Why I'm building my own shop lights.

[@Raataataatat]

The more I watch, the more I realize Tim has made his blacksmithing an expression of art.

[@benkirkland5354]

As a former lighting designer for manufacturing, may I say you did awesome!! Solid work, my man! Some things I would’ve done differently, but a stellar build overall. - I would have painted the inner reflector high-brilliance matte white to prevent some galvanized glare. - The links you made are end-split, which is a failure point. As beefy as you made them, likely not an issue. - A white acrylic/polycarbonate diffuser would definitely soften any hard shadows. Keep it up!!

[@Nevir202]

Ya, I was a little dumbstruck when I saw how he installed those links. Like you say, probably so overbuilt it'll never matter, but I'd have done... Almost anything besides that.

[@j.sargent9172]

White wouldn't withstand the inside of a blacksmith shop but for so long, it'll all be residue colored before long

[@geoffheith]

I concur with this.... white is actually a better and softer reflective surface that distributes the light more evenly and better.

[@NOLAfugee]

I'm a former hotel event tech, with some rigging training. I would have used shackles there, and one as a stop for the ceiling bar mount. Eyelet on the bottom of the hook to accommodate the shackle pin.

[@crherniman]

​@@j.sargent9172 I'd bet that Sherwin Williams Macropoxy 646 would work very well in this application. It can withstand industrial and harsh environments very well. It's great stuff.

[@Rimmo]

I used to watch these videos on a shared account before I went through a break up. Now I’ve found it again I’m going to binge watch. Loads to catch up on

[@jerbear7952]

Why would you share an account?

[@mcshortking3632]

😊😊

[@ClintsHobbiesDIY]

Now that's a light with character. Well done.

[@matts8013]

All the precision angle grinder work seems very impressive. Like doing cabinet work with a skill saw. Nice work Tim!

[@BCM1959]

It fits your shop decor fine. Nice job.

[@brettfontaine4681]

I really liked all the bending work. Beautiful lines, and symmetrical. I think that was the best way to showcase your craftsmanship. Beautiful aesthetics Tim. Bravo!

[@Chadconnolly17]

Everyone complaining about the noise and I'm just happy another Tim Video hit the Tube. Grow up people and just enjoy a master at work

[@utilitarian]

This was absolutely epic. I love how you took a concrete filled pipe and repurposed it in overkill fashion to create a thing of beauty!!!

[@Hoaxer51]

It looks like it’s been hanging there for 90 years, mission accomplished. Lol

[@workingwithiron]

damn that looks great, not only the finished piece but how good that films at the end, looking forward to seeing that super sexy lighting in future vids!!

[@donnajinks8349]

Very impressive! Great work!

[@GordonSanders]

love the light!!! happy to see you post another video Tim~

[@NOLAfugee]

4:40 great warping reduction technique.

[@EveryTongue]

Looks amazing Tim. That light is so bombproof looking, and yet elegant. I vote for the diffuser because in your outro shot you’re getting some big strange glare.

[@bradentokoly]

Very cool build Mr. Dyck! Yours is one of my favorite channels!

[@pauldevey8628]

Wow! This new light is functionaly but so Timothy!

[@kennycentralindiana3553]

That light is awesome. I think I need one over my basement bar. A little smaller of course

[@Vikingwerk]

Yeah, might adapt this to a 3” pipe for some LED fixtures I have, dress em up a bit!

[@benotyourboss]

Awesome job! Looks so well and the rust optic is great! I think it needs a diffuser!

[@greenthumbprepper8653]

Mornin Tim. I just did a light install in my basement greenhouse to get better light as well. It definitely helps with the filming

[@tracybowling1156]

I loved this video! Your new light is awesome! I love that rust is its color. It fits so well. I love the whole thing!

[@jakeallen4892]

Gotta hand it to you, Tim! Beautiful work. Also, you manage to always make it seem like you don't know what you are doing, but always manage to get exactly what you want in the end. This make it up as you go style of fabricating coupled with the skill to make things exactly how you picture them is highly entertaining. Keep up the good work.

