Welcome to our 2025 Outtakes and Behind the Scenes video.
This is everything that didn’t make the “perfect” cut.
If you’ve ever wondered what actually happens in a working laser shop when the cameras are rolling, the projects are piling up, and someone definitely should have turned off the water… this is it.
In this video you’ll see:
Real behind the scenes moments from our shop
Pass-through installs, test cuts, and first-time setups
Absolute chaos involving glue, water, and questionable choices
What running a laser business really looks like day to day
Proof that even after years of doing this, things still go sideways
No scripts. No retakes. No pretending everything goes smoothly.
Just real life in the shop with us.
If you’re a maker, a laser owner, or someone building a creative business, this is your reminder that messy does not mean you’re doing it wrong. It usually means you’re actually doing the work.
Drop a comment and tell us your worst shop fail so we can all feel better together.
Thanks for hanging out with us this year. Here’s to more projects, more learning, and probably more chaos in 2025.
FYI: We are not professionals, and we don’t claim to be. This is what we found worked for our project. Yours may need a little different approach. We have just enough woodworking skill to make some basic furniture. Safety first!
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What is up?
>> What is up? Welcome back. Do you like to
do it build it or make it and make
money?
>> So do we. Did you do it?
>> Yeah, I caught it. Each week we show you
how to make.
Sorry,
car caught me. Car car caught me off
guard. Now, this AI generated image is
God, I did it again. Here, let me talk
to you like this.
>> Yeah.
>> I don't understand why I got to talk
with my head back.
>> We'll just do the whole thing.
>> Okay, we'll do the whole thing.
>> Little editing. Ready?
>> All right. Oh, well, let clean off your
shirt then.
Of course, you're going to put on your
safety glasses.
>> Of course, I'm putting on my safety
glasses.
I was squinting. They're like safety
glasses. Oh my gosh. Those are all the
cuts. So, the pass through system is
already installed in the back. Let me
see if I can slide this a little bit
further. Get this cable out of the way.
Some of us have already done this
before. Some of us have not.
>> It's my first time.
>> He's going to He's going to wait till we
get on camera to give it a go.
>> That's right.
>> To show you how easy it is.
>> It's that easy. You don't even have to
pay attention when she's showing you how
to do it the first time.
>> She was trying to show me the first
time. I was like, "Yeah, yeah, rails. I
got it. I got it. I got it.
>> Step three.
It was a double toss.
>> Went all the way to the ceiling.
>> Ah, you thought I was going to balance
the cutting board, but I'm going to
balance the tree.
>> Oh gosh.
>> Yeah,
>> that's heavy. Don't underestimate how
heavy it is in the arm.
>> That's a That's
>> okay.
>> Let me get a new GLUE
that it needs a new home.
That's five times today I've tripped
over that
jam.
Damn.
Look. Is not working. 90 minutes. One
piece falls out. This is six passes.
It's not working. It's not working. It's
not working.
Stop volunteering for stuff. Stop
volunteering. I screwed my holes. I got
them deep. They're in there good.
>> All right, there you go.
>> All right, that's perfect.
>> One down.
Whoa.
I'll do this.
I don't know why you're holding it like
it's a baby. You got to hold it like
you're wrestling a bear.
How you doing today? This is Danny.
>> This is how the day starts. I mean, all
we
>> get over to the machine.
>> All we did was turn it on in the back.
What happened?
>> Why was it on on Look, look. What am I
going to do?
What is up? Welcome back. Make it mafia.
Today we're here at the X Tool Metal Fab
launch. We're here with Mike Smirka,
>> do it again.
>> Walk into a bar.
>> Yeah, that'll be funny. That'll be
funny.
>> Kim made a new sign for print cut. What
do you think it is? What do you think's
on the other side of the sign?
>> Turn it over. Turn it.
>> See, that's going to go behind me now.
You ruined it. You ruined it.
Looks a lot better on the wall. Looks a
little less phallic.
>> I think I want it behind me when I'm
sitting at my desk for video calls.
Okay. When I said behind me, they lost
it.
>> You You lost it.
>> You lose it. See, that's how it's
supposed to look.
Look, you guys can't be hanging out at
the water cooler all day. We've got
stuff to get done.
>> Come on. You got time to lean. You got
time to clean.
>> I don't know how to do it.
This is what you guys don't understand.
We're standing here talking about
projects and he has found the skateboard
and a lazy and a lazy Susan.
>> Going to find a better place to skate
Susan.
