Hi today i tired making Crystals with silica jell (Cat litter) glitter, mica powder and a bit of resin to bind them together. I then spooned it into clumps. They look so beautiful . I wanted to thank you for trying everything you do because you give us the courage to try new and different things.
I like your experiments with additions. In US there is a car product called Stop Leak which is very fine aluminium powder, to plug leaks in a car radiator. Maybe that would be fun to try. It was about $10 US the last I knew. Will send you coffee in early January (must have my name on the pressure pot😉).
Great video and inspirational too. I have order my lady figure and will try both plaster of Paris and the cement one. In these difficult times "Keep calm and carry on crafting". I would if I wasn't watching your videos all the time 😂
I must say that I looooove your videos. You are like me. Have a treamor & are a little messy. I lerned a lot from all your experiments and gave me a lot of inspiration for my own resin craft. Thank you from Sweden 🇸🇪
Favorite words of the day: squeeze “squigy widgy”! The female mold came out much shinier. I thought for some reason that it would be lighter and more matte so it was a pleasant surprise. Happy New Year Steve! 🥰🤗
That is cool idea I like them 💙💜💙 I hope I did the coffee thing right and Happy New Year I can't wait to see what you have in store for the next year 💙💜💙
Hi! Great video and it's really entertaining (in a good way!) If you use way more cement or sand than resin, you don't have to do the layering thing. And yes, the cement-resin-mix has tonnes of bubbles but with torching regularly (until it's cured), doing the squishy wishy and 'knocking it on your surface for a bit' (I hope you know what I mean?) the bubbles can rise up. And btw the fantastic thing about using cement in resin is: if you sand it, it looks like real cement...or even better actually....It looks a bit more like stone🤔 ...well great anyways😊😉 Ps.: I am too without a pressure/vacuum pot...😞 supid expensive stuff...😒 ✌
Interesting. I've been looking into creating something like microcement and my search has lead me to believe it's cement, fine aggregate and water based polyurethane resin. This video gives me promise.
Interesting - I wonder how the permeability and the waterproof qualities would be for this? Thinking of if adding resin to concrete countertops or basins.
@@Travel.With.Carmen Most available "hobby" resins probably cure too quickly for really large applications - I suspect more industrial types would be best, I alas, I don't know off hand what they are (I'm a computer nerd, not a materials specialist )
Love these moulds!! The shiny black one is my favourite. Unfortunately all I could think of at the end was "mica powder his dingle!!" 🤭😊. Love your videos, you do make me laugh.
I really like your channel. You're so creative, and very lovely in terms of personality. I'm subscribed, of course, and on the rare moment I'm on FB, I'll look for you. This is another interesting experiment.... Love it!
Glittery cement, only you could dream that mixture up! Interesting to see the difference in gloss between the two - would that be the sand additive do you think? I'm amazed at your success with bubblessness bearing in mind the sand & cement. Very successful experiment!
Great video! From what I could tell, you mixed the dry "powder" cement (no mixing with water first) with the resin? And that produced that smooth black color, (on the female torso), without anything else added? The results are amazing!
I haven't watched it yet, but lately you keep asking questions in your titles, and my mind immediately answers "Fire, flood, explosions BIG BOOM!" Now to see if I guessed right...
I've never really seen much that was dangerous to mix with resin, EXCEPT in an episode of Shop Time called "Dye Trying" where Peter tries out different additives to resin--He tried making the resin blue by adding a crushed-up toilet bowl cleaning tablet. The bleach in it caused a runaway thermal "event" and there was smoke. Not fun.
i was mislead!! i was waiting for it catch a cold or not set up,, turned out better,, was there a weight diffrence etween one with cement and one without? thank you for the tips
I have to note the dark color of the end result. I did the Henry's feather finish concrete over plywood trick for my counters and had a miserable time trying to seal them with masonry sealers. My final 'hail mary' was to coat them in a good quality counter/table top epoxy. I sanded the whole thing, had a bad feeling, and gave them a coat of a Thompson's masonry sealer that was 'non-enhancing'. The clear flood coat was perfect. BUT, I missed a few spots with the Thompson's. Those spots turned BLACK. I mean BLACK, black. I don't know what reaction causes the epoxy to turn the concrete black, but here it is again in this video. Now it's beautiful in its own way, but I am curious to see how epoxy interacts with white concrete. That's an experiment I'm going to have to try here soon. (I'm currently prepping to do a big concrete experiment and I'll throw this one in there.) There has to be a way to use concrete and epoxy to get a durable, bullet proof, concrete-look final result.
