DIY Epoxy Resin Sign with LEDs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- In this build i Create an "On Air" sign for my office using Epoxy Resin instead of acrylic. I make the custom sized sheets from epoxy and then tint them to the color i want. Using my CNC I route out the grooves and then make a groove to pour the rest of the resin into it. I back light it with a battery powered LED light and use a torch to give the whole thing a Shoshugibon finish!
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I've been watching a lot of your old videos and the difference with this one is striking. Not just the cinematography and sound which is obviously much improved, but at first you were so formal and tentative and trying to be "professional" and by this time you were just letting your personality come out and these videos just overflow with energy and fun. It's been fun watching the evolution.
Personally, I would use LED tape around the inner perimeter. Everything else is fantastic.
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You're my Hero John! Ron Swanson! American Flag! GUNS! and some serious woodworking Talent
Almost Famous! Love that movie
Sign came out nice and good recovery after that little mishap with the resin! Your shop continues to come along nicely.
Thank you! ya the shop is coming along ! little bit at a time
Thanks for a RAD video. I'm a designer who's studying up before my first resin pour... Very fun to watch you.
Loved the video I like that you show your mishaps and how you fix them in stead of editing them out keep the videos coming!!!!
GLad you enjoyed it Todd! Im not perfect haha so why not show it
The on air panel needs to be edge lit to stop it looking like a blob of light in the center.
awesome idea, I bet that shop is becoming a great place to spend all your time.
Yea its really coming together nicely
If you still have the molds you used, I would suggest remaking the resin back plate and tinting it a MUCH more opaque white, milling out the ON AIR letters and filling them in with a transparent red so when the light is on, it only shows through the red letters rather than the white background...The translucent white makes the sign hard to read...
You are " Almost famous" and great video bro!
or you could cnc the letters into a piece of wood, pour the resin and them plane off the back of the sign so the epoxy letter let light through. :)
You sir just got me to subscribe for your outstanding vocals and movie knowledge lol 👍🏼
Its what i think my true future is
John Malecki no doubt, ur wasting your time making stuff
I can picture the standing on top of the roof scene now...great movie! Even greater build video, John. Really enjoyed all the problem solving in this build!
Such a good movie!
This is something every content creator needs. Thanks John! Very Cool and Fun Video to watch and learn from!
Glad you enjoyed it !
Almost Famous, my favorite movie.
I see a bunch of folks have gotten the movie correct, a great film indeed.
Pretty slick idea, and it serves a purpose.
Thanks NIck!
Hey dude, if your resin is super cold it's good to give the bottles a warm bath for 5 minutes, it makes it much easier to measure and mix. Also using a drill to mix it is the reason your "clear" sheet was so frosty, there are loads of microbubbles in it. It's best to set a timer for 5 minutes and mix by hand. If you don't have a timer just mix it for as long as you think it could possibly take to mix the ingredients, scrape the sides, then mix until you want to gouge out your eyes with a grapefruit spoon. McDonald's drink stirrers are excellent for small batches.
Thanks Toby, the clear was actually tinted white, so thats why its cloudy, thats the look i wanted. but good tips!
@@John_Malecki So you're saying I actually have to watch the video before telling you you're doing everything wrong? How professional, that's never going to work on TH-cam.
hahah sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesnt. But a lot of people suggested no drill. I think with the ultra slow setting stuff is the only time a drill is good, because it has so long to let air release
You are talking about Rocketman. 😎😎 Your art and builds are so inspiring to me, you make me want to be more ambitious with my life just watching how much you enjoy life. ❤️ Youre a great rolmodel to a number of people.
Probably "Almost Famous" is the more well-known use of that song, tho'.
John, your page is such an inspiration! I used to post a lot of how to videos on my page before I went deaf. Because of creators like you i recently decided to start uploading content again even though my audio may not be up to par like it used to be. Just like you I love to teach people new things! Thank you!
thats so awesome to hear my friend! glad you got back to making more content my friend
Great work John!
