Cement and Resin - Can you Guess What Happens?

[@tomlopez7819]

This is really great for larger pieces, cement adds volume which decreases resin cost and you still get the luster of the resin.

[@tangokaleidos1926]

sand adds more volume cheaper

[@sandraroberts9400]

I actually laughed out loud when you were covering the male parts “or not”.... 🤣

[@ShrimpPerr]

Same here 😂

[@tomlopez7819]

Perhaps put the glitter just on the ''dinkle" next time..

[@EmEm78]

Peekaboo

[@teekotrain6845]

Lol....he does have a dingle. I love those molds. I love how the shiny black came out

[@meaghanb9118]

Wow! Really surprised how nicely these turned out. I was sure cement would turn the resin. Thanks for trying it for us!!

[@kizzy5607]

Sand, cement & wait for it ....glitter! Love it Steve

[@vinkkt]

Hi today i tired making Crystals with silica jell (Cat litter) glitter, mica powder and a bit of resin to bind them together. I then spooned it into clumps. They look so beautiful . I wanted to thank you for trying everything you do because you give us the courage to try new and different things.

[@mandyhall1674]

They turned out really well. Prefer the colour and the shine on the female one. Happy New Year Steve :)

[@cathykoch5393]

Thank you again. I truly love your sense of humor ❤!

[@NortelGeek]

Wow. I'm not sure what I was expecting to happen but this looks like a great way to make your pieces look like they were made from stone! Thank you! Also, we realize that 2020 has not been the best year (heck on earth, actually) but my partner and I are sending you and yours our warmest wishes for a happy new year!

[@theobvious1958]

what's the pros and cons of cement epoxy resin

[@galady8632]

Thank you for doing the experiments for us. Your wit and willingness to share your experiments with us are both entertaining and informative. Happy New Year's Eve to you and yours.

[@alymetz2020]

“Oh, let’s put it all in” *dumps* lmao

[@Denise11Schultz]

I like your experiments with additions. In US there is a car product called Stop Leak which is very fine aluminium powder, to plug leaks in a car radiator. Maybe that would be fun to try. It was about $10 US the last I knew. Will send you coffee in early January (must have my name on the pressure pot😉).

[@Milaandlukeliketodostuff]

Wow awesome! I’ve legit been thinking about this and was curious How it would Turn out but most definitely wanted to try it with some coasters.

[@bonny9680]

Happy New Year from me and mine to you and yours, thank you for keeping us sane in 2020, love the experiments :)

[@TheTrashnTreasure]

I must say that I looooove your videos. You are like me. Have a treamor & are a little messy. I lerned a lot from all your experiments and gave me a lot of inspiration for my own resin craft. Thank you from Sweden 🇸🇪

[@pamcullen537]

Happy New Year Steve, always waiting for your next experiments, love loads 🦆💕

[@leannedrinkwater9428]

Great video and inspirational too. I have order my lady figure and will try both plaster of Paris and the cement one. In these difficult times "Keep calm and carry on crafting". I would if I wasn't watching your videos all the time 😂

[@brandymusson9838]

That is cool idea I like them 💙💜💙 I hope I did the coffee thing right and Happy New Year I can't wait to see what you have in store for the next year 💙💜💙

[@binjuiced]

Im trying this out today with white cement and sand 🥰

[@AfallinAngel]

💙❤💙 Enjoy your pressure pot! Can't wait to see my name on it! Thanks for all the video's love every one of them! 💙❤💙

[@AfallinAngel]

@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts I cant wait! Im so excited for you! Its a game changer for real! ❤💙❤💙❤

[@theobvious1958]

@@AfallinAngel what's the pros and cons of cement epoxy resin

[@binjuiced]

That's amazing! I'm gonna try that

[@gavinhay6627]

Interesting. I've been looking into creating something like microcement and my search has lead me to believe it's cement, fine aggregate and water based polyurethane resin. This video gives me promise.

[@LowVisionUKTerrysView]

wow Steve, the dark one looks amazing. My male and female moulds came out matte! so, I will be looking for others. absolutely love the female finished one

[@MaxinesCraftynStuff]

Favorite words of the day: squeeze “squigy widgy”! The female mold came out much shinier. I thought for some reason that it would be lighter and more matte so it was a pleasant surprise. Happy New Year Steve! 🥰🤗

[@NortelGeek]

And "dingle"... Don't forget the dingle.

[@MaxinesCraftynStuff]

@@NortelGeek hahaha

[@debbie5827]

you got to love a bit of squidgy widgey..... loved it

[@JDAfrica]

Interesting - I wonder how the permeability and the waterproof qualities would be for this? Thinking of if adding resin to concrete countertops or basins.