I don't know if you've tried this or not, but I wonder if you use a baked polymer clay piece within a mold would work. The first thing that popped into my head for example was making an eye with polymer clay, putting makeup on the one eye (I'm thinking Egyptian); then you would bake it. The make a pyramid with resin. Placing it in the center with fishing wire until it cures enough to stay put and then pouring the remainder. I'm mainly curious how the clay would hold up in the resin???
By the way, Steve, I bought you a cuppa; however, I bought it under my name as this name of Olivia is my writer's pen name. It just now occurred to me that you won't even know who it is my initials are CO or CD on the cuppa ;)
Really great, informative and "food for thought" videos Thank you for doing these... I am going to ask a silly question But,,,I am assuming you mix catalyst into the resin before mixing with POP?? I am trying to find a solution to making a strong mix of POP and "something" else to be strong enough to make bases for my small driftwood art pieces that I press into before the mix cures??? Any thoughts? The bases obviously need to adhere well to the driftwood, and be strong enough for general handling during transporting ...
You are so funny and creative. I could watch your videos all day. This one in particular had me lol. I do have a question, I tried resincrete for the first time after watching one of your videos. I assumed it would be less expensive than straight resin for molds, but I think it’s more expensive. Is that correct? I’ve only been working with resin for a few weeks and my resincrete just arrived today but it took 1/10th of a bag to make one small succulent pot so, unless I did it wrong, I’m thinking straight epoxy resin is less expensive than that. 🤷♀️ What do you think?
you'd be surprised how many people are looking for an example of this mix and how little information and examples there are of it. The main motivation for this is to strengthen the resin, as resin tends to bend here in Texas where it can get pretty hot. Can you give any information on if it's stronger, or if you have done any stress testing to these pieces? Please I would really appreciate your feedback as you are bar none the best example of this application on the internet.
@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts thanks for the tips! In the past year I started experimenting with making my own molds out of silicone and pouring with epoxy resin. Can you recommend any brands for this polyurethane resin?
Idk what I expected, but it wasn't that beautiful glossy black effect; reminded me of onyx. I definitely preferred the female one, the sand effect was intriguing on the male one but not a fannof the shade it turned out, also,mwas the male mould less shiny or did something g you added make it less shiny? I'm guessing asking now is a bit pointless given how old this vid is, but idk if maybe u still use this technique. Do you think it works out cheaper doing the 60/40 mix with cement powder or if it were just pure resin? I imagine without thickening it with the cement first that the sand would all just immediately sink. Imagine just adding holo powder and what it might look like with that black finish.
Hi I’m interested in making my own resin crochet hooks. I been watching lots UA-cam but only one person has made them. Do you think you could do them. They use a lath I only have a Dremel I see you love your dremel do you think it would work. Going try make me own mould. Any suggestions would be really appreciated.
Cement requires water to activate and become hard. By mixing it only with the resin, you are not getting any of the structural properties of reacted cement. In your application it is just a mineral filler. Obviously this is fine, but i wonder about the properties of a mix where both the cement and resin are activated. I.e. mix cement with water, then combine the paste with resin.
I hope when you say you are all ready... you should be ready to have to destroy your molds to get the cement out. Wow, I thought cement was the same as concrete, but this video proves that wrong.
I don't think this will work well. Cement can only cure with hydration, so it specifically needs water in order to provide any strength. Used like this it will never cure so it only acts as a bulking agent. If you want to do that there are better, cheaper and more aesthetically pleasing options for this - fine sand being the most common. It could maybe be interesting as an experiment to see what would happen with a water-based resin. These do exist, but I don't think I have ever seen one meant for casting. Even with water present there would be an issue in curing time. Cement needs roughly 3 days to gain 70% strength - weeks to cure fully. Even the slowest curing resins would set long before the cement had time to do much. It would probably make much more sense to just make castings with fine concrete and seal them with a resin afterwards. With the right admixes and super-plasticizers concrete can be made very smooth and easy-flowing - pretty decent for casting.
