

Liam Arduino ur dad is savage... u get it?

[@TVfridge23]

Architects would say, "This model is not complete without the roof, ground context and most importantly a figure to show scale."

[@creedofthemachine9903]

absolutely

[@emmaevans888]

exactly

[@feeney4763]

"Choosing the same foamcore thickness for all walls demonstrates a lack of understanding regarding building construction systems" "Where is the North?" "Using the same color and texture all aroundbreduces the general understanding of your design choices" The list goes on forever, - Most Architecture Schools everywhere

[@TJtheBee]

I’d love to see more builds like this! You have a whole chapter for cardboard in your book - so I’d love to see your process.

[@michaelsurridge8328]

imagine a can full of those exact o blades and someone thinking it an empty one and trying to crush it

[@jade4781]

Brutal

[@FancyCaterpillar]

+Michael Surridge or takes a big gulp of it

[@user-yk1cw8im4h]

I am the unimaginable.

[@Leo1239150]

Reminds me of this: watch?v=J6oaq5FNY7s (it's a "magician" trying to crush the cup without a nail in it but fails and has his hand messed up)

[@user-yk1cw8im4h]

dude stop spreading malware links

[@DSMoe]

House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!

[@MniHaD15]

wait...what

[@Riddla26]

+DSMoe You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor!

[@rdouthwaite]

+Riddla26 Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin' in a corridor! Woulda' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph. (P.S. I am an actual Yorkshireman)

[@diebeforeikneel]

+rdouthwaite LUXURY

[@28Pluto]

+Nihad go watch 'Deadpool'

[@rvkit2873]

were going to be using 1 tool: the exactoknife.. *pulls out table saw*

[@kylesylvester5635]

Doing this at 1:24 scale is honestly insane from an architecture student standpoint typically make a model like this 4 to 8 times smaller

[@tahsinzaman2193]

Dang he says 1:24 scale plan right at 1:24

[@smac919]

@@tahsinzaman2193Adams such a little stinker lol

[@jawsykilla]

Adam's childhood basement is bigger than my entire house.

[@noxabellus]

yuppp

[@702fk]

+JordyNorm I dream about being able to live someplace as big as his basement.

[@DamianReloaded]

It's not the size but how you use it ^_^

[@noxabellus]

placid renegade I've been waiting for this comment. Nicely done.

[@jackduffy8286]

I wasn't wondering why it was so big, I was wondering why the fuck did it look so weird

[@MouthyKnight]

jack duffy I was wondering the same thing, then I realized that it is probably because he didn't build the landscape around the house, and the first floor is a basement, so that probably attributes to the weird shape.

[@emilyc8958]

what looks weird about it?

[@mattlisettekubacki1740]

jack duffy it looks odd because those are interior walls. there is no exterior skeleton that makes the house look comolete

[@zerosurvs6949]

That's what she said.

[@YOGGaming]

same reason, the 70's

[@ryannegraff2863]

Hey Adam, thank you for this and thank you for taking the time to clear the air about the house size. I think it serves to make you more relatable :)

[@glenngriffon8032]

That size a house was gotten on a middle class one-year's salary in the 70's?! How freaking far we've fallen...

[@mossadon]

It's a big pit and we're still falling.. . ... .. . .. . . .. . .

[@TheWaggishAmerican]

Boomers are on the way out and when they go housing is going to collapse. Great to buy, gonna suck if you already own.

[@Rpodnee]

This inspired me to make a model of my own childhood home! I'm working on a 1:1 scale of the cardboard box I grew up in.

[@karenvillarosa9261]

hahaha,,, so how do you plan on keeping the 1:1 home?

[@iNekizalb]

Karen, he's doing a 1:1 of a cardboard box.

[@Banoffeenyx]

Lmfao

[@krazy4940]

Rpodnee I myself am working on the trash can I live in. It’s going great!

