Attempting to make transparent wood
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- čas přidán 20. 11. 2018
- A few months ago, I saw a video made by AvE where he tried to make transparent wood. After seeing it, I was really interested in trying it out for myself, and well, I did. This is probably the longest video that I've ever posted on my channel, but I wanted it to be as complete as possible!
This video was originally released on Patreon on Nov. 10, before I left to Japan for vacation. I will be back on the 23rd though!
References:
• Video by AvE: • Making WOOD GLASS | Ho...
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My high school woodshop instructor: Never cut against the grain!
NileRed: I'm cutting against the grain with just my right hand
Was thinking the same thing
Not only that, wood can get stuck between saw and steel, it can shoot into your stomach, head or eggs.
@@seppei3993 wood better not get in my fucking eggs
Yeah. Heh..... ehhhhhh..............
Don't eat any eggs ok?
@@seppei3993 Good thing he was standing to the side then so it wouldn't shoot back at him...
this is why its important to highlight all of your steps and procedures when writing a paper. When others try to replicate your procedure, they wont be as lost as this.
Exactly what I kept thinking..lol
@@fabian9256 not if they're trying that for the first time.🤔
True but this guy sucks lol
...and now days you should be required to upload a video like this along with the paper.
Ikr that's like the first thing they teach you
NileRed: *does something*
NileRed: which was probably a mistake
Same energy as Cinema Summary
Horror movie character: *breathes*
Cinema Summary: and that was their first fatal mistake
Lol
Nice to see someone who watches cinema summary and nile red/blue
Haha
Red: kills someone
Red: which was probably not a mistake
My shop teacher just had a sudden pain in his heart when he saw the table saw usage.
ikr I was actually nervous watching that. For anybody who doesn't know why, look up "kickback".
Someone reading this pls dont like it because its NICE make the comments 69 NICE
@@nintendosimp325 I liked the comment :D
Underrated
I never asked him how it happened, but my shop teacher in middle school had a stroke that made half his face paralyzed. Maybe he saw this video too.
You can tell he's a brilliant chemist by the way he used the table saw.
I would probably use a table saw like that lmao
Not really wrong
miki ......why?.......
@@hsmacaraig they just do it.
miki NAZI?
27:20 "In the end I kinda just said 'screw it' and poured in a bunch of bleach"
Mood
Me when I’m doing school work
into my mouth
Me making cereal
Athen Davis *puts Bleach in cereal* ligth indides
me on my hair during quarantine
"Listen kid, I'm a Chemist, not a Carpenter"
Underrated
Time stamp please
@@dfksike8278 he didn't say that
yeah that can you see at his videos and profile picture
😂
This man just does not stop. It's one of the most impressive things about his videos to me. He could stop at almost perfect but nearly always he is willing to redo the entire experiment until he is satisfied. The determination to succeed as best he can and go the extra mile is just inspiring.
Extra MileRed
You just described a scientist
honestly, it just seems more like he's stubborn.
"So, what are you gonna make for your school project?"
*"Transparent Wood."*
Transparent steel was made by the Germans in the 1970s then American NATO officials paid them a visit and everything disappeared. I was lucky enough to photocopy the old microfilm archive that they have (ALL OF IT!) so that I have proof that such a material does exists. I do not like people suppressing competing inventions.
@@darthvader5300 show us
ur a idooit
@@darthvader5300 Please provide evidence. I'm intrigued.
@@darthvader5300 American officials do not have the authority to suppress German inventions and the Germans are perfectly capable of telling them to go to hell if they tried. The money to be made from such a material would ensure that it would have been well known soon after it became practical to produce it. History contains one such metallic material.
