Adam Savage's One Day Build: Fake Beard Wiring!
all right stop brock in there hey oh you didn't expect that did you no yeah yeah oh yeah mirror all right hey everybody adam savage here in my cave and i've been here a while yeah this is like tom hanks give me a sec anyway adam savage here in my cave with a one day build that is a bit of a hairy problem yes um here's my favorite part about this beard dude okay so i purchased this from an etsy store uh we'll include a link uh there is a link below um this is yak hair uh and it is uh on netting it is beautifully made 120 that is a fantastic deal for such a good-looking beard um it's meant to be applied like a beard is you know with some uh uh spirit gum or whatever your your your makeup stickum of choice is um i decided to hand bend a spring steel um pair of ear hooks for it and they i didn't know how it would work that's why you didn't it's why you're not watching that video because sometimes i gotta problem solve this stuff um on the qt well before i there is just sometimes that i need the mental space of not of really not knowing and seeing how it's gonna go so what i did when i first did this is i just made the ear hooks and then i held the beard up to it and i saw how it would hold it and then i used like bits of tape to hold it on and then i thought well what if i sew it and my question about sewing was if i sewed it and you can see here how i've sewed this around will it hold it or will it slide all around turns out holds it really nicely so i look this may be something that people have been doing for decades i don't know it worked great for me um so this is just my fun this is my fun old man walk around beard um or i guess if i want to go host a discovery show up in alaska i could just jump right in but this is for a specific costume and the costume requires a big black beard and that's why i also got this gun and same makers and here's the mustache yeah yeah now i want to do the same thing with this that i did with this and this time i want you to get to see it so that's what i'm gonna do we're gonna make we're gonna make a uh easy hook on take off beard holder for this and i think it's actually gonna be much simpler than this one um and it's also going to have an integrated mustache holder yeah i should be able to finish that by the end of the day who knows um is the cosplay you ask oh i mean careful watchers of this channel may be able to guess the cosplay that i'm doing with this black beard but i'm it's not blackbeard it's not blackbeard but um it is uh you know you might have clues in recent videos we've made but i'm just gonna leave this one unstated as to who i'm supposed to be in this costume uh yeah all right i think the wire i used for this is 30 000 oh no it's 50 thou spring steel i mean i i really like how structural this is i like how robust it is um you know it tickles your nose every time you put it on but hell spells we put this on everyone everyone looks amazing enough even my wife my wife looks hilarious in this mustache yep right i mean i i just like yeah man i just i just want to walk around the world like this this is great all right i guess i better get started with this video excellent there we go oh 047 music wire ah yes i need first things first is this guy so i'm choosing this one because it's got the the blank chin i should be getting another one of these from weta at some point because they did cast my head so what i'm going to be doing is replicating these ear hooks coming down coming down across here and then i'm going to have a separate a separate loop that comes up for the mustache on this one said loop is a little bit wide and these two struts get seen a little bit um that was my first prototype so that's fine i can forgive myself um so on this one though i want it to be much more like that so i actually think i could draw on this let's see here yeah right and then these guys let's see what this is doing right that's what i want right i want yes that's it it's that let me hold on great i'm just gonna slice this oh yeah that's a nice frame okay the the hard the hard casting gives me a rough idea but it all has to be it all has to be fitted directly to my face right okay good i like that that's nice and mid-range that's nice yeah okay so that's going to be the mustache line now i'm going to bring a piece of spring steel in here and i'm going to connect it to it using just a little brass ferrule that i made out of some brass tubing and i'll show you how i crimped that but the next stage is the ears so let's um let's just make a little loopy loop great now i've talked about bending metal a lot on this channel you just you just gotta do a lot of it that's all excellent okay so that so here is ah there you go there is the ear and what i've done is i've given it right after it hooks over my ear i've given it this little bit and that bit will actually connect up it'll allow me to have a little bit of a no it'll allow me to have a little bit of extra surface area on which to sew this beard end right so yeah i do that on both sides check the device you'd like to use and make sure bluetooth is turned on okay to set up a new device alexa go to the settings on your alexa device she's motivated uh okay so let's see here uh there's that okay so now that comes in like that now we're getting close okay so now what you can see is yeah i still have some gapage here i still have to take out it's just you're just constantly adjusting each relationship until you until it feels right until it feels comfortable against your skin i mean that's really the thing i'm aiming for here is something that's like comfortable for me to wear and i've got the left side almost perfect right side still needs a bit more finessing but we're getting there yeah oh yeah okay so now mm-hmm there we go that was it that was much more what i wanted so i gotta get to grab my chin a little bit okay so now before i continue i have to add these brass ferrules and these are just little tiny bits of k s brass that can fit two widths of the piano wire through them and then i'll i use a crimper to crimp them look at my terrible posture in the mirror there always always always leaning forward like this this is like like one of my sons one of my sons has like posture that's not like mine the other son just i mean like from that from the back we look like the same person all right let me get them sanding stick just take off the burr here and just slice these on a band saw i'm not going to put the mustache on until this whole thing is bent but get close okay so now yeah this is gonna be tricky duh so many different relationships to get right here all right better better better better yeah yeah those are in the right place these are in the right place this is i'm this is gonna get worked on in a minute you'll see um but yeah i'm pretty yeah that's okay that's better okay so now this guy i'm going to bend it to the same shape okay then a little bit more okay so now what i want is i want this to go here i want to i want it to sit here that's where i feel like it's positive so here's what i'm going to do for that i'm actually going to chuck this so i've actually chucked this into the vise so i can bend these and hopefully get that up and we'll see if i can do it all right so you can see what i've done here i've bent this up here and that's given me a little bit yeah it's just there's a lot of yeah i have a little relationship to get right and get it to feel balanced on