 Hi everyone, I hope you're having a great Wednesday. It's one o'clock We're in the studio Dave nice to meet you. This is Hannah over here and Then behind the camera. We have Jeff. What's up? If at any time you have a question or a funny joke Put in the comments Jeff will try and manage that but we have a lot to do today But we're really organized, so we're gonna and we need your help actually that's the title of the video Well, let's just go over what we're gonna do today Kind of like a table of contents before we shoot the actual video. So come on this way. All right, let's start right here So first we're gonna be working on this is going to be a lamp made out of resin and wood and We sealed this. This is just our kind of experimental mold. Hey John. Hey Rebecca. Hey Janine. Hey everyone. Welcome Thanks for coming Wednesday at 1 so nice to have you back We're doing our table of contents at the start so the lamp we're going to get into basic electrical Mama Z no she on no But hello mom she actually Donated one of the projects today for us to work on and we'll get into that so again We're starting with this lamp project. We're gonna get into the basics of electrical and what to work for I want to look for if you're gonna do your own electrical then we're gonna fill this up with with Resin so this will be clear. Let's be wood. We'll chop it Stand it up and put a light underneath it and we'll have a lamp. So that's one thing. We're gonna do Hi relaxing meditation sounds and ferrita. Oh, that's what we need some relaxing sounds Yeah, we do and this is gonna be our final one after we work troubleshoot everything if you can see The lamp will be like this. There'll be a light at the bottom and it'll be just a resin rectangle And this is our mold that we're gonna use for our final version Once we learn everything we need to learn from this trial version Hello, Lisa Then we're good. I just wanted to show you we poured this we're testing some new sphere molds With a casting resin and this is perfect a purpose So we're gonna keep researching these sphere molds because you want to find a good one that doesn't leak We have to learn about how to get rid of this ridge And still and polish it back to the shiny. So we're gonna look at that Then This is a piece in the comments For the past two weeks because we do this every wednesday at one So please come and and we get all these projects We get feedback from you guys and we're actually getting help troubleshooting through these projects, which is What I want your help with today So this piece was made by josie lewis and we were last week We showed you how to make the little pieces We'll pop these out and then we'll resin them in together resin them together to make almost a coaster or something Just so you can see how this was made Then here last week we were experimenting with resin on This is a brushed steel. I think And the resin sticks to metal no problem. We learned that because there's actually pores in resin like skin pores On the bottom of this one of them we covered in oil This one covered in oil And I want I want to see if the drop the drips come off really easy brushed aluminum brushed aluminum and in this one I was going to sand that off. So we'll we'll see how that worked We got a lot to do today Now this is our security board that we're going to pop out of this mold and take a look at how it came how it How it turned out then we're going to have a bunch of sanding to do and just finishing and polishing but This was our first test with this mold made out of just that hdpe plastic Hope it's just a normal check up alexis at the doctor's office. Oh, no, she's going to join us and watch as long as she can okay I hope what well, I won't ask any personal questions, but I hope it's going to be okay at the doctor. Yes Nice and a big hug from your mug. Yeah. Oh, yeah My mom gave me this today. Thanks mom Well, I don't know if she gave it to me or wants me to give it back But my grandpa who's now passed away Made this it's kind of tacky. Sorry grandpa Like it's not, you know, but I think it's fantastic to be honest No, like you know, let's launch, you know, like these things like So good Anyways, I'm going to fill this up with art resin and we're going to use hannah had an idea to use these little dropper bottles to Just fill this up Without getting any on the wood so that's going to be a plan I probably want to take this thing off here So we can lie flat Then we'll check in on our telescope that we fixed And then this is hypoxia resin mixed with essential oils to see if it makes little pucks that smell Um, should we try that now? Oh, there's more to do There's more to do Hi, Maria and john, uh, said he ordered the hexagon mold. So he's gonna put the hexagon thing. That's cool. Cool So now we Well, mostly Hannah and Jeff have been just doing lots of experiments with Drawing flowers and casting them in resin and then Butterflies how to prepare butterfly how to get the butterfly to float in the middle So we've kind of hit some walls and we want to talk to you about what we've done what we've learned And if you have any ideas for how to get a perfect butterfly in resin and a perfect flower resin So we'll do that last Cool. Is that everything? Oh, and then we're going to reveal a straw strawberry. So we poured Uh, so two-part silicone mold making material around a strawberry And then cut the mold in half Took out the rotten strawberry And then filled it with resin. So we should have a perfect resin strawberry in here That's pretty cool. Excuse me. Why don't we just get started then? Okay, that's a lot to do. Yes Okay, so this lamp casting resin around this lamp has been uh pre-sealed with resin to kind of uh Stop more stop air from escaping So that we can pour a very thick cast and hope that we don't get any bubbles So why don't we do some math on how much resin we want to mix? And then you can start mixing that And I'll work on the electrical so When you get into 3d pours, you're doing length times width times height This is four inches By this is a big hollow spot all the way back here I'll say by 18 inches Our deepest point four by 18 by four. Okay So here's how you do the math for 3d shapes so four times 18 times four And these are all inches So who knows how to do this math? Siri uh calculators do Oh man See I haven't so eight eight times four 16. What's eight times four three two? Is eight times four three two? Oh my gosh. No, it's not eight times 18. Eight times four is 32. Yes. Yeah, 32 I can't do this math in my head four times one is four plus three is 72. So 72 times four Four we're gonna need a calculator for this two eight times two eight times four No, it's 148 148. No times four four times seven is what 288 288 288. Thank you everyone because 128 john's 288 I'm with john on this one. I think so 288 inches cubed Yes, 18 times four is 72. Yes. Yes. Yes times four is 288 288. I got two 16 numbers all over the place Okay So this is what you do to turn inches cubed into ounces