Carving A Giant Block of Epoxy & Wood.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 พ.ค. 2023
- I carved 87 lbs of epoxy into a rainbow trout. I used bent lamination for the very first time and it turned out better than expected. I used a chainsaw and other tools to #powercarve this one of a kind sculpture. This was such a fun build! #Carving #woodworking
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All the failures and problems with resin casting can be really discouraging, but its so satisfying to see you finally get it dialed in and have everything work exactly according to plan for the resin and wood. I love when expertise and planning turn into pain-free process. That curly maple is excellent. Beautiful sculpture, flawless execution. Great job.
Thank you so much! I keep learning new things to better my epoxy pours. We are headed in a better direction now!
Half of this video is sucking Corperate
imho this is probably your most beautiful work up to now. it looks amazing, the details, the sparkling, and the root as a stand leviates this to another level
Thank you so much!
Yay all of you are right
Did you see the dinosaur he did?? OMG 😲
Any and all "would you just look at it" clips are highly appreciated.
Also the wonderful craftsmanship but also edbassmaster
Hahaha thanks! Love watching your guys channel!
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Perfect.I am from Iran. I have a wood and resin workshop like yours, but for some time I had a mental problem and closed the workshop, but after watching your clip, my passion for wood and resin revived, thank you bro
Even if this wasn’t for me it would easily be my favorite of your sculptures to date! Absolutely stunning! Thank you so very much!
Thanks Matt! I am so glad you commissioned me for this piece. It was such a fun build. Cant wait until you get it in person!
The change in jaw actually made it look better because of where the wood pops out with a deeper jaw curve. Those thin fins were nerve-wracking with how easy they could be damaged with a mistake but you managed 😂. The lovely base of wood really made the piece stand out, I was considering how you’d mount it as it’s such a unique shape.
Thank you so much! The fins were very scary to carve haha. Glad you liked it!
I absolutely love that little tip of wood on the bottom jaw!
@@BMSculptures I can kind of see in the rotation but I would have been interested to see the mounting process as well
@@BMSculpturesu r a great artist. I was thinking about the eyes. Obviously, the eyes r the focal point of any piece. U were wise to de accentuate the eyes. The lines of the fish 🐠 tell the story, along with the background.
This has to be one of my favorites so far. The metal fleck, the colors you choose for your laminates and the fins! The sum is greater than the parts. It is incredible.
Thanks David, glad you like it!
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There are people who never cease to amaze with their art and leave behind thousands of people who enjoy seeing the beauty created by their hands. And that's amazing. You're one of them, Blake. I really hope millions of people discover your channel and look forward to your every video as much as I do.
Absolutely beautiful. That metallic sparkle was spot on. Another great project in the books
Thank you!!!
Blake these things just keep getting more beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous.
Side note - I really appreciate that you show your learning curve. Seeing that people producing incredible work like this are also still learning and making mistakes is very encouraging.
Thanks Dave! Always learning!
You had me memorized from start to finish, and the final reveal took my breath away. The maple reflected in the convex top half of the body is so perfect, brilliant choice. This is such a stunning piece of art
your work with epoxy gets better and better every single sculpture! This trout looks amazing, what stunning natural wood colors combined with an untouched, wild piece of wood for the backdrop. You did amazing, can't wait to see what you do next.
Thank you so much! Glad you liked it Alder!
Looks incredible as always. I love that you try to get the little bits of detail in there too. I think the glitter works well for this fish but I hope you don't use it too often as one of the things I really admire about your sculptures is how clear they are. There's something almost magical about seeing a beautifully sculpted animal and yet you can see right through it to the wood. However, for this fish it really works and adds the water effect.
absolutely... I 100% agree and will only use metallic flakes when it relates to what I am carving.
Oh my word......that is just absolutely amazing! The glitter you used gives it that perfect shimmery touch! Indeed that is a beautiful statue of a rainbow trout!
You're a genius. Using water to test for leaks, using a winch to lift the thing... there's SO MANY resin workers and hobbyists that need to learn your lessons.
I think the “tiger stripes” effect is called chatoyance. Learned it from Damascus knife makers. Looks beautiful man! Awesome work!👊🏼
Aha. Thats the word I was looking for... Appreciate it!
