If only there was some magical device to protect you from the glass. Like shoes... but they go on your hand and they are made so you can still use your fingers. One can only dream...
Have you tried cutting with the head pointed at an angle towards the center the whole time, basically a conical spiral? Then the layers will catch themselves as they drop though.
Seems reasonable, similar to one of the old school collapsible plastic cups, exept the cups were conical rings and not one spiral. That could be very cool to see.
Yep, anyone who's ever messed with a scroll saw has probably made one, myself included. It's hard to cut a perfect spiral by hand, so the CNC should work perfectly, given you could slant the head.
They’ll need to use a machine with a 5 axis head to cut that. I don’t remember if their new one has that feature or not. I don’t believe the old one has it. It would be very cool though!
Springy glass? Yup! Several type of anti-personnel mines were made with zero metal parts. Some used elastic instead of metal springs, others used glass springs. Examples of Korean mines from the 1950's are still being found in working condition. All the working parts of the trigger and detonator were glass to evade detection, and so they have not degraded over time.
I was scared for a moment that no one had picked that up... I wish Dan the best... I wonder if his ovaries were donated? Any news about the injections for his breasts? [Why have you not won the Interwebz Award for this comment today yet?] 🤣🤣🤣
Oh oh maybe they could put stuff in a resin slab, or drop dye or something in it, then cut it in a spiral, then put more resin around that, and make it into a bowl? There are a lot of neat ideas.
If they used another sheet of quartz, so that it’s the same color all the way through, they could probably sit the cut piece on a table with something “sink-shaped” to push and hold the spiral up, fiberglass what would be the bottom of the sink basin to support and stabilize it, then flip it over and use a dark contrasting color of sanded caulk to fill in the gaps of the spiral and seal it. Probably be pretty time consuming to make it look decent, but I’m fairly certain they could pull it off. It would definitely make for another cool video in their “spiral cut stuff” series.
I feel like rich people would pay big money for this. Because it's cool, novel, and has a story behind it. Someone should take this business idea ...I'm doing other stuff.
Could you cut the outer perimeters thicker? So the spiral thickness increases the larger the diameter gets. There is more stress on the outer part so making it thicker should help.
I wonder if you could strengthen the glass by annealing in an oven after cutting to reduce stresses. Or just melt it into a cool shape. Maybe two interlocking spirals in different coloured glass that you then melt and fuse togther.
If you make the glass in zero gravity it will crystallize and be about 20 times stronger than steel. Nasa has done countless experiments with various metals in zero gravity for almost 40 years now
Annealing after the cut might actually help, it realigns an atomic structure, if the original structure changes even if it was annealed then there is stresses even if at a minimum level
I genuinely think that you can make amazing things with the proof of concepts, I feel like you could add tether points to support the weight of tile/glass/etc...
Cut it at a sharp angle on the spiral so when you pick it up it kinda holds itself together. That might only work on the thicker stuff like the quarts or wood.
They should always use that plastic material that they used at the end to cut stuff on since it's able to stay together easier even when cut it would prevent a lot of stuff they cut from falling in the tank
If you cut a cross-section in a pattern (wave, bowl, etc), you could make a jig to hold them in shape, would allow for securing them into a funky shape.
What happens if you shine lights or lasers through one end of the the glass spirals? Would it work as a fiber optic cable or maybe look like a cool display piece? If you cast a glass spiral in resin, would it look or different ?
The reason fiver optics work is because the structure of the interior of the cable runs in the direction the cable... The crystals in probably floated glass are all squared and cutting a spiral into it would have the structure of the crystals relative to the direction of the glass ve constantly changing. It would pass some light but it wouldnt go too far,
@@darkling-studios um no that's not how glass works. Glass is amorphous meaning any crystal structure is just random. The way fiber optics works is that if the angle of light is below some degrees, like 15° or whatever it actually is, it'll reflect almost perfectly. So yeah it should work as a fiber optic
I’m pretty sure you guys just invented a new pattern that’s probably only been mad a handful of times in human history. That wood bowl you attempted to make. When your wound it tightly together that wood grain pattern is unbelievably cool.
That bowl is often a beginner's woodworking bowl. It's generally called a "bandsaw bowl" because you cut the spiral with a bandsaw. Usually you'd use thick enough wood so that the compression from stretching forces it to stay in the bowl shape.
It may be good to do a variable thickness, thinner (lighter) towards the middle and thicker (heavier/stronger) toward the edge, so that it will be a uniform displacement throughout. Might decrease the stress buildup
I know collaborations are easier said than done but y'all should try and do something with these spirals with a glass blowing TH-camr. Not sure what a glass blower would actually do with it but it does sound interesting to me.