You times your number Times length times width at height times zero point five five And then there's like a four and a three, but I just round it to zero point five five So if you want to just do um Art math we'll call it. I know that if it's zero point five percent is 144 All right, but I need a bit more than that. So let's make it 150 It's good enough. Okay. Boom. So it's 150 ounces to fill this thing. That's full Yeah, like a if you want to fill the entire thing empty No, no, because I didn't I didn't measure the whole thing. Gotcha. Gotcha. We're just gonna make this much Okay, so can you do 100 ounces of resin and 50 ounces of hardener the casting? Well, that's nice actually that works out well. Yeah, so that worked out very well Okay, so while Hannah's beginning to stir and mix we're gonna get into the basics of electrical and what we're doing for our lighting What I ended up doing was going to Home Depot And there were many options of square pot lights See so pot lights that are squares I took off this white rim around it and What I have is just this part. That's the LED light And there's a little piece that goes the diffuser that goes on top But uh, you can just buy these pieces You see for a lamp You just need one of these And again just that any um In the electrical section they're quite common these things Then you pop it open here see And then you put your cables in there, which I've already done on this one And this is just called lamp wire. You buy it in the same same section So I just got lamp wire And so this is just your most basic cable hook it up to the back Plug it in Come on now. I don't like that See But I'm gonna go one step further and there weren't too many options, but I'm gonna add a dimmer switch to this Um, so what I'll do And I'm just gonna do this a really rough. I'll make it look nicer later But just cut it You have your When I was growing up My favorite tool were these wire cutters. You ever seen these? Yeah. Yeah, I use it all the time mostly for like hooking up speakers and stuff So find about the right size like this And shoot it off into space It's a great great tool Like this shoot it off in space Twist them up Twist them up So I'm just gonna put basically put this dimmer switch I'm gonna interfere with this line Just just kind of jam it in there. I'm gonna unplug it first. That's what you do. So you don't die. Yeah This isn't quite, uh, this isn't as pretty as I was going to do it. I'll I was kind of had limited options. Oh, thanks for taking that off, uh, Hannah Hannah Okay, so I want to cut through just one half Just half. Yeah, we've unplugged it. Everything's unplugged Okay, look at that See of these grooves Just pull it into your knife And again, this is just a very ugly job. You can make you can make your wires look very nice But I just want to show you the basics of lamp wiring Very easy Yeah Twist it up Yeah, okay So I'm just gonna get some wire twists and my coffee How is everyone out there? Everybody's doing good some questions. Uh, we want to get art resin in Nigeria in South Africa. Oh, Rebecca Yeah, I was just messaging you had a contact us at sales at art resin dot com Yeah, we'd love to get there help us get in there It's a we're from canada our products made in the usa In texas and every country is really complicated So we would love to get our product there. Thank you for asking that's awesome Was it and people are just asking the difference people are are wondering what the differences between art resin and a casting resin Okay. Yes. Well, we're putting together a beautiful chart showing the differences between the two of them because there are There are Two main differences So this let me just finish this electrical thing. Okay. Yeah, we'll come back to it guys. Yeah Let me just finish this. I need this to work Then we can kind of close this chapter We thought you'd be doing electrical work. Hey, it's all part of uh Being creative And again, this is the I feel like this is the cure for covid For the covid blues is you just find stuff just tinker just tinker, you know There's a lot of reward. I'm just kind of doing something. Yeah, I mean it's a bit long Again, you you take your time and you can make this very pretty your wiring can be very pretty And I will do that for our final one. I just wanted to make sure it works Okay, so again, this is a simple led pot light With the end that you buy And then I interfered the electrical current See we kind of interfered in there With a dimmer switch John's asking us to tape over the wire and that's just secured Yeah, this is I'm going to make it. I'm going to take time and make it a lot prettier I just wanted to get it work. I'll I'll use some actual white tape so you won't even see it See lights on and look at that. We got a dimmer in there. See So we'll put this to the side And we'll fill up this lamp I'll leave this here just buzzing for fun Wow Okay, let's check that off the list Where's our list that would have literally taken me all day Just read the instructions five times then do it five times Okay, so here we would lamp we're done We showed the other mold so we're just going to pour that wood lamp. So that's on we're going to pour three things today One of them is our lamp We're so organized. We showed the perfect globe With casting resin. Yeah, why don't we talk about the differences between casting resin right now? Okay And I'll find a piece of paper and a marker and I'll make a chart. Okay. Oh you need muscles muscles I'll be right there. Okay Here come muscles. I'll just get right in on these pipes here. Oh my god. Oh, whoa No, it's totally right. We probably put the wrong lid on the wrong one. Yeah, they're both like that So there's an easy fix It's called An exacto knife Just do this Just cut it off because there's no way you're ever getting that off See boom All right, you can play with that All right, so we're going to make a chart chart time Casting resin versus art resin or you can say a coating resin versus uh casting resin Okay So Where's a good place to do it Jeff so you can see this. Uh, yeah, that's good like this Yep, so they're gonna one side here. Okay. Here we go. Rebecca's rolling her eyes She's rolling her eyes your solution. I think to cutting off the caps Oh so let's say um Art resin this is a coating And then we'll say Is uh casting It's a tc stand for I I don't know Coating coating versus casting or thin versus Thick Thin versus thick. Okay. All right coating versus casting. So why are there two different things like they look the exact same There's two reasons why there are different things the first one is Temperate temperature and the second one thing is bubbles Okay, so for If you were to pour art resin thin It would cure no fine and stay perfectly clear If the if you were to pour art resin thick When the chemical reaction happens it would get too hot It could even start smoking and it could discolor It could turn yellowy because it got too hot it actually started burning, right? So Thin