Interesting! i know chatoyancy from Justinthetrees, especially when he works with quaking aspen! its so beautiful!
If you like that effect you should check out a crystal/mineral called Tigers Eye.
The finished rainbow trout took my breath away. Absolutely gorgeous, thank you for sharing the process.
Wow, how awesome is this! The detail is amazing and that metallic sparkle really sets it all off. Great job.
Thank you so much Patricia!
This is beautiful and amazing job. I love fishing and woodworking. I worked with wood for a long time and my stepfather was a construction worker he owned his own business. He paid me to carve wood and tile. He was very proud of me. Him and my mom passed away two years apart. Mom passed away from cancer in 2015 and my stepfather passed away from heart disease two years after. I have great memories of him. He was a great father even my birth father liked him. He appreciated that he was a good father figure for his daughter. I am handicapped so I have always needed assistance. I was given opportunities in school to learn woodworking and metal because of my disability. I kept working with both until I graduated college. I earned a master's degree in advanced science and engineering I took woodworking classes in the first semester and metal shop as well auto shop. I was the only female in my auto shop and I encouraged other ladies to join the next semester so there were five more the next semester. We built a wooden car with working parts and it ran on cheap gasoline. It wasn't legal so we weren't allowed to drive it on the street. Our professor built us a track on the campus. Other students came out for lunch and watched us drive the wooden car. It was a beautiful dark brown with red oak body and white cider side panels. I made the blueprints for it while the others got everything ready and we worked together to make it and we fixed a few flaws before starting it. It was fun. ❤
You are a REAL woodworker!! You're just learning and human, but dont say you're not a real woodworker!! Beautiful work!!
okok I wont say it. Im a real boy!
Not the biggest fan of fish…but that is a beautiful piece of art! Well done! Always admire your attitude when approaching new things!
Thank you!
Definitely the best I have seen so far, and so far I think they have all been brilliant. I love the wave action on curly maple. I try to use it any time I can on my wood working projects. Awesome. Still waiting for the giraffe.
This is absolutely magnificent! So far it's my favorite piece! But I don't know how you can make anything more beautiful than the pieces I've already seen. Your work leaves me mesmerized every time!💥❤
You are a real woodworker. Because you try. Anyone who says otherwise, is hateful, and disrespectful. They probably hate their lives, commenting terrible things on people’s art channels. Good job, it’s gorgeous. You’re a woodworker.
haha Thank you
Female trout do not have a kype. Two to four weeks before spawning, male trout undergo physical changes that include developing a kype. Farm raised trout are harvested before they can develop a kype. I still like your sculpture even though the mouth is undersized for a fish that has a kype. Kype😀
Very interesting.
This is 100% correct. Males develop a kype females do not. It has zero to do with being a hatchery fish. Your brother gave you incorrect information. Methinks he needs to do a little homework before making such a claim. I’m sure he is a great guy, but in this case, his statement was/is false.
Woah! I'm so proud of your hard work and will always thank you for sharing your talent with us all! Beautiful job! I really hope whomever requested this beautiful piece enjoys it and shares it with any and everyone who visits them!
The trout looks amazing, the veneer sets it off ! I would love to see you carve a manta ray using the same concept with the veneer as the wings of the ray.
I hope whoever commissioned this displays it proudly and keeps it safe for many future generations to enjoy.
I think they will!
I adore the colours of the woods used, and knowing that the resin will keep those brilliant natural colours from fading is wonderful.
They are beautiful right! The yellowheart just pops
Thats my favourite Project by fair, absolutely INCREDABLE !
Thank you so much Oscar!
Incredible was spelled wrong
Wow. God bless your brother. His help made a total difference
Wow. Just wow. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and I can smell the water and feel the breeze moving over the live fish this represents. Lovely
Your sculpture is an impressive display of talent and skill. I can tell you put a lot of heart into it 👍
Thank you!
Just found your channel today. I’d say your artwork is right at the best I’ve ever seen on TH-cam! The potential for screwing up days of work would be terrifying to me and makes the finished product that much more impressive! Thanks for sharing it!
