RIP Dave Watts. One of the best dudes I've had the privilege of knowing. To those of you reading this, check on your friends more often, even the ones you think don't need it.
This is the tough part of getting to do high end work. One minute it's "you are an artist" and "this is absolutely incredible" and the next it can be "there is no way it took that many hours" and "you said it would be done and it's not" after countless change requests. Some clients are amazing and others are vampires walking around in the daylight. Keep grinding!
I’m not in the pre runner scene, but I appreciate the time, dedication and craftsmanship involved in these projects. I’ve taken a LOT of inspiration from this channel and terra crew for my Tacoma project. You (among others) inspired me to pick up a welder and start fabricating to the best of my abilities. I have a lot of things on my pickup at this point that I’m proud to say, “Yeah, I built that.” Thanks Morgan. You’re a hell of a dude and a hell of a fabricator.
Everyone give thumbs up to Morgans video's let's get this channel to grow . The passion you have Morgan is inspiring in many ways the younger generations could learn a lot of wisdom from you if they would listen .
@@MorganClarkeDesign1 I have 33 year of welding under my belt mainly pipe welding and I'd love to have you as teacher to learn from . Old dog can still learn new tricks .
What you are saying is why I don’t fabricate for a living. To me your work is priceless, yet at the same time I can’t afford your Mona Lisa’s. You are an amazing down to earth master at what you do. I build rock crawlers and I put every effort into making my work “art” and I appreciate what you bring to the game.
Thank you. I’m very grateful for the clients we do have that value the work & have respect. You can’t win em all. This is just a growing pain & a point of letting go for future growth.
Contracts for time and material protect both parties, as do detailed time cards. I've been on the opposite end of your experience where I've paid 10s of thousands for substandard work and no aacountability. Appreciate your perspective as your work obviously speaks for itself.
With this build in particular I’ve kept it tight. There has been other builds/projects with much less accounting for hours. It always come back to bite me in the ass.
Respect dude. I can relate to this situation, you are doing the right thing for you and your company. I take a lot of inspiration from you man. Keep it going, and I’m sorry to hear about your friend.
I really appreciate you sharing all the info, techniques and so on! All the work you've done on this thing is so inspiring and eye opening. Keep up the awesome builds and epic content!
Building a beamed blazer right now. Been binge watching all your videos trying to soak up as much information as possible. Thank you for going out of your way to provide all of this for us, very helpful being able to see things through your perspective.
It's been awesome watching your journey over these last few years. I started my business around the same time as you, and it's reassuring to know that I'm not alone in the world of learning 'how to business owner' on the fly. I've wanted to quit so many times - wanted to go back to just being employed and doing my craft, spending countless nights awake at night having existential crisis after existential crisis. I had to let go of a lot of things that just aren't feasible anymore and unfortunately I had to also learn not to get attached. Cheers, Morgan. Love your channel and your journey as an artist, business owner, and person.
Bad Ass! Your attention to detail and vision of the unseen creation your building, really shows! It's great you share your builds that actually belong in a museum...But that wouldn't be any fun, lol Thanks for sharing in these videos!
Your work, design, fabrication and outlook are second to none. Thanks for documenting the process. It's great that you, Robj and Kibbetech share your knowledge, it is truely appreciated! I hope to build my business to a point where I can afford to hire you to build my dream truck.
I’m a general contractor in San Diego & I won’t do any job no matter the price without my contract being signed. Relying on billing during and after will always get you in trouble. If I’m doing time and material jobs I have a contract for that.
dude!!! just wire it and seats its fine. this is art.i told you your a fabrication savant. to be invited to an exotic car event with a roller, that roller is pretty fucking special. ive been waiting and waiting to see an update.thank you for kickin' some business knowledge for the new or soon to be shops. thats whats up. this is going to be on a different level. outstanding. are you or a family member friends of bill w. ? i cant tell how many times ive heard stinkin' thinkin'. all good. this just looks the business my friend. im telling you this is going to be something that a couple generation from now will look back at like i look back at old walker evans rigs. this truckwill be a pinnacle that others will aspire to build for many generations. cant wait to see the next update. im not gonna know whether to shit or go blind when the finished truck debuts. until then. godspeed. cheers
sick work as always! keep motivating the rest of us. It was cool to hear the insight from the business side, as I am working on growing a shop. We constantly struggle with turning down fab work as my vision is to sell turnkey. would be cool to hear about how you structure compensation. ie customer wants x completed and you set a price for the end goal or log hours for what it takes to achieve that vision?