would be Uh, what is it three? Let's say an eight to a quarter of an inch. I mean you could do thicker but in general Okay So and it's a 24 hour cure time Now let's say you want to pour a casting resin really thick You can do that, but you have to wait a lot longer Because the chemical reaction happens slower so it doesn't generate as much heat Make sense. Yep. Okay. So that's the one that the difference is cure time You could pour a casting resin in a thin coat But it would still take you 72 hours to cure because it's going really slow so it doesn't get too hot. Okay That's one thing. The second thing is bubbles I mean in the end the goal is to get something that's solid and perfectly clear with no bubbles That's what we're aiming for. So for uh coating resin again If you have a thin coat Your bubbles Rachel your bubbles don't have much time to get to the top and they can pop if you have a thick coat Your bubbles take a bit longer And then they can get stuck because you only have 24 hours, right? So one way to make the bubbles Okay One way to make the bubbles rise faster is to have a thinner a less Less viscous or more viscous more like water This is more like water. This is more like a syrup So a coating resin is more like a syrup And if you go thick if you pour it thick the bubbles can escape A casting resin is more like water and if you pour it thick the bubbles can escape easily. Okay, so that So that the chemistry is different because It's a slower cure so it doesn't heat up and it's a thinner formula So all the bubbles can escape does that make sense? So if you were to pour a casting resin on a surface it would spread out really thin too Because it's more like water than like a syrup that stays thick So that makes sense. So there are big differences in the chemistry. They look the same But there's big differences, but we'll get more into that and we'll learn more about that But when you get in casting resin it opens up a whole another world of things that you can do With resin. Okay, that's done. Let's check it off our list Good question casting resin. So why don't we do this? Josie Lewis Hart I'm going to put some more gloves on And we can pop these out Can you pour casting resin in layers? Yes. Oh, and yeah, you can pour casting resin in layers or you can pour it all at once Yeah, I mean that the beauty of casting resin is you don't have to do layers And actually that's a good segue into things like casting Things to sit in 3d space For example, let's show So If you were to do this is a butterfly That's an experiment of floating in 3d space The process was to pour if you can see from the side pour half of it Put the butterfly in Pour the other half, but you can see a line, right? Yeah But if you can suspend it And do it all at once There's no line. So that's the beauty of casting resin. It's more about planning to do it all in one pour It all depends on the look I guess if you want to suspend it then you got to come over the creative way of Floating it in there without it floating to the top or the bottom. Yeah, that's why we need your help Because we're having a hard time with some of this stuff But we're figuring it out. Very good question Zeke. Do you want to answer that Rebecca? Okay That's a lot of resin. Wow. Holy cow Wow, what are we doing today? Look at that. Maybe our math is wrong. Is that the 150? No Our math might be wrong. We'll see what happens. Wow. Okay, so we're gonna pop out these uh Josie Lewis inspired hexagons from this silicon mold Ice cube tray from amazon. There's lots of different options. This isn't something that we sell We sell the resins and the colors and the torches and Yeah, you can make this with resin and the color tints But you do need to get the horizontal mold if that's the shape you want But this is what Josie Lewis made and it looks awesome. Yeah, especially when you go with kind of the 3d effect of Some are different heights, right? Here I'm gonna get this out of here I'll just put it here So So these are just pop up. Oh, they have a dollar store. These molds. Cool. Really nice top tip Maria. Thank you Oh Maria with the tip of the day Maria will send you a free duffel bag We have duffel bags. Why don't I have you have to have a good tip Oh Maria, please send put your address in the comments. Oh ice cube trays. She's saying Yeah, some of these are popping up really easy. Some of these are fighting me Oh, look at that. It's got my kind of uh There's the pearls kind of effect there A little shimmy shang Uh casting resin is a two to one ratio. Zeke. Yeah It has to be We tried so hard to make it one to one We tried everything and everything and everything and just wasn't Working Okay, come on Yeah, I mean this is a sign of a mold that's been used almost too much. See how it's sticking Oh, yeah, I mean your mold's getting old and we'll start ripping but this or you've torched it as well, right? So if you if you torch your resin in a mold You definitely lose the life of it and it could stick to your little pieces Okay So how we made this heart is we got a piece of um It's still food safe Yeah food safe. We got a piece of White board that didn't stick to and we kind of tacked all these pieces down in place And then just poured resin over top of it to stick it all together So what I'm thinking of doing with these Is just kind of making a nice pattern in here Okay, and then coating it and then just coating it and then making coasters out of these and that's you know It's similar to the way that we did that I mean you could just leave them sitting out here on top of this uh plastic sheeting and just resin them all together here Look how clear that is though. It's so nice Yeah, look at that. That is casting resin clear. I don't even see bubbles in this one. This is crazy, too Look at you. Nice stirring man. Nice stirring about a boom. How long do you stir for? About a boom It's hot in here, huh? Our air conditioner broke. Is it? Yeah, this is we had them in like what a month ago Yeah, we've been in here Sweating away Right, but you're wearing a sweater today. What's up with that? Fair enough, okay All right, so that's next we can pour the uh lamp You want to fight with these ain't it? You want to fight with these? You probably want gloves. It's it got some resin on it back Excellent Darlene from Montreal is here. Hey, darling. Can't find resin tinder. Well order from us if you can't find it In the stores. Oh really? So it's sold out everywhere At that in Montreal. That'd be um the stairs. What's up, San Diego? We are canadian. What's up? Yeah, I think is it the stairs. That's uh in Montreal. It's a big they should have lots I hope if not, let us know contact us sales at our resin. What was the last thing you said? Uh There's so long ago. Yeah Oh ask from canada. Yeah, we're we're in our west of toronto in a in a place called water down Yep, and she I think she says she's from california from Okay, why don't we look at this seriously sold out? Oh wow, okay So this one has silicon oil