Watching this, one appreciates how you simplified a bunch of separate moving bits into two or three easily controllable actions. Brilliant work, Laura!!

I wasn't in any doubt that the tripod would turn out great and it did, but what caught my attention was the freehand lettering on the floor. If I had tried that without a stencil it would have wound up looking like a ransom note written by a kidnapper with caramel on his fingers.

5:43 "Richtig cool, aber was is es?" -> "really cool, what is it tho?" I feel that box

Instead of relying on the tension of the bolts, if you add a short arm to the rear with a heavy weight, it will be more like a camera crane The weight needs to be heavieer than the camera to keep the balance arm short. I've built a couple of cranes.

I cannot tell you how many times I've had to fabricate specialty supports in my workshop for my day job as a camera operator. Great work - always inspiring!

This is absolutely neat! The idea of a studio camera pedestal, but made in a more simple way out of scrap material. And the counterweight in the form of the power bank on the back! Such a perfect shop implement.

Thanks Laura- you got me into making and DIY. It’s been a life changer! Much love from the USA!

Ha! I got sent here from my channel, because I bought a similar (more heavy duty and 70 years old) studio stand. Love that you build yours by yourself. Really enjoyed watching.

I was blown away with how little she had to talk about the sponsor. thank you laura and thank you lincoln electric!

I was all like it’s just a camera stand. And you proved me wrong, this is the ultimate camera/lighting/power/cord management stand. Awesome!

My instant thought from the title of the video was that it would be a marvelous wooden tripod such as would be used by Ansel Adams. Boy was I surprised!!! Nice. It would be nice if there was a counterweight system for the arm that could be adjusted to the weight of the camera equipment so that you could place it at any angle without clamping.

Love the little smiles when you're satisfied with something.

Laura you are so amazing at what you can do. I love this channel

Heavy duty . I hope it improve each setup by more than 5 seconds . Thank you Laura !

One of the MANY Things I love about your channel is every week something DIFFERENT . NEVER THE SAME OLD THING . CAMPING ITEMS,HOME ITEMS,SHOP ITEMS WOOD, STEEL,PLASTIC, ELECTRICALS .A REALLY GREAT LEARNING CHANNEL ..KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK 👍👍👍😁😁😁

Excellent work again Laura!!!!!!!.

The irony of having to make multiple adjustments to the old tripod to build the new.... Great build - hope it works out well. Would like to see more detail/explanation of the locking mechanism.

You have innovation and the ability to make it happen. You can deconstruct and reconstruct. Nicely Done!

Beautiful work!

I love your shop so much. Those fancy labels and mottos really brighten up the place. I wish I had half the tools in it too!

After thus last week's live stream, I went back to watch this. What an awesome tool!

That's a serious build. Well done.

I love the Jay Blades shout out! It's great when people I like are also into other people I like. 😁

Love the new tripod! Super robust and easy to move around. I can see lots of extra cool attachments coming in the future! BTW I love the lighting in your videos, lots of natural light in this shop. 😀

Immer wieder schön deine Kreationen zu sehen! Du bist so gut darin (nicht nur das werkeln), hast ja auch offensichtlich viel Übung. Freue mich immer wieder deine Videos zu sehen. Stay safe 😁

Brilliant. Absolutely.

That is a fantastic camera stand! Just excellent work. Thanks for sharing this.

hey Laura, just an idea. you might want to extend the arm beyond the center pole and add a counter weight. Change the self locking nuts to something with a handle. This way you get the same you have now but you can also use it as a Jib. This would enable you to make shots that look like a vertikal slider. This could be usefull for final showcase shots of things you have build.

Very inspiring! You gave me an idea for a rig to mount to my center support post in my small shop! Thanks!

Schon wieder ein schönes Projekt aus deine Hände 💪🏼Ich liebe dein Humor 🤣 5:44 "Richtig cool aber was ist es"-Box 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

There will never be a time when I would bet against you, my friend. SOLID WORK 💪

That's a badass tripod. Not a puny travel model.

Great build! 👍🏻👍🏻

Awesome idea carried out to an astonishing product 🥰 I enjoyed the video very, very much.

Great build! ... I bolted two swing out camera arms to my wall to avoid bench shake when filming .. I also made bracket to fix manfrotto magic arms to the wall and machined fixing to attach pan tilt heads to the magic arms too... i'd love to build a motorised camera slider boom but I have a tiny workshop and there would be nowhere to use/stands it!

This came out so great! It has such a smooth movement. And I love that you did it with materials you didn't have to buy!

Great Laura, a very big project!

Thank you for having clean welds! Seeing them makes me happy!

This is reason 842,392 Why I'm not a maiker. I would have made this waaaay too complicated. I love how you still made a similar thing, to the thing in my mind. But yours was practical and likely easier to use. Thank you for another awesome video.

Sharing your video’s with my 15 year old nieces to inspire them that girls can make things just as well as boys do. (Or better ;-)

Very cool build Laura.

Great project, wonderful video. Cheers, Laura - thanks for sharing and Happy Sunday :)

Heeey! Glückwunsch zur goldenen Kamera.👍🥳🥳🥳 Wohl verdient!

Awesome creation. I would love to see a video just on the tripod itself.

Great project and video. Thanks for sharing. Music is on point.

I have a few improvements to your neat studio stand. I would add a spring on the adjustable wishbone arm like on a Luxo lamp (diagonal from the top of the post side bolt to the bottom of the camera side bolt. This makes it a lot easier to operate and prevents slippage. I would also add a counterweight down the center tube with a pulley on top. This makes vertical movement of heavy parts much simpler.

Oooooh I’m drooling over this!

