This may be one of my favorites from you besides the shop storage projects. I love the colors created by mixing the white with the brown. I love the depth, textures, etc. and I could see this exact recipe of glue shades with maybe an addition of bronze powder and green shades used in a piece carved to show human evolution or something along those lines just because the colors are so neutral yet natural looking. Anyways now I’d love, love to see you mix starbond with vibrant colors, neons, pastels, neutral colors and even glow in the dark but my favorite I’ve seen is when brass and copper powders are mixed into the glue and then used to fill holes, etc. Thank you, this was a joy and I’m getting some great ideas. 🤟🏽

Always good to be learning! Well done. Got schooled, funny. Short story. Seen a couple of older guys at the lake. They were unloading stuff to fish. I said to them, I’ve never seen anyone fishing here before. Responded one. We’ll give it the old college try. Happy I continued my walk. 10 minutes later, they were packing up, seemed a bit upset. I said, well that didn’t take long! I guess we know who went to community college! Laughing followed.

Dude. That is one of the coolest things I have ever seen. Well done.

You WERE right, I learned it by watching you! Dragnet? You sure have some cool ideas. BTW, I was hunting for some 4 x 8 Baltic Birch a couple of days ago and found a big stack at my usual place. The only catch was that it was that it was $180 a sheet.

the fumes alone make this project terrifying. having said that, great result!

@WesleyTreat

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! A fan kept the fumes away.

My wife picked this video today to watch. Afterwards she didn't tell me to buy it, she told me you need an xcarve, wow i agree but i'd have to build a new mancave mine if filled with Gonks and animatronics some 6ft tall. All in all i think you might have picked up a new fan, since she made me watch three more of your videos that i had already watched. Were both makers in Adam Savage definition, i build animatronics and puppets and she makes custom diaries and paper stuff.

That’s beyond words!

Blew my mind. Stunning piece.

Feels like you really got into my head on this one. I can almost smell the accelerator through my screen here. Such a labor of love on this one, utterly painstaking and amazingly beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

it would be super cool to have a special toolhead on your xcarve to also distribute the glue after cutting the pockets

Impressive

Hey kiddies gather around. The man with the goodies is here.

Absolutely brilliant! Thanks!!

You're a madman.

Your gingerbread cookies this holiday season will be epic

Man I was glued to this video. Nice work!

Excellent results, I love it when a creative person can take a material and push its limits.

Siiiick!

Phenomenal!

Great job!!! An amazing finished piece and incredibly fun video to watch.

great idea, as soon as you started I thought 'oh, this must have taken days to do' I'm impressed with the high accuracy between multiple layers. those locating pins work great for re-aligning your sheet. I'm going to have to set up something like that on my CNC rebuild. In any case, final result looks awesome, nice work.

This came out amazing!! What an unusual idea and it is brilliant!

Amazing work and patience....

That is so cool!

You amaze me every time. THE RESULT IS AMAZING. Rob

Great job. When I do the epoxy I do a .02 offset to cut those lines out. I love that.

@WesleyTreat

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Oddly enough, I didn't even use an offset. Not sure if the glue may have swelled the edges just a bit or if the angle of the V-bit was just slightly off spec.

Super interested in the results... had some laughs along the way!

Pure awesome sauce there great job!

Interesting approach, great outcome. Keep it up.

Well done, Wesley!

Wow this could not be more timely! I was moving an anvil on a stand 2 weeks ago and it tipped over horn first! My house is built like a brick shithouse, but it left a hell of a dent in the original herringbone floors. I melted a few crayons into the hole and disguised it pretty well, but it's in the dead center of a room with an all glass wall facing south. It's just been irrking me every morning. I finally decided to make a sort of fancy compass out of quasi exotic wood and router it into the floor. These are original surfaces from 1951 and I don't have a single extra board. I've got a few closets to scavenge from, but I'm hoping to move one wall in the future, I think I would need them there more. Since this damage happens to be dead center in the room, I think an inlaid compass could look like it was planned from the beginning. Outside of " weathering", any suggestions for making it look like it's always been there? One of my issues is that the floor was put down over tar paper, the house was a single story for the first 12 years. There's going to be a lot of nails in the floor, I figured I would put a carbide end mill in a router and go slowly. Any other thoughts or suggestions?

@WesleyTreat

2 жыл бұрын

I'd use a magnet to locate those nails first. 👍‍

WHAT A MASTERPIECE! Great artwork.

@WesleyTreat

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Super cool

Wonderful

Very interesting. Nice choice of Da Vinci as your subject.

Well that’s pretty darn cool!

Wowsers that is definitely unique an very cool. Can't wait to see more videos soon my friend. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Keep making. God bless.

