I'm not positive that I speak for 100% of your subscribers, but I'm pretty sure we all subscribed to see you put anything and everything in resin. More experiments please. Never stop.
Sidewalk chalk, powdered tea, coffee grounds, pen ink, crayons/candle wax, matcha powder... I also know back in the "olden days" people dyed fabrics with dye made from fruits/veggies...maybe you could make your own dye that way...it would probably end up working like the food coloring. Another thing is health food powders...like turmeric, spirulina, beet...I see them all the time being sold in large bags.
Yes, superfood powders should work well. There are a rainbow of colors of them. Colorful powders can be made by drying peels, like lemon or orange, or herbs or vegetables like parsley or grated beet root and then powdering them in a coffee grinder. Spices would be great too, like cinnamon, cayenne, saffron...... Any nutritional supplements in the cupboard might be in capsule form, some are colorful, like powdered elderberry, olive leaf, activated charcoal, etc. Some vitamins like a B complex can be bright yellow. They are easily dumped out of the capsule. There's Rit powdered fabric dyes, about $3.
My favorite thing about this video is when he says affordable products, he means it. I hate how most shows say they’ll experiment with affordable product but only use things that are a dollar or two cheaper than the original. Thank you, Peter. :)
Vi Do that would be so cool! Also if he used her hair for the bristles instead of false stuff it would make it more personal for her... If you are wondering, yes, human hair makes for awesome makeup brushes...
The cocoa powder definitely surprises me! That actually seems like a viable option when I want a dark brown/black for filling voids in stuff I’m working on.
You just saved me about $ 50. I was about to go out and buy pigment for a tiny project and now I am going to use a blue eyeshadow that I will never wear. Thanks for your ingenious mind.
Anyone trying the makeup: Walmart around holiday time has like no brand cheap makeup, many company’s sell loose pigment eyeshadow, dollar store has cheap eyeshadow. For a project you’ll want cheap stuff but swipe the tops to check for spray over cause cheap stuff will spray glitter over a matte shadow just to get you to think it’s nicer than it is.
Here's my suggestions to try: (PS, I have not tested any of these myself) Foods: . Paprika . Food dye/pigment powders . Powdered ginger . Dried mustard powder . Powdered spices . Ground coffee, instant coffee . Cinnamon . Corn meal . Ground up cereals like fruit loops . Table salt (texture) . Himalayan pink salt ground . Coloured sprinkles (and coloured sugar) ground or not . Ground up hard candy . Ground up chalky candy . Pixy sticks . Ground up Advil . Ground kid vitamins . Pepto pills ground . Dried and ground up berries (maybe collect from cereals that have berries in them?) Natural pigments: . Ochre . Natural powdered paint pigments . Red clay ground up . Ground up dried clay . Charcoal . Coloured sand . Different colours of dirt . Crushed shells (must wear a mask it's really bad to inhale) . Makeup pigments (some are organic) . Powdered henna hair dye . Natural powdered fabric dyes like indigo . Fine sawdust (try different types of coloured wood) . Copper and brass dust . Aluminum dust . Iron dust (get a strong magnet and a bag, drag the magnet through sand) . Rust dust . Dried ground up dandelions . Dried ground up evergreens . Dried ground up grass . Dried, dead evergreen needles ground . Pollen . Ground up dried flowers . Ground up lavender . Ground up dried autumn leaves . Ground up seeds . Chalky rock dust . Graphite dust Other: . Nail powders . Powdered fabric dyes . Paint flakes crushed . Drywall mud dust . Dried nail polish flakes crushed . Ripped up coloured tissue paper . Ripped up thin coloured napkins . Nail glitter . Dried detergent powder . baby powder . Body glitter . Ground up florist foam . Ripped pieces of coloured sponges . Dryer lint? Sometimes I'll wash coloured clothing and when I empty the lint tray it's full of coloured lint . Pencil shavings from coloured pencils
I've tested the coffee powder in my latest wood-filling test, but I use beans that i mix up, and never "ready-to-use" regular coffee, so there were a very little bit of white spots in it. I'm gonna now try cocoa powder to fill wood cracks, it seems ok !
I like the idea of using fine sawdust. It would be recreating bakelite with its wonderful blend of different wood flour colours. I've some old finger plates almost a century old and they're absolutely beautiful
The powdered nail stuff is pretty much all I use. The pigments, the glitter, the Mica - they all work well. Also check out the UV curing clear resin Aliexpress sells - hard in < 10 Minutes.
Actually you could probably do a whole video just experimenting with different powdered things from your spice cabinet and see what sorts of colors you get
www.thespruceeats.com/substitute-dry-mustard-for-prepared-mustard-995466 That's a pretty deep yellow colour. Not very 'pale' at all. Wiki concurs, showing upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Senf-Variationen_edit2.jpg from top to bottom, left to right, mustard seeds, dry mustard powder, mustard with turmeric, a Bavarian sweet brown mustard, dijon mustard *which is turmeric-free*, and a coarse French brown mustard. No, the depth of the yellow of mustard doesn't come from turmeric. Once again, Turmeric is a bright *orange* www.indiamart.com/proddetail/pure-turmeric-powder-16143372297.html looking more like Kraft Dinner's nearly-fluorescent "cheddar cheese" powder. Mixing small amounts of orange with yellow produces a warm, lightly orange-tinted yellow, that's all.
Turmeric is more potent,will change to reddish though. The regular mustard would have worked, but he added an ABSURD Amount, wet/water-based pigment vs. amount of resin. ANY wet pigment would give problems when it’s like 20% of the resin amount! 🤨🤔
Well, of course we want to see more experiments with alternatives to commercial pigments! As for the mustard and hot sauce, they both also have quite a bit of vinegar in them - not just water. With vinegar being anywhere from 3 - 9% acetic acid, do you think it's possible that acid could be another reason for the softer cure on those two? Either way, I really enjoyed this video. Keep 'em coming!
I use eyeshadow in my resin and polymer clay all the time. Dollar tree is a great place to get them ultra cheap. It is wonderful. (Especially since people also give me makeup I really rarely want to wear for presents. Lol)
Fascinating! Thank you for the tutorial. Consider trying RIT fabric dye; gel food colouring (highly concentrated, used for cakes, comes in many colours; found in craft stores/Wal*Mart); beet juice (may not work, as beet is a "fugitive" dye), Easter egg dye tablets (I use them on wool); grape juice; liquid inks; acrylic paints; powdered dried flowers; and/or colored craft sand.
