I'm not against of that kind of channels that don't show everyone the problems that sometimes you have to deal with and they show you only the good looking things. That's why I follow this guy, you show all the process, doesn't matter if is going well or not and that's the real value of your sculptures and your work in general.
I've never seen this channel before but showing the real frustrations that happen when you're making stuff is so relatable. Makes me feel less alone lol.
Beautiful work.I imagine all those sculpturers back in ancient times who had no power tools yet created amazing stone carvings and how difficult and frustration that must have been.
Yeah, that’s about it, you want less insulation not more, maybe thinner paneling would be good or using some thermal conducting paint on your mould. A fan would also be good to get some airflow and convection cooling.
Regarding the blade breaking, the piece was wedge shaped both horizontally and vertically, allowing a tooth to hook on the top edge and jam. The front edge was also up off the table a little, allowing it to rock into the blade, causing a camming action that helped stop the blade. A small movement as you unlocked the fence may have been the trigger, but the setup was the powder-keg. Pretty amazing to see the blade above the work piece warp as it was stopped, but the momentum of the rest of the blade kept pushing from behind. It happens sometimes that the blade snaps in a different place on the blade and the broken end stabs down into the top of the table, so keeping your hands away from the sides of the blade can save you a trip to the ER! Beautiful work, as always. Thanks for sharing.
I like he omission of teeth. Keeps the wolf looking like he’s saying “Woooooo” rather than “AAAAAAA!” Beautiful work as always! The dedication and perseverance in the face of all the setbacks is incredible! Keep it up!
I'm a creator myself, so I completely understand the whole "but it's handmade/handcarved" concept. People don't want to pay for what we create. You put SO SO much into what you create and I can appreciate the price tag, unlike several videos I see. Keep up the great work ❤️❤️.... btw, no teeth. It's howling at the moon.
thats because only You see the value you place. why do you think there is the saying...."starving artist"? hate to break it to you but people arent gonna pay you for what You think you are worth. i learned that the hard way.
@@shadowsilverlight1651 because one can not dictate to the many how much their time is worth. You can ask whatever you want, but the market is going to decide. Just because A fool wants to depart with their money that STILL does not mean there is a worth Something is worth what people will consistently pay, until they won't anymore
Almost exclusively, people don't have huge bundles of cash to pay you to do what you want to do. The average Joe is not dropping $20k on a plastic wolf. They have a mortgage to pay and kids to feed. That's why artists used to live in abject poverty, until they found a patron; one single rich guy who liked what they did and wanted to support them. Pretty much every great artist survived by finding a patron. Or they died penniless, with their work only gaining noteriety long after their death.
I'm not an expert but what I've seen before is sometimes the epoxy manufacturer changes the chemical makeup of the epoxy which leads to different results than previously expected. Check with them to see if they made changes to the mixture. Blackforest I think experienced something like this and ended up creating their own mix.
@@BMSculptures It may also be the surface area of the pour, or the material your box is made of, if the area the heat can disperse is too small up top (meant as in if the top area is small, and hardens first), or if your box material may be too insulating (like the foam layer), the heat wont be transfered out of the epoxy, even in the cool air of the fridge. I don't know the properties of your materials, but that is my theory. TLDR: Your pour container may be too well insulated, so even though the fridge is cold, it's only the exposed epoxy in the top that actually gets cooled, the rest in the box just cooks itself. Hope it makes sense! Edit: I see you took the temperature precautions for the next pour!
@@Flameableflare i think you are right with the pour being isolated, like in a sleeping bag with only the head sticking out. i think using a more heat conductive material will dou you good. like only plastic should do, (any metal would do better, but money)because on the wood with plastic on both sides you have a good isolator. edit. you could use a temperatur gauge on the inside walls of the box you pour into to check that
@@BMSculptures I came on here to tell you @BlackForestWoodCo are the experts in epoxy. They’re also Canadians, so you know they’re good people. Thanks for posting another excellent video.
