Recycled Plastic Turning !!
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- Опубліковано 20 гру 2023
- I was kindly sent these Plastic blanks to try out from Atlas Games, they are made mostly from melted down High Density Polyethylene HDPE, this plastic is used in diverse consumer goods such as milk jugs, pails, soda bottle caps, snow sleds, and much more. . The blanks were a good size for Salt & Pepper pots and being from HDPE I thought they were ideal.. They turned pretty good using carbide tools, easier than some resins that I have turned and I thought they looked cool and definitely unique. I did have a couple of voids to contend with but the beauty of these blanks is you just pick up some of the shavings and melt them with a heat gun and fill the voids.
We can get a lot of stick for the waste we produce while turning resins and wood but these are made from waste, so that can only be a good thing and they look pretty cool too...
Follow the links to check out the blanks and the company that makes them.
shop.atlas-games.com/collecti...
atlas-games.com/about
My website , shop and social media links..
www.andyphillip.com
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You have to admire the audacity. In a world of turning where adding plastic to wood (epoxy) is often frowned upon, to go the whole way to totally plastic is a blazen challenge to traditionalists. Personally, I fully approve. Bravo.
Ditto!
lol I wasn’t sure where you were going with this 😂😂👍🏼
Wowweee me likey 😍👍🏼
Turning trash into treasure. Andy, you never cease to amaze. 👍 (If those beautiful mills were mine, I'd switch the labels and put peppercorns in the more black one.)
Well I wasn’t expecting that.
I always enjoy watching the process, and no matter what the end result is it’s always incredible.
Thank you Andy for all the beautiful work you have done in 2023 and here’s to many more in ‘24. 🥂
Thank you very much!
Masterful work! A pleasure to watch.
Making these blanks is very low-tech, if anyone is curious. The plastic is all material that would otherwise go to landfill in our region. We melt it in an electric grill ($5 at a second-hand store), knead the hot plastic by hand (wearing silicone oven mitts) to mix and swirl the colors, and compress it in a steel pipe with a 12-ton hydraulic shop press while it cools. All the shavings/waste get swept up and melted into new blanks.
Thanks John .. I just sent an email and a link but it looks like you already found the video .. 👍
What a great idea to shape these plastic blanks into something so practical yet beautiful to look at too. Well done Andy and also Atlas games for sending them. I have no doubt we will see more plastic turning in the future. Thanks for all the 2023 videos Andy and all the best for 2024! 🥳
🧂Nice👌 …I had no idea what you were creating until you started to round off the top.
🎄Merry Christmas Andy, and thanks for all the great videos throughout the year
Absolutely badass!!! Gives new meaning to salt and pepper grinders.
No idea what to expect while watching Andy. A very beautiful salt and pepper set.
Many thanks!
Lovely set of mills Andy. The plastics really add a lot of character to the set.
Take care my friend, Happy Christmas to all
Cheers
Harold
Thanks Harold and the same to you
It took me a couple of minutes to figure out what you were making and I said. "Oh those will be beautiful." And I was right. They are unique and beautiful.
Looks incredible!!
Saving the environment and making art, the best of both worlds. ☺️🌎❤️
They are both absolutely gorgeous and such lovely markings .💙🖤🩵💙🖤🩵💙🖤🩵
Very well done Andy. Always good to find plastics a new home! !! !!!
I always try to guess what you’re making before the end of the video (unless it’s something obvious… like a bowl!)… this time I actually guessed correctly! Nicely done!!
Love LOVE to see folks using & reusing materials, wherever we can. They may be expensive (so is wood, right?) but that expense is worth it if it means there's even a little bit less going into landfills. Cheers!
Andy is My favorite ‘end of a long day’ vid to watch and chill out. Not knowing in advance what the final product is going to be is like SO awesome. Thank you for sharing your creativity with us !
Fantastic, what a good use of recycled resin , love the salt and pepper millls 😊
Good looking pepper mill. Nicely done!
Absolutely brilliant idea. Those are WAY cooler than any salt and pepper grinders I have ever seen anywhere else.
Quite clever & excellent use of recyclables. VERY well done, sir. 👏👏👏👏👏
Andy, such a fantastic idea for recycling waste - and good on you for turning it back into something useful. Always enjoy, thanks for sharing.
really pretty! it is nice to see recycled plastic put to good use. thank you
Thank you!
That is different the colors blend together beautifully awesome job sir 👏.
Fantastic work as always Andy!!
Wishing you and your family a Very Merry Christmas!!!
What fun. I was trying to work out where it was going and only realised when you got to the fixings stage. Clever idea and usual great execution. I enjoyed the antics of the wilful shavings - very different from wood.
absolutely fantastic and proof that recycling works, repurposed by a master into something stunning and practical. Merry Christmas Andy
What a cool idea! They are so pretty and practical!
Hi Andy, Well you can still blow my mind. I was thinking lamp. Never seen that one coming. Keep up the great work!!!
Thanks 👍
Nice one! Thank you Andy for sharing your skill. Happy Christmas 🎄
Amazing, Andy! Really fantastic work!!! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
And happy holidays!
Thanks! You too!
Энди вы удивительно талантливый столяр, фантастические цвета и причудливые узоры придают этому изделию выстовочную ценность, думаю со мной многие согласятся, 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
They are cool looking! Something pretty with a long term use.
