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Side note: Hows is the audio quality? I changed my audio presets to be more aligned with UA-cam's LUF/True Peak standards.
Audio quality is very good, Jay!
The audio is of the same quality as the rest of t video : excellent. Merry Christmas and God bless!
Sounds good through my ear buds
Audio is excellent!
Excellent project, Jay! We live in Minnesota in a windy area. One thought for others who have a similar situation is to bolt the conduit straps you used to a 1/4 or 3/8 plywood (something like bc grade would be fine) and laminate the foam to it. While this will increase the weight, it will survive the conditions in an area like ours. Keep up the great work and thank you for inviting us into your your lives shop (you’ve came a long ways from the apartment shop from years ago). Merry Christmas to you and your family. The Savior is born!
To mount brackets on the back l’ve glued scraps of 1/2” treated plywood on the back with Tightbound Three. Very solid. Excellent work, as always Jay!
The wind will tear the screw right out on a very windy day.
I did something similar to this last year. I drilled long holes in mine in the side of the foam and slid pex tubing in the holes. Then pounded rebar in the ground with a thin wrap of duct tape on the bar for friction and slid the decoration on the rebar. Never moved an inch all season.
I do the same thing for tombstones at Halloween.
Came out super nice. And love the "let it go" song 🥰
I'd stick a few stakes in the ground and drill through the front with a screw and prong washer. It's how this stuff get's secured to studs. Ya, you'll see the prong washers, but put them in the black area and paint them black I'll bet they'll disappear after 5 feet.
I cut a lot of this XPS foam for props and another things. You need to use a downcut bit you’ll get a smoother cut and finish. Also using a downcut will help hold your piece down. I also use double sided tape to hold sheets down, you can use the painters tape and CA too. The biggest issue with XPS and my CNC when settling on feeds and speeds was melting the foam to the bit- it easy enough to pick off. When you dial it in you’ll get an amazing finish. The way I mounted something like this was to rout in channels for PVC pipe in the back and use a foam comparable glue to glue the pipe in place. Then I just slide it down on the rebar I pound into the ground. Still you work is great and I love your content. I’ve your work holding method on your machine too
I was thinking back the foam with plywood. adds strength to those break away seams & gives more mounting options.
That was considered but I'm wanting to experiment with items that won't potentially rot.
The weight is a big problem with using ply. It would be sturdier for sure but who wants to lug that around for just a decoration?
I make these out of 3/4" plywood. It really dosent weight that much, a female can Carry it. I psint it completely white with exterior latex paint. Really cool idea though.
I like the re-bar idea...but the play in the brackets is worrisome if you get any sustained wind it will work out the screws. I think your idea of gluing pvc pipe is better along with a cross pipe for rigidity against the possible wind. You don't want it to snap along those scored lines.
Nice job though. I like the final look!
Foam board glue will work well on the back brackets. Especially if you rough up the back of them with some coarse sandpiper.
Cool idea and great job. I built some high school marching band props out of the same foam and I found that original Gorilla Glue worked really great to stick foam to foam or foam to wood. I doubled up 2" sheets to make 4" thick pieces. I then cut squares out of 3/4 plywood and glued it into routed pockets in the foam with the gorilla glue to create attachment points in the foam. There is a video of it on my channel. Again great job on this project.
Looks great!
Next up a huge ttRPG terrain with any left over XPS foam?
For the back brackets just cut a couple of 2" square blocks with the same material or Styrofoam about 2' long with a 1" dado down the middle and glue it to the back. then you could just drop the rebar down through and hammer it in the dirt.
Great project.
For securing to the ground I would cut a pocket into the back and place a piece of 1x into it and use polyurethane glue to hold it and than screw your pipe holders into the wood
Thru bolt it with large washers on the front and back to clamp the foam. Use your CNC to recess the washer on the front flush, then paint the front washers to match the surrounding color.
Very cool. I haven't seen foam carving on CNC before.
Beware of the wind , it will rip the screws out . Glue some 1" x 2" wood stripes on the back to mount your brackets ! Best of luck and it looks great .
I would have to put a backer board on it if for nothing more than piece of mind. If weight and water resistance is the goal you might want to consider shower panels glued to the foam. Basically the slumlord special. 😁
It looks great! BUT... I believe this is better suited as an indoor decoration. In a strong wind that is what we in the business call a "sail" ...or a kite. The screws will rip out and the entire piece will break along those..."break lines." In the end, your neighbors will have the fun of picking up and discarding the puzzle pieces. If you want it outside, the other suggestions of 1/8" plywood backing are sound advice.