Appreciate it !
Hey great video and great sense of humor! Thanks for making it.
Looks good. I'm sure like with every project there are things you would have changed. But for a whim project looks really nice!
Thank you!
This was awesome! Cool sign!
Thank you jennifer!
Really cool John! 👍🏻👊🏻
GLad you enjoy it Fred!
Semper Fi !!!!!!!!!!
Wonderful
This is great John.
Thank you!
Great build! 👊🏻
You should do some epoxy river floating book shelves or something that would be cool
Great project my dude!
thanks Sam!
I don’t know if it was my equipment, but couldn’t hear you to good. Nice job with the epoxy, came out nice.
Thanks Derek, try with heaphones !
Nice!
Thanks Dan!
Almost famous is the movie.
Nailed it, such a good one !
@@John_Malecki
Thanks....It was a good movie. I have seen it more than a few times.
One of the other Wood & Resin builders I watch (sorry, can't remember which one) puts his resin bottles in a hot water bath just prior to pouring & mixing, that way even if the shop is cold, the resin isn't and it pours/mixes nicely...
I’ve seen Peter Brown do that, if that’s who you mean
@@Dust76tr Could be.
May also have been Nick Zammeti in the UK...
If this is the type of stuff my grandpa watched on HGTV, I would actually sit down and watch it with him.
CNC isn't woodworking. It's machine operating.
That scream made my dog look! Lol
Now we're onto something. I figured out how to get the dogs attention !
@@John_Malecki you are knocking your videos out of the park! Been enjoying them for a longtime now. Keep it up!
I was wondering why you would use MAP gas for removing bubbles from the epoxy resin, then I saw the sponsor. Yay bernzomatic!
Ive always used it tho, MAP or Propane. you could use a heat gun, i dont have a huge heat gun tho
@@John_Malecki my apologies! I go for the cheaper propane whenever possible.
yep works just as well!
Looks good bro! You could also use aluminum tape like the tape for HVAC relfex light well
nothing like a little inspo from the one and only, i like to make stuff :) love it man!
one of the best
Looks great! I wish we had a CNC machine haha! Love the work :)
A way to make this easier and cheaper is just red and white acrylic or PVC sheets and skip that step. Hobby shops usually have finished lettering too if you want to go real basic with it. Or you can buy vinyl sheets, cut it with a vinyl cutter and stick it to the back of a clear acrylic sheet.
Movie is Almost Famous, but not gonna lie, never seen it (not sure how I remember where the music is from though). Great use of epoxy to make something that doesn't have a lake/stream/pond/brook/gulf in it. Love how the light comes through. For the shou sugi ban finish, does it matter if you're using map gas or propane (yellow vs blue fuel)? Never done it before, but would love to give it a try.
thank you! it doesnt matter what heat source you use, lots of people use both!
That movie is Almost as Famous as you. :) Great build. You never cease to amaze me. Quick question, what type of wood is this? You may have said I missed it.
Nailed it ! its reclaimed oak
the best way to make sure your epoxy will cure the same every time is use a scale in grams, and use the mix rate IE 100 to 33
Love the girly scream when the epoxy broke. I imagine a few harsher words off camera. lol. Question: did the epoxy gum up the drum sander belt much? Did you have to clean it often?
Very cool sign. I appreciate you leaving in all the missteps. Not enough people do that. We all know nothing goes as planned. It's nice when someone isn't afraid to acknowledge that with their own videos.
Hey Don, it did not, when it dries to full hardness it typically doesnt gum up bad at all. Glad you enjoy the video !
Good to know, John. I guess then it's kinda like when varnish or poly cures it sands off as a white dust instead of gumming up. That knowledge will come in handy for the future. Thanks for that.
Crush it !
Looks great, thats good work right there! Going to send a sticker, send me one back, really like the channel!!