on the bottom. Yep Oh and they're popping off Not really. I'm just using a plastic tool I figured that the oil would repel it and it would have to try very hard No, that's good, but one did well barely. I know this wasn't a good idea And now I got an oily bottom So oil doesn't work on the bottom. I just don't know how to tape the bottom of these, you know Yeah, as you see that's oily now too. So it's kind of messy, but that's aluminum and uh alcohol ink It looks really good though. Yeah, and I think the key is yo if you're going on metal You always want to leave some of the metal exposed because the resin makes the metal Glimmer, how do you get this these little circle patterns in? Um, I think that just happened organically with the alcohol just by pouring the different colors. Yeah, that's cool And look at these ones. I didn't put any oil and that one popped off nicely But yeah, again, I'm using a plastic Okay anyways, so See how it just makes the metal and you can pour on any like unsealed metal will Art resin will will just stick to it, which is great to know Done. Yes, but yes, we do recommend taping the underside Okay, as people are mentioning and uh your cure time is 45 minutes You have well the working time. Sorry working time is 45 minutes. Okay. Here goes. Oh, what are we doing? Hold on. We're pouring everybody. This is so exciting. Okay. I want a good shot here. You can pour here and then come down Yeah So this is the lamp you've probably seen a lot of these thick casting Lance words wood mixed with resin So this is what we're creating here, but And we're gonna have to do some Machine work after I'll run run the edges clean with a table saw and then polish it back We'll sand it and then polish it back to life. So I'm gonna try and get that lathe down here for you, too Oh, yes Oh, I'd love to play with the lathe All right, here it goes. Hopefully it doesn't uh, we didn't do any caulking on the inside because we're just kind of rushing everything to test stuff But next time we would we taped out the outside with tape. Hopefully this doesn't leak out. All right. Here goes. Here we go This is so cool Can you go all the way I would go all the way out because remember we see a little bit of shrinkage, right? I keep doing this. I put on these cloth gloves. Oh, I forgot about the thing I'm just gonna go wash my hands. Sorry I just got soaked in resin Look at that. Okay, so Dave just poured the casting resin into the mold here So once again 72 hours for casting resin to cure And then we can remove the sides And because it's submerged in there we'll probably end up sanding or cutting I guess right the edges Yeah, and uh to get so that you can see both the wood and the resin and uh The whole goal just like this piece over here. This is what's so cool about this one Is you got this really funky look on the inside So if you can get a nice clear cast You can see and admire the wood on the inside and also but still have a solid piece And then we're going to attach the light to the bottom and the light will shine up through the wood And you have a really cool lamp Great So we continue to do this double glove method. Oh, yeah Because we're so sweaty up here. So double glove method is cloth glove Covered with the Latex gloves. Yeah, and then you swap out the latex and you don't get sweaty you don't get sweaty hands Yeah, because it's impossible to put a second pair of latex gloves on afterwards And you get so messy when you work with resin Especially when you're rushing So how is everyone though really like Or do we not want to talk about the world right now everything's fine Like how about yeah, why don't we ask them to send us a positive? Give us a something good's happened Right. Tell us something tell us a story. That's good a short one that I can read out quickly Yeah, I got a puppy two days ago and I'll bring her in next week. Very good question. Oh, yes summer We got to see the puppy next week. Uh thickness of the casting resin How thick can you pour? Well, how before this was four inches? I mean our literature says three inches But I'm going to be doing bigger and bigger experiments thicker and thicker like I want That so three inches to be safe three inches is recommended and then but there's things you can do to make it thicker Okay, let's take this off. So I've never used these molds before it's made by a company called makers reusable molds and instead of making your old mold out of mold out of wood and tape and screws The idea is that you can just reuse these Oh smart So I've never done this before and I'm very excited to see how it works But if this works it saves and you want to get into making coffee tables or circuitry boards Or any type of tables so in schoenberg they're We're all good on restaurants have been to restaurants and they're very careful and clean nice Yeah, it's nice. You can go into restaurants again. You know me from west africa. So cool West africa Well, welcome Us canadians are happy to have you In our workspace A rainbow ended in my yard and I got cool picks and videos. What happened on my eight-year wedding anniversary Wow So a rainbow in your yard. Let's go. What kind of puppy did you get lisa? Oh a golden retriever We just knew what we're getting They're so sweet. I just love her so much. So cute. Yeah what are we We kind of touched upon it. What happened with the essential oils? Oh, we haven't looked at it yet We'll come back to that after we're good question But Hannah had a great point Like we don't want to encourage people to be like sniffing up their Their work while it's wet, you know, so sniff after it's cured A healthy tip Oh, we missed it missed it Okay, this is cool. It probably would be nice if I had a little rubber mallet, but I don't so I'll try my fist So you've taken off Easy I even hit that too hard. That's good news charry. I'm very happy that you got some birthday molds She's gonna be resonating soon. Very good. Wow. That came off like no problem. Can I see? Yeah We get in there like a totally clean. Wow clean edge. Just pop it out. Okay. That's it That's insane Okay This grandpa piece Here's a grandpa piece. We like the grandpa piece grandpa looks good Okay, so we got two sides off Three sides three sides off Now this one It wasn't going quite as easy There we go Exactly the destroyer now about this bottom part. Oh, yeah, what's the deal there? What should we do? What should we do to get that off? I'm sure there's some like Okay, we've got to pry something in there What could I pry in there Jeff? Hmm? Should I go get a chisel? That's what I'm thinking probably I just saw a chisel Yep yfl art says chisel. Okay What advice can you give to beginners? Oh man. Oh, um, what advice can you give to beginners? There's a video where we work with somebody that did Alice and she did that beginner We have that on youtube. Alice in what? Uh, remember Alice in she came and she did her, um, Muskoka art. What was her name? Alice in something? Oh Look at that Okay, sir. Let's let's just