Gough Custom 2015 Workshop Tour
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- Опубликовано: 31 дек 2015
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Hey guys!
I've had a number of requests for an updated workshop tour, so I figured I had better finally film one!
Since I went full-time the workshop has become a lot more serious and even more organized! Very happy with how things are going and it's great to be able to show you guys around!
Hope you like the tour, let me know if you have any questions!
-Aaron 
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An informative walkthrough Aaron and chuffed you've got the workshop set up in a way that works for you. Wishing you nothing but success for the year ahead my man ~Peace~
+Zed Outdoors Thanks dude, much appreciated!
+Zed Outdoors What up Zed, looks like you found Gough Customs. :)
my dream shop
Mine too!
I have said before that I love your workshop,such a tidy place and everything has its own dedicated home
Thanks mate! Really glad you like it! It's one of my favorite places :)
Aaron, I love your work place. It should be included in the travel guides as a place to visit there.
I am eager to watch more footage from you working on your great stuff.
+Jorge Tierno Rey Thanks very much Jorge! Glad you liked the video!
Woohoo! You got the video fixed. As I commented on the original upload, I really enjoy the white noise in your shop, and how you just let it fill the otherwise complete silence at the end of the video with the thumbnails. Also, I really look at your shop and processes as inspiration in my own profession as a Cisco Collaboration Architect. Thanks for what you do, and I hope to own one of your knives soon.
+Anthony Holloway Thanks Anthony! Yeah I'm not sure what was going on with the video yesterday, I tried uploading a couple of times and it had different issues each time, quite frustrating!
The white noise is actually a sample of 'room tone' from my workshop with all of the air circulation fans and such running... It's really weird for me to be at the shop now with the fans off, it always seems eerily quiet, I've really gotten used to it!
Thanks for the kind words mate, glad you like my work!
I love how structurized you are. I wish you all the best!!!!!
Thanks very much mate!
That mill looks so pro and new. Well done on the refurbish, great job.
+Aaron DC mediA Thanks very much mate!
That's a very tidy and well-organised set-up.
+M00nsplitter Thanks very much!
Hi! I follow your channel since your very first video where you're making a knife with just a hack-saw and a files. It was so exciting and inspiring watching you grow to where are you now. You are an example of how people should pursue their dreams and their passions. Wish there were more people like you in this world! WIsh you a great '16!
Thanks very much for the kind words mate, much appreciated! All the best to you too!
Crazy how cool your shop is. I'm starting to mess around making knives, and enjoy watching your videos! Awesome job
+Skaters Republic Thanks very much mate!
Totally inspiring....I want a workshop of my own one day... God bless you Gough
Thanks mate, to you too!
This is a really awesome clean workshop. Good for a skilled worker like yourself
Thanks mate!
Awesome shop, very nice! Thanks for showing!
+222varminter No worries mate, thanks for watching!
I can't believe how clean everything is. Your shop space looks cleaner then my living room! :p
Haha, well I am a little obsessive about cleaning!
Wow Erin - your workshop is awesome and your knives a beautiful - congratulations mate and thanks for sharing!
Thanks very much Rick!
thoroughly enjoyed this tour, shop looks fantastic. thanks for sharing
Excellent! Thanks for watching!
Excellent job! Thank you for the video, we are happy for you.
Thanks very much mate, I appreciate the support!
Congratulations again for going full time knife maker mate! A true inspiration.
+Alex St-laurent Thanks very much Alex!
absolutely awesome man. thats one hell of a work shop!
Thanks dude! Good for you to get to see where your knife came from eh!
Looking good Aaron. Very professional. Great to follow the beginning of what is clearly going to be a successful business. Happy New Year.
+Graham Orm Thanks very much Graham! Happy new year to you too mate!
Get a large diamond coated blade, like a tile saw blade, for the miter box. That'll cut G10 very cleanly and won't need resharpening.
+eformance I actually just recently just straight up bought a tile saw and started using that instead. I thought about buying a diamond grit blade for the mitre saw, but the dust from even the standard blade was awful... The tile saw is messy but at least the mess is pretty well contained rather than being spread all over the shop!
