 We just made this Christmas welcome sign using our Glowforge pass-through and some UV resin and we'll show you how we did it right now What is up a welcome back do you like to do a builder make it so do we and we have a new video each week? This week. It's back to the front porch some front porch welcome sign for Christmas. We're gonna use our Glowforge We're actually gonna try the pass-through Right, so this video is gonna serve two purposes one We're finally gonna start our Christmas crafts and we've been asked a lot of times a lot of times for the SVG for the Christmas sign we made last year, but we didn't really own that SVG and I can't find a link to tell you where to Go get it yourself. So I can't find it anymore. So we made one ourselves. That's similar but different and You can add Christmas lights to it or without it either way We're gonna make something similar to what we did this year except this time as he said We're gonna use the Glowforge and we're gonna cut out the design and then we'll be able to make that available in our store for You guys but what we really like to do is showcase the pass-through slot because a lot of folks have asked for that video as well And we have not yet tried the pass-through slot It's been months and I haven't tried the pass-through slot So we got two purposes for this video one to get you that Christmas SVG you've been asking for and two Let's test out that pass-through slot Step one. We're gonna gather all of our materials. We needed a sheet of MDF Four foot by we cut ours down to like 14 to fit through the pass-through Quarter inch we needed two a six foot dog-eared pickets It's gonna be the back a four foot dog-eared picket. That is that's the cross braces some gorilla glue That's how we're holding it together some paint and some UV resin I saw a technique online where you can add either liquid glass or Mod podge has a version called dimensional magic or you can use this UV resin So I look forward to trying that using the UV lights Yeah, the other two the liquid gold or whatever it's called glass took like 20 hours to cure and yes the dimensional magic It does take well it takes three hours Takes 20 hours to cure completely three hours so that you can touch it And if you know Garrett Garrett as well as I do he does not have the patience to wait three hours for those bolts to dry So that's why I don't want to try this UV resin and maybe we can keep moving Step two we're gonna make all of our cuts. It's really just two cuts We're gonna cut this board down the small little dog ear picket to 11 and 1 8th inches That's how wide our two pickets are together. You might want to measure your pickets Yes, I was gonna say the same thing somebody came back and said that was not the right size Well, just double-check measure your two pickets side-by-side pickets may vary. Yeah, it gets me very I Just so happen to have right here right in my back pocket my pocket, so I Take this jam everywhere. It's so tiny. I just Take it here now. Actually we I've taken it to the farmers market All right made my measurements Step three Now we're gonna glue down our little brackets a little braces a little cross braces that we just made We're gonna measure up two and a half inches from the bottom and three and a half inches from the top We're just gonna use gorilla glue. I don't use too much some of these boards might be damp and This gorilla glue really puffs up when it gets wet So well it just puffs up when it dries. It won't even matter if it was dry or not It's still gonna pop up and come out We're just gonna find some heavy stuff to put on it Put some paint cans and tools whatever you got there you got whatever's heavy like two hours Not really. I mean you can start manhandling it in like 30 minutes But two hours it'll get puffy enough and hard enough where you can chip it off and and break off the puffy pieces So we'll see you guys in some time Back everything seems to be dry and puffy See the puffy pieces You see I'm gonna hit him in the head with the back of this board. There's some other puffy pieces just in case They chip off pretty easy we got this little spatula Run around the edge and get up underneath it It's like my favorite part Chippin off this little puffy stuff It works out so well and just it's like satisfies my OCD because it makes it beautiful again It's like picking a scab Step four Now we paint we're gonna paint this whole thing red Yes, so you could stain it But in order to keep it festive I am gonna paint it red and then we're gonna use the white letters to give them a pop You know, it's Christmas red red and white. Yeah, I mean you could do it white with the red letters But I think blue is in lightly with Christmas, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, like well, we've done lots of things It's more blue makes me think of snowflakes. Yeah, we're gonna use this darker. There's two shades of red in our Two like perfect shades of red for this project in the country sheet colors One is devotion and can you see that as a really bright red and I know Garrett wants to use that I didn't even tell him because I knew he was gonna want to use the bright red But I'm gonna use this paint the town which is a little bit darker red. Do you see that? Yeah, so we're gonna use the darker red All right And let's hope it goes all the way Let's go all the way And now we're gonna cut out our design First we have to open up our glow forge and take out the little past through protectors or blockers or whatever So there are past through slots, but there are guides that are covering them I guess it's for Pumes to prevent pumes. Don't mind the mess Oh, man. We probably should have cleaned it first I can do a video Push it back and power it up Yep. All right. Well, it's doing its boot up thing I'm gonna jump over to the app and load up our design I didn't have to babysit that. Yeah, I think we'll have to Shift it around as we move it Let's start with a new design Click create Upload from file gotta find my svg. This one's detailed. It'll take a minute to process Now let's make this a pass through project You can enable the pass through by going up to the top menu over on the right and using those three little dots or ellipses For more menu options turn on pro pass through Oh, look at that my screen changed That's pretty cool. I only have a 48 inch board. So I'll cut Mary separately. I'll cut that on a little board This is pretty detailed. Let's see if this mammajama can handle it. Let's load up our MDF I'm going to use these little paint jars that supports so the board won't bend I'm going to use these little material hold downs as guides I found them out on