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Keith Lee
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2022
With these videos I want to show you how at Knopsoup Inc. I reproduce the resin projects that I make. No expensive tools just years of experience and know how. Starting at Disney Studio at twenty-one, then as an art director for a large TV station and years of having my own design studio, I have over fifty years of tradition art, digital computer program knowledge plus years of molding and casting resin to pass on. My aim is to do projects that are straightforward, easy to understand with the idea to plant the idea of what’s possible.
Molding and casting resin horn buttons adding lettering
In this video I will show you how step-by-step how to add lettering to a resin horn button.
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How to mold and cast resin dashboard knobs
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Using silicone molds and resins this video will show you how to duplicate an original dash knob. Whether your car is a custom, a restoration project or a hot rod, this step-by- step video will you how to reproduce beautiful dashboard knobs.
How to make a custom resin gearshift knob
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In this video I will show you how I cast a spider inside a clear resin gearshift knob. I'll start from making a fake black widow spider to casting it in clear resin.
How to recast a resin steering wheel
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I will take an old wheel, strip it and recast a new resin wheel
Thank you so much for making this video. Restoring parts like this is a lost art.
I'm just up to the part where you're grinding the frame and, I've gotta say - if you pull this off, it's a miracle!
I am impressed! I feel like it's 1940, and I just walked into the Lincoln dealer's showroom! Amazing work! My brother had a 1946 Lincoln Zephyr that was in really nice shape. It was a pretty cool car.
Very clever how you got the lettering in the button. I'm sure I'll be using that method, soon. Thanks!
I would love to order one with a redback spider
I am restoring my 1951 Ford and I am going to ask you if you can make me the clackson button, the light knobs, the windshield wiper and the lights on knob.
This will help me in my quest to restore sewing machines and small motors!
This was really informative and very enjoyable to watch. Thanks for sharing! Cheers from Outback Australia...
Love your channel, thank you for teaching.
love it!
I love your work. I'd always wondered how to achieve the lettering. Is that etched/engraved into aluminium sheet?
Your time must not be cheap, you produce them in batches rather than one offs?
You make it look so easy, but I suspect that ease only comes after many years of experience.
Loved it! Can't wait to try for some larger objects.
Excellent work. I wish I had steady hands. I would love to try to remake the badges on 64 ford truck fenders.
I absolutely love your videos! Thank you so much for the lessons in craftsmanship.
On the clown, what if you laid a thin sheet of clear plastic sheeting over the clown?And then mold it maybe maybe cause that was an awesome idea
Very good, congratulations on the beautiful work! Watching from Brazil!
Grate job!!! you make it looks so simple!!!
Another informative & well done video. I am thankful that you took the time & efforts to do these videos. I am looking forward to making some old tube radio knobs using your methods & the same products you use.
These button casting are great. Thank you for sharing what you’ve learned.
Beautiful work!! Thank you!
thank you for the nice compliment
Wow that was amazing. That a Genius what you're doing it.
Thank you sir - that was an awesome walk through. I am really captivated by your horn button videos as I'm currently working on a project to 'cast' a 1953 Mercury truck horn button. 1953 was an anniversary for Ford and Mercury and Canadian Mercury trucks had a unique Canadian design so these horn buttons in good shape are hard to find. I would really be interested in any insight you might be able to share on the horn buttons of the 50's which were a clear resin with patterns and paint on the backside of the button giving them an almost mirror glazed type finish. Thanks again for sharing your time with us.
thank you for watching. I’ll be doing a video of an early type 1 VW horn button that has the clear resin with the painted back like the one you’re doing. I was able to remove the paint with lacquer thinner. many of those types of button have chrome plated acrylics and are hard to duplicate the process.ill google the horn button and see if can get a better idea of what you’re dealing with.
