LOL! Loved the "crickets" moment to pass the time trying to remove the mold! Should have played "Sprach Zarathustra" (theme from 2001: A Space Odessey) when the mold finally came off! :D

OH MATE THATS QUALITY LOVE THE COLOURS

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm really looking forward to seeing how the burl chunks look once turned and polished up. They're pretty rough on the outsides right now, I think once polished they'll really pop!

@idrwoodturning2074

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZacHiggins Ithink they will looks the nutts

Hi Zac! Streams are good, but videos of this format are just super. I ask you to do more of these short videos! As always, greetings from Belarus!)

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear you liked it. I know that shorter videos are better for a lot of people, but I just can't produce a ton of regular videos. Most people don't realize it can take a good 20 hours or so to make a short video like this. Live streams only take a couple hours, so it's not like I would be making more shorter videos if I didn't do live streams. I recommend not watching the long ones at all or watching them on fast speed and skipping around in it to the juicy parts :)

@TRUCKTUBEGAME

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZacHiggins So you can do the most interesting from your point of view. I don’t understand often, but do such an injection.) If anything, I’m not just a spectator, I’m doing resin myself, pendants made of resin and wood, rings.) Have you heard about the Karelian birch? )

Super cool. I really enjoyed watching you make this mold.

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Anne! I'm glad you enjoyed it, it was fun to make =D

Turned out great Z something I've been thinking of doing for a while 👍

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Oh man, I can't wait to see what you come up with if you do Andy, you always take an idea and magnify it 1000x =D Looking forward to seeing that!!

Can't wait to see one of them turned! Good job!

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

I'm super excited to see how it turns out. I'll be getting on that blank as soon as possible =D

Really cool, can't wait to see some finished projects!

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Me too! I was all hyped up about having the mold finished and getting the video up, but now the real fun begins! Hope to get that blank turned soon. Shooting for getting the video ready for the Sunday after next

@davidjohnson1214

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZacHiggins I will be very interested in seeing itd

Wow! That came out great

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Phillip =D

That's an awesome concept. Turning those should be a lot of fun.

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

I hope you give it a shot! Been meaning to make some of these for a while now, can't wait to turn this one up and see how it looks!

Very cool Zac. I thought I was having a flash back. I made two molds a few weeks ago using smooth-on silicone and cast my own burls for fun now. 4” round

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Ha! Great minds think alike!! I've been wanting to do this for years now but dragging my feet on it. You know what's silly, the main reason I tend to put off silicone mold making is the stupid mixing of it. Can't stand it! After this project, I've decided I"m done mixing by hand. I'm using a drill from now on, hope to make some more fun molds soon =D

Hi Zac, very cool , looks great man! The possibilities are endless!

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

It's dangerous, I just keep coming up with more ideas for these things!!

Very cool man! That is a good idea to make your own burl

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Hope you give it a shot =D

Silicone mold making is addictive great 👍 video.

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

It definitely is, so many things you can make a mold of! I do prefer the actual resin casting over silicone mold making any day though =D

@PeterAgostiniJdcap26

4 жыл бұрын

Zac Higgins they go hand in hand knowing both is a good thing , though I know what you mean making blanks to turn for your very creative pens 🖊 and bottle stoppers.

Thanks for this Zac! It was super informative and I can't wait to try to do this too. Great job!

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Howard! I'm glad that it was helpful and got the wheels turning. Can't wait to see what you create!

Great job Zac! I've been wanting to do a round burl mold and this helps out a lot!

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Nice! I'm glad I could share this, hope you have fun making some of these =D

Wow! Such great information. If only I had a memory that could handle it all. 🤔🤔🤔

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Well, you don't have to remember. It'll be here waiting for you anytime you need a refresher =D

Boom shaka Laka, what a great idea for making burls for bottle stoppers as well. I can duplicate the wavy grain Oak and keep it rolling. The Doc hits it out again. I used the High Strength 3 silicone for the last project. Like the shorter to the point video, I can stream it with no problem other than they added 4 ads in your time.

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Woohoo! Yeah, you got this down already. I know a lot of people like shorter videos, but time is always against me. I am able to turn the camera on and stream for a couple hours a few times a week. Regular videos can take upwards of 20 hours to shoot, edit, and post a regular video. Plus a lot of people also like seeing the entire process plus commentary and they like hanging out and chatting too =D Hopefully Starlink will get up and running soon, that should be the perfect solution for your internet. I hear they may start doing Beta testing in a few months, might be worth looking into www.starlink.com/

@cedaroakfarm8596

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZacHiggins,thanks I will definitely look into any options for better internet. Keep doing what you are doing, great ideas, long and short, they are all excellent.