Thank you for the inspiration brother. I appreciate your passion. Next in my budget is to buy a welder and start fabing components for my 4runner. Been a long time dream of just doing basic work so I can build toys for my future kids. These vids are outstanding.
Everlast welders are a good affordable option. If you wait til black Friday they run good sales. I saved $300 off my tig welder. They are a nice mid $$ option that you can grow with. There's a lot of damn good welders using them.
watched the tasco 4 parts builds incredible. theres another cool videos forgot name but a small team prerunning baja with a lemon yellow obs or 1991 looking ford . its a full tube chassis and the dude is older but thats a great couple videos too.
let me be honest. there is alot of talking in this video and i may have skipped though a bit. but if i understand correct, you are NOT going to finish the truck? im a bit confused
@ morgan Clarke design ... Dude this video is The Best video and a true story of a person and great dude from what I see and family, running a business in the biggest city is rough but Morgan I everyday get home and fab. I Envy you in the way that your able to be Infront of the camera and word I have agreed with you all the way. We don't know everything; people do need to ask questions and want to learn and get out of that bubble of that negative mindset we as many keep. But every day is positivity and that is a GIFT that I would truly like to have a truck built by MCD . Give me a message my email is attached to my name. Congrats my dude and keep being an inspiration for me and many others. TRHANK YOU
100% for sale. I’m pretty sure the owner doesn’t have much value into keeping the car. I will happily finish it for the new client. Renderings to reality every step of the way. That’s a promise.
@@MorganClarkeDesign1 I know he’s got like 5 badass trucks, including the weitzel you profiled, was he just over it? Was it that your shop blew up and he wasn’t cool with it not being your primary focus?
@@traviscassidy4717 bet something like that is the case. If anyone he's got the money to finish it. Big shame. Probably ultimately coming down to time and not caring about the art anymore. Sounds like it was a fight the whole time anyway
I think it's just time for a new chapter. A lot of sweat equity is in that build. If the entire build has been a roller coaster of start and stops due to funds/parts, whatever. It wears on the builder/business. You only have so many spots in a shop for a vehicle and you want them all to be productive.
@@MorganClarkeDesign1 seems like he wanted to pay when major things were accomplished, and something of that magnitude, what it evolved into became what would win the riddler award for offroad trucks and it takes time and also your shop blew up and you had to work on other things that put food on your table and he was over it and decided to sell because he’s got 5 or 6 of these. Am I close?
RIP Dave Watts. One of the best dudes I've had the privilege of knowing. To those of you reading this, check on your friends more often, even the ones you think don't need it.
This is the tough part of getting to do high end work. One minute it's "you are an artist" and "this is absolutely incredible" and the next it can be "there is no way it took that many hours" and "you said it would be done and it's not" after countless change requests. Some clients are amazing and others are vampires walking around in the daylight. Keep grinding!
Nailed it👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I’m not in the pre runner scene, but I appreciate the time, dedication and craftsmanship involved in these projects. I’ve taken a LOT of inspiration from this channel and terra crew for my Tacoma project. You (among others) inspired me to pick up a welder and start fabricating to the best of my abilities. I have a lot of things on my pickup at this point that I’m proud to say, “Yeah, I built that.” Thanks Morgan. You’re a hell of a dude and a hell of a fabricator.
Everyone give thumbs up to Morgans video's let's get this channel to grow . The passion you have Morgan is inspiring in many ways the younger generations could learn a lot of wisdom from you if they would listen .
Thank you. I appreciate the support. Teaching, leading, coaching & sharing does something for me. I want to pursue it further.
@@MorganClarkeDesign1 I have 33 year of welding under my belt mainly pipe welding and I'd love to have you as teacher to learn from . Old dog can still learn new tricks .
You and your crew in the studio are an inspiration to so many people who have a passion for this type of work. Hang in there Bud…
What you are saying is why I don’t fabricate for a living. To me your work is priceless, yet at the same time I can’t afford your Mona Lisa’s. You are an amazing down to earth master at what you do. I build rock crawlers and I put every effort into making my work “art” and I appreciate what you bring to the game.
Thank you. I’m very grateful for the clients we do have that value the work & have respect. You can’t win em all. This is just a growing pain & a point of letting go for future growth.
Contracts for time and material protect both parties, as do detailed time cards. I've been on the opposite end of your experience where I've paid 10s of thousands for substandard work and no aacountability. Appreciate your perspective as your work obviously speaks for itself.
