Hello, welcome to Steve McDonald's arts and crafts.
And today I'm going to be doing is trying to make a really, I
suppose, large, open back bezel with this flat wire.
Now, this flat wire is so easy to get hold of, and it's made
of aluminium, and it bends lovely.
So I want to do is make a flower with it.
I'm going to unroll quite a large amount of it first and
try and get it all nice.
And
Well, I'm looking for is the word flat.
So that should be enough to start with.
I'm going to make kind of a flower shape out of it going
round, and it bends really, really easily.
And you can do sharp Corners with it, or you can do kind of
buff Corners with it like that.
Now, if you've got a picture that you want to follow around,
you can also do that with it.
So, for example, I've drawn a little picture here of just a
simple flower, and then all I need to do is get the wire and
go round this and follow the little patten that I've made.
And it's not difficult to bend at all.
I mean, it doesn't have to match it exactly, but what it
does do is it gives you that idea of getting things into
perspective and just makes life a little bit easier if you have
a picture, because you can always play around with it a little bit.
Once you've got this done.
So keeping it on the pattern as you're bending it and keeping
it as flat as you can possibly keep it as well.
So I'll go around and I'll finish this off, and then I'll
show you what I'm going to do next.
Well, there we go.
That's all ready now, other than I have to seal these two
ends together to ensure that I've got a final finish.
Obviously, because if not all the resin going to run out
and I've done the centerpiece already.
And all I used to do that with is some clear tape.
And the reason I use clear tape is because it's not going to be
seen at all in the final piece.
And any bits that are on the outside, you can easily just take off.
The only thing I would say is you do need to have as flat or
a square cut here as possible.
So they join up nice and neatly to each other.
Yeah, that's looking quite good.
And I bet you're all thinking, well, what are you gonna do to dam it?
How you're going to stop that all running out underneath?
Well, I've got a thought of that as well.
So I'm going to show you that in a second.
Now, I've got my tape on there on that bit.
All I need to do is push that bit up to it and then close my tape up.
And then what I did was for the other one.
I trimmed back the one edge, so it only went halfway around the back.
So I can then use the other half this bit here to wrap
round that way, if that makes any sense whatsoever.
And that will hold that in place once the resins in is
going to hold in place.
Anyway, if we want to straighten that up, we can.
And now we need to think about that's the center bit.
And now we need to think about getting this nice and flat, or
as flat as we possibly can.
Well, yeah, as you know you by damming tape.
Well, as far as I'm aware, large enough to do this, I'm
going to be using this sticky back plastic, or we used to call it Fablon.
I will link in the description below.
So don't worry about that.
Now I've used this once before and it worked out really really well.
So all I need to do is cut a bit out of there.
And it's so cheap as well.
That's the other great thing about this.
So all I need to do is cut myself a square of this off like that.
So it's big enough fit this flower on, roll it back on itself.
So it's not all roly-poly like this, because I don't want
it to be roly-poly.
It would be as flat as possible when I use it.
Yeah, that will do, because once I take it off here, it's
going to be a little bit flatter.
And that's the sticky side, then pop this in the middle of
that and push it down around all the areas, and then put my
middle bit in as well, because that's the center of my flower.
Now you can make any shapes that you want like this.
It doesn't have to be a flower, and then make sure all your
bits a nicely stuck down I'm using to fill this up with is
some transparent pigment in my resin, so that when I've take
the back off this, then I can get the light shining through it.
I fill it up, but not completely.
And then I'm just using a bit of stick to push it right to
the end, because I really don't want this to flow over into the
other bit and contaminate it.
And the same goes for this.
I've colored this with like a pinky color.
I wish I'd done it a darker color, but I chose the pink,
because I thought that would look nice.
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Now, how I do this is I fill up each of the petals first and
not the center, so that then again, I can go through it with
a stick and make sure every where's covered.
And again, that isn't overflowing into the area in
the middle, because it I want that contamination popping all
the surface bubbles.
But as you can see, the resin that I've used is really bubble free.
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So thank you again, just going through it with a little bit of
this black on this stick to give it a few details.
And the great thing is this resin have got a little bit thick as well.
So it's not going to move around in there.
It's not just going to blend in, and you'll still be able to see
those little details at the end as you'll see when you see the
finished product.
Well, now, this is all cured up.
I'm what I did was I cut the corners of this and took on
quite a lot more off this piece of plastic.
So it didn't curl up as the heat in here from the curing
process, because I thought, well, if the cures up, then it might leak.
But as you can see, there was no leaks. Tiny bit there.
But I'm not sure if that was a leak where I dripped it.
So now it's just about taking this plastic off here and
seeing if it leaves any residue.
It hasn't really seem to have left any residue yet.
But if it does, that's not a problem, because I can clean
that off with a baby wipe quite easily.
Now, I've done quite a simple design here, because it's just
really wanted to test it and see if it worked and how well it works.
But you could make quite a complex design in that, because
what you could do is put different colors through it.
You could even do one of those lovely swirls in it, where you
leave the resin to cure up a little bit and then put stuff in it.
If you don't know how to do that, and you'd like to learn
more about that, then I'll link a video at the end of this one
for you to learn how to do that.
It does give some really great effects that's not feeling sticky at all.
I have got a little bit there, but I don't think it's where it
leaks, because I don't think it did leak.
I think all that is is where I may be splashed a bit of resin.
So as the bit that is the where the Sellotape was and that should
just come off nicely.
There we go, and now you've got a really simple, really large
bezel that you could hang up front of the window, or add to
another picture.
As an example, I poured this for another project that I'm
working on, which you'll see soon.
So if you haven't subscribed subscribe, so you don't miss
out on this project, I could actually pop that in the middle
there like that, and add that that to an existing just plain pour.
And you could do some smaller ones and put them
around and have it, however you like.
But overall, I think that's a really good project.
I'm going to try some more, but
Do them a little bit more adventurous, and I'll show you
what those look like in a future video.
Now, I know that this is going to work.
I'm really pleased with that.
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