Hey everyone it's Dylan and Charlie from the Black Forest Wood Company we're back again for
another week here in the shop this is the second time that we've made this bottle casting this is
attempt number two so we don't usually have things go wrong around here but it does happen and this
time something went wrong so you'll see what our mistake was and why we had to build this twice
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okay so we have got another whiskey casting coming up this one is a bottle of forty creek
it's some limited edition so this is like bottle 4200 um we were able to find it i think what was
that place willow creek creek willow park liquor store or something yeah yeah big one
yeah they had it and then what our client also wants is a block of wood in the bottom so we've
got this really curly piece of black walnut so since um the wood is porous and we want this
to be crystal clear we're actually going to put a seal coat on this before we put it in
we'll seal it now and then probably in like three or four hours maybe we'll do the final pour
probably even sooner than that we can get away with it but we just want to make sure we get
no air bubbles so this is our coat resin and it has a full cure time of 24 hours
so probably better to use this than like let's say the deep um deep would still work it's just
then you have to wait like a week for it to cure so this this will be quite a bit better so then
to seal this we literally just pour it on rub it in and then i don't want to leave a whole bunch of
excess on here so after i rub it in i'm actually just going to take one of those blue shop towels
and buff all the excess off okay so this is all done and we're just gonna kind of
leave it to dry it doesn't need to be fully cured when you actually go to do the final casting for
it just needs to still be a little tacky so that's why i said like three to four hours instead of the
full 24 all right so we've got our piece it's um it's not really too sticky anymore just a
little bit so that's about the perfect time to to put it in there and then what i'm gonna do just
trying to be careful not to get fingerprints on it i'm just gonna throw some super glue
on the bottom just to try and hold it in place when we drop it in
okay, we're gonna try and calculate how much resin we need to go on this thing so we are seven inches
that way seven-inches that way and then our height I guess I should check see how high this
is gonna go hey we want to go a bit above we'll go like 14.5 and then that's a 750 ml bottle so
I'm gonna go seven times seven times 14.5 is this divided by 61. 11.64 liters so we'll go minus 0.75
about 10.89 11 liters we'll probably just end up mixing 12 because that's really easy to divide by
three for the two to one mix all right so we're doing 12 liters and i'm just gonna go with the
markings that are on the bucket so we will need eight liters of resin that's up to this line here
I don't know if you guys can see my finger through the bucket so something else that we haven't went
over in a while but we still do for every pores we actually degas them so we've got these two
chambers here they're dirty as you can see we use them all the time um but essentially what happens
is you put your resin in here you turn the pump on and it actually removes all of the air that's
either trapped inside from your mixing or when you pour it in so we'll place our top on
you've got two valves here this is your release into the atmosphere and then that is for your pump
so we'll start the pump we'll open up the pump valve and then watch this little dial on the front
so we've got everything mixed the resins degas it's nice and clear Sagar is just going to hold
this little wedge here while i pour so the resin lands on here and kind of flows down slowly and
doesn't make bubbles as opposed to just dumping it all in after we get it poured in we have to then
move it into the fridge here so we've got a spot cleared out on the bottom and this
is just going to stop the epoxy from heating up too much so let's let's see how this goes
that is so nerve-wracking the whole time doing that I'm like sweating
now we can relax that is the hard part there so we don't leave this in for the whole time
probably sitting here for 48 hours once it's kind of started to gel up a little
then we'll take it out to finish off but yeah
okay so checking out our pour the fridge was unfortunately left open at some point
joe said it looked good this morning but now we've got all the wax melting out of the top
we got bubbles coming out the cap and basically at this point all we're hoping for is that the
whiskey's still okay and we can get that out somehow but we do have to go buy a new bottle
we'll see what happens here but yeah the mistakes definitely still happen sometimes you guys oh yeah
well it might be messy but should we drop it outside
yeah I think we should I think that would be fun all right let's go drop it we're dropping it
so
yeah yeah that's all good, good wow that's beautiful did the glass even break no no
that didn't break no early impressions blast didn't break that's crazy
quick! get some epoxy we can fix it
that's actually unbelievable well don't let the whiskey go to waste joe yeah yeah I don't I can't
that's a hundred dollars spencer's the whiskey lover get in there for me I don't really like
it when my whiskey's infused with uh resin count yeah they call that whiskey business
so this is now our second attempt uh we had to go buy a new bottle of whiskey report redo
everything this is a limited edition bottle of whiskey too so it's actually kind of hard to find
but we did it so now we're using our jointer we are flattening one side of the piece so that we
can have a reference face to put it through the planer and that's what you see joe doing right now
this will just get it to a perfect dimension on two faces and then i believe for the next two cuts
he'll probably joint an edge and then use the panel saw to finish it off
so here's the panel saw because our blade can only go so high obviously we have to do this in
two different steps so Jo cut it like this flip it over and then make the cut in the other direction
now right here joe's just putting on a pretty big bevel on the outside just to give it kind of a gem
look and then here he's taking it all the way up to 4000 grit so this is what we sand to before we
start polishing you have to spend a lot of time on these steps to make your polishing easier
so here we're using the shaper again and we've actually done a video tutorial on this so we'll
link it there we also sell these in our store and online if you guys want to check them out
it just makes doing these kind of precise inlays a lot easier
we don't actually know what we're doing yet but this is the first attempt that we're gonna have so
we did what we normally do for our bottle castings and we sanded this guy all the way up to 4000 grit
we haven't put any polishing compound or anything on it yet but we just got this bad boy and we're
about to put polishing compound on it we're gonna cut it and then polish it and see how it turns out
so we were taught how to step these up so we start with the 300 and because the 300 doesn't actually
have much of a lubricant itself we add a little bit of the 2500 and these are not going by grip
this is not 300 grit and 2500 grit it's just whatever the polishing company makes it up as
so someone in the comments will probably explain it to us yeah maybe hopefully yeah so we start
with 300 add a little bit of 2500 for lubricant so it doesn't dry out the piece and let's get started
okay guys so so far the polishing has been going very well if you take a look
this thing is absolutely brilliant it looks fantastic it has a little bit of
the compound on it still the polishing compound so i'm just gonna take that off for you guys
and we get to see just how nice and shiny it really is okay so my final thoughts on this
is that it couldn't be any better to be honest it is immaculate absolutely fantastic it's so shiny
uh and we can't wait to put the nano coat on it and have it all finished up
well i hope you guys enjoyed seeing that process uh we kind of like sharing our screw-ups with you
guys just so you can see that things don't always go perfect around here and we do have mistakes
that happen and we have to fix them so this one was a little stressful because it's a birthday
gift so it was time sensitive we'll be able to get it shipped out next week no problem and then
next week as well we're going to show you guys this table so it doesn't look like wretch might
uh like much right now but it's buckeye burl with the turquoise resin we've got the whole
process film for this so it's also getting one of those x spaces right over there so stay tuned for
next week and we'll be sharing this with you guys but i hope you guys enjoyed and we'll see you then
that was good that was a good snowball
he's got wood stuck in his beard though