+Gough Custom Maybe a water cooling tilesaw? i use one at work, can cut stone without dust for example
Happy New Year, Bud! Well thought out station layout Aaron! Thanks for the tour update. You've really put your heart and $$$$ into this and so glad and happy to see the transformations over the years now. May 2016 bring you all you desire and a bit more!! All the best!! ~PJ
P.S. Might look for a used industrial screw compressor with a good size tank...smaller, quieter and cheaper to run.
Thanks PJ! I would love to get a screw compressor, love how quiet those are! Shame they're pretty expensive though!
Nice layout! Well done!
+c Thanks mate! It's been working very well for me!
Looks awesome man, your living the dream!
Thanks Ian! Getting there mate!
Awesome shop! It's very good to see all the improvements!
I started making knives when I saw your first video (Making a knife with only common tools - time-lapse) and I still love doing it. Of course I don't have all these tools, but I'm slowly improving too. Thank you for showing us your passionate work!
+Kristóf Rudas Thanks very much Kristof! I appreciate you coming along for the journey!
Great video, thanks for sharing your trade with us all.
+John Watkins No worries at all John!
Great video. keep up the good work. I really enjoy all of your content.
+Jamie Capper Thanks very much Jamie, will do!
I think you are great man indeed, the works you have done, way you do it is so intense. Wish you can upload much more videos, but it seems not that easy for you. Good luck with it. Thank you
+Bahadır Köse Thanks very much mate! yeah the videos generally take quite a bit of work... Even this simple one was probably more than 8 hours of filming and editing and so on, so there's only so many I can do!
Your workshop is nice but your knives are beautiful! Happy New Year!
+tomi2000 Thanks very much mate! Happy new year to you too!
amazing work !
+JD Tremblay Thanks JD!
nice work shop, pro-level it is!
Thanks mate!
You have come along way and I can see the improvements.I think you are now in the position to starting to make some good money..Well done..
Thanks mate! I will hopefully start paying down my debt in 2016 and getting to have a little spare cash which will be nice!
5.09, running low on Jack Daniel's. Your shop is pretty wicked cool !! thanks for all your videos and tips.
I will have to make sure to re-stock :) Thanks mate! Glad the videos have been helpful!
Really cool set up you have. I enjoy the attention to detail that you have for everything you do, from your work shop, videos and obviously your knives. Keep up the good work, I look forward to watching more videos. I noticed you have extraction fans with filters attached to them, if you get a chance if your future videos, I'm sure lots of people would be interested in you covering them.
+petersrolex The fans actually work pretty well... Basically just box fans with 20x20" furnace filters attached. I got but MERV15 furnace filters from McMaster that are 4" thick so they minimize airflow restriction, they catch a surprising amount of dust!
looking great!
+shesatijn1 Thanks dude!
Hey man, very Nice Shop, and your job is excelent congratulations
+Habacuc Maia Rodrigues Thanks very much mate!
dude sick! youre an artist, thanks for sharing the vids
+Matt Contreras thanks Matt!
2nd time lucky😃
A place for everything and everything in its place, all the best for 2016👍👍
+Gareth Ga Wilmott Yeah seriously, not sure what was going on with the uploads yesterday... Thanks very much mate, same to you!
Thanks for the tour. Nice lookin shop. Good luck in '16!
+Jess Neal Thanks mate! It's shaping up to be a great year!
I've been looking forward to this video for a while
Excellent! Glad to finally be able to finish it for you!
Looks great!
+diyengineer Thanks dude!
this is so awesome. I might come in late to the game but hopefully in the next two years I can have something similar.
+Surago Best of luck mate! It's a lot of fun!
Gough Custom yeah I'm honestly only looking to do a few knives a year. When I meant something like this, I just meant the space and clean decent tools, I don't need a cnc machine. Unless....it got that far...@_@
Awesome workshop
+UU Thanks man!
Love the shop....
Thanks Robert!!
Well done!! Fantastic
Thanks mate!
nice tour !
Thanks mate, glad you liked it!
