"Ocean" making a wood and resin vase/bowl, molding process and turning on the lathe. Quilling type.

alrighty so here's what i'm thinking for my project this week um i've been inspired by two things there's if you go through the salt lake international airport it's a new the new airport um there is an amazing display on the wall of the airport the main entrance it's just incredible um it's kind of a nod to the southern utah slot canyon walls these deep really thin canyons you can haul you can walk through they're very wavy they've been formed by water and wind erosion um so gordon huether i think that's how you say his name he he was commissioned he and his team to make these so that's one part of the inspiration and the other one is um quilling um quilling's this cool art form that takes uh it puts paper on edge and kind of makes patterns out of it so i'm kind of drawing from both of those i've been seeing different quilling options lately and just happened to have flown through the airport in salt lake a number of times recently and every time i go through there i think man that's a cool thing to look at so here's what i'm thinking you're gonna be kind of a broad fishbowl vase fish fishbowl shaped vase um kind of generic kind of a big round guy and the top and bottom will be wood from the original piece of wood and then from there i'm gonna have different shapes kind of random round shapes and then i'll probably put some islands kind of kidney shaped things in the bowl and then from that i'm going to build this quilling now the coiling will come out and kind of just create a i hope a mesmerizing look it's gonna be busy i'm okay with that just kind of fan out and then the different areas will kind of bump into each other but it's just gonna be kind of random stuff so i've got this construction paper and it's all different shades of blues i think i'll start off with bright white and then work my way through the blue greens all the way down to almost black to do the quilling so that it'll be different shades as it goes that makes sense obviously i'm gonna wing this one i just like to flush out the idea and no idea what i'm going to call it honestly a lot of the times the names of my projects come to me when i'm finishing it my files on my computer will the folder will change names like three times as i start to see the final photos come about what it finally actually looks like and what that inspires me so sometimes i start out with specific plans sometimes it's just an idea and i will see how this turns out this was a a nice bit of willow wood um this uh willow tree that died in my yard this thing was huge i made two big benches around my outdoor fireplace that are probably i don't know three and a half four feet tall and i cut benches out of them and uh so the upper branches uh went on forever and this is a big old tree we were really sad when it died but it was a weeping willow and um at the time i was not into woodworking really but i stacked it up in my my wood wood pile and been making use it ever since it's just the right size so many good pieces what i'm trying to do occasionally you get a really nice grain out of willow wood it's not always perfect but it's um or super beautiful like cedar or other types but uh for these projects where the wood isn't necessarily the um focal point of the project it doesn't really bother me i just want something with a little bit of interest that i don't feel too bad destroying i get a lot of complaints from people like oh my gosh you wasted so much wood and believe me i've got a backyard that's a small forest and there is more wood rotting that i can safely store and preserve and you know you get out to some of these forests that it's it's not a saving the wood that's rotting is not a thing there's so much wood it doesn't really matter but i do hear you it does look like i'm wasting a lot and i use these in these types of projects the the log is more of a placeholder it's a scaffolding it kind of holds everything together and i fully intend on getting rid of the vast majority of it by the time i'm done and for the wood chips that are strictly wood chips um i like to take them out and put them in the pathways i've made through our little little forest and behind our home i've been asked before with the resin shavings what you can do with it and to my knowledge you can't do much i don't i don't believe it's recyclable i need to do some more research on that but that's the best you can do is safely contain it so it doesn't get into you know degrading the environment polluting the environment initially i was going for a fishbowl shape and i'm not entirely sure why i changed the shape last minute but it said to me no we're going to do a water droplet egg shape instead which i actually really liked how it turned out because of the process i use where i'm dunking the whole thing in resin eventually i don't really care too much about cracks if anything that cracks out a little bit of interest to the projects but the resin seeps in there nicely and bonds deep inside the wood and so it really stabilizes cracks if the wood is properly cured it shouldn't be a problem i do worry i've had some thoughts you know if i sometimes i'm shipping these things out around the united states i sent one to england once and major changes in humidity could cause more cracking i suppose but if anything the resin is going to help prevent too much of that in this case i did fill this big crack mainly because i didn't want to draw away from the overall design is uh graph carving discs are the bee's knees i go to these so much um they sent me some some freebies to demonstrate on my channel but i had been using these long before i got into they got in contact with me um it's just a very very good thing to carve with the only drawback is it is it is violent i always have to double glove and wear two shirts or at least a jacket these bits of wood come flying off so fast and sometimes the angles you're working off it comes right at your arms and i've early on made the mistake of not wearing some kind of protection on my arms and it'll chew you up it'll it'll give you some nice raspberries draw blood if the chunks are big enough so just a word of caution it's not completely safe but i don't know it doesn't bite you know it doesn't buck back at you like you worry about with chainsaw um the rotary chainsaw attachments i've seen i saw one guy get really hurt on his channel but i've liked it so far these band files or file sanders are fantastic with it with the angle the angled grinder sanding this you can do most of the work but they just can't quite get these tight corners and the file center's a little more fragile of course a little loop of sandpaper comes