 How to build a workshop ceiling rail track for lights and cameras. I have two groups in mind for the video today. Woodworkers who are trying to get good illumination on their work piece so they see exactly what they're doing. And then video producers who are trying to get their tripods and their lights off the floor where they constantly trip over them. So let me show you a fairly simple solution to both of those challenges. I designed where I would want to put half inch pipe up above my various work centers so that I could put the camera where I needed it as well as put the lights where I needed them. And I wanted everything to be extremely flexible where I can slide things along the pipe and move it in literally almost any position in the garage. With those pipes up then I took several different tripods that I had and I just worked out different devices depending on the tripod. In some cases I just used simple g-clamps. In other cases I built little end units that I could just simply take on and off very very quickly. I've got the railing up above. Let's say I'm working here. This is my work piece. Nice bright LED lights up above but I want more. In this case a monopod that's got an LED light on it and hang it over my work piece. If I would like it to be higher up then it's a tripod so I can just adjust it. Get it out of my way but yet have it down and really bright. So that's the idea with the light. So with this arrangement right now I've got a light here to shine on my face. I've got one out front. I have a light up on my tools in the back. I have what's called a highlight or a shoulder light up above my head. So anyway the point is I can set this up any way that I want to. There's a kind of overhead shot you can capture without hardly any effort. All you've done is move your camera from shooting the person to hanging it over your work piece and then aiming it down. Very quick to set up and very effective for producing your videos. I hope you find this idea as exciting as I do even if I wasn't shooting videos. Now that I see how effective it will be I'm going to hang my LED lights and use them to get better illumination on my work. So I'm excited. I hope you are too. Small workshop guy signing off.