What's up, Rob here, Man Vs. Pin
Easter is right around the corner, so when Droomkous and iamdebubbles suggested this pretty awesome
message in an egg pin, I knew we had ourselves a challenge.
Here we go!
First up, I got myself some eggs, organic, cage-free *BLEEEEP*
Took out a bowl and a shot glass and placed my egg on top
Lotsa safety nets going on
Then, with a safety pin, I began to pierce the top of the egg
Now the egg is pretty solid, and this happens with only a little bit of pressure
Really no fear of it cracking, so don't worry about that
I want to make the hole a little bit bigger, so I'm carefully just chipping away at the top of the egg
making one little hole next to the other, so on and so forth, slowly forming a small circle
Now you don't have to rush this process, just take it slow and steady
Awe *BLEEP*, Son of a *BLEEP*
Alright. One man down.
The next egg didn't go so well either. I finally got it down the third time around
I slowly poked the hole on the top, very carefully chipped away tiny amounts of the shell until I got
the perfect small little hole. Time to get the insides out, right? I imagine you just shake it out, possibly?
Maybe?
...No
This does not work. What the pin doesn't tell you is that you need another hole on the opposite side
of the egg so that you can blow the inside of the egg out
Got it.
Not a problem.
Flipped the egg over, poked a hole onto the other side, made a couple other small holes around it
to expand it. I discovered also that by running my needlepoint around the edge I can make it
a little bit smoother-*BLEEP*. That was gonna be the egg you guys, this was the one!
Alright, rule #1, don't get cocky with the egg, the egg is not your friend.
Egg #4 however, egg #4 was a real winner
What a strong, sturdy, awesome egg
I poked out a nice size hole at the top, another one at the bottom. Carefully, this time of course
very, *BLEEPING* carefully. It only took four eggs but I was finally ready to move on to the next step
I grabbed a glass and began to blow the contents of the egg out. This is exactly as much fun as it looks like
A little gross, but definitely a good time
Afterwards I washed the egg out a little bit with some water, dried it off, and for some reason
I thought that I would dye the egg with regular egg coloring, but that was quickly abandoned
So I moved on to just painting the egg with regular paint, but that proved to be way too messy and time consuming
So instead I took the Easter egg dipper thingy, bent it, straightened it out and ran it through my egg
Thus allowing me to take it outside and spray paint it. So much easier
Just give it a light coat, nothing too drippy and you're golden
Once it was dried I took a fine point paint pen and began to draw on some small, white polka dots
Now by the time it was done I was pretty shocked at my amazing new egg decorating skills
Not gonna lie
I then took out some graph paper, cut myself a small sliver, and wrote a poetic something or the other
And without much precision began to roll up the message as tiny as I could get it
Popped it in the egg, no problem, kept moving.
I got myself a small box, some of this paper Easter grass stuff, and placed the egg gently inside
Not that bad, definitely on par with the pin, if I might say so myself
But the show must go on, time to crack this sucker open
To avoid me completely destroying the shell, I started to crack it open with a small screw driver
I ended up breaking in into a ton of pieces anyway so it didn't help. *BLEEP* It, it's an egg
Then I go to retrieve the message and, oh well what the *BLEEP* is this? It's completely unreadable
and due to whatever moisture that was still remaining inside the egg, the paper soaked it all up
and made the ink run and bleed everywhere
Awesome.
Keep in mind this was only one day after I placed the paper in there, which I did immediately
after I made the egg, which was obviously the problem.
So in order to crack this and make work in the future you just gotta let the egg dry out for a couple days first
because there's also still the membrane inside the egg and that needs to completely be dry
So, Rule #2, let the egg dry out first before inserting your note, or else you look like an *BLEEP* hole.
I actually retried this with another egg a couple days later, I let it dry, inserted the note again, and cracked it open the next day
Happy to report it was dry and the message was clearly readable.
So yeah, despite the pin looking awesome it really doesn't give you all the info that you need
Regardless, I think I pulled it off. It looks pretty good
If you were to put a note inside of an egg, what would it say? Express yourself in the comments
And hey, if you've got a pin out there that you want tested, tried, fried, be sure to leave it below.
See you next week