[@melvinsandberg70]

★MineOrbit★ You still can’t keep a cardboard box inside a cardboard box

[@Problimatic]

One dry scorchingly hot day, Adam Savage was on his way to work sees a young man who looks to be dishevelled and disorientated, Adam pulls up to this strange man and asks if he needs help, the man replies "Please sir, I have been lost in the desert for 2 and a half days, I'm hungry and very thirsty", unfortunately Adam has no food or water in his Prius. Adam being a great man takes this clearly distressed person to his workplace, on arrival Adam seats the mysterious guy in his workshop whilst he goes to get food and water. In Adams absence, the man sees a soda can sitting on a work bench, in his desperation to feel a liquid of any kind trickle across his lips, he lunges at the can of soda picks it up without thinking and presses the cold aluminium to his dry cracked lips, tips his head back and swallows what very little soda remained, suddenly...he realizes...he just swallowed 29 very sharp but not that sharp xacto blades; shredding his insides within moments, a splutter is heard and then a thud. Adam returns gleefully with a hop in his step thinking he has just saved somebodies life, but oh boy, was he wrong.

[@gnarlyvision852]

This needs to be a movie.

[@firefly618]

I had the same thought. Storing those blades in a soda can will prove fatal one day or another. You don't even need a desperate man, just your regular moronic teenager.

[@firefly618]

***** You are grossly underestimating what a regular moronic teenager is capable of.

[@moonman57]

besides, having one of those blades in your mouth is enough to cut you up REAL bad. it wouldn't be fatal, but it'd be very painful and very uncomfortable. in fact, trying to "spit it out" (which is what a regular person would reasonably do in that situation) would probably just put you at greater risk.

[@Ms.strange]

Great storytelling skills 😮😄👏

[@billyjennings1523]

I was totally going to comment on your HUGE childhood home, but I'll save it because of your very reasonable explanation. Thank you for the excellent video Adam.

[@briesingr2258]

I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!!! I just find this video to be extremely amazing. Thank you.

[@LTPineapples]

Just seeing Adam again is about to make me cry Mythbusters was my childhood :)

[@SuperDashRendar]

+TMP Productions™ Mythbusters only lasted 2 seasons.Then they got the "others" and the show was never the same or very scientific again.

[@thetraitor3852]

+SuperDashRendar doesn't matter. i hope it will be replaced by something normal and not by pawn stars or ancient aliens

+SuperDashRendar Also, Dash Rendar was never and will never be canon.

[@genin69]

Thats a huge house you lived in! oh wait thats just the basement and first floor.. oh wait.. two more floors coming.. and only a years salary! what happened to our lives

[@MTGeomancer]

He doesn't say what that salary was... Homes were indeed more affordable in that time, but one that size wasn't to many.

[@connorrobertson7257]

Where I live, the cost of housing has risen so much in the past 30 years, and the neighbourhoods have too. So my uncle bought a house in a kinda undesirable part of the city in 1970 for like $50 k. Now, the neighbourhood is a very affluent one and his house is worth about $2.4 million. This guy is so awesome that he refuses to sell his house to leave it for his kids.

[@KuraIthys]

Well, different country, but where I am house prices have become 10-15x more expensive in 20 years. About a 10% (sometimes more) increase per year. When you consider that wages often don't even keep up with inflation, that is one SERIOUS price increase. For the US in particular I've seen stats that show that inflation-adjusted wages have actually been going down since the 1970's... In other words, while your bank balance might be larger, your income in real terms (the stuff you can buy) has actually gone down, not up. Prior to the 70's it was definitely increasing consistently, but after that point it's basically been stagnant/decreasing. Depressing huh.

[@forgivemenot1]

ZodiacProd, What happened was people bought into trickle down economics and income not keeping place with inflation and basically corrupt politicians not fixing the problem.

[@sciencinessfeeling6366]

Adam, you have brought so much fun and entertaining reality and science to so many of us...it is fun to watch you enjoying the fruits of your labor in a shop of your own, exploring the things that made you the artist that you are. Thank you. Sorry if I got a bit too wrapped up in sounding profound.

[@KarlEBrand]

Wow! This is INCREDIBLE! I’m going to practice a bit w cardboard before I do the foam core, but we’ve recently retired and I’ll try this for a plan for a stone cabin I hope to build one day! (If not-I can dream about it!) Thanks!!

[@Bleats_Sinodai]

If you want to control a standard hot glue gun, you can use a ceiling fan dimmer circuit. Also works for soldering irons!

[@EdgedPixie]

This ^

[@TheDrewker]

Nice! I have a lamp dimmer that I'm not using, I'm gonna try that. Another thing I did was plug my gun into a socket with a remote, like the kind that people hook up xmas lights to. Works great for turning it off and on without reaching for the plug.... a remote with a dimmer would be amazing

[@dsww496]

What's the best glue for using poster foam board strips as a border against each other. I'm making 5ft mosiac letters to put balloons inside. People use hot glue but the Hot glue isn't working for me.

