 Boom. I think we're live man. We're live. We are live. Hi everyone as you join us this Tuesday, this Thursday, this Wednesday One o'clock. Every Wednesday at one o'clock except last week. Sorry about that. We missed last week I was just lying on my couch feeling sorry for myself And then some of you actually phoned into our residence and said, where's Dave? Where's Dave? And I was like, really? Some people actually cared and that was nice. So here we are. Why were you on your couch? I was just sad and I just sort back and I said I'm just gonna lie on the couch. Well, we're glad you're back. I kind of served that up for you. Anyways, go on. Yes. So while we wait for everyone to come on and that when we get down to the good stuff when we resin I was gonna walk around because there's always interesting stuff that might spark some questions If you have any questions, just ask them. Jeff will try and show them up to me and to Jasmine over there Say hi to Jazz. Hi everybody. Hello. Jasmine. We call her jazmataz. And everyone needs Jasmine because if you don't know where something is you just ask Jasmine And she just finds it. She just comes like it's in the drawer. So, hi Fabiola. Hi Fabiola. So over the past couple of weeks we've been filling up cracks in the wood grounds and it looks like we're totally full. Wow. So the next stage is just sanding and we're not gonna do that in this live video because it's messy and lonely. But you can see this one was sanded and perfectly flat. Julie Misty from White Rock BC. Oh, thanks for missing me, Julie. That makes me so happy. I couldn't believe that anyone was wondering, was ready at Wednesday at one o'clock. And then what's this, Jeff? Alexis from Detroit's here. Oh yeah, and then we've got a candy skittle dish. The skittle dish. And the final step was just to cut it with a table saw. We've got this tape cut up with a table saw. I don't know if we get to that today. But that's something interesting. Something else interesting is how do you put bug, butterflies and beetles in bed dung in clear resin? Hi Mary. And we're gonna be experimenting for more of that. Maybe we'll do a bit of prep work on it to show you. But again, if you have any questions, that's just some of the stuff we're working on here. Well, we've got Dominican Republic, Lady Lake Florida and Israel watching. That's awesome. The whole world. Well, we're here in Southern Ontario, Canada. An hour west of Toronto. And it seems like the coronavirus is over or something. Let's not say that. No, no, no. Well, just all of a sudden, like grandparents started hugging their grandkids just like last week and like just everyone just kind of like came back to life. And it seems like we're okay. We're getting there. Hi, Seanberg. Oh, and Debbie from Toronto and Debbie from United Kingdom, Costa Rica, Mellie from Toronto, Atlanta, Georgia. Cairo. Oh, amazing. Colorado. Neat. Wow. Thanks for watching everyone. Hamilton. So neat that people come watch. Cool. So what we're doing is until everyone gets on and we start the good stuff, we're just walking around showing some stuff that might prompt some questions. This is a reusable mold. They come in really big sizes too for doing coffee tables and river tables and we were just going to fill it. We're not going to do this today, but just doing some prep work. So this is all going to be clear resin over top of this beautiful piece of wood. So that's been worked on. Actually, a good question just came up. How did the balloons turn out? Oh, I hope no one asked. It's terrible. Well, you know what? I didn't come back the next day to resin the ganache and come back for like four or five days. They're kids and I can't be thinking about balloons. And so all the air came out of it. So you got to be faster than you were. But it feels neat. So that's what happened. I just didn't come back and do another coat fast enough. That's for it to keep its shape. So I thought maybe like three or four coats would be thick enough that when the air left it would hold its shape. Anyway, at least we know that the resin sticks to the balloon. That's interesting. We'll try that again when we get an idea. But right now. Unfortunately, it's on to the next project. Yeah, we lost 40 hours of childcare basically a week. Oh, yeah, yeah. Do you want us to throw it in there or is this something else? This is very cool. We got a video coming up that is it's like three different art. You know, if you have artwork that you get from the store like prefab art, we've got different ways of accentuating it. Basically, you can add some glitter to different aspects of the piece. We have another piece where we've embellished the waterline of a, it was a very big sneak peek because I wasn't going to release this, but I will let you see so you can have a nice piece here. So rather than just leaving it as, you know, just a matte finish, you have a nice art resin finish there. It will shine with the water. Hey, Liverpool, the water will shine where the turtles are underneath. And so Cal, how's it going? And then this piece is also amazing because that used to be red flowers. And many of you know Dave's wife Rebecca. Well, here we go. Boom. So that's what it used to be. And because maybe the decor or the color of your house has a different palette. So you just have to paint it over a little bit, add a little resin and about a boom, you got yourself a whole new piece. It's beautiful. She did a great job. So look for that video that come out probably within the next month or so. Thank you, Jeff. No problem. Back to the listener questions. Cheryl Reynolds had one question and one comment. And her, your comments, Cheryl, if you're here was, we've been just filling in cracks in wood and then losing all the resin and wasting so much resin in these deep crevices. So Cheryl said, why don't you fill it with sand first? And then the sand will just get saturated with the resin and hopefully just hold it in there. So we've got some sand and that's what we're going to do today. Great idea. So you don't waste your resin. Is that sand? Like sugar. So we'll do that in a bit. Taste it. Taste it. Look at that. So I'm just filling this in with sand and then open that'll save a whole bunch of resin. So good idea, Cheryl. Why not use wood filler from Jill? Well, oh, like cutting or wood. Ooh, we have plastic wood actually. That's a good idea. Yeah, if we can get in, that's a good idea. These are all great ideas. Oh, Ottawa. Hey, Ottawa. So we just finished putting some sand in there. Just go like that. See? That's how you do it. Well, I don't want