A transparent aluminium compound with extreme toughness has been known for many years, but it was so difficult to produce it that for a long time only microscopic quantities were available. Now aluminium oxynitride is used to make the periscope windows on some armoured vehicles and is also used to make bullet-resistant windows for some limousines and military vehicles. Aluminium oxynitride is stronger than standard aluminium, much tougher and much harder too. It is also tougher and more bullet resistant than any other transparent material that is practical to produce. A stronger transparent compound of similar make-up would be very useful, and nobody could suppress production. It would have been in production as soon as it was practical to produce it, just like aluminium oxynitride.
Yes Star Trek fans, transparent aluminium exists, or at least transparent aluminium oxynitride does.
Transparent steel can be made, you just start with steel foil and hammer it or pressure roll it thinner until the light shows through. It would be a few microns thick and would break apart in your fingers though, so it doesn't have many practical applications.
"I'm really interested in making some paper."
Feeling you.
Uvuvwevwevwe Onyetenyevwe Ugwemubwem Osas
Uvuvwevwevwe Onyetenyevwe Ugwemubwem Ossas
I summoned a demon saying your name
What is your name?
Are you my daddy? He had the same name, my name is Bill, I think I'm your son...
@@ATLTraveler who u talking to?
"In the end I kinda just said screw it"
Accidentally makes chloroform
"Accidentally"
@@lilyofthevalley1495 accidentally "accidentally"
“ ‘Accidentally’ Accidentally” Accidentally
Mohamed Ridwan " 'accidentally' accidentally "accidentally" accidentally
@@apollosunshine3375 “accidentally” accidentally accidentally, accidentally, accidentally.
Well it's really nice to listen to him while falling asleep.
honestlyyy
wake up and you're amazing at chemistry
what the fuck i literally just dozed off watchingv this
I once fell asleep on the desk midway watching the raspberry perfume video
@@spykerm6 tbh the raspberry perfume is one of the best to fall asleep to, this one, the aerogel vid, the gold jewelry vif and the grape soda one are amazing
Alchemy lvl 10
Carpentry lvl 0
Jesus would be proud.
Risk of lost thumb high, but in the end he made a replacement thumb ... nail ...
@@quarkonium3795 Indeed, Jesus wood be very proud.
@@franciscobautista9379 ayyyyy
Alchemy 10 is impossible because you start with 15 in skyrim
you just discovered a market for artificial nails made from transparent wood
No doubt..lol
@@zombiasnow15 Gwen Stefani
@Jarvis R. Hysten missed opportunity dude! You could have said "I wood hope...😂😂😂
splinters
for when a lumberjack takes his wife to a nail salon
Someone count how many times he's said 'good enough' across his channel
Or, "it probably would have been good enough".
I might make this another one of my new year's resolutions
Also, "In any case"
I did it 1,382 -Albert Einstein probably
@@brandonkilous4529 The mad lad
Now I want to write a creeoypasta ‘I found a weird recipe on the internet to make transparent wood, and now I must keep cleaning peroxide foam for all eternity’
I’m never going to make transparent wood in my life and I’m about 100000000000% sure I’ll never need to know how to make it. But here I am, at 1AM watching all 35 min & 49 sec of a video on how to
I love science so I may do this when I get some resin for christmas lmao
Right its like our intrest out weighed our need to learn
one hundred billion percent
Bennett Solay same
@@ommielett your name says it all
"i kinda just said screw it and poured in a bunch of bleach"
me at a party 10/10
@@Aspri987 jew
I pour bleach into my mouth
@@merlin6108 nice man me too
me when i clog the toilet
Me: ill sleep early tonight
CZcams Algorithm at 3am: here, watch a transparent wood 👍
Same
Nonono, sleep is important dude!
You copied my profile pic and to not get a copyright strike you turned the colour into b&w
Sleep is the best
I love putting your videos like this on to sleep at night because your voice is so calm and consistent 💕 I have bad insomnia so I listen to your vids, royalty soap's vids, and mbmbam podcasts to sleep 🥰
Omg royalty soaps I watched her in april
Ikrrr his voice is soooooo sothinggg
Honestly, as someone who isn't at all knowledgeable about science and chemistry, I still loved how long this video was, because it showed all of your testing, "failures", and tweaks to each attempt, and it was really interesting to watch. You also explain things very well on top of that. And I have to say most of the attempts just looked really cool anyways!