[@shadwellsong]

Waveform lights look great! I made a few fixtures about 3 years ago. I’ve been very happy

[@Alex-xg2yo]

Nice work Tim!

[@heathbanks5755]

Dude it was awesome to see you make this. I know it was just a light but it was really cool man.

[@Christyleadbitter]

Just an absolute joy to watch.

[@ClanEnniss]

Tim, any interest in designing/forging a double bit hatchet? One blade to chop and cut the other for splitting. That’d super cool to see what you come up with. Never seen forged from scratch. Super handy to have in camp. Maybe call it the Double Hawk. Love the content, keep it coming. Peace.

[@Blue.4D2]

Now =that's= heavy duty! ⭐🙂👍

[@simonelt7317]

Somebody please sponsor this fella a plasma cutter!

[@dragonwing4ever]

oxys more fun thou

[@deltan9ne306]

Gas axe is an art, not specifically in this instance though. LOL.

[@datadavis]

Somebody make americans use the damn shield on the grinders. WTF is up with that?

[@deltan9ne306]

@datadavis The creator is Canadian, but he is part of North America I suppose.

[@datadavis]

@@deltan9ne306 yea whatever, i just dont get it. Ive been a welder and steelworker all my life and i have never needed to remove that guard. And ive exploded a bunch of discs i never had to remove from my flesh.

[@ekatein3921]

Just an idea but if you discover after use of that light, that it is not producing enough light. You effectively made a giant heat sync of a light fixture and can put much more powerful led light elements into it as long as you provide thermal transfer between the element and the fixture.

[@mathewmolk2089]

With the air gap between the reflector and body there is no thermal transfer therefore the main body is not a heat sink at all but the convection around the reflector doesn't hurt a thing.

[@afg122602]

It's been a while. Welcome back

[@PERSISTENTxMF]

You make it look so easy

[@htownblue11]

Just installed some hexagon lights in my shop I thought were cool, but Timmy says “hold my beer pal” and hand makes the coolest lights ever made.

[@singlended]

but UNSAFEST lights- 1. running mains power through a conductive fitting (brass) without say an insulated gland nut; 2. tying a knot in it; 3. fixing it with a grub screw???

[@valiantforge]

Very cool! That is definitely very warm lighting, I’m very curious on how it will look in future videos!

[@bushman4124]

I personally Love the way how precise you can cut with an angle grinder, and with such an ease. The lamp is gorgeous and fits right in. I think your powerfeed will overheat over time because it has no ways to go with the heat he generates. But that is a matter of opinion of course and time will tell. The rim you added made it all come together and at the same time giving it strength too. I love your man cave it is an beautiful workshop i can smell the metal from here. I wish i had the space for that, but i filled mine with woodworking tools instead.keep the videos' coming and the darkness in your video's gives it that special steampunk feeling . that i personally like.

[@heyimamaker]

Theres are some Architectural Digest loft looking lights! Nice work!

[@josaonline09]

Killed it with this one brother…seems like an arc gouger or plasma torch would be a great investment to save you time…time= money

[@DumpsterMarcus]

wow that came out soo cool!!!!!!

[@wilhelm117]

Very cool, love the beefy hardware

[@garychaiken808]

Great job. Thank you 😊

[@SportyPompano]

30:39 "done and rusted" lol nice hahaha

[@chrissmith513]

Great idea 😊😊😊

[@travmcbride]

Loved every second

[@EssGeeSee]

I like it. I want one!

[@dmckenzie9281]

I looked up Waveform lighting. They are only 10 miles from where I live!

[@ztheblacksmith]

I learned from my boss that spraying muriatic acid first and then hydrogen proxied on top right away rusts steel in about 30 minutes and looks amazing. just a tip i thought ide share. love the content keep it up.