With this build in particular I’ve kept it tight. There has been other builds/projects with much less accounting for hours. It always come back to bite me in the ass.
Thanks for the reply, support & words!
Rip Dave. I hooked him up with those coolers.
Respect dude.
I can relate to this situation, you are doing the right thing for you and your company.
I take a lot of inspiration from you man.
Keep it going, and I’m sorry to hear about your friend.
Thanks. I appreciate that. It has to happen. It could only go on for soo long. Time is up.
I really appreciate you sharing all the info, techniques and so on! All the work you've done on this thing is so inspiring and eye opening. Keep up the awesome builds and epic content!
Thank you MCD1 for allowing us to see the soul of your work and dedication much appreciated truly inspiring ! Keep on moving forward brother 🦾👉🏽MCD1
Morgan thank you for the insight and your perspective on your business and about balancing life and delegation of priorities in aspects of the Passion
AMAZING! skills, craftsmanship,, dedication, passion, much respect MCD! 😊
Building a beamed blazer right now. Been binge watching all your videos trying to soak up as much information as possible.
Thank you for going out of your way to provide all of this for us, very helpful being able to see things through your perspective.
This thing is extremely awesome.. I absolutely love it! I have gotten some of my RC Trophy Truck parts inspiration from this rig!
13:37 I have never felt that shit! 😂 Get it Morgan
It's been awesome watching your journey over these last few years. I started my business around the same time as you, and it's reassuring to know that I'm not alone in the world of learning 'how to business owner' on the fly. I've wanted to quit so many times - wanted to go back to just being employed and doing my craft, spending countless nights awake at night having existential crisis after existential crisis. I had to let go of a lot of things that just aren't feasible anymore and unfortunately I had to also learn not to get attached.
Cheers, Morgan. Love your channel and your journey as an artist, business owner, and person.
One of many great lessons from my dad growing up was “if you don’t know the answer.. find someone who does.” Another great video. 🤙🏻
So excited for your next chapter. Keep it up.
Thank you. Me too.
Bad Ass! Your attention to detail and vision of the unseen creation your building, really shows! It's great you share your builds that actually belong in a museum...But that wouldn't be any fun, lol Thanks for sharing in these videos!
Gold Star for you and your crew Morgan, thanks for sharing.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Nothing more than huge respect for you Morgan and the business you own!
I like to quote you saying “surrender is freedom to grow”
Like that!!
Your work, design, fabrication and outlook are second to none. Thanks for documenting the process. It's great that you, Robj and Kibbetech share your knowledge, it is truely appreciated! I hope to build my business to a point where I can afford to hire you to build my dream truck.
Thanks for the feedback Steve! I’m sure we will be ready to build your dream when you are! I’ll have to check out Kibbetech. Never heard of them.
Hey man all I can say is this truck is a piece of art work and I hope someday I can come to the shop and meet u with my own project🤙🤘
Damn man, your work is so beautiful! Great info, I’m 2 years in on running my own fab business. Nerdy helpful.
You are truly an artist…….functional art! 👍🏽👍🏽
So this truck won't get finished... to bad but Morgan gets to keep the knowledge for the future! I'm looking forward to the next similar project.
Epic design and fab skills. Outsource everything else to the help.
Awesome video! Cool to see your thought process and experience with the company.
I’m a general contractor in San Diego & I won’t do any job no matter the price without my contract being signed. Relying on billing during and after will always get you in trouble. If I’m doing time and material jobs I have a contract for that.
Contractor here as well. Learned that one the hard way and almost cost my business. Grew from it and back stronger than ever.
The whole operation is steady 💵💵💵💵💵💵
dude!!! just wire it and seats its fine. this is art.i told you your a fabrication savant. to be invited to an exotic car event with a roller, that roller is pretty fucking special. ive been waiting and waiting to see an update.thank you for kickin' some business knowledge for the new or soon to be shops. thats whats up. this is going to be on a different level. outstanding. are you or a family member friends of bill w. ? i cant tell how many times ive heard stinkin' thinkin'. all good. this just looks the business my friend. im telling you this is going to be something that a couple generation from now will look back at like i look back at old walker evans rigs. this truckwill be a pinnacle that others will aspire to build for many generations. cant wait to see the next update. im not gonna know whether to shit or go blind when the finished truck debuts. until then. godspeed. cheers
sick work as always! keep motivating the rest of us. It was cool to hear the insight from the business side, as I am working on growing a shop. We constantly struggle with turning down fab work as my vision is to sell turnkey. would be cool to hear about how you structure compensation. ie customer wants x completed and you set a price for the end goal or log hours for what it takes to achieve that vision?