It's all a process. Science doesnt happen right the first time, usually. :)
I agree too, I'm not great at science but this was still interesting to me.
It isn't truly a failure if you learned something from it!
thats what i like about this channel. It feels so unedited like some others are. By that i mean he includes the entire process and the mistakes. Its the mistakes that we learn the most from.
AND it didn't split it into multiple videos for more views
Imagine buying glasses and finding out they're made out of wood.
Bruhh
Why isn't this popular already?!
Woodes
As an engineer that also likes carpentry a bunch, I really want to figure out how to make this work, because it _wood_ make for a cool looking chalice, but I'm not really sure how it would work with filling the tubes using epoxy, as here, small flat cuts are used, and in a chalice or other drinking glass, the sides are round and more complex.
@@meme__supreme3373 make a Minecraft plant pot and call it a chalice
Scientists just "discovered" this, but you did it 2 years earlier so you should get the credit (at least for proving this papers concept)
anyone else zone out for a minute while watching one of these vids, then snap back to reality and have no f*cking idea whats going on
Sorry....what?
I usually have no idea what's going on from the start. I just like seeing him doing weird alchemy stuff
Sounds like you need sleep.
I'm not alone
yes. me everyday in chemistry class
Next goal: Make a transparent wood magnifying glass to focus sunlight though to catch other wood on fire.
Witchcraft!
Dude shh he's gonna get banned from reality's server!
I don’t think that wood work because the tubes are straight and couldn’t exactly bend light towards a point.
BaneZH r/whoooosh
Boitheboi how is that a whoosh? Maybe someone would legitamitly think that would work. I know the original commenter probably was joking to a certain extent but I was just saying...
You: dark solution, that allmost looks like coke or pepsi
Me: t r e e j u i c e
**m i n e c r a f t d r i n k i n g s o u n d** YUMMY
*Almoast*
*All most*
By the way almoast sounds like an almond milk brand. It sounds pretty good. Or a combination of almond and toast lol
-strawberry milkもち
*Almost*
I love how he always messes up at some point but everything ends up working out anyways
"I wanted to get the best shot possible" Is how most accidents happen
Making transparent wood:
- So you basically have to throw a lot of chemicals on a piece of wood until it dissolves and you put epoxy on it, and you end up with a piece of transparent epoxy where once there was wood.
Almoast
Stupid, its almost
wOoD 🤔
Still cool tho
It’s basically inorganic wood
"Yeah I'll have a coke"
"We've got Lignin"
"Water. Thanks."
ligma
We only have Distilled water sir is that okay?
@@deletedinactive9992 Sorry,I only drink uranium filled H2O.
CryingCatExists I only drink sperm filled water
No I’m not good 10 years ago Cum water
almost 3 years and the man did it
Everyone:
NileRed: My goals are beyond your intellegence.
"so I asked my dad for help" story of all of our lives
False, I never had one
CalicifierWolf sorry to hear that man
@@khalifa3063 It sucks, but if I have kids they won't have to wonder
@@Calicifier You must be fun at parties.
@@Parhaimmisto fun enough to make jokes about it, one day he'll come back with a harrowing story about the milk
Nilered: explains everything hes doing
Me: ah yes science words
Ye bumble fuck
Lmfao, so many science words.
Hamilton Mcgregory sometimes I say big words to make myself sound photosynthesis
@@jacobs279 Yes me too. I also like pnumonoultramicroscioicsilicovolcanoconiosis.
Hah, smart tree bark.
Nobody:
This guy: Takes months to literally recreate dark matter in his lab* “I had a lot of fun on this project.”