Hi peter! I just wanted to say that as a beginner woodworker having a really rough time, your videos really brighten my day. I rewatch every night because I like to feel like I’m learning something as I fall asleep. So, thank you!
Yes! More experiment! I'll keep an eye open for eyeshadow next flea market. Thank you! I used ground charcoal to get black and it works fine, also black pigments from laser printer toners works great.
As for the makeup, a highlighter powder would be Brill for that Pearl shimmer. Also, what about the other forms of makeup? Sure they will probably fail but it's worth trying! Lip stain?
My mother passed away recently and I've been saving her make up for pigments. Glad this video happened to to confirm my idea that it would be good to use as pigment.
Make her some makeup brush handles or a cup to keep her brushes in with the pigmented resin. If she likes a good deal and sparkly things like me, she’ll be elated.
I've dyed wool with kool aid before, so I was pretty sure that one was going to work. You can do some great things with the colors when you mix different flavors together. I have a sweater that still smells like kool aid, years after I made it.
Michelle Booher we have dyed our hair with kool aid for years. My kids all have super dark hair so it doesn't work on theirs but my siblings all have blonde hair and it looks awesome.
It works, but it's kind of a mess. Regarding working around the natural color, I've found that it's basically the same story with any bright dye. I always stuck with reds or oranges. Trying to do anything blue just ended up being really weak or greenish. Yes, the graybeard in bifocals used to have red striped hair.
The cost of resin is so high that anything already in my house that works well and adds to the variety of colors is great! The eyeshadow is especially good since I have old makeup that I don't want to use now, that will work wonderfully for this. 🙂
Speaking of mixing in household substances with resin... What happens if you mix vinegar with the resin and baking soda with the hardener? Could potentially be pretty weird if they are immiscible with the resin and hardener - little droplets of vinegar randomly coming into contact with bits of baking soda as you mix...
White vinegar will stop the epoxy curing process in its tracks. I often keep vinegar handy in case it gets on my skin. It will wash the uncured epoxy off without leaving that sticky feeling.
I have a bag of lump charcoal in my garage from a forge attempt, and my current project needs a deep black jewel as a decoration. I bought some Alumilite Clear Cast that I'm planning on using to make the gem, so I'm curious to see how the charcoal works as an ebony substitute. I think that would be a great pigment for you to try.
$1 a pack? Holy moles I remember buying those on sale for 5 cents a pack just a few years ago, and I'm pretty sure they're regularly 20 cents each at my local supermarket. You got ripped off man
Peter, you should try something with crushed glass. Good friend of mine has an old tree stump as her LR coffee table and all it is is stained and the top is coated with crushed bottle glass (coke bottles etc.) and resin over it. Simple really but the end result is beautiful.
You can buy ready-crushed glass for use in glass melting projects, it's called frit. It comes in a wide range of colours & sizes, from coarse to powder. If you're melting it with other glass, you need to know about the COE (coefficient of expansion) but in resin that wouldn't matter.
What about warming them? My friend keeps a small pot of random things that she just turns on for a couple minutes and her house smells delicious for hours. I haven't totally figured out her method yet, but it has a orange peel in it and all kinds of things. All natural, so I'm wondering about warming these things up. . . .
Classic yellow mustard has turmeric, which I've seen people use for staining wood. So if emulsified mustard doesn't set right, why not try regular dried, powdered turmeric?
there's also paprika, which can vary from red to yellow depending on how you use it when making it into a dye, so that would be interesting to see how it reacts with the resin. I've dyed fabric with both, it was an interesting experience.
People have been staining wood with turmeric? I thought I was being clever making dandelion petal oil with almond oil and rubbing it into my walking staff
I’m actually blown away by how well most of them worked. I’ve always wondered about food coloring in particular but thought that it wouldn’t be able to mix properly. Great video peter!
RIP for the Cherry Kool-Aid unicorn's missing horn tip 😢 so sad the resin didn't make it up there little buddy, but you're still a beautiful unicorn nonetheless!!
Sugar/Salt for white pearls and herbs (like ground peppers or cinnamon) for other colors? I'll try water-based concrete dyes next time I'll cast something!
As a woman can say eye shadow also comes in matte pallets too if want less glitter or shine also do have much more glittery ones with big flecks in them too sky's the limit with eye shadows.also make matte lipstick too would love to see how that mixed with resin
I just wanted to thank you!!! I just ordered the Art Resin and was looking a the cost of the pigments and was very happy to see the alternatives that you provided. I can't wait to get started. I'm going to try using items out my my spice cabinet.... chili powder, turmeric, cinnamon and anything else that looks colorful. I have LOTS of eye shadows and can't wait to create my first piece of art.... Thanks again.
TrollFaceTheMan I also do this, the trick is to add a smaller amount (3-4 drops for a 30ml/30ml 1:1 mix), and add it BEFORE mixing the two parts together.
Is Lightfastness an issue here though? The alternative colourants aren't designed to resist fading/colour change over time. It's possible that commercial pigments have been selected to be more lightfast- and maybe that's one of the reasons why they're more expensive.
Especially the food color will fade very quickly. Plus the mustard and hot sauce are vinegar based, which will cause issues with the resin. You can clean wet resin with white vinegar.
Not sure to be honest- on one hand they're likely pigment based, but not all pigments are guaranteed to be lightfast (but tend to be more lightfast than dyes). Make-up certainly doesn't need to be lightfast as it's only worn/exposed to light usually for only few hours.
I think this calls for experimentation. How lightfast are commercial pigments, vs. improvised ones? A few samples of a few comparable colors, in various light levels (with controls kept in the dark, of course), and we should be able to form a judgement.
The garden trowel I made Mrs Brown out of cotton and ArtResin dye has been in the sun since March. It's a faded a lot already. I'm not sure of many things that can stand up to the power of the sun! :)
There seems to be a slight translucence to the blue raspberry lemonade paperweight. Very ice-like. I wonder how that would look in a mold for say a snowman, or icicles?
Bugbears and Wormwood these are usually food safe resins, used in chopping boards, worktops, etc. To lick them I don't think would be hazardous; well for the hotsauce, mustard and kool aid
Give the hotsauce one a good rub with your hands for good luck, then rub your eyes! What could possibly go wrong? On a more serious note, what happens when you get the Kool-Aid ones wet? Do they get sticky? They should have quite a bit of sugar in them...