to be able to see it. That's awesome, Debbie. We're a hot glue gun from already lad. Hot glue gun. All great ideas. Yeah, there's a lot. Obviously, there's tons of different ways you can do it. And this is great because doing it this way is we're trying to open it up to you guys to offer some suggestions. We love it. Plasticine. Yeah. Yeah. All right. And Cheryl Reynolds was talking about aging wood. Well, you just wanted to be, I think that I have this wood meter. Next week, I'm going to bring in this wood moisture meter. You can buy them on Amazon. And I think you want the wood to be either 4% or 6%, that's 4% or 6% moisture. You don't want it to be completely, completely brittle and dry. But you don't want it to have enough moisture that it will expand and contract. So, and how long do you age the wood? I once read that it should be, for every inch you have, it should be a whole year. That seems crazy. But like if you have a whole stump, like they're saying you need to age it for many, many years. But Jess, do you know what happened to your advice for how long to age wood? Yeah. Well, if you have a stump like that, it could take that long if you were just leaving it. But you can find, if you have like a local lumber mill or a lumber yard, they usually have wood kilns. They put it in for, they'll put it in, they'll charge you and put it in there for like a day or two. Like maybe a week if it's a big piece and you come back out and it's all dried for you. Nice. So kiln, kiln wood is actually, seems to be a secret there. Yeah, and I didn't know you can go and pay someone to do it. Yeah, yeah. Wood shops, do you just look in your local area after cracks people or lumber people will do that for you? Nice. But the importance of having the wood dry is... Yeah. Yeah. Otherwise you'll just have cracks. Your resin will crack over time. Okay. There's only... Is resin mixed up? Yeah. Sweet. Thanks, Jazz. Jazz, already mixed up some resin. Nice. So this will be really easy to show you. So we're just going to fill out these clear containers with resin and then we can watch from the side how to make sure that it sinks. And I'll show you some things that don't sink. I'm sorry if I missed, a couple of people have written something and I was trying to film so I missed a couple questions, sorry about that. Okay. So this is alcohol ink. That's one important feature. What do we have here? Inksinker. Okay. So. And this is... thank you. So this is just... This is resin tint which is different from alcohol ink. So I'll show you what doesn't work. So resin tint is oil based. But it's safer, I guess. Alcohol is a solvent. So that creates a lot of issues. So this is oil based. And I'll just float on top. And I'll show you with an alcohol ink. This is an alcohol ink. Was that last week, Julie? Every Wednesday at one o'clock, Joe. Alcohol ink. So that's alcohol ink. Yeah. And they're both floating on the top. What the heck? Well, here's the secret. Alcohol ink that is white. Sinks. Here we go. Go on. There we go. So there's the inksinker at work, driving the color down through the resin. Yeah. Or you're not going to watch all mixed. Some of the white is the color. That's right. Wow, that's so cool. Look at that. That's actually really cool. And just to show you that this is, again, oil based. This is oil based resin tint with white. And you're not going to see the same stuff. See, it pops back up. So that's the resin tint on the left. And it won't drop down, whereas in the inksinker, when it hits the alcohol ink drives it down. So you get those awesome tendrils. And that's why people do this beautiful Petri dish art. And it creates all that. And if you wait a little bit with the resin, if you let it cure just a little bit, maybe before the 45 minute mark, you can really get well defined tendrils in there. Okay. So what I'm doing here is I took some of the white alcohol ink, which is the thing that makes it sink. And I'm just mixing it with some yellow. And we'll watch how it sinks that way. So this is white alcohol ink mixed with yellow alcohol ink? Yep. Cool. Julia, I haven't missed you. Well, you had a question about the rocks. Please just send it to me maybe after we're done this ink portion here. Boom. Look at that. Oh, wow, dude. And you're going to spin it a bit to heavens. But you can just play and play and play. We're going to have a bit of pink in here. So there's a bunch of pink. But again, I want to add the white to make it sink. Yeah. There we go. Now you see the pink ink coming down mixed with the white. Put a bit more pink in there too. Oh, and then we have our, so Jazz, this is our texture. Hello, Maria. Hi, Tanya. Oh, that's my mom. Oh yeah, Tanya, come on. Hey. Oh, she's saying hi, Jasmine. Hi. Nice. This is part of my mom too. Well, we're doing that. All right. Do you remember watching? Nope, probably not. I'll have to get her to do it. Any cheap website for items? For what? Itens. I don't know if that's items. I'm not sure. Oh, man, look. My wife bought me this shirt today. I opened it. And she said it's 25 bucks. And I said, why did you pay 25 bucks for a t-shirt? I'm going to ruin it. Look at that. One day. Half a day. Don't say, okay, I can't say it. So that was an interesting text. Sonya, a lot to learn. Yeah, yeah. Lots to learn. There's always, we're still like discovering all these different things that we love all different. If we could just sit and play all day, that's what we would do. We could do this. I'm sorry. Can that get, I don't think so. Hey, Carol. Hey, Carol. Can you put resin on Styrofoam or the resin gets too warm? Warm. But it depends on the density of the Styrofoam. That's true. If it's like really light Styrofoam, it'll get too warm. And then as it, like, it melts when it gets hot. But if it's like really heavy Styrofoam, it'll be fine. Yeah. You can make sculptures of the Styrofoam, carve it away up. It's a dense, it's a really dense piece of Styrofoam, carve it. And then you can resin it. No problem if people do that. It's a really big, big piece of Styrofoam. Okay. Quick question because it's all caps. How long before you can resin on acrylic painting? Good question. Especially if it's a light color. It's white. How long? So you'll see the cure time is on the bottle of paint that you use. Okay. Yeah, usually. Okay. So. Oh, this one's perfectly wrong. If I'm using white, if I'm not using white in my painting, then I set for a week or two. Yeah. If I'm not using white, sometimes I even do it the same day. Yeah. Painting. There isn't like a day or two. So I'm just waiting. Okay. So just