Bonjour, j'ai regardé plein de vos vidéos et je vois que vous n'utilisez pas de masque contre les éventuelles vapeurs toxiques. Est juste pour les vidéos ou pensez vous que c'est inutile ? Merci pour toutes vos expériences qui nous évitent bien des erreurs 😉👍
Using cement didn't make much sense because the chemical process for setting cement requires water. You would get exactly the same result by adding sand to resin.
@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts I'm actually very interested in how well or not they work. I considered investing in one a while back but I am not making a lot of resin items, I thought I would wait until I learned more, and or started doing more. Much appreciation for all that you do. You are also a riot to listen to! So much fun!
Wow. I'm not sure what I was expecting to happen but this looks like a great way to make your pieces look like they were made from stone! Thank you! Also, we realize that 2020 has not been the best year (heck on earth, actually) but my partner and I are sending you and yours our warmest wishes for a happy new year!
Thank you for doing the experiments for us. Your wit and willingness to share your experiments with us are both entertaining and informative. Happy New Year's Eve to you and yours.
Had you done this with just pure lime powder Ca(OH)2 you might have come up with something quite close to Greek statue marble. Assuming there was no chemical reaction.
This is really great for larger pieces, cement adds volume which decreases resin cost and you still get the luster of the resin.
sand adds more volume cheaper
Lol....he does have a dingle. I love those molds. I love how the shiny black came out
I actually laughed out loud when you were covering the male parts “or not”.... 🤣
Same here 😂
Perhaps put the glitter just on the ''dinkle" next time..
Peekaboo
Sand, cement & wait for it ....glitter! Love it Steve
Hi today i tired making Crystals with silica jell (Cat litter) glitter, mica powder and a bit of resin to bind them together. I then spooned it into clumps. They look so beautiful . I wanted to thank you for trying everything you do because you give us the courage to try new and different things.
They turned out really well. Prefer the colour and the shine on the female one. Happy New Year Steve :)
I like your experiments with additions. In US there is a car product called Stop Leak which is very fine aluminium powder, to plug leaks in a car radiator. Maybe that would be fun to try. It was about $10 US the last I knew. Will send you coffee in early January (must have my name on the pressure pot😉).
💙❤💙 Enjoy your pressure pot! Can't wait to see my name on it! Thanks for all the video's love every one of them! 💙❤💙
@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts I cant wait! Im so excited for you! Its a game changer for real! ❤💙❤💙❤
@@AfallinAngel what's the pros and cons of cement epoxy resin
“Oh, let’s put it all in” *dumps* lmao
Great video and inspirational too. I have order my lady figure and will try both plaster of Paris and the cement one. In these difficult times "Keep calm and carry on crafting". I would if I wasn't watching your videos all the time 😂
Wow awesome! I’ve legit been thinking about this and was curious
How it would
Turn out but most definitely wanted to try it with some coasters.
I must say that I looooove your videos. You are like me. Have a treamor & are a little messy. I lerned a lot from all your experiments and gave me a lot of inspiration for my own resin craft. Thank you from Sweden 🇸🇪
You had me at “Squidgy widgy”! Then the “dinkle” came along and I’m dead!😆
Favorite words of the day: squeeze “squigy widgy”! The female mold came out much shinier. I thought for some reason that it would be lighter and more matte so it was a pleasant surprise. Happy New Year Steve! 🥰🤗
And "dingle"... Don't forget the dingle.
@@NortelGeek hahaha
That is cool idea I like them 💙💜💙 I hope I did the coffee thing right and Happy New Year I can't wait to see what you have in store for the next year 💙💜💙
They turned out good!
It looks like a messy muddy soup but the end result is amazing 😍👍🏼
Hi!
Great video and it's really entertaining (in a good way!)
If you use way more cement or sand than resin, you don't have to do the layering thing.
And yes, the cement-resin-mix has tonnes of bubbles but with torching regularly (until it's cured), doing the squishy wishy and 'knocking it on your surface for a bit' (I hope you know what I mean?) the bubbles can rise up.