So if you used the unicorn heads and then arranged them, funfair merrygoround style, in a mould, put a clear resin over them... what sort of turning blank might that make... (This is why Mrs Almagill won't let me get a lathe.. yet)
At the Walmart by my house there 16 cents a pack and a dollar gets you 10 also I'd definitely do something with that makup kit those colors would look awesome
If the mustard and hot sauce aren’t liquid in the center, I’d still consider them a success. Gives you more versatility in my own opinion. If you want a softer cast like that with color like that, it could really expand your options.
Water Walker Ministries just curious, when would someone need a soft cast? Would that be an experimental use or is it known to be useful in a softer form?
L R I’m no expert at all on this stuff, I just think it’s cool. I do think it would be experimental, and the ability to make a softer cast like this could open up more creative options.
Any form of rust should work... non reactive metal powders should too but maybe aside gold for yellow it's no point to use a metal... they look grey when in powder form
Food coloring or dyes are also available in powdered form. Mostly used in baking, like when coloring fondant. As for the pearlescent effect, there is a food additive called pearlescence which is used to give food that shimmer effect. A couple/few years ago it was added to a high end vodka and sold as Viniq. It comes in a few different colors with matching flavors.
Skulldust This would be neat, but the chrome powders wouldn’t be chrome, just shiny. They get such a mirror finish by being buffed on the nail so all the particles are aligned, instead of suspended in a matrix. Hooooowever, if a piece was either coated in a thin layer of something adhesive or buffed with the powders while still tacky, that could give a chrome effect I think!
Ryn Mace yeah! that might work!! I know it wouldn't look like the chrome effect on the nails, I'm more interested on what effect it would have in resin.
More experiments I’d love to see: Laundry detergent Instant coffee Graphite power (used as a dry lubricant for bikes and things) Brown sugar Then a bunch of spices like garlic powder, black pepper, cumin, turmeric, etc. Great job dude! This was much more interesting that the thumbnail let on ;)
I love makeup. So a good cheap thing to get would be from NYX cosmetics. They have small powder pigments that are really cheap. In so many colors. So you don’t have to scrape anything from pans of eyeshadow.
Glad I'm not the only one curious about that. I also want to know if they taste like mustard or buffalo sauce. The chocolate one could be a hit. All the flavor, none of the calories!
You should try and make some faux beverages using the actual beverages for the colour. Like maybe get a cheap glass cup and pour some cool aid resin into it, maybe some fake ice cubes and a straw. It would be really cool!
Dip it idea: pipe cleaners one with all of them facing one way and the other one with the pipe cleaners all jumbled up but idk what to make it into lol
I want you to know, I totally appreciate your videos! Your efforts into these experiments is awesome! Thank you!! I’m going to get busy trying your ‘wins’ in future pieces I make! THANK YOUUUU
i make pendants often, and used a lot of my old eyeshadow for dye instead of real resin dye. they've all turned out super well so far, and like you said, the color is often really pigmented and nice! if you leave some bigger chunks of powder or mix some colors together, the effect is often very interesting as well.
Can you try this again with fashion hairdye? There are a few companies that don't use peroxides and stuff, so it may not react? Or it could react and do something crazy lol
This was super helpful! I want to do stuff with resin but could never find affordable colorants. As a makeup hoarder, this gives me hope that it will be useful
Great experiment Peter. I have found the same, epoxy seems to work well with any dry powders and can tolerate small amounts of moisture, but polyurethane resins hate moisture. Cheers, Jim
Haha. It's hilarious you say that. The DIY section of TH-cam is MOSTLY makeup tutorials. You can tell when they just send emails in bulk. So I sometimes get emails from companies "we would love you to review our new mascara on your channel." "We think you'd look hot in our new pumps"
Who WOULDN'T think you'd look hot in a new pair of pumps. I mean really, there is nothing like turning a huge piece of wood in a sexy pair of pumps that make your calfs pop. Get it guuurrrlll
After they're well and truly cured, they wouldn't, there's no way for the aromas to escape the resin matrix. And before they're cured, they smell like the resin hardener.
BRAVO and thanks for such useful, frugal ideas. I appreciate respect for the economics of creative work. Yes, please continue this series. When materials prices are accessible, we can experiment more freely, learn more, grow as artists.
Yes, do another one of these! I was wondering why the coffee and the paprika powder and the arrow root (and basically every other spice..) weren't experimented with.
Interesting. I've got a wood working project with cracks that I wanted to stabilize with some red resin. Its probably something I won't repeat - so the food coloring sounds like a great option.
This was a good test. and i agree the Quantity of Contents from Food die to other water bass pigment choices are the cause of the level of cure. i am Curious to the level of pigments that you can get from other powdered spices. i think you should get a mortar and Pastel. and Do a "nature pigment" gathering Video. go out and grab things that are local to your area and grind them up for pigments. This is the process that was used to make paints and diys in the past. i think this and the video i suggested would be a great idea. i may do it as well even if you do. to see what i can get out of my surroundings.
Diy dyes to try: normal lipstick, liquid lipstick, henna (like the ones that are ready to use), cumin, turmeric, paint (oil, watercolour all grinded up), clothes dye, powdered sugar, nail polish, molasses
I loved this video. The best thing about this channel is the "Things being used in ways they shouldn't" part. So many things you do make me cringe (salt on power tools) but is at the same time so freaking awesome.
I wanted to say thank you for giving me some awesome ideas. I'm a knifemaker in Sacramento CA and I have been wanting to use something other than wood for my handle scales. After seeing this... I'm going to have some new scales to offer. Thank you!
Great Video! If you do another round of testing you should try: coffee, sidewalk chalk, cinnamon, art sand, art glitter, and sugar with food coloring (to see if you get a sparkly pattern.) One other thing you might want mention is if any these things you use retain their smell after a time; items that smell like coffee, chocolate or etc. would be cool.
I'd be interested to see how the food-based ones hold up in six months or so. I imagine the resin would help stabilise it, but it'd be interesting to see if they discolour or go off. Coffee grounds? - I'm a barista, so I've got a ton of those to experiment with when I can get a workshop going. And are you going to Makers Central 2019?