[@EveryTongue]

Yeeeeees. When this guy posts, I click.

[@aguscambon12]

that fixture would look soooo good above a pool table

[@SomethingOutOf1984]

That light is sick. Only worry is the tape holing the LEDs. Hopefully it holds up.

[@jameswarner7435]

yeah, it never does

[@MadebyKourmoulis]

Man I've been thinking about making all my shop lights.

[@stevendelvecchio3721]

What a wonderful video and amazing build you are a pleasure to watch. A great example of a true craftsman. I love seeing all the skills you have. I have questions for those that know more than me. With the beautiful rust finish will it degrade the structural integrity over time? Why the lower light temperature instead of daylight 5200k?

[@shanejongebloed3590]

I’ve loved your content starting way back with BBR….i think I’ve may have missed something. What’s the ‘secret potion’ for rusting the steel. 🇦🇺

[@jamesleicher]

Nice vid with out music, welding splatter, grinder grinding ,nice

[@NOLAfugee]

If you mount bigger fans inside the power supply housing, it might cut back on the noise. Smaller fans are louder.

[@hannable3871]

Tim, I had headphones on. I definitely heard the high-pitched squeal eeeeeeeeeeeeee.

[@jamesgarrison6430]

Amazing keep it up

[@Frankz455]

Tim : those lights are huge and cumbersome to move - Proceeds to make a 60kg light

[@B.McAllister]

1:53 That's a sah-weet fingerboard half-pipe there.

[@Robert-ve9vb]

I can to hear that high-pitched noise from the power supply and I wasn't even wearing earbuds

[@captainfury19]

Nice work. Crazy amount of work for a shop light but cool nonetheless.

[@MrShmaleb]

The way this man casually holds a file a half inch from the lathe screams "don't worry, i've done this before."

[@timdyck8492]

Not sure why this came across my feed 🤷‍♂️ I don’t watch a lot of blacksmithing although I would like to try it sometime , I really only watched cause he’s using my name 😏😂🍻

[@pet6171]

Loose the fan in the PSU, just mount it to a heatsink, those PSU's are good for the price, I've been using 30amp ones to run my ham radios

[@eckridium]

I’d be interested in knowing how strong Tim’s grip is. Being a blacksmith you’d have to develop rather substantial grip strength.

[@Hoaxer51]

Looks great, now build 5 or 6 more to replace those other ceiling lights, shouldn’t take that long now that you have your pattern! Lol

[@chrism3839]

Something you might run into, heat is the enemy of LEDs, depending on how much heat they produce, you have created a place for the heat to build up and not escape. Some holes in the top might be required to prolong the lights life. I do not know if the LED strips are as susceptible to the heat as other LED lights are. Something to think about.

[@carlrockaway1696]

Nice light

[@romancharak3675]

Lovely !

[@kennethprice4292]

Love your content. Note, your website link doesn’t seem to be working.

[@willyfriesen2451]

Shop concrete floor next?

[@twardnw]

Get yourself a Mean Well power supply, they're about the best quality of the offshore options.

[@jamest.5001]

If you can get the reflective powder they use for the white lines on the highway, coat the inside with an adhesive of some kind. Then coat the adhesive with the powder. It would likely make an excellent reflector. Along with s 2"-4" piece of aluminum or steel angle. To mount LED strips to, about. 200 watts of cool white and 200watts of warm white and a couple led dimmers. To set the correct color temperature, and use a capacitor at the led strip, weather using led tape strip, or individual 3-5 even 10 watt cob led's, to have 10, X 10 watt LED's in a row. Of each color temperature, with a cc cv DC driver driving them all in series parallel a server rack 12v power supply 400 watt or do used are roughly $25 a pair, a cc cv DC to DC boost converter to drive the LEDs, I doubt you will need full power from both color temperature lights , 400 watts of Led is bright! Possibly close to 3-4kw of tungsten Element bulbs. Maybe stretch a piece of thin synthetic silk or opaque plastic over the face to keep the LEDs and reflector clean! Maybe add about ,50 watts of RGB LEDS as well to tint the light any color you want! But use capacitors at the led to reduce or prevent flicker, the last thing you want is to Put in all this work. And the video having the lights fading on and off! 😮, DC lights don't really do this, they Flicker, but a small capacitor can stop this,

[@memyselfandeye1234]

Mmmm Enlightening.