"The final result looked somewhat like a nasty overgrown tumbnail"
Thats the weirdest describtion of a chemical experiment i ever heard
2:10 My blood pressure skyrocketed when his fingertips were just casually centimeters away from the blade.
Cyr P. Ok safetyboy
@@friendlyneighborhoodcrackh6059 If he lost a finger his CZcams career would be slowed down, not to mention the suffering. Don't be ignorant.
@@Twelvebeans thats not gatekeeping mate
Friendly Neighborhood Spider Just have a quick search for table saw accidents and table saw kick back... you'll see how dangerous they can be, even to carpenters with many years experience
AJ Burdett I’ve seen them firsthand and actually always practice good technique when using power tools lmao. I used to work in a nuclear power plant and they really nail safety into you there. I had just smoked a lot of pot and thought it would be funny to say. In retrospect though, not so much. I got my laugh tho
How he makes his errors sound like they're on purpose is godly
Yeah
@@awhahoo your name is the funniest thing I have ever said out loud
@@morphfort6062 You are welcome
@@CandiceGoddard have some humour damn
@@CandiceGoddard yeah you seem like your name would be “P. Candice Goddard”
Your voice is so comforting, when I'm either sad or angry, I watch your videos.
I Love how you not afraid to point out your mistakes in these videos🔥Great and fascinating video
A thirty-five minute video, christmas is early this year.
Fastest 35 minutes ever
@Dorian RC Taylor why
@@disgruntled_elephant_man MTV generation... :D
Right Clicker ikr
crap. i didn't even realize it was 35 minutes long until i read this. only 10 minutes in! yay
I love how he didn't give up in his videos and keeps learning from his mistakes
Idk mwhy but this reminds me of the power of friendship
You're Dad is very helpful! Thanks Dad!! We should all be so blessed
I love how you objectively highlight your own mistakes and flaws in techniques. One of my favorite minds.
I was just wondering
Why the hell is there an instruction sheet on making transparent wood
Why not?
How else would you make the transparent wood?
They are demonstrating a physics concept in composite materials. This idea carries over to other composites like dental restorations and bullet proof windows.
for science
EM P thanks for a good answer
This thumbnail has been on my recommended list every day for more than a week.
FINE I'LL WATCH IT DAMMIT
V Mix ok
Said literally every commenter on CZcams ever in all history...
Same but 2 weeks
Omg yes!!!
You too
The patience this man has is incredible-
Watched this vid a long time ago and just now rewatched it. Watching made me think of the possibilities of using colored resin to draw through the wood and then using those colored pieces in an art project. One that comes to mind is using smaller squares in a backlit mosaic or, hell, go big and make a lampshade out of the small pieces.
"This was probably a mistake" - NileRed
I'd pay for a NileRed tshirt with that on it
My parents making me
@@rubybutgamin2ndacc jew
its so rare to hear others of how they have made mistakes.
love your honesty and show hiw to improve through learning
Jh h I’m honestly surprised he doesn’t have more subscribers. He keeps it interesting even when things get technical, he shows his errors, he shows his ENTIRE process and rationalizes each decision without coming off as pretentious or superior. He seems like a genuinely decent human being. I hope he is a teacher professionally. He would be fantastic.
It's a part of the science field. Discussing your and other's mistakes is essential for improvement and advancement
@@nthomas87 i couldnt agree more.
ive been thinking about this..
whats your thoughts..
here goes..
" if these traits were to becone more common pkace, woukd we still look to them as being so admirable " ?
its just a thought puzzle, ive been caught in.
@@rani.andretti most definitely, but sadly this display of integrity. seems to not get much spotlight.
btw, thabk you for the reply
Well he is Canadian lol just a nice guy
Now do transparent aluminum. You’ll be rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Your level of commitment to experiments is impressive
"So, what's with this weird looking glass house?"
"It's not glass, it's wood"
No, It's once a wood. Now its a pack of cellophane and epoxy.