I was also thinking about how they'd hold up over time, so I'd love to see a video in like half a year from now to see what happens. I think coffee grounds would look cool but not necessarily color the resin so much as get suspended within it
i bet you will lose your endorsements for this. Also, you should make a swirl kool aid paperweight.
Good news then. I don't have ANY epoxy sponsors. :)
Not because I'm not a sellout, I think my weird projects scare them off... :)
Gopher the other colors! A-PLUS!
Peter Brown LMAO "not to say I'm opposed to free money!"
How about an endorsement from the brand of art resin he used.He proved that it can handle pretty much anything you throw at it.
I'm not positive that I speak for 100% of your subscribers, but I'm pretty sure we all subscribed to see you put anything and everything in resin. More experiments please. Never stop.
Haha exactly!!
Nathan Cragun Dip it ideas: pop rocks (sealed before), seed pods, eppendorf cups filled with colourful resin inside clear resin, chocolate chip cookie, pailettes
Definitely speaking for me lol
Might not be 100%, but you've spoken for this guy here. All the things. All of them.
Sidewalk chalk, powdered tea, coffee grounds, pen ink, crayons/candle wax, matcha powder...
I also know back in the "olden days" people dyed fabrics with dye made from fruits/veggies...maybe you could make your own dye that way...it would probably end up working like the food coloring.
Another thing is health food powders...like turmeric, spirulina, beet...I see them all the time being sold in large bags.
Astor Reinhardt Do I smell a sequel to this episode?
Also tumeric is fluorescent. He should try it under a blacklight.
Yes, superfood powders should work well. There are a rainbow of colors of them.
Colorful powders can be made by drying peels, like lemon or orange, or herbs or vegetables like parsley or grated beet root and then powdering them in a coffee grinder.
Spices would be great too, like cinnamon, cayenne, saffron......
Any nutritional supplements in the cupboard might be in capsule form, some are colorful, like powdered elderberry, olive leaf, activated charcoal, etc. Some vitamins like a B complex can be bright yellow. They are easily dumped out of the capsule.
There's Rit powdered fabric dyes, about $3.
Crushed Beetle Shells give an interesting color as well.
What about paint? You can try different types and see if they react differently!
I wonder, powdered chalk.
Wow, I was not expecting so many likes. Thank you
[SBD]T3ddY_B3aR that would work great
My favorite thing about this video is when he says affordable products, he means it. I hate how most shows say they’ll experiment with affordable product but only use things that are a dollar or two cheaper than the original. Thank you, Peter. :)
For the makeup you can easily purchase at a Dollar Tree
Get the leftover makeup from wife or girlfriend that wants to change to some other color.
You should make a make up brush for your wife with a resin handle dyed with make up :D
That would be so cool
omg yes!
Vi Do that is a good idea!
Vi Do that would be so cool! Also if he used her hair for the bristles instead of false stuff it would make it more personal for her... If you are wondering, yes, human hair makes for awesome makeup brushes...
I don't know what to do with this information...
The cocoa powder definitely surprises me! That actually seems like a viable option when I want a dark brown/black for filling voids in stuff I’m working on.
Crafted Workshop yeah, it’s really dark brown nearly black and it’s cheap
Well now my own comment seems redundant and 2 hours too late. I like the way you think.
I wonder if the chocolate smell comes through as well, would be cool.
rdizzy1 tried after this and yes, turning on a lathe it smells of ghastly burnt chocolate.
Try with cinnamon then turn it on the lathe and see if it smells
I would love to see that. Cautioning to wear goggles though as I'm quite sure it would sting a lot.
I wonder if the cocoa or mustard still smelled.
If they did, cocoa/coffee would be interesting.
Dream Services International they most likely would
Yes I hope he sees this and acts on it.
Yeah I wonder this too. Did the cocoa powder smell like chocolate after it cured??
You just saved me about $ 50. I was about to go out and buy pigment for a tiny project and now I am going to use a blue eyeshadow that I will never wear. Thanks for your ingenious mind.
Do we want you to do more weird stuff? I mean is that really a question your asking of this community. Do you even know us at all?
ErrantScholar ---- well he's not a dictator.
That's a great point though. I love the weird, experimental type of stuff Peter does just to see what happens.
Anyone trying the makeup: Walmart around holiday time has like no brand cheap makeup, many company’s sell loose pigment eyeshadow, dollar store has cheap eyeshadow.
For a project you’ll want cheap stuff but swipe the tops to check for spray over cause cheap stuff will spray glitter over a matte shadow just to get you to think it’s nicer than it is.
Jordan Moore try tkb trading for serious bulk makeup stuff if you're legit interested in it!
But they won't be as light fast likely.
Things you should try that came to mind:
- Charcoal powder
- Blendered and dried flower leafs
- Regular oil/water-based paint
Here's my suggestions to try:
(PS, I have not tested any of these myself)
Foods:
. Paprika
. Food dye/pigment powders
. Powdered ginger
. Dried mustard powder
. Powdered spices
. Ground coffee, instant coffee
. Cinnamon
. Corn meal
. Ground up cereals like fruit loops
. Table salt (texture)
. Himalayan pink salt ground
. Coloured sprinkles (and coloured sugar) ground or not
. Ground up hard candy
. Ground up chalky candy
. Pixy sticks
. Ground up Advil
. Ground kid vitamins
. Pepto pills ground
. Dried and ground up berries (maybe collect from cereals that have berries in them?)
Natural pigments:
. Ochre
. Natural powdered paint pigments
. Red clay ground up
. Ground up dried clay
. Charcoal
. Coloured sand
. Different colours of dirt
. Crushed shells (must wear a mask it's really bad to inhale)
. Makeup pigments (some are organic)
. Powdered henna hair dye
. Natural powdered fabric dyes like indigo
. Fine sawdust (try different types of coloured wood)
. Copper and brass dust
. Aluminum dust
. Iron dust (get a strong magnet and a bag, drag the magnet through sand)
. Rust dust
. Dried ground up dandelions
. Dried ground up evergreens
. Dried ground up grass
. Dried, dead evergreen needles ground
. Pollen
. Ground up dried flowers
. Ground up lavender
. Ground up dried autumn leaves
. Ground up seeds
. Chalky rock dust
. Graphite dust
Other:
. Nail powders
. Powdered fabric dyes
. Paint flakes crushed
. Drywall mud dust
. Dried nail polish flakes crushed
. Ripped up coloured tissue paper
. Ripped up thin coloured napkins
. Nail glitter
. Dried detergent powder
. baby powder
. Body glitter
. Ground up florist foam
. Ripped pieces of coloured sponges
. Dryer lint? Sometimes I'll wash coloured clothing and when I empty the lint tray it's full of coloured lint
. Pencil shavings from coloured pencils
I've tested the coffee powder in my latest wood-filling test, but I use beans that i mix up,
and never "ready-to-use" regular coffee, so there were a very little bit of white spots in it.
