As a furniture maker, I've always loved watching the luthier side of woodworking. I always show my niece your Instagram reels. Even though she's only 4, she shows interest in it, so I bought her a mini bench plane from Veritas, and we make things together. She loves glueups, so she can peel the glue off her hands. 😂 I'm glad I found your longer-format videos!
Awesome looking shop. The only thing I’d add is a a shop air filter for when you’re sanding. So many woodworkers have had to retire because they breathed in that super fine dust that you can’t see for so many years. Any power tool will make super fine dust, routers, sanders drills can ect….
Well, it is a lovely space; I wish I had space for a workbench like yours! One thought: you are working many hours on a concrete floor. For your long-term health, you might consider installing cushioned pads, interlocking garage floor tiles, etc.
Oh my god I would kill for such a tidy and organized workshop like yours! I started to build an acoustic guitar around 18 year ago in my tiny mess of a workshop ... I'll finish it someday! 😅
Daisy I just found your channel and I am blown away. You have such a passion for your craft and that is so admirable and heart warming. You weave your soul into your projects like a tapestry and I love it. My dad wants to be a guitar maker one day and I play some myself and have a deep appreciation for the craft. Keep doing what you love!
Lovely tour, and awesome that Xyla visited! 1 piece of well meant advice and 1 suggestion; The advice: if a tool is not pleasant to work with, either replace it with something that is or get rid of it. Because it will end up gathering dust. While a tool that does spark joy will invite you to use it more often. The suggestion (inspired by my ocd and other makers) don't throw the same kind of tools (i.e sandpaper of different grits, and allen keys) in one big bin/drawer/basket. Make some nice holders to sort things. In the end it will look better and save you loads of time searching and making a mess.
Seconded on the decluttering, as well as Xyla. She is da bomb! She definitely makes engineering seem approachable. Been following her since just before she moved to California.
I’ve used many brands of routers and for the last 30 years have found Porter Cable to be the best until about six years ago I got a Festool which is now my gold standard. I have six routers and still use both manufactures and have never had one fail doing its job. I love watching your video’s, I’ve been around a bit, but still love learning, you are very informative.
Great tour! One suggestion: since you are storing your buffing wheels on the floor, try wrapping each wheel in plastic bags when not in use. They’ll last longer, the buffing compound will stay much cleaner and you won’t accidentally scratch your work product mid polish because one of your the wheels picked up a stray wood chip. Don’t ask me how I know this! Well done video, very entertaining. Thanks.
Brilliant workshop, tip from my late grandfather on storing planes - put a little batten on the shelf so the blade is not touching the shelf. From me don’t store a digital calliper on a mag strip coz that’s how they work and over time you will wipe the scale. I predominantly work in metal and ended up binning all my mag strips as they magnetise everything on them causing them to pick up swarf and small components, very irritating 👍
What a great workshop visit! Very impressed with the order, sense of calm and cleanliness. The only dust being on the compressor. Thank you, much appreciated.
That just made my day. I always love watching shop tours. Thank you for sharing and teaching me the difference between a rule and ruler. 62 years old and never knew that. I love when younger people teach me things. As far as routers, I've recently purchased 2 of the small DeWalt cordless routers (DCW600B) for site work and love them. Great if you happen to have DeWalt batteries already. If not, or if a corded router is still fine being that your in a shop, I've had the Bosch (PR20EVS) router. Had it for over 20 yrs before I need to rebuild it. Works great again. Great palm router. Also, I have 3 Porter Cable 690 routers. Had 2 for over 25 years, bought the 3rd second hand. Never any issues with any of them. Not sure if they're still making them, but wouldn't hesitate buy used if in good condition. No dust extraction though, but can buy 3rd party dust attachments.
Thanks for the tour, very informative! I found some tubes of silicone caulk that had been forgotten and had become solid. I peeled the cartridge off it and after sitting out a couple of days the rank odor dissipated. Now I use it for cleaning my sanding belts and discs.
I follow so many makers, and my favorite videos are shop tours! It gives me ideas to make my own shop better :) I love how you have stickers from all my favorites haha!
For the first time here. I'm not gonna lie, for your accent sake and as a wood enthusiast + who is so much into finding some good English line whenever I display my builds and with a hope that your channel should provide some solution to that, you earn my subscription. Congratulation on your new work shop and everything there, they're looking stunning.
When I was a kid (back in the 1960s) my father let me have a go of his belt sander. The sandpaper was already totally clogged. Naturally, rather than use the offcuts he provided, I opted to use the heal of my shoe. Much to my surprise, the sandpaper immediately became unclogged and was good as new. My father was pleased as punch when I showed him. After that he got a stick of hard rubber and kept it by the sander at all times. I believe it was part of a car bumper, but it worked really well.
Just completed renovating my old, dilapidated workshop, bar for setting up inside. Renovated the space for building ukuleles and vintage toys. Super impressed by your enthusiasm and love for your craft and your new workshop. Awesome !
I have taken your advise to clean up the morning after. It allows for a more thorough job, and gives me time to get in mind everything I will be up to. Thanks for this Daisy.