wait a day or two, or if it's white, let it be a longer. Yeah. All right. Great. I added that instinctive to this one just as you've not had it. Just saying it's hard to hear. So I'm going to try and go right up to everybody's face. I just, although I have, I'm sorry, Julie's trying to get at me here. I'm so sorry, Julie. It goes so fast. She had a problem with some bubbles, I think on her rocks or whatnot, but Julie, let's hang off on that. And let's towards the end, I'm going to come back to you. If you can hang with me, I'll prompt you when Dave says there's a break. Okay. Okay. Sorry, Julie. So another thing we're doing today, we're going to, we went over that, we went over all the questions. We're going to fill this wood crack, hopefully for the last time I let you sand in it. We're going to, these wood faces are almost completely saturated. I just keep adding wood to them until they're just solid. Then jazz is going to show us some of the Petri dish stuff and then some jewelry flakes. So real cool jazz. I actually prepared this painting. Okay. So what are you doing to prepare it? Actually, so I'm just as quietly as I can taking the bottle and putting it up on stands. Oh, nice. Yeah. All right. Let's go to Jasmine. We'll be back with Dave. All right. So remember your mom is watching. So no pressure. No pressure. Mommy's watching. All right. So what do we got? It's like a regular Petri dish. We have our kits. So that's just what we did in that. Dave showed that example way over there. This is a finished product in a normal kind of dish size. Yeah. So it comes out of the mold like this. But one problem that people have is that there's this little ridge along the edge here. So I don't know if you can see it, but it's this little kind of sharp ridge that just happens because of the like capillary kind of bonding that comes up the sides of each of the molds. So capillary bonding. No, don't even, that was brilliant. I just let it, let it sit. That's good stuff. That's what we should have titled this thing. Everybody's searching for capillary bonding. Really cool. Okay. And then in the back here and then that'll fill it all in and that little edge will keep it in. So then it'll be completely smooth. So you don't have to stand out or do anything like that. But the other thing you can do is you can use black resin. So this originally looked like this, but I just used paint on this one. I painted the back of his black and now it looks like fireworks or it's got that back. And you can do it with any color. I think the pink turned out good. Oh, nice. Oh, that's what he did. So it went from clear to the, oh, it looks so good. That looks cool. So the easiest way I think, I painted this just so I could show you what it looks like. But I think the easiest way is to just take some clear resin. You don't need very much. And you just walk into some of our black resin tint. You could use alcohol ink as well. Could be either one. And then mix it up. So you got black paste. How many drops do you put in there? I don't know. Maybe I put three or four would be good. I probably did a little bit more than that, but three or four is probably fine. Cool. Let's say you want to have this one. It'll be black on the back. Let's see. Yeah, the pink on black looks amazing. This will look cool. So the result here is twofold. So you are not only, as you were mentioning earlier, not only are you eliminating that lip, but you're also the back of the dish is a little textured. So you're making that smooth as well. Yeah. If it was clear, you'd have a double sided. You'd be able to see this, this is the back of the coaster, but it looks beautiful. Right. So if you pour just the clear resin in that. Yes. You'll just have. You'll hold on to that color. Yeah, you'll just have a double sided, smooth coaster. Super. This is so good. I should have put that in the Petrie video. Jasmine. Well, these live videos, they're like discovering. Yeah, this is so cool. Forces us to do stuff every week. Yeah. And kind of spread this out here. It's very gently up to the lip. They won't kind of hold it in, right? If you get a bit over the edges, not a big deal. You can take it off tomorrow. It's self-levels too, right? Exactly. So now you can see it's smooth over the top, kind of like almost like a dome. It's almost like you've domed it. Wow. It's with a more sharp edge on the back. And you can Jill, that is a good point. That is what we've usually done is sand it off, sand off the lip. You can do that. And if it's a little rough, you just rub a little art resin along that to smooth it out, make it nice and shiny. That is the usual way. But this is just something that Jasmine's proposed here. And I think we'll take a look at the finished results next week because that is really cool. No, we're not going to put a Liverpool football flag out there. I don't know if anybody's a Liverpool fan here. TFC. Yeah, that's soccer. Well, soccer football, yeah, exactly. I think there, I think it is coming back. Sports are coming back around the world. I think soccer is happening. Yeah, I think there's a tournament happening for the North American League. And then I think I believe, yeah, out there with in Europe, they're doing some coming back as well. So anyway, sports are starting to come back. I'm just going to read this one out and see what we got. I filled a big vase. I was making into a fairy garden with styrofoam peanuts and then covered with plastic from packaging residency. I missed the rest of it. Sorry about that. It was a long one. So Stephanie from Texas does customer service. Hi, Stephanie. She mentioned a lot of people have been asking about finishing the edges of pieces. So there's lots of different ways to do that. There's easy ways and there's hard ways. I'll just tell you how I'm doing this one is I'm going to let the resin go over the edge, just rub it in. And then I'm actually going to sand the edges and then paint it black. That's going to be my process. Oh, nice. I just feel like that. Because you will get some drip lines. So sanding it and then painting it black just really finishes it off. What are some other ways to finish the edges? You can just leave it bare and try and dome your resin. You can tape off the entire sides as long as you rip it off, you know, soon enough, for hours I'd say, and finish the edges. Or you can actually cut them on a table saw, just trim off the edge of the blade. I've done that too. They get really messy. But there's lots of different ways to finish the edges. Those are some of them. Thanks, Deanne. Okay. So there's some