I Build Something HUGE For Myself.... and It Sucks
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- I Finally Build Something for Me and it doesn't quite turn out the way I wanted.....
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Shelves with hidden features... like hidden shelves with even more features... no idea what those should be but that is why we like squirrely things
@@vvsandgaming4648 a shalf with a hinge where you can flip open the top of the shelf, but also put things on the shelf. secret compartments.
@@Cryptowill821 oooooh.... A normal shelf with a hidden compartment on top and underneath and perhaps even on the front.
It could be called "The Hidden Shelf"
John i’m an avid woodworker who has followed you for awhile, please do a shiplap wall!!! i made one a few years ago out of reclaimed pallet wood, it would be really cool in your space
Hey John,
You've got someone trying to scam people off your channel. Look at my comment on your this table will make me thousands video.
I love it. Lol this build series should be called Sunday Morning Wood 😂
You are obviously the "Wooder" instead of the "Woodee" who would slip quietly away before you wake...
Floating shelves made from the same type of wood as the desk would look good on that black wall. Should work some sort of lighting features in somewhere too. You should also explore the idea of a real waterfall somewhere in your office too. The sound of water can really help you relax after a long day.
As far as the metal part of the desk goes:
Powder coating! It'll cost ya but you can't beat it and if its no good you send it back to them to deal with.
I second this
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6th this although I’m way way late
Hey John, you're probably going to want additional sound deadining in the office and honestly something to keep the pings of the metal on the desk to keep from being picked up from your mic. Sound damping panels for the walls and signage behind you and a couple sheets of dynamat under the desk to keep the desk noise quiet while recording
Agreed. Maybe some Dynamat or one of its knock-offs on the underside of the metal to reduce the ping.
Note: Dynamat autocorrects to Dynamite which would also work for sound deadening...once. It would also work for John deadening which I'm sure none of us want.
An Engineering Teacher always told our class that "You can't Polish a Turd". In an attempt to prove him wrong, we used the hot wax film machine to create surface we could polish. Long story short the melting temperature of a turd happens to be lower than wax.
If I May, a french cleat blending with the paint for some "changeability" for the scenario would be nice in that wall.
Warm regards from Brazil!!!
That's a very smart idea
Suggestion for grinding and when you use a circular saw to cut sheet metal: face shield or put on a welding helmet that has the auto dimmer. It keeps the sparks off your face. Also, any time anyone is in the shop space for any reason, they need safety glasses, goggles, or a face shield on. It is an OSHA regulation and it will save an eyeball or at least the pain of getting a splinter or steel filing from a spark in the eye and having to go to the ER to get it removed. Also, you only get two eyes, so don't waste your spare one when some cheap safety glasses will protect them. If the camera crew needs to look into a view finder to film, look at options for safety guards for the camera for protecting their eyes.
My qualifications for this are being on multiple safety committees at industrial sites, including a plant that manufactured explosives and required training related to safety to be on, and the industrial first aid training I received that covered treating eye injuries. My instructor for the first aid class was an EMT with over 25 years of experience in the field. He had seen the difference between when there were safety glasses and when there weren't. It is the difference between going blind and just having a lot of surgeries and having a bad eye afterwards. One of the companies I worked for had a hall of shame for unsafe things they found and hall of fame for safety equipment that saved people. Lots of safety glases shattered or with grinder disc shard embedded in them, but the photo of the worker with just a black eye instead of an eye patch.
safety squints are a funny joke but metal (or anything else) in your eye is no bueno.
my qualifications on this are that I've gotten lots of stuff in my eyes over the years because I'm an idiot.
#eyepro
Yeah and better ear protection than AirPods, please. My qualifications involve being an old guy who still has his hearing and is surrounded by guys who thought ear protection was for wooses but now have hearing aids.
Yes, wear safety glasses.
My qualifications are that i have eyes
Live edge floating shelves. From top to bottom contrasting different woods and colors. And then add your 2 logos in the back out of wood and metal.
