About the wooden tripods I built back when I was a poor highschool student. woodgears.ca/tripod

These are gorgeous. In 1982 I had just learned to tie my shoes.

2:39 "It's clever.........It's almost a bit too clever". What a great line. Well done!

It amazes me how much ingenuity you have. Not to mention your wild range of skills. When I first started watching you I admit I was a little jealous. I thought to myself well I'm probably far better with Electrical than you. Then you post videos proving you can hold your own in the trade as well. I love the videos and I don't reply much but I just want to thank you for all your time and effort you put in even with the short videos. Keep it up.

You make me laugh so hard. My dad is a physicist. I was raised with engineers. I think and act like one. Your approach to explaining things is downright EXACTLY the way I want people to talk to me. Your inventions are amazing (everything from the home-designed pantorouter to these tripods to your bandsaw to... LOTS). The "really clever" trick you use for the end-stop is also used by most cylinder locks and some semi-automatic pistols (not that you'd have the latter in Canada). I'm excited you're doing videos again, and whenever a new one shows up (laser etched combination lock) it always leads me down a one to two hour rabbit hole of watching more videos. Love your shed btw! Ehud Gavron Engineer by education, helicopter pilot by choice Tucson, Arizona, US, North America

Really like the hidden positive stop. Elegantly simple design of that provides important function.

Nice Pentax Spotmatic!! Can't beat those old K-mount for simplicity. I have a K-1000 that I still love to use.

Makes me smile to see the simplicity and clever solutions you have for projects. Am sure your dad was the root of your obvious talents. My dad was the instigator of my own thirst for such things.

You never cease to amaze me! Love your channel!

Those are really impressive Matthias, especially since you made them when you were so young! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Matthias, Those attention to little details and motivation explanation, made you really unique content provider. Watching how you "think it out" is much interesting compared to just "How it is done".

You are always awesome. Thumbs up for your hard work .

Ingenious and very beautiful. Really amazing work, as usual.

These are super cool man thanks for sharing them. Fantastic craftsmanship and enginuity

They have a fantastic antique look, you certainly possess an artistic flare that you lend to your projects. Ryan

So much more beautiful than a store bought tripod and just as functional. This is so cool Matthias

Saying you may make a video that you already made and uploaded made me feel like I entered a time travel episode of the Twilight Zone. Nice tripods, how are they weight wise compared to similarly sized aluminium/plastic tripods?

Ingenious design!

...um excelente trabalho Mattias...o que é mais notável nos seus trabalhos são os pequenos detalhes que tornam seu trabalho, sua criatividade,sua perfeição muito bons...

Amei o projeto. Me parece forte e confiável. O detalhe do "bloqueador" e das articulações o torna inspirador para mim. Grata por compartilhar. Gosto muito do canal.

You're one of the most original people out there. Love your videos.

I like your videos. Your videos are correctly detailed and understandable. Also, you are also a long time photographer. I learned photography from a from a High School Printing and Photography class. My first 35mm was a Minolta SR101 in the 1970s. Amateur photography has changed to where people don't have a clue what f-stops and depth of field is. Furthermore they don't want to know. I believe they are missing a different viewpoint that enhances photographic skills in still and video photography. Your woodworking skills are awsome too! So many KZfaq videos are

Amazing tripods and cameras :D

As ahi Pentax Spotmatic! I had two of those; my first ever a cameras with meters. Nice job on tripod!

@ 3:04 that is very clever indeed. Thank you for posting this video! I can't wait for the next one!

You are awesome. First comment ever on KZfaq. You make me wish I could go back to school and keep learning. They should pay you to teach how they pay athletes to play. The fact you share your gifts with the world is incredible. Please keep it up!!! I am mesmerized and in awe of things I never knew I cared about. I just took up the hobby of building, you definitely make it look easier than it is, but it is certainly something to strive towards!

I am so impressed with you. Is there anything you can't well? I just watch about 20 of your videos and everyone was excellent. You are one unique man.

These are great! Thanks for sharing!

Man those tripods are awesome ! .. you never cease to amaze me :)

Really nice tripods. You can photograph directly onto positive paper btw, if you want to still use your land camera.

That's really fascinating! I want to build a tripod of my own now

Awesome, Really cool.!

Very Cool !!!! Wow, Very big camera ! Great Job !!

Just an amazing design

outstanding, you're a major inspiration to us all

Great video, Matthias!! Thanks. Cheers. Mauro

This is incredible.

Boss as always

No doubt, you are a genius, Matthias!

That's cool Matthias. I like your cameras. Douglas

very good work

Love it. Gonna make ine for the family reunion.