Ingenious build, good to see you up upscaling bits in pieces from your collections. Loved watching the progress on Instagram and then seeing it all put together in a video. Love watching you figure solutions to things that suit what your have envisaged.

Hard to steal tripod

Nice machining and welding. Time to look through your electro mechanical box of Stuff and build up a remote, pan, tilt, zoom and dolly control..

Awesome work Laura! 😃👍🏻👊🏻

Looks like the right tool for the job! One idea for the camera arm: Install a long spring diagonally between the bars so that it attempts to pull the arm up, thus counterbalancing the camera somewhat. This structure is used e.g. in steadycam arms.

This is the coolest and smartest tripod ever!

Hey Laura, großartiges Video und danke für die Ispiration. ein kleiner Tip vom Zerspanungsmechaniker für das Gewindeschneiden: Wenn du in ein Grundloch Gewinde schneiden willst, kannst du dir viel Fummelei mit einem Grundlochgewindebohrer sparen, denn sie Spähne werden nach oben aus dem Loch befördert und verstopfen unten nicht. bei Hoffmann Tools oder Garant gibt es hochwertige Bohrer.

That's really cool Laura! I know you don't do dolly shots but you could easily put that on a track if you want. Great job!

An industrial recycled tripod for an industrial centre of recycling. Nice!

might consider a spring driven balance for the vertical adjustment on the column vs the tightening arm - there's some pretty good weight out there, if you're going to adjust often. Same on springs with the parallel arm. they make studio stand 'tripods' akin to what you've developed. Cool design. Glad my old account Lincoln Electric sponsored your video :) I experienced lake effect snow in Cleveland while parked at their corporate offices for a 4 hr meeting in 1985 - poor little Honda Accord was buried in those 4 hrs :)

German engineering. Class. Thank you. Regards Gareth Wiltshire UK. Quality. Gratitude.

You are so clever and innovative. Great content and I'm glad I stumbled across your channel

Brilliant idea

This is glorious!!! I really need to make one of these for The Forge channel now!

If anyone is looking for something like this to buy, look for studio camera stands. It’s essentially this with a few more movement options (like you can usually slide horizontally along the boom arm). They’re not cheap though.

Such great planning and execution on these videos. It's always a surprise to see how the individual pieces end up fitting together to make the end result.

Looks amazing

Très joli travail et beaucoup d'astuces bravo à bientôt salut Jeannot 🛠😉

In the words of Adam Savage, " Use more cooling fluid!" Seriously though, what a kick ass tripod!

Wie immer ein tolles Projekt. Gruss aus Ohio.

ein Grund jedes Mal, wenn ich mir deine Videos ansehe, ist, mich dazu zu bringen, zu sagen-eine tüftlerin..!

I would be great if you could show the tripod in action a bit more. It was very quick up and down but it would be nice to see how it can be used. For example, if the monitor can be attached somewhere else or if you can make other attachments for it. Great project though!

Hi Laura from France ! I can't wait to see this tripod 😉

Great build! Hope it saves you some 🕰..

hum, no "let the glue dry", but real nice project! well done Laura! gruß aus dem Ösi-land nach Köln! 🤙🏼

Awesome chunk of steel.

super Idee, super geworden, fat respect!

Waw, what a nice shop !

Hey Laura, vielen vielen Dank für das tolle Video das war mir eine große Inspiration für mein eigenes Stativ, das ist zwar dann doch etwas anders geworden aber Dein Video war ne super Motivation das überhaupt zu bauen! Ich hoffe ich werde irgendwann mal Dein wirklich hohes Niveau von Videos erreichen! Liebe Grüße Alex

You are one bad MAMMA JAMMA! I love how your face lights up when it's coming together. How long did it actually take to make it? Your editing skills are on point. YOU ROCK!

Awesome video. I don't watch every video but, I have seen some over the years and it's great to see your channel grow and you confidently tackle projects.

Nice work A tip if you get any camera sway after hitting record is to get a shutter release (a wireless one is very useful). Just make sure that your camera is able to record and not just take a picture with the release

As a videographer and shop rat, this the coolest! Easy to move and position plus power supply. Great for overhead shots!

You are my hero... no cost and better results

Just started watching the video, and my firt thought was why not a mic stand? That's what I use. Edit: Or, you could build a TV studio worthy stand out of scrap metal, etc. I don't use that quality (or weight) of gear, so the mic stand would not suffice. What a fantastic build!

Nice, I missed the premier, but great project.

Great job ! love that !

Did not know about the term ISRU, I feel a dive down a KZfaq rabbithole comming on.

Great. Welding is so cool. Wish i could do that

It does have three feet, so it technically is a tripod. 😄 Really clever solution and great way to use those scraps. Thanks for sharing!

Best tripod ever seen! So clever!

Well thought out, well done. Thanx for sharing!

Seems like the thing to work on would be a remote controlled arm. Mount a monitor on it. Save most of the walking back and forth trying to guess on the shot angles.

Super praktisch das Ding! Bei so einer großen Werkstatt. Die Aufschrift auf der Kiste be 5:44 gefällt mir :)

Turned out very well my friend keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work make on my friend

Think about an adjustable counter weight on the camera arm. Easier to move the camera and less stress on the locking bolts.

Really cool video. Thx so much.

Michael Hagberg suggested a counterweight, check out astronomical binocular mount. Great video as usual, and a really nice tripod.

You upload; I watch and like it. It's nice to keep some things simple!

Real cool Laura, Was trying to figure out how to build a tripod for my gear, I'll build one along the same lines as you did but I'll incorporate more arms and a vertical slide for one of my cameras. Great work by the way as always...

your stand is really cool !!

WOW, cool!

When it loosens after the metal wears down a bit, try fixing a spring to one of the arms to remove some of the weight. Like they have on magnifying lamp arms.