It's really slimy, feel that. (Katelyn yells in disgust)
(Evan laughs maniacally) Why is it wet? As makers, sometimes we see
something that we wanna buy, but instead think
we can make that. Sometimes the main
reason we wanna make it is cause it's a good excuse
to use a lot of resin. So today we are gonna make
that thing that we saw. But we're also buying the thing, so that at the end of this,
we can compare the two and see how we did. And I have to hand it to
ourselves, we chose... a hand. (laughing) (upbeat theme music) Thank you, KiwiCo for
sponsoring this video. We're making a hand, we're
making a hand cup holder. And, you know, it holds
pencils and everything, but honestly, guys, I
really just wanted to try and mess around
to this algenate. Yes, we've never made
a hand mold before. Stick our hand in the
gooey weird stuff. That seems fun. So the plan is to make a
big old mold of her hand using this algenate and then we're gonna upgrade
the cup with this golden one. Now, we bought the cup,
we didn't DIY the cup. I mean, we could get
a solid block of-- Of gold. Lathe it out, as one does. We also did a small scale
test of this algenate and we found out that
it cures really fast. If you look in here,
there's a lot of bubbles. KATELYN: Which is not
ideal for a resin mold. It cured too fast for
the bubbles to get out. So I read the instructions,
after the experiment, and it says that you can
actually use cold water to slow the reaction down. That might be enough
to get the bubbles out. If that doesn't work, we might need to use
the vacuum chamber, which might be a
little bit stressful. But this stuff, goes so fast. Yeah, so let's start with
that cold water test. Oh, god. (laughs) I thought I was
gonna surprise you, sorry. (laughing) You gonna stroke
my face with it? It's really sticky.
(screams) Okay, did you start the timer? I'm gonna go ahead and
start it right now. Last time we didn't
have much time at all. It really started to harden
way faster than I thought, which is interesting, I mean, oh, it's-- Sorry, this is a little awkward. I don't mind. It's also interesting
that with the cold water, it definitely is way more
like thick and goopy. Sounds gross. (sloppy splashing) Okay, so it says
about a minute of-- Oh, I'm in a minute, a minute
and 20 of mixing, all right. Another weird side
effect of it being cold is it definitely is
thicker and more viscous. So I'm gonna try to pop
a few of the bubbles just by shmacking it. Look at that one. Oh, look at that
big one right there. Whoa. Just can't even imagine how
many bubbles are gonna be in-- VOICEOVER: The big one. Let's not think about that yet. Depends on how
much time we have. Oh, it's so cold. Oh, I stick my finger in
there and it's so cold. You didn't give me a heads
up, I missed the magic moment. Missed the moment of--
(laughing) Don't say it, don't say it. Not that type of channel. We're three minutes in. Oh, finger's starting
to become numb. Oh, I'm sorry, oh. Yeah, for your whole hand.
It's gonna be my whole hand. Maybe we shouldn't
do it that cold. Should we bring up what
the instructions mentioned about others things
you can make molds of? Oh. There's instructions
for making molds of all different body
parts, including your butt. (laughing) You know, I have thought
it'd be awesome to make-- Maybe it's for
prosthetics, you know? Actually I would
like to make stools that are molded
perfectly for our butts. So, save the butt instructions. I want that. I'll save that.
Thank you. (laughing) All right, it's
starting to harden. By this point, you
wouldn't want to be putting your finger into this. KATELYN: It's starting
to grip, yeah. So, eight minutes. So we have less than eight
minutes to get your hand in position. Even with the ice.
Even with ice water. That's not that much time.
Nope. Nope. (soft music) All right, it's fully hard. Go ahead and give it a tug off. I mean--
(laughing) No, no, no, that came out wrong. That came out wrong. The algenate is um,
the algenate is ready. And to give you a sense
of how sticky it is and how difficult it is gonna be for you to
pull your hand out, I feel you should
give a tug on this and then you can get a feeling
for how hard it is to remove. Oh, dang, that's pretty tough. Okay, let's check
out the bubbles. The good news is I
don't see any bubbles. KATELYN: I see one
bubble, that's it. The surface finish is workable. So. Ice water, it is.