left over resin here. Why don't I just start filling up the... Let's do it. Okay, we have the painting and the woodcraft. Yeah. Let's see how this sand works. Here it goes. Someone got... I guess their piece was stuck in a mold. Is there a way to release it from the mold? Is there a... I mean, your mold's going to be ruined. Oh, yeah. And usually that has to do with the quality of the silicone. And you know the quality of the silicone by the amount of time you can reuse the mold. So if your mold's ripping and getting stuck, it's the silicone is either used too much or just a cheap silicone. And unfortunately, you're just going to pick at it and pick at it and maybe eventually, like, sand it getting exactly right. There's no really easy way to get it off of there that I know of. Jasmine? No, that's about it. But make sure you're not torching the mold. So once the mold is in the mold, don't torch it exactly. That can break down the mold and cause it to stick. So, lose the torch. Lose the torch. There you go. Sorry to hear about your mold not working. Yeah, it sucks when that happens. I hate it. You put so much, like, work into it and then it doesn't come out the mold. And you can't wait for Kristin's worrying to open the mold and see what you got and... Boo. Yeah. That's life. That's life lessons. Life lessons. With our resonance. Yeah. Very cool. What you got going on here? So you're poking it through there? I'm just trying to hide some of the sand that's kind of high up. Hmm. Could you put some, like, black ink in it? Black ink? I think you have it over there. Do you have any? Do you have the alcohol? No, I threw it all back in there. Oh, here it is. Jasmine with the black ink. Hello, dude. My vase was round, so I had to piece the plastic together to make it fit. I'm not sure what else there is. Sorry. I'm trying to... I get messages sometimes and I don't catch up. So what is the status of soccer coming back then? I actually don't know. I kind of read something quickly. It was either this morning. Was it Liverpool? Oh, yeah. Hey, whoever sent out the message about Liverpool, let us know what's going on with soccer. Yeah. In Canada, they care about hockey. Mm-hmm. Which is coming back. Basketball. Here in North America, probably basketball is going to be the first sport to come back, unless baseball can get their act together. Hold on, Sonya is saying, I don't use a torch, but after using mold for two months, successfully, now I have this problem. Yeah. You just use the mold too many times. Yeah. It's how it's timed. So it's time to move on to a new mold, essentially. Yeah. Bury it. Have a little ceremony. Light a candle. Glass of wine, maybe. Watch your favorite show. It'll be okay. This resin just keeps going in here, even with the sand. Jill is offering a tip that a heat gun works great to take the tape off the sides. The what? A heat gun is good to take the tape off the sides if it's stuck on there a bit more. Yes, I remember hearing about that. I forgot about that. Boom. Okay. So I'll use the resin on these two forest gentlemen. Oh, yes. The woodman. The woodman. And clean this up. You know, I'm probably going to cut this with a saw. Stick with it. Stick with it. Sorry. Okay. I love jewel and nice name. If your piece is stuck in the mold, put it in the freezer for a few hours and you should be able to get it to release. Yeah. I remember that. Really? Yeah. I think I thought we talked about that before too. That's cool. I'm going to write that down. That's a good one. So if your mold is mold stuck in freezer. Okay. We'll try that. Yeah. I need to know that. All right, you gentlemen. So again, I'm just trying to soak these guys so they're a solid chunk of plastic. Do you have plans for them? They just kept crumbling and crumbling. Pieces break off and they're so old. Who knows how long they've been in the woods for? Hmm. Like the beginning of time. Yeah. I imagine. Yes. It was when Gog was designing man. They also made your man. Well, he was. Yeah, he was. And then you gave him boogers. Boogers? Gross. They used to do little jokes. People are asking or maybe one person about workshops. Have we ever thought about doing workshops? We thought about it. There's lots of good workshops out there. And I don't think we're the ones to do it. We've never really thought about doing workshops. I don't know. I know we have a video up on how to run your own workshop. If you're interested. Yeah. So we do have. We have algorithm workshops. We did a video on how to run an algorithm workshop. Because lots and lots of archers do that. Because people can just try using resin and get past it. You know, then usually they get hooked on it. They're like, oh, I can resin everything. So yes, we have a great, a whole page on that actually. With a video. We should create something like documents to run an algorithm workshop. Do a blog? Probably. They might have a blog. We probably have a blog on that too. We're going to look at that. But yes, we do have some info. Um, workshop. What should we do next time? We'll have a laptop. And so any other sometimes topics come up. We can show people where to go and search for answers. We need someone sitting in the corner with a laptop on the computer. That's right. Okay. Okay. So what have we done today? We did the bottom of the peter with jazz. We did our wooden faces. We did the wood crack. We're going to talk about jewelry blanks and resin this piece. And that's the whole day today. What's that? Okay. Debbie had a major exothermic reaction where things started to smoke. It was way too thick. Probably way too thick. Yeah. I'm scared that's what's going to happen with these samples that we made here. Most likely because this is art resin, this is going to get really, really hot. And I don't know if it'll smoke, but it'll probably discolor a little bit. We'll see. I'm kind of curious to see what happens. It looks like mid-June. We're going to get some soccer and I love Julen. Sorry if I'm saying that incorrectly, but is asking about respiratory masks. Do we need to wear them? For COVID or for? No, for here, for resin I'm guessing. Well, there's no VOCs, which means there's no fumes coming up. And we're in a big enough area that there's lots of regulations. So we're safe by all the information that we have and knowing what the ingredients are. It is safe to use. Absolutely. So we can tell in the education so that it's being used in classroom settings by students and stuff. When we created our resin that was one of the main, main focuses is safe. It's not worth it. Otherwise, I don't want to