Epoxy / walnut / Tiger Eye hanging lamp 'Evolution'
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 Published On Feb 24, 2021

In this video you can see how I made a hanging lamp. It contains the basic elements stone, wood, metal and plastic.
The stone being Tiger Eye gemstones (if you believe the special forces Tiger Eye has, you can sit very relaxed and inspired underneath this lamp :-)
The wood is walnut
The metal is copper - very special, you can see the copper that conducts the electricity to power the lights
The plastic is epoxy

The 12 volts electricity runs through the hanging wires, as you can see the transformer is on top of the ceiling piece of the lamp, together with two LED strips that shine up onto the ceiling.

(I disabled those annoying non-skippable video ads and mid-roll ads for this video - you can thank me for that.. :-)

BUTTERFLY
I also put in a butterfly, and that proved to be very hard. Colors of the butterfly vanish when you put them in epoxy (as you can see in the video), because some colors are formed because of the microscopic shape of the wing surface. There is no pigment involved - this is however, not true for all colors. After making this video I can tell so much about this that I might make another video about it. The applied method was eventually painting the butterfly (= adding pigments) in its original colors. That way you lose the magnificent detail of the original colors - it is almost impossible to equal nature. There are however other methods to pour in butterflies, as I said, I might get back to that in another video.
Many thanks to Romana, who was so kind to paint the butterfly - she did some repairs too!
If you want to see more of Romana her art, here are some links:
https://www.roartstudio.net/
  / romanamyart  

COST
Stones - I put in 20 bigger Tiger Eye stones I bought from Etsy for about 20 euro. Then I bought half a kilo little Tiger Eye stones and those were much more expensive at 50 euros, but I used only a handful of those.
Wood - scrap for free (my neighbour saved this piece from the fire wood in the central room of the Art Center where I have my workshop!)
Metal - the copper 8 mm piping I still had from a previous project (something weird with a double decker bus :-) and I stripped some copper wire. That was maybe 10 euro.
Plastic - There is about 5 liters epoxy in this lamp, that cost me 160 euro.
https://www.mrboat.nl/epoxy-giethars/...
The lights and the transformer were all together maybe 20 euro, the LED strip above the ceiling piece was 12 euro.

CONTENT
0:00 - 0:14 Intro
0:14 - 0:21 Making a mould
0:21 - 1:16 Wood
1:16 - 1:51 Covers for the lights
1:51 - 2:45 Epoxy - first layer
2:45 - 6:42 Supports for lights
6:42 - 9:17 Butterfly
9:17 - 10:28 Prepare for epoxy
10:28 - 11:44 Pouring epoxy
11:44 - 12:26 Taking out of mould
12:26 - 12:54 Sanding
12:54 - 13:37 Top layer epoxy
13:37 - 13:54 Sanding / polishing bottom
13:54 - 14:38 Making ceiling part
14:38 - 15:12 End Result

CONTACT
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MUSIC
begin - 00:14 - Waterfall - Aakash Gandi
00:14 - 06:42 - BoogieBounce - Drew Banga
06:42 - 09:17 - One Step Closer - Aakash Gandi
09:17 - 10:28 - BoogieBounce - Drew Banga
10:28 - 11:44 - Desert Catharsis - Asher Fulero
11:44 - 14:39 - BoogieBounce - Drew Banga
14:41 - 15:06 - Walk Through the Park - Tracktribe
All the used music is for free available in the YouTube Audio Library


TRANSLATING
Volunteers who want to translate my videos are still very welcome! I will add your name to the description of the video you translated, and will add a short text - maybe with your contactdetails? Ready to do a translation? Contact me, my email address is on the 'About' page here:    / onrust1  
Write me an email telling me which video you want to translate and in what language, and I will send you an automatic translation of that language you can edit.

Polish translation by Mateusz.
French Translation by Raphaël.

This video was edited with Lightworks - https://www.lwks.com/

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