Ice water, it is. All right, so we weren't
planning to film today, but I kind of have a bad
news, good news, bad news type situation. Do you wanna give
some background? Yes. So sometimes behind the scenes, I do a little bit of prep work. Make sure that
everything is ready to go for the main chunk of the
video, while Katelyn edits. I was doing some
of that for this. I was testing the ratios
of water to algenate and also, we're using
a new type of resin for the first time. You can pour it thicker and
it takes a lot longer to set. So I was assessing
those two things. Let's do the first
bad news first. The mold just shrinks. This is the first one,
tHis is the second one. I tried mixing less water in. While it shrinks, it adds water into the inside of the mold. And water mixing with resin,
I don't think that's good. Just my intuitive
sense of things. The good news, I was doubting
this resin would ever cure, but it did. It cured well,
it's nice and hard. It does eventually cure,
it just cures a lot slower. So, I combined the two things. I took a mold of my finger and I poured the resin into it. KATELYN: How long ago was that? Was it the same amount
of time as that resin? Same as this, same time. This resin and that. Now, I think that's
just the water because in here.
Oh, so it could be okay. That's not bad news yet. (laughing) Which means you're not
to touch that water, in case it's like resiny water. EVAN: It's probably
resiny water. KATELYN: All nasty looking. EVAN: It's nasty-looking. Oh! Oh. KATELYN: Looks like an ice cube. EVAN: Eww. Eww.
Eww. EVAN: Only part of it is solid. KATELYN: Also, it's not clear. Other parts are sticky. Yeah and it's not clear at all. I'm beginning to
doubt this algenate, like, is this even gonna work? I don't know. Cause right now, I'm
not at all confident that we can make this happen. No, if the whole hand came out
like that little finger nub. ("we'll be right back" music) All right, so we
did some research and it turns out algenate
is not the best thing to use when you're using
resin afterwards. Algenate is mainly
good for that, like-- The plaster stuff?
Plaster stuff. So we need to go for
the silicone solution. But the problem is silicone usually takes a long
time to solidify and cure and we don't want resin's... and we don't want
Katelyn's arm to cramp up and fall off or anything. So we're going with the fastest
silicone I've ever seen, Pot life, which means
its workable time is two and a half minutes and is fully cured
in five minutes. It's gonna be a
little stressful? This is gonna be one of the most stressful things we've done. First up, though, we wanna make sure that
we can get Katelyn's arm out of the silicone,
so time for some jelly. (giggles) Yeah, we're gonna put
some Vaseline on it. (laughing) Feels gross. Just working in
all the crevices. Fill in... everywhere (laughs). Is it too much? Maybe, we can dab it off some. Oh, I'm so greasy! A little reduction
of greasiness. We wanna do this before we
start pouring the silicone because of the time issues. EVAN: At least it's
like fairly runny. I'm gonna go ahead
and start the clock and then start pouring, you ready?
And we have two and a half minutes to mix? Two and a half minutes to
have everything in place. Cause you need to dip your
hand out, I need to rub it. And you need to have
everything in place before the two and
a half minutes, otherwise we are in trouble. After that two and
a half minutes mark, you can't move your hand. Here is a 3D-printed
model of our gold cup that I'm gonna use to have
my fingers spaced right. We've wrapped it in Tyvec
tape so that the resin, when we pour that
in, won't stick to it and we're just leaving
it in the silicone. Yeah, okay, you ready?
Yes. EVAN: Oh my gosh.
I believe in you. Is that a good idea? It has to be, we have
to go both at once. Cause I wanna go fast. Okay. Oh, this isn't bad. KATE: It's gonna be tough
cause they're both clear. So we can't actually
see when they're mixed. 12 Seconds in, 13
seconds, okay, okay, okay. I'm feeling better
than I thought. (drill whirring) I think it's done. KATELYN: Oh, okay, you
probably just set that. What if I spun this right now? Oh, please, god, no. Okay, I'm just
gonna set this here. Pour it all in?
Pour it all in. So there's apparently
a technique to doing a mold of your hand. First, you dip it in all the
way and then you raise it up and then you get to
rub it on my arm. And then I raise it back down
and that's to prevent bubbles. This isn't as much as I thought. Well.
Well. It is what it is.
It is what it is. It may not be as big
as I thought (laughs). What if it's just like the claw? The claw, go, go, go! Oh, yeah. Okay.
Is that in? I'm going in. Oh, that's barely to my wrist
and I'm all the way down. I'm losing the thing!
Oh, that's crazy looking! Do I rub you?
Yeah, rub it in. Oh my gosh (screams). This is weird. Oh. Okay, go for it. This is it. So it's gonna be just the claw. What can I do, what can I do? There's nothing you can do. EVAN: Straighten your arm. KATELYN: Touching my knuckles,
though, you can't do that. EVAN: What about this much? Maybe if I angle my hand. Oh man, the thing is slipping,
I'm trying to really grip. Oh, this is going to be
not what we imagined. That's as far as you can go in? KATELYN: Yeah. EVAN: No, touch the
bottom, touch the bottom. Just go for it.
