"Mother Earth" How to make a globe out of wood, resin, cotton and paint. Wood turning, Vase.

Alright, one of my favorite things is astronomy. The whole telescope thing James Webb thinks has been amazing for me and my favorite thing of all is seeing photos of the Earth from space and if you're a flat

earth

er, save it thanks to all the science. classes, you can't convince me that it's not a

globe

, that's beside the point, so I want to recreate this in a

vase

and it presents some challenges. I think this is the first time I'll have to do two pours. purpose, this will be a learning experience, there's no way around it, but it will be fun and who doesn't want a ridiculous challenge that you can only half achieve, that's my mantra, okay let's see what we can do.

I think I mentioned before that we bought this property in near Salt Lake City in Utah and we had a lot of trees and a lot of trees, the place had been abandoned for a few years and then I had a bunch of rentals. tenants who didn't really take care of the place and when we took over and bought the thing there was a huge willow tree that was almost dead, a bunch of oak brush anyway, I cut them all down with the help of a professional company. because this willow tree was about four or five feet wide, a big tree, I threw them in our

wood

pile and we left them there to rot, maybe to burn one day, yeah, I didn't really have plans, it wasn't really a carpenter at all. and here I am like eight eight years later, pulling them out of the

wood

en plow, they're cured, they've cracked and they are what they are, so I'm using what I have, um, I didn't have. the luxury of prepping the ends and preventing them from cracking and all that, but it turns out the way I like to do things, it doesn't really matter.

I like to use old cracked wood. It's a pretty realistic representation of what you normally find out there. That being said, I appreciate woodworkers who take the timer to

make

a piece of art or a bowl or whatever from a perfect piece of wood without any defects. I think that takes real skill too, but that's why you see me wearing really horrible things. looking for wood because that's what I have but it also suits what I'm doing, you'll notice as I go that I had a much larger log, longer than it was wide, meaning that if I went for a

globe

, I was going to waste.

There was a lot of wood and I knew that going in, but I also knew that I needed to

make

two different

resin

pours to create the ocean and then the cloudy layer of the globe and I needed to connect some ridges where I could connect my plastic sheets to create. It is a temporary mold for the

resin

to limit the amount of resin waste and that is why I left some wood in there so I could have enough room to work in many places where I could attach and then destroy later. I'm sorry. If you're wondering what art is for us, a couple of us volunteered for Operation Underground Railroad, this is a group that travels the world trying to save children from sex trafficking rings and we decided to start a website that Supports to artists who want to support Operation Underground Railroad, so if you go there now, I think we finally hit that 100 artist mark, which blows my mind, and we have artists who donate everything, any form of art that they had.

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I like this Willow Wood, it has a nice grain too. It has a beautiful appearance, a beautiful color, a warm and pleasant color. One of the biggest challenges for this project was getting a map that wasn't distorted and that fit the size of my globe. It was a bigger challenge than you think. One of the most frustrating things is I thought this map looked pretty good, you know, sometimes it's distorted because it's hard to take a globe and put it in, turn it into a map in the first place, so let's go the other way, we try to put a map in a balloon and what frustrates.

To me, that map looked pretty good somehow between cutting it, tracing it, and cutting the wood, some things became quite distorted. I think I owe a personal apology to anyone in the Arabian Peninsula. I think I eliminated you completely. Somehow I feel it. Anyway, I kind of slaughtered part of your country, sorry, nothing personal. I'm not sure what happened in northern Europe, but it became a long and thin thing. It's harder than it seems on the first try. In fact, I'm quite happy. In the end, I could have slowed down and taken longer, but one thing I had in mind this whole time was that I really wanted to show the swirling clouds, which is my favorite part of a photo from space above Earth and unfortunately I don't.

I captured that as well as I wanted, but since that was my goal, I wasn't too focused on making the continents perfect because I didn't think you'd see it anyway, so I just wanted some pretty good but not perfect details and the clouds didn't. They didn't appear as detailed as I wanted or as dense, so you live and learn anyway. I guess I'm saying that on every project we'll definitely do this again. It's quite a learning process and the end result is one of my favorite projects so far, so a big thank you to Graf uh for donating some carving discs.

They sent me some to use. I think they are from Lithuania. It's great. I love it. their carving discs. I have yet to find a better instrument or tool for roughing up large amounts of wood where a chainsaw would be too much and is too much for a Dremel or one of those big little handheld rotary carving tools. of these graphic carving discs, you'll notice that I initially drilled a bunch of holes, uh, that's my depth gauge, um, I drilled them all to a very specific depth, um, so while I was carving with the disc, especially in the middle of these larger ocean areas, I would know it would reach the correct depth.