that glow forge user group free file printed them out I'm going to use these. So when I slide the MDF through the slot, it'll stay kind of straight We get our quarter inch MDF from home depot. It comes in two foot by four foot sections And if we use the thick draft board settings for proof grade materials We can use the proof grade settings and it usually cuts right through just fine We're going to ignore Mary. We'll come back to that one We're going to set everything else to proof grade cut and then proof grade score for the light bulbs Why is everything grayed out? Oh, the cuts have to start at the bottom of the design. Oh, okay. All right. I get it Let's move the MDF Wow, I can't believe uh, this was smart enough to know that I had it in the wrong place Now that's better Red cut lines. That's what I like to see Line it back up and print Oh cool. Look at that. It's taking pictures with the cameras on the the laser head Oh, I like these on-screen instructions I'm going to go shift the MDF Up about eight inches and leave about three inches of the design from the board I guess that's so it can take the pictures Hit continue They lined up pretty good But that one was an easy one I'm just going to continue to do this move the material and hit continue A few more times Okay, that was super easy. It took about five cuts and about 40 minutes Step six now we're going to paint and resin We're going to paint well, we painted the board first like you saw and then we gave it some masking But some of the bulbs and stuff still got some burn underneath the masking tape So we're going to take that off with alcohol Then we're just going to paint the wire for the The cord the cord. Yeah the cord black licorice The white the letters are staying white and we're going to try to do some resin in the bulbs Right, I think any of the craft stores have this now. So this is just one we picked up It's the UV resin So we're going to add a little resin into our Dixie cap We're going to stir in a couple drops of this opaque dye And make it the color we want And then we paint it on the bulb Add the light let it harden for 90 seconds And we should be good to go now If you happen to see our story on social media We're trying to get well Garrett really wants it to glow in the dark, but I'm not sure Not sure quite how to do that with what we have here There are these glow in the dark chips And we're going to decide if we want to just mix those in the resin I think we'll just try and mix it in the resin and see how it goes Might get lumpy Yeah, I think it will get lumpy But will it and then will it look funky on the like chunky on the sides? Maybe chunky on the sides So just no glow in the dark. We'll just have to save glow in the dark for another project Oh, I guess so Delicate delicate All right, we got our letters white Our cord is black Redders start putting some color in the bulbs All right So this is just there's nothing to mix here. You just squirt it right in here and add Not a lot of pigment if you add too much pigment Pigment Pigment, you don't want too much pigment too much pigment Then or die, then it won't it won't cure properly. So you just just a drop It's like two or three drops. Yes Stir it up and that's like a tablespoon Of resin in there. I look it's so good. That's looking good. Yeah, this thing isn't super durable But it's whoo, it's pretty thick Popping that looks good. Can you guys see it? We've got so far Step seven Now we're going to glue it down with this clear gorilla glue. It's like a rubber cement The sea is looking a little wimpy. It just dried All right, two minutes starts now. So keep messing with it and it's going to take longer Don't think it needs to be the full two minutes Hey, I wonder if you light it on fire if it'll negate the whole two-minute thing Like when you patch a bike tire You know, you You light the rubber cement on fire real quick just a quick two seconds Then you put the patch on the cheese paste Looks like a gorilla was holding it It does All right, we're ready. It's been two minutes It's been one minute Houston looks good. We have touchdown Oh, I forgot about the s and a Oh And each Tiny little capital H. Did you want to do Mary? Oh, you have the honors, babe Oh looks good It does look good. All right, so step eight and now we do the accents Yeah, it's just a bow So we've already had some discussions on what color ribbon to add to this one Uh, because this is not a traditional green I didn't want to add any green because I just don't think it would match So we just did a big Like candy cane bow All right, and then we're going to add this stripe at the top and at the bottom Um, are we going to use this glue? Usually I use hot glue. Yeah, use hot glue So we didn't finish the back of this one We talked about it, but I didn't have enough of that paint if you noticed I had the small little I don't know how many ounce this is that jar Two ounce four ounce Up here it is four ounce jar So we didn't bother to do the back But I think that's okay because this is pressure treated lumber. So it'll be fine. Yeah, it'll be fine All right, that's what we got. So what we're done. That is what we got Yeah, let's take it to the front porch and show you what it looks like all finished There you go Yeah, so we showcased how to use the path through slot on the glow forge and That was way easier than I thought it would be right. I mean like That was so easy He really has been hesitant to try it. I mean super hesitant. I don't even know I haven't even tried I haven't practiced with it yet And there was no practice needed first try. Yeah first try we even went big We went with something detailed that I thought would have a problem lining up Not an issue. It was a fine. I mean that was great. It was a dream I don't know what I was so stressed about. I mean That was so easy. It did all the work. It's worth it. I didn't have to do anything. Yeah, and it came out great It lined up great like I couldn't have asked for a better job And we were able to create this svg that everyone keeps asking about so Now we'll make that available in our store and of course we'll make the merry christmas kit available in our store as well Although I'm going to find a place to cut it in half. Yeah, that's what I was going to say We can't ship it. Yeah, we can't ship it in one large piece like this, but that's okay. It'll look pretty seamless Looks like we're about out of time It's way past time So we have to go So we'll see you next week where we'll do it building and make it again And I definitely do I have room to balance this thing? I'm gonna hit the ceiling, huh? Whoops. It's pretty hard on my hammies I said hammies You