*GREAT SPACE.* I'm interested in your take on the intersection between what you do, your workshop, and life. With woodwork, sometimes I want to work in the small hours of the night, or I'm inspired and pull a really long day - and just want to tumble straight into bed. So having a workshop at home works for me. Sometimes I think about putting a cot in the workshop so I can have a catnap in there. Haha!
Hi Daisy! I don't have any experience about Makita routers but I do trust in my handheld DeWalt D26204K and CMT7E (in my router table) routers. I used to work with Dewalt in school of luthiery, so if it lasts in student use, it'll last in professional use IMO. Greetings from another luthier from Finland! 😉
You have such a delightful personality! I always wanted to be a luthier but now I’m 69 years old so I guess it’s not gonna happen. But it love watching you build guitars. I am a woodworker and therefore feel I know enough to really appreciate your talent. Keep up the good work!
Fantastic workshop and a delightful tour i think you have it very well laid out as you have space to move around and for me you arent seeing other machinery out of the corner of your eyes much so no distractions. I wouldnt change anything, even your boss siting up top keeping an eye on you is located in the right place. Keep up the fantastic work and I look forward to seeing much more ❤
Whenever I get the opportunity to tour a workshop, I always enjoy it. This was the most enjoyable tour I've seen! Very well laid out, looks like a wonderful place to get lost in your craft! PS: love the line "that's just the princess I am!"
Might add a couple three sand bags to the router base to cure the wobbles. And plastic bags on your buffing wheels to stop contamination of stray grit.
This was a great tour around your workshop Daisy. Your enthusiasm for most of your acquisitions came across so well along with, inevitably, a few grumbles cos ‘stuff’ ain’t always perfect.
You get to join the other almost 900 shop tours that I have downloaded for my dream shop build. Nice shop. Love the LN planes and am jealous of the one LN handed to you. I like getting outside the box of my normal woodworking types. You can always enjoy and pick up good ideas. A good WW tour always gets a subscription from me. Haven't seen you before - now I will.
@@finctank I hope so. I have only looked at the one so far. I will get to them though. I have many woodworkers outside of the US that I follow. A good number of them use hand tools and have quality work to show. All that i like.
Hey Daisy, my wife and I spent the month of June traveling around southeast England this year so I can guess what your shop looks like. There are many a youtube videos about dust extraction and as you know many woodworking tools just don't do much to help address getting the fine particles. I have a homemade 6 inch system and it works reasonably well. Looks to me from your tour you need an upgrade on your dust collection so you don't need the respirator so much. The other video you recently posted showed you put all that equipment to good use, keep posting. I am getting inspired.!
I have been establishing my workshop over the last six months and am just about ready to start making things. I was assessed as autistic last year and one manifestation of my version of autism is the necessity of workflow. My trite explanation is that if it doesn't flow then it doesn't work. I have to feel comfortable in the space before I can use it. It seems that you have managed to achieve that in your space which is great to see. You have also inspired me to go and buy industrial quantities of googly eyes. It is definitely something that is currently missing from my environment.
Love your shop! Great workshop tour - I love workshops and constantly rearrange stuff in mine so appreciate the inspiration and cool ideas. Must get some magnetic bars. My theme is everything gets hung up on the wall where I can see it. Stuff still gets lost cause I buy more tools and rearrange everything so things “fit”. I have a double car garage that can barely fit my car. My dream would be to have space for a completely bespoke shop,dedicated to photography (cameras & drones, frame making, shelving, crafting, golf club assembly & repair). Pegboard is everywhere…hooks grasp tools….I desperately need more walls. All benches are made by me - 3 of them, each 3.5ft wide x 7ft long; and all are on wheels for cleaning. Dust management is lacking - I just open the garage door after warning the neighbors, “It’s going to be noisy for a bit”. Good luck with your work and your show; can hardly wait to see more of your videos. You are adorable and awesome 🙂🇨🇦
great little shop spent a small fortune by the looks of it but 100% worth it to sustain your passion and career its my dream and plan to have a little shop like that once a retire thanks for sharing
Mostly I love that you have all these tools sitting on super nice work benches, using them as a table, and I’m over here on my crappy Harbor Freight work bench looking like 😒 Fun shop tour. 😉😁
Cool shop, from my perspective it looks like you have a lot of free space just from seeing the way you organize things. I'm sure as you grow you will optimize things and make it better suit your workflow. Have fun!
Very generous of you to share such an intimate work space. Love your charming, disclosive, educational, fresh, personally vulnerable videos! Thsnk you so much. Love 'n Light Sean
You could talk about 16th century novels, world wide balloon shortages or anything someone might consider mundane, and I would definitely listen to every word. Super awesome shop. You should definitely be very proud. Stay focused and keep up the great work. 👍
Great video, thanks for making. Your shop is a lot more tidy and organised than mine that’s for sure. Be interesting to see how yours evolves. Especially love the use of the word ‘apparently’ that’s where I keep my shoes etc. 😂
Excellent walk through. Having cut vast quantities of Western Red Cedar with CNC, I found that cedar has a lot of silica in it and is very hard on tool edges. Use downcut bits to leave a clean surface finish. Keep feed speeds up there. Running too lower feed speed and high revs results in rubbing instead of removing material. This heats up the tool and is not good. Also try not to recut chips. A good extraction is very important. Definitely going to watch more videos. From an retired old fart it is a pleasure to see young people that respect hand tools.