focus on this for a second here. It's kind of interesting. Nice No, this is the silicone around the edges Wow, so I'm gonna sand the heck out of it. Let me see through the side here. Look at that We got some bubbles. We didn't pre-seal that wood. That was the problem. Oh, yes Well, yeah, this was just a straight pour. We never pre-sealed But in terms of bubbles Uh, yeah, there's a bit right on the edge, but it's not too too bad We'll sand the heck out of it Really nice contrast with the brown background too with that sandy background. It actually works out nice, huh? I'm not sure. You're not a fan. I don't know What does everybody else think? It's weird But this is this was sand, right? We put sand on here. Yeah, there's silica sand on there and then we made the color Oh, it pops man. The wood really pops. Well, I'm gonna take this home and just sand the heck out of it Thanks, everybody. It's a lot of great comments. Yeah, people are really liking it dude. All right Okay, so you're gonna take that home and you're gonna sand it. Yeah, I'm gonna sand it clean the edges polish it Wow, okay Nice Good. We can check a couple things out for this. It's like a teardrop leaf or something What? Looks like it's teardrop leaf or something. What type of silicone do you recommend to seal edges? I'm I'm just doing some research on silicone right now actually and I'm trying to find the one that's the least stinky and the safest But you can use almost any type of silicone. You want like, uh, the best ones are for bathrooms Um, because it's smoother. So any smooth, um, silicone and really almost anyone You just cut the tip very small so that's a very fine bead. You don't need very much silicone. You're just getting it in the edges. So Okay, so we'll clean this up and do another one Great. So yeah, so you've just used it. So now you just put it together I'll just wash the heck out of it somehow Put it back together and I'll we'll try another one. Amazing. Wow, that's really okay. And look at our wood. How's it looking? Oh, yeah My feet are covered in resin my arms covered in resin my hands covered in resin My whole life So it is going into the wood because see how it's gone down quite a bit Right. Yeah, and now we can see because we can see the top here But lots of bubbles are are releasing quickly. Yeah, they're coming right up. See what I was saying about casting resin Look how thin it is. It's like water. Wow And that's why the any bubble coming out of the wood down there Or the stuck underneath is coming up very fast Yeah, and you can see I'm just popping they're coming up and popping coming up and popping That's why having the thin viscosity allows it to the bubbles to escape. That's great. Yep. Okay. Let's cross some things off So we tell someone who's asking how you clean hands. I'm just gonna show this product Dave. I guess that This is what we've used to uh To get rid of the stuff in your hands. You kind of just put it on your hands dry Go go natural and not sure what that is, but there you go. There's something anyways It's kind of like an exfoliant kind of or a little that's the stuff they use in automotive shops. We're getting greased off their hands It's usually orange flavored, but in the States. I saw you can get it in lemon and cherry. Oh, okay, and then you can only get orange Okay, so how are we doing over here? Yes, we do recommend sealing the wood for a ton of percent So you want to do something and then Yeah, just make make like one pretty design or something and then we'll just fill it up with the resin Oh, there you go. You gotta pop the knife Okay, so that's the jozy louis heart thing aluminum oil on bottom so oil was a big failure Okay, let's do the essential oils. All right. There was a question okay So what we did last week is we have Pucks these two pucks have 10 drops Plus some yellow tint but 10 drops of a lemon essential oil These two pucks have 20. These two have 30. These two have 40 ish So and I also want to feel them to feel if it feels oily at all so Let's get these out of here. Oh the molds Look at the mold getting destroyed with it. Really old. Do you get an old mold or like the essential oil is making the mold drip? Oh Oh, that one's okay. So that's a 30 Mm No big fail Because you got 30 30 essential oil drops in there. Yeah Nothing nothing. It's hard as a rock Well try the 40 Okay, so essential oils and resin the scent disappears Do you smell anything maybe a hint? Yeah, like I'm searching for like if I'm truly smelling that I'm not smelling anything Okay, I would say essential oils is a fail Fail. I don't think we want to recommend that anymore. Okay. I'm going to cross that off. No essential Too bad. Don't bother No scented resin. Okay, we're doing great here. We're gonna do colorful. So we last week we fixed this uh telescope that I found at uh uh antiques market And it was I was just using the resin to fix it And I often do that I've done it like if one of my uh You know if a pair of work boots or like rain boots if the heel starts coming off I just resin it tape it up. I mean, it's just the strongest glue in the world. So I did like two, uh Coffee mugs on the handle broke off. Oh one of them too at the every really the blue one Okay We did a very famous lego A lego video remember a lego batman video this top motion lego. Yeah three and a half years ago Check that out online everybody. It's Dave and Jeff Mucking around with lego stop motion stop motion lego resin. Yeah Okay Here we go. Most he's talking about just how strong resin is as a glue Yeah Yeah, because what was it at the end of uh the the lego movie? Kregel or whatever kregel. Yeah, because it was uh crazy glue with yeah, there's like missing It's always thinking we could sell art resin to parents to to uh destroy their kids lego with Okay, why use kregel when you can use art resin Okay So this worked just great Actually, it didn't after I did it last week it fell off and Hannah had to redo it. Oh, you reveal the secrets Yeah, we were rushing so we were just rushing everything's a rush But we don't have to rush Because my mom is watching the kids and the puppy. Oh, so your mom wouldn't even be online probably no My mom's not watching life. So thank you mom for watching the kids Mom She made a batch of homemade pickles and didn't even bring me any I know she sent me a picture of her making homemade pickles. Oh and then comes over today without any I don't know. I mean that's uh She knows I like pickles He's yesterday put together a model metal plane. Nice Laura. I don't a model metal plane. That's cool. That sounds like a fun job I want to do models. I think I was like, yeah models are fun, hey It's different than lego I do like lego though. Yeah, are you a lego guy? Not lately. No Yeah, okay, no pickles for you says season other witch Uh Okay, so last thing I'm gonna do To finish this telescope project Just hopefully find a piece of sandpaper. Look at that sandpaper Quickly scuff it up and then I'm gonna just paint over it with some acrylic