Making a Japanese cityscape backlit mirror door with xTool P2

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[@myhairsonfire]

First reaction when this popped up: this guy is always worth watching

[@mattevans7884]

Saw this come up and told the Missus to leave me alone for half an hour!! Beautiful work!!

[@Orocil2006]

My friend...even your WORK even your edit in the videos...is absolutely perfect...Your calmness is absolutely amazing... I want to see a restore of workshop with fresh paint walls and a nice clean floor...Keep up and thanks for yor videos

[@hsimpson6581]

Absolutely the best KZbinr ever!❤

[@KenLongBurgheim]

I'm still in awe of the Wood Nibbler 300000001XL.

[@stanmoderate4460]

Generally you are born with academic, technical or artistic skills. You on the other hand were blessed all three!

[@29lookingood]

The 70s/80s references are bringing back memories 🤣🤣🤣. Great work as always Russ 👍🏾🇬🇧💙

[@d.d.5633]

You’re an artist, man. Such patience.

[@stun9771]

Starts a job…more toys arrive just in time to do it…assemble new toys…adjust, calibrate, trial… ok let’s get on with it…just love watching your videos…they leave me in awe, and wishing I had saved up for a workshop half the size of yours, with at least one or two toys to play with…lol… keep up the fantastic work…

[@videostarish]

Cool dude..! I'm a joiner from Aberdeen, Scotland, & you sir are the Chip Foose of woodworking etc...! 👍👍

[@billdoodson4232]

Before I even watched the video. A temporary door, and it has 4 hinges! I think I'm overdoing it with 3.

[@venenareligioest410]

You my Yorkshire friend, have the patience of a saint 😇

[@Weissman111]

12 out of 10 - absolutely fantastic.

[@frankmcgorman962]

Light years beyond the "old lump of MDF" ... and you very nearly killed me with "cleaning all the laser dust off the mirror with IPA" ... 😄 ...

[@goodevins9408]

Amazing skills and creativity.

[@ronfinch5532]

Dude you are making the coolest house ever! Always waiting for the next video!

[@rockyrivermushrooms529]

your cnc table series is one of my favorites.

[@phooesnax]

Nice work! Caution to viewers. Do not show this man’s work to your significant other!

[@joesanders6069]

Amazing! Thanks for sharing so we can watch a master craftsman at play.😊

[@kris856]

This is what I love- a real artist at work- caring about how the doors looks and not worrying about the cloths just hanging around on a random stick LOL I love all your videos and superb work. You have inspired me to do some similar - however far less sophisticated - works. Keep up good work and all the best for Christmass and in the New Year !

[@davidbean6383]

Your skill set is staggering! Great videos. Many thanks.

[@jeffeyman5535]

It’s good to see you again

[@vonHannersdorf]

Beautiful work. Your wife is lucky to have such a husband!👍🏻😂

[@padders1068]

Russ, amazing work, attention to detail and video. Great tip for de-fluffing the MDF, guess that's the opposite of being a Fluffer. Thanks for sharing, entertaining and educating!

[@twocvbloke]

Nice work there, a tip for LED strips though is solder the positives at one end of the strips, and then the negatives at the other, this evens out any voltage drop issues that happen when everything is done at one point (where the far end LEDs are visibly duller than the ones nearest to the power input)... :)

[@bradleytuckwell4881]

You never cease to amaze me with your skills and yes it does look way better than a lump of MDF

[@EricRoy85]

Years ago I used to engrave pictures into the back of mirrors with just a dremel and tiny engraving bit on it. It was a slow tedious process and extremely loud, but I made some really cool projects. This video brought back memories. Thanks for sharing.

[@todde278]

You make the most amazing things!

[@ErinIsBlueBlue]

Marvelous work ! Well done again !

[@richards7909]

Lucky guy. Able to walk out the bedroom and straight into the workshop! ;D Living the dream…!

[@charliebadger]

Utterly superb :)

[@Amarand]

Your videos always remind me I need to work out more. (At all.)

[@jamespppyacek342]

This guy is Next Leven man. Far and away the most talented and skilled you-tuber around.

[@RaspberryWhy]

THE perfect start to a weekend. Thanks me ol' mucker...... BTW ASMR roller painting, it might be a new channel for you - really very satisfying!!! :)

[@troystaten5633]

Very cool, thanks for showing us

[@opendstudio7141]

Nicely executed promotional and a creative application to showcase the machine’s capabilities. 👍

[@gib666]

Promotional, that's the word I was looking for, I think.

