I Make an 8 Ball out of Solid Resin

hi everyone on this week's episode i'm going to try and make myself an 8 ball out of resin [Music] so this 8 ball is a real eight ball i borrowed it off my mate so i could use it to get all the dimensions now this project should be fairly simple the first thing i need to do is pour some black resin so i can turn the ball now once that's done i'll pour myself some white resin and that will create our insert the resin i'm using for this one is a slow set casting resin to get the black color i'm just going to add some black pigment paste now i'm going to go pop this in the pressure pot to cure now that our black resin is cured i can glue it to the waste block now that my glue's all dry we can start turning the front of the ball [Music] to get a more accurate shape i'm using my sphere jig now it's really important that you line up the center although you won't get a perfect ball foreign that's so now that i have the front of the ball shaped i can go ahead and drill my hole now before i take this off the lathe i'm going to drill one more smaller hole all the way through now you'll see why i'm doing this towards the end of the video it's now time to start on the number eight and the first thing i'm going to do is pour myself a white blank now that the resin's cured i can work on the black outline now to do that i'm going to drill a couple of holes in the white resin [Music] uh [Music] before i go mixing some black resin i'm going to create a dam wall with some hot glue don't worry about the extra resin that i'm mixing up because i've always got other projects on the go now i'm just going to go pop this in the pressure pot to cure now that the black resin's cured the next thing i need to do is sand this front down and drill two more holes all those holes are a lot harder to drill than i thought getting them centered was a difficult task well it's now time to add the dam wall again and pour some white resin in the holes i'm just going to give it a minute for these air bubbles to come out and then i'll pop it in the pressure pot now that the white resin is cured i need to shape it down so it fits in the front of the ball it's now time for me to find the center and then mark the circle wow [Music] when i decided to make this project there was one step that i was really worried about and that was getting this eight dead center in the ball now i know if i didn't it was just gonna bug me forever now my original plan was to mount this in the chuck and turn the circle but as you can see here it's not quite centered so i'm going to have to figure out another way so i've been having to think about it and i reckon the best way to do this is to glue it down to the waist block mount it in the chuck and bring the live center down so it's right in the center then i'll leave it there until the glue dries now that the glue's all set i can turn it down to a circle well that took a bit longer than i expected but i needed to take my time and sneak up on it that way we got a nice tight fit that seems pretty tight to me now the next thing i need to do is glue this in now i just got to wait for the glue to dry we can put it back on the lathe oh so i've now got my finished ball and it's time to sand and polish now once i've done that i'll explain what i'm doing with the back side it's now time for me to explain why i drilled this small hole it's so i knew where the center was so i could drill a larger hole and then once i've drilled that larger hole i can put in this threaded insert and once that inserts glued in we'll have ourselves a shift knob well considering i've got some dodgy eyes and some wonky drill bits i reckon i did a pretty good job of getting that eight nice and centered now if you think so too let me know by smashing the like button also i'm gonna have this knob available in my store i'll leave a link in the description now let's check out my ball [Music] uh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Ben's Worx

Views: 1,237,814

Keywords: resin, resin art, resin shift knob, resin 8 ball, 8 ball shift knob, how to, how to resin, how to make a resin shift knob, diy shift knob, clear resin, polish resin, how to polish resin, 8 ball, steel 8 ball, Machining, Machinist, Engineering

Id: isvrIK7Dj4A

Length: 14min 19sec (859 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 30 2022