Van Neistat's Custom Coat Hooks
Published August 18, 2025 · 1:05 · 116,365 views
About This Video
Sixty-five seconds. One cannot have enough coat hooks. Van learned the technique in Tom Sachs's studio: paint the wood before you cut it, draw cut lines first. These are 3-inch coat racks. The build is quick, the materials are humble, and the result is the kind of small improvement that compounds across every day you live in the space. Twenty-two coat hooks in our studio. You can never have too many.
Transcript
I'm going to draw the cut lines first. And these are 3in coat racks. I learned this in Tom Sax's studio. You paint the wood before you cut it. Try not to get
it over the edge. Try to leave the the line still visible. Although we don't have to kill ourselves to do that.
Okay, here's the concept. I'm going to rip these as fast as I can with the jigsaw. And then I'm going to write the time down on each of the coat racks.
[Music] If you're really neat with all the aspects, I think you can be really messy with one of the aspects. Maybe that's what this is about. [Music]
People Referenced
Tom Sachs