paint And this is going up on a high shelf in my house as a decoration to remind Myself so it's done. So we got the what was it right here? Yeah, that's that whole piece fell off. Okay, cool. So you're gonna Sand off the little residue and then paint it and there you go. Yep And just normal acrylic paint going right at it. I actually got this done. I got stuff to do, you know I'll place it to be I have a puppy I got to go play with I got chickens and the puppy's chasing the chickens and the chickens chasing the puppy How many chickens you have six chickens six chickens any late how many eggs? One a day. So you got six eggs a day. Oh, wow. It's so good. That's sweet. Yeah And then the cats don't like the dog the puppy Oh boy, it's stressful. You got cats Chickens a dog. Yep. Do you have a fish or hamster in it? No You didn't get enough going I don't want to get another dog though. It's my first dog ever. I've never had a dog before But I kept like reading books like even like self-help books or like Like feel good books and almost all of them say you should get a dog get a dog They make you happy. Everybody else is agreeing that they want to see that you got to bring summer in. Okay. Sorry summer in next week I wanted to Today but my mom was coming over and she wanted to be with her so Season of which really does not want you to have pickles Why? But But my yeah Oh, yeah Where you get the pickle seasoning mix and then you dump it spread it out and you got to pick out certain spices That you don't want to be in there. It's very oh, yeah Yeah, it's Taking very seriously by the Polish community. Okay, so pickles if it's sitting there in front of you on the table You can have a pickle or cottage cheese. Oh, don't do this Jeff What are you taking? I don't know But I know there's a community of people that are obsessed with cottage cheese out there Yeah, yeah Are you one of them? Yeah everyone i'm trying to uh Like start like an online community excel cottage cheese merchandise Cottage cheese t-shirts and stuff Yeah Okay, look at that Now every day will be reminded your wife was like nobody is obsessed with cottage cheese We did or we just looked at them and it was kind of like we were disappointing the essential oil Yeah, the essential oil they don't smell like essential oils at all unfortunately But it cured fine Look at this now. We'll always remember to reach for the stars Right Jeff? Absolutely To reach the stars we got to conquer the clouds Yeah Something like that. Exactly. Let's make that up. Okay. Let's get to our checklist. Telescope fixed check I have to pour my grandpa's piece of wood Cottage cheese with a pot pie. Oh, man. What do you mean? I don't know but pot pie. I love that's interesting What kind of pot pie? I don't know. We gotta hear more about that one. Okay, sorry go on. What's next? Um, so what's next? Why don't we just we have all this leftover casting resin? We'll pour it in those molds. Do you think they'll float? Well, why don't we pour one see if it floats? And then the other one if it does we'll just pour a thin layer to hold it down And then we'll do the full layer Okay, so we poured the lamp. Yes We learned how to do length times width times height times 0.55 to convert inches cubed into ounces. Yes We're going to make a really good calculator for that At art resin.com slash calculator. We have the normal one, but we're developing one for casting Nice. Okay, so that pyramid We'll Something oh over here. Sorry Pyramid or brace. Oh, we still have lots to do poor grandpa's Okay, so what on earth is going on in here? So this is Yes, john. Yeah, we're gonna move on to calculator for rounds people are asking for yeah rounds too So you know what the salt we also added some other stuff in it, but it really made it look foggy, okay Putting salt and resin makes me look very foggy. I made a little peak almost. Okay. Yeah All right Salt there you go Oh, and I wrote down in the comments. There were some other things to try and try out So We're gonna try old lace. I can't find any old lace We're also gonna try There's food coloring gel someone was asking Oh, these questions if you're asking a question. Yeah, and the last one was um, they said dyed so I think colored colored rock salt So we'll we'll do those things. If anyone has any other ideas Let us know all right so we're Um, Hannah, you had an idea to use droppers to fill this up. Where are those? Okay, so these ones And the woods are right there Okay, cool. These are great little purchase. Yeah, nice pouring into smaller little holes. Get the yeah, I'll get you a little pin Okay, it's leaking a lot. Oh, nice. Okay What should we do? Oh, thank you Um, what do we do? We got a big leak like all that's gonna leak out. Yeah Oh Oh Yeah, we should still go in there Oh put in some sort of box Or something or maybe one of those tubs. All right, so I guess we're We're gonna let you guys know that we did take the side but always recommend no matter what It's a silicone inside of your box because the reason why we're actually using Because it is coming out Yeah, I think it'll fit in here. Yeah Like vertically I'll try that so we're gonna try and save it right now Okay, can you hold like right here? Okay, I need gloves again. Is that gonna fit in there? We're gonna try not to diagonal Just barely won. Oh my gosh We're so close So so close Is this sucker? Okay Here you go So there that's why you should use silicone All right, so let me have it just sit on the ground or something Okay Well, we can look at it as an expensive seal. Yeah That should hopefully seal it all that'll seal it for sure And uh, yeah, so lesson learned Don't shortcut it use the silicone And then you'll have a nice well then you'll see Because the result you get when you do use the silicone And put it in the box Then you get that right a nice clean edges perfect pour Uh, Dave's gonna fix that one up, but this one will okay probably return to it next week guys Um, Hannah, you want to try and fill up that little bottle. What's a good way to do that hot glue all edges I guess okay. Oh boom. Are we looking at floating at all or Tiny bit couple more floating a little bit. Maybe it's okay if they float. Yeah. Oh, it's a look Yeah, that's cool. All right now what? Oh, let's open the strawberry. Yes This is so exciting for some reason Okay, so there's no non sticky spot in this whole building Everything is sticky. Okay, we have high hopes for this because of the texture the strawberries have yeah And the test ones were really cool. So this was uh strawberry a real strawberry was made with the mold making and then we poured We did this last casting. Oh, and this is where I did the uh the dark red last week. Oh, is that? All right, it's not enough. Wow. Look at that. Oh, wow. It's like a real strawberry That doesn't look like a real strawberry. I didn't fill it up enough. Oh, let's see. Let's top it up more. Yeah, look at that That's so cool. Wow That looks real Okay, while we're on this let's show some