This was such a fun video! I really love seeing how people organize their workshop, you can tell a lot about someone by their organisation, and it's cool to see what works best for a luthier
Very nice tour, many thanks! Two essentials I did not see. A particulate detector, an air purifier. I also work on an interior shop. And sadly it has marginal ventilation. I have an oversized air purifier that helps enormously with dust control. And the particulate detector lets me know if dust levels require masking. Perhaps the ventilation in your shop makes this less important than in mine, however I highly recommend measuring particulate to make informed masking decisions.
Thoroughly enjoying this look at your creative work space. It lets me see where and how you create your art. I hope that you will never stop the creativity and passion of your work.
Your channel is new to me and I must say I like your process. A thought about your drum sander extraction issues. Can you get them closer together? A shorter hose should increase draw. Cleaning the filter in your extracter pre drum sanding should yield a better result. A more costly mod might be to increase the hose diameter from the extracter to the sander(not sure if thats doable budgetwise).I'm not a luthier but I am a player with lots of modding experience. Also 18 years in a woodworking environment. Cheers from Canada!
Very nice shop, to-be-sure. I am a general type of woodworker making many different things. I have been building out my current basement workshop for 24 years and will continue to do so. Watching in Mechanicsville Virginia USA
Thanks Daisy for the shop tour. I know from experience it takes time to evaluate your work area and what works best. As you get more experience and build more guitar you’ll see the need to make changes, to upgrade tools, etc. I try to buy quality tools but that doesn’t mean they have to be the most expensive. I find when I need to upgrade tools or equipment it’s mainly for accuracy, and that accuracy is usually in a quality built tool. Hand in there young lady, continue to produce beautiful quality guitars and in time your work will be sought out.
Fan + long hair = supermodel. Male, female, all stops between. It's an unwritten universal law. Awesome tour of your shop! I love seeing BTS vids! *edit* There are guitar makers (IE; Fender, Gibson, Guild), and then there are guitar crafters (yourself, Ben from Crimson Custom). The major difference is the makers produce hundreds of guitars a week for mass sale, while a crafter creates an incredible piece of art from wood that happens to be a guitar. Blessed are the fortunate few who posses a crafted instrument!
I noticed you mentioned your drum sander extraction is not great. Might be cause the pipe has a down bend in it after it leaves the machine. Might be creating a back flow turbulence. A smooth up curve could work better.
The workshop looks great, and it seems like a good space to work in! And there are a loooot of tools, tons of cool stuff! Besides the "essential tools for guitar building" video that many people make (nothing wrong with that), I was thinking, which tool (or few tools), either hand or power tool, made the most difference from before and after getting the tool?
A good wingnut set with the usual sizes is a great investment for when you run into annoying bolts that you need to use too often on products like that "fold away" router table 😅
You are inspiring me to attempt to make an acoustic guitar. Bonus points since I'll get to buy tools! Nice shop. Love that you use hand tools as your preference. Right there with you. Great video as always. Thank you.
Dear Daisy. I have seen your video. One comment: If you sand something with lacker on it, you can avoid it sticking to the sandpaper. Use a thin layer of petroluem on tha lacker. It prevents sticking. Lover your workshop and your work. PS. The petroleum will not combust! Just to ease your mind.
My problem with my workspace, is that I am constantly learning so much, that I have to set up new areas for new tasks. So for me the biggest helpful tip would be to make the sections modular. Be able to pack up a small 4 ft section at a time, and put things into project tool boxes. I mean I enjoy soldering electronics, but I don't need them out all the time, so I pack it up and replace it with something else say like my Dremel. But I must say I am very envious of the space that you have created.
Great tour, love the modelling bit - nearly lost my tea! - I have seen the bits and bobs when you moved and this tour does really give a better picture. I can definitely see how it could take a while to position things for a better work flow, especially when you have introduced something new. As a fine crafter, I am sure that should provide you with a way to ease the days as you build things.
Impressive! I like how you love what you do and it really shows in your finished product. I also enjoy watching your videos because you look exactly like my daughter.
Seriously, I’ve lost sleep over my shop area. Space is at a premium and I have just a few too many things that have to fit in it. I recently made some drastic changes and added power outlets to increase flexibility in arranging things, and removed a bunch of junk that really wasn’t necessary. I’m a bit jealous of your space there, you’re really making good use of it!