[@soulofalbedo]

Ahh, a one day build... the only reason I sub to this channel :)

[@EthanfromEngland-]

+Max Klein not my only reason but a HUGE part of me subscribing xD

[@ricky-leedobbie2128]

“As long as I’ve got the band Saw here you won’t mind if I use it”...... Adam.... You’ve got EVERYTHING there 😂😂

[@mossadon]

"Everything?.." "EEEEEEEVVERRRRYYYYYYYYYYTHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIINNG !!!!!!" (Gary Oldman. "Everyone" Leon.)

[@joesmith39472]

Adam is probably the most dedicated person I've ever seen, his hands are so steady, he's willing to put hours and hours of work into his projects and is so knowledgeable.

[@WadWizard]

You can tell he wasnt rich because his house didnt have a roof.

[@afrahendriks29]

LOL

[@JasonJBrunet]

They couldn't afford paint or furniture either. So sad.

[@micsss_]

And his house was just made out of foamcore hahhaha

[@CraftedKingdom]

Wadwizard ZOL not even windows or doors.

[@cypresswillow2591]

I know all these strungles...after Ken divorce me I live like a pauper...- Barbie

[@gpalmerify]

My dad and I built a client's custom home (dad was an architectural designer) with this method. Dad used magic markers and glued cut out exteriors and interior walls for colors as well. Thanks for posting this Adam.

[@TheDrewker]

If I tried to do this I would just start cutting and slapping it together from memory and end up with some janky, uncomfortably symbolic mess.

[@opsimathics]

yo check out rich kid over here

[@CaniHaveTheRedPill]

+opsimathics lmfao

[@gaz2188]

+opsimathics 13:10

[@DesignJunkie58]

Haha, yeah, sure :0

[@bobrew461]

a year's salary was STILL a lot of cash to us poor folks...

[@braydenb.7816]

+bob rew yeah, i don't even make 10k a year! then again, i'm still a minor...

[@superkaboose1066]

a one year salary in 2016 will buy you a 1 bedroom foamcore apartment at 1:24th scale in some shady neighborhood

[@CrashPilot1000]

+superkaboose1066 Yeah, and the question is: Why is that so?

[@Snooooozel]

+superkaboose1066 In Germany you are paying 30 years salary for a small house... growing strongly.

[@danielsperling3686]

+Snooooozel yeah... Our 125 square meter house was pretty expensive... More so cause we live in Hamburg.

[@Vilhelm3989]

omg, at the time 1:24 in the video, he says 1/24 scale. hahaha

[@wellarmedwife166]

Depends where you buy...just paid 80k for 3400 sf, 5 /4 on and acre ...110 years old needing nothing more than time (stripping paint off woodwork etc)...in south Georgia...

[@ragnarocking]

This brought back so many memories of my early childhood and my first attempts at designing and building a home. Though my only tools were styrofoam (looted from empty electronics boxes) and tape.

[@chanelle5889]

My mom has made a few of these. She's mostly retired from building homes these days, but was a custom home builder and always drew the plans herself from scratch (she had an architect turn her drawings into real plans she could turn in for permits, but she originally drew them all by hand, not using a computer). On several of the really nice ones, including the house I grew up in, she put together foam core builds that were a similar (the same??) scale to this.

[@repalmore]

Great build. Now take pictures of textures like wood flooring, door trim etc. and print on card stock. Use post it note glue (comes in a glue stick at the office and art supply) so it's prepositional and isn't going to drive you crazy getting it down. Do the interior and exterior and it really will be an architectural model.

[@jackdeerboi3549]

Broken Wave what has he done to deserve that? Maybe you should shut the fuck up

[@PANCAKECRAB1]

Yo rich kid! check out your big home!

[@jeffplunkett7994]

Lol

[@ernesto1956]

My childhood home was built from the ground up by my dad in 1956, in his spare time, and spare cash, requiring 13 months to complete. He paid $1100 for the lot (100 ft. x 200 ft.) He continually remodeled and made additions over the years. House was 2270 square feet. Eventually the house was sold in 2012 for $140,000. I saved up house plans I’d made by measuring everything. And plenty of photos. Now if I wanted to make a model, I could do it. Only difference is I’m used to using Elmer’s glue with my foamboard.