The desk looks really classy, I would have thought to use it on the other side, have your monitors and computer on the metal, but then keyboard, mouse, and writing on the live edge. (however, would require a rebuild...)
As for the wall, I'd think a collection of shelves, live edge, and metal would look really good, but also maybe some large pieces of art/signs/etc used to house/disguise sound dampening would be helpful as your podcast studio gets more heavily used.
if your not happy with the finish on the metal side of the desk I recommend wet sanding with 1000-2000 grit and then buffing with automotive polishing compound. This is what I did when I painted my old tanker desk to make it slightly above average.
Cedar plank herring bone pattern wall with a picture frame center piece of your logo. I do tile work and recently did a backsplash and it sparked the idea.
Maybe something to match the desk: Metal frame shelves with some wood boards and accents
Maybe placed off-center onto some painted-on pipe network to create one wall filling peace of functional art
Some kind of built in cabinet for storage and each cabinet door panel is a piece of shop art. For example, one door could be small pictures of your favorite joinery. Another could be measurement conversions. Another could be types of welds and how they’re used. My thought is your CNC could carve that stuff out. This is what I want to do in my shop.
I love the desk.. I think I'd take a thin strip of wood and put it at the end so it makes it wood the metal then wood. Makes it looks like the metal was in the wood. Now for the wall I'd do signs and floating shelves but with the same wood as the desk.. maybe a metal one or two.. thats just me .. the office looks great
Dude, put a killer aquarium on that wall with black paint! You could build a wicked stand for it and put sharks in your office! Or you could build a squirrel habitat. Either way is cool!
Notion is the best! I manage all my business in Notion. I also put all my plans there and even run my D&D campaign on it!
I think a giant mural of John on a bearskin rug needs to be in his office and MAYBE with him wearing a Steelers helmet perhaps? That's optional.
John I’m a superintendent for a home builder and I’ve seen customers get some really cool wallpaper and do floating shelves on the wall paper. That way you have a cool combo with art and storage while not taking space with the physical art pieces.
You could add some acoustic panels that are decorative, with 2x1s and Rockwool, cover the front with a funky looking fabric.
10:10 Next project: a table long enough to support a plasma cutter
Picture ledges. Examples of things that could go on there are canvases, picture frames, trophies, TH-cam plaques, fan art, ….ect
When you first said Notion, I heard "No sh*t", which I think would be a much better name for that tool anyway.
Appreciate your no-tion reviews and tutorials. Keep it real!
Let's see floating hidden beer storage with a steelers logo being the front design. Surrounded by metal and live edge slab floating and lit shelves. With a cnc clock of your logo top dead center. Need that drawn up I got you.
John, I would like to see a giant mural on the wall if you fist fighting a grizzley bear with flags and explosions in the back ground!
Cause, ya know, 'Murica!! 🇺🇲
Regarding the shelves: you will constantly be bumping into them as you back up your chain and stand up. I'd recommend recessed shelves in between the wall studs.
Unrelated to the build: you should get a herman Miller chair. It would be more comfortable 🙃 love mine. Love the half metal and half wood table and that it’s not against the wall. That curved monitor is siccccccccc
I see squirrelly zigzag shelves on that wall with your podcast logo. Looking good! Enjoy your vacation.
For behind the destk. Make the most epic 'Builder' logo you possibly can. Epoxy,wood, and back-lit, would make for an epic background for the podcast.
Black walnut floating shelves for sure
That's an awesome desk, I like it.
The only thing I don't like is the editing of the video itself, it feels like it's made for 12 year old kids with a double dose of ADHD, insanely hectic and all over the place with pacing, volume, music and sound effects. Please take this as constructive criticism and don't be afraid to let your videos run a few minutes longer while leaving half of the jumpcuts out.
Make a tree trunk 'grow up' the wall, with each shelf acting as a branch coming off the trunk on either side. Of course they would need to be floating for this to work.
i would paint the "Punch Today in the Face" mural that was in the previous shop on the empty wall for sure.