Hello Daisy. You have a fantastic workshop. I'm envious! That being said. I hope you'll accept some advice. I noticed your shelf with the battery charger & the green light on indicating that the battery is fully charged. You should not leave the batteries in the charger after full charge for any period of time. I'm a General Contractor on the Central Coast of California with over 30 years of experience. I recently had a customer who had a row of battery chargers lined up on a workbench against a wall in his garage. He would leave the batteries he wasn't using that day in the chargers all the time. One day he went to work, and came home after work to find his garage on fire as a battery overheated & caught fire. The fire "lapped" up the wall to the ceiling and over to the attic ladder (which was wood) & burned through allowing the fire into the attic space. Luckily a neighbor called & the fire dept put fire out before the house burned to the ground.
I’m a sandpaper saver too. My spindle sander is monster useful. I do envy your extraction systems, though I’ve windows/fans. I went with slatwall but cleats are nifty! Personally, as with clamps, one can also never’ave enough magnetic tool strips! My fav’ hand tool is a very old Craftsman brand awl circa 1980.
👍👍👍👍👍 very good video you were asking about a router. I use a Dewalt for my workshop. Never had a problem with it. I am 62. I should say I can’t say never had a problem with it. I’ve owned too in my life and I’ve had a wooden workshop for many many many many many years, it’s just an idea. You might want to try one so my opinion other people bought other opinions. Have a nice day. Stay healthy. Stay happy.
Hello Daisy. I just thought I would send you a recommendation for what to me looks like a really good addition to your tool set you could build that may help you when working on guitar necks. it comes from a fellow youtuber named Jeff and his channel is home built workshop. The video I would recommend is the one titled Build a Guitar Neck Carving Buck | An Important Guitar Building Jig. He has just started building acoustic guitars. So far he has built 2 but ha also has built a number of solid body guitars as well. He's just started working on setting up to use a CNC to help build his first Base. I really do like the neck carving buck he shows how to build in the video and shows how to use it as well.
Please tell us more about the Applewood. I harvested some apple a few years ago and want to use it for sides and back. Waiting for it to dry. I would love to hear your impressions of it. Thanks!
Excellent tour of your workshop, My workshop looked like that once. LOL. My biggest thing is I seriously must look into dust extraction, I have fume extractors for my lasers, but nothing in workshop. After seeing yours well I am going to look into it now and get something basic for now, and then just upgrade when funds allow me to.
Great shop! Interesting to see a shop from a different Country. I’m from USA. Indiana to be more precise. Love the Stew Mac tools, but they have become very expensive lately, and for an amateur part time luthier, I don’t get to buy them as much as I once was able to. Love your videos!❤️😎
The opening shot of entering the workspace showed no windows. It's like you're in a cave. Kind of like mine. 😁 When working I don't really mind it but if I were to start over in a dedicated space, I would look for a space with northern facing windows for the best natural lighting. Color corrected lamps can only do so much. Love your work, both lutherie and videos.
When I saw the eyes you put on your belt sander, I couldn't help but say, "Hello Chewy, looks like you are having a great day!" So, no matter what you decide to name it, I will be calling him Chewy 😉 😊
a great quote I saw many, many years ago. Don't know who said it. "Tools give you power over interesting things."
That's the truth... it takes a while to "nest" into a new workshop! Love the dust collection
you are overdue for a new workshop tour video!
@@Tincad4 hahaha for sure!
As a furniture maker, I've always loved watching the luthier side of woodworking. I always show my niece your Instagram reels. Even though she's only 4, she shows interest in it, so I bought her a mini bench plane from Veritas, and we make things together. She loves glueups, so she can peel the glue off her hands. 😂 I'm glad I found your longer-format videos!
Introducing children to "you can make /grow stuff" is rare in these times. Kudos you and your niece
@@williammaxwell1919 Aw man, you just made my week! Thank you❤
Awesome looking shop. The only thing I’d add is a a shop air filter for when you’re sanding. So many woodworkers have had to retire because they breathed in that super fine dust that you can’t see for so many years. Any power tool will make super fine dust, routers, sanders drills can ect….
Great idea!
Girls in cargo pants, hell yeah! Its the best thing since girls in tool belts 🔥
Our shops are our happy place. Fantastic seeing your sanctuary...
Aww bless ya Daisy 😊 Thank you for the shoutout and the kind words. You really are an asset to the industry. Love the style of this video too!
Aw thanks mate. Appreciate it.
OSB guitar when?
Thank you so much for the look around your lovely workshop! It was most enjoyable and informative to those of us who dreams of a shop for themselves.
Well, it is a lovely space; I wish I had space for a workbench like yours! One thought: you are working many hours on a concrete floor. For your long-term health, you might consider installing cushioned pads, interlocking garage floor tiles, etc.
Oh my god I would kill for such a tidy and organized workshop like yours! I started to build an acoustic guitar around 18 year ago in my tiny mess of a workshop ... I'll finish it someday! 😅
Daisy I just found your channel and I am blown away. You have such a passion for your craft and that is so admirable and heart warming. You weave your soul into your projects like a tapestry and I love it. My dad wants to be a guitar maker one day and I play some myself and have a deep appreciation for the craft. Keep doing what you love!
Lovely tour, and awesome that Xyla visited!
1 piece of well meant advice and 1 suggestion;
The advice: if a tool is not pleasant to work with, either replace it with something that is or get rid of it.