use anything. That's right. And I remember that Dave and Rebecca, it was kind of cool in your story. You guys had a checklist as to what your resin that you guys were creating had to the checklist, right? Yeah, the checklist. It was a great checklist. And once it got ticked off, you guys released our resin. Here we are. So I got tons of resin on my hands. So, this stuff, Gojo, you find in mechanic shops, you're going to grease off of your hands and you do it dry. So rub it on. It's got some like pumice, is that what it's called in it? Pumice. Pumice. It's got like an exfoliant in it to rub the right off. Yeah, and somehow it just gets it off of there. And then just do this. That's the best way that I can get resin off of my hands. And then soak in water to get the residue of it. Oh, Joe, this is our secret weapon. This thing is like the greatest thing in the entire world. It's just a baker's rack, guys. Yeah. And with trays. So that every project that we do, we put it onto a tray, put it in the rack. Dave loves everything on wheels. And put your projects, put it in there, and then seal it up. You can zip it up, zip up the plastic cover, protect it, and bada-booms. Because we often, many times, do multiple projects and whatnot. Jasmine does tons usually. And you just put it in the racks, let them cure. Come back the next day. It's dust-free. Dust-free. Okay, guys, you want to talk about those? Yep. And then if you get the bugs ready, then I'll do this. Yep. Okay, cool. Bed bugs? No, Julie. No, no. Ew. Although we could embed them. Okay, so. Okay. What we got here? All right. So this, right here, is more or less a jewelry block. So what this is, is this a little tiny piece of wood, kind of set in resin. So that's what people kind of like to do to make little jewelry pieces out of. So the process, you can see here, is you start with these little pieces of scrap just whatever doesn't have to be fancy or it could be quite fancy. Anyway, you put them in and then you pour resin on, let it cure. So then the next day you pop it out and you'll have something that looks like this. So you see the wood is suspended in there. And then I take just a Dremel and I did this in just about 20 minutes before we started. So I wouldn't probably call this one finished, but you kind of grind a shape out of it, whatever shape you want. So you want it to be like a little circular pendant. So you want it to be a little teardrop. You're just going to shape that with your, with either just sandpaper or a little Dremel or whatever you want. It's a lathe as well. I've seen people put it on a lathe. Sometimes people have like those jewelry grinders, like a jewelry polisher. You can put it right up to it. This is off. Anyway, exactly. So once you have this little piece, there's kind of two options that you can go from there. Good job, Debbie. You can either polish it. You can, so starting with like a rough sandpaper, working your way up to like a very fine sandpaper with some car wax and stuff and make it all shiny. Or you can just take a little bit of red and then rub it over the top to make it shiny again. And then pop a little hole and that'll be your like little necklace. However you want it to look. But I'm going to show you how I do it from the beginning. Gloves. Keep your hands protected. So this is just like scrap wood we had laying around. You can see here, there's some big pieces, there's some lower pieces. I kind of just smashed it up with a chisel and a hammer, whatever they had around. So I put little scraps in here. Just like this. It doesn't super matter how they look because it's more about how you shape the thing in the end and where the cross section comes from. And of course you can get your own molds as well, different shapes. Oh yeah, use any kind of shapes you want. Just, I mean look at our molds where I could have put in the little square one, could have done a bigger one like this. Could have done anything, really. So you just stick it in there and then here's a bit of resin that I mixed up. I'm just going to do clear for this one. Okay. I'm just going to pour it in until it covers the wood. And the wood pieces might float up, but that's okay. Either like shove them down as they keep going or see this one floating up, but it's not going to really matter. Same with this one, it floated up as well, but as you sand it down and you finish it off, it won't matter if it floated it off. Where do we get these molds? I think most things are on Amazon. These are from Amazon, they're like little candy molds I think they hold. Yeah, and then we have our own molds as well that are this shape here. We have available on our website. You can make your own as well. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, with silicone? Yeah, you can make your own silicone molds. See, and it does have to be like one piece of wood perfectly shaped. It can be all these little ones here. It'll be interesting once you kind of sand it down the rest of the way. So, a bit more later for that one. Anyway, so there you go, and then when you pop these out the next day, they'll look like this. You sand it down like this, and then you can take some of our mixed up resin here. And you can see that it's going to become very clear and shiny just by adding a new layer of resin. Yeah, because once you mold it, it scratches it up, makes it all messy and nasty looking, but then you add a little bit of resin, just a little small coating, and by the boom, the shine is back. See, then you can see all the way down into it. So that's kind of neat. Obviously, there's more crafty ways to do this, and you can get all different kinds of effects by the different ways you put the wood in and how much you want to polish it and shape it and just really, you can go wild, but that's how you do it. There you go. Go wild, everybody. And there is a video someone asked about how to make molds. We do have a video up online. I think there's a short one. I'm just using silicone and acetate, but yeah, there's many different ways. Good question. Oh, I love this. So what do we have clear resin? So this one is, if you guys have been here for the past few weeks, we're building this pyramid. Started with what do we have, David? The gold leaf and then flour just dried in silica sand. And now we just got a clear thing of resin. Cool. Are you going to stop there? Is there going to be another one after that? No, we're going to keep going. Going all the way to the top? Oh, man, this is going to be so cool. Yeah, stay tuned. Stay tuned week by week. Okay, thanks, Jazz. Jazz, that was