off sometimes but it's it's not bad for the final final few steps in the deep corners we need a little bit of help projects like these i've learned and this seems obvious i'm sure to the average person watching it but i've learned that you've got to make the cut the same depth all the way around otherwise when you turn it that's going to be a very perfect circle when you turn it on the lathe and if things aren't set at the same depth all the way around you're very likely to lose the subject that you're putting in the window so that's that's something i've always struggled with with these big open windows there's no way of keeping the depth perfectly so one way i fight that is i make my subjects really thick so in this case the um the paper strips were what inch and a half two inches wide and i did that on purpose i wanted to fill up the whole window and didn't really care if i lost um height either way i didn't want it to be that thick wall but i wanted to give myself plenty of room for error which invariably there's going to be something weird sticking out and when i get to making my mold part um it's just you gotta leave room to to err otherwise you'll be sad after all this work i kind of just made this up as i went i wasn't really uh following anybody's youtube channel or any advice at all i probably should have but this is just what came to me uh the packet of paper came in nice graduated shades of blue and i thought i'd follow that starting with white out to the dark dark blue um i did sacrifice my little islands and i was actually sad that that happened in the end it would have been a little more interesting to have some of these coming off the middle but probably gonna revisit that one i think i say that every project i just you know you hear about these famous painters that um it was their 50th try at something before they created a masterpiece you know and i don't have enough patience to redo the same thing again and again i lose interest too fast but by the time i'm done with the project i often look back and go wow i wish i had thought of that at the beginning you know but um one reason i like to do these youtube videos is so that one day i will come back to this and i'll be like all right what are all the the problems i had that i've forgotten since you know and and i'll revisit it and i've done that already a couple of times where i couldn't remember some of the little tricks you know how i did certain things and so if anything nobody watches it at least i've taken some good notes here in the end i ended up naming this project ocean bowl not super creative but i always have this moment when i've finished up finished getting got the finishing layer on and everything shiny nice and i'll bring it into the house to let it dry and on this case when i walked in the house my ten-year-old son said hey cool that looks like the like the ocean so he got to name it is it now the ocean bowl kind of a dr seuss attempt at uh abstract obscure way of demonstrating waves and the blues of the ocean for you lucky people that live near an ocean sounds interesting to me how many different colors you can get out of the water depending on the time of year or storm systems coming through everything from dark blue to light green i've seen strangest color i've ever seen was up in alaska some of the rivers and lakes that are near glaciers have some of the wildest greenish blue colors it almost looks toxic it looks like something man-made like when they die the river green in chicago for st patrick's day but apparently it's the minerals that the glaciers have stirred up and they get into the water if you go to bear lake here in utah in the united states um it's got a lovely greenish blue color to it and i believe again it's because of some of the minerals but anyway water is fascinating if you're new to this channel the um my my goals are two twofold to give myself an outlet for creative bent that i've got i i'd love to build and create and design but also it's to help raise awareness for and raise money for operation underground railroad these are the amazing folks who go around the world helping to fight child sex trafficking rings situations they've rescued thousands of thousands of kids over the years i think they got started in 2016 so they're not too old but they've grown exponentially and they've got offices all over the world in the united states they aid police departments around the world they actually help with sting operations and it's an amazing thing that needs to be done unfortunately and every penny i raise whether it's viewership from this channel or the the money that's raised from the cell of this item for me anyway 100 percent of it goes to operation lego railroad if you come to our dot org that's kind of our mother ship we've got close to 90. we're getting close to 100 artists who have donated everything from jewelry to paintings to woodworking you name it stuff i've never even heard before and uh every month we raise a few thousand bucks and sells there so if you're an artist we'd love to donate or we'd love to host your awesome work and if you're in the market for a gift come find something we've even got some treats there uh you name it come come see it and help support us we'd love to turn it into a giant etsy type storefront for fundraising my most awesome supporter is total boat they donate several gallons of resin of this deep fathom every month when i need it and they are awesome i know it's not cheap it's not you know it's a bit of a sacrifice on their end and trade-off is like give them some exposure but this does fabulous i can get three to four inch deep pores without any problems providing that you follow their instructions and it's pretty simple get it well mixed i like to run it through a vacuum chamber for an hour and then a pressure pot for a couple of days until it sets to just completely beat back the bubble problem the big mistake i made on this one is this is one of my first projects that i've done since summers kind of got going here in utah and unfortunately the temperature in my shop got to be a little warmer than i realized and if you get above if you if you approximate 80 degrees and above the resin you can't pour it very deep or it's going to get super hot when it reacts so you'll see by the end of this that there's some cracks and bubbles in it something i don't usually struggle with you know six months out of the year here it's cold enough i don't even think about it i'm just out in my garage so it's not heated or cooled but it usually maintains a pretty good temperature but this one got away from me so i'm working on a few plans to cool off my pressure pot as it's as it's curing the resin the way i do this mold uh it's pretty