I spotted a tilting table under your workbench. As a manual machinist & knifemaker, I thought they'd be super awesome to use for roughing out tapers and bevels on blade blanks.
Turns out that holding the work is difficult, and supporting the second side (after the first side is beveled) so it doesn't chatter is an even bigger challenge.
I suppose I'm not too mad about it - the table wasn't very expensive.
+Alan Lapp Hey Alan! This is actually a problem I've spent a fair amount of energy and time tackling... I wanted to be able to cut my blade bevels on the CNC so I had to work out the fixturing for it. You can see my solution here, it works pretty well! - instagram.com/p/84R44mCKLm/
+Gough Custom -- thanks for the reply! I like your fixture, good use of edge clamps. Am I correct in assuming that the fixture grips half-way up the cutting edge? Is there a second fixture for the second side? The blade won't be symmetrical, so it can't just be flipped over in the fixture.
Good fixtures are key for production, but I'm doing mostly one-offs, so I've been trying (and failing) to design something with more flexibility for a variety of blade shapes and sizes.
I keep coming back to the idea of bedding the blade in a consumable such as Bondo.
Keep up the good work: I like your methodical approach and low-key presentations.
+Alan Lapp Thanks mate! Yeah the fixture clamps approximately along the middle of the cutting edge, and there's a second mirror image fixture that's used for the second side. I will be modifying it again soon so that the fixture holds the blade flat rather than angled and will be fully 3D contouring the blade from that position.
Maybe look into a castable fixture metal like 'fields metal', that way you could bed your blades into a reusable material!
Hi! In my company I had the same issue with the compressor: we had a piston compressor, like yours, and in addition to being terribly noisy it was not powerful enough to operate the sandblaster. I solved that problem buying a rotary compressor and using the tank of the old one as air reservoir. It was smaller, much more quiet and more powerful.
With regard to the sandblasting machine, I have one that uses a foot valve to operate the jet, so that you have one hand (or both if you attach the pistol to the machine) free and can regulate the flow and interrupt it in case you are wearing out the surface. I'm pretty shure you can modify yours in order to make it work like mine.
+pasty734
In our sandblaster we use special latex gloves we buy aftermarket, they last much longer and give more sensibility
Those all sound like great ideas! I would love a screw or rotary vane compressor, it's just a shame they're so expensive!
I wish I had a workshop like that😂, I'm only 13 but I love building and stuff. Good luck in 2016!
Thanks very much mate!
this is so legit, your knives are god tier
Thanks dude!
Awesome work and products!! thanks for the tour and shop update!
PS Aaron did you ever think of putting the compressors outside or building a sound muffled box around them to ease the noise?
Thanks mate! I want to build a box around my compressor soon, it would be nice not to hear it running!
I love your videos!
Thanks dude!
Well done.
+Dennis Thompson Thanks Dennis!
Hope 2016 is a great year for you thanks for sharing.
+465maltbie Thanks for watching mate! Same to you!
Aaron, really enjoyed that quick walk through of the shop--I've been a fan of yours for several years-you made several interesting and intriguing posts on BladeForums, and quite a few good tips--at least for me. I want to offer a genuine thanks for sharing so much info with the folks out here in Internet Land. What did you have to do to get schooled up on the CNC center in order to get it to do what you wanted.Thanks--Don Davis
+Don Davis Hey Don! Thanks for the kind words mate!
Getting up to speed with the CNC wasn't too bad as I already had some CNC experience with a much simpler (and smaller) CNC router... The differences I learnt about from reading PracticalMachinist.com and also asking questions there...
I know you use the lansky sharpening system from watching your other videos. You should REALLY look in to the Wicked Edge Sharpener system. I think it would have a huge impact on the time spend per blade and increase the quality of the final edge. Love your work!
+dmy986 Hey mate! Give the number of knives I'm turning out these days I am looking more into powered systems like the Tormek, rather than a different hand sharpening system...
+Gough Custom that's awesome to hear! Glad your business has grown that big! If you get a tormach, you got to upload of video of it. Take care and keep up the great work!