That might be a great idea for a handle of a knife twisting and spinning the Grain of the wood and then Sealing it in a poxy and sanding it down for a crazy cool wood grain
Reminds me of the spiral pieces I've seen in the middle east when I was young. Same concept different materials, seemed to be lexan or some kind of plasticized glass.
So what you’re saying is, yes, but like all other matter it has a breaking point. It’s definitely totally possible to make glass move and stretch in this way, but only once or twice before the glass shatters.
I wonder if you could have any better luck out of the glass spiral if it could be sent off and tempered after it was cut? It should be more resistant to braking under bending.
Food for thought If splitting a mirror into a spiral makes it multiple mirrors, then does each instance getting broken count as an additional 7 years of bad luck?
Stupid cannon idea: shoot ballistics gel at ballistics gel out of the cannon (or shoot ballistics gel at the projectile, rather than the other way around).
This is really cool. In an high end home a person could have a bunch of tile cut out in shapes like this for sure. I think if you did the square one again and used rounded edges it would work pretty well. The same with a star shape and a triangle shape. You can try with square edges or round them down. I would like to see a twinkie shape or some other shape would be neat. Really you could try with any shape.
If your gonna do this correctly you need to make the glass in a zero gravity environment. If you do this the glass will crystallize in a way that makes it 20 times stronger than steel. The tricky part though is getting your silicate glass into a zero gravity state. Although you can't easily get into outer space. You technically can get it into a zero gravity state with gyroscopes. Try it one day, you just might surprise yourself with the results. After all nasa has been doing this for almost 40 years now.
I don't know why y'all don't use the 5-axis and cut the glass at an angle - sort of like those collapsible camping cups you find around. I bet that would make a pretty cool project.
@Plumbus Smith They’d have to cut a negative spiral out of foam to fill the gap in the spiral, sandwich that in between two sheets of foam, then ship it in an extra thick cardboard box. And pray to the shipping gods it made it intact
was the hysterectomy thing a joke or did he actually get a hysterectomy (removal of uterus meaning he's trans/intersex)? or like did they mean a vasectomy (removal of the ability to produce sperm)? (i'm new to the channel)
Wait, these Spirals. They create a bowl shape. They also have holes in them, so they can't hold water. Couldn't these be used as a sort of collapsable colander? Use the spirals to drain spaghetti noodles. that's a business venture right there.
Try coating the finished cut glass. A polymer might greatly increase the strength- it certainly does in optical fiber which is quite springy and strong but only when coated
Seeing this channels recent obsession with epoxy experiments, I would like to donate my body in the event of my death to the channel to be encased in resin
Can you cut a multiple spirals starting from the center? Like a regular galaxy formation. Also, call for TheSlowMoGuys to film a glass spiral shutter, it looks really dope as flexy-solid object suddenly shatters from a hit!
Lmao, hysterectomy In case you don't know, they literally remove your uterus (if you're a genetic female) and this ends periods, eggs, pregnancy, etc. Think of it line having your tubes tied times a thousand cause there's no going back, hence why my parents asked two teenage boys if they would ever want a younger sibling.
That technique could be used to create some really nice light fixtures, sometimes that could be ultra modern or look like they belong in the 1960s or 70s.
I was cracking up.. Get it? Oh and the bad luck level achieved for breaking spiral mirrors hopefully isn't as bad as they said hundreds of years ago. Awesome stuff very un-clickbaity and good. Pancake Tesla Coil, you could cut a perfect set of coils and collaborate with a big electro boom type guy and make lots of money. Throw dude a bone if becomes reality a name drop be cool and some money lol 😆
If only there was some magical device to protect you from the glass. Like shoes... but they go on your hand and they are made so you can still use your fingers. One can only dream...
hand shoes
@@jessepinkman1471 what a rediculous idea.
Thinking outside the box is dangerous...
@@jessepinkman1471 Literally what we call em in the Netherlands
SHOES ON YOUR HAND? THATS AN INSANE IDEA! PAY THIS MAN MILLIONS FOR HIS GENIUS!!!!!
I was going to get really upset at the fact that you weren’t taking safety seriously. But then I saw Mitchell engage his set of safety squints. 👌
@EvilAsh110 it’s almost as if content creators also watch TH-cam
@EvilAsh110 they left that glass just flapping in the breeze all "how ya doing"
Have you tried cutting with the head pointed at an angle towards the center the whole time, basically a conical spiral? Then the layers will catch themselves as they drop though.
Seems reasonable, similar to one of the old school collapsible plastic cups, exept the cups were conical rings and not one spiral. That could be very cool to see.