I'm gonna now try cocoa powder to fill wood cracks, it seems ok !
Nail powder would look soooo cool in resin
Nice list
How about pepto bismuth
I like the idea of using fine sawdust. It would be recreating bakelite with its wonderful blend of different wood flour colours. I've some old finger plates almost a century old and they're absolutely beautiful
I wonder what will happen if you tried the many powders for nail art/manicures. Thye have metallic, holographic and iridescent powders.
ThornHeartRed they work. Many people on instagram use them and they look awesome in sunlight
They use them for resin dyes on instagram?
The powdered nail stuff is pretty much all I use. The pigments, the glitter, the Mica - they all work well. Also check out the UV curing clear resin Aliexpress sells - hard in < 10 Minutes.
I was going to say the same thing because its basically the same method
kitchenmaiden81 yep
I was surprised you didn't use the mustard powder too, certainly more experiments please.
For deep yellow, use turmeric. It's also very healthy.
Actually you could probably do a whole video just experimenting with different powdered things from your spice cabinet and see what sorts of colors you get
Turmeric is an orange-yellow. Deep yellow you'd be better off just using dry mustard. Plus, it's cheaper.
Not in resin is very healthy
Kain Yusanagi dry mustard is just a pale color. The only reason yellow mustard is that bright yellow is because of turmeric.
www.thespruceeats.com/substitute-dry-mustard-for-prepared-mustard-995466 That's a pretty deep yellow colour. Not very 'pale' at all. Wiki concurs, showing upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Senf-Variationen_edit2.jpg from top to bottom, left to right, mustard seeds, dry mustard powder, mustard with turmeric, a Bavarian sweet brown mustard, dijon mustard *which is turmeric-free*, and a coarse French brown mustard.
No, the depth of the yellow of mustard doesn't come from turmeric. Once again, Turmeric is a bright *orange* www.indiamart.com/proddetail/pure-turmeric-powder-16143372297.html looking more like Kraft Dinner's nearly-fluorescent "cheddar cheese" powder. Mixing small amounts of orange with yellow produces a warm, lightly orange-tinted yellow, that's all.
turmeric powder (to replace the mustard) and paprika (to replace the hot sauce) or mix them together
I was thinking the same
Or just mustard powder. I wonder which is more potent in color, also, which will change less in color. The mustard seemed to darken.
Turmeric is more potent,will change to reddish though. The regular mustard would have worked, but he added an ABSURD Amount, wet/water-based pigment vs. amount of resin. ANY wet pigment would give problems when it’s like 20% of the resin amount! 🤨🤔
Ramen packet😂
I'd love to see more of this stuff, maybe make a series "Will it pigment"?
I'm just picturing GMM style Will It series but for makers. Not the old fashioned Will It Blend but the shitpostiness of GMM
we'll never know what the pigment without interviewing him.
*GMM would like to know your location*
Oh they'll do gross ones alright
Well, of course we want to see more experiments with alternatives to commercial pigments! As for the mustard and hot sauce, they both also have quite a bit of vinegar in them - not just water. With vinegar being anywhere from 3 - 9% acetic acid, do you think it's possible that acid could be another reason for the softer cure on those two?
Either way, I really enjoyed this video. Keep 'em coming!
That's what I was thinking too. Still greater volume of non-resin liquid so it's an interesting chemistry question.
I use eyeshadow in my resin and polymer clay all the time. Dollar tree is a great place to get them ultra cheap. It is wonderful. (Especially since people also give me makeup I really rarely want to wear for presents. Lol)
and 3/4 of what my wife buys are colors she never uses so I can have for free LOL
Same. I have a friend who is a makeup addict. She gifts me barely used pallets all the time. Most of them get used in resin lol
Fascinating! Thank you for the tutorial. Consider trying RIT fabric dye; gel food colouring (highly concentrated, used for cakes, comes in many colours; found in craft stores/Wal*Mart); beet juice (may not work, as beet is a "fugitive" dye), Easter egg dye tablets (I use them on wool); grape juice; liquid inks; acrylic paints; powdered dried flowers; and/or colored craft sand.
ooh I would love to see how craft sand would work.
Up next, Peter raids Mrs. Browns spice cabinet to make turmeric unicorns
Hi peter! I just wanted to say that as a beginner woodworker having a really rough time, your videos really brighten my day. I rewatch every night because I like to feel like I’m learning something as I fall asleep. So, thank you!
“It smells like chocolate but if you eat this.. you’ll be dead!”
Sounds like a win-win to me
Yes! More experiment! I'll keep an eye open for eyeshadow next flea market. Thank you!
I used ground charcoal to get black and it works fine, also black pigments from laser printer toners works great.
Black Beard Projects love you're channel!
Garage sales are a better bet.
Yeah wow you gained a new follower. Do a collab with him! Wishful.
Dollar tree has eye shadow. You can get several colors for $1. Probably same at poundland if you're in uk
Black Beard Projects
The real question is... Do they still smell like the ingredients you used???
THIS!
I came here to ask this.
Do they taste like them?
Yes! I was going to ask this too.
I also came here to ask this. I dye yarn with kool aid and the yarn retains the smell for quite a while.
More pigments, definitely! It'd be great to see what else you can use for colors.
Incredibly helpful, thank you. Just went and got a 177 colour eye shadow kit for $25 and now I have so many colours to work with! You're awesome
Does this count as a "Dip-it" or could this be a new series called "Dye-it"?
Dishonored Gaming yess, new segment please!!!
I agree
Dishonored Gaming I say we can call this one shop science then when he uses these in other projects they can be dye it's
Totally agree this should be a new series.
I've crushed charcoal from my fire pit in a mortar and pestle and it works great for black dye
Andy Prokopyk yeah it's just a lot purer
Question: since resin bubbles (though slowly), how would it react to soap?
I'd love to see you continue experimenting with colouring resin!
HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo may instead of a hard soap he should use something like a powdered soap or even shampoo? That could be interesting.
