- This is a six by six single poor resin lamp.
How did I do it, you ask,
well, I did it with your help
because we just hit 50,000 subscribers
on our YouTube channel and we wanted to celebrate
and what a better way to celebrate
than to make a lamp and give it away to you.
So stick around to the end of this video,
and I'll tell you how you can win this lamp right here.
This one, the one that I made in this video,
speaking of made in this video,
let's, let's show you how we did this.
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Now, obviously we didn't start here.
Where we started was with a 3D printed six by six cube.
I just used an FDM printer.
You know, the one that sprays down with the nozzle,
then we sanded it up and primed it a little bit.
So it was much smoother
than what comes out of the printer as is
that makes the molding process a little bit easier for us
and the finishing process later, a lot easier for us.
So, we go from this 3D printed cube
to a simple foam core box,
then mix up something amazing mold maker, a big batch,
because, well, it's a big mold, right?
And then pour it up, demold it,
and then we can move on to the next step.
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I mean, we're cooking through this project you all,
because you've seen me do this type of stuff before.
If you haven't seen me do this type of stuff before,
and maybe you're not one of those 50,000 subscribed,
think about it, maybe hit that button.
That probably just popped up right down there below.
All right. Here's the thing,
this, ow, these are sharp corners.
This is a six by six cube.
This is a lot of mass of deep pour to pour all at once.
That's why we're going to push it here.
I'm still gonna do it. So let's go ahead.
Let's mix up our batch of amazing deep pore.
Get it all nice and evenly mixed,
and then pour it in one single shot into our cube.
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Normally in this situation,
we'd be dealing with a bunch of extra exothermic
and a bunch of extra heat.
So we're going to try something today.
We're actually going to put this entire pour
into the fridge for a couple of days to cure.
Yes, folks.
It's time to get cold we're going fridge mode.
This is a mitigation strategy.
I'm trying to make sure that this cube doesn't shrink at all
or that the very center of it doesn't yellow
because of heat,
don't do this at home,
in your fridge with all your food in it, right?
If you have a dedicated fridge or cooler or another system
that will actually cool down material like a,
a water cooled table or something like that. Awesome.
Use that, but don't use your home fridge.
So after those two days, it's nice and jelled.
We can take it out of the fridge,
let it come up to a normal room temperature
and finish its cure.
We've got to demold it.
So all I'm going to do is do what I always do,
which is take my time, slowly work the piece,
probably have to do the coroner technique.
We'll probably cut to some footage of me
struggling with the mold.
There's a gift for you. Happy 50 K.
Hey Matt, you should come see this.
This is fun to see for people.
See how that's much lighter, over there looks white.
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That's the air getting underneath it.
It's going to pop out really, you know.
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To actually make this thing a lamp.
We've got a lot of work to do.
And what we're going to use as a light source is this
simple wooden LED puck that I've got off of Amazon.
Now, if I go ahead
and make this thing, crystal, crystal clear,
all you're going to see is this LED puck
and all the light escaping the cube we don't want that.
We want this cube to be the lamp itself.
So it's gotta glow.
So what we're going to do
is actually give the cube a matte finish.
If you got one of these and you put it on the top of this,
this is a textured surface.
So it kind of bounces away and it's no good,
but it might put it underneath on the bottom,
you see how the cube now is just glowing now,
because all the light or a lot of the light is in there,
but it won't leave.
That's what we want.
That's what we're going for with this.
Let's go to the woodshop. Let's go see in this.
Now that we're in the woodshop,
we're going to start with 80 grit.
Now, 80 grit should get rid of most of the scratches.
And once that's all uniform, nice and beautiful.
We're going to move up to 120 grit.
And I can't tell you how happy the sentence
I'm about to say makes me,
that's the last sanding grit we're going to do today.
Normally it's like me with headphones on hours,
just by myself,
just making content for y'all,
just teaching you how to do something.
And I'm just listening to podcasts and audio books,
just reassessing all of my life choices,
not today. Today's 50 K day.
Okay. So we're done with the grits and that's awesome.
But if I just leave it here,
there's going to be a bunch of swirl marks
and there will still be some,
but I want it to feel more even.
So what we're going to do is actually use our approxi Polish
and that will actually help give it a nice
kind of even matte texture,
even though we're stopping at 120 grit.
That's the thing with this approxi Polish.
Yes, it gives you a glossy glass finish.
If you say it all the way up to 4,000 plus,
but we can use it at different grit levels
to get a really cool matte finish too.
If you didn't know that now you do.
Now at this moment, our cube is pretty much done,
but I showed you this lamp kind of light source here.
It's this wooden puck. Well,
I don't just want the cube to sit on top of it.
I kind of want it to be inset.
Oh, just a tiny bit.
So it has a little bit more structure to it
so that the cube doesn't bop and pop around on us.
So to do that,
I'm gonna use the scariest hole tuner bit I've ever seen.
(laughs)
I found center first and I did it all proper
and we went really slow, like,
I think it was 400 something, maybe low 500 RPM.
So it was just, it was pretty entertaining.
It was a fair amount of chatter.
It was pretty funny.
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So the puck sits in there nicely.
Now everything is feeling great, but I have one more step,
right? Just one more thing.
I want to optimize how much light gets into the cube,
but not how much escapes, right?
I want none to escape if possible.
So, what I'm going to do
is actually tape the bottom of the cube,
where I've just drilled that kind of hole.
Go ahead and cut out that circle.
And then I'm gonna use some of ETI's resin spray and sealer
to actually give myself a couple of quick coats
to get a beautiful high gloss finish.
Just on the part we cut out.
When I put the puck back in after that
it's shining right through completely crystal clear epoxy,
meaning that cubes gonna pop.
Literally we're done. The cube is ready to go.
This lamp is awesome. I,
this is one of my favorite light projects I've ever done.
I think it's one of the only ones
I've ever done in this channel with y'all.
So let's take a look at it.
But before we do that,
this is a contest I'm giving this light away.
So here's all you have to do to enter the contest,
be a subscriber to this YouTube channel,
and then leave a comment below.
It can be whatever you want.
It can be, "Hey Jordan
I think you're great and you're awesome
and I just wanted to give you a confidence boost."
I'm not gonna be mad about that.
It could be: "You're the worst person ever,
I can't believe that they're still letting you do these
tutorials, you're an idiot."
I also, that's understandable too.
I'm not perfect by any means,
or it could just be more content, whatever you want.
I want to hear from you.
We've been doing this for a while.
Your feedback matters to us a lot.
So leave a comment,
subscribe to this channel and you're entered.
All right, you get it. Enter the contest.
Thank you for that. Let's go look at this lamp.
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Seriously from all of us here at Alumilite,
it's been quite the ride to go with you on this journey
to learn alongside of you,
to be creative alongside of you,
to teach you a little bit
and also just to support you in any way that we can.
It's been quite the journey for me personally
and I can't thank you enough for joining us along the way.
So keep leaving those comments,
keep asking us your questions.
We're not going anywhere.
We'll see you next time.
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