[@mlfett6307]

You might need a different resin or technique to cover such a big volume.

[@Travel.With.Carmen]

@@mlfett6307could you tell me which type of resin were you thinking of?

[@mlfett6307]

@@Travel.With.Carmen Most available "hobby" resins probably cure too quickly for really large applications - I suspect more industrial types would be best, I alas, I don't know off hand what they are (I'm a computer nerd, not a materials specialist )

[@Vonnies1929]

They turned out good!

[@niwe79]

It looks like a messy muddy soup but the end result is amazing 😍👍🏼

[@aarkaarkangel]

Try white portland cement.

[@katosmiaumiau8210]

Hi! Great video and it's really entertaining (in a good way!) If you use way more cement or sand than resin, you don't have to do the layering thing. And yes, the cement-resin-mix has tonnes of bubbles but with torching regularly (until it's cured), doing the squishy wishy and 'knocking it on your surface for a bit' (I hope you know what I mean?) the bubbles can rise up. And btw the fantastic thing about using cement in resin is: if you sand it, it looks like real cement...or even better actually....It looks a bit more like stone🤔 ...well great anyways😊😉 Ps.: I am too without a pressure/vacuum pot...😞 supid expensive stuff...😒 ✌

[@dclark2162]

I love your experiments! Happy New Year! Lets hope 2021 is better for all of us x

[@heatherbishop6526]

You had me at “Squidgy widgy”! Then the “dinkle” came along and I’m dead!😆

[@colinmoore7460]

I have the same male mould. I tend to stand it in a tin mug with a couple of old gloves to stop it falling over.

[@korinakursa8854]

Thanks for sharing, great explanation!

[@SamuelJMoe]

Nicey Nice Steve I always love your experiments have a happy healthy safe day my friend and have a fantastic rest of your year

[@susanhamilton3212]

Glittery cement, only you could dream that mixture up! Interesting to see the difference in gloss between the two - would that be the sand additive do you think? I'm amazed at your success with bubblessness bearing in mind the sand & cement. Very successful experiment!

[@susandavenport8777]

My feelings exactly! Who else would do this? I really liked the results👍🏻👍🏻

[@muscrms]

Thank you thank you thank you for this tutorial🥰

[@laineykearns4506]

Love these moulds!! The shiny black one is my favourite. Unfortunately all I could think of at the end was "mica powder his dingle!!" 🤭😊. Love your videos, you do make me laugh.

[@laineykearns4506]

@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@LEDewey_MD]

Great video! From what I could tell, you mixed the dry "powder" cement (no mixing with water first) with the resin? And that produced that smooth black color, (on the female torso), without anything else added? The results are amazing!

[@doggowar9021]

The “Dinkle” peekaboo almost killed me!!!! 🤣💕👍

[@victoriaeads6126]

I really like your channel. You're so creative, and very lovely in terms of personality. I'm subscribed, of course, and on the rare moment I'm on FB, I'll look for you. This is another interesting experiment.... Love it!

[@MsTruthseeker999]

love the female one just perfect! Squidgy widgy lol, I had a rabbit called Squidgy :)

[@vociferonheraldofthewinter2284]

I have to note the dark color of the end result. I did the Henry's feather finish concrete over plywood trick for my counters and had a miserable time trying to seal them with masonry sealers. My final 'hail mary' was to coat them in a good quality counter/table top epoxy. I sanded the whole thing, had a bad feeling, and gave them a coat of a Thompson's masonry sealer that was 'non-enhancing'. The clear flood coat was perfect. BUT, I missed a few spots with the Thompson's. Those spots turned BLACK. I mean BLACK, black. I don't know what reaction causes the epoxy to turn the concrete black, but here it is again in this video. Now it's beautiful in its own way, but I am curious to see how epoxy interacts with white concrete. That's an experiment I'm going to have to try here soon. (I'm currently prepping to do a big concrete experiment and I'll throw this one in there.) There has to be a way to use concrete and epoxy to get a durable, bullet proof, concrete-look final result.

[@hanneliedutoit4911]

Cool Steve this is so nice, and funny too! Happy new year!

[@amykeever8527]

Oh my gosh you are ADORABLE!!! A dinkle winkle 🤣🤣🤣

[@gamageperera2183]

Aha finely I found it thank you for uploading that,

[@sunshineismyname7203]

Thanks for the videos

[@wilmahughes8436]

I love your videos. Great experiment

[@EpitomeofLexi]

Oh my gosh I lost it when you said "Or not, peekaboo!" You're too funny.

[@tiffanywells6574]

This was one I suggested! 😆

[@lordsofthewildwood7553]

I thought you may do a hardness test or drop test to see if the concrete made any difference to toughness of the piece

[@raymondlibert9861]

Good experiments .