Metal and wood logo with back light for you podcast background. Floating shelves with antique tools. Also a floating light of some kind.
5:09 Jordan almost caught the back hand😂✊🏽
All of the above:
- Floating shelves,
- Signage where a TV might go
- Art based acoustic panels on most of the walls (and ceiling honestly if you find it really reverb filled)
Then
- Some cable management trays under the desk, grommets to hide all the cables for monitors and stuff
- monitor arms mounted on drill through mounts (since you can't clamp with the chairs being on the other side for visitors
Only downside really is loosing the sit stand part. Wouldn't have worked with the waterfall but you could've put the slab on those and lifted (uplift desk sells a 4 legger that lifts 535 lbs).
So, you'll hate the build but love the look... A wall-to-wall bookshelf made with maple and shelves made of metal. Art can just be photos of your work after they've sold and been placed.
If you're podcasting, you're going to need sound panels. Live edge waterfall frames for the said sound panels! (And use that Rockwool insulation you bought 8 months ago)
Awesome Desk! As to your Black Wall, just a suggestion, divide the space into 3 sections. Top Center section, large business logo signage. Sign would be the focal point.
Left And right sides, 2 possible ideas. 1st would be photo gallery of your completed projects. Gives your future clients samples of what your shop can do for them. Tells a story. 2nd idea, floating shelves. For both ideas at the bottom would build cabinets to store merchandise, forms, and other office/shop supplies. Also a couple file drawers for client work. Always a good idea to keep paper back-up in case of computer failure.
I was going to comment on the lack of monitors......nevermind!! Mini-fridge....yeah.....air fryer, wait what??!! Brilliant!! I have a whole cabinet devoted to fishing tackle in my basement office. Safety squints were fully engaged at all times!! The extra metal cleat needs a walnut box attached hanging down to act as a drink holder, an LED light controller for the lights under the desk, and a "Get out of my office!!" emergency button!! Have a great vacation!!
Walnut Live edge floating shelves on the black wall, SCRAP the metal section of the desk and do a section in WOOD to take it's place but paint it the black you want...
Put the slab on a standing desk and hang a photo of bacon and eggs on the wall, don’t forget the claymore on the desk as well
That's a wicked desk.
a life-size portrait of Jordan would go good in the office.
matching walnut floating shelves would be both the bees and knees.
TLC said "Don't go chasin' waterfalls".....but clearly they didn't know anything about this project. Looks dope bud!
Can't believe you didn't build an epoxy river table - could have done a joint video with the folks over at Black Forest Wood Co or Blacktail Studio because they are specialists (specifically in desks), and you deserve a special desk! Appreciate you're a wood and metal company, but only the best for the best of TH-cam!
Resin floating shelves made out of epoxy resin with cool stuff floating in the epoxy resin staggered and sighns or memorabilia in the spaces in-between.
Cool sign, small whiteboard, a few floating shelves.
You need a "Live Laugh Craft" sign out of wood and metal on the wall. 😂😂
CNC your logo and add noise canceling foam to it. That would look pretty amazing for any video you shoot from your desk.
Oh snap!!! Good to see Jordan back.
Awesome job John, and team. That desk idea is BadA$$ my dudes. And I can't see what you're seeing, or feel what you're feeling on your desk project through a screen. Lol. (Damn that would be cool! Lol) But I think it looks amazing! I hope to see what you end up doing with the desk. And as far as the wall behind your desk. That question really, well it'll just depend on a couple things. Is your office, an area that you would like to set up, to have space, to give your customers the ability to come in, set down and go over plans with you? And for others to sit down and talk with you about a job they are inquiring about? Or is it an office that will only be seen on camera, by you and your guys that work alongside you? The only reason I'm asking is, if it'll be a place for clientele to sit down and discuss spending their money with you. I would dress it as such, I'd go all in, put your company logo behind the desk, some cool lighting behind the logo. Maybe a coffee and tea bar. Think car dealership, Just a higher class setup, as new people, as well as returning customers walk into a, custom furniture makers shop! Set it up to scream, that you know what you're doing! That they should spend their money with you! You know what I'm saying?