heavy so i can't just lug it around so i got a couple of ideas i um another mistake i made here was i didn't wrap my tenon and tuck tape like i've done in the past and i was in a bit of a hurry and forgot that little detail but it didn't bother me too much it wasn't didn't set me back much at all this let's just take a few minutes to grind it down and get my tenon re-exposed but the tuck tape would have been nice to keep the resin off the wood where i wanted it if you're a well-versed wood turner and you've watched some of my projects in the past i tend to go big most of my product projects are 10 to 15 inches tall and about the same wide give or take of course a lot of variety there but i know i've made some of you cringe let me get these big vases out here without any steady raster device to help well father's day came and went while this project was on the uh lathe and i splurged and got an awesome steady rest we'll get to that in a second this plastic sheeting i use is really nice it's a quirk not corrugated it's it's um it's got a rough side to it so super glue sticks to it nice and easy and it's rigid enough to hold its hold its form so that i can put it in bags in sand to limit resin loss um and it turns off like like butter you don't have to worry about it so here you can see my futile effort at filling the cracks these are some really deep fissures that form because of the overheating of the resin i tried to fill it with super glue and i thought i'd done a good job but it left a lot to be desired in the end i kind of wished i hadn't even tried at all i just left them because you can see a little bit of the residue of the super glue and some of the cracks and it probably would have been better just to have nothing in it and when i finish it with t-coil it just kind of keeps it super lucent but um lesson learned once again my other awesome sponsor is troomy t-r-o-o-m-i this is a company that my brother started with the intent of providing a safe cell phone for kids uh what they do is so great that's so much better than like the gab phone or some of these others is they offer the apps that you and i use every day but they only allow those that have been vetted top to bottom to help prevent kids from being exposed to pornography or unwanted exposure to strangers you know all the things that we see get kids in trouble that end up leading to their exploitation and abuse over the internet so i'm extremely proud of my brother dave for starting this company and getting it going if you sign up and get a subscription they will donate thirty dollars to operational railroad through my organization so it's pretty sweet uh just let your friends and family know we've got teenagers it's a really good phone it can grow with them so here's my steady rest i gotta tell you i'm a sucker for good engineering and these guys nailed it this is a carter products multi-rest carter products multi-rest um it was a little pricey admittedly but it completely eliminated the vibration and warping of the tenon when i really get going on these these projects when they're fully loaded with resin they're they're heavy i would say 30 40 pounds of the bigger project and when that sucker gets whipping around and they're on the lathe that's a lot of force and if you get one catch it really messes up your tenon then you're off center and it doesn't work well and you find it your whole project so this has been an absolute godsend they built this thing like a rock and it didn't i didn't have to work at all to get my product project in there this thing's 10 12 inches wide and as you can see i could have gotten way bigger so well done this is a great great addition to my shop the wheels don't mess up the resin i was a little worried about that but i mean you can see a little track mark on there but i sanded it off in two seconds didn't even was not a problem at all so very very well done very well built um the thing hardly vibrated at all and i i don't take my time when i turn sometimes and so i can be a little punishing and it was amazing i can't say enough about it my other apparatus here is the simple hollowing system that's the name of it simple hollowing system simply it's just a mechanical arm that holds on to your tool to help turn way deep inside the bowl you get to a point where your tool rest just can't get in there far enough and even if it could get far enough in there you're cutting at an angle that's just impossible to do much and so you're you're often left with you're often left with no option but to use carbide tips on the tools which are great and you can hold on to those over this the tool rest for quite a ways but to be safe you really need a device like this and uh i don't have anything to compare it to it's the only one i've ever had but um other than one little design flaw where the two middle parts kind of came apart mainly because i'm brutal to my equipment other than that ever since i taped it it's been totally fine um i'm sure a normal person who uses them like they're intended to be do just great simple hollowing system has been great you'll notice i have two lights going the light on the back side is to help me see through the bowl as i'm looking through the bowl i can tell when i'm getting through to my windows and i don't want to go very far into them right i want to save every bit that i can and so that light really helps me see when i reach that point and that works out really nicely so anyway this was a pretty intense project uh let me know what you think about the outcome curious when i get cracks and bubbles what people will think about it you know some people go oh hey cool it looks like it's got an antique look to it or you know some kind of uh stained glass feel other people can only see the the defects you know so curious to see what you think i got to the point where i saw the cracks and i said you know what i'm finishing this bad boy there is no way i'm stopping i had invested way too much energy and time and i wanted to see how it came out if nothing more than to prepare me for the next time around i try this but anyway thanks for your attention and uh your support um come on over to artforour.org and help us out with our our goal of raising money to help save kids from trafficking you guys have a great one thank you for support um [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] uh [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] so [Music] do [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign 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Channel: Art Giving Hope: Woodwork, Resin, Photography

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Length: 33min 5sec (1985 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 04 2022