I know it's been like 8 months but I'm curious to know how the colors have held up over time and exposure to light? Any fading?
I absolutely love how you experimented with different items. Thanks for sharing.
As for the makeup, a highlighter powder would be Brill for that Pearl shimmer.
Also, what about the other forms of makeup? Sure they will probably fail but it's worth trying! Lip stain?
Some Jeffrey Star cosmetics perhaps? 😏
Off to add eye shadow to my Amazon cart, countdown to wife starting to ask questions...
Also, grout works awesome for coloring and it's stupid cheap (limited in colors though)
My mother passed away recently and I've been saving her make up for pigments. Glad this video happened to to confirm my idea that it would be good to use as pigment.
Make her some makeup brush handles or a cup to keep her brushes in with the pigmented resin. If she likes a good deal and sparkly things like me, she’ll be elated.
Check Dollar Stores first for eye makeup, ;)
I love making the algorithm confused.
I've dyed wool with kool aid before, so I was pretty sure that one was going to work. You can do some great things with the colors when you mix different flavors together. I have a sweater that still smells like kool aid, years after I made it.
Michelle Booher we have dyed our hair with kool aid for years. My kids all have super dark hair so it doesn't work on theirs but my siblings all have blonde hair and it looks awesome.
my 6th grade teacher said he had a college friend back in the 90s that dyed her hair with koolaid lol.
It works, but it's kind of a mess. Regarding working around the natural color, I've found that it's basically the same story with any bright dye. I always stuck with reds or oranges. Trying to do anything blue just ended up being really weak or greenish.
Yes, the graybeard in bifocals used to have red striped hair.
Kool aid is a fairly common hair dye in diy communities. And its used A LOT by cosplayers for dying fabric
that gray beard should take blue easily now without getting greenish... just saying.
The cost of resin is so high that anything already in my house that works well and adds to the variety of colors is great! The eyeshadow is especially good since I have old makeup that I don't want to use now, that will work wonderfully for this. 🙂
Speaking of mixing in household substances with resin...
What happens if you mix vinegar with the resin and baking soda with the hardener?
Could potentially be pretty weird if they are immiscible with the resin and hardener - little droplets of vinegar randomly coming into contact with bits of baking soda as you mix...
upvote this so he does it!!!
i wanna see this!!!
That could be awesome!
Knottie_gurl Deanna Morris sounds more like a mess
White vinegar will stop the epoxy curing process in its tracks. I often keep vinegar handy in case it gets on my skin. It will wash the uncured epoxy off without leaving that sticky feeling.
I have a bag of lump charcoal in my garage from a forge attempt, and my current project needs a deep black jewel as a decoration. I bought some Alumilite Clear Cast that I'm planning on using to make the gem, so I'm curious to see how the charcoal works as an ebony substitute. I think that would be a great pigment for you to try.
It works! I used ground charcoal many times as black pigment :)
Graphite is a known pigment. The cocoa powder reminds me more of polished ebony though.
I never tried resin but i mix charcoal with expoxy all the time and it works great.
Is it possible to vacuum the resin inside the coal like people do to harden softwoods?
Yes, use cactus juice, or another similar stabilising resin, and follow the instructions.
"it has a great uniform color," you mean "it has a great unicorn color."
$1 a pack for Koolaid? OUCH! I get mine for 20-25c each.
$1 a pack? Holy moles I remember buying those on sale for 5 cents a pack just a few years ago, and I'm pretty sure they're regularly 20 cents each at my local supermarket. You got ripped off man
SW IM they're like 15cents a pack where i am in the US
That's fantastic news. Then Kool-Aid is a super CHEAP OPTION!
Peter Brown yeah especially that red, it came out looking like the color cherry red Ferrari
The trick is catching them on sale, swooping in, and buying everything. IIRC, they're cheapest around the end of summer.
14¢ at winco where i live
Peter, you should try something with crushed glass. Good friend of mine has an old tree stump as her LR coffee table and all it is is stained and the top is coated with crushed bottle glass (coke bottles etc.) and resin over it. Simple really but the end result is beautiful.
You can buy ready-crushed glass for use in glass melting projects, it's called frit. It comes in a wide range of colours & sizes, from coarse to powder. If you're melting it with other glass, you need to know about the COE (coefficient of expansion) but in resin that wouldn't matter.
Try powdered iced tea?
Or Matcha?
Do they still smell like their flavors after curing?
What about warming them? My friend keeps a small pot of random things that she just turns on for a couple minutes and her house smells delicious for hours. I haven't totally figured out her method yet, but it has a orange peel in it and all kinds of things. All natural, so I'm wondering about warming these things up. . . .
SKJEAN3107 is it an wax warmer?
SKJEAN3107 Well that sounds dumb and dangerous. Just buy an air freshener
Logan Huntley lets totally not boil what is essentially tea and lets just spray a can of chemicals everywhere. You’re so bright.
Im wondering if the taste is the flavors or just the resin
Classic yellow mustard has turmeric, which I've seen people use for staining wood. So if emulsified mustard doesn't set right, why not try regular dried, powdered turmeric?
Adding to this, what would other wood stains and finishing methods look like? Could probably get some lovely golden resins!
there's also paprika, which can vary from red to yellow depending on how you use it when making it into a dye, so that would be interesting to see how it reacts with the resin. I've dyed fabric with both, it was an interesting experience.
Even looking at fresh tumeric will stain your hands orange for days
Curious too about how bright paprika or cayenne powder would turn out...
People have been staining wood with turmeric? I thought I was being clever making dandelion petal oil with almond oil and rubbing it into my walking staff
watercolour maybe? grind it up into powder when it's dry
Catherine Alekseyenko good idea watercolour yes grind it up in toms powder .
Omg I had this exact thought and commented it before I saw you had already! Wouldn't it be so interesting!?
lol unless ur talking like a prang set that’s rly not much cheaper.
I’m actually blown away by how well most of them worked. I’ve always wondered about food coloring in particular but thought that it wouldn’t be able to mix properly. Great video peter!
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Powdered food colouring should be even less of an issue than the liquid stuff.
RIP for the Cherry Kool-Aid unicorn's missing horn tip 😢 so sad the resin didn't make it up there little buddy, but you're still a beautiful unicorn nonetheless!!
Sugar/Salt for white pearls and herbs (like ground peppers or cinnamon) for other colors?