I wasn't just improvising. I have what's called RotoZip, it's like a dremelon, super powerful steroids, they have these multi-purpose bits that are great for wood and for this project, especially it was great for um sculpting some of the smaller details I'm telling you what's impossible Canada Canada it's impossible what the hell my Canadians there's about a trillion lakes up there I didn't do you justice sorry about that um again I was really hoping to cover everything up with really amazing swirling clouds and uh I think about about 30 percent of what I wanted in on that, so anyway I'm sure I'm going to hear a lot of stomach ache about what the hell you did to my country, yeah, no.

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paint

ing was a test of sorts. I knew I was going to sand this anyway, but I just wanted to see what colors looked good and what I should do and think about, so I mentioned one earlier. One of the biggest challenges in making these large pores is impossible to find bowls,

vase

s and different containers that match the shape of the bowl I am making each time because I make a different shape each time so I have a large collection of bowls from a store second hand that I will never use because I finally figured out how to make this temporary mold. um, this is a sheet of plastic from Home Depot, it doesn't really have much of a name, this one was called electrical panels. covering um, but a semi-rigid Sheen plastic that you can just cut like generic material and by cutting it into strips and super gluing it on each end it creates a nice mold, so I don't waste too much resin when I press it on. pot um I've learned to leave a section um loose so that when I pour the resin it can go into my mold.

I've gotten too good at making these molds. I had one that was almost airtight, the one on the chest I made and so there were some big bubbles in there, so leave one open so the resin can easily get in there. I like to triple bag them because, man, all you need is one leak and you'll ruin your pressure cooker, uh, one of my, one of my. The videos show that in every minute detail, thanks to whoever suggested the rice, dry rice is excellent. I used to use sand, it was too dusty. Things are much lighter so I can transfer this liner pot from the vacuum chamber to the pressure cooker without it being a problem and it doesn't rot because here in Utah it's super dry and it doesn't seem to go bad at all to me kind of projects where it's a big 3D object while there are a million places to catch bubbles.

I like to make a vacuum. chamber and a pressure cooker. I also like to use this long setting deep pore long pore resin per pot total, it's called fathom, uh, f-a-t-h-o-m, it's kind of cool, you can go, they say up to three inches. I've done four or five if you can stay. The temperature drops, but it's great, it works wonderfully. The temperature control is simply enormous. You have to maintain it when you are making so much resin at the moment. You have to keep it well below, say 60 degrees, maybe 50 degrees. I wanted this project to be kind of clear but dense enough to get that ocean filling, so I keep pouring it into this little cup about the depth of the thickness.

I wanted my walls to be the end to make sure I got that fill, but it wasn't so dense that I couldn't see through it, you know what I'm saying, and I did three different colors of blue. I wanted to see some ocean currents, you know, the different variations that you can see in the ocean. which worked pretty well. I thought it was strange. This is a 10 gallon vacuum chamber. One of the reasons for this is that it helps because the wood is in the resin, it helps evacuate the air bubbles that are inside the wood and it helps the resin sit very deeply. into the wood, which helps it adhere very well and also eliminates these little pockets in the wood that will leave a trail of air bubbles as the resin hardens, so this is a very good way to get rid of that. problem and that pretty much solved the problem and then I like to put it in the pressure cooker where it will cure for several days and that squeezes out any remaining micro bubbles that you got from mixing or whatever until they are invisible and that usually solves the problem. problem, so those are the temperatures I've been working with.

I have this little chest freezer, it's too cold in there so I put a small fan on top to circulate the air so the bottom doesn't freeze. I think I figured this out. I think I've finally gotten to the point where I can make pores big and thick. No bubbles, no overheating or cracking and I think I have a good system, now the last one. The wrinkle I need to resolve is that I sometimes get a small bubble stuck on the bottom of some object I put in the resin. I'm not sure how to solve that problem, maybe because the bubble could have gone up at any time. right point, but maybe pushing and shaking it at different stages would have helped, but it's a little hard to do when you get a pact and all this rice and everything, but they're not bad, you can barely see them, especially on this foreign project so complex.

Someone gave me the idea of ​​wrapping Tenon and Tuck tape and it worked great, it helps if you end up spilling a little resin or if it's too deep, it really makes a difference in preserving the Tenon, which is absolutely critical if you have to remodel it. Your Tenon or re-centering it just a little on one side translates to an inch or two on the other side and you lose the subject who's been down that path a million times, so no matter how you center the project, you have to re-center it. to that so that it looks good.

Perfect and therefore preserve thetenant is very important. I don't mind in the first stage of converting large resin projects, chipping it that way. However, I have learned to stop early on, otherwise deep cracks could appear due to that spalling. but it speeds it up, if you don't you'll be dripping ribbons of resin until you die, so once I have it pretty much sketched out, I'll turn it into a negative angle of negative pitch. uh carbide tip that will help me smooth it out quickly and get what I want just remember that your subscription turns on notifications and watching these videos helps me raise money for the operation.