Because it will end up gathering dust. While a tool that does spark joy will invite you to use it more often.
The suggestion (inspired by my ocd and other makers) don't throw the same kind of tools (i.e sandpaper of different grits, and allen keys) in one big bin/drawer/basket. Make some nice holders to sort things. In the end it will look better and save you loads of time searching and making a mess.
Seconded on the decluttering, as well as Xyla. She is da bomb! She definitely makes engineering seem approachable. Been following her since just before she moved to California.
I've followed Xyla for several years; cool lady and you never know what her next video drop will be
I’ve used many brands of routers and for the last 30 years have found Porter Cable to be the best until about six years ago I got a Festool which is now my gold standard. I have six routers and still use both manufactures and have never had one fail doing its job. I love watching your video’s, I’ve been around a bit, but still love learning, you are very informative.
My day just got so much better! ☺️
So did mine when I saw this comment!
Great tour! One suggestion: since you are storing your buffing wheels on the floor, try wrapping each wheel in plastic bags when not in use. They’ll last longer, the buffing compound will stay much cleaner and you won’t accidentally scratch your work product mid polish because one of your the wheels picked up a stray wood chip. Don’t ask me how I know this! Well done video, very entertaining. Thanks.
Brilliant workshop, tip from my late grandfather on storing planes - put a little batten on the shelf so the blade is not touching the shelf. From me don’t store a digital calliper on a mag strip coz that’s how they work and over time you will wipe the scale. I predominantly work in metal and ended up binning all my mag strips as they magnetise everything on them causing them to pick up swarf and small components, very irritating 👍
What a great workshop visit! Very impressed with the order, sense of calm and cleanliness. The only dust being on the compressor. Thank you, much appreciated.
That just made my day. I always love watching shop tours. Thank you for sharing and teaching me the difference between a rule and ruler. 62 years old and never knew that. I love when younger people teach me things.
As far as routers, I've recently purchased 2 of the small DeWalt cordless routers (DCW600B) for site work and love them. Great if you happen to have DeWalt batteries already. If not, or if a corded router is still fine being that your in a shop, I've had the Bosch (PR20EVS) router. Had it for over 20 yrs before I need to rebuild it. Works great again. Great palm router. Also, I have 3 Porter Cable 690 routers. Had 2 for over 25 years, bought the 3rd second hand. Never any issues with any of them. Not sure if they're still making them, but wouldn't hesitate buy used if in good condition. No dust extraction though, but can buy 3rd party dust attachments.
You have an amazingly functional and proper Workshop!
Thank you for sharing your world!
Well done!
Your shop is fantastic,so organized. Love your commentary.😊
Wishing you all the best with your shop.❤❤❤
Thanks for the tour, very informative! I found some tubes of silicone caulk that had been forgotten and had become solid. I peeled the cartridge off it and after sitting out a couple of days the rank odor dissipated. Now I use it for cleaning my sanding belts and discs.
I follow so many makers, and my favorite videos are shop tours! It gives me ideas to make my own shop better :)
I love how you have stickers from all my favorites haha!
I love your shop! You can surely make a piece of wood sing!
For the first time here.
I'm not gonna lie, for your accent sake and as a wood enthusiast + who is so much into finding some good English line whenever I display my builds and with a hope that your channel should provide some solution to that, you earn my subscription.
Congratulation on your new work shop and everything there, they're looking stunning.
When I was a kid (back in the 1960s) my father let me have a go of his belt sander. The sandpaper was already totally clogged. Naturally, rather than use the offcuts he provided, I opted to use the heal of my shoe. Much to my surprise, the sandpaper immediately became unclogged and was good as new. My father was pleased as punch when I showed him. After that he got a stick of hard rubber and kept it by the sander at all times. I believe it was part of a car bumper, but it worked really well.
Love this shop setup. Moved into a new house 6 months ago and have been looking for luthiery shop ideas. Keep doing what you do!
Your shop doesn't just look like it's functional, it emits and invites creativity. Thank you for sharing 😊
Just completed renovating my old, dilapidated workshop, bar for setting up inside. Renovated the space for building ukuleles and vintage toys. Super impressed by your enthusiasm and love for your craft and your new workshop. Awesome !
I have taken your advise to clean up the morning after. It allows for a more thorough job, and gives me time to get in mind everything I will be up to. Thanks for this Daisy.
*GREAT SPACE.* I'm interested in your take on the intersection between what you do, your workshop, and life. With woodwork, sometimes I want to work in the small hours of the night, or I'm inspired and pull a really long day - and just want to tumble straight into bed. So having a workshop at home works for me. Sometimes I think about putting a cot in the workshop so I can have a catnap in there. Haha!
Hi Daisy! I don't have any experience about Makita routers but I do trust in my handheld DeWalt D26204K and CMT7E (in my router table) routers. I used to work with Dewalt in school of luthiery, so if it lasts in student use, it'll last in professional use IMO. Greetings from another luthier from Finland! 😉
You have such a delightful personality! I always wanted to be a luthier but now I’m 69 years old so I guess it’s not gonna happen. But it love watching you build guitars. I am a woodworker and therefore feel I know enough to really appreciate your talent. Keep up the good work!