Cool project Andy flawless as usual Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Those are gorgeous and so unique! I love one of a kind things! Merry Christmas!
Who else was more interested in the shavings than the actual final product lol
Very funky result. But I had hoped to see how you made those recycled plastic blanks too!
Check out the video description.
Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones!
Was a nice year to follow, many thanks! 👍💪✌
Now that's what I call really cool andy nice work
The salt shaker was nicely psychedelic as was the pepper shaker. I can imagine, when I was young, in the late 60s, saying "pass the salt and pepper, man".
Amazing piece, smart way to use waste.
Brilliant! At your heart out Spider-Man…you never has a web with those wonderful colours!
Beautiful pieces
Cool! I had no idea where you were going with that. Great job!
Unusual and ecologically sound. 👏🏻
As I was watching you turn this, I thought how it would make a great peppermill. LOL This one became a salt mill.
Always a joy to watch!! Andy's amazing talent, creativity and genius never disappoints!
Absolutely amazing
The colors remind of of the background of a graphic novel
Nice mill set
Awesome as always.
Those are lovely, very good use of the blanks. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your's! 🎅 🌲☃🥳
What a great idea! Loved it ❤ Haveca great Christmas 🎄
Impressive use of alternative materials Andy,all the best for Christmas and New Year fella👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎😎👍
Really nice, Andy. I was wondering where you were going with these, but when you parted the blank, I had it figured out. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Bill
What an ingenious idea! Would go really well in a 60s themed kitchen - psychedelic! Yet again you absolutely astound me.
beautiful, colorful & practical, very nice Andy!!!
HAPPY CHRISTMAS
to you & yours from Canada
Thanks ..Same to you!
Excellent work and a great idea. Merry Christmas!!
Very creative!! ❤❤❤
Cricky Andy NOW that's something different, bloody outstanding, keep the dream alive son, Merry Christmas to you and your family. Aussie Aussie Aussie GDAY MATE from brisbane Australia
Thanks Ernie.. and the same to you mate 👍
Amazing as always😮
Awesome, Andy. 😊
It would be awesome to always use your resin waste for this 😮
Merry Christmas 😘🥂🍾🎄
Love them Merry Christmas to you and your family
Просто потрясающе...как бы я хотел увидеть весь этот процесс вживую😁
Wow, this is so cool!
Beautifully done, love them..❤❤❤
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and yours..
Thank you! You too!
Beautiful Andy! What a great use for recycled materials. Merry Christmas! 🎄🎄
Those are cute I'd use them!!
Merry Christmas 🎅
Great looking,very cleaver
Thank you!
Oh ok that's something different I like it 🤙🏿
They look psychedelic✌🏻 and/or groovy!
Brilliant!
Awesome! Great job!
Thank you!
That’s brilliant! I couldn’t figure out what you were making at first ❤
ooo very nice!
Well done mate they look really cool all the best for Xmas and the new year cheer's 👍🦘🇦🇺
Thanks, you too!
Have a Merry Christmas and a great New Year
You too!
Cricky Andy coolest pepper mills on the planet, Merry Christmas, Aussie Aussie Aussie GDAY MATE from brisbane Australia
Thanks Ernie and the same to you
I thought maybe I missed something about how you got the two cylinders of plastic, until I read the description!
Oh i want those
Andy, great work as ever. Just so you know, the plastic pieces from Atlas Games are £20 each plus VAT plus £15 delivery, thus making it £33 per piece. I might save up for some in the new year but it makes it expensive for a pair of salt/pepper grinders. Love your work - always with a great finish too!
Have you considered contacting Brothers Make to see if they'd make some?
Hi Andy! Fine work as always 👍. Merry Christmas 🎄 and a happy new year🍾. Best wishes from Hans 🍻🇦🇹.
Thank you.
Nice!
Andy your talent shines on ,no matter what you use to create your art.great little video as always.but personally I just cannot get into this type of art.just saying only my opinion.😎😎😎👍👍👍
It’s a good use of a waste product imo. Better than ending up in landfill. Have a good Christmas Tom. 🙂
Will you be adding shavings to a bin for future projects? I see a series of turned milk bottles, though you’d need the dremels to make the milk brand symbols? And a bit of metal for the handles? A fun little project you’ve made there. 😊
I like the idea of Salt and Pepper Mills, it's pens I don't turn. ❤😊
Ah! Very clever not to give away what it is until the very end.
I would have made the one with the black in it the pepper and the other the salt, but they sure did turn out looking cool
Cool set. Can you make a lava lamp to go with them. Like the mishmash of colors and use of leftover to make a nice set.
Awesome
Bellissimi 👏👏👏👏👏👌👍
I wonder if this company has made this plastic into bricks? Perhaps it could be a new building material? Awesome job again Andy!
We have not, but others have -- look up Precious Plastic. HDPE works well for non-structural applications; my understanding is that its characteristics are not suitable for load-bearing beams and the like.
Check out the Brothers Make video on this. Not really practical at this point, the guys that tried it are branching out with other uses for the plastic.
Holy microplastic batman! 😅 ah, who am I kidding, its everywhere anyways
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Thanks 👍 Are you going to heat and remould your waste shavings and turn something else? Cheers and have a good Christmas.
Very cool... Did you save the shavings for another epoxy project?
Thanks .. No but I should have done