And btw the fantastic thing about using cement in resin is: if you sand it, it looks like real cement...or even better actually....It looks a bit more like stone🤔 ...well great anyways😊😉
Ps.: I am too without a pressure/vacuum pot...😞 supid expensive stuff...😒
✌
Im trying this out today with white cement and sand 🥰
Interesting. I've been looking into creating something like microcement and my search has lead me to believe it's cement, fine aggregate and water based polyurethane resin. This video gives me promise.
Now that was cool!
I love your experiments!
Happy New Year! Lets hope 2021 is better for all of us x
Try white portland cement.
Cool Steve this is so nice, and funny too! Happy new year!
Oh my gosh I lost it when you said "Or not, peekaboo!"
You're too funny.
Interesting - I wonder how the permeability and the waterproof qualities would be for this? Thinking of if adding resin to concrete countertops or basins.
You might need a different resin or technique to cover such a big volume.
@@mlfett6307could you tell me which type of resin were you thinking of?
@@Travel.With.Carmen Most available "hobby" resins probably cure too quickly for really large applications - I suspect more industrial types would be best, I alas, I don't know off hand what they are (I'm a computer nerd, not a materials specialist )
Oh my gosh you are ADORABLE!!! A dinkle winkle 🤣🤣🤣
Love these moulds!! The shiny black one is my favourite. Unfortunately all I could think of at the end was "mica powder his dingle!!" 🤭😊. Love your videos, you do make me laugh.
@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This was one I suggested! 😆
Wow I love this a lot !!!!!!
I love your videos. Great experiment
Thanks for sharing, great explanation!
I thought you may do a hardness test or drop test to see if the concrete made any difference to toughness of the piece
love the female one just perfect! Squidgy widgy lol, I had a rabbit called Squidgy :)
Good experiments .
Thanks for the videos
I really like your channel. You're so creative, and very lovely in terms of personality. I'm subscribed, of course, and on the rare moment I'm on FB, I'll look for you. This is another interesting experiment.... Love it!
Glittery cement, only you could dream that mixture up! Interesting to see the difference in gloss between the two - would that be the sand additive do you think? I'm amazed at your success with bubblessness bearing in mind the sand & cement. Very successful experiment!
My feelings exactly! Who else would do this? I really liked the results👍🏻👍🏻
That is really neat!! Thanks for sharing and wishing you a happy new year. Here's looking forward to 2021. :D - Heidi
Great video! From what I could tell, you mixed the dry "powder" cement (no mixing with water first) with the resin? And that produced that smooth black color, (on the female torso), without anything else added? The results are amazing!
you are amazing
Looove the female verses the male color. Thank you for the video!
Me too, it looks like black marble
I haven't watched it yet, but lately you keep asking questions in your titles, and my mind immediately answers "Fire, flood, explosions BIG BOOM!"
Now to see if I guessed right...
@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts I would ask you to avoid open flames, but I know you have that long match...
I've never really seen much that was dangerous to mix with resin, EXCEPT in an episode of Shop Time called "Dye Trying" where Peter tries out different additives to resin--He tried making the resin blue by adding a crushed-up toilet bowl cleaning tablet. The bleach in it caused a runaway thermal "event" and there was smoke. Not fun.
@@NortelGeek See Steve! BIG BOOM! It can happen!
what's the pros and cons of cement epoxy resin
Aha finely I found it thank you for uploading that,
Great video!
How substantial does this feel? Does it have a bit of weight?
i was mislead!! i was waiting for it catch a cold or not set up,, turned out better,, was there a weight diffrence etween one with cement and one without? thank you for the tips
Does the cement strengthen the object once cured?
Hey mate, I am here in the U.K. also, can you advise where to get low cost resin supplies that you use? Many thanks
I have to note the dark color of the end result. I did the Henry's feather finish concrete over plywood trick for my counters and had a miserable time trying to seal them with masonry sealers. My final 'hail mary' was to coat them in a good quality counter/table top epoxy. I sanded the whole thing, had a bad feeling, and gave them a coat of a Thompson's masonry sealer that was 'non-enhancing'. The clear flood coat was perfect.
BUT, I missed a few spots with the Thompson's. Those spots turned BLACK. I mean BLACK, black. I don't know what reaction causes the epoxy to turn the concrete black, but here it is again in this video.