[@jarlove]

Such a sexy lamp!! God damn! 😁

[@michelhv]

If you can have the same CRI between light sources, then you will have an easier time with white balance and colour grading your video. Right now it’s looking mismatched between the new and the old lights. If everything is the same, then it doesn’t matter if you’re using 3200K or 4000K lights since they can become “white” for the camera.

[@simonkulovits]

amazing!

[@sheep1ewe]

Awesome!

[@18deadmonkeys]

I bought a dog trained in the arts of blacksmithing.... as soon as we got home, he made a bolt for the door!

[@Vikingwerk]

😂

[@NOLAfugee]

🤦🏻‍♂️

[@jsweizston5410]

Ironic that this Canadian Patriot is selling ammo center punches but yet his gov't stripped away those rights for what they're meant for. Feel bad for you Canadians, god bless Tim.

[@wh0tube]

What is light and very heavy at the same time? 😉👍

[@dominic8249]

Amazing work! What did you use for the rusting?

[@nichterreichbar787]

You should paint your walls from 2 meters above the floor and the roof white or light grey the whole shop would looks brighter just the cheapest paint you can find

[@jameswarner7435]

That is fantastic advice. It would make a world of difference. Every time i see one of his videos I wonder how he can stand it so dark in there. Its like the walls just eat all of the light in there. Maybe it makes it easier to light the stuff he is trying to film or something, i dunno.

[@chrispy3866]

Cool. Get a diffuser!

[@Intothetroid]

Nice 👍

[@Carterironworks]

It's been a few months, how are you liking the lights at this point?

[@cmw184]

perfect.

[@urhor]

Hi! Your website seems to be down. At least in EU.

[@denizcatak2173]

love it

[@astroigel8425]

whats that jacket in outro pls?

[@waynethomas2118]

All the design is fantastic. Just 1 thing: The adhesive on LED strips is awful, I'll give it max 6 months before the strips start to come away. Just needs some decent glue

[@johannesTMP]

please put a guard on that angle grinder... i recently had a disk explode and found oud the hard way what they'r for.....

[@phpn99]

One word : ALUMINIUM

[@jameswarner7435]

Yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing. aluminum would've been better in nearly every way. It might be more expensive if you have to purchase the metal new, but there is a lot of aluminum scrap out there in the world to use in projects like this. A guy just has to keep an eye out for it. And while I get some people are all about that iron aesthetic, I think everyone would agree that those hefty and/or complex aluminum extrusions are just plain cool.

[@dragonwaterforge]

Awsome

[@brentcoates5470]

You look like you could be Matthew McConaugheys brother my dude.

[@arminosaeure29]

Do yourself a favor: when the first Powersupply died due to metaldust sucked in by the fan: get yourself a sealed IP6x one. It will survive much longer.

[@TheObsoletian]

I strongly suggest to change the LEDs to 5600K in order to blend with the other fixtures I see in your shop, makes your life easier in post. Other than that the light looks very sturdy. Also consider using diffusion, it makes the light wrap around your subject. Good job!

[@calholli]

Well at least they aren't heavy

[@grassyfarms4158]

And we can hear the noise

[@ClenioBuilder]

🤜🤛

[@trevormurphy7041]

Awesome I love videos that make you want to turn nothing into something kids today don’t know what they have if I had KZbin when I was growing up I think it would’ve made school a lot more funner not easier I would’ve been more interested but school was different in the 90s and early 2000sWe actually had to do work

[@dormindont1]

эта лампа переживет ядерный взрыв!