@@77Infidel the rings idea should work great, and most likely would be a better fit for the lightshade
Yep, anyone who's ever messed with a scroll saw has probably made one, myself included. It's hard to cut a perfect spiral by hand, so the CNC should work perfectly, given you could slant the head.
They’ll need to use a machine with a 5 axis head to cut that. I don’t remember if their new one has that feature or not. I don’t believe the old one has it. It would be very cool though!
thinner, more likely to crack off
>Doesn't wear safety glasses
"I'm mostly worried about cutting my hands"
>Doesn't wear gloves
Springy glass?
Yup!
Several type of anti-personnel mines were made with zero metal parts.
Some used elastic instead of metal springs, others used glass springs.
Examples of Korean mines from the 1950's are still being found in working condition.
All the working parts of the trigger and detonator were glass to evade detection, and so they have not degraded over time.
That is awesome and awful, all at once.
Learn something new everyday. Thank you sir.
imagine being the guy to have to arm explosives where the trigger is made of glass yikes
I feel like Dan is the glue that keeps the rest of the guys stuck in sanity.
I feel like glue is the Dan that makes arts and crafts great
I just feel like glue.
Dan left?
"Dan's still in the hospital after his hysterectomy"
I hope he'll be the same person after the loss of his uterus. Hormones do weird things to a person. You never know.
I was scared for a moment that no one had picked that up... I wish Dan the best... I wonder if his ovaries were donated? Any news about the injections for his breasts?
[Why have you not won the Interwebz Award for this comment today yet?] 🤣🤣🤣
Wait, was it a joke? I thought Dan was just a trans man and we were all being normal about it for once
can you increase the width of the spiral as it goes out? that is, have narrow material in the middle and thicker material towards the edges?
Great idea!
And it should be pretty easy to make the waterjet do it.
Do you mean an exponential spiral?
I really hope you end up finishing that bowl! I think that’ll be the most interesting use of this spiral concept you’ve been figuring out.
Also Merry Christmas! 🎄
“If you liked it then you should’ve made a ring from it” 🎶😉
@@Brocollipy lol maybe I should
Oh oh maybe they could put stuff in a resin slab, or drop dye or something in it, then cut it in a spiral, then put more resin around that, and make it into a bowl? There are a lot of neat ideas.
What if you cut a spiral in a countertop and kept it intact and turned it into a sink
It wouldn't hold water.
@@robertbell2159 wow how long did it take you to figure that out 😂😂😂
If they used another sheet of quartz, so that it’s the same color all the way through, they could probably sit the cut piece on a table with something “sink-shaped” to push and hold the spiral up, fiberglass what would be the bottom of the sink basin to support and stabilize it, then flip it over and use a dark contrasting color of sanded caulk to fill in the gaps of the spiral and seal it. Probably be pretty time consuming to make it look decent, but I’m fairly certain they could pull it off. It would definitely make for another cool video in their “spiral cut stuff” series.
I feel like rich people would pay big money for this. Because it's cool, novel, and has a story behind it. Someone should take this business idea ...I'm doing other stuff.
Could you cut the outer perimeters thicker? So the spiral thickness increases the larger the diameter gets.
There is more stress on the outer part so making it thicker should help.
I wonder if you could strengthen the glass by annealing in an oven after cutting to reduce stresses.
Or just melt it into a cool shape. Maybe two interlocking spirals in different coloured glass that you then melt and fuse togther.
the two spiral thing is cool
Nope, annealing only works with crystalline substances, of which glass isn't one.
If you make the glass in zero gravity it will crystallize and be about 20 times stronger than steel.
Nasa has done countless experiments with various metals in zero gravity for almost 40 years now
@@gayusschwulius8490 you can make it crystalline with the correct additives. Or use quartz composite
Annealing after the cut might actually help, it realigns an atomic structure, if the original structure changes even if it was annealed then there is stresses even if at a minimum level
I'm glad I didn't disrupt the production schedule too much. Thanks for the fun and Merry Christmas!
I genuinely think that you can make amazing things with the proof of concepts, I feel like you could add tether points to support the weight of tile/glass/etc...
This should be a whole new series of cutting different materials to see what will stretch
You guys should try some living hinge patterns, they work really well in laser cut materials
Safety squinting 😆
could you make the cuts on an angle so the layers support each other as you lift it?
Cut it at a sharp angle on the spiral so when you pick it up it kinda holds itself together. That might only work on the thicker stuff like the quarts or wood.
You've tried a square. You've tried a circle. Now it's time for a squircle.