Now it's beautiful in its own way, but I am curious to see how epoxy interacts with white concrete. That's an experiment I'm going to have to try here soon. (I'm currently prepping to do a big concrete experiment and I'll throw this one in there.) There has to be a way to use concrete and epoxy to get a durable, bullet proof, concrete-look final result.
I like adding cement to all kids of resin pieces
Peek a boo...lol great tutorial!!!
Nice! Where they much heavier than just resin?
Brilliant
😘
Please try white Portland cement
Wow! Really surprised how nicely these turned out. I was sure cement would turn the resin. Thanks for trying it for us!!
I don't know if you've tried this or not, but I wonder if you use a baked polymer clay piece within a mold would work. The first thing that popped into my head for example was making an eye with polymer clay, putting makeup on the one eye (I'm thinking Egyptian); then you would bake it. The make a pyramid with resin. Placing it in the center with fishing wire until it cures enough to stay put and then pouring the remainder. I'm mainly curious how the clay would hold up in the resin???
By the way, Steve, I bought you a cuppa; however, I bought it under my name as this name of Olivia is my writer's pen name. It just now occurred to me that you won't even know who it is my initials are CO or CD on the cuppa ;)
For the colour you can get special colourants for cement
@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts no worries
Im surprised the normal concrete came out that dark
I bet metallic bronze would look good in the cement
Really great, informative and "food for thought" videos Thank you for doing these... I am going to ask a silly question But,,,I am assuming you mix catalyst into the resin before mixing with POP?? I am trying to find a solution to making a strong mix of POP and "something" else to be strong enough to make bases for my small driftwood art pieces that I press into before the mix cures??? Any thoughts? The bases obviously need to adhere well to the driftwood, and be strong enough for general handling during transporting ...
You are so funny and creative. I could watch your videos all day. This one in particular had me lol.
I do have a question, I tried resincrete for the first time after watching one of your videos. I assumed it would be less expensive than straight resin for molds, but I think it’s more expensive. Is that correct? I’ve only been working with resin for a few weeks and my resincrete just arrived today but it took 1/10th of a bag to make one small succulent pot so, unless I did it wrong, I’m thinking straight epoxy resin is less expensive than that. 🤷♀️ What do you think?
you'd be surprised how many people are looking for an example of this mix and how little information and examples there are of it. The main motivation for this is to strengthen the resin, as resin tends to bend here in Texas where it can get pretty hot. Can you give any information on if it's stronger, or if you have done any stress testing to these pieces? Please I would really appreciate your feedback as you are bar none the best example of this application on the internet.
@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts thanks for the tips! In the past year I started experimenting with making my own molds out of silicone and pouring with epoxy resin. Can you recommend any brands for this polyurethane resin?
what about translucency?
Hi
great work, where do I buy the mould spray from please Steve im uk x
I have these moulds and just cannot make them without getting bubbles in them :-( I have tried squidgey widgeing but no help xx
Idk what I expected, but it wasn't that beautiful glossy black effect; reminded me of onyx. I definitely preferred the female one, the sand effect was intriguing on the male one but not a fannof the shade it turned out, also,mwas the male mould less shiny or did something g you added make it less shiny? I'm guessing asking now is a bit pointless given how old this vid is, but idk if maybe u still use this technique. Do you think it works out cheaper doing the 60/40 mix with cement powder or if it were just pure resin?
I imagine without thickening it with the cement first that the sand would all just immediately sink. Imagine just adding holo powder and what it might look like with that black finish.
Me sitting on my sofa waiting for a new video. Looll
@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts Yaaaaayyyyy!!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😍
Hi I’m interested in making my own resin crochet hooks. I been watching lots UA-cam but only one person has made them. Do you think you could do them. They use a lath I only have a Dremel I see you love your dremel do you think it would work. Going try make me own mould. Any suggestions would be really appreciated.
Love your videos, thanks. Can I brain pick please, how would you build up an edge on a tray?
@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts
Thanks, I'm trying beads and gravel at moment
Beads worked
Cement requires water to activate and become hard. By mixing it only with the resin, you are not getting any of the structural properties of reacted cement. In your application it is just a mineral filler. Obviously this is fine, but i wonder about the properties of a mix where both the cement and resin are activated. I.e. mix cement with water, then combine the paste with resin.