I'll try water-based concrete dyes next time I'll cast something!
I really like the one at 11:00. It's easily my favorite because of the Pearl color and the slight tint of blue.
I'd have to agree. Polish it up a bit make it shine bet it'd look real pretty.
As a woman can say eye shadow also comes in matte pallets too if want less glitter or shine also do have much more glittery ones with big flecks in them too sky's the limit with eye shadows.also make matte lipstick too would love to see how that mixed with resin
I don't think there is such a thing as too much glitter in resin. At least not in this corner of TH-cam.
I just wanted to thank you!!! I just ordered the Art Resin and was looking a the cost of the pigments and was very happy to see the alternatives that you provided. I can't wait to get started. I'm going to try using items out my my spice cabinet.... chili powder, turmeric, cinnamon and anything else that looks colorful. I have LOTS of eye shadows and can't wait to create my first piece of art.... Thanks again.
Did they work? :D
Honestly I've had great luck with Acrylic paint so long as you don't add too much.
Might be worth you trying too?
TrollFaceTheMan I also do this, the trick is to add a smaller amount (3-4 drops for a 30ml/30ml 1:1 mix), and add it BEFORE mixing the two parts together.
Sabrina, sounds just about like what I do :)
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Is Lightfastness an issue here though?
The alternative colourants aren't designed to resist fading/colour change over time. It's possible that commercial pigments have been selected to be more lightfast- and maybe that's one of the reasons why they're more expensive.
Especially the food color will fade very quickly. Plus the mustard and hot sauce are vinegar based, which will cause issues with the resin. You can clean wet resin with white vinegar.
I'd like to see Peter put that display he was waving around at the end in the sun for a week.
Not sure to be honest- on one hand they're likely pigment based, but not all pigments are guaranteed to be lightfast (but tend to be more lightfast than dyes). Make-up certainly doesn't need to be lightfast as it's only worn/exposed to light usually for only few hours.
I think this calls for experimentation. How lightfast are commercial pigments, vs. improvised ones? A few samples of a few comparable colors, in various light levels (with controls kept in the dark, of course), and we should be able to form a judgement.
The garden trowel I made Mrs Brown out of cotton and ArtResin dye has been in the sun since March. It's a faded a lot already. I'm not sure of many things that can stand up to the power of the sun! :)
There seems to be a slight translucence to the blue raspberry lemonade paperweight. Very ice-like.
I wonder how that would look in a mold for say a snowman, or icicles?
More experiments please.
Peter's wife: Peter! Have you seen my eye shadow pallet, it was in the bathroom...
Peter: nope, no idea...
Peter: ...anyway here's a new makeup brush with a resin handle in your favourite color!
MinionMI ooohh, that would be so cool!
Her name is Lois.
Okay we need someone to taste these....
I’m your huckleberry
Glad in not only one who would be tempted to lick them aha
You’d be Finnished
Bugbears and Wormwood these are usually food safe resins, used in chopping boards, worktops, etc.
To lick them I don't think would be hazardous; well for the hotsauce, mustard and kool aid
I was thinking same thing lol
Give the hotsauce one a good rub with your hands for good luck, then rub your eyes! What could possibly go wrong?
On a more serious note, what happens when you get the Kool-Aid ones wet? Do they get sticky? They should have quite a bit of sugar in them...
"Yea this smells like chocolate...but if you eat it, you'd be dead!" is probably one of the top crafting video quotes I've heard.
So if you used the unicorn heads and then arranged them, funfair merrygoround style, in a mould, put a clear resin over them... what sort of turning blank might that make... (This is why Mrs Almagill won't let me get a lathe.. yet)
almagill DO IT! That sounds awesome XD
At the Walmart by my house there 16 cents a pack and a dollar gets you 10 also I'd definitely do something with that makup kit those colors would look awesome
If the mustard and hot sauce aren’t liquid in the center, I’d still consider them a success. Gives you more versatility in my own opinion. If you want a softer cast like that with color like that, it could really expand your options.
Water Walker Ministries just curious, when would someone need a soft cast? Would that be an experimental use or is it known to be useful in a softer form?
L R I’m no expert at all on this stuff, I just think it’s cool. I do think it would be experimental, and the ability to make a softer cast like this could open up more creative options.
Ah ok thanks. I'm no expert either 😅
Would also be great for kids toys,they'd soon learn not to chew on them
My new favorite channel this guy is as real as it gets.
Can you try rust powder next?
Maybe contact Alec Steel, I'm sure he has boatloads of powdered iron from his projects... =D
Great idea!!
Any form of rust should work... non reactive metal powders should too but maybe aside gold for yellow it's no point to use a metal... they look grey when in powder form
Food coloring or dyes are also available in powdered form. Mostly used in baking, like when coloring fondant. As for the pearlescent effect, there is a food additive called pearlescence which is used to give food that shimmer effect. A couple/few years ago it was added to a high end vodka and sold as Viniq. It comes in a few different colors with matching flavors.
Yeah but at that point it would be cheaper to buy the mica powder outright because the pearlescent powder I got is a buck an ounce.
You can try powder food colour?? Also out of pure curiosity can you try the "chrome effect" nail powders?
Skulldust This would be neat, but the chrome powders wouldn’t be chrome, just shiny. They get such a mirror finish by being buffed on the nail so all the particles are aligned, instead of suspended in a matrix. Hooooowever, if a piece was either coated in a thin layer of something adhesive or buffed with the powders while still tacky, that could give a chrome effect I think!
Ryn Mace yeah! that might work!!
I know it wouldn't look like the chrome effect on the nails, I'm more interested on what effect it would have in resin.
Mark Tikhansky YAAASS!!!!
OMG can you imagine if Peter and Cristine did a collab? He could resin cast her Nail Peelies!
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This takes "I put that shit on everything" to a whole new level.
More experiments I’d love to see:
Laundry detergent
Instant coffee
Graphite power (used as a dry lubricant for bikes and things)
Brown sugar
Then a bunch of spices like garlic powder, black pepper, cumin, turmeric, etc.
Great job dude! This was much more interesting that the thumbnail let on ;)
I love makeup. So a good cheap thing to get would be from NYX cosmetics. They have small powder pigments that are really cheap. In so many colors. So you don’t have to scrape anything from pans of eyeshadow.
That's what I thought, too. Easier dosage and simple storage.
So cool Peter! I want to see more!! Do they still smell like the original food products?