I also think it’s surface area. Looked like the top of your pour was cracked and yellow while the bottom was clearer. It was a quick clip so maybe I didn’t see it right. But that would make sense since the lower portion would have had more surface area before you poured the next layers, each with less surface area for heat to dissipate. Smaller pours should solve this….just painful in time cost. Anyway, love your stuff!
I had a wolf as a companion for 14 years (and yes he was a house wolf) and when he howled you didn’t see a lot of teeth. This wolf of yours is obviously howling so the fact you can’t see teeth is quite accurate. I absolutely love this particular sculpture. It’s beautiful. One little caveat that I feel I must add. While people might think it’s really cool or neat, I don’t advocate having a wild animal as a pet. I wound up with him as a cub through a convoluted series of events that ended with me either having to keep him or put him down. Obviously I chose to keep him but he remained a wild animal by nature and his hunting drive was quite pronounced. Having a wild animal, no matter how docile they may appear, requires a great deal of care and vigilance especially around other animals and those people who are not in his immediate “pack”. Despite that he was a beloved member of our family for 14 years and we all adored him especially the kids.
@@BMSculptures yes. He had the very unoriginal name of Lobo. Your sculpture reminded me a lot of him. Although he died nearly 15 years ago I still miss him.
Much as your lips are required to create a sound when singing /humming , speaking the sound created by Wolves/dogs is shaped by the placement of the lips effectually hiding most if not all of the teeth . Sounds like a reasonable supposition anyway !!!
As an artist who has also worked a lot with wood and epoxy/resins, I’ve always embraced the “mistakes” and the unexpected results- to the point where I began deliberately creating the environment for the materials to get weird. Maybe that’s just me, but making art is also supposed to be fun. It’s hard to feel like you can’t “waste” expensive supplies/materials…it’s the curse of the actual starving artist. But maybe, just occasionally…let it get weird!
You insulated the mold with the expanding foam. I’ve told you before that melamine traps heat as well. use HDPE, it’s more expensive than melamine but cheaper then losing the whole project, it’ll act as a heat sink on all sides to let heat evenly disperse through the walls! You also need to vent that closed freezer to to allow it to offgas. You also don’t brace the mold sides from the outside and all that heat expansion stresses your mold and finds the weakest point which is why it leaks.
@@pinkerbot I use dominoes to hold them in place together and then rubber bands or straps around the outside of my molds to ensure they don't move. But I still caulk my interior and exterior joints as well. I only use it for small scale molds I have made for myself for my own purposes. You could definitely drill holes for screws though too, if you need to reuse it with a hole somewhere else, just fill the hole with caulk. I'm telling you though, mdf will insulate. Don't use it for big pours, it'll overheat. that HDPE will absorb heat and cold, it'll help the temperature of the epoxy. I guarantee his pours get more clear with HDPE because they won't cloud, they will cure slowly.
Yeah I was looking for someone who'd mention the fact that the offgassing will be impaired because the chest is sealed. I mean, the fact that it exploded makes it clear that the atmosphere inside had a very high offgas content, which means there's less reason for the gases in the resin to move out of the resin. Remember how osmosis works: flow is always from areas of high concentration to low.
My art studio is "Stone Wolf Creations" so seeing your Wolf was what drew me to your channel, he is stunning! I did a Soap Stone Wolf a few Decades ago, long before the Internet and Cell Phones, I think he was in the late 80's. I remember the first time the battery operated Dremel came out and we started using power tools and more than just hand held rasps and saws on Stone and Wood sculptures. So long ago!
Blake - I am beyond happy! My wife just surprised me with one of your cutting boards, actually the first one that you placed on your table. It is a beautiful piece of usable art and it is amazing. The certificate and documentation is personal and professional. Thank you!
Even with the rough start, this turned out beautifully. I watched a couple videos, of howling wolves, and if any teeth show, it is the front bottom ones. I think how you did it was just fine. Glad you are ok. Continue to stay safe and thanks for sharing your talent with us.
Absolutely brilliant and the mouth is just right. Your disappointment but perseverance was amazing. Well done to you. This is the first of your videos I have seen. I look forward to seeing more.