I'm an industrial maintenance guy and used to work on a machine like that but it used plasma instead of water. Fun stuff
I'm new around here and "Safety Squints" got me good 😂🤣 It's so true. If you know you know
They should always use that plastic material that they used at the end to cut stuff on since it's able to stay together easier even when cut it would prevent a lot of stuff they cut from falling in the tank
This video is a Christmas miracle. Hands down the best present I got today
I think if the outer sections were thicker they could hold the weight of the inner section better
If you cut a cross-section in a pattern (wave, bowl, etc), you could make a jig to hold them in shape, would allow for securing them into a funky shape.
What happens if you shine lights or lasers through one end of the the glass spirals? Would it work as a fiber optic cable or maybe look like a cool display piece?
If you cast a glass spiral in resin, would it look or different ?
The reason fiver optics work is because the structure of the interior of the cable runs in the direction the cable... The crystals in probably floated glass are all squared and cutting a spiral into it would have the structure of the crystals relative to the direction of the glass ve constantly changing. It would pass some light but it wouldnt go too far,
@@darkling-studios um no that's not how glass works. Glass is amorphous meaning any crystal structure is just random. The way fiber optics works is that if the angle of light is below some degrees, like 15° or whatever it actually is, it'll reflect almost perfectly. So yeah it should work as a fiber optic
I’m pretty sure you guys just invented a new pattern that’s probably only been mad a handful of times in human history. That wood bowl you attempted to make. When your wound it tightly together that wood grain pattern is unbelievably cool.
That bowl is often a beginner's woodworking bowl. It's generally called a "bandsaw bowl" because you cut the spiral with a bandsaw. Usually you'd use thick enough wood so that the compression from stretching forces it to stay in the bowl shape.
It may be good to do a variable thickness, thinner (lighter) towards the middle and thicker (heavier/stronger) toward the edge, so that it will be a uniform displacement throughout. Might decrease the stress buildup
What if you did a wave pattern like a accordian fold so that it could be stretched apart two dimensionally to make it longer?
I know collaborations are easier said than done but y'all should try and do something with these spirals with a glass blowing TH-camr. Not sure what a glass blower would actually do with it but it does sound interesting to me.
That might be a great idea for a handle of a knife twisting and spinning the Grain of the wood and then Sealing it in a poxy and
sanding it down for a crazy cool wood grain
Reminds me of the spiral pieces I've seen in the middle east when I was young. Same concept different materials, seemed to be lexan or some kind of plasticized glass.
Cutting tile like that would make an awesome shower pan
That one spiral mirror cost you about 4 lifetimes of bad luck
Step 1 - cut step 2 - pickup and wiggle step 3 - break
So what you’re saying is, yes, but like all other matter it has a breaking point. It’s definitely totally possible to make glass move and stretch in this way, but only once or twice before the glass shatters.
Brehhh the safety squints part had me dyin 🤣🤣🤣
I'm hoping Peter Brown will get the bowl, it'd look cool after he turns it
Send one of your wood spirals to Peter Brown. I bet he'd love it
Fiber optic spiral table experiment... with leds :)
How about with a pane of safety glass? The plastic laminate may keep it together even if the glass fractures. That may even produce a cool effect.
The springy glass is a type of compliant mechanism
Do some living hinge designs with tile and glass. its commonly done on the laser cutter with wood
I wonder if you could have any better luck out of the glass spiral if it could be sent off and tempered after it was cut? It should be more resistant to braking under bending.
Food for thought
If splitting a mirror into a spiral makes it multiple mirrors, then does each instance getting broken count as an additional 7 years of bad luck?
You should tie some string between the layers so it stops it from over stretching and maybe It will hold when suspended
This channel must cost a fortune to operate.
Can't believe Dan got his history removed :( get well soon king. I'll send some books about Greek mythology so he can regain his history mass.
What a Christmas present this is
Stupid cannon idea: shoot ballistics gel at ballistics gel out of the cannon (or shoot ballistics gel at the projectile, rather than the other way around).
I want a water jet
I had to google "Hysterectomy" lmao best burn i ever heard.
His poor lady bits are gone.
Yep
This is really cool. In an high end home a person could have a bunch of tile cut out in shapes like this for sure.
I think if you did the square one again and used rounded edges it would work pretty well. The same with a star shape and a triangle shape. You can try with square edges or round them down. I would like to see a twinkie shape or some other shape would be neat. Really you could try with any shape.
"The same with a star shape and a triangle shape"
What about an umbrella shape?
how about acryl or clear plastic and put led to end, that should be cool
You guys have created the coolest possible answer to the question, "why is there glass all over the floor?"
Try cutting it at an angle so it helps support itself when lifted. Instead of cutting straight down.
