The Charcoal Bowl | Dipit #23 Resin & Charcoal

charcoal is actually processed wood so this has been burnt and it is now fuel for a fire it's incredibly brittle there's no way I'd be able to turn this on the wood lathe so what somebody suggested to me in the last video was to take this material and stabilize it in our vacuum chamber [Music] [Applause] yeah that looks pretty good actually so now what we need to do is we need to completely submerge that you know resin my belief is if the charcoal should float there it goes I made this wait a while back so now none of the charcoal is coming out of the resin and all I'm gonna do is turn it on is that let off on this bleed valve over here you'll see will start to draw a vacuum and while that's happening [Applause] we're going to be pulling the air out of the charcoal what we want to do is pull every bit of air out of the charcoal that we can it takes four five maybe even six hours a full vacuum to pull all the air out all right and it's been running non-stop for a little under seven hours and what I'm going to do now is going to release the vacuum what the purpose of that was was to pump all the air that we could out of the charcoal just so that when we turned the vacuum back on it would suck the resin into all of the little air pockets and now we're just gonna let it sit in here overnight and continue to soak up as much resin as it possibly can let's see how we did yeah so they're still floating I kind of wondered I wasn't sure it's a really light material the resin it has permeated the structure of these and it should not just leak out all we're doing here is getting off the excess on the outside yeah can you even see that that's amazing the resin is now in the material and in order to cure it it needs to sit in an oven at 200 degrees for 45 minutes that will cure the resin and turn it hard hey Siri set timer for 45 minutes here they are all of my little loops out of the toaster oven go ahead and just open up one of these here we got it definitely feels more dense but it has absorbed the resin and you can see some of the resin here it looks almost bluish okay so I can't turn this by itself it's just it still feels way too light and too soft but if I embed it in more resin and casting resin maybe that would work okay I think I've got everything we need for our puzzle piece here get my charcoal that's been stabilized get some resin today we're going to be using ez cast and this bottle that I picked up from the dollar store Oh let's give it a hit with mold release so let's begin assembling the bulb and this is a large container this holds 80 ounces but we're not going to use that much because we're gonna fill this up with charcoal and this plug in the middle but we're not there yet this might be the favorite my favorite piece that came out and I went ahead and split it on the bandsaw and it actually cuts really well and some more of these spires up on the sides it's gonna work and I don't know how much of this is going to survive you know when you turn a bowl you make you make it your own shape and I want to be able to do that let's put this to the side for a minute and mix up some resin resin that I'm using today is called easy cast you've seen me use this before we're going to mix up about ten ounces of it five ounces of resin and five ounces of hardener this is not going to cover a huge volume what this is going to do is it's going to stick down the first layer sort of cement everything in place and then we continue to add layers after that now this just goes right into the pressure pod being careful not to move anything so it was not to slosh around our resin and pressurize the pot up to 50 psi so the pressure pot is not a requirement it is just a benefit you can totally do this without a pressure pot I've been doing it without one for years but that being said this resin usually takes 12 to 24 hours to soft cure and then three days to fully hard cure and we are at the soft cure phase within four hours and you can see we've got a long way to go so I'm going to mix up a little bit more resin this time so instead of 10 ounces I think I'm gonna jump up to 16 ounces if you warm up the resin in a hot water bath it's so much easier to work with flows better it mixes better just better we're going to do it in stages this is just a second stage I'm going to go ahead and put this back in the pressure pot there's a little worried that this wasn't going to work because 16 ounces is a lot more than the manufacturer recommends pouring it once in this resin but it seems to be doing just fine and it's it's just crystal clear 16 ounces works I'm going to mix up another 16 ounces and add another layer on top all right so that is 42 ounces of resin took the mold out of the pressure pot and mixing up another 16 ounces of easy cash resin I'm gonna pour that on top that will bring us to a grand total of oh crap I forgot how much resin we've poured more than we started with and why I have to figure out how to squeeze for days where the footage into six minutes you get to see the unmolding whoa that is heavy here's like a good casting you could definitely see some of that interesting blue that we got you still don't know why we have the blue something to do with the stabilizing resin guess it's time to head over to the lathe needs to be sort of crewed up and then we'll start turning a foot and get it into a shake that we actually like okay pieces are just falling off my leg it's no big deal here's what my face shield looks like at the moment it is a little difficult to see all right so that's my recess and I'll use that to hold this in the other direction mounted back on the lathe and it's just it's really delicate the the resin will hold just fine but the charcoal is super delicate I mean even stabilized I'm going to turn with the tail stock up for a little while it'll give me some extra stability here and sort of give me an idea as to whether or not that recess that I made is going to hold [Music] [Music] [Music] I can feel when I hit a pocket of charcoal did softens and it's easier to push in but it also block ins the piece completely and I feel like I'm anything into a black hole I've actually got three giant photography lights shining on this and when I heard a piece of charcoal underneath the dust just completely obscure it looks to me like it's just being held on by charcoal so I'm just going to give it a quick light tap okay and it's completely unseated itself in the jaws well done mr. brown okay there we go now I'm gonna spend the next Oh 25 minutes trying to get this on the jaws and recenter [Music] that is a bowl shape which qualifies it as done but it needs a lot of sanding bench is an absolute disaster is covered in shaving the grits are as follows 180 240 320 400 600 800 after you get to 800 grit you actually left for the pretty nice surface but it's cloudy and in order to fix that what I use are these polishing pads called micro mesh all you have to do is just work to the grid one at a time and this just shines it up so nice this came out amazing I got a beautiful mirror shine and the charcoal is just so interesting in there the structure of the charcoal is still visible and you can still see the grain of the wood and you get those interesting blue highlights every now and then if you look close you can even see the different layers of pores that we did it is an interesting Bowl so you know how it had all these weird blue pigments in it yeah so I'm pretty sure that those are actually from the stabilizing resin and their swirls of the different residents throughout where the stabilizing residents world with the casting resin here's something I found out whoa stabilizing resident glows under a blacklight so you can see how deep into the material it penetrates that's amazing doesn't that look amazing Wow and so you can see how far in not only did it go into the charcoal but then it swirls in the other and the other resin because I guess it wasn't completely dry when I cast it wow it's a totally different Bowl Wow it looks completely different that is a beautiful Bowl isn't that cool I love the way this looks we've made a lot of resin bowls on this channel the secret wood Bowl cotton ball bowl - lava bowls I sent the Murderball blank to call Jacobson the cereal bowl last year and now the charcoal bowl it's it's just so interesting and I've never seen anyone work with charcoal before it's a mess to turn for the record and that is gonna take a lot of cleanup but it was worth it for this and the easy cash present performed amazing I was able to quickly build up layers with deep pours I did a total of four cores the last two were 16 ounces each which is way more than the manufacturer recommends but it worked beautifully and the resin came out so clear and the only swirling that we got was one with an amazing by-product which was the swirling between the casting resin and the stabilizing resin which gave us that amazing fluorescent under black light all in all I'm super happy with this I don't know how I couldn't be I hope you enjoyed this thank you very much for watching I'll catch you guys next time [Music]