I hope when you say you are all ready... you should be ready to have to destroy your molds to get the cement out. Wow, I thought cement was the same as concrete, but this video proves that wrong.
GLITTER! WHAT? NO KITCHEN SINK??
I just messed mine up. I mixed the cement with water first. UGGGG
WHAT HAVE YOU MADE ? TOYS OR ANY OTHER THING HOW CAN WE MAKE BUSINESS FROM THIS IDEA.
Hahaha, peek a boo. 🤣
I don't think this will work well. Cement can only cure with hydration, so it specifically needs water in order to provide any strength. Used like this it will never cure so it only acts as a bulking agent. If you want to do that there are better, cheaper and more aesthetically pleasing options for this - fine sand being the most common.
It could maybe be interesting as an experiment to see what would happen with a water-based resin. These do exist, but I don't think I have ever seen one meant for casting. Even with water present there would be an issue in curing time. Cement needs roughly 3 days to gain 70% strength - weeks to cure fully. Even the slowest curing resins would set long before the cement had time to do much.
It would probably make much more sense to just make castings with fine concrete and seal them with a resin afterwards. With the right admixes and super-plasticizers concrete can be made very smooth and easy-flowing - pretty decent for casting.
Bonjour, j'ai regardé plein de vos vidéos et je vois que vous n'utilisez pas de masque contre les éventuelles vapeurs toxiques. Est juste pour les vidéos ou pensez vous que c'est inutile ?
Merci pour toutes vos expériences qui nous évitent bien des erreurs 😉👍
now whack them on the table to see if the cement makes them stronger or not lol
Using cement didn't make much sense because the chemical process for setting cement requires water. You would get exactly the same result by adding sand to resin.
Do you ever make your own silicone moulds? If so...
1. Do you have a video on it?
2. Which silicone mould kit do you use?
Scroll his playlist ..about 6 months ago 👌
@@debrajol3585 oh OK thanks
@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts thank you so much Steve
Cover it up orrrrrrrr not
I'm not going to donate to your pressure pot because then you will only be doing videos using a pressure pot and many of us don't have one! ;-P
@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts Yay! That is wonderful to hear, I really enjoy your videos, now if I can figure out how I'll send a little donation.
@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts Thank you Steve! Donation sent. Keep up the fun work, really enjoy your sense of humor and cool ideas!
@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts I'm actually very interested in how well or not they work. I considered investing in one a while back but I am not making a lot of resin items, I thought I would wait until I learned more, and or started doing more. Much appreciation for all that you do. You are also a riot to listen to! So much fun!
Wow. I'm not sure what I was expecting to happen but this looks like a great way to make your pieces look like they were made from stone! Thank you! Also, we realize that 2020 has not been the best year (heck on earth, actually) but my partner and I are sending you and yours our warmest wishes for a happy new year!
what's the pros and cons of cement epoxy resin
Thank you for doing the experiments for us. Your wit and willingness to share your experiments with us are both entertaining and informative. Happy New Year's Eve to you and yours.
Happy New Year Steve, always waiting for your next experiments, love loads 🦆💕
Happy New Year from me and mine to you and yours, thank you for keeping us sane in 2020, love the experiments :)
I would think the cement epoxy mix spread over old roads beading repaired and lightened up in colored would be a viable idea.
Hi! Thanks for this demo. So, the ratio should be 60 cement to 40 resin?
Had you done this with just pure lime powder Ca(OH)2 you might have come up with something quite close to Greek statue marble.
Assuming there was no chemical reaction.
This is EPOXY, NOT POLYESTER!!!! just to qualify this.
What do you do with this type of piece. Do u make something with them
A sparkly male torso...
Were you forced to watch Twilight before this video?
Was he modeled on your body steve lmfao
is it heavy or light weight??
Nicey Nice Steve I always love your experiments have a happy healthy safe day my friend and have a fantastic rest of your year
Did it add weight?
Interesting
you got to love a bit of squidgy widgey..... loved it
Is it true that if I mix plaster of paris and acrylic resin, it turnes into jesmonite?