I have wood
And epoxy
@@Devilish__ 😳
And cellophane
My brain at 2 am: "Hey you up for watching a video on making wood transparent?"
Me: "No I need to go to sleep"
Me at 3 am :
Rob the procrastinator your name is perfect
Hey I’m watching this at 2 am as well lol
@@lycheeboba9057 I m till watching at 3:24am.i love SCIENCE
Procastinator huh.. You should take the MBTI personality test, prob an INTP lol
Procrastination 100
I just discovered this channel and it’s GREAT
hats off to your patience
NileRed: Dark solution, almost looks like Coke or Pepsi
Me: ROOT beer.
Shaun Polarek wheat wine
Leaf water
Hue
Aye
Deleted Inactive is wheat wine the cousin of toilet paper moonshine
Well done! Thank you.
Someone's hacked your account.
how come you don't have a check mark next to your name?
Buckle Umblefuck, I’m in the right neck of the woods.
AvE's and Cody's Lab subscribers are all going to land here.
@@johnperry5396 we are already here
This by far has to be the coolest thing I have ever seen.
Friend: Yo, why is your window do dirty?
Me: That's my wall, fool.
I instantly thought about AvE. :D
As a woodworker I got a Heartattack how you used the saw...
As someone who took a shop class once, watching that freaked me out (especially when he grabbed for the wood while the blade was still rotating.)
Not gonna lie, I cringed at that part
Ahahah as a woodworker I feel a sense of superiority knowing the safer procedure. Also for my self-loving interests I will ignore how he addressed it on the voice over and say: "dude! That was so unsafe! As a woodworker I know it"
As a human being, I had a heart attack at how he used that razor knife.
As an internet connected toaster I... *DING!*
28:32 I love how casually you say “this ends up forming some chloroform”
Monty Moth I ended up using this timestamp 😔
Ross? Tf dog?
Ross? What?
bill cosby:
@@scrubbywubby2694 huh
some advice from a knife maker....after vac, then place the slices filled with epoxy in a pressure chamber at 80 psi. This reduces bubbles and increases density of epoxy, makes for a much more stable and clear epoxy
2:13 the way you grab the wood with the running saw gives me chills
Me too. Lmao
I felt it too
MeKillYouTo same
But the kickback
"But in the end, i kinda say screw it, and poured in a bunch of bleach"
Me after the finals
*Me in general*
The scientific method in practice
Some of science's greatest discoveries have happened by accident... not many though, admitedly. But still, it might have turn out with invisible wood.
I never would of thought a straight laced, chemist nerd would enjoy watching Ave videos.
straight laced is a very generous way to describe him lol
And I'm back here from the beginning, progress has definitely been made.
25:40. such a dad thing to say. "nah, just free hand it"
I was worried he'd really give him a hand... _literally_
@@Jugem16 bhahaha
NEVER ask for directions!
hes was like hold my beer son
I thought he was free handing it not his dad
i think it would look cool to make an acoustic guitar out of transparent wood. i just wonder what stripping the lignin from the wood will do to its tonal qualities...
Not a good idea.
You saw the wood warped and bent at one point.
Easy look up a plastic guitar or something, that should be close enough
@@rani.andretti but plastic is homogeneous and wood isn't
@@FLODDI100 its covered in epoxy so its basically plastic
@@blaiddifanc8683 LMAO, that's exactly how it works
Never in my life did I think I would ever see "floppy wood"
And now he has actually done it.
I don't even know why i'm here
Deep
You clicked on an interesting video title obviously. Like most viewers.
same
Because youtube wanted you to be here. it wont give up.
l.e. me.
Is it possible to do the same thing with bone, and maybe remove the calcium to make a real crystal skull?
Better question: Can we put vodka in the crystal skull we make?
Grizz C uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
base 4 lol just go get crystal head vodka
Wow! That would be Awesome!
But, I'm not sure how that works.