[@BlackCat_2]

That is really neat!! Thanks for sharing and wishing you a happy new year. Here's looking forward to 2021. :D - Heidi

[@Talia_IceCreamPaints]

Hi! Thanks for this demo. So, the ratio should be 60 cement to 40 resin?

[@bubblemum]

I haven't watched it yet, but lately you keep asking questions in your titles, and my mind immediately answers "Fire, flood, explosions BIG BOOM!" Now to see if I guessed right...

[@bubblemum]

@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts I would ask you to avoid open flames, but I know you have that long match...

[@NortelGeek]

I've never really seen much that was dangerous to mix with resin, EXCEPT in an episode of Shop Time called "Dye Trying" where Peter tries out different additives to resin--He tried making the resin blue by adding a crushed-up toilet bowl cleaning tablet. The bleach in it caused a runaway thermal "event" and there was smoke. Not fun.

[@bubblemum]

@@NortelGeek See Steve! BIG BOOM! It can happen!

[@theobvious1958]

what's the pros and cons of cement epoxy resin

[@deborahswings]

Now that was cool!

[@shantelle.davis393]

Hey Steve, how would you go about making fridge magnets?? Would you glue the magnet on the outside or would it also work to put it in the resin mould too?

[@joshuamoore24_7]

I would think the cement epoxy mix spread over old roads beading repaired and lightened up in colored would be a viable idea.

[@easyfoodchannelsa]

Wow I love this a lot !!!!!!

[@stonephonerogue]

you'd be surprised how many people are looking for an example of this mix and how little information and examples there are of it. The main motivation for this is to strengthen the resin, as resin tends to bend here in Texas where it can get pretty hot. Can you give any information on if it's stronger, or if you have done any stress testing to these pieces? Please I would really appreciate your feedback as you are bar none the best example of this application on the internet.

[@stonephonerogue]

@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts thanks for the tips! In the past year I started experimenting with making my own molds out of silicone and pouring with epoxy resin. Can you recommend any brands for this polyurethane resin?

[@allisonkeevers1969]

I prefer the glossy female one. Have you ever watched any of the videos by "fresh idea" on youtube ? She has some really good ideas about using cement with resin, but keeping the two separate.

[@MathewTitus]

Had you done this with just pure lime powder Ca(OH)2 you might have come up with something quite close to Greek statue marble. Assuming there was no chemical reaction.

[@mlfett6307]

Well at first I was "what the heck is he trying now?" thinking that it would settle, but it came out really quite nice! Would you recommend it as a way to stretch one's resin further?

[@melimel9265]

What do you do with this type of piece. Do u make something with them

[@oliviarinaldi5963]

I don't know if you've tried this or not, but I wonder if you use a baked polymer clay piece within a mold would work. The first thing that popped into my head for example was making an eye with polymer clay, putting makeup on the one eye (I'm thinking Egyptian); then you would bake it. The make a pyramid with resin. Placing it in the center with fishing wire until it cures enough to stay put and then pouring the remainder. I'm mainly curious how the clay would hold up in the resin???

[@oliviarinaldi5963]

By the way, Steve, I bought you a cuppa; however, I bought it under my name as this name of Olivia is my writer's pen name. It just now occurred to me that you won't even know who it is my initials are CO or CD on the cuppa ;)

[@elzy133]

Cool video. I plan on experimenting with mixing high heat resin & high heat cement mixed together to make candle containers. I know people make candle containers just from cement (which can be pretty 'and cheap' if colored nicely in my opinion), and just resin (which i'm not too much of a fan of). But I like the way it comes out mixed. So i'll need to do some testing. See how it comes out. I know a similar type of mixture is used to make flooring in workshops & so forth for looks & easy cleaning.

[@TheTrashnTreasure]

Have you tried making something with the half/half look. Like mixing a cup of cement without adding resin and a cup of resin and adding them to the same mould t make one half cement & one half resin. And see the differense to pour both wet or wait for one to set before pourind in the second.

[@evamooney2953]

For the colour you can get special colourants for cement

[@evamooney2953]

@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts no worries

[@rhondaarmstrong6790]

Great video!

[@MyMessyShinyLIfe]

You are so funny and creative. I could watch your videos all day. This one in particular had me lol. I do have a question, I tried resincrete for the first time after watching one of your videos. I assumed it would be less expensive than straight resin for molds, but I think it’s more expensive. Is that correct? I’ve only been working with resin for a few weeks and my resincrete just arrived today but it took 1/10th of a bag to make one small succulent pot so, unless I did it wrong, I’m thinking straight epoxy resin is less expensive than that. 🤷‍♀️ What do you think?