[@churchboymedia8030]

That was pretty cool! One day I will attempt a home. Always admired them

[@spectro742]

1 year's salary. DAMN houses used to be cheap!

[@user-yk1cw8im4h]

he's just lying, just leaving it out there.

[@iambatman4970]

+LT “John” YV He's probably not

[@Danuxsy]

1 year salary for a rich person ye :p

[@user-yk1cw8im4h]

He's probably filthy rich then.

[@spectro742]

Remember this was a new house in an unpopulated area. This means the land would have been cheap. Furthermore Wages used to be higher and everything cost less for everyone in the past. He is rich now though, because of mythbusters.

[@Nyllet1221]

meanwhile a one room apartment where i live costs much more than that did in the seventies. good shit, thanks previous generations for calling me lazy.

[@unconcernedperson87]

Depends on where you live, naturally city life will cost a considerable amount more than rural/suburban houses

[@francescosirotti8178]

Yes. Here in Italy the house my parents bought was 2 years of salary. Now for the same amount you get compassionate looks. Capitalism fuck yeah

[@unconcernedperson87]

***** Fair enough

[@bobyoung1698]

First, you grew up in an extraordinary house. Second, I've built several foam core or cardstock structures in 1/87-scale (HO railway) with great success. Third, I'm toying with a 1/24-scale structure to support my hobby work in the same scale and this video has been very helpful. Thanks!

[@ricklloyd1559]

I built numerous architectural models from foam-cor while attending architectural school in the early 70s. One technique we used was to spray-glue the full floorpan drawing(s) onto a sheet of foam-cor and cut directly from the attached floorplan print. This eliminates the need to transfer lines to the foam-cor and is quicker and more accurate (IMO). You do the same thing for walls, based on elevation views of the building. This technique also allows the addition of texture symbols (masonry, siding, shingles, etc) and architectural details in a rapid, albeit 2-D fashion. As Adam stated X-acto blades are dangerous - I used a mat knife with a fresh blade for long cuts, and an X-acto only for details like doors, windows, etc.

[@newvictim]

I love Adam being "retired". A lot of content.

[@standepain]

Adams basement was bigger than my house! lol XD

[@TactileTribe]

Same

[@gojifan54gaming15]

same, like 20 times bigger than my row home apartment.

[@bmax5928]

same .__.

[@hannahcopeland6575]

Its bigger than my appartment and the one next to ours combined! 😂

[@cskellum4]

Honestly, Adam Savage is one of the few celebrities who would be worth having a beer with.

[@trje246]

But even before you'd finished your own beer, he would have already drunk his and turned the bottle into a working, 1/48th scale, B-17 superfortress. LoL

[@SheryllQuesta]

This is amazing! I actually did a video making a creepy castle for my son's train table. We are beginners, but it was fun. Your build is awesome!

[@sirbillius]

I once knew some idiots who dropped razor blades in half filled beer cans and bet money on whether or not they could drink the beer without getting their lip cut.

[@T--xo2uq]

+TreezDontHug lol

[@mikenikitin6276]

plz tell me what you are talking about!sounds awesome!

[@TheCRAZYgamers115]

this hurts my throat just reading it

[@EvLmongoose]

I love this project. So simple and so personal. As a model builder foam core and xacto knife are like canvas and brush.

[@fodinski1]

As a architecture student, I do this all the time and I can say some things could be done differently. The way he transferred the plans is not the best, because is can lead to inaccuracies in the bild, but I guess it’s fine since it’s just for fun. Also, the good thing about this material is that you can have a great finish in the corners. If you peel out the foam and leave just one layer of the paper with the thickness of the wall it’s interceding you could have a smooth wall and the foam core would not show. Just a tip

[@munera7721]

How would you recommend transferring the plans into the board?

[@araleh06]

I truly enjoyed watching this video. Years ago I made a 1/12 foam board model of the apartment I grew up in. It was fun 😊

[@Patrick94GSR]

I built models like this in high school and in college in architecture school. I always just spray-mounted the floor plan directly to the base foam core, and cut out the floor footprint directly using a straightedge and the printed lines of the plan. That would have saved a lot of time.