other fruit That is cool Look at that like that if you put that that was sitting right there like my kids would just grab that and try and eat it Look at the detail. That's really good Yeah Wait, why don't we look at these bad-ass strawberry. So we're having some problems. This is a this is a pear And if you feel it it feels like a real pear it took the texture of a pear And then same with this banana Wow, this one doesn't feel as real as this one That is crazy the texture on it because it's just Yeah I'm trying to get the And Hannah have these been report here So you can see the these have been report over here. So like here here's the cool thing Oh, that's what you're buying the store, right? You get a nice pear shape Things like that where you can buy it, but like if you're able to cast it Yeah, you get a the real organic shape of a pear That's so that's I love it. That's so good. Okay, so why don't we talk about our problems? Here's one thing we need help with So There are bubbles in the silicone mold So we these are the molds over here. We filled them with color We're doing a gold pear and a yellow banana right now But on the inside of the silicone are a bunch of Bubble marks and we're thinking that the silicone is reacting with the organic Fruit And so these bubbles aren't actually bubbles in the resin. They're bubbles in the silicone That's our problem. So we don't know if we need to pre seal the fruit Pre seal the fruit in order to cast it so that it doesn't We just don't know so if you have any suggestions We're going to keep trying to do this until we get perfect I kind of want to just I'm just going to dip this in Some of this and look at that already. Look at that. It's clear again. Okay Oh, wow, Lucy Look at that Okay, see it was just cloudy and now yeah coat it in resin Your mold always takes the texture of the object you're duplicating So a banana is naturally kind of this Color But then if you put clear resin on it it becomes transparent Okay, we'll leave that right Where See that look at that right through it. Cool. That's cool. So you can essentially have like your own ice sculpture of fruit Yeah, okay. That's ridiculous Ridiculous ridiculous. All right. What other molds do we have in here? I'm just going to try one thing I just want to dip half I want to dip half this pair in this To see here we go. I just want to see if when When this cures If the bottom part of the pair will just completely disappear, you know what I mean? You see the best thing that we're doing here guys is we're experimenting So by the way, we understand that not everybody can just do a lot of experimenting send in your ideas Dave wants to experiment with all this stuff come with new ideas. How do we make this stay? I want it to stand up. Uh-huh. And then once it's done curing I want to see if the bottom is completely Disappeared within the bottom resin what I'm saying. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah And so I don't know might just be a neat little statue. Okay. What else did we have to do? Let's go to our to-do list That's just pop over. Yeah, I'll pop it up for something. Yeah. Okay. Thanks. Yeah Yeah, yeah coffee What else do we need to talk about? Lately I've been trying to not watch the news so much but man I just got to stay with my chickens and my puppy I Hang out with the chicks and the puppies Is everything okay? We have again art resins made in Texas when we talk to them and They just seem a bit down right now in Texas. It's stressful It's stressful So I hope you're all doing good out there and again. I encourage you I I started doing these um Wednesday videos with Jeff and no Hannah helping and it It just made me happier because it gives you a weekly thing A scheduled time where you're going to just be creative and play with stuff. So that I think that's The cure for the covid blues for the artist Which most of you are artists Okay gloves on Let's start filling grandpa's axe Tacky piece of wood With some resin god rest his soul. Oh, thank you. Look at Hannah filled it up Oh Everyone needs a hand out around Okay, because she gives uh, yeah, you are helping hand Sorry, thanks Jeff. Sorry about the dad humor again. Thanks for that Jeff Thanks for ruining the video Okay How was your family Jeff? Yeah, good. Everybody's excited to We're going to the cottage this weekend. Yeah up in muskoca. Yeah, so that'll be fun It's supposed to be a beautiful weekend. I think yeah, we've got the jet skis in the water. So you have jet skis. Yeah Oh, that's fun. Well, the well the kids going with you Like I'm gonna make sure that they go on with me safely There's one that's like kind of like a safer jet ski where it's got you can put feet your feet down in the front So anyways, that'll be fun. But yeah, it was Good Well, I'm just a dog evangelist now like everyone should get a dog It just makes you so happy I think my kids would lose their minds with happiness. It seemed like zoe So zoe is uh Dave's daughter and she was just grabbing The puppy yesterday and just holding her whenever she could so he doesn't even let it sleep. She just hugs the puppy Picks it up talks to it just the best So this is a good trick everybody. So basically dad's or sorry, Dave's don't call me dad Gracely my dad here Is uh our great-grandfather Uh Carved this out for Dave and uh, not for me necessarily but carved it up gave it to someone for the fan Yeah for someone or maybe it was on his house or something. I don't know Let's go with that. It was on my grandpa's house And then this is a good trick because Dave just filled this Little eyedropper thing With resin and he's now filling it in so it's careful. So it's not gonna overflow outside of the carve And obviously you can tint it highly recommend using the resin tint to kind of tint the color Uh brookie you want to see jeff's face and oh, yeah, I really like being behind the camera. It's so much more fun back here He's so beautiful. He's really beautiful It's like a mystery. It's like uh, isn't there a show where you never see somebody? Oh like uh tim tim the toolman tailor, right? What do you mean? You didn't see his face? Oh, the neighbor, right? He was always trying to think. Wilson, yeah Yeah, I think if everyone saw your face You wouldn't you wouldn't be able to leave your house anymore Pretty sure we lose half our viewership. No, come on Jeff is handsome ruggedly handsome I'd say will the resin hold up on Outside on a sign. Heck, yeah Yep, probably more than almost. I mean because we were doing it on artwork. We folk. There was two main focuses um long term non-yellowing and safety So it has It has uh uv stabilizers and something called hindered amine light stabilizers. So we kind of went above and beyond to make it uh In the chemical reaction It completes the bond more so that doesn't react with uv light. It makes it more like inert. So Yeah, like anything that's out in the sun the sun always wins over time Nothing on the planet can beat it. But uh, yeah, this resin is is uh Probably the