Hey Jordan, I dont sticker swap, but would love to have one of yours !
@@John_Malecki no worries, stickers are on they're way!!
Thanks brother
Switch should go in SERIES with the supply, not in parallel :P I guess you tripped the breaker? (or blew up the powersupply) well, you learned it for next time :) and the end result was great!
Haha i dont know crap about electric, but thank you!
Almost famous
should try a red tint spray over the lights
I will have to give that a shot
That’s what I was thinking
Is the movie “Almost Famous”?
Your music is always killer! What service do you use?
I use epidemic sound
@@John_Malecki I had a feeling that's what it was, thank you!
Looks like you need a diffuser layer behind the sign layer
I know you had to change your design half way through but your box is too shallow for the light source. Maybe make a cutout for the light so that it sits slightly further back?
what makes you say its too shallow? not enough space for it to reflect inside ?
@@John_Malecki yes. When the light comes on it just blurs the red and white together. If it was further back the light would diffuse more.
How well would a straight router bit work for cutting an inlay into epoxy? Looking to make a white epoxy table, router a logo into it then fill it with blue
Almost Famous!
What kind of machine your using?
@john do you have the plans and the cnc save file for the on air sign? I work at a small radio station in northern Michigan and would love to make a few of these as gifts for my on-air coworkers!
This looked great! I've been loving watching your videos especially the epoxy/resin ones and your deck series! Just curious what song was playing at the end of this video while you were putting the magnets in?
I have that same brand CNC. still have very little idea how to run it
How did you secure the white resin plank to the CNC? Carpet tape?
Double sided tape
You could epoxy them back together. Would end up with NO seam.
Yes, just have to wait a whole other day
Hey John. Nice work for an experiment. Quick question. Would you recommend your Bosch mitre saw?
Ya its a nice saw with a small footprint!
Use a push stick!
Needs a defuser layer
What do you use for your drill when mixing a small amount like you have in the video?
great video...question:who is the music you used for this video?
Worst thing about the stuff you make is all the sweet equipment you got going on in the shop :D Im doing a sign for my mates company atm, its a bit more lowkey routing out the letters in a piece of wood filling it with epoxy :D
The bus scene from Almost Famous
Almost famous! There is a video of Dave Grohl singing Tiny Dancer on here that is hilarious!
such a fantastic movie
acrylic and vinyl do the same job but 100,000 times fast and cheap
Yes, but thats not as fun or an experiment!
... and can be recycled. I don't understand the ongoing hype about epoxy
It was an experiment ....
u need a deflector to block the bulb from being so dominant...
Almost Famous
Is that the Axiom AR8? How do you like it?
Absolutely love it, check out the link in the description! help support the channel
My, you are a beautiful man.
Tiny dancer
Yep!
How did you get your phone to turn it on, or did I miss something?
It has its own remote that i got with the LEDs
Is melemeame a wood and can you buy it in pre-cut sizes?
What are you using to mix the epoxy?
Whats the best temp for it to harden?
You'd think companies would sell a cnc Machine with a hose beside the milling bit
The 2018 movie - Bohemian Rhapsody. right ;)
Rocketman was a pretty good movie tho
sir, please sell on shoppe or lazada
the light should not be very close to the resin sign to spread equally
Thanks anas
If you first don’t succeed light the sum beech on fire... with a propane torch.
hahahah i shouldve got a bigger torch
I don't want to cheat and just use acrylic, so I'm gonna use a cnc on resin instead.
You see the humor now ?!
So, were you interrupted while making this video?
ironically, twice haha
@@John_Malecki
Murphy's Law.
Any info on you cnc? Looks sort of like those 6090's Omio?
There should be a link in the description to their site.
@UCVUSDq6-oSpWAAPUppHFtZQ ah, damn my bad. Thanks for the info. You have great content, I instantly subscribed. Keep it up, you got this YT thing down!:)
Thank you so much !