[@TheDarkOne508]

+Patrick94GSR i dont know why the great adam savage didnt do that either.

[@DanteYewToob]

A good way to dispose of Xacto blades or other razors, just get some painters tape just cheap masking and wrap in in some tape but flattened. Example: Take the Xacto, lay in on about two inches of tape, fold the tape on itself to it sticks around the blade on all sides, then just wrap that in some more tape. Safe, fast and it'll stay that way. There's no way it can fall out or whatever. Just a tip for whoever.

[@DanteYewToob]

+Glenn A Yeah, I've just had those knocked over, and they don't fit utility or scraper blades which I use alot for leather and stuff. Plus I buy masking tape by the metric butt-load, so I've got some to spare lol

[@DanteYewToob]

+Glenn A Yeah, I've just had those knocked over, and they don't fit utility or scraper blades which I use alot for leather and stuff. Plus I buy masking tape by the metric butt-load, so I've got some to spare lol

[@jeffroe5524]

You and Jamie are the reason I majored in engineering... thank you so much for my childhood. Can't believe it took me so long to find you on KZbin thanks to 3am vsauce videos!

[@Godrocks1998]

Wow that's amazing. I'd love to do something like this. Of course I'd go a step further and paint it and everything.

[@MichelSatoer]

Hi Adam, instead of cutting the template, drawing the lines, flipping over and drawing the lines again to transfer: it’s way faster to use a projector and projecting the schematic on the foam board to trace it. This way you don’t even have to print the schematic out. Another solution is to use “graphite paper”. This is a thin sheet of graphite you drop between the schematic and the foam board. Now you can directly draw on the schematic and transfer the lines. No need to cut and pre-draw the lines on the schematic.

[@cemx86]

The steel blocks with all the holes that Adam is using to hold the paper down, or the walls up, is a 1-2-3 block named because it is a 1"x2"x3" block of steel. Handy for what he is doing with them but really from the machine shop side of his cave. The holes are (typically) threaded to hold down things on the machine tools. Well Adam explains all this at 7:00 but I jumped the gun.

[@SillyWillySandoon]

+cemx86 I'm glad you did. Now i don't have to look up why it's called a 1-2-3 block, or what it's specifically used for, because I was curious. I thought maybe the 1-2-3 had something to do with the size of the holes and wasn't sure what their purpose was

[@jamesnickel4748]

VERY nice man! Beautifully done and quick too! I'm doing a model of a home I want to put on a hillside overlooking the Mediterranean in Cyprus and got a lot of good tips from you....thank you! 😄

[@exoticat]

You have incredible patience! I'm thinking about making a Halloween display that requires cutting some foam core boards which brought me here. I wish I had one of those foam core houses of my childhood Ranch style MCM home (built around 1960 by our family). It had a full-sized basement and upper level. We once had the original blueprints, but who knows where they went.

[@xK9000x]

This brought back so many memories of being in Architecture school

[@loola456]

Exacto

[@ChiseledDiamond]

Thank you Adam for considering the safety of garbage men and women everywhere! 🧡

[@joenormanmusic]

I found the garbageman or woman.

[@Nightenstaff]

As someone who works with foamcore and exacto blades on a daily basis at work, the first rule we were taught (and teach) is to packing tape old blades onto scrap foamcore and then tape some extra scrap on top. Takes 30 seconds and could save someone thousands of dollars in doctor bills, not to mention the pain of an injury.

[@Ddalgiichigo]

I thought it was common sense not to throw blades into a trash bag with no kind of protection

[@KyleDaSloth]

unicorns yeah, well common sense is at an all time low these days so......

[@andrewkaminskas7721]

Trashmen get paid fucking bank and their health insurance policies are locked in if you are working for the township. i like to hide sharp objects in my trash cans, give the guys a reason to collect some workman's compensation!

[@michaelfarmer537]

That was freaking sweet! Thanks for taking us down memory lane Mr. Savage!! 👍

[@HotelCharliHill]

It's always nice to see someone come from such humble beginnings and become so successful not because they had a network through their wealthy parents but because of their own hard work and a few lucky breaks.

[@indigenousmoejenkins161]

By halfway through this video I thought, "Damn, Adam grew up rich!"

[@lekoman]

+Dan Doughbin Had the exact same thought... I was pleasantly surprised when he said something about it.

