I made a Guitar out of PLASTIC TRASH | Recycling HDPE
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- Опубліковано 26 січ 2021
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I melted down HDPE plastic and recycled it into a DIY Electric Guitar! HDPE. Plastic is a common type that can be melted at around 280 degrees Fahrenheit. After cleaning and sorting the plastic I shredded it in a blender before melting it inside a rubber mold. I used a guitar kit for parts and to make the mold. This was a really fun project and I am looking forward to figuring our ways to recycle more HDPE and other types of plastic like polypropylene. #HDPE #recycling
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Links:
Jessies video on recycling plastic bags
• How to Recycle Plastic...
HOEK FURNITURE (made from recycled HDPE)
www.hoekhome.com/
Other youtubers I learned from
Peter Brown - SHOP TIME
• Turning Trash into Tre...
The Brothers Make
• Beginners' Guide to Me...
Precious Plastics - ONE ARMY
• Precious Plastic - at...
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Thanks to Brett from the SKULL AND SPADES channel for helping! check out his UA-cam!
ua-cam.com/users/BrettMcAfeevideos
Been looking forward to this video coming out. Glad that our videos helped! Loved your colours in the end result. Also enjoyed the conversation at the end - there are definitely ways to do this on a more efficient scale which would reduce water and power usage. We’ve been experimenting recently and actually invested in some of the Precious Plastic type machines you spoke about. At small scale batch production levels you can start looking at the efficiency of every step to make it as energy saving as possible. Hope you play some more with this material, it’s great to see a fresh take on it 🤙🏽🤙🏽
thank you for all the great info!
Those looked like perfectly good buckets....
so much cleaning and paint peeling was involved but that is what jessie is great at.
Really interesting process! Definitely got me thinking about the possibilities...
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Or the silicone and melamine and aluminum that had to be thrown away after making it
I'd LOVE to see you making a solar oven. That would be super interesting!
Your Hoek furniture is amazing as well! 😃👍
Really neat design.
The talk at the end was cool.
no limits to creativity on this channel, awesome work ben!
I think you could have saved that water porting bottle... Just saying.
And the brand new buckets...
Great job! Love seeing the creativity that is used to reimagine our plastic trash. I did a final BFA project using plastic shopping bags, an iron and a sewing machine about 10 years ago!
I love when you experiment with new processes and materials! It came out awesome, especially as a proof of concept! I agree, it's definitely important to start taking the first steps even if those steps don't in themselves change the world. Great stuff Ben!
a cool experiment to get your viewers thinking!
really liked that you shared a nuanced view of this project at the end
Super interesting process!
Looks great Ben keep up the awesome work very inspiring
That's pretty dope - and thanks for providing some links, to go further down that rabbithole.
Very cool project. Amazing job. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Keep making God bless
Great work and impeccable afterthoughts
Really cool, Ben. I like the format of explaining everything and talking about the process at the end too.
Glad you liked it!
Great work I have been looking into this for some time now
It's project like these when family members hide all of the stuff so we don't end up melting all the stuff in the house
You are great!! Your videos inspire a lot 🎉🎉
That guitar build was awesome!!!
Thanks for the recommendations! We gotta do our part and upcycl more
Right on! great content as usual.
Fantastic proof of concept. Really interested in seeing where this goes in terms of more sustainable ways of heating the plastic.
I've been wanting to experiment with plastic lately. Thanks for the kick in the butt!
Nice work ben!
It was really good to hear what you had to say on the second half of the video
Keep it up mate great job
Really impressed with the blender 😳😳
That s so coolll ♡
I really like that you put some serious thought into how this could be done with a better, lower environmental impact. I like how so much of what you're doing is predicated on how to make things simply and with low environmental impact. Finally, as Tim Sway has shown, you can make a guitar out of almost anything and the only people who care that it isn't wood will be the "Tone Wood Snobs."
I’ve been waiting for this video ever since you guys talked about it on the podcast. I would love to see you run with this and create everything you talked about. Great video. When are we getting a new poem from Mike?
I like all the information after the project
Great idea
Brothers Make are very cool guys.
🥰🥰
That's a nice guitar fruit bowl at the end, Ben xD
Inspiring!
really cool
It looks like a bomb pop! I know you weren’t super excited about this one, but I think the look is cool.
The whole video i was thinking - how the F is this eko when you used so much water / silicone for form / electricity etc - at least you confirmed my concerns at the end
I know what you mean. It's the learning curve to figure out can it be done? Then can it be done better? And should it be done at all?