I’m sure you can reuse the murky epoxy! Maybe you could use it to sculpt little frogs! They live in swamps after all, I don’t think they would mind being a little murky! ;)
I'm not a person who understands "art" at all. But these sculptures of yours, I really love. I hope that I'll make enough money the next couple of years so that I'll be able to get a sculpture of yours to have for my home. Let me hope that you'll still be doing these by the time I can afford them xD
Great video! This is just a total guess, but maybe off-gassing from spray foam that was trapped in the fridge spoiled the hardening process of the epoxy (by chemical interaction or increased pressure). Opening the fridge door at different intervals for different projects may have caused some pours to be successful (door open more often) versus unsuccessful (door open less often). Good luck solving this issue. It's a shame when all that hard work goes to waste.
Maybe the yellow color of yellow spray foam leached into epoxy?Air movement when opening/closing freezer door moving color around during cure?Great vids also TY.
I don’t understand how you don’t have at least 1 mio subscribers yet?! I love this channel man. Your videos are super interesting & entertaining and your sculptures are just freaking cool. The amount of work that goes into them, crazy! 🙌🏼
Love how you do your commercial in the middle - so many channels stop what they’re doing and do their commercial. I fast forward through those. You continued to show the production of your boards so I just kept watching.
It turned out great! It’s impressive how you handled it. I’m always blown away with your work so don’t let this stop you! I’m just getting Blacktail studio flashbacks 😂
The foam heats up considerably as it off gases. Though it might also have to do with the off gassing being trapped in there too. I'd spray the foam and let it sit for a day before putting in the freezer and doing your pour.
Brilliant artwork and effort! Keep up the good work. I have a couple of small suggestions: Some gasses can be heavier than air, so maybe the the flammable gas would have perhaps have stayed in there even with door open? The kick-back and snapping of the blade is because when the blade bit in to the wood, it was not held securely and above the level of the bandsaw table at the point of contact. It has happened to me also.
Came out amazing as per usual. Always in awe of your talents. Maybe you've solved your issue by now, certainly the foam acting as an insulator is likely a factor. The other thing is that, at least with the 2 part PU foams I use for surfboard repairs, they give off quite a bit of heat during expansion and curing. That's probably not helping things either. I don't use cast resins but surfboard epoxies but I think if I was attempting something like this, I'd be doing smaller pours just for safeties sake. Maybe cut your pour volumes in half?
Wow, I am a fan of your work. Especially love the spirit bear, but this wolf is awesome as well. Ever considered making smaller versions (5 to 10 inches) of these sculptures?
I have thought about it, but carving really small ones still takes a tremendous amount of time to do. I like getting more "bang for buck" by doing a large one.
You are a true artist, your sculpture is truly beautiful and could hardly be done better than it is. I am really impressed by your courage and skill, and here I just had to subscribe, no doubt.
Being someone who dabbles with art in my free time, I envy his patience and creativity. I would not touch wood working with a ten foot pole for several reasons, I've done it in the past before I graduated school, but I don't know if I could do it again.
Also just found your chanel tonight. Watched Trex & Bull but must tell you I feel much more hopeful and very encouraged vs being depressed from numerous life issues. Thank you sir ...
I don't remember if you have one in your deep freeze but maybe adding a fan inside will help even out the cooling. The freezer might be the correct temperature but since there is no air flow, the pour probably stays too hot
Hey man, first of all I just wanted to tell you that I love your videos. Will there be a video about the sculptures that you built for this year’s Cotton Bowl? They looked amazing and I’d love to see the process of building them. Best regards from Germany👋
LOVE your channel!! I like the narration rather than music. I feel included when you narrate, but excluded with the music. Thanks for sharing your giftedness with us!
Awesome results man, it sure was a journey but well worth it. I know you make end grain chopping board from the chunks you cut off but do you ever make anything from any big epoxy chunks that are cut off? Just a thought…
Yo, I think for the refrigerator the temperature regulation is just for the ambient temperature right? Maybe you need a thermal well and an external thermal control unit to somehow embed it into the deepest section of your pour. Sort of like a fermentation, temperature controller for home brewing beer.