Came out fantastic, especially with how much the air bubbles add a perfect crunchy texture. Close up, thought they'd ruin the work, but boy was I wrong. Not gonna lie, though - a little disappointed it wasn't what I was thinking. The translucency in the thumbnail made it look like you achieved contrast purely by thicker and thinner applications of plain superglue let soak into the wood. Hell of a challenge at this scale, but, with something smaller, it'd be cool to see some experimentation!

Awesome

I really really really really like it

"You go to skull on the first one". I'm sure Jimmy approves of this (dad) joke... Awesome piece, btw.

I'm the high bidder at the moment, but I suspect this will climb well out of my price range. Very nice work.

@WesleyTreat

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I don't know if the fidelity is good enough but it looks like you could do a really cool "relic," paint job on a guitar with this set up. Stevie Ray Vaughan here you come.

@nobodynoone2500

2 жыл бұрын

I think the "relic" fad can go die in a fire, but i feel this inlay method is somehow unlike people dragging a brand new fender behind their truck to give it character instead of having a life and playing it, then putting it in a glass case to admire it's faux beauty. The Ca glue would likely last centuries, and be pretty wear resistant, although acrylic or even epoxy might be a better choice. If doing it on the body, I would be sure you use a hardwood like maple or mahogany as the usual poplar/basswood might be too soft to hold sharp edges. Most necks are already maple/mahogany with maple/ebony/rosewood fretboards, so should would work reliably.

Come for the craftsmanship stay for the puns!

Awesome film. Way to support your sponsors. Such and awesome piece of art. Super creative. Mahalo for sharing! : )

Lovely piece of “man-machine” art. Thanks!

4:22. Wondering if it's more of a hairy or sticky situation... Great work, the final result is splendid !

Starbond does make some good stuff. I picked up an assortment the last time you had a deal with them. I've been happy with it so far. My 7 year old is aware that daddy can fix whatever she breaks with super glue. It's my dad super power.

@WesleyTreat

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

Those moments when I realise I've been leaning over the open CA glue for too long and my eyes begin to smart? I was having flashbacks watching this! Superb piece, Wes, it really is all could want...and more. Leonardo would be proud and fascinated I shouldn't wonder!

@WesleyTreat

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah, I had to turn a fan on to blow the fumes away from my face.

Very cool! will have to give it a try and do some cost comparisons for starbond vs resin now heh.

This guy makes great content

My eyes were watering just watching that. Don't know how you dealt with those fumes that long. Excellent piece and great creative use of the medium.

@WesleyTreat

2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it! I had a fan on, blowing the fumes away from me. I cover more of that in the Patreon followup.

that starbond is some good stuff I make pens and I use it for my shine on them, BTW your skull is Awesome

I also like the texture that the accelerator gives the deep layers of glue

@nefariousyawn

2 жыл бұрын

It matches the art style of the whole piece.

paint by numbers for keeps

Holy shit thats awesome..... Fantastic job dude

Skullshare sponsorship opportunity, wasted ;) (the piece looks great, btw, of course :))

Dig, it, would look good with some abstract devine geometry motifs i bet. Or maybe a faux stained glass effect using acrylic/poly sheet as your medium. Or go full Dune: Inlays within inlays within inlays.

Imagine granite or marble as baseplate filled with epoxy. Getting rid of the bubbles though a very large difference in drying time.

Nice to see you! Haven't seen a video in awhile. Their always a treat (

This was awesome :D And now I just want to get one of those big ass bottles of Starbond, but shipping to Norway is probably gonna be three times the cost of the bottle :/ Looking forward to more video's, especially the signmaking ones, truly inspiring stuff and it got me into trying to make some signs for my own business, slooooooowly making some progress there :)

@WesleyTreat

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, and good luck!

Couldn't do a stick figure. Had to start with a Picasso! 😂 I love it!

Nice piece of art, not everyone can say they have a Da'Vinci

I'm glad you asked. You see, this one time, at band camp....

A project that earns the descriptor “awesome”. The depth and texture are super interesting. Thanks for working in a pun at the end, it wouldn’t be right without one.

Are really that neat, organized, and methodical, or does it look that way due to editing and special effects?

@WesleyTreat

2 жыл бұрын

Editing 👍‍

Just found your channel and I would love to see how you made this image into the different sections.

You're a braver man than I, doing all that without a fume mask. Lovely piece, but my eyes were watering from the other side of the Atlantic just watching the video.

@WesleyTreat

2 жыл бұрын

I had a fan on, blowing the fumes away from me. I cover more of that in the Patreon followup. Thanks!