Your shop has come along ways. I wish my shop was as clean as that lol. I noticed you made your own press to make your knife sheaths. What kind of foam did you use and where did you get it . Happy new year mate.
+glen mckelvey Thanks mate! The foam came from KnifeKits.com, wasn't expensive and seems to work very well!
Hey Aaron, would love to see another video come out. Did you record your coating tests at all? Thanks!
+johan vz Hey mate! I did indeed record all the coating tests. Thanks for reminding me, I should work on releasing that video this week!
Have you tried a wet saw for cutting Phenolics? I'm planning on adding one shortly, would love your feedback.
Great shop tour, always love seeing what others have done and the logic they've used.
Cheers
I have indeed! I recently bought a wet time saw to replace the mitre saw when cutting G10, works very well!
+Gough Custom thanks for the feedback. All the best in 2016.
I certainly enjoyed your walk thru of your shop... and I like your name also...... Robert Gough
+Robert Gough Thanks Robert!
Just a couple of thoughts first have you looked at getting down draft grinding table we use them at work and they really control dust especially from the kydex also a related subject do you plan to install a central vac system again really helps with airborne dust. One last thing any plans to do etching or chemical conversion plating etc its one way to differentiate yourself from other makers anyway good looking shop perfect for one guy.
+jank330 I want to get a better dust collection system for the machining center in particular, dust is pretty well controlled elsewhere in the shop!
amazing place i love it you are a lucky guy
+Tahir Ö. Thanks Tahir! I feel lucky indeed to have the workshop!
I think it will be a good move to out source the heat treat to a reliable shop. I use Peter's Heat Treat. It gets very affordable when you send in batches. I get batches of blanks laser cut then send them all in to heat treat. Cost is quite low and quality good. If someone can do the work as good or better than you and cheaper than you can then it is smart to let them and find the areas where you can add value competitively and focus your efforts there. I recently had a plate of skeletonized skinning knives laser cut. Was only $5.00 per blank. It would have taken me 3-4 hours to do that profile in my shop and I would have wasted a lot of costly metal in the process. That saves $90.00-$120.00 shop labor per blank that I do not have to pass on to the customer. At the same time I had a plate of the little neck knives cut for only $2.53 per blank from A2.
Great video. I always enjoy your posts.
+Belnap Custom Knives Yeah I totally agree... I've been chatting to the guys who are supplying my steel now about also doing my heat-treat... They have huge vacuum furnaces and run cycles every day anyway so it would work out well!
I'm just about to start sending my blades out for coating elsewhere as well. I found a place that will apply DLC coating for me, and it's WAY better than Cerakote which means it's a double win for me!
+Gough Custom Brilliant. I am going to look at the DLC I had not heard of it yet. Thanks for mentioning it.
+Gough Custom I look at the DLC you mentioned. Very cool.
You are awsome man.. Greets from Germany
Thanks very much mate!
Have you tried using an abrasive cut off blade? Db blades cuts his g10 with an angle grinder which works surprisingly well.
+hes 3122 I haven't tried that! These days I use a wet tile saw with a diamond blade, works really well!
NICE, and that is still one of the cleanest and best laid out work shops I've ever seen. As always, I'm impressed! Have you thought about using an abrasive blade to cut the G10? I don't know how well that would or wouldn't work, especially in a miter saw rather than an actual chop saw, but you might look into it.
BTW, are you doing the bevels by CNC now too? If so I'd love to see a video of that!
Hey mate! I actually bought a wet time saw recently and have been using that to cut the G10, works very well actually!
I am indeed doing the bevels by CNC now! I still have to do some cleanup afterwards though, I have a video already up that shows and older version of the CNC bevel program, but I'm working on a newer one too...
+Gough Custom Thanks, I'll look for it!
+Gough Custom -- Found it. It turns out that I've seen it before and just forgot about it. :P
Gough Custom Nice! What model did you get?
+Gunslinger454 I don't know the exact model, it's a Ridgid one that looks like a small table saw... Works very well!
very professional set-up. if, for some reason, some horrible, unforeseeable reason, the knife business dries up, you're in a good spot to do short run jobbing work out of that shop.