Grew up fishing for Rainbow in the Beartrap on the Madison River in Montana. Catch one, wrap in foil, butter and slivered almonds and throw in the fire and fish for the next one. After 30 minutes, ad a cold beer and FEAST. Your sculpture made me homesick for the Beartrap and a good meal. Thanks!!!
Absolutely stunning! I am blown away. The effect of that curly maple cannot possibly be more perfect. It looks like the water from above reflecting light in ripples on the body of the fish. This is possibly the coolest thing I've seen on TH-cam. I was raised by a fly-fisher, on the banks of the Salmon River and this sculpture brought my soul so much joy. Thank you for sharing!
a 20 minute video really deserves to show off more of this beautiful finished product!
Dude, you have absolutely outdone yourself! The precision of the laminated wood suspended inside another work of art was amazing. Maybe not quite like rainbow sherbet, but possibly Neapolitan ice cream 😂
I think that's what he meant, LOL.
this carve is stunning, thank goodness for your brother adding his P.O.V adding the beak. Glad to see you using a winch to take the mould out of the freezer, in a previous video watching you picking up and out made my bad back scream at you, glad you were listening to that too. this carve has got to be one of my favourites too, now im just hungry. great job
The sparkling really made this sculpture into something else. Looks very realistic because of it.
Glad you like it!
Hello, I am a 72 year old retired engineer, so I am very satisfied (almost ecstatic) to totally ignore ‘Brilliant’.
make a sea horse
That would be cool!
loco don’t say that as a statement, say that as a question
When you make a mistake with your creations you most definitely bounce back and make it
amazing.
The offcut would have made a pretty neat honey dipper too. The sculpture is stunning! As a hoppy, I make recycled paper. When I saw you dump that bag of vacuum shavings my first thought was "I bet that would make beautiful paper! lol All of the pretty wood colors! I need to find someone with a dust collector and start experimenting! Imagine making a notebook for your shop out of wood dust!! The best kind of recyclable!
Awesome work. Just interested, it weighed 87 pounds before carving. What did it end up weighing after carving? My guess is around 30 lbs.
Good guess. I didnt weigh it, but I would say 40-50 lbs.
This puts 99% of “modern art” to shame
Show me the 1%
haha Thank you!
@@jessevennard2640 this video
preach!!
@@neoncobalt1779 correct.
Fantastic, amazing and exciting! I love watching you work.
Thank you very much!
I honestly have no idea how I got here and I should absolutely be getting to sleep, but dang! The talent some people posess is amazing to me. 😮😊
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That is absolutely beautiful
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You should make another Dinosaur!
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Those slabs you cut off with the chainsaw might make some small projects. 😃 Trout came out awesome. I recently retired and am getting back into my art. Drawing, wood carving.
All YOUR video is very interesting and all YOUR skulptūros is absolute DIVINITY!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 You natural master "POSH HANDS!!!
BEAUTIFUL! my son is a deep sea fisherman! I can just imagine a tuna or his favorite...a HOG FISH! You'd have no problem selling it!
Just Wow!
Great job. You deserve every penny you were paid for it!
I'd like to see a breakdown of some of the tools you are using for sculpting and what each one does. I'm sure there are a lot of us out there that don't have this type of artistic ability but would like to give it a go at a much lower level...and result. Never hurts to keep busy and try new things....just for the sake of trying.
The good lord has definitely blessed you brother. You have the coolest job ever.
Wow I’m speechless. Such a delight to watch.
You have me hooked, got to watch all your video's I can find now. Such talent !!!!
Wow!!!!!!!!! Das ist absolut die Königsdisziplin. Ich gratuliere dir zu deinem perfekten Ergebnis. Unglaublich, mich hauts von den Socken, wieviele Fähigkeiten du perfekt beherrschst. Hut ab👌💪
greetings from Germany
Fantasticly beutiful sculpture! You, Sir, captured the true essens of the animal. Few artist can do that in clay, a lot fewer in wood. A sculpture that will light up any home. Well done!
Thank you so much!
My God that's amazingly beautiful!! First time "catching" a video of yours as well!!
Дуже багато роботи проведено і чудовий результат!
Great Job! As a fellow carver (chainsaw carver that is), I sure can appreciate that someone else is putting in the time to perfect their projects. You have also inspired me to try to chainsaw carve epoxy. Watching the chainsaw work on your videos has giving me some good ideas. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing!