@BM Sculptures does it check the temp over time ? I wonder if, at the beginning, due to the insulation and the epoxy, there is too much heat & it takes hours to cool down ? Would be interesting to see on a graph.
@@BMSculptures Nice, my assumption was due to the viscosity of the epoxy the ambient temperatures weren't penetrating far enough into the middle of the pour allowing the core to get hotter than the exterior. However, if that is what ya got, I'd wager some sort of interaction between the spray foam off gassing is impacting the epoxy somehow. Hope you find a solution, love your body of work.
Glad you're (mostly) safe, and glad the sculpture wasn't (violently) destroyed. Excellent work my friend! edit: in addition to showcasing your art, this video is an excellent illustration of the value in perseverance and diligence through difficulty! Subscribed!
What a lovely piece of art. I am so happy that you escaped with only some singed facial hair and not the loss of your sight. You certainly had a guardian angel watching over you that day. Have a great weekend and keep safe. 😊🇨🇦
you really got us where you were advertising the video game and applying the finish to the cutting boards. i could have skipped the advert but it was during the application of the finish, which is my favorite part to watch 😅
Hi there. This is the first viewing of your channel. I see you use a fridge to control the curing process. Why don't build a small cool room. Gives you a bigger area to expel gasses. Love your channel.
Gotta love the environment and all the good things this does for it. I'm thinking about the snowball effect of all this epoxy being produced and thrown into landfills.
It’s like the floors in the oldest Japanese palace centuries old, each and every square decimeter is comprised of tiny sticks of wood. Many different kinds and colours. There are still a handful of craftsmen who possess the knowledge of this type and style of wood working carpentry it’s mind blowing because it’s not just huge expansive floors but walls and screens as well. It’s been a long time since I saw the book I discovered in the library a long time ago. But I bet it can be found on RU-vid. 😊I’m off on a search!
This is the second video of yours I'm watching and now I understand a bit more of what you do. Absolutely love wood in all shapes and sizes but to see how you turn those leftovers in beautiful cutting boards is truly humbling and I'm glad to see such a precious resource has not been waisted. I also liked how you left the scares and mistakes in there and had a bit of fun with them showing your serious and humorous side which made the video better because it showed your vulnerability. So now I'm at minute 14 and I'll finish watching ❤
Man would love to see one of a lifesize horse 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 think Straight Egyptian Arabian horse would be amazing to see. I love wolves too i love the processing even bad ones.
Hi Blake, Dang it, been missing out on you’re videos, and I look so forward to watching them. Now I’ve missed out on getting an original Blake Cutting board. Snooze you lose! You went through a lot with this one, but you Aced in the end! Spectacular. It’s alot of work and artistry. You are to hard on yourself. You are so gifted with everything you build. We are blessed to get to see it! Thank you
I really love how your videos arnt like alot of other videos that gloss over the carving and creation of something and only show the end product, these are the embodiment of the saying "its not about the destination, its about the journey" which is a massive part of art that alot of RU-vidr gloss over and talk about the end piece for 5 minutes. These videos capture the whole process, and show the sculpture at the end with no commentary, which is exactly what people click on these videos for.
That is so beautiful!!! I live by a lake that's named Wolf Lake. That would be perfect for my house. However I probably would never be able to purchase one. I'll have to settle for making my Wolf quilt. Keep on. Your works are fantastic!👍🥳
OMG! So glad you're ok but that must have been a wakeup call. Wow crazy! The reenactment was hilarious, especially when you switched to a different angle. Lol 😂 Back to the pour, its an exothermic reaction. Usually, the bigger batches are prone to exothern. Even though you have it in the freezer, you need it cold like -24°F or combining a standard freezer with a really good heat sink contacting the resin. Aluminum mold would be the most inexpensive route. Just ensure applying mold release before pouring. Hope this helps. Great looking sculpture!! Your work is one of a kind! 💚💯💚
The finish is always so smooth if i saw this in person without knowing how it was made i woule have assumed some kind of factory machine or big mold was involved, like it's too perfect for human hands also the camera slowly showing you spinning the pedestal on your hands and knees is the funniest thing I've seen in a while 😂😂