69 is not too late. Really! (You don't need all those tools...)
When you're 79 you might say, damn, I still could've done it. (I'm 72 and still looking to do new things)
Fantastic workshop and a delightful tour i think you have it very well laid out as you have space to move around and for me you arent seeing other machinery out of the corner of your eyes much so no distractions.
I wouldnt change anything, even your boss siting up top keeping an eye on you is located in the right place.
Keep up the fantastic work and I look forward to seeing much more ❤
Whenever I get the opportunity to tour a workshop, I always enjoy it. This was the most enjoyable tour I've seen! Very well laid out, looks like a wonderful place to get lost in your craft! PS: love the line "that's just the princess I am!"
Might add a couple three sand bags to the router base to cure the wobbles.
And plastic bags on your buffing wheels to stop contamination of stray grit.
Very nice workshop set up Daisy. Looking forward to watching another guitar build. Stay young and keep making guitars! 👍👍💖💖
This was a great tour around your workshop Daisy. Your enthusiasm for most of your acquisitions came across so well along with, inevitably, a few grumbles cos ‘stuff’ ain’t always perfect.
You get to join the other almost 900 shop tours that I have downloaded for my dream shop build. Nice shop. Love the LN planes and am jealous of the one LN handed to you. I like getting outside the box of my normal woodworking types. You can always enjoy and pick up good ideas. A good WW tour always gets a subscription from me. Haven't seen you before - now I will.
A woodworker who hasn’t heard of Daisy? You’re in for a lot of great videos!
You’re too kind! Thanks for the lovely comments both!
@@finctank I hope so. I have only looked at the one so far. I will get to them though. I have many woodworkers outside of the US that I follow. A good number of them use hand tools and have quality work to show. All that i like.
Hey Daisy, my wife and I spent the month of June traveling around southeast England this year so I can guess what your shop looks like. There are many a youtube videos about dust extraction and as you know many woodworking tools just don't do much to help address getting the fine particles. I have a homemade 6 inch system and it works reasonably well. Looks to me from your tour you need an upgrade on your dust collection so you don't need the respirator so much. The other video you recently posted showed you put all that equipment to good use, keep posting. I am getting inspired.!
I have been establishing my workshop over the last six months and am just about ready to start making things. I was assessed as autistic last year and one manifestation of my version of autism is the necessity of workflow. My trite explanation is that if it doesn't flow then it doesn't work. I have to feel comfortable in the space before I can use it. It seems that you have managed to achieve that in your space which is great to see. You have also inspired me to go and buy industrial quantities of googly eyes. It is definitely something that is currently missing from my environment.
Love your shop! Great workshop tour - I love workshops and constantly rearrange stuff in mine so appreciate the inspiration and cool ideas. Must get some magnetic bars. My theme is everything gets hung up on the wall where I can see it. Stuff still gets lost cause I buy more tools and rearrange everything so things “fit”. I have a double car garage that can barely fit my car. My dream would be to have space for a completely bespoke shop,dedicated to photography (cameras & drones, frame making, shelving, crafting, golf club assembly & repair). Pegboard is everywhere…hooks grasp tools….I desperately need more walls. All benches are made by me - 3 of them, each 3.5ft wide x 7ft long; and all are on wheels for cleaning. Dust management is lacking - I just open the garage door after warning the neighbors, “It’s going to be noisy for a bit”. Good luck with your work and your show; can hardly wait to see more of your videos. You are adorable and awesome 🙂🇨🇦
great little shop spent a small fortune by the looks of it but 100% worth it to sustain your passion and career its my dream and plan to have a little shop like that once a retire thanks for sharing
Mostly I love that you have all these tools sitting on super nice work benches, using them as a table, and I’m over here on my crappy Harbor Freight work bench looking like 😒
Fun shop tour. 😉😁
Very nice video, cool workshop! Can barely wait for the oldoak build 😀
I have the same fan! Bought it off of Amazon. I do actually like it a lot, it is very quiet. The workshop is fantastic.
Cool shop, from my perspective it looks like you have a lot of free space just from seeing the way you organize things.
I'm sure as you grow you will optimize things and make it better suit your workflow. Have fun!
Thank you for the insight into your shop. It is great to see where your works of art are created.
I'm impressed at how committed she is to her trade. Best regards from Canada.
Very generous of you to share such an intimate work space. Love your charming, disclosive, educational, fresh, personally vulnerable videos! Thsnk you so much. Love 'n Light Sean
You could talk about 16th century novels, world wide balloon shortages or anything someone might consider mundane, and I would definitely listen to every word. Super awesome shop. You should definitely be very proud. Stay focused and keep up the great work. 👍
Great video, thanks for making. Your shop is a lot more tidy and organised than mine that’s for sure. Be interesting to see how yours evolves. Especially love the use of the word ‘apparently’ that’s where I keep my shoes etc. 😂
Excellent walk through. Having cut vast quantities of Western Red Cedar with CNC, I found that cedar has a lot of silica in it and is very hard on tool edges. Use downcut bits to leave a clean surface finish. Keep feed speeds up there. Running too lower feed speed and high revs results in rubbing instead of removing material. This heats up the tool and is not good. Also try not to recut chips. A good extraction is very important. Definitely going to watch more videos. From an retired old fart it is a pleasure to see young people that respect hand tools.