Okay. EVAN: All right, the two
and a half minute mark. KATELYN: I have to sit
still for five minutes? You okay? What are you doing? No, no, don't get
your mouth near that. I just wanted to take it off. Why? I'm sweaty.
(laughing) We're only like
two minutes away, you don't want
silicone in your mouth. (laughing) I think that we meant
to make a thumbnail face while you had your hand. Oh yeah, we were gonna use
this for the thumbnail. I don't know what happened. I don't know what
happened either. Did you look at
the camera at all? Yeah. Ah, this is weird. We can make a
thumbnail face now. EVAN: It is definitely
solidifying. KATELYN: I can feel it,
I can't really wiggle. (laughing) It's gonna be way
stubbier than we thought. I know. We gotta be like
beyond the wrist. Yeah, we greased my arm
almost to the elbow. Okay, so we're at
the five end of mark, I'm gonna relax a
little bit here. Okay, that's
looking pretty good. I can see your claw.
Oh no! Dang it.
No, it'll be great. We can get a preview of the
resin while it's curing. Oh yeah, yeah, I can see
your hand from this side too. We're definitely gonna
lose in the cost department of this BUY vs DIY. EVAN: Oh, we are so much losing. This is gonna be
the biggest loss. In the cost department.
In the cost department. I won't speak to soon
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on the site. Wow, that's so weird! It's clear, then it's
yellow and it's black! KATELYN: That's so cool.
Chemicals! Oh, that is gross. KATELYN: Does it
feel solid enough? Let me just get your little
second skin off of you. That's so gross. And then this way a little bit. Don't mind me. Okay. Okay, it's releasing. EVAN: Yeah, just
nice and gentle. KATELYN: Don't want
to damage this-- Oh, my thumbs out.
The knuckle! (laughing) Is that a knuckle? That's my knuckle. Look, I'm wiggling it. (laughing) Hear that?
I heard it. Okay, okay. Oh, yeah. Oh my gosh. All at once, that was so quick! There's bubbles
inside the silicone, but I don't see any
major surface bubbles. I think that's good. How soon can we resin? Little greasy hands are
compatible with resin, right? I think so. You can do mold
release with resin. It's like resistant
to the grease. This is like mold release.
I've already greased it. Yeah, you've already greased it. Cures in about five minutes
at room temperature. I think it's done. I've been de-greased. And now we move on to the resin. Resin time.
Resin time. Do do do do Resin time. We're gonna try something
we've never done before and that is thick set resin that you could pour super deep. Normally when you pour
really deep, it smokes and sizzles and melts
whatever container it's in and this is supposed
to not do that. And we're also gonna go
for a very simple design since we're doing
it all at once. We're just gonna tint
it a little bit blue and add these unicorn
flakeys in there. I am so excited about
that, look at that. KATELYN: It's god dang magical. EVAN: Oh yes. And then just to give it
a little bit of a tint, let's start there. Oh yes.
Yes. EVAN: Definitely more
flakeys, for sure. KATELYN: Definitely
more flakeys. EVAN: I think that looks nice. KATELYN: Yeah, okay. Let's pour it into the
grossest looking mold. Oh, that's a pro stream. You're a pro streamer.
I'm a pro streamer. EVAN: Another good
thing about this is since it's so liquidy, I think that this will let
bubbles get out a lot easier. KATE: I hope so. EVAN: Oh, look, you
can see your hand. There is the knuckle.
Weird. EVAN: Okay, I'm gonna rotate it. I'm not really sure
what this is doing, but. KATELYN: It's supposed
work out any bubbles that are trapped in a fingertip. EVAN: Work it! You know what we should do, we should get the
vacuum chamber. KATELYN: Oh yeah. EVAN: That was what
we were gonna do. Now, will this destroy the
silicone and pop the bubbles in the silicone? Cause there's bubbles
trapped in the silicone too. KATELYN: Maybe we don't
vacuum chamber it. EVAN: Maybe we don't. KATELYN: I would hate
to mess up the mold. EVAN: Yeah, me too. Okay, maybe we don't. And hopefully after four hours, all of the air bubbles
will rise up here. Here, I can vibrate it.
Yeah! Smack it. Yeah! EVAN: Man, this, this resin slaps.
(laughing) I think that might be it. KATELYN: And we'll
see you guys in-- [Evan Five to seven Days.
Okay, bye. It has been three days. I know we said five, but we also did some
test pours of resin in these little heart molds
and they are now fully hard. So, are we gonna try to do this without breaking the mold first? Let's try it. You know.
You might be able to do it. I'm already noticing,
oh, that's weird. That's a weird texture. And then there's micro
bubbles all over the place. I think so too. Or should we just cut it?