awesome. Boom. That was Jasmine with Jasmine. And now we're back to the doing it with Dave. Doing it with Dave. So one interesting thing about this piece, this where it's pink used to be white, but it was oil paint that I didn't let dry long enough and then resin. And it turned pink. And it's normally this piece that I did it on. Some other pieces. The white turned pink if you don't let all the oil dry. But I kind of think it looks nice. At first I was angry, then I was sad. And what's the next stage? Betrayed. Betrayed. He bargained. He bargained. Yes. Okay. So I'm just going to resin this one and then I'm actually sending it to my brother in Victoria because it reminds me of him or something like that. Alright. He's in Victoria just going to go to business. I guess restaurants are going. Hello, St. Helen's UK. Nice. UK. Hello, welcome. The UK. Welcome to Canada. A beautiful day. It's supposed to be like 41 today. What? Really? Yeah. Ugh. I know my chickens are just sitting in the forest. Oh yeah, for those who don't know, Dave has chickens. Oh, I love my chicken. I have six chickens. Nice. Six nice chickens. Six eggs a day. Companionship. What else do you get out of chickens? Um... Milk? No. No. Besides nuggets? I don't know. No, I'm just kidding. We love the chickens. What are you going to do with chickens in the winter? I don't know. Oh, I don't know. Hey, Maria's got 10 chickens. Maria, what are you going to do with your chickens in the winter? Or do you live somewhere that's not like cool? Maria, help me. I don't want to kill them. But I can keep them all winter. I'm just going to coat this thing quickly too. Oh, more residence night for Carol in Quebec City. Yeah, baby. Or Montreal. Sorry, Montreal, Quebec. So this is just something from the dollar store actually. And I'm just going to do this. Make it waterproof. Oh. I don't care if it's super pretty and super smooth. She's in Schoenberg, Maria, with the 10 chickens. Where's Schoenberg? Schoenberg, they're fine. Schoenberg? Is that in Germany? Schoenberg, Germany, I think. By the boom. Caledon. Oh, Caledon. Nice. She says just they'll be fine. Just feed them and water them. Winter long? Really? Don't have to put them in summer warm? No. Okay. King City. Yeah. So I'm just going to, on my edges, I'm just going to rub the resin into the sides. Okay. And then torch it. Get rid of the bubbles. We'll get that money, that beautiful torching shot. Yes. The bubble popping is usually the favorite spot. Yeah. Favorite part. We got a torch right here. Yeah. I'm going to clip on this flame spreader. I'd like to say that I invented this, but I didn't. We copied someone. I couldn't find it for sale anywhere, but I bought it like 10 years ago and I couldn't find it anywhere. So we got them made. I hope it's not like a patent or something. Do you think a torch or a heat gun works best? Torch, hand down. Yeah, there is no debate here. Torch is the best way. It's direct. It doesn't move the resin around. It is awesome. Yeah. I mean, you can get cordless heat guns, I'm sure, but when I was using them, I'd have to hold the core around and just doesn't get as hot. It literally doesn't get as hot. Is that true? Thank you. Oh, sorry. There's more sustained heat. So a lot of people who call me on the phone, tell me they have like a spider web pattern happening over there. Resident, I asked them, like, did you use a torch gun? And usually I'm not a torch gun. A heat gun. So if it's a heat gun, you'll get this crack and spider web pattern a lot of times. And that's just because it's unevenly heated parts of the resin have had an exothermic reaction. So it's like kind of curving in like tectonic plates almost. So that's why we always use the torch instead of the heat gun. Boom. Because of the tectonic plates. Because of tectonic plates and the bubonic, whatever you were talking about earlier. I know. You used them really big words. Yeah. I'm sorry. No, no, it's good. It has a whole other level of this. It's great. Yeah. I don't know where it's like that. We're seeing intelligence here. It's good. Okay. Okay, Jeff, do you want to get a good angle of these holes? The boobles? Yes, I do. Are there million dollar shots? See here. Oh, yeah. I got some good ones. I'm on the black where the black starts right. So this line here, I got this. Turn on the gas. Go ahead. Right where the, yeah, all in that area. Hold on. Hold on. Okay, go ahead. Gone. Look at that. Crystal clear. Back here. Yeah. So now it comes to this area. Crystal clear. Scratchy to the shiny on this. Scratchy to the shiny. If you like it, you're very good. So what's that? So I've just wiped this down with water and alcohol to get the dust off of it. So it's sanded, yeah? So it's sanded. Now you can see the cloud coming back because it's all dusty. This is just drying off. Yeah. So that'll get all sandy again. Do you think we should do a bit more in there before we do the final coat? Hmm, maybe. I think it was good to sand it off anyway. Yeah. But you can see how it goes shiny before you do it. Yeah. All right. So this is all scratchy. I'm sanding. But don't fear. All right, resume's all okay. Get the color back. Scratches are gone. Clarity returns. Everything is okay. Hmm. Everything is okay. All right, guys. Every little thing. Oh, yeah. It's gonna be all right. I have some resin mixed up to do those bugs. I don't need to do it in short. We're not setting up the bugs. Okay. So that's all that we have to do today besides preparing bugs for embedding and resin, which we'll do in a moment. But thank you for coming out again. If you have any questions, put them in the comments and we'll address them next week, Wednesday at 1 o'clock. Nice. Julie was asking where to get a piece of wood like that. I mean, I guess you should just look for a wood store. Yeah. Where else? I mean, you can look online a lot of places. Jazz actually online and on Facebook. You can punch them to their market places. Yeah, I've never bought wood online before. No? You can find like flea markets near you. That's really good for wood. Sometimes there's mills in your town, like windows in your town and they'll have like off cuts because they want straight lumber. So they'll have funky looking wood that they'll sometimes sell you for cheap. Those are my two go-to places. Maria, contact Tracy here at our resin for any kind of potential discounts depending on volume purchase. And at the same time, someone was asking, repeat torching. Do you have to repeat torch? No, I never do. Sometimes with wood because the wood will breathe and we'll get bubbles, right? Like