best you'll find. Actually we have lots of tests We did the uv weathering tests against like all the other resins and our our resin uh Held up the best. We have some stuff Some stuff posted about that. Okay. How do we do? I got a bit out here, but Looks good. Yeah, I could keep going a bit more See that'll look really nice actually when it's outside too because the light will shine off that, right? Yeah Let's see the curve outside. And I'm just gonna torch this quickly Um Hey, Maria made a really nice comment just saying oh it seems like the you know, we're like a family here or you have a really nice And we are we are very much like a family Small staff of people that work together and like to create together. Yeah really great environment Thanks for noticing. Yeah a bunch of artists Okay, that one doesn't have anything We'll use this. Do we have a flame spreader in the house? Yes So again, this is my favorite second favorite tool after the wire cutters from earlier This is a flame spreader. So it turns your It turns your pointy flame into a flat flame And I'm just gonna run this over the surface And that'll just help get rid of bubbles All I'm gonna do So we have some resin left And let's look at her to-do list again Report grandpa's check. Oh, we're gonna put something in the pyramid We did the Josie Lewis piece. Oh, we talked about fruit. I want to quickly talk about flowers butterflies Flowers and butterflies de mold strawberry Put something in the pyramid Hannah, can you find something cool that just put in here something different? We've never tried before Just anything So again every time we just put another something in this pyramid Just to see how it reacts. So this is just our experimental one. So Doing good, man. This is We're giving her today. Oh, this looks so nice Let's see. Oh smart. Okay, it's turning out. Well, I think someone actually says that someone said like Why don't you use a couple chopsticks to prop it up? But there you go Hannah. Boom. Yep. Okay. Let's talk about flowers and problems you can run into So lots of flowers will lose a lot of their color You definitely want to make sure you dry it out first Before you cast it So find a flower flower that dries out nicely Some of them just look dead. Some of them look vibrant. You can dry it out in silica sand. That's what we did Seems to be the best method Um What happened to this one? Why did this one get so dark you think oh pom poms great So this wasn't as dry as much so it really got nasty looking This one is close. It lost a lot of its color Um Bubbles There's another one somewhere but This bubbles aren't too bad on the petals, but we still want to think a bit harder about Excuse me. How not to have bubbles on the petals? Okay, and then what was this one? This one's really nice. Wow. That one turned out pretty good So this one was suspended upside down in the mold and was done in one pour Again, we're gonna learn how to get rid of the seam and bring the polish back So if you have any tips on getting flowers perfect in resin, please help us out with that We're scouring the internet and there doesn't seem to be like good definitive information on that necessarily Yeah, it's been really tricky But those are we're getting close we're getting closer and closer I'm gonna take one. What one can I take home to practice sanding? Can I take this someone's saying pour into petals first? I think is what they're saying Resin the petals first have we tried that? Okay, let's do that Yeah, let's resin the petals first. Okay. Thank you. We'll try that Resin the petals first so I'm gonna take this home and learn how to deal with this seam and this bottom part so that we have a perfect Ball, but that's actually really nice Okay, so the next thing we're working on we already talked about the fruit We have some clear strawberries that turned out just as cool as the red sugar contrast here. So here's Yeah, and look at even did the leaves on top of the strawberry Yeah, so that kind of opens up a whole new world. Yeah, this fruit thing is like It's gonna change the world. So that's fruit. It's gonna change the world Okay, so we talked about quickly butterflies about how If you do it in two pours, you can still see that line We were hoping to figure out how to get rid of that. Yeah, but we haven't been able to Exactly this is in a one part So the solution seems to be using fishing wire and suspending it in place in the mold And then so this was a broken old butterfly for testing You can not even really you can't even see the fishing wire like there's fishing wire There somewhere Yeah, and that's great so you can suspend it. Yeah now there's uh So on this one we put packing tape on either side of the Wings and it was kind of the wrong packing tape we discovered so we we have another monarch test Go show them the butterfly over here. It looks great. Actually So this is a one pour, right? Is that one pour or two pour? Okay, holding it from the bottom. Yep one pour fishing wire holding from the bottom. Okay. Yeah One golden is to yeah, let me the line in the middle have it kind of suspended. Yeah And uh, and that one has a packing tape that when you look at the packing tape There was no bubbles at all on a very clear packing tape, right? Or no Okay, I just see from some angles. Okay, so there's packing tape on that one so Again, we'll keep you updated on these butterflies, but it seems that solution is a A clear packing tape over the wings Suspended in your mold with fishing wire And do it all in one pour Okay, so if you have any tips on that, please same thing mad woman hannah artsy mad woman She has a lot of videos tips for flowers and resin Yeah, I've seen her's turn. Yeah, okay good Sweet. Yeah, thank you for that. That's good Okay, we also didn't we have another friend that you resumed They weren't as big a fan of Yeah, oh the beetle So we're taking another little another little guy here Good He turned a little more your dozen and there isn't much is in traffic. I do have more stuff mixed up So we're gonna put some pom poms. Thank you pom poms Pom poms in here That this is this will be it. Do you want it? Maybe I don't know I'll just do the small ones like pom poms No, you can resin everything. You can resin everything I'm gonna take the big ones out That layer. Yeah, it's my candy dish here. We did a candy dish too Oh There you go. Oh, they really get dark here. Oh, yeah. Well, that's the bottom Okay, there you go, that'll do it How do we do? I want I want I want an ice fruit sculpture. Okay, we did everything we wanted to do That's it. That's it Oh, we count how long was that? We're almost at the 70 minute mark. It's no way Eight minutes, dude. That was over an hour. Yeah, and yeah, your battery just showed up your low power. Wow Thanks for watching everyone. Thanks for the questions the comments the feedback And we'll see you next Wednesday at one o'clock. Stay safe. Stay healthy Try to go go for a walk get a puppy get a dog And we'll see you next week. Take care