That came out awesome Zac. Also love keeping the leftover dump for projects.

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah, I decided I wasn't messing around with the amount of resin on this one, I wanted to nail it on the first shot. So, I got a stopper or maybe some ring blanks out of the extra =D

Those came out really cool Zac👍

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Steve! So glad to have that mold made now, so many ideas!

That’s very interesting 🧐 I’ve got some crazy old barn wood and fence post tops. Thanks hero, great to see just a video with no jib jab. Lol Thanks for sharing.

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Hope you make some cool molds if it. The other videos are live stream replays, I can't just stand there and not talk. The point is to hang out with people live and show the whole process. If you don't like that I would recommend not watching my videos that say "Replay" in the title with a red dot. Or you can just mute it and increase the playback speed and skip around

Very useful video, just successfully made a mould of a burl based on this!

Plasti 73-11 or 73-15 silicone great to work with ... dragon skin will take high detail but mold won’t last too long as far as shelf life . These are 1 to 1 mix ratios silicone to hardener so 2 oz of silicone to 2 oz of Hardener .

"whatever ya wanna copy" This just made me think... "YoU wOulDnT DoWnlOaD a bUrL!" xD Pirating burls. good job.

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't it be nice if you could just download burls LOL 😆

@SylviaRustyFae

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZacHiggins I mean; if you had a 3D printer instead of resin then this cud be even more literally downloading burls.

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

@@SylviaRustyFae Oh yeah, that's true! Brilliant =D

@WoodenItBeNice

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZacHiggins That's my name Zac!!!! LOL. Cheers, Huw

Awesome, Zac!

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Gage =D

Loving the glow burl! For my high detail molds, glove molds and molds like this I use dragon skin by smoothon(very high elongation) but anything between 10-20 shore would be great for this and easy to demold. 🙂

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

I was excited about the glow too! That was the second one I made. Thanks for the tips. I kinda figured this was a little rigid for this type of thing, but I had a big tub of it and figured why not try it out. It's working fine luckily. I'll have to try one of the lower strength versions next time

Great going Zac, cant wait for part 2. Or you could do 1 on a live stream

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

I'll make another video of the casting and turning since I already shot the casting part. People might go ballistic if I do a live stream of it instead of a regular video LOL Some folks really hate the streams! Hoping to get on that fairly quick

@kimthomas4538

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZacHiggins its a shame that some hate the live streams. I find that both the streams and the videos have there place. I have learned a lots from both, and have enjoyed the community feeling from the live stream chats. Thank you for doing the extras during lockdown.

Awesome and I would love to do this too! Burl is a bit expensive to get a hold of but I figure if I make molds of it then the expense won't seem so bad. :D Thanks for sharing. - Heidi

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

No doubt! Burl can be super expensive, and it's sometimes hard to get the really fun spikey caps. Heck, you can even make a resin one look like a lot like real wood with the right coloring I bet. Hope you try it out =D

Great work....

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks buddy =D

Essentially you can make a glow in the dark burl bowl

That’s awesome.

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Been on the list forever!! Finally did it =D

Using silicone from a caulking gun around you tube Will insure no leaks when pouring your mold material for mold . Way better than glue gun . I use to get my stuff from polytek and brick in the yard out of Texas.

When de molding a high strength mold ( silicone has no stretch) you make z cuts on both sides ...not much... ( invert it) so it seals up with elastics when you pour the resin and put in pressure pot . Using a plastic grocery bag is a big help . . . Always spray your mold box and object with Mann’s 200 mold release when making before pouring your silicone to make mold this helps in release of object .

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Great tips!

@PeterAgostiniJdcap26

4 жыл бұрын

Zac Higgins welcome bro good to hear from you . Say hi to Gretchen..

Hi Zac, That is a great idea. I might need to buy a vacuum chamber. Take care, Zac. Cheers, Huw

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

It's really fun being able to copy whatever you like, not a bad investment having a vacuum chamber handy. You can stabilize with them too =D

Can you make one without a vac chamber by pouring multiple thin layers instead? These could make a good product. Id be interested in buying one

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

There are some ways of pouring that will minimize air bubbles getting into the mold, and some of the thinner viscosity silicones can get away without degassing, but it's best to just degas it if you have a vacuum chamber. It's the worst when you get a big bubble in a mold that will be pressurized, basically makes it unusable if the details are super important

@BradsWorkbench

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZacHiggins ahhhh i get it

@Amybaumgart

4 жыл бұрын

Wow! Great video and I can only imagine all the time and effort it took to make it! How long was the silicon in the vacuum chamber? Congratulations on being an Alumilite rep! I will use your link from now on! You are an endless supply of GREAT information, clearly offered!