if you look at this piece, are there any bubbles? This is a wood piece. And wood off gases. You sometimes get bubbles and you'd say, do it again. But this piece of wood, I got just that. I live in a kind of small town and there's a local hardware store. Boom. And they have tons and tons of wood. Just like a local hardware store as opposed to a big box hardware store. I've seen them in a number of those. You're right. Probably like in more remote areas, right? Smaller towns, they have wood for sale and stuff. Oh, yeah. That's really your best bet. It's acting out hard to find because it's such a common thing that people are doing right now. It's big. River tables, tables, coffee tables, all that stuff. Yeah, jacuzzi bars. Where can you buy in the UK? By what? Cart resin. I don't know. You didn't get to say bye. Oh, are we back? Are we live? The counters, I don't know. We might have had internet problems there. Everybody's sorry about that. I did see one of the questions on there. That was a question about workshop discounts or something. I think there is a workshop pricing. Art resin.com slash application. There's just an application form for that. Is humidity really bad for our resin? Yeah, I mean, I think only if you're like, it's going to be so humid that it's like forming water on things. So like normal within ranges of normal humidity, you don't have to worry. But I don't think you ever have to worry about humidity in the jungle in Costa Rica. I'm like a hut doing it, maybe. Okay, guys. What you working on? So the first step to preparing. Oh, yeah. You too, Julie. Stay safe. The little bugs that you can kind of get or collect are not alive, but this one's like a swallowtail and this is an interesting stag beetle. So you can have them like this or you can preserve them in resin. So the first thing to do to prepare to do this is to clean your mold up. I just use alcohol or water or whatever. I'm going to have this little one be open. So the first thing I do, we're going to put the stag beetle in here. So you just pour a little bit of resin in. Oh, we cut off as to where we can buy that product in the UK. So yeah, online. Yeah, artrins.co.uk. Or just go to artrins.com. We'll direct you right to that site. On Amazon if you prefer. Boom. So just going to pour a little tiny layer in here like that. Oh, nice. We're creating a bed for the bugs. Yes, it's a... Oh, it is a bed bug. Oh, wow. Everything just went full circle. He's not very fragile, which is nice. Oh. So this guy doesn't need to be like... Nothing needs to happen to him because he's got this nice hard cell one. You don't need to seal it. You don't need to seal him. He's already kind of good to go. So I'm going to set him right. He or she. He or she. He or she. That's true. I actually think he has to be a male because I'm pretty sure the phenyl beetles don't have these things. Okay. Yeah, because these are for hanging on to the lady beetle. Really? Yeah. MJ is dying to know about the slow curing project. Oh, me too. Stay tuned. So there, he kind of... He's just sitting in there. Nothing's really going on. So I don't want to cover him because he might float. So I'm just going to leave him like this because the resin like gels up, maybe three or four hours. And then I'm going to kind of cover him the rest of the way or cover him like a third of the way and let that set depending on how thick he ends up having to be. Gotcha. I'm just going to let him sit there and then we can do prep the butterfly. So same thing. I cleaned this mold out just a second ago. So I'm going to put a little layer. And I think that mold you are searching for cake. Yeah, this is a cake mold. It came with like a bunch of other sizes because it was for a tiered egg. Oh, yeah. So cake molds are fantastic for this stuff. Yeah. Hey, Melody. See, this looks like the top layer almost, right? Where you have the man and husband and wife on top there. No, I had like little vitamins. Really? Yeah, it's like maybe a little fist big and have a little lean one on top. So you can definitely get much bigger ones. Can you mix sand and resin? Yes. Oh, let's do it right now. We got extra resin. Yeah. And we have sand on the table. Boom. This is meant to be. So. How do you prepare a butterfly? I think. So this is kind of an experiment, but I believe. So I've had a butterfly and resin before and kind of soaked into the wings and made them like translucent. So I'm going to just go out into the garage with some clear spray paint. Or do you want to come? I can come? Yeah. Come on. All right, we're coming. Clear spray paint. Clear spray paint. And what are we doing that for again? Sorry? Oh, we're going to seal the butterfly so that it doesn't soak up water. What kind of spray paint you have? It's just anything clear. Sometimes I use Kryolan. Sometimes I use this. There's our warehouse. Oh. All the boxes lovingly stacked. This is like our small warehouse. We've got the giant one in, down in Texas. All right. So maybe I can move it. Yeah. I'll back it up. Here we go. Go from a good distance. Give it a little bit of a, probably a little bit of that. And it might do a few more layers. Do you have to do that backside as well, I guess, obviously? I don't know if we need to do the backside. I guess we could. Oh, look at that. Well, yeah. So when this guy was alive, when he was sitting upright, with his wings together, he would look brown. And when he flies away, he would look blue. Wow. Nature, right? Oh, we're going to be doing some cutting too. We're going to cut off the candy dish. If anybody was hanging out with us at the beginning, we're going to cut off that Skittle dish. We're going to create some edging. It should be fun. Okay, so. Nice. I'm going to just let this guy dry for maybe an hour or two. And then I'm going to put it in just like how I did the steak, just kind of gently lay it down. The one thing to remember though is when you're going to put the butterfly in, air can get trapped under the wings. You're going to want to gently push down on the wings to make sure you don't get any air stuck in the bottom. We are in water down, just outside Hamilton. Just in time. Boom. I have mixed resin. I have a bag of sand and cradle board canvas. So this is just the canvas that has a lip around the edge so that the resin stays right inside of it. I'm going to take this stick, tiny bit of pink on it. That's okay. I'm going to mix the sand and resin. It's not uncommon to mix sand, pebbles, any type of aggregate, even crushed up glass. Mix that into resin and use it for floors or surfaces, especially if