[@StopaskingformynameYouTube]

Next you should add some neat smd white leds in every room with small wires and some furniture!

[@hyperspazz8082]

I am doing the same kind of project with a house I grew up in as well. Takes you down memory lane for sure. With both parents now gone, I thought it would be the best way to show tribute to them. My siblings love the idea.. I will be watching for some tips :)

[@Believermike]

So inspiring to go create! You should add lighting! That would really make this project shine even more! Lol keep creating brother! Love the channel.

[@malkavian5]

That's a very different layout, would love to see some pictures.

[@TheMrFloozies]

I love watching these one day builds. I need more

[@douglasherr4645]

I am designing my own house, and this is a great ideal for building a model to see how it all fits together. Thank you!

[@ayenaing7490]

What a pleasure to remodel your childhood place!!

[@Razyre]

Everything is your favourite thing of all time Adam ;)

[@jospi2]

+Ross Bishop And he has a lot of friends.

[@wwaxwork]

+Ross Bishop Gotta love people that are enthusiastic.

[@coolst0rybruh]

That was a mansion...not a house.

[@himcfly4339]

It's really not that big considering the bottom floor was the basement

[@slapshotandgaming1965]

It's a little small

[@MetaalMeerkat]

Growing up we only had one floor....

[@slapshotandgaming1965]

+Endseeker I grew up with 4

[@Insertchillnamehere]

+epic xbox one controller you don't look at the amount of floors to determine the size of a house, typically you look at the number of rooms/ square footage. Typically highshools only have 2-3 floors, those things are huge lol

[@cliffBMRC]

Nice build and valuable time spent. Thank you.

[@timflynn3218]

Adam, a trick I learned for old soldering irons that can transfer to glue guns; mount a duplex outlet in a quad outlet size box with a switch in it; on the switch you add a diode. When the quad box is plugged in, the outlet is on no matter what the switch position. However, when in the "off" position, the outlet is only getting about half the power it normally would. This can be used to plug in your soldering iron or glue gun. At half power, but with the glue gun temperature control, you will have the ability to closely control the temperature on a 50% power scale, or with the switch in the 'on' position, it would be at 100% power. Another alternative would be to use a Pulse Width Modulator. Just an idea here, not being critical of what you do at all.

[@shawntannehill]

Funny first thing I thought was damn that house is huge. Even as a model its huge.

[@AdonisAmarante]

Holy crap. I think two of those boards would more than enough to build mine.

[@YouTry2FuqOnMee]

I love this channel so much! Keep up the great content!

[@phreapersoonlijk]

If this was 4 hours long, I'd still watch every second of it. This is too short !

[@lomarisenjermen733]

Cool house! We used to do similar on modeling classes, but we used flat foam tiles for ceiling. The thickness of tiles were about 3mm but it was a bit cheaper than craft materials.

[@susanhamilton1822]

I built a 12th scale English cottage with foam core. It's very sturdy. It's a copy of Rose Hill Cottage from a movie that I fell in love with.

[@jonano12]

Foamcore is the lightest of the Metal sub genres .

[@ConnorEtch]

+Jonano 12 It's also usefull when making aluminium stuff, just melts away! Oh yeah, I watch Grant Thomson! :)

[@MrPoldekrosmol]

This is how we build our models the first years of architecture school :) kind of rough edged, not refinde but still solid and SIMPLE. Later on the edges had to lign up so you had to cut the foam in 45 degrees or remove the foam but leave the paper, thinks like that.. well you didnt have to but it just looks way cleaner if you do it like that. But all and all, a solid build for somebody who doesn't build those things at least a "few" times a year :)

[@gatorscoops3861]

man i love adam soo much he just gives a humble vibe

[@gabikas6963]

Oh my God! I'm looking in to this to build a house that I grew up in too! ❤

[@eliasderry]

You don't need any special tools, just get your table saw and your industrial hot glue gun

[@reigneeusebio3090]

I think the point of this video is that, you can go along way with alternative materials such as x-acto blade and dollar store glue guns

[@eliasderry]

Yeah ik. It's just a joke

[@rickduval3963]

Elias Derry k

[@skilldstrangr4070]

i love club penguin

[@joe9832]

He's not your buddy, pal!

[@nathanwilliams4554]

He had a giant house, if I had to do this for my house I would be done in like 10 minutes