If you don't have a vacuum chamber could you put this in a pressure pot to collapse air while it cures?

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

I've always been told to use vacuum, it actually expands and removes the air bubbles. Pressure would just shrink them until you release pressure, then they grow back to the original size. It doesn't work the same as resin casting for some reason

@PeterAgostiniJdcap26

4 жыл бұрын

You use a vacuum chamber to remove bubbles from silicone so it pours an forms around you item you want to duplicate into a silicone mode with no imperfections. This is called degassing the silicone.

Hi Zac , I a m new to epoxy casting. What pressure pot you advice to get not being expensive and easy to use? Thanks

Very nice Zac! Instead of cutting the relief slits and fighting it like you did, do you think blasts of compressed air would have helped release it out of the mold easier or was it just way to stuck?

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

You know, that might have helped a little bit at least. Might have still needed to make a couple relief cuts, but it might have popped out a little easier

Dude, these are so cool! I can't wait to see one turned. I'm curious to see if there is a witness line??? Did you put the silicone in a pressure pot while it cured? Thanks for all the great videos you make! Keep it up!

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Tony! I did not pressurize the mold, just vacuum before pouring. I can't wait to see how it turns out too!

Great video!! Question. What’s a good resin for vacuum chamber? I’ve tried one and it just bubbles like crazy and heard that’s not a good resin. Would you recommend the one you use? Name? Thanks so much !

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I don't use vacuum with resin, they will all foam up like that since the air bubbles are expanding. It's just a mess. I recommend going with pressure for resin, vacuum for silicone and stabilizing

So.... after checking the "tools you use" I didn't see this vacuum chamber in your list. Do you have any information to share about it?

What if you were to drill a hole in the wood burl, place a eye hook in it and pulled it out that way?

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

That probably would have helped, great idea! I'll have to try that out next time =D

So are these gonna be available to purchase? I would kill to have one about 3 in diameter for bottle stoppers! Great job!

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'll probably make a few and add them to the website eventually. These are 4" size, not sure when I'll be able to get smaller molds made

@jarethhsms

4 жыл бұрын

I'll keep an eye out for them!

That is so cool. It still looks like wood just dusted

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

I'm really happy with how it turned out. Picked a good piece of burl for the master I think. Can't wait to see the end results when I turn that blank. Next installment coming soon, this is at the front of the to-do list =D

First and first! You doin Pseudo-burl now too!

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Everyone's doin it =D It's been on the list forever, just drag my feet when it comes to silicone mold making

@jeremybutler1033

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZacHiggins oh and I take back everything I ever said about you needing a camera crew. I feel your pain now that I have started doing some livestreams on the IW page. Lol I finally just decided to have 2 static cameras setup and not move them except the zoom on the canon. Lol

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

@@jeremybutler1033 It can be tough to film stuff live, or even just shooting video, especially when resin is setting up! LOL

Yes on the release agent. NOW - what is the point of handmade burl?

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it would have helped, but the piece of burl would have probably been useless afterwards. It all worked out in the end =D The use of it is to make colorful burls, they're gonna make some wicked spheres!!

@chrispile3878

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZacHiggins - Gotcha.

I couldn’t hear some of the video because of kids so maybe it was covered, but why were you mixing the silicone by hand instead of by drill?

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

That's a great question. I do it by hand in to minimize bubbles, but I really can't stand mixing silicone by hand. I decided I'll be drilling it with a mixer from now on. I figure it makes little difference how many bubbles are in there if you degas it before pouring

Can i purchase one of these molds from you? That would be amazing! 😊

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, I don't sell molds. Just don't feel I have enough experience making them to sell to other people. I just make them for myself, if they don't work no big deal =D

Wish we had burl here. They need to sell burl molds for us unlucky ones.

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Where are you at? There are quite a few sellers who will ship anywhere... might cost an arm and a leg with shipping, but I think it's doable

@kennethyoung141

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZacHiggins I am in smiths Falls, Ont.Canada . Yes see it cost so much to get here. Thank you for answering

@kennethyoung141

4 жыл бұрын

@@ZacHiggins guessing to buy a mold like you made would be costly to get as well.

Zac are you going to sell the man made burl ????

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

Hadn't really thought about it, I might make a few once I've tested everything out

Could I buy a mold from you? Would love to experiment.

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

No, unfortunately I don't sell molds. I just don't have enough experience with mold making to feel comfortable selling them

Nice Zac, I’ve been doing this for a while. Creates some funky spheres with “fake “ burl. Check them out on my instagram

@ZacHiggins

4 жыл бұрын

I know, I've seen them