@@SpencerS145 You can buy a crystal skull with Vodka already in it.
It might help for getting the resin into larger bits of wood if you have the vacuum pump somehow directly connected to one side of the wood, so it directly pulls the resin into the wood, rather than waiting for the resin to soak in
This is great experimental science! A pleasure to watch.
33:35 In the most monotone voice possible: “however, it did work pretty well as a nasty overgrown thumbnail”
Why and how are there no replies
@@itsclawfee6094 now there’s 2
@@That_somebody make that 3
@@minimiloe9731 now 4
@@That_somebody nah bro, 5
imagine this process being so perfected that you can make wood lenses
Why would we go to such costly and laborious lengths to create something that poorly imitates glass?
@@misanthropy6690 because fuck you
@@corktail7900 I agree
@Orion D. Hunter what?
@@corktail7900 Highly intelligent response. I'm thwarted.
All of your videos are amazing.
binging on your channel today - so glad you share so much. all of your content is way beyond my knowledge, probably part of why i find your channel so fascinating - thanks!
and therefore pretty arrogant of me to think i may have something i've not seen in most recent comments so apologies if already considered. have you considered bagging the sample (on top of a hard surface, such as smooth acrylic, as long as larger than sample), pulling vacuum to introduce/cure the epoxy? you'd have to regulate the vacuum and perhaps build a support structure to prevent collapsing the sample under vacuum.
hope you, friends and family are managing. thank you again!
“source: the paper” really got me
I think resin you used has quite high viscosity. For soaking completelly through I would use resin called 'cactus juice' or resinol 90R, both have very low viscosity and they are thermally cured. In industry Methyl Methacrylate is used for wood stabilisation. Meybe it would be interesting topic for video? How to brake down PMMA to MMA and stabilise wood with it? :)
I'd love to see him do this, also I'd love to see one sanded back and polished
I was about to say the same thing. I think it would work a lot better with a stabilizing resin
I highly doubt you can depolymerise polyacrylates effectively enough that purchasing methyl methacrylate isn't easier.
For sure it's easier and cheaper to buy MMA (I bought 5liters for 50$), but it's about learning and experimenting. I can bet 90% of NileRed synthesis aren't cost effective, especially when you take in consideration labor cost.
@@Woloszow Sure, but I bet there isn't anything worth learning in depolymerizing PMMA either. It's an addition polymer, not a condensation polymer, so there really isn't an effective method of depolymerizing it.
Finally, I can make a house out of paper.
This was it. That damned video that changed my life and introduced me to your channel.
That was fascinating.
Peter Brown when can we expect to see a transparent pen?
uhu not very unexpected to see you here
I was thinking of you the whole time I was watching this. I think you've fundamentally changed how I think of not only resins but wood in general.
@@stevendorries I would love to see something transparent, but alas I can only see opaque objects.
Peter Brown just a piece of clear plastic with wood texture, meh.
How the shit does he make this 35 mins and it's still very interesting
Presley Bernard he probably edited it
Obviously editing..
For him this took much more than 35 minutes. But for the rest of us, because chemistry is interesting. Shame most teachers do a bad job of relating topics to their students.
Well, technically, it probably took him a day or more, but its just edited
once upon a time, people used to read books! and wait in line without a cellphone! you whippersnappers would be surprised!
I remember watching this a year ago. Had to come back to watch it a second time.
just found this channel. so interesting to watch and do other tasks to.
Awesome video! I'm happy its taking off, hopefully my reference to it in my upcoming video will push up the numbers a bit more.
BTW You could have just soaked a cotton ball in a clear resin, pretty much the same thing. ;)
Found Cody in the wild today, it was a good day!
worked for me :p
thank you for the videos based codys slab
hi dad
I came here after your video
His fingers got soooooo close to the blade not ok! It literally gave me a heart attack
I hope your heart recovered. Heart attacks are dangerous.