However if your office, is gonna be another room just for you to work from. And clients won't be in there. Then maybe go for function over form.. Shelves for stuff you need at hand. You know, anyhow just my thoughts. Thanks for the great content.
Swing Arms for screens for your desk, shelving maybe with some of your cut off edges with bark. Sounds proofing (those annoying projects with cloth over wood, screen print the cloth or something). Also carpet if you're recording in there..
The back wall looks like a great place for the shop logo in metal & epoxy.
If you are going to record podcasts you'll need to put up some acoustic treatment. In general it doesn't matter where in the room, it just hast to be in the room... however if you can reduce the sound at the first reflection it would help. So put the "bulk" of the acoustic treatment on the wall you face and talk towards during the podcast.
Second, I've seen some other comments about a french cleat system that sound awesome so I vote for that! Would allow you a lot of flexibility in what you place where.
Third if it's a video podcast then having a sign in the background with the pod cast title, or even just your name would be great. Honestly, just your name makes a lot of sense and is general enough to use for anything you need it for.
On the wall, I would have done a logo for your shop and then floating shelves. For the desk, I think I would have done a mix of metal on the outer edges, wood and epoxy. I think that would show people the different materials you work with and the things you could do.
Must have heard The Stones on the way to work and ended up with Paint it Black stuck in your head. Love the outcome!
I suggest wall art: your silhouette marked in white chalk! Like in a crime scene...😀
Altered floating shelves, live edge and metal. Main focus would be your logo in contrasting colors to black wall.
Add a curve to the metal where it meets the wood (think semi circle). Straight tops are boring. For the decorations, would be kinda cool to have antique wood working tools surrounding a large super shiny metal logo.
on the back wall put shelf on the sites and a sound diffusere wood art in the middel so you can se it on the podcast/youtube
I never realized until this video that you were in Pittsburgh. I'm just a couple hours east of you. Would be cool to stop in some time I'm in town to meet the legend!
Someone is dropping some good weight! Doing awesome my man, true inspiration!!!!
Here's an idea: make a hexagon out of wood about 1 foot in diameter. Cut a 45° angle on one half of the edges. Do the same on the other half, but facing in the opposite direction. Make dozens more. Paint them in slight variations of black. Now if you screw some of them onto the wall at the right distance and in the right orientation you get a nice patterned wall. But because of the 45° angles you can use the remaining hexagons like a kind of french cleat system to hang pictures, old tools, lighting, speakers, what have you.
Chalk board paint and live edge floating shelves. File cabinet under desk. Recess a front panel on desk with your logo in/on it. Make grooves on door grey to match walls?
Desk looks great! That bracket tho . . . Floating shelves would look great but you need drawers to conceal some of that stuff
cut up the metal desk turn them into desk raiser, Wall use scarp wood make a floating shelves with outlets & led lights and put your logo in center. Gig ‘em
Id do a mural on the wall and then hang industrial shelving to match the desk in front of it. Might even be able to make it out of the slab scraps
I would recommend doing a French cleat system so you can do customisable hanging shelf’s for storage/display/functionality.
A few sound absorbption panels if you're going to be doing a podcast with other people across the table. Maybe a blind on the shop window, and a blackout blind in front of the window if you're going to have a camera angle down the table.
My vote for the wall behind the desk is for walnut French cleats across the whole wall. Then tune it up with all of the shelves, hooks, brackets that your heart desires.
Have fun at beach 🏖. Floating live edge shelves behind you on wall with some movement in the grain I.e. Claro walnut or some lighter wood to break up all the dark colors in the room.
3/4" black steel pipes and fittings for floating shelves. Mount the same type of desk wood (maybe milled a bit thinner) to the pipes. Rustic meets industrial....
cabinets on the lower side of the wall and shelves above with the logo thrown in..... squirrelly of course!