@@keithlee6724 I look forward to seeing that video. I have a two horn buttons, both in pretty bad shape. I've removed the paint from the worst of the two but was unsure of the properties of the original resin so I didn't use anything more aggressive than rubbing alcohol. I have put 2 pictures of my 'better' horn button into a viewable public Google Drive folder should you like to see a clearer example - drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Qr9iGXZbUqqCtHKlwHc3esahom_uXoZ5?usp=sharing
Is there a way to restore/recast the hard foam material that came on the early Bell or Cragar wheels? More of a softer material than resin.
Smooth-On has a bunch of different 2-part foams you could look through
look at task 14 from smooth on. it’s a resin I use to duplicate rubber items.
That trick with the business card is genius! I always end up wiping out some of the paint I want to keep and end up doing it over again a few times before i get it right lol.
awesome!!..
Very nice!!!
Fantastic looking project. I was wondering if there would be a visible line where the insert was; but it polished out beautifully. Well done.
thanks for watching. I never have a problem with the flashing, due to the resin is always above the surface of the button and can be sanded down to the same lever as the button.
Nice work, the buttons look so beautifull, miles better than the factory original. These and the steering wheels, speedo and gauges and the interior can be colour matched and would really accentuate a classic cars look. Thanks for sharing.🐞
Thank you, I'm glad you liked the buttons!
Love watching these videos... I'm not a resin artist (engineer here) but find it fascinating to see other skills at work. Thank you.
fantastic Mr. Lee!!!!!!!
Amazing work! Years ago I was casting out of production model engine parts. Smooth-On has some awesome products. Thank you for showing the degassing and pressure casting! Most people are not aware that it is a key part of making a good mold and bubble free final product.
Very good
Absolutely loved the video can't wait to use these techniques!
is this there a specific reason you chose rebound instead of a designed pouring silicone like mold star 20? rebound is meant to be a brush on mold material, though iut seems to work fine here
Thank you for the question. You know your silicones. I use Rebound for that exact reason, to brush on. In the next video, I will do a brush on project. As you may know Rebound has two silicones, one is 25 (softer) and 40 (firmer). I can combine the two, 40 for the bottom half of a clamshell mold and 25 for the top, because I need the stechablity.. it cures up fast, three hours in my oven and it has a long library life. It works fine for both applications, brush on and conventional.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us as a “younger” guy it’s important that these restoration processes don’t get lost.
Keith, did you have an intact wheel to start with to make the silicone tooling?
Thanks for asking. Perfect wheels are extremely hard to find. in 15 years I never seen one. they all have cracks or deterioration. I had to restore a good solid wheel before I made the molds
I hope you are doing well, and that you have more videos on the way.
Thank you for the kind words, I am working on many more videos!
This is such a thing of beauty. There are so many things I want to make now. Thanks for posting this!
Great job ! Thx for showing 😊
Couple of questions. 1). This process seems excessively expensive for a single knob. Am I missing something related to the cost here? 2) When you used a toothpick to get the silicon to go down into the hole, could you have used the vacuum chamber again to make sure all the air was removed? Thank you Keith!
thank you for asking the question. Yes, for one knob, however if I’m making a full dash set of eight or nine knobs for a classic car and my knob is good for 50 to 100 castings. Plus I’m the only one making that particular classic car interior knobs in the original color. Not to mention, the gearshift, window crank, door lock, window escutcheons and rear cigar lighter knob. Maybe 25 interior items. it adds up. As for the second question, I vacuumed it once, the clock is running on curing , a second time won’t help.
@@keithlee6724 thanks Keith!
Anyone who is interested in doing dyed epoxy resin like this should hit up Peter Brown's channel, especially his Dye Trying series. He uses a lot of commercial molds though, so very complementary to this excellent video
that's very cool.
WOW! Incredible skill and a huge amount of work for each wheel, what ever you charge its a bargain. 🍾🥂
Excellent demonstration 🍾🥂
That was super cool very informative video thanks for posting! 😀🇨🇦
Excellent video !!
Браво много добре изглежда.
Can you take orders to do this? I have 62 ford steering wheel
What an amazing man, this is not work this is art.