Thats awesome. Good luck! Would love to see what you do!
The curly maple makes it look like a seabed inside the fish, really cool
This is the first time I've seen water used to test their epoxy mold. I'm surprised more don't do that, especially considering the consequences of not fully sealing the mold. What an easy check.
Oh my gosh! That turned out GREAT!!! And just remember we learn from our mistakes, which by the way you don't make many so stop beating yourself up😊
One of the best resin/wood sculptures of a Trout Ive ever seen. You did a fantastic job. A later note, dont forget you can tint that resin with those green iridescent drops so that when light hits it it looks like scales. Its tricky to mess with but oh..try it sometime maybe just a suggestion....😊 Creating is all about trial n error.
Very cool idea!
I appreciate your honesty, saying that you took longer seeing that you’re learning and making mistakes. Great insight.
@BMSculptures - you could TOTALLY pull a vacuum on that freezer. they hold a pretty good seal. If you have ever opened your regular freezer up for a moment, closed it, and then tried to open it again a moment later, you would see how strong that seal could be.
This is probably my favorite sculpture I have seen you make. The choice of wood was fantastic! Very well done!
"Are you kidding me!?!" This is gorgeous!
Oh my word!!! Amazing work my friend. Keep up the awesome videos.
Have a blessed evening from Lee County, Florida
A pure work of art! Astounding workmanship. I loved the polar bear and now this! You did good.
That turned out amazing!!! But then again, most of your projects are!!! Thaqnks for sharing your amazing talent with us
the choice for the top layer of wood was right on. It gives it more depth and movement. Bravo.
Thanks!
My favorite so far...the top wood choice made it so much better.
Thanks!
I love how the anatomical accuracy of the wild Rainbow Trout was JUST enough to catch a piece of the wood within. Don’t even know where to begin with the compliments. Most people forget that you are not just a sculptor, but a filmmaker too! Camera and editing is great too. Keep it up! 😃👍
Amazing!!! Lots of work but worth it. Beautiful!!!
Wow! From design to execution, absolutely Magnificent! 🍻
Outstanding. I love rainbow trout. And you are so modest. A sign of a great artist. I'm sure your client will be more than happy. Thank you so much for sharing your process. 🎨❤
Thank you Linda!
dude, youre like Bob Ross of carving! haha love it, awesome work
so delightful to watch you doing these art..
That is sick!!! Growing up catching rainbows browns and brooks. Well done representation. Great call by your bro on the jaw.
I don't care much for fish other then the ones on my plate but I like the craftsmanship and I actually really loved the work on the burl... I think I try another of your videos. I loved the interaction with your brother on the video and I liked how you listened to him and turned the sculpture into a "real" fish!!
This is amazing! If you ever do another one you should seriously consider adding some pearlescent or chameleon chrome powder!!
Wow. Ridiculously beautiful. The level of detail is off the charts!
Thank you!
Clovis? Wow awesome to see someone actually local doing good on TH-cam.
Fantastic results! It’s a beautiful piece
Forgot to mention that the (trout) was absolutely beautiful, Great Work!
For those of you who are like me and aren't very familiar with woodworking, I learned recently that this kind of "Tigers Eye" effect is called Chatoyance. It is most often seen in wood and gemstones, but it essentially an optical illusion naturally created in the wood when dark and light grains reflect light differently based on the angle of the viewer. It's seen most often in burl, or wavy-grained woods like maple, but it can happen in any wood that is grown under stress.
From beginning to end, it's so great to see a master carpenter in his own element.
Absolutely breathtaking
This is effin awesome. I especially luv the "hook" on the bottom lip
Favorite one so far ingenuous way of incorporating wood into the sculpture
Thanks!
Can't wait to see it complete once the eyes are done.
haha I thought about it.
All I can say is WOW!!!
Wonderful work of Art. Congratulations. Love your products.
Amazing the curly maple steals the show. I subscribed
Wonderful! You are be an Artist! Greetings from Germany!
Amazing work!!!! I'm speechless...
Nice!!! Life is Short so many things in my life to try. Thanks
The curly maple totally adds a look of the ripple effect from the water above!!!!