[@DavidSmith-tu6jd]

Attention to detail 2nd. to none. Superb.

[@waynemoate9401]

A couple of suggestions, if you don't want LED hot spots you could exchange them for COB LED strips. For the wiring you could use an intruder door loop. Or use each hinge for each power rail. For the ultimate LED control use addressable LEDs this way you can control the brightness and color and brightness of each LED, this way the water could be blue but the buildings white for example . Check out a project called WLED.

[@JohnnyMotel99]

Yes, I was going to post a similar comment about addressable LED's, making the building 'twinkle' in different hues. Still pretty awesome project!

[@__Timo__]

Would have commented similar as so-called "neon-LED"-strips would have more diffusion. Still Kudos for that effort!

[@__Timo__]

Would have commented similar as so-called "neon-LED"-strips would have more diffusion. Still Kudos for that effort!

[@cjay2]

Using each hinge for the LED power - excellent idea.

[@chucklenz9011]

All great ideas…but he has undo and redo. I concur great project. I didn’t know about individually programmable LED’s, now I have to look that up.

[@billstevens3796]

We *needed* a reaction video of your wife seeing this for the first time!

[@PeterCut62]

Very nice ! Btw, if you don't want LED hot spots you could add a diffuser sheet, in between, from old LCD displays.

[@chriswild2458]

Blood and sand such a clever guy

[@d.beaumont9157]

That looks superb !!!!!

[@geraldfitzgibbon7428]

Just simply fantastic

[@eaw68]

Beautiful CLEAN work!

[@andygrime]

Your battle with the door was magnificent ! Your skills are extra ordinary !!!🥷

[@aam50]

Looks great. Superbly executed as usual.

[@MrCytree]

Awesome work as always. Great video. It would be really cool to see your wife's reaction to your projects.

[@greentelly280]

Everybody seems to focus on LEDs but the door by itself is just beautiful without all these lights. Probably I would have used panel LED (like the square ones for ceiling, some are multi colors as well) to avoid spots. But really... who cares about these spots ? It's just unique, elegant. Bravo.

[@denzilthick6421]

Brilliant well done

[@patrickschutte]

you are the greatest of all time

[@paulmanningremixes6408]

The hot spots don’t look as intrusive as all that, especially in the context of the image, they just look in keeping with the windows of the buildings. Another enjoyable video, thanks

[@MrIanspeed]

Maybe a single led strip around the edge, instead of facing out behind the mirror, facing across the door towards each other? No hot spots... Just a thought 🤔 The reflection, 3 stops less of light, that is the artist in you. Cool build. Keep up the good work 👍

[@trackerdan1]

Great project and fun to watch it come together! And it almost seems like most of the LED hot spots landed on locations on the image where real building lighting might be expected - along roof lines, etc. Brilliant!

[@David40S]

Fabulous stuff, looks amazing.

[@boglebogle5576]

Yet Again ..........WOW !!!

[@Wmu5]

Looks excellent to me!

[@joroyle8108]

Beautiful job

[@stevedonalson5675]

Excellent work!

[@g-daddy7669]

I’m loving your sense of humor. Wood Nibbler 30000001 XL… hahaha! I love seeing your sarcasm in the text of your videos.

[@richardpogue4959]

Great idea we’ll done!

[@paulmcgrath552]

Wow! Doing rework at the point of installation rather than lugging it back to the shop. Just like a regular shlub like me would do.

[@paulhume8083]

As usual, incredible.

[@pitsnipe5559]

Quite creative, nice work, as usual. 👍🏻

[@volkerkomnick7556]

You are an artist!

[@colinnicol9447]

As usual brilliant conception. I think your next project should be built in wardrobes.

[@idontthinkso666]

Ha ha ha, I was thinking the same thing. The wife must be saying "when are you going to finish the bedroom closet!!!??"

[@seanpopecoffey1340]

Looks awesome!

[@B.McAllister]

"Need more input." Loving the Short Circuit reference.

[@Nobe_Oddy]

Turning down the brightness will help A LOT! :) It turned out BEAUTIFUL!!!! I LOVE IT!!! Now you just have to make the closet doors that I see are missing lol - GREAT CHANCE FOR SOME VIDEOS!!! And you can make them MATCH THE BATHROOM DOOR!!! - It will look AWESOME!!!! ;)

[@steveleatherby3700]

Just a thought but you could have used the diffuser sheets from a scrap led tv as that’s why the spots don’t appear on the tv. Fantastic job and channel

[@tima9790]

came here to mentioni this. DIY perks has a good example of this with his daylight led lights made from old tv screens.