It's love to be able to better recycle plastic. My local council only takes a very limited selection so anything else goes to landfill or the incinerator. If I was to get a 3D printer, I'd definitely look into options for generating my own material.
I felt like the title should have been " I trash a lot of working stuff to make something out trash. It's not really 'recycling' if you waste more than you save/recycle in the process
Great explanation at the end, I had the same doubts about the process. Definitely is better to try than to do nothing 👌🏾
Exactly! no answers here just lots of questions and ways to get better
Wow!
I'm intrigued by the solar oven possibilities with this process.
Love the products from Hoek. Btw, hoek is the dutch word for corner 🙂
This should be a perfect material for kitchen and bathroom furniture.
You had the idea of making a "solar oven" for this to reduce the electricity use. My idea is you make a box without a top and paint it with high heat paint you could use the grill paint you can buy in any big box store.
Next you create a smaller box also no top inside of the first one made of aluminum. Box one creates and holds heat to heat up box 2.
Then you build a up from box one and create slots from the side to put in lenses.
Those lenses use the method tkor used to make their "death ray" they use convex acrylic like a magnifying glass.
The problem you have to figure out is how to refract the light so it doesn't heat up one spot and how many lenses it would take to control the temperature.
Peter Brown ❤️❤️❤️
So cool. Upcycle, reclaim, repurpose! #woodisexpensive Mahalo for sharing! : )
Love it. I think you should have mixed the colors together though first to make the color even.
Okay, I've probably posted this before but is the hotel series still happening?
I'm so HYPE for it. I love where making meets interior design.
Kudos for listing your inspiration/resources!
Cool video, but I don't know if I liked a plastic guitar... Wood/epoxy combo, maybe. Hdpe, not so much.
I wish they'd make recycled plastic guitars more
Great
Pressure creates heat. To make smaller objects a 20 ton press works great. Fuses the plastic together. No waste.
i want a blender like that 😂
This has all the elements to go viral.. let’s wait and see if it happens! Cool project btw!
Nice video 👍 heat inefficiencies are only really a concern if creating big, thick parts like that. If you used existing industrial processes like IM it’s less of a concern as you’re just swapping the material from a virgin plastic to a recycled plastic. It’s a minefield to regulate and dial in settings though.
Now make a chambered one with an interchangeable wooden tone block.
Funny you mentioned brothers make here because it was one of their videos that sent me here
I see a huge possibility of recycling plastic and other thrash in developed countries 🙏
That tune he was playing is from the movie "Deliverance" 1972.
Dealing Banjos.....
Haha, was looking for this comment.
It's Dueling banjos.
I was gonna tell you to check out brothers make but sounds like you already have. They are my go to channel for HDPE.
yes they have great content!
oh the microplastics :o
Will it blend?
i think another alternative for the solar oven would be a rocket stove. The channel GreenShortz DIY would be a great one to make a collaboration with; and he has used rocket stoves (made from construction waste products) to heat up an oven. And the source of fuel is also very minimal.
Sea glass green pert bottles and clear green and Sprite bottle tops
What about parabolic mirrors? (for the oven, that is)
OMG. Can HOEK make shop tables, equipment, furniture? Always need to move things around in my garage shop. This would be perfect!!!
I can only think about the oceans and all that microplastic, am I the only one?
@9:39 But keep in mind that rather than degrading into the food web that plastic has been utilized into tool of art that will last probably just as indefinitely. Also keep in mind that plenty of guitars use aluminum necks so it would be great to see one smelted from pop and beer cans in the same way.
I know you have used CNC machines in the past- what do you think about the possibility of CNC-one the HDPE blanks?
that would be a superior way to fabricate in my opinion
If you are considering molding at industrial scale, Its better to consider Injection Molding process. Especially if the batch size of your product is bigger.
No experience with guitars and you built this wow that's awsome and most of your sound like 85 percent or more of it is from the pick ups and amp material guitar is made out of body wise doesn't matter neck and frets and material that matters alot it has to play good no sharp edges smooth everything if not it will hinder the players playing which will hinder the sound of the guitar but all of your sound I mainly the electronics and amps thats it man and strings sound the best brand new the sound worse older they get they get flat string stretch that means it just stretches out of tune and if you pre stretch and put the strings on right it won't be much of a problem I would love to have that guitar and play it live at a gig. True 70s hippy vibe like jimi hendrix and wood stock hippy feel cuse it's made out of recycled plastic lol
You could probably make an oven using a fresnel lens.
No need for weights inside the oven. After pulling the molten results from the oven, place a sheet of parchment on top, then place a wood (not steel) board on top and weight/clamp it down. Such a thick mass of plastic needs several hours to cool. Like overnight. Then, shrinkage and warpage will be at a minimum.