I'm going to the Railway. I don't need 100 of what I earn and generate for you so it's a good cause I love having your support we are about to hit 30,000 subscribers and I can't believe that's just amazing so thank you for supporting me with my crazy projects art and my reasoning for doing it, not just because I love art. create, but I love doing something for these children who are in trouble. Initially it was going to have a little stand on the bottom, a pedestal for it to sit on and then some sort of rim on top like a vase and unfortunately I broke it so badly that it broke and honestly I'm glad in the end that it all I got was a small pedestal at the bottom and no border at the top, it just wasn't what I was looking for, it's too fancy.

I know I just wanted a simple Globe look and I'm actually not sad that it didn't work out, but you wonder why I worked so hard on the ending for a while and that's what I was thinking about making a perfect look. sphere there are many different techniques for that and in this one I decided to use the old wing technique. I just don't know, I knew he was going to change his ways and try different things. I just decided on the eyeball and I think it turned out pretty well when I look at it now I don't look at it and say, oh damn, it's off center you know, but I almost lost my outer shell once I made it, if you look really carefully, I lost a lot of weight on one hand, but it worked pretty well.

This was a big task. I think the hardest part was that I basically made two bowls in one. This first layer had to be sanded perfectly, otherwise the imperfections would show. through the clear coat I did later, so how to get a perfect finish twice and I'll save you here. Two things happen, so I ended up finishing this like three times, but one of them was this Sprite resting firmly here and everything. it came off and broke my Tenon at one point, it was too aggressive and I had to resend it just because it ripped it off and then I think I put my multirest bezel on too tight and ran it too fast because the wills that normally don't leave a mark, one of them got melted If you look closely it leaves a ring of melted plastic there and it almost cried and that happened because I just sanded it all over again which takes a while during the entire sanding process.

It takes at least an hour or two when it comes to clear resin, you want it perfectly smooth. I mean, it's been a while, so I really like how the ocean turned out anyway. This is one thing that water resin is perfect for. or an ocean appearance, clouds are complicated. I tried a lot of different things. I ordered some angel clay. I had seen people make really cool clouds and resin with it, but this was so dense I couldn't get it if I could. I don't blur it like I wanted to at this scale, it's great for small clouds but not for big clouds that you might want to see a little about now, maybe I just need to learn to manipulate better, but I scrapped that plan.

I tried some. I was making this around Halloween so I tried some fake spider webs and they looked manufactured so I ended up with

cotton

balls stretching them out and already here I put a bunch there and thought man that doesn't look good. It doesn't look like I wanted to, it'll look like a three year old made it and then when I put it through the next resin pour, which was just clear resin, things disappeared, maybe I should have done a test first for Mira What I would do, but I don't have time for that. I'm going to march forward, so instead of having some nice big swirling clouds, you get wispy clouds that you can barely see, which is fine, it turns out it has its own. confident character, but I went from thinking I did too much and looking like shit to too little.

I could have done a lot more and I actually like how it looks in the clear resin, how it was done a little bit. more translucent so if I try this again I'm going to put a bunch in there and hopefully get that

mother

earth

look and it's so famous that it's one thing to put a big project like this in a big bucket and waste three gallons of resin and another thing is to create a custom mold each time to save resin and prevent the walls from getting so thick that they overheat when they set and crack and all that, so this custom molding approach has worked well, the trick is in finding plastic.

It's rigid enough to support the weight of the resin inside and the sand or rice or whatever you use on the outside, but still flexible enough to wear, so I like this stuff. I'm still looking for something new, but that's kind of it. The idea of ​​a little thing I learned the hard way is that when I put my resin in a pressure vessel, it will settle. When you compress all the little air bubbles and the resin loses volume, then I learned to put it there for an hour or two and then leave some resin aside to top it off.

I've had some really sad moments where I realized the top third of my project was exposed and out of resin, but if you get over it after an hour or two you're fine, it usually doesn't resolve much later. of that, so the lessons I learned the hard way. foreign foreign foreign foreign well in the end, it's one of my favorite projects, it was a lot of work, but uh, I don't really keep track of the hours when I work in the store, put the kids to bed, if I still have energy, go out and I work in the store and, uh, do something cool, be good for the soul, I think so, thank you. for your support always appreciated.

I leave you with a Merry Christmas, Thanksgiving coming up here in the United States, Happy Hanukkah Kwanzaa, whatever you do, I'll see you on the next project, so thank you very much for your support. great take care foreigner foreigner thank you foreigner foreigner well foreigner thank you