Was really thinking that would have turned out better than it did. The light / led used is very underwhelming . The light shines through and drowns out the ‘On Air’ so meh
07:29 Man want to lose his right hand fingers. See how it is done wrong kids.
amazing but the light is bad
“Almost Famous”
Lighting is very uneven...
Extremely uneven....
Thought you were going to lose a finger a couple of times. Safety First
Always safe
Stuff you know: Easier ways to do this besides $25 worth of epoxy. And using that drill for mixing caused micro bubbles really bad ... Use a stick or something that moves slow enough to avoid introducing air. Thick epoxy takes more than 8 hours to cure hard especially in cold air. ... Checking voltage requirements before wiring is a good idea. Yeah ... but you got the light you wanted.🤣🤣
let a kid live a bit clyde! haha was an experiment my friend
Elton John life story tiny dancer song
T 3?
Ha that shriek
scared me too!
How can you call this a diy?
You have all this equipment.
Its a diy provided you have a cnc table saw and more. Not a diy but more like a project.
Because i Did It Myself.......I was not aware for a DIY video you have to use two rocks and a stick to build something.
@@John_Malecki
I been doing things like this for years. Projects require multiple tools yes and I have tools to do such a project. However DIY means simple things done by hand with everyday simple odjects that dont need lots of machinery. I mean great job on the project and this video is very well made. You did well. Just not a DIY more like a project people can do. Nothing bad just saying thats all. Some everyday people however dont have equipment like this. Hell I'd be afraid they would get hurt not knowing how to handle such tools. To you and I its simple put a router in ill hands bad things happen lol.
@D
First I have twice as many tools then your little shop there. Secound I have done carpentry work for over 18 years. So whats my knowledge? A do it your self project means anyone can do it with simple tools and hand tools and basic knowledge of how. Using machinery is more like a project you can do. However not a simple diy. Diy is simple things people can do with simple tools. Maybe not so much knowledge as you or I have but more like a teen learning. Or maybe a mom learning or something. When you start using machinery that one not every one has. Two know how to use without hurting yourself or someone else. Due to lack of knowledge of how to use the machinery. The only reason I bring it up because my son was looking for something simple he could do to make cash. However when he comes to me asking to use tools and machinery that he has no knowledge of could get hurt. However was encouraged by your video. I do teach my son however at his age and level of understanding could have gotten hurt. Thank the father that he comes to me before he touches. Now can you see where I am coming from. I mean your a great guy I'm sure and you did very well on the project. I am in no way attacking you here. It just worries me that some kid could get hurt being encouraged by the video.
@@bryanroye1112 First, if people don't know how to handle their tools, they shouldn't handle them at all. Second, you don't need a router to get yourself hurt - a simple box cutter does that just fine and pretty much everyone has one at home. Third, while the router itself is definitely a more specialized machine most people don't own, it isn't essential for a project like this and neither is an electric sander.
I'm with "D" on this. Your definition of DIY is way off and saying this isn't a DIY project is just a lame excuse for not trying to be creative and working around your limitations. Don't have an expensive CNC router? Buy a cheap Dremel knockoff and use that - or, if you've got shaky hands, buy vinyl cutout letters instead. Don't have all the necessary equipment and skills for the resin? Buy a sheet of acrylic. Don't have an electric sander? Use regular sandpaper. A project like this could be done in X different ways, depending on your skill, your budget and your equipment.
After all, the lack of a CNC router or a pneumatic nail gun didn't keep people off from building houses or other stuff 200 years ago, why should it now?
@@RobX86
Ok that can be your next video. You should build a house with no tools at all. That I would like to see. Geee I hope it wont take to long.
Do people actually read signs these days?
its so weird, but yes!
Alternative title for video: 'How to use $80,000 worth of tools to make a sign you don't need out of epoxy resin instead of polycarbonate like a normal person'
You’re greatly under valuing my tools.... come on dude.