my face but it's starting to mm-hmm that feels good that feels even i mean i know it might not be perfect but it feels even and then when i bring in this guy see what i got going on see that right so this here is a uh boon boon b-o-o-n-e and this is a crimper for um like the uh fishing lure stuff yeah exceedingly small cable uh thimbles and eyes and holders it's part of a whole system i don't know if i'm ready to talk about it just yet it's i mean uh look at all sorts of different industries for the things that i need i i i get anyway this is a crimper i'm going to do some crimping with it that's all you need to know right now okay so let's see here uh what i've got okay so i want about the same on both sides i'm just trying to make it a little bit more even looking on the theory that that'll make it easier to wear but we'll see i could be wrong yeah i like that okay good that feels good oh wow the camera's down here okay cool so that was my measurement and so was that okay so here i hope you can see let me yeah i hope you can see so this is a piece of brass tubing it's just wide enough to fit two lengths of this wire and i'm gonna crimp it right down there first i'm gonna snip it short so i don't have to deal with a lot of oh yeah not bad at all i mean i think you can move a little bit but no that is not bad at all yes one day build i'm making my own retainer um but this is great this is i'm really pleased uh and leaving these ferals on is actually i mean leaving them uncrimped for now allows me to kind of move this stuff around and get this until i really like it and now we have kind of a rough structure see that yeah yeah and that structure mirrors my face the pot topography of my face yeah so let's do some crimping what happens with the crimping is the brass is much softer than the steel so the crimper ends up like smooshing the brass around the steel in a way that's very positive as a grab that that one's good but this one's awful hold on all right i feel good about that that's not going anywhere i've got a positive grab around the outside and all of this will be hidden um this one is nice that crimp is really good all right so let's put this on yeah i dig it i dig it uh dig it so now uh i'm gonna hit this with um i'm gonna paint this uh some approximation of my flesh color so i wore myself out now hopefully you can actually see oh you know it's been a little difficult maybe up till now to kind of see what we're working on but here it is this why do i have to hold it up against my shirt there we go there you go i'm going to let this dry for a little bit but there is the my my quick change blackbeard understructure i'm very happy with it back in a minute okay it is time it is time to sew the mustache on now you might wonder why with a black beard i've gone with the this color well it's because it matches my skin tone and beard tone and i just want i want all this to disappear behind this if i made this black you'd see this black outline so no it's got to be flesh colored i know i know get yourself a needle threader i hear you i'm just choosing to do it the old-fashioned way i always go with a double i lose my thread if i do a single oh that's oh nice knot nice knot uh all right you there's many relationships to be attentive to here and centeredness is one of them so each time i'm going under the wire and i'm going through just about like four of the holes of the netting i'm and i'm not pulling super tight just yet i'm going to do that in a minute and in this way i'm kind of basically just i'm winding the thread around the wire and getting the netting uh caught up as part of that so now i've got like one two three four five six now i'm going to pull a little taut and now i've got a nice little grab yup and that is nice and centered right there i'm very happy with that so we're just going to keep on going we're going to keep on keeping on okay uh now i've sewn it on you can see here all the way across it's relatively centered it might have to move a little bit but it can also it pivots nicely on the on the wire and stays put which is something i find i'm really pleased about i didn't know that that would work so well i was worried that it would be all loosey-goosey but here we go i'm really i'm really channeling my powers booth here yeah okay so time for the beard time for the beard um this one's a little trickier uh what i found when i did this guy is that it's hard to both you got to kind of put the whole beard onto the structure and then sew it to it so i'm going to do the attachment here first and then whoop down this wire right there's yeah there we go so we're gonna cut it off of this bad boy it's all super clearly hand sewn um the work on these beards is i'm really impressed i for it's not just great for 120 bucks it's just great it's nice work i'm uh i'm very pleased i am not a hair expert there we go that's great yeah all right oh hey pretty durable this yak hair uh and durable in the netting too so this work look i know this looks exceedingly tedious and uh it is but there is something glorious about this because as tedious as this is it's not taken me more than a total of about an hour to do all the sewing to get this mustache and beard attached to this wire frame and then it's there forever so it's a very like the the the output to reward here is a very good distribution ah there we go good so this is just one of those things tedium the reason i think we resist tedium is because we think it's just gonna suck up this like whole portion of our life and be like awful and it does take time tedious things are tedious that's their thing but it's frankly every time i give in to the tedium at the end i don't remember it and i don't ever i mean it always takes less time than i i was a feared it would take that is definitely true it always ends up taking less time than i was afraid it would take and giving this close-up so you can kind of see how fast you can get going once you've really like nailed your parameters we are almost done with this beard and this is look this is a better solution than glue this is a better solution than tape this is it's a lot easier than any of those others no this won't stand up to like in-person scrutiny but for cosplay for a for a movie character yeah there it is there it is all sewn in isn't that nice gotta be pleased with that gotta be pleased with that hell of a thing okay so i'm starting to feel just a tad guilty about like hiding from you the what cosplay this could be so i'm going to i'm going to give you a hint as to as to the cosplay of this beard and the hint it's gonna look a little something like this yeah no it's not the unabomber thank you guys for joining me for this one day build this is adam out i'll see you next time thank you guys so much for watching that video if you'd like to further support us here at tested one of the single best ways you can do it is through a tested membership now there's a link below as to the various levels of tested membership but at the top level i want to explain it's so much more than videos that are exclusive there are q and a's there are live streams there are some exclusive videos but the thing i love most about the tested membership is the interactivity the constant and wonderful communication between the tested members and not just me but our entire team every day it feels more and more like a beautiful community just devoted to the joys of making so join 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