Love the vids on this! But I wonder why you haven’t laid in some smaller grid on the table to keep the stuff from falling into the water.
The best protective eyewear is squinting
If you angle the head inwards while it cuts it will make a collapsible bowl
With a glass spring, one would be able to make an entirely glass clock... Hm...
How about the security glass with the wire mesh in it?
make one with double laminated safety glass
Do you have any obsidian left? An obsidian spiral sounds cool
If your gonna do this correctly you need to make the glass in a zero gravity environment. If you do this the glass will crystallize in a way that makes it 20 times stronger than steel. The tricky part though is getting your silicate glass into a zero gravity state. Although you can't easily get into outer space. You technically can get it into a zero gravity state with gyroscopes.
Try it one day, you just might surprise yourself with the results.
After all nasa has been doing this for almost 40 years now.
I don't know why y'all don't use the 5-axis and cut the glass at an angle - sort of like those collapsible camping cups you find around. I bet that would make a pretty cool project.
You could probably sell some of that like spiral mirrors would be a cool piece in an entry or foyer.
Imagine trying to ship that intact… lol
@@RandomBogey styrofoam and prayers
@Plumbus Smith They’d have to cut a negative spiral out of foam to fill the gap in the spiral, sandwich that in between two sheets of foam, then ship it in an extra thick cardboard box. And pray to the shipping gods it made it intact
was the hysterectomy thing a joke or did he actually get a hysterectomy (removal of uterus meaning he's trans/intersex)? or like did they mean a vasectomy (removal of the ability to produce sperm)? (i'm new to the channel)
Wait, these Spirals. They create a bowl shape. They also have holes in them, so they can't hold water. Couldn't these be used as a sort of collapsable colander?
Use the spirals to drain spaghetti noodles. that's a business venture right there.
It's all fun and games till somebody needs a tourniquet.
You could make 2 small ones, glue them over your eyes then they'd protect you from the flying shards of the other ones
that is not the shat of a slinky my friend. that's like calling a chicken leg a steak
I have a dumb question, (in theory) if you point the water jet straight up at full power, how high would the water jet go?
"Well Dan is still in the hospital after his hysterectomy" anybody else catch that?
Yea
A traditional living hinge cut into ceramic tile would be pretty interesting too. i wonder if it would make for some kind of weird ceramic book cover
Try coating the finished cut glass. A polymer might greatly increase the strength- it certainly does in optical fiber which is quite springy and strong but only when coated
Seeing this channels recent obsession with epoxy experiments, I would like to donate my body in the event of my death to the channel to be encased in resin
Well at least you got something out of this and that's a pretty big pile of glass shards to clean up
Can you cut a multiple spirals starting from the center? Like a regular galaxy formation.
Also, call for TheSlowMoGuys to film a glass spiral shutter, it looks really dope as flexy-solid object suddenly shatters from a hit!
Merry Smashmas.
the glass handling made my spine shiver
What about re-enforced safety glass? The stuff with the wire in it. 🧡👊🏻🇨🇦
YoU’rE uSiNg ThE wRoNg ToOLs
Yes
Someone need to get slowmo guys or smarter everyday to record it breaking in slow motion.
0:11 Dan is gonna feel pretty good after that hysterectomy....
Try with obsidian!!!
Lmao, hysterectomy
In case you don't know, they literally remove your uterus (if you're a genetic female) and this ends periods, eggs, pregnancy, etc. Think of it line having your tubes tied times a thousand cause there's no going back, hence why my parents asked two teenage boys if they would ever want a younger sibling.
Yeah but can you make a bowl flat by spiral cutting that?
That technique could be used to create some really nice light fixtures, sometimes that could be ultra modern or look like they belong in the 1960s or 70s.
If you’ve never clean the bottom of the water drain it for a videoSo we can see all the things that are at the bottom
Bread
OSHA would like to have a talk with you 🤣
You guys need to overcome your resin addiction ⚫️🔥 😔
Lenticular glass might look pretty cool spiraled like that
You should make the cuts angled towards the center of the coil so that it would stop it self from breaking when over stretching
Try cutting on the angle so that it doesn't fall through and form the cone, that way it would be less brittle.
PLEASE TRY LAMINATED GLASS, LEXAN, & BULLET RESISTANT GLASS.
I was cracking up.. Get it? Oh and the bad luck level achieved for breaking spiral mirrors hopefully isn't as bad as they said hundreds of years ago. Awesome stuff very un-clickbaity and good. Pancake Tesla Coil, you could cut a perfect set of coils and collaborate with a big electro boom type guy and make lots of money. Throw dude a bone if becomes reality a name drop be cool and some money lol 😆
Make a sound driver out of glass