If you had a heart attack from that you’d probably not be typing his
@@wildboargaming1858 or maybe it took him 13 months to recover?
That's pretty normal
im not gonna lie everytime i watch these videos i dont think im ever paying attention its just cool to see the process
This series oF knowledge is PHENOM.
I hated chemistry in high school, why is this entertaining?
Obviously you dropped bio, bio is worst
Because Science IS entertaining!
Because it is an good presentation of "what if" with good explanation of what and why it is happening without it being just jargon.
@@namelessguy199 Bio is the best, especially genetics
@@cryptkeeperkain986 Was about to respond with, word for word, the exact same thing. High five!
1. Use a slow set finishing epoxy. Something clear, but that takes many hours to set.
2. Heat the epoxy. Just warming it up 15 degrees makes it like water it's so viscous. It'll soak the wood faster.
2.5. vacuum your epoxy in the cup after heating but before pouring: just to help pull bubbles.
3. Once poured with the wood floating, leave the vacuum on for a minute or more, and then draw out the letting air back in for like 30 sec. Drawing this process out will put less pressure on the epoxy but for a much longer time, letting it capillary up in there
4. Cut your wood thinner. 2mm, 1mm, etc. Will help like everything.
5. Cut it really slowly and in a single direction to make a nice surface on both sides.
6. Lightly sand both ends, but beware using course grit will just fold over and plug all the cellulose tubes.
7. Air compressor blow the sides of the peices to blow any surface dust and shit away
8. When you lay out the peices, place them between two peices of the flattest glass you have (mirrors, picture frames etc) to put an optically clear flat surface on both sides but without all the excess glue blob on top.
Chrismofer would it be possible to let it cure in a semi vacuum? Would that help or do anything at all?
choosing a low-shrinkage epoxy will help in addition to this. Heating will cause the epoxy to set much faster
maybe the wood bends itself when curing because it was cut from one side or maybe when put in the vacuum with epoxy, epoxy only enters the cellulose from one surface so its uneven which shows up when cured.
i don't think it would help. the idea with the vacuum is the changing pressure expels air and sucks in resin to the wood structure- once it's cured, an internal pressure difference or not wouldn't really help. the opposite might, i.e. a high pressure vessel so the bubbles are smaller when cured.
I dont't think the wood is bending on it's own. when the epoxy cures unevenly, it shrinks at different times throughout the part, which makes internal stresses. the most obvious one is when he poured two layers. the bottom one had already "shrunk" and cured, while the new top layer poured on, set up and then shrunk a little on it's own. this pulled at the layer below it making the warp.
In 2019 : let's try to make transparent wood
In 2021 : let's make transparent wood
Awesome video as always! Did you consider clear UV-set rather than two part epoxy? Might be able to fill them even more / larger pieces without the time race!
I’m honestly surprised you don’t have more subscribers. You keep all your videos interesting even when things get technical, you show your errors, you show your ENTIRE process and rationalize each decision without coming off as pretentious or superior. You seem like a genuinely decent human being. I hope you are a teacher professionally. You would be fantastic.
Source: the paper
Seems good to me
Haha I was just abt to comment abt that
Hahahahahhah
Who keeps on returning to nile red bc of how interesting his content is
So THAT'S why firewood looks weird in its charcoal state. It'll be individual square shaped peices which aren't at all constant with their shape or still have its a portion of its log structure depending on how long it was on fire (or how long the wood was burning) and in both instances the log(s) may have embers on them and the small chunks of coal would still be orange hot and all the cool and non burning coal will have an ashy appearance, but I found that quenching the fire with water will both cool everything that's either still smoldering or on fire and wash away the ash and reveal the black coal which I found interesting considering that I'm partially a pyromaniac
Transparent 2x4's are the future
Nobody commented on your comment. So I did.
For people in glass houses
way too much work though! it's gonna be expensive!!
Those zombies wont know what hit em!
Floppy wet 2x4s are an even funnier future