+Darryl Machtmes Thanks Darryl! Yes I reckon if I had a CNC lathe in there as well I could turn my hand to a lot of things!
+Gough Custom ... CNC lathe... _turn_ my hand... I see what you did there. :-)
I love this
Thanks mate, glad you like it!
Nice tour! One question though: Is your shop at ground level? If not, how does your floor support that 2 1/2 ton behemoth of a cnc? :)
+brandon2076 Hey Brandon!
My shop is indeed on the ground floor. Underneath the laminate wood floor (which is only 1/4" thick) there is 16" of concrete!
Great video! I looked through the comments and didn't see anybody ask about the plastic partition. I am in the process of making a dust free room for my workshop. Did you buy a kit? Or is it something you rigged up?
+cscarcell19 it's actually just a section of plastic "vapor barrier" you should be able to buy it at any hardware store
Gough Custom thanks you
Nice shop. What are the overall dimensions? Also, what is the white material that you're using as table top (used on the task table and used on the table the band and miter saw are on)?
+Stonewood I think it's about 18x30' of I remember right, it's about 500sq ft.
The white table tops are actually just painted MDF. They work ok but I want to replace them with butcher block tops.
Your place looks really well managed, it must be a pleasure to work in an environment like that.
What were you doing for a living before you went full time with knifemaking?
+Asterog3624 Thanks mate! I definitely like it! I am looking forward to getting a bit of a bigger shop at some point though!
I previously worked as a software engineer.
G10 is nice, but have you considered a less abrasive material for your scales? Have you experimented with TeroTuf or Micarta?
+entropy11 I have used Micarta in the past, I don't like it as much as G10!
have you considered giving your vmc an enclosure?
then you could use flood-coolant for higher removal rates and it wouldn´t throw chips arruond in your very clean shop
+ichDAINVADDA I am indeed planning to make an enclosure for the machine! I won't be using flood coolant though! For machining steel with modern AITiN coated tooling it's not really needed.
Hi, I am new to your channel! I like your knifes, they look great. does anyone work for you in the workshop or do you do all the work? thanks for your videos. :-)
+Louis Bikeman Thanks mate!
Right now I have someone that comes in a few times per week to help make sheaths, but other than that I do everything!
Great looking shop, but at 4:27 what's the use for the Jack Daniels?
+MrChompenstein After work relaxation!
How did you afford all of this equipment! Amazing shop.
+pbstringer55 Hey mate! The shop represents about 4-5 years of 100% of my disposable income... Anything I didn't spend on rent/food at home got spent on buying equipment piece by piece!
aahh look like heaven... I'm jealously
+aditya lanang Thanks mate!
was that a bottle of Hennessey to the left of the kydex station.... excellent choice if so.
+chris glasgow It's actually a rum bottle, I forget the brand though!
Just wondering what kind of solvent you use in the tumbler? Looking for an alternative to varsol (fumes), thanks.
+ymlas02 Hey mate! I actually just use tap water plus a detergent that the maker of the tumbler also make... they're called C&M Topline, in the USA. Check them out!
+Gough Custom Thanks Aaron, I'll check them out.
FINALLY A VIDEO....
Yeah I've been meaning to do this one for a while!
+Gough Custom you should keep uploading videos more often :)
It's hard, it's a lot of work to make them!
+Gough Custom your work is amazing, hope one day to own one of your knives
Thanks mate!
Hi Aaron! How are you doing? Do you have anything like a shop so we can admire your knives in real life? I would love to fly over from the Netherlands to see it!
+Bart Hooghwerff Hey Bart! I don't have any knives in a physical store, sorry mate, just online ordering!
might not be the same studio it once was (hahaha) but its still get some sexy to it! theres got to be a microwave or minifridge in there somewhere,right?
There is! Just next to the kydex station I have a fridge and microwave
respect!
+Ahmet Ayhan Thanks mate!
What kind of toolholders does your machine use? SK40?