[@twocvbloke]

The other reason for no spots with a rear-lit TV is the LEDs have lenses which fire the light out sideways directly onto the rear deflector which then illuminates the diffusers on the back of the LCD panel, I tried converting my uncle's old CCFL-backlit TV to LED, and even with the LCD's diffusion, it's "spotty", kind of usable, but looks rubbish for anything other than just using as a crap monitor or something...

[@FirepawBear]

Specifically the Fresnel lens diffuser. This lens attached to the mirror would make those hotspots disappear.

[@BeasleyStreet]

Looking forward to this🙂

[@georgeburns7344]

FANTASTIC!!! That's a unique way to light up a door.

[@bbqlips]

Totally rad!!

[@Nachesko]

Wow, beautiful

[@yeagerxp]

LOL Your sense of humour "KNIGHT RIDER" 🤣🤣Excellent work 👍👍👍. Thank you for sharing. Be safe 🇨🇦

[@TonyT-lo2sz]

One of a kind. Beautiful. To long between videos. LOL can't wait till the next one.

[@tjacksonwoodworker3726]

Beautiful

[@brianwood5220]

Brilliant job. thanks for sharing.

[@Saxonx500]

You never cease to impress and amaze me!

[@martingoddard2171]

I just love your inventiveness and admire your ability to turn your hands to almost any sort of project. I'm so jealous!

[@ivanwill]

Simply impressive...!

[@bobbaggs6149]

Hi Yorkshire. Door was excellent but the issue of hot spots of the leds is best cured by salvaging frenel lens and obscure panels from scrap LED TV. The fresnel speads the light and the obscure softens it...thats why tvs have them. I've used them in several projects and the results are great.... Thought I'd mention it incase you have future projects using leds.

[@odjida213]

Mad respect …. Watched him build the CNC …..this guy is a freaking genius !

[@lauraweber9636]

Stunning

[@Smudgie33]

Personally I preferred the mirror without the LED’s, just as an engraving. Great video to watch though, as always. ❤

[@allenzackery1639]

Idea ! See if power can be transmitted through hinge or two separate hinges ( low voltage) using vinyl spacers for positive and negative poles ... If wied right should not see any wires and constant supply to LED ! Magic" Anyway nice job and keep up the good work !

[@damogranheart5521]

It is such a beautiful mirrored door! You are correct. A plain mdf door would have driven you nuts!

[@DavidLeeKersey]

I Love it. !00% pure art on the outside, 100% pure jank on the inside.

[@Petertronic]

All the best effects are like that.

[@johnsmith5726]

Ace project, Norm would be proud of you.

[@jeremypaulson4726]

You’re craftsmanship continually amazes me. I am surprised you chose mdf for the door

[@55ATA3]

As always the video and the project were done to a very high slandered, the door is the best I have ever seen. Thank you for making the video I enjoyed it very much.

[@jorgepasten5033]

From Chile. Awesome!

[@Dmhlcmb]

Looks like a huge home later jet printer.

[@Nscale]

What a great work! It's always nice to see creative thoughts turn into real work.

[@MIK33EY]

Stockton Rush would be proud of your controller choice 😂😂- too soon?

[@TwelvePaws]

Don't be too disheartened by the hotspots. I work with LED's in TV lighting - our custom arrays on the LED's all have lenses and then we use other materials to control the quality of light within the fixture, to ensure the business end gives a nice even wash on camera. It's somewhat of an artform I can assure you.

[@theIMMUNICORN]

Might be late to the Comments section about this but for future projects & reference, you’d be shocked to know that basic printer paper lined on the back of the mirror would be THE solution to diffusing the LED light evenly. Maybe even something thinner like tissue paper but that’s admittedly unconfirmed speculation Plain white printer paper; This is what I do in my smaller LED displays for music toys & gadgets It’s cost effective, but you’d also be better getting a paper roll instead of individual sheets of printer paper (to avoid seeing tape marks shining thru) Everything else looks truly great Awesome videos & projects, my man. Really enjoyed watching this

[@tocador2247]

Your work is perfect as always. Respect.

[@dirkhoff1854]

Top idea 👍

[@waynespringer3320]

Absolutely amazing.

[@liebertod]

I have been looking for part 1 on each of these xtool videos