You need to make a Rube Goldberg style marble run that fills the whole wall in your office and terminates into a decision maker. In other words, a big ball bearing would fall into a “yes” or “no” slot after traveling the whole route. You could call it the wall of knowledge or something stoopider.
Gotta have shelving in your office so you have a place to put the liquor! But, I like the idea of some art behind you on the wall.
Floating shelves using the walnut. Your logo in a cookie sign as the center. Could hide that bracket in a chai rail maybe?
I love how every time I see John with a pencil behind his ear, it always looks moments away from falling, but it never does
Retired singage from the other groups/companies y'all've worked with in the past would be pretty cool on the back wall.
JOHN M. Company stamp centered with a full wall shelf unit, 6 drawers at the bottom.
I need to see a kayak fishing series, love seeing a black pack in the office. Should introduce a tackle review / catch & cook maybe?!
Hey john, I don't know if this is your thing or not, but I'd love to see a 3 LEVELS of Puzzle Box! video.
Awesome. Very nice shop office redo. Can't wait to see more videos soon my friends. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friends. Weld On. Fab On. Keep Making. Stay squirrely. God bless.
if your podcast is going to have video, you could do the old punch today in the face logo from your old shop behind you, but leave room for other tags, like get squirrelly, ect. or you could do some kind of magnetic sheet that way you can just make cutouts of whatever you want behind you for a given day, or if you are trying to give a presentation via podcast you can use it as a visual aid, or even have a full white board style magnetic sheet to throw up there for that purpose
If you ever have clients in your office, the wall behind you should be filled with sellable inspiration... photos of your best (i.e. most expensive) work, happy customers (use psychology to sell; people like smiling faces) etc. You can be talking about their brief while they are getting more and more excited by the cool sh*t you've made before. You'll no doubt get some "Kinda like that one" moments, so you can add an extra couple of $$ to the quote.
It'll also give you a cool backdrop on camera when you're doing non-workshop talk to camera bits, or even video stream for the podcast.
Office wall: DAMNIT JORDAN! With some caricatures (spelled wrong?) of all of you, bobblehead stlye.
"Inclined to dangle" is my new favourite fishing phrase 😄
A set of built in cabinets that are the same color black. Or out of mahogany. “My apartment(office) smells of rich mahogany, I have many leather bound books.”
-Ron Burgundy
Shelving off to the side but directly behind your chair an obnoxiously big John Malecki sign, with some “tasteful” art in the vicinity!
Do a skyrise sound diffuser. Keep the metal/wood co trash going with some metal blocks and wood blocks mixed. Or keep all the blocks wood, stand off a metal plasma cut logo with LED backlighting. Hot dayum I'm good.
id do a 50-50 room, the metal side of the desk and the black wall would be black and metal floating shelves and industrial looking stuff, the side of the room with the wood half of the desk if do wood shelfs , maybe some squirly hand carved pieces ,
Put your saw blade logo on the black wall, but it needs to be huge, like at least 6’ diameter. It needs to be 3-D and lit up with led strip lighting. Then incorporate some live edge floating shelves to match your desk. Then you need something that pops, I’m thinking like the tables that float with the chains and some cool lamps on them that are made from epoxy. IDK, have a great vacation!!!
Best TH-cam content creators BY FAR! Love the channel 🥰.
I think 3 levels of epoxy river art for the walls. maybe some maple and walnut burls. Get Jordan to make one!
My suggestion for back wall: Super Large Black and White picture of your wife holding baby daughter and you get to make an over the top frame to put it in, maybe some L.E.D.s
I think a large old fashioned map would be cool on your wall.
You got that Cnc, why not put it to use in cutting some swirls into the table and metal sections, then blending the whole thing together with gold, copper or aluminium inlaid? Will blur that harsh boundary and you can continue the style into art on the wall
The desk is dope. Maybe out the Metal and Wood logo on the end of the desk with the cnc. Then it could literally say Metal and Wood ON metal and wood :)
cookie wall are center piece, tool box lower cabinets for storage and floating shelves in changing varieties of wood.