This was such a fun video! I really love seeing how people organize their workshop, you can tell a lot about someone by their organisation, and it's cool to see what works best for a luthier
Very nice tour, many thanks!
Two essentials I did not see. A particulate detector, an air purifier.
I also work on an interior shop. And sadly it has marginal ventilation. I have an oversized air purifier that helps enormously with dust control. And the particulate detector lets me know if dust levels require masking. Perhaps the ventilation in your shop makes this less important than in mine, however I highly recommend measuring particulate to make informed masking decisions.
Thoroughly enjoying this look at your creative work space. It lets me see where and how you create your art. I hope that you will never stop the creativity and passion of your work.
Festool routers are worth the money. Love the tour. I have an extremely similar set of tools but, unfortunately, a much smaller workshop.
Your channel is new to me and I must say I like your process. A thought about your drum sander extraction issues. Can you get them closer together? A shorter hose should increase draw. Cleaning the filter in your extracter pre drum sanding should yield a better result. A more costly mod might be to increase the hose diameter from the extracter to the sander(not sure if thats doable budgetwise).I'm not a luthier but I am a player with lots of modding experience. Also 18 years in a woodworking environment. Cheers from Canada!
Very nice shop, to-be-sure. I am a general type of woodworker making many different things. I have been building out my current basement workshop for 24 years and will continue to do so. Watching in Mechanicsville Virginia USA
Great video on your workshop Daisy, I must do one myself sometime. I am a woodturner and love my machines as well. keep up the good work.
Thanks Daisy for the shop tour. I know from experience it takes time to evaluate your work area and what works best. As you get more experience and build more guitar you’ll see the need to make changes, to upgrade tools, etc. I try to buy quality tools but that doesn’t mean they have to be the most expensive. I find when I need to upgrade tools or equipment it’s mainly for accuracy, and that accuracy is usually in a quality built tool. Hand in there young lady, continue to produce beautiful quality guitars and in time your work will be sought out.
Fan + long hair = supermodel. Male, female, all stops between. It's an unwritten universal law. Awesome tour of your shop! I love seeing BTS vids!
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There are guitar makers (IE; Fender, Gibson, Guild), and then there are guitar crafters (yourself, Ben from Crimson Custom). The major difference is the makers produce hundreds of guitars a week for mass sale, while a crafter creates an incredible piece of art from wood that happens to be a guitar. Blessed are the fortunate few who posses a crafted instrument!
Darn right! Thanks for the comment :)
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I noticed you mentioned your drum sander extraction is not great. Might be cause the pipe has a down bend in it after it leaves the machine. Might be creating a back flow turbulence. A smooth up curve could work better.
Now I know that sandpaper cleaner exists! Great to see the workshop.
Love your shop. You’ve got two of the most expensive tool stands I’ve ever seen. Just two full-on woodworking workbenches lol
You do such great work and have accomplished so much. Your family must be so very proud of you! Thank you for your wonderful videos too!!!
those gosh darn kids with their hip hop, the hippie to the hippie the hip hip a hop and you don't stop rockin to the bang bang the boogie music
Such a lovely room you've got there.👏👏 nice workshop dear.
Love what you’re sharing here Daisy, but quick, grab a hack saw and cut off those screw tips on your drill stand😅❤
Definitely worth building the router into the table saw. It's there without being there.
Keep on keepin' on!
The workshop looks great, and it seems like a good space to work in! And there are a loooot of tools, tons of cool stuff! Besides the "essential tools for guitar building" video that many people make (nothing wrong with that), I was thinking, which tool (or few tools), either hand or power tool, made the most difference from before and after getting the tool?
Always awesome to see what your up to
A good wingnut set with the usual sizes is a great investment for when you run into annoying bolts that you need to use too often on products like that "fold away" router table 😅
What a wonderful creation space! Congratulations!
You are inspiring me to attempt to make an acoustic guitar. Bonus points since I'll get to buy tools! Nice shop. Love that you use hand tools as your preference. Right there with you. Great video as always. Thank you.
Your shop is fantastic, thanks for the tour Daisy.
Dear Daisy.
I have seen your video. One comment:
If you sand something with lacker on it, you can avoid it sticking to the sandpaper. Use a thin layer of petroluem on tha lacker. It prevents sticking.
Lover your workshop and your work.
PS. The petroleum will not combust! Just to ease your mind.
1:53 Slidy Miter Boys- would make a good band name. Love the workshop space!
My problem with my workspace, is that I am constantly learning so much, that I have to set up new areas for new tasks. So for me the biggest helpful tip would be to make the sections modular. Be able to pack up a small 4 ft section at a time, and put things into project tool boxes.