you want them to be non-slippery surfaces. So this is quite common mixing in your resin. Some people have even taken like the popular, like say, what's that vodka that's in a clear bottle with some blue on it, polar bear. It's a very distinctive color bottle and they broke that up and like said the whole camera top out of it and we just knew it was that brand of vodka. Is it polar ice? Yes. Maybe polar ice. Is it gray goose? No. No, that's got a goose on it. The point is that you can mix any type of aggregate into the resin and then it does also have some surfaces besides just giving cool textures. There we go. So I'm not going to be able to save this for mixing. Maybe kind of cool to see what happens. There. And I'm just going to spread this out by a typical. Patron. Patron is... Patron. Isn't that tequila? Maybe it's a very distinctive bottle. Nice. There's some unmixed resin here but I think that's kind of cool. Like this might end up being like the base of a painting, you know? Sometimes people mix in sand like that to do the bottom of their ocean painting. Yes, ocean art. Like the one on the wall up there. Very good point. Yeah, so sometimes people, if they're doing ocean art, obviously a lot will put a base of sand at the bottom to create this. The beach area. Sky vodka. Sky vodka? I think, but I still think polar is... I think polar or polar ice. I think polar ice is the vodka that you're talking about with the polar bear on it. Maybe. Anyways, can you write in the sand like you would on the beach, if not when it's cured? Well, you would be able to, if you waited long enough, if you waited maybe 30 or 40 minutes, it would be at a stage where if you were to move it around, it's not, it's a lot thicker so it won't go back into place, but I'll put on another glove and we'll see what happens. I don't see why not. So I'm just going to draw a big heart in the sand. No problem. I'm pushing the sand to the side. I think, I don't think it's going to stay. Yeah, it hasn't, not enough time has happened. You need to get it to more of a gel state, which could be anywhere from 45 to probably two hours even, right Dave? Yeah, but we might still be able to see something. I don't know. See what happens, that'll be cool. That is cool. That's a cool effect. What a good keepsake that would be or something after a trip or a... The actual sand? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like that I used the pink. I know. This is actually really nice. See, okay, I will say this to blow sunshine a little bit for towards Dave is Dave will just kind of go with things, right? Where a lot of times people, I will overthink things. Dave will just do things and see happy accidents or just happy things happen when you just go with it, right? Happy things happen. Because you got now a pink, sandy kind of thing. There is a heart for me. This is really cool. Yeah, let's not touch this. See what happens. All right, that's fine. Unless there's any other questions, thanks for watching everyone. Oh, Julie, are you still there, Julie? Give her... Give me one minute for Julie was asking a question about bubbles. Yeah, bubbles and rocks. Julie, if you are not there right now and you do end up watching the end of this, send us a message. Write it on the YouTube once this video is posted and Dave and I will get back to you. Oh, there she is. Julie, do you want to write it in the message? We can try and do this live if you go for it. Let's show these rocks here. Yeah, we did kindness rocks. Did you just want to know? We were just showing how you know if you keep a painted rock outside, it'll fade like that or it'll pick off like that. So what we were just showing is different methods. They got a perfectly resin rock so that it just lasts a heck of a lot longer when you put it out in the sun. Exactly. And this guy here just did it. So Dave would just do the one side and then just resin another thing on the other side and you're all good. Looks beautiful. Yeah. Yeah, Dave. Yeah, so all these different things. It's cute. But yeah. Okay. I resin my rock for sale followed today's tutorial. All right. This is Julie. Julie is talking to us. So we'll see what's coming. So she has a set rock for sale and she followed a tutorial, I guess. So we'll see what the question is. I think it's to do with bubbles though. Bubbles off the rock. But I still got dimples even after torching so she has to redo it. Oh, I wonder if there's some oil on your rock. Maybe you have to clean the rock with soap and water first. If you're getting dimples, it means there's something on the surface that's pushing the resin away, right? She's asking if she has to redo it if she's got dimples. I mean, that's... You want to redo it? I mean, it's up to you if it looks really bad or not. If you want to redo it, maybe take some sandpaper, sand the whole thing and do it again. That's the best thing is you want to... Yeah, why do we sand then, Dave? Yeah, if you were to put another coat of resin on top of this and not sand, there is a chance that it could separate over time. I had that happen to a couple paintings of mine. So now, if I do a second coat, always just do a light sanding to give the next coat something to grab onto. And then you're good for all of eternity. Yeah, and don't worry about it looking scuffed up and everything because the resin will make it clear and perfect. It'll stick to it and it levels out. It's self-level, so any of those dimples should be filled in and you'll be good to go. That's right. So just, yeah, make sure it's wiped down. Don't have any moisturizer on your hands or anything like that and you should be good, right? That's right. Cool. Hopefully that answers your question, Julie. Oh, a specific sandpaper grit. I mean, I usually just buy a pack of 80. It just seems like to be kind of like not too mild, not too coarse, and I can just use it for everything. Perfect. That 80 is just fine. Yeah. There you go. Okay, thanks everyone for watching again and your questions and participation. This is a lot of fun and we're learning everything as we go all together. So until next Wednesday at one o'clock, stay safe. Get together with your family and your friends now, I think. If you're... You're safely social distancing? Mm-hmm. God, it's hopefully over one day soon. 80 grit. 80 grit, Julie. 80 grit, yeah. Yeah. And yeah. Yeah, and I'm going to get first thing I'm going to do is get some sushi out of table for you. Oh. Yeah. All right. No problem, Julie and everybody else. Yeah, have a great week, everyone. Jazz. Bye. Dave. See you later. Later, everybody.