[@brandiekee5249]

Looove the female verses the male color. Thank you for the video!

[@bubblemum]

Me too, it looks like black marble

[@dollybrown1993]

Interesting

[@Oonagh72]

I bet metallic bronze would look good in the cement

[@kevinstelzersouthafrica4767]

Does the cement strengthen the object once cured?

[@dariussteele3843]

How substantial does this feel? Does it have a bit of weight?

[@ConnieConnie824]

Nice! Where they much heavier than just resin?

[@ladybug93720]

Peek a boo...lol great tutorial!!!

[@mookzmom]

Well, another surprise! Also surprised at how dark the cement is. I wonder if the addition of cement adds to the strength? Happy new year, Steve!

[@NortelGeek]

One would think so, however, the thing that gives cement its strength would be water, and fortunately for the resin, there's no water here. :) Happy New Year!

[@schlippery1]

Really great, informative and "food for thought" videos Thank you for doing these... I am going to ask a silly question But,,,I am assuming you mix catalyst into the resin before mixing with POP?? I am trying to find a solution to making a strong mix of POP and "something" else to be strong enough to make bases for my small driftwood art pieces that I press into before the mix cures??? Any thoughts? The bases obviously need to adhere well to the driftwood, and be strong enough for general handling during transporting ...

[@pedrolopes3542]

you are amazing

[@yoopermann7942]

i was mislead!! i was waiting for it catch a cold or not set up,, turned out better,, was there a weight diffrence etween one with cement and one without? thank you for the tips

[@jackcrabtree4374]

Hey mate, I am here in the U.K. also, can you advise where to get low cost resin supplies that you use? Many thanks

[@alexiscraftyourlifeaway9587]

I like adding cement to all kids of resin pieces

[@hamzehosseini2573]

Please try white Portland cement

[@dulceteixeira9097]

Brilliant 😘

[@AdisonCooper]

Im surprised the normal concrete came out that dark

[@maybee5334]

Me sitting on my sofa waiting for a new video. Looll

[@maybee5334]

@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts Yaaaaayyyyy!!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😍

[@janvining6301]

Love your videos, thanks. Can I brain pick please, how would you build up an edge on a tray?

[@janvining6301]

@@SteveMcDonaldArtsandCrafts Thanks, I'm trying beads and gravel at moment

[@janvining6301]

Beads worked

[@dexterisabo3137]

Why? Forgive my noobish question, but are you using the cement to save on epoxy?

[@the1robthompson]

Cement requires water to activate and become hard. By mixing it only with the resin, you are not getting any of the structural properties of reacted cement. In your application it is just a mineral filler. Obviously this is fine, but i wonder about the properties of a mix where both the cement and resin are activated. I.e. mix cement with water, then combine the paste with resin.

[@Glotglot]

I hope when you say you are all ready... you should be ready to have to destroy your molds to get the cement out. Wow, I thought cement was the same as concrete, but this video proves that wrong.

[@ajxx2879]

Hi great work, where do I buy the mould spray from please Steve im uk x

[@hawkeyescoffee6399]

Idk what I expected, but it wasn't that beautiful glossy black effect; reminded me of onyx. I definitely preferred the female one, the sand effect was intriguing on the male one but not a fannof the shade it turned out, also,mwas the male mould less shiny or did something g you added make it less shiny? I'm guessing asking now is a bit pointless given how old this vid is, but idk if maybe u still use this technique. Do you think it works out cheaper doing the 60/40 mix with cement powder or if it were just pure resin? I imagine without thickening it with the cement first that the sand would all just immediately sink. Imagine just adding holo powder and what it might look like with that black finish.

[@maybee5334]

I didn't get a notification! Bloody KZbin lol I love you videos

[@elainewannell4456]

Hi I’m interested in making my own resin crochet hooks. I been watching lots KZbin but only one person has made them. Do you think you could do them. They use a lath I only have a Dremel I see you love your dremel do you think it would work. Going try make me own mould. Any suggestions would be really appreciated.

[@jeonnb8181]

is it heavy or light weight??

[@Sandraudiga333]

Just found your channel and had to subscribe! Love your videos. So I do have a question. Would you say this weighs more than standard resin? As for the feel of the piece, it's obviously smooth like resin, but does it hold it's temperature like a stone would? So interesting and turned out great!

[@michaelomode630]

what about translucency?

[@IsaacMaganaMusic]

Is it true that if I mix plaster of paris and acrylic resin, it turnes into jesmonite?

[@Sorrento66]

I have these moulds and just cannot make them without getting bubbles in them :-( I have tried squidgey widgeing but no help xx