The lighter white plastic on the bass side of the body just continuously looks like it's been blurred out in editing lol
it does! but that is just how it looks
All i can think of is what a powerful blender. 😂😂😂
What's the total weight?
You can make charity auction guitars or guitar giveaways now
Information on the blender?
I have about 100 lbs of HDPE that needs to be reduced in volume desperately!
R.İ.P. blender machine...
I know that you consider it not so eco friendly, but I would say that it is more impactful since you are producing only 1 guitar. If you produce more than 1 guitar, the energy consumption of water and the electricity for the blending part start to decrease. Also, reusing the mold and using a gas oven (and heating more than one guitar at the same time) would increase the "eco-friendliness". The bottom line here is that the main benefit is avoiding all that plastic to reach the landfills AND water bodies... so... yeah!
Love the design and how portable and pratical the table is. But for 600 bucks for a 60" x 24" plastic with plywood veneer on top??? Holy moly! That is way way way too much. Take in consideration a Walmart portable table 6' long selling for 47 bucks. Granted it does not have the elegant design aspect but it does the job. This table has the design aspect and is somewhat the same size, but yet very expensive for what it is. When this is at target or IKEA for 99 bucks,. I'll buy it.
yes our margins are only about 30% we have to scale production to reduce the cost of the recycled plastic. currently we are comparable in price to west elm and CB2 which have no trouble finding millions of customers. we could go cheaper by not using recycled or FSC certified materials but we don't want to
So the material of the guitar does not affect the sound?
No, not on an electric guitar. All the components related to sound are a part of the hardware. It's an acoustic guitar where the material matters.
@@heyitsthatdude17 It still matters on electric guitars, just not nearly as much as on acoustic ones
So, who else thought they clicked a burls art video? :D
Collab potential!
Aquafresh guitar
Interesting DIY task for satisfaction of having built something cool 🙏
In India, we can't afford all these tools and moreover have smaller homes (especially living in apartments) and cheap labour - all this makes DIY less popular 🙏
Big talk about doing good for the planet.
If he was serious about being efficient, he'd bring the plastic to his local recycling center. Unless you don't have any in the US? (wouldn't surprise me)
They will recycle all white plastics but coloured ones are harder to recycle precisely because of the color.
First!
Let's hope solar energy keeps coming down in price because 30 modern solar panels is enough electricity for most homes even in really shity weather.
Лайк за труды, но лопата лучше звучать будет, чем этот кусок пластмассового мусора.
Fun video. Excellent exercise in extreme waste, even as a prototype or proof of concept. A preliminary proposal alone would have eliminated the reasonable possibility to proceed. But then, there would be no video. Definitely a fun video. Another example demonstrating that most such efforts run with an energy deficit, expanded carbon footprint, and lack of sustainability. Of course, government subsidies often resolve those issues for projects that proceed in the face of reality. Apply for a grant, seek subsidies, and it could lead to a billion dollar venture. Especially true if you include buzz words such as sustainable, environment, optics, organic, etc. for the pseudointellectual psycho-politically motivated creatures that feed on such things.
OK, so if he goes to all that effort, and then ends up making a concrete mold that can be reused almost infinately, and uses solar power to supply power, its still wasteful? Not that I disagree with you in the main, however if someone wanted to spend their time doing this, seems like one could. If there were a market for plastic guitars that a manf. couldn't undercut.
How to cause as much damage to the environment as possible, while making a guitar ?
o_O
keep that same energy for any epoxy project
I have an English accent if that will charm you into marrying me.
Well we are already waste usefull resources, this is a fact.
yes it is a fact and also an area to improve
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Cool project and all, but it looks like you're sanding that thing outside and allowing the plastic dust to just blow away. This is not something you should encourage. In other words, DON'T TREAT PLASTIC LIKE WOOD if you care about the environment :)
you are right and this logic should also call for not using any micro plastic skin care products, spray paint, synthetic decking, OSB or particle board. I would support smart regulation on any of these
Wow so destroying a brand new looking bucket and water tank is recycling?
And lets forget the fact that it needs a tons of silicone, aluminum and a wood guitar to sacrifice.
Its not that hard is to find real plastic trash from recycle bins of friends and neighbors.
Don't be a douche, this was a test case to see exactly what he stated, whether or not it is viable.
Lol douche? Boots you "SOCKS" hehe doesnt matter if its a test or not there is plenty of real plastic trash available insted of destroying new plastic items.
you go through all that and don't bring a decent guitarist to test it?!