Michael Alm I was wondering the same, like those t-shirts that smelled like chocolate or scented markers
Glad I'm not the only one curious about that. I also want to know if they taste like mustard or buffalo sauce. The chocolate one could be a hit. All the flavor, none of the calories!
I was wondering the same thing
i still wanna know this
@@zoezhou9755 he answers that question in his next video like this. I think the answer was no. Not sure though
Hey Peter! Thanks to you i just poured a live edge river bench with make up pigments. And i love how it turned out.
Greetings from Germany
Florian
Does the resin fully encapsulate the food based "dyes" or can you still smell Kool-aid/chocolate/mustard?
That’s actually a great question! 🤔
@Dixie Korley ...........fishy business.....next video !
You should try and make some faux beverages using the actual beverages for the colour. Like maybe get a cheap glass cup and pour some cool aid resin into it, maybe some fake ice cubes and a straw. It would be really cool!
Dip it idea: pipe cleaners one with all of them facing one way and the other one with the pipe cleaners all jumbled up but idk what to make it into lol
Huntrix Mata deathbowl 2.0. XD
I want you to know, I totally appreciate your videos! Your efforts into these experiments is awesome! Thank you!! I’m going to get busy trying your ‘wins’ in future pieces I make! THANK YOUUUU
Matt and I use 80 grit sandpaper on coal to make black and it worked well :)
I'd like to see you use the makeup more in the future 💜 I absolutly loved the way they came out
LOL! Do they smell good after curing?
Travis Williamson I also need to know this!
Yes please let us know!
Also I'd love to see more alternatives to dyes.
not the mustard
This is what I was wondering too - can you smell the kool aid and other food products after it cures?
I asked the same question. he answered me and said "No. The resin took over once it cured."
kinda sad. i was hoping it would smell :P
i make pendants often, and used a lot of my old eyeshadow for dye instead of real resin dye. they've all turned out super well so far, and like you said, the color is often really pigmented and nice! if you leave some bigger chunks of powder or mix some colors together, the effect is often very interesting as well.
Can you try this again with fashion hairdye? There are a few companies that don't use peroxides and stuff, so it may not react? Or it could react and do something crazy lol
Moar homemade pigs pleaz
This was super helpful! I want to do stuff with resin but could never find affordable colorants. As a makeup hoarder, this gives me hope that it will be useful
I don't know why I keep rewatching these but they are so good, thanks for the great videos!
Great experiment Peter. I have found the same, epoxy seems to work well with any dry powders and can tolerate small amounts of moisture, but polyurethane resins hate moisture. Cheers, Jim
when this becomes a makeup channel... use code shoptime for 10% off a palette XD
Haha. It's hilarious you say that. The DIY section of TH-cam is MOSTLY makeup tutorials.
You can tell when they just send emails in bulk. So I sometimes get emails from companies "we would love you to review our new mascara on your channel." "We think you'd look hot in our new pumps"
Kieran Leonard i give him a week until hes a morphe affiliate lol
Who WOULDN'T think you'd look hot in a new pair of pumps. I mean really, there is nothing like turning a huge piece of wood in a sexy pair of pumps that make your calfs pop. Get it guuurrrlll
think , girls go look strangs, if man go fight for make up too now, , and looks very good too (in resin )
How about a Holo-Collab with Nailological?
I’m just dying to know if they’ve smell like the ingredients used
After they're well and truly cured, they wouldn't, there's no way for the aromas to escape the resin matrix. And before they're cured, they smell like the resin hardener.
BRAVO and thanks for such useful, frugal ideas. I appreciate respect for the economics of creative work. Yes, please continue this series. When materials prices are accessible, we can experiment more freely, learn more, grow as artists.
The green coolaid looks like jade/ Greenstone! super cool
I thought the same thing. I wonder which flavor would make Turquoise?
Yes, do another one of these! I was wondering why the coffee and the paprika powder and the arrow root (and basically every other spice..) weren't experimented with.
Do any of them have a smell afterwards?
Interesting. I've got a wood working project with cracks that I wanted to stabilize with some red resin. Its probably something I won't repeat - so the food coloring sounds like a great option.
This was a good test. and i agree the Quantity of Contents from Food die to other water bass pigment choices are the cause of the level of cure. i am Curious to the level of pigments that you can get from other powdered spices. i think you should get a mortar and Pastel. and Do a "nature pigment" gathering Video. go out and grab things that are local to your area and grind them up for pigments. This is the process that was used to make paints and diys in the past. i think this and the video i suggested would be a great idea. i may do it as well even if you do. to see what i can get out of my surroundings.
Diy dyes to try: normal lipstick, liquid lipstick, henna (like the ones that are ready to use), cumin, turmeric, paint (oil, watercolour all grinded up), clothes dye, powdered sugar, nail polish, molasses
ooh, molasses....
I loved this video. The best thing about this channel is the "Things being used in ways they shouldn't" part. So many things you do make me cringe (salt on power tools) but is at the same time so freaking awesome.
I wanted to say thank you for giving me some awesome ideas. I'm a knifemaker in Sacramento CA and I have been wanting to use something other than wood for my handle scales. After seeing this... I'm going to have some new scales to offer. Thank you!
MY WIFE: you used my eye shadow for what??? have you lost your mind???
ME: but honey Peter said I could...
yea that would not go well!!.....😀
The dollar store! As cheap as kool aid evidently! lol
T C lol 😂😂 you can use it and replace it :-)
Great Video! If you do another round of testing you should try: coffee, sidewalk chalk, cinnamon, art sand, art glitter, and sugar with food coloring (to see if you get a sparkly pattern.) One other thing you might want mention is if any these things you use retain their smell after a time; items that smell like coffee, chocolate or etc. would be cool.
I'd be interested to see how the food-based ones hold up in six months or so. I imagine the resin would help stabilise it, but it'd be interesting to see if they discolour or go off. Coffee grounds? - I'm a barista, so I've got a ton of those to experiment with when I can get a workshop going.
And are you going to Makers Central 2019?
And you could make stoppers for jars and bottles with the sauce or whatever suspended within them!
I was also thinking about how they'd hold up over time, so I'd love to see a video in like half a year from now to see what happens. I think coffee grounds would look cool but not necessarily color the resin so much as get suspended within it
He's got a video on a coffee bean tamper handle that worked nicely, so grounds might work just fine!