I use wire through a piece of plexiglass then through the foam then secure those to the rod in the ground.
I do dimensional signs with HDU, I had this issue until I added a vac table. Any lightweight material like this is notoriously difficult to get a flat finish. Vac table is 100% worth it.
need a little vac table for this kind of thing. Might build one that could be put on/taken off easily.
Making the nativity out of this foam is a genius idea! Yours turned out great! Of course, some of us (real) woodworkers don’t have a CNC, so it would take a long time using a router freehand. Even then the figures won’t be as sharp as a CNC, especially considering my hands shake a lot. Everyone has given their thoughts on how best to mount this to ensure it doesn’t fly away. Why not use a $100+ sheet of 3/4” plywood as a backer fastened down by rebar or some type of pipe? I might find myself a pattern and make one of these! Thanks for sharing Jay! Merry Christmas brother.
Can we purchase the vector file for this design somewhere?
nice
That is awesome! Great idea!
Whatever you end up attaching to the back, hot glue is NOT the way to go. Hot glue melts that pink foam - your bead of glue will sink in and you will end up with a mess. Yes I speak from unpleasant experience. Maybe try 2-part epoxy or some sort of polymer construction adhesive,
don't know if you get them there or will know what i mean but nylon plasterboard anchors worked for me. they have a wide thread nylon part that you screw in and then screw a screw into that. you can get metal ones but i used nylon ones.
glue a block of wood to the back for the clamps to screw into
Beautiful and the true meaning of Christmas. Don't know if it would work but could you just drill some holes up through the foam and run the bars up through. It may be difficult to push it down into the ground.
A fantastic project for the time of year and way cheaper than trying to buy one the same size. As for using paint to fill the thread holes, I don't believe that will last especially when the wind picks up. 5-minute epoxy resin will probably have done a way better job on securing the post brackets, plus might be an idea to still use the rebar but to have plastic tubing sunken into the ground and then the rebar sitting within the tubing. To save money you can always use some of your offcuts and make your own longer and thicker dowels to use as frames and have them sitting into the tubing, this would work just aswell as the rebar but obviously way less expensive for you overall. As always buddy 💯% 👍 🇬🇧.
P.s Jay I hope you do a after Christmas follow up to let us know how it lasted, Hop you and the family have a wonderful Christmas and Newyear 2022.
Nice project! Thank you for your posting, is there a file for sale?
Using the the panel that's more STABLE? Appropriate on several levels!
Can you share the file you used?
I'll upload it to my article the next time I'm near a computer.
i wonder how it would work to epoxy a 2 or 3 inch wide strips of wood to the back of the foam and screw those 2 hole brackets to the wood. There would be a lot more contact surface for the wood to the foam and the screws would have much better holding strength in the wood. I would test it first on a scrap piece of foam just to make sure the epoxy does not melt the foam. I do know Lowes as some adhesive which will stick the foam to wood, metal and other materials without melting the foam. Just an idea
Not sure about this particular product but spray paint will eat some foam products. If you want to use spray paint I recommend trying it on a test piece
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I love it! Thanks for sharing. I just made simple figurines of Mary, Joseph, and the manger out of plywood- never thought of using rigid foam (great idea). Do you offer the plans? Might need to upgrade next year 😊
I’ll be curious how it holds up over time. I have several tombstones for Halloween and here in the PNW we get plenty of gusty wind and everything I’ve tried to stake them down just gets ripped out. 😒
Nice information. I heard one of the challenges is painting the foam and it melting. Looks like it painted well. Any problems with the foam melting while painting?
That's nice, Jay. How would that foam hold up in the weather if it wasn't painted?
Why didn't you just use two 1" thick sheets cut the top profile through and adhere it to the bottom Piece with the same outer profile? It also would make painting the back piece black so much easier as you could paint it prior to adhering the top.
That would make the interior pieces more delicate when cutting. Painting would have been a lot easier.
@@JayBates If you put the top piece on a sacrificial sheet with releasable double-sided tape in rows in the weaker areas it (or just use more support tabs) wouldn't be an issue. Another benefit is the amount of cutting time would be substantial
vacuum table time?
Bad news Jay Jesus wasn’t born in a barn
Great project, well executed. Still makes no sense to do a nativity scene for christmas.
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