(laughing) We can try to cut plastic off. Okay. I'm hearing noises. I'm holding your hand. Maybe we should just
cut the container. We can get a new container.
I'm down for that. (upbeat music) KATELYN: This is definitely
one of those projects that we thought
would be pretty easy and has proven,
time and time again, to be more difficult
than expected. EVAN: Oh yes. KATELYN: Release. EVAN: You can do it, big boy. KATELYN: Looks like a really
weird large gross gusher. Oh, it's free. Now can we get it out?
Please. Come on, come on. Oh, wait, movement. KATELYN: I heard it, I heard it. Come on, I'm not
giving up on you. KATELYN: It's like all
the way out, I see it. EVAN: Get out of there. Am I witnessing a birth? Pull! (laughing) Pull! KATELYN: Come on! (cheering) Ooh, that's creepy.
That's creepy Oh, the claw! Oh, man, my
fingernails look weird. This is just-- Oh, that's so freaky. Also, so many bubbles. Literally the whole
thing is bubbles. There's no bubbles on my nails. It might be because your
skin is so textured. It's kind of like, you know,
the Coke and Mentos reaction. The Mentos is not a
chemical reaction, it's because on the Mentos, there's a whole bunch
of micro crevices and that's what allows
the bubbles to form. I think that your hand-- I have so many crevices. EVAN: Has so many crevices,
the bubbles adhere to it. Cause there are no
bubbles on your nails. Weird.
Weird. Let's see what angle
the cop is gonna be at. KATELYN: You know, it
might hold some pencils. It's an artistic angle. EVAN: You know, it balances out. KATELYN: It kinda
balances, right? This is leaning that way. It's actually good. It's art baby, that is art.
It's art. EVAN: That's art! KATELYN: Okay, so
we actually realized it will hold it at a
slightly better angle. We just need to secure it. EVAN: Okay, ready? KATELYN: The very elegant
solution of hot glue. EVAN: Hot glue. KATELYN: That's pretty nice. That's nice. I can't believe the
way it wants to fall was counteracted by the
way the cup is leaning. We actually like
somehow lucked out. Yeah, I didn't even
think about that. That looks cool! I love the contrast between
the blue and the gold. KATELYN: I know! It looks really nice.
I love those colors. KATELYN: Let's add some
resin pencils to it. It looks so empty. No.
No. Get that guy out of there. Did they offend your aesthetic? Yeah.
(laughing) That looks nice, but we
still haven't checked out the competition.
We have not. I don't even know how big it is. What if it's like ultra
tiny next to ours? Not even a real hand? EVAN: Whose hand is this? Well, I can tell you
the cup is pretty tiny. It's for like four pencils. Oh, the hand is decent. Still a tiny hand. So that is a very upright hand. See they didn't
even add any panazz. They didn't even add any danger. Yeah, any danger, there's no
danger to this cup holder. There's no risk of
it falling over. (gasps)
What? It's squishy. Oh that's like cheap plastic,
that's not even ceramic. EVAN: Look at the cut
edge too, look at that. This looks like-- KATELYN: This is
gonna be points off. The hands move. Everything moves, is
everything plastic? None of this is ceramic,
it's all plastic. They really made
this look ceramic. (laughing) All right, well, should
we do our official buy versus DIY comparison? Let's do the official buy
versus DIY comparison. Thought we don't shake
hands till the end? You shook my hand,
don't look offended. You did this. So we're gonna be judging
these on a few criteria. Aesthetics, quality,
function, time, price and an audience vote via our Patreon and
YouTube member supporters. KATELYN: So, aesthetics. EVAN: It's a tough thing
to make a judgment on. They're very different. The "buy" is very minimalistic. Ours is a little loud and we're biased because
we chose a bright gold cup and teal colors. I prefer the aesthetics of ours. EVAN: I prefer this. But I could see how this would
fit in more people's homes. But also, on the aesthetics,
if you're going with the DIY, you should hopefully
win with the aesthetics cause you're choosing the cup
and the colors of the hand. So I think we can say that
this wins in aesthetics. Yes, it's subjective,
but we like it more. Yes. On the quality, I think that I can make
some judgements here. Resin, I know it
was very durable. KATELYN: This is not
porcelain, it is very bendy. There is a distinct seam from a cut line at
the top of the cup. I think in terms of quality,
I'm gonna give it to us. I'm really trying not to
be biased here, but resin, this is going to
last a long time. This is unknown. Even right now,
it just is cheap. Okay, function. Will this tip? EVAN: Look at that. So with this one, I feel like-- There, that's exactly what
I was gonna demonstrate. This bought one has a very
wide base compared to the top. Our top is wider than our base. I'll still say,
somehow we got lucky. This is fully functional. Because this has
a very heavy base and it just happens to luckily
be balanced the right way, it doesn't feel
like it's gonna tip, but this one does feel
a little sturdier. Like, you can knock it. All right, in
terms of function-- In terms of function, the "buy". Bigger cup, you can
fit more pencils. True, but then is it
more likely to topple? EVAN: Okay, okay. What's next, time?