Nice bit of work there. It should be noted however that camera mounting threads are always placed in the centre of the image sensor (be it analog or digital), so when you rotate the camera around on the mount it rotates about the centre of the sensor, and doesn't affect things by introducing parallax errors.

Hi sir i'd like to say your works are great.. And i am a fan of yours here in the Philippines. I'd like to ask for an idea for a selfie stick since you have shown your tripod stick work.. Thank you sir and more power!

The positive stop is just genius.

amazing!

excelente ideia. parabéns

Built in highschool. Jeez. I might as well just burn my workshop down. I've always assumed your awesome skills came from decades of practice and so someday maybe I might begin to approach a skill level comparable if I really worked at it. Clearly, though, you were born with a superpower and the quest is hopeless. ;)

Too good.

Clever indeed :)

very smart design like everytime

Awesome,.........as usual!

Wonderfull. Nice. Inventive. Even for putting it im my living room, it 'll be nice. Thanks. I'd like to start making one for myself.

Awesome, it would be nice to show us some photos taken with that huge brown camera of yours!

I have an Equatorial mount for my telescope with a base that has been in need of repair for some time. Between this video and catching a bit of the Delta Aquariid shower last night... something is telling me its time to fix it. Thanks Matthias!

please make a video on how to make one of these

Pretty incredible ingenuity Matthias. Any plans for plans?

Nice!

looking good. how much does it weight?

Good work :)

Thanks. I’m gonna try to make one awesome.

Matthias wandel, quiero felicitar por todos sus vídeos, y sus proyectos de construcción de maquinas de trabajo, ami me gusta la carpintera y me a servido mucho

Cool!

@Matthias Wandel i have been watching your channel for a while now big fan. i have built my own camera, and i have been wanting to build my own tripod for it, do you have any tips? the tricky part is that it is a large format camera, but not like you have ever seen hahaha. its a 15x15 camera so it is pretty heavy, also it is in 3 different segments. so it needs a platform first i do collodion wet plates with it.

very good

shiz, thanks for the information, wanted to make an easel with extend-able tripod legs for a while but i just didn’t know how and Now it clicked.

That 95A is one of the few Polaroids I am missing in my collection.

How does the mass of these wooden tripods compare with your metal one? Great design!

How are you feeling about the heat right now in Ottawa Matthias? I hope your shop is cooled unlike mine. Thinking of making a tripod soon with steel.

Please make a painting easel

awesomee

I think you posted out of order. At the end of this video you say you might do a video on the 30 degree dovetail on the table saw. But I watch that yesterday. Am I in a time warp.

I have a question for you Mathias, where did you go to college. It is interesting because you seem very smart and based of what you did in high school and your career (From what I picked up watching your videos) you must be really educated.

can you make an instructional video?

hahahaha I im in highschool and i did the same thing except I used a broken snare drum stand and pvc and hose clamps. I wish my dad had tools so I could do stuff like this :(

That's neat! A PVC version for those who take water fowl pictures would be really useful....

They needed you on Gilligan's Island

Could you make some kind of tripod legs for someone who doesn't have a table saw and a router? I only got scrollsaw, jigsaw, circular saw, and some sanders. Also, a cordless drill.

Pretty neat! I love the design of those three section legs. Do you think they could work as full extension draw slides? Also, I don't understand how those pins keep the legs tighter, or what limits the outward angle of the legs? I don't remember seeing a side handle on typical tripods, that practicle genious, I think, is most of the fun of your videos. Thanks!

I have that exact Polaroid

Hello Mathias, I am just sugesting. Stop using aluminium on plates, screws, or any other metalic componets on a wooden projects. Try to use bronce, and you will see that they will look much more antiquestic.

This video sponsered by cameras. Cameras. It's like the camera on your phone, but that's all it does.

Sidenote, offsetting the thread for attaching the camera is not the best idea, as the mounting nut is always directly below the sensor, meaning pans look a little nicer. Other than this, i am very impressed with how thin you managed to make the legs!

wonder ful beauti ful very good and very nice

Are you produce them?

what wood did you used for these tripods ?

Carry on

I have a telescope tripod that is a similar design.

How are those on slippery surfaces? Are there rubber feet or ??

j'adore vos vidéos. Dommage quelles ne soit pas en français.

Made a tripod..better some that are factory made. subscribed.

me gustan mucho tus vídeos pero no sé inglés ¿porque no pones algún subtítulo? gracias. te felicitó y te ánimo para que edites muchos más.

Is it easy to get all three to the same length?

Now you just need a new camera :D

U da man

how old r u ?

could you make the legs lock at an angle?

My sister kept getting her long hair caught in her Slinky.

I don't think they even make film for those polaroid cameras anymore. You think it was expensive then? Try it now!

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