Tanner. Tanner forgot to turn off the
water to the evaporative cooler. And now
we got a flood.
Got a little flood. Tanner.
All right. I don't know who told Garrett
that he could use this
machine because both he and Tanner have
now flooded the entire warehouse
because they leave the hose on and walk
away. I mean, it must take what 3
minutes to load it. I don't understand
why we walk away.
>> I am bored and I can't wait to go check
on the UV print.
>> So, now what do you have to do?
water.
Look you guys,
look it. It's everywhere.
Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.
No, don't get that wet again.
Gh.
Well, I guess if nothing else, the floor
is really clean, though.
>> I mean, seriously, can you guys see it's
way in the back all the way this way?
He's just now spreading it, so it will
eventually dry.
I just got this place dry from my flood
yesterday. And look how far back the
puddle goes now. It goes from the door
all the way over here. I mean, I just
got it dry.
>> Oh, there we go.
>> I thought back.
>> Yeah.
>> Pick a mirror. Any mirror.
>> Pick a zombie.
>> Pick a zombie.
>> Pick a zombie. Any zombie. Any zombie.
>> All right. This is my zombie. All right.
I'll put him back in the deck.
>> Shuffle it up.
>> Find your zombie. Yeah,
>> this one with a giant fingerprint on it.
Yeah, that's your zombie.
>> Oh, yeah. That's my zombie.
>> Did you hit it?
>> Are you new to this YouTube thing?
>> The whole thing is new to you. You know,
>> I wasn't I wasn't practicing. You never
wing it. You never wing it. That's not
your style.
really swung wide for the fences, man.
That was way out there. Are we close?
Are we too tight?
>> I was going to use this for for uh
>> I couldn't help it. I'm sorry.
>> I was going to use this for bloopers and
out takes
the sailor truckering you just came
right out.
took the whole thing.
>> You got your CDL and your sea legs
today.
>> Uhoh. Glue. Go, go, go. Can I help you?
How much glue? Oh my god, you just glued
your eyes shut.
>> Yes.
>> Do you need my help?
>> Uh, I don't know. Wash hands.
>> All right. All right, I'm going to keep
gluing. He just glued his eyelid shut.
So, let's see what he can do. He'll be
back and freaked out here in a minute if
he doesn't get it himself.
He'll be all right, you guys. I can see
he's a little stressed cuz he didn't do
this design himself.
Okay. Well, I hear him laughing. That's
probably a nervous laugh.
Oh, and I just heard a curse word.
My eyelashes are glued together.
>> Oh my gosh. What do you want me to do?
>> Oh, you almost got it. Yeah, I see it's
almost open.
>> I told him you'd figure it out. I said
he's laughing, but that sounds like
nervous laughter.
>> Yeah, my eye will open.
That's the first time in all of these
years have we actually had an issue with
eyes, right?
>> Yeah.
Holy.
Pardon my language.
>> A little scary.
>> Oh no. It hurts.
>> It hurts. Oh,
>> trying to kill it off.
>> Oh, you're going to lose eyelashes.
>> Oh yeah, I am.
>> Oh my gosh. It's all underneath your
eye. I know.
>> Okay.
>> Okay. You
>> guys want to see my eye?
>> Get up close so I don't feel your Look
under his eye. There's dried glue there.
My goodness. How much glue did you have
on your finger?
>> I don't know.
>> Yeah.
And then I'll be afraid to use like
>> touch my eye the glue stuff like the
>> de Bonder on there. Well, that's
probably not good for your eyes.
>> Yeah, I didn't want to put the deer on
my eyes. I almost got it. Well, I only
got a couple of eyelashes left,
>> right? Take them take them off. I don't
even need those.
Oh, you can go to the lash appointment
with me.
>> Oh my god. Oh, hold on. I can almost
see. Damn it.
>> Sorry, I can't watch comments, so I have
no idea what people are starting to say.
>> I got it.
>> Say it together, kids. Proper PPE when
crafting.
>> I got my eye open.
>> Look at that. Go show them how big that
is. And all the eyelashes on it.
>> Oh my gosh.
Can you see the glue?
We'll cover Kim's face.
I don't know. You can't see it.
There it is. You see the eyelashes on
there.
>> Oh my gosh. It's
>> okay. I got more where that came from.
>> Yeah. You and your luxurious lashes.
You'd be all right. You have lashes to
spare.
I mean, that got stuck shut real quick.
Like, I just did that and then when I
went to open my eye, it didn't open.
Like, this Starbond sticks to like skin
quick.
Peace.