Thank you for the inspiration brother. I appreciate your passion. Next in my budget is to buy a welder and start fabing components for my 4runner. Been a long time dream of just doing basic work so I can build toys for my future kids. These vids are outstanding.
Everlast welders are a good affordable option. If you wait til black Friday they run good sales. I saved $300 off my tig welder. They are a nice mid $$ option that you can grow with. There's a lot of damn good welders using them.
@@ChasingPerfection thanks for the tip! I'll take a look at them.
watched the tasco 4 parts builds incredible. theres another cool videos forgot name but a small team prerunning baja with a lemon yellow obs or 1991 looking ford . its a full tube chassis and the dude is older but thats a great couple videos too.
Id love to know what it would take to finish it. EPIC work and it would be a huge honor to own it!
If your the guy to buy it or know someone shoot an email. We will get this thing in the right hands 👊🏿
Not gonna lie for the first 10 minutes i thought you were going to announce quiting utube haha keep up the great work!
Now that truck is like a unfinished tatoo .the owner couldnt afford the artist
You might be on to something… I’ve taken the high road on this one.
@MorganClarkeDesign1 good job carry on keep moving forward
let me be honest. there is alot of talking in this video and i may have skipped though a bit. but if i understand correct, you are NOT going to finish the truck? im a bit confused
Not finishing the truck. Unless there is a new owner. She gone
Best in the business is El Señor Morgan ❤
Is that a JMR bender I seen? I always wondered what brand you used.
@ morgan Clarke design ... Dude this video is The Best video and a true story of a person and great dude from what I see and family, running a business in the biggest city is rough but Morgan I everyday get home and fab. I Envy you in the way that your able to be Infront of the camera and word I have agreed with you all the way. We don't know everything; people do need to ask questions and want to learn and get out of that bubble of that negative mindset we as many keep. But every day is positivity and that is a GIFT that I would truly like to have a truck built by MCD . Give me a message my email is attached to my name. Congrats my dude and keep being an inspiration for me and many others. TRHANK YOU
Sooo where is the truck heading?
I feel like I just got broken up with
I feel like i just got broken up with!!!!!!😢😢😢😢
Is it for sale? And If some one bought it would you still want to finish it?
100% for sale. I’m pretty sure the owner doesn’t have much value into keeping the car. I will happily finish it for the new client. Renderings to reality every step of the way. That’s a promise.
Damn… for some one to not have value in keeping that truck and having you finish it must be out of their mind.. and that’s just a sad situation..
@@MorganClarkeDesign1 I know he’s got like 5 badass trucks, including the weitzel you profiled, was he just over it? Was it that your shop blew up and he wasn’t cool with it not being your primary focus?
@@traviscassidy4717 bet something like that is the case. If anyone he's got the money to finish it. Big shame. Probably ultimately coming down to time and not caring about the art anymore. Sounds like it was a fight the whole time anyway
I have the exact same truck/cab if i hit the lottery, i’ll let you make mine exotic 2.0😂
Sounds like the customer wasn't good at paying. It's a bummer you won't be able to see it to the finish line. It was rad to see it in person.
The message is there. I would listen again. I don’t place blame here by design.
I think it's just time for a new chapter. A lot of sweat equity is in that build. If the entire build has been a roller coaster of start and stops due to funds/parts, whatever. It wears on the builder/business. You only have so many spots in a shop for a vehicle and you want them all to be productive.
Morgan . Your a humble dude , keep up the good work . Your builds are amazing and the work will come . I’m sure the next build will be one to remember
@@MorganClarkeDesign1 seems like he wanted to pay when major things were accomplished, and something of that magnitude, what it evolved into became what would win the riddler award for offroad trucks and it takes time and also your shop blew up and you had to work on other things that put food on your table and he was over it and decided to sell because he’s got 5 or 6 of these. Am I close?
#mcdmondays ! 🖤✊🏼
See you're outsourcing scanning, im selling a creaform handyscan 700 if you're interested.
what ever happened to Selena?
For sale or sold.
Morgan Clarke - "I don't love them hoes".
These hoes ain’t loyal
👊🏼🖤
Campeesh........................