Ooh. This is always like-- We wonder if we should
even include this. We're just including this
for informational purposes. It's hard to say. No, I'm pretty
sure this one won. I mean, we ordered this
and we got it in two days. Over here, 50 minutes
of active time and over five days of waiting, in terms of the
shipping of materials and in terms of
the resin curing. We're just gonna
say that this wins cause no matter how you cut it, you're gonna get this faster, even if you start
making this right away. So clear winner
in terms of time. In terms of price. (giggling) This might be one of the
worst ratios we've had yet. Now we're not gonna count the
$35 we wasted in algenate. KATE: We didn't end up using it. Silicone was costly. $106 in silicone. About $25 worth of resin. The gold cup, $14. The glitter and ink.
Minute amount. Pennies, very little. So in total, about $145. How much was the bought one? $19. (laughing) (groaning) That's kind of painful. You know, people think
that DIYs are cheaper. That is often not the case. You can get seven of
these for less than this. Would you want seven of these? Maybe.
(laughing) Okay, so last is what I'm
most excited to share. And that is the Patreon vote. What do you think our
patrons thought of these? And the way we set it
up is they don't know which is the BUY and
which is the DIY. They know which one. They might not know! This has resin.
They might not know that that's resin. I would guess that
over 95% of people knew that this was ours. Well, I told people that
they don't need to guess, they just need to tell
us which they like better and share their thoughts on it. My guess is this isn't
everyone's aesthetic. Honestly, they're kind of weird. My guess is that most people
didn't really like them. I like them. Well, you're correct. Most people didn't like either. (laughing) People were weirded out by the uncanny valley of this
not-quite human shaped hand with the flared wrist and
the oddly long fingers that are holding a
cup in a way that-- EVAN: You don't hold cups. And people thought that my hand looked like a
terrifying ghost hand that was going to come
after them in the night. (laughing) The realism of the shape of
my hand freaks people out and the not-quite realism of
this hand freaked people out. So it's kind of hard to
win people over with hands. This is a ghost hand.
It is a ghost hand. This is a watery ghost hand. You know in that
deep blue ocean movie where the hand reached
out and got people? It was a thing. And now for a selected
reading of Patreon comments. The black and white one
looks like a pencil holder. Meh, 5/10. The blue one looks
like a space god tipping a gold goblet of
enemy tears to sip on. Yas, 12/10.
(laughing) The blue gold looks like
it's trying to squeeze the blood out of a
freshly caught squirrel. Not gonna lie, both
of them freak me out. They're both
caressing those cups, but with very
different energies. But the vote was very close. So in total we had 170 comments. A lot of them didn't
vote for either cause they didn't
really like either one, but we had 49 votes for
the white hand, the buy and 55 votes for the
blue hand, the DIY. (cheering) So we won! But barely. So I think overall,
tallying things up, we have tied (laughs). Now we did lose very
badly on the price and kind of on the time. But in the end, you know, you have a limited amount
of space in your house and you should save it
for what you really like, in terms of aesthetics.
Yeah. But is that the most
important thing? And is this the best aesthetic? Well, you know,
since it is a tie, I think we need a tie breaker. And I have the perfect
person in mind. So which one wins, the
first one she approaches or the one that she
spends more time around? KATE: The one she
spends more time around. EVAN: No, Joobie. Oh yes, oh yes,
isn't that one great? KATELYN: What do
you think, baby? She went in this direction. That means her vote
is for this one. Yay, I feel so accomplished.
(laughing) Well, I hope you guys liked
this video, we had fun. How can we declare
this the winner? We didn't really get
a definitive vote
from the Supurrvisor. Oh, I think I hear
her over there. Was that?
Waiting for a treat. KATELYN: Oh you like ours best? EVAN: Oh, yay! So generous VOICEOVER: Where is treat? Well, hope you guys
liked this video. If you wanna see more
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it'll be around up here and down in the description. And if you want more Evan and
Katelyn content in general, we have a gaming channel, we live stream on Twitch, we have a podcast and we
have a secondary channel. A seconDARY channel (laughs). See you next time, bye. Should we do that outro again? You know it was okay. (beep) You got some silicone
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