Channel: Peter Brown

Views: 627,892

Rating: 4.9693789 out of 5

Keywords: dipit, shop time, epoxy, resin, peter brown, resin bowl, woodturning, wood turning projects, pressure pot, charcoal bowl, charcoal, lathe, lathe projects, vacuum chamber, stabilizing resin, UV blacklight, blacklight

Id: y0iNp5VgFfk

Length: 15min 19sec (919 seconds)

Published: Thu May 02 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/grumbleghoul]

I love Mr. Brown’s videos. They are never as polished as the items he makes, but for some reason, he seems more real than a lot of his contemporaries.

[u/Teslok]

The is my new favorite lathe video. The end product is 100% amazing.

[u/lkz665]

Peter Brown is one of my favorite youtube channels. :) His content is so calming and interesting, and the nostalgic vibe I get from watching them makes me very happy.

[u/RabbitFields]

When it started to glow in the dark, man I tell you I was way too high! 😂

[u/smeezy]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this extremely dangerous? The charcoal dust spewed out during the lathing process must be extremely flammable and may be explosive. One unforeseen spark and the dust cloud could have been ignited.

[u/Spyofthegod]

I thought the ‘Shop Time’ was actually ‘Stop Time’

[u/pgabrielfreak]

This ended up much prettier than I imagined and the black light shot was so neat! I'd just sit around gawking at this bowl all the time if I had it.

[u/Soulmate69]

Isn't he going to seal it?

[u/iamzombus]

I think Bob Ross would call the black light glow a happy accident.