Man u get a subscriber....!

Fresh glue in quantities that would last the rest of my life...

Looks tedious as hell, but boy the final product made it worth the effort.

Big sticky paint by number

impressive ... your patience most of everything else. Would there be a way to circumvent some of the shrinkage of the superglue ?

@WesleyTreat

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I suspect some of the shrinkage had to do with absorption, but there are probably other factors involved. In some instances, I was able to fill an area, spray it, and it didn't shrink at all. I got a nice smooth surface in some of my tests, and in a couple of the pockets of the finished piece. In my off-camera experiments, I tried different methods to get a consistently smooth finish, but I wasn't able to find the right boxes to tick to get it to happen every time. Your best bet is just not to apply as much glue at once as I was doing. Use very thin layers between sprays of accelerator.

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You could have added the jaws film sound over that first shot... 😂

Hey, what ever happened to the Gonk Droid beer cooler? Beer 🍺🍻🍺 .?

Wax paper to prevent gluing yourself to the art. If it doesn't contaminate the glue?

hahaha textbook money had me laughing the whole video haha

'Specially for older UK viewers - can you tell what it is yet?

Clear epoxy pour to make glass smooth but still show the depth and layers?

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Interested in the volume +total estimated cost) of using super glue like that? Looks fantastic.

@WesleyTreat

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I think I had estimated using something like 5-7 fl. oz. in the final piece. But, I didn't keep track of how much I used when I was running tests.

@zhookeeper

2 жыл бұрын

@@WesleyTreat oh wow, that's no where near as much as I thought. So maybe about 200ml... That actually makes it reasonable cost wise. (discounting the need to purchase all the different colours).👍

This was great Wes! You are a madman, and I love it! :D

One of my model maker buddy’s told me i was using too much kicker when it “boils” like that. He would actually spay the kicker in the air and then run the part through the mist.. thats how little you need.

Can't belive I just spent 13 minutes watching a grown man play with glue . Loved every minute of it. But I think your table saw is making funny nosies again maybe you should have it fixed 😉

Nice work. Any reason you didn't use epoxy? It's about 50 times cheaper and no fumes.

@WesleyTreat

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! A few advantages for this application: - It's difficult to mix very small amounts of epoxy and get the ratio exact. I'd have to mix more than I need and waste a lot of material. - No pot life. It took up to 3 hours to complete each color. I would've had to mix several cups of epoxy in that time to finish the job, because it would have started setting up long before I was done. More wasted material (and time). - With the accelerator, the super glue cures within minutes or seconds. I can fill a small section, spray it, then not worry about accidentally touching it and ruining it. I can also seal any pocket that's particularly porous by hardening a thin layer of glue, then continue filling it. When I'm done, I can move on to the next carve almost immediately. Epoxy can take hours or days. - Some of those pockets were very small. It took a needle to fill them. Even thinned epoxy would have been too thick. Not to mention, I'd have had to throw away dozens of those little bottles. With the super glue, I'm still using the same bottles. Plus, it's always worth it to experiment with new materials. Epoxy's been done. I wanted to see what would happen with something else. If I hadn't, I wouldn't have discovered the visual depth that the random texture adds to the piece. 👍‍

Fantastic! Plus, as an artist, I have to say I'm loving the technique! Would love to be able to see the behind the scenes, but can't afford it on disability. Just happy to see a fellow Dallasite/Artist/Maker doing well!

Love your shit man ! KZread is not nothing me ? They are a hole's ! Enjoy your shit , so cool ! 👍👍

@WesleyTreat

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! You might try unsubscribing, then resubscribing, and also clicking the bell icon. 👍‍

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It's a neat idea, but I think the accelerator ruins the texture of the finished product in my opinion.

Am I the only one who understood your joke about making money for college textbooks? Hilarious by the way!

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Gonk. Gonk. Gonk, gonk?

Went to skull on that one for sure. No bones about it. 😁

WHY NO PART TWO TO THE GONK DROID

Adhesive/Adhimsive 😂🤣

Mrs. Jones

I think you should sand it down. Idk, I’m not feeling it. Still love the channel

I wouldn't do that for texbook money XD

Seen a few of these art projects and I really don’t understand the obsession with skulls.

@WesleyTreat

2 жыл бұрын

I make one skull and suddenly it's an obsession 🤷‍♂️

@HowtoMakeThings

2 жыл бұрын

@@WesleyTreat Ha. So you’re not a skull fanatic then! don’t know why but KZread keeps recommending lots of art projects and almost every video is of someone drawing a skull, carving a skull or creating something skull like. It would be a dream if I was a goth. Have you ever created a map of the world using this technique?