I mean I enjoy soldering electronics, but I don't need them out all the time, so I pack it up and replace it with something else say like my Dremel.
But I must say I am very envious of the space that you have created.
Great tour of your shop, I need to get a ( can’t cope ) sticker. Thanks for sharing this channel with us.
Great tour, love the modelling bit - nearly lost my tea! - I have seen the bits and bobs when you moved and this tour does really give a better picture. I can definitely see how it could take a while to position things for a better work flow, especially when you have introduced something new. As a fine crafter, I am sure that should provide you with a way to ease the days as you build things.
The hand tool wall is awesome.
Impressive! I like how you love what you do and it really shows in your finished product. I also enjoy watching your videos because you look exactly like my daughter.
Seriously, I’ve lost sleep over my shop area. Space is at a premium and I have just a few too many things that have to fit in it.
I recently made some drastic changes and added power outlets to increase flexibility in arranging things, and removed a bunch of junk that really wasn’t necessary. I’m a bit jealous of your space there, you’re really making good use of it!
"Everything Lie Nielson" So true. Those are my babies . Sharpen easily and cut like a dream
Hello Daisy. You have a fantastic workshop. I'm envious! That being said. I hope you'll accept some advice. I noticed your shelf with the battery charger & the green light on indicating that the battery is fully charged. You should not leave the batteries in the charger after full charge for any period of time. I'm a General Contractor on the Central Coast of California with over 30 years of experience. I recently had a customer who had a row of battery chargers lined up on a workbench against a wall in his garage. He would leave the batteries he wasn't using that day in the chargers all the time. One day he went to work, and came home after work to find his garage on fire as a battery overheated & caught fire. The fire "lapped" up the wall to the ceiling and over to the attic ladder (which was wood) & burned through allowing the fire into the attic space. Luckily a neighbor called & the fire dept put fire out before the house burned to the ground.
I’m a sandpaper saver too. My spindle sander is monster useful. I do envy your extraction systems, though I’ve windows/fans. I went with slatwall but cleats are nifty! Personally, as with clamps, one can also never’ave enough magnetic tool strips! My fav’ hand tool is a very old Craftsman brand awl circa 1980.
👍👍👍👍👍 very good video you were asking about a router. I use a Dewalt for my workshop. Never had a problem with it. I am 62. I should say I can’t say never had a problem with it. I’ve owned too in my life and I’ve had a wooden workshop for many many many many many years, it’s just an idea. You might want to try one so my opinion other people bought other opinions. Have a nice day. Stay healthy. Stay happy.
I love the slo-mo jazz fan scene upended by the talk of sweaty arm pits 😂👏
You've inspired me to sort out our workshop. It's all there but there's so much clutter in there!!
Love a shop tour filled with specialist tools I'm not familiar with.
Great shop set-up, quality tools, thanks for sharing - Cheers from Canada
Hello Daisy. I just thought I would send you a recommendation for what to me looks like a really good addition to your tool set you could build that may help you when working on guitar necks. it comes from a fellow youtuber named Jeff and his channel is home built workshop. The video I would recommend is the one titled Build a Guitar Neck Carving Buck | An Important Guitar Building Jig. He has just started building acoustic guitars. So far he has built 2 but ha also has built a number of solid body guitars as well. He's just started working on setting up to use a CNC to help build his first Base. I really do like the neck carving buck he shows how to build in the video and shows how to use it as well.
Please tell us more about the Applewood. I harvested some apple a few years ago and want to use it for sides and back. Waiting for it to dry. I would love to hear your impressions of it. Thanks!
Excellent tour of your workshop, My workshop looked like that once. LOL. My biggest thing is I seriously must look into dust extraction, I have fume extractors for my lasers, but nothing in workshop. After seeing yours well I am going to look into it now and get something basic for now, and then just upgrade when funds allow me to.
Great shop! Interesting to see a shop from a different Country. I’m from USA. Indiana to be more precise. Love the Stew Mac tools, but they have become very expensive lately, and for an amateur part time luthier, I don’t get to buy them as much as I once was able to. Love your videos!❤️😎
Thank you for the tour! Giving me lots of ideas for my little "shop" (the corner of the dining room!)
The opening shot of entering the workspace showed no windows. It's like you're in a cave. Kind of like mine. 😁
When working I don't really mind it but if I were to start over in a dedicated space, I would look for a space with northern facing windows for the best natural lighting. Color corrected lamps can only do so much. Love your work, both lutherie and videos.
You need the strongest lock you can find on the door! Also an alarm, a loud & noisy one. 👀Gpx
A workshop is essential for any type of wood worker.
Name suggestion for your drum sander -> Lloyd 😁
Thanks for the tour! The french cleats even work when you mess up the angle, don't ask me how I know....
I very much suspect my angles are also poor
When I saw the eyes you put on your belt sander, I couldn't help but say, "Hello Chewy, looks like you are having a great day!" So, no matter what you decide to name it, I will be calling him Chewy 😉 😊