+3MrP3 This machine can use CAT40 or BT40 depending on the drawbar configuration and the toolchanger plate setup. Mine is configured for CAT40
+Gough Custom Thanks for the answer! I just did a little research and CAT40 and SK40 are basically the same CAT40 just has a imperial pull stud thread and SK40 a metric.
+3MrP3 Good to know!
I really like the workshop and the work you do, but it seems like all the knives you make are of one similar style, also very simplistic. Which there's nothing wrong with that, I do very much like them. But I think it'd be nice to see what your true potential really is. By that I mean it'd be cool to see you make maybe one or two "fancy" or "exotic" looking knives, whether it be on the CNC or by hand. Great work though, and I'd kill for your setup.
+Lemonitus At some point I might make some fancier knives, but my main goal is to make really excellent working knives, which by definition are usually pretty simple as it makes them more useful all-round...
Gough Custom Makes sense. As I said, I do really like the knives you make already so keep up the good work.
Great.
Thanks very much!
Aaron can you please look into making straight razors?
+Jim C Hey Jim! My policy, generally speaking, is that I only make things I will actually use myself... That way I can improve them through personal use and make sure that they perform correctly. I don't use straight razors at all unfortunately which means that I don't feel I'd be able to do a good job making them!
+Gough Custom I'll be your tester. I've seen straight razors go for $100+ for nice ones. From what I've seen you make I believe you would fit in that range. I just bought a damascus one for $285.00 I can send it to you to look at...
Can you please tell me what model of CNC are you using and where you can buy it\look at it ?
Hey mate! I'm using a 1994 Fadal VMC10, which is a model that's no longer made... The manufacturer is out of business unfortunately....
Thanks for the info, maybe i`ll look for something similar :)
Keep up the good work, your knives are awesome.
Very jealous. Do you have a drawing of your knife grinding jig?
+Richard Yeskoo Hey Richard! I don't have a drawing as it's something I just made up as I went, I do have some good photos of it here though: imgur.com/a/ffxVM
Thanks.
dude how did u do all this. like how did u start from the begining? liek i cant belive u started off just hand making your knives out of the frount porch
I did indeed actually just start making knives by hand in my Dad's garage... Over time I've spent a lot of money on tools until I've gotten to where you see now!
Also another thing sir, My Friend is a fan of your and is subscribed to you and watches your videos. also he has a website, if you could Help my friend that would be a really appreciated Thank you. dangerfieldknives.wordpress.com/
What are you using for the bench tops?
Just MDF panels painted white, they have held up ok!
@@GoughCustom Close, I ended up painting cheap ply. Thanks for the inspiration and happy new year!
GOOD GOOD GOOD 👍👍👍
LUCKY MAN IN THE WORLD 🙏
Thanks bud!
do you have any natural light in your workshop?
No, for better or worse... It's actually a good thing in terms of taking video as the light is always the same, somedays it would be nice to see outside though!
I asked because it's nice to get some vitamin d :D from the sun
does this all mean that it will be easier to buy one of your knives?
+russ2us I'm still backlogged, but yes I am catching up! Hopefully toward the end of the year the wait time will be down to 2 months or so.
Where did you get your logo'ed t-shirt made?
+trappistachel I actually don't know where these ones came from as my Ex got them for me. There's s bunch of places that will make shirts though like Cafepress and so on.
How hard is to get used with the CNC machine when you have absolutely no experience?
+SS W Hey mate! Interesting question... It depends on your level of computer experience so some extent. If you have absolutely no CAD/CAM experience and no CNC experience then even if you had all the equipment in your house you'd be likely looking at the better part of 6-12 months before you're competent. It's best if you can start with a small inexpensive machine and tackle some relatively simple project like engraving a sign or something similar. If you can get that happening then you'll be a long way down the road!
Where do you get your steel?
+BUSHCRAFT I.O. Previously I bought it mainly from OnlineMetals.com, but now I have a specialty supplier that makes it specifically for me.
finally! now do a bathroom tour 😉
+MrJewripper Haha, it's not that exciting I promise!
+Gough Custom I'll be the judge of that thank you very much 😉
Where can I purchase one of your knives?
Hey mate! At the moment they're only available to people who sign up for the mailing list on my website...