Woodturning | The Loofahs

On this episode of Ben's Worx I attempt to Turn Loofahs
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[@CrimzonLizard]

You might have cooler results if you untie the loofahs so that you can twist and wind them into whatever pattern you want. Might be a cool idea to do this for a tumbler or coffee thermos. Love the episode! You always bring a smile to my face seeing you get up to some crazy cool creative ideas in the shop.

[@MilkTheBandit]

That's exactly what I was thinking

[@raYne1527]

Oooo yeahh

[@afg122602]

I came here to say this exactly

[@sturyuken8256]

Me too 😂

[@Wyrmgirl75]

My thought too! Really want to see this!

[@composing-chaos]

Okay, Ben, as an artist, I appreciate your creativity and ingenuity, but… I think that lamp falls under just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. Lol! I love the idea of using loofa for the texture and color, it might look cool with the light shining through it, as well. The fluffy stuff on the top is going to be a dust and cobweb magnet!

[@kruimell83]

Haha, I kinda agree, but I think they're a lot of other things possible with loofa's that would look cooler if you ask me.

[@controllerpleb6568]

Unfortunately I have to agree here. It's a great idea in theory. And I think that's where it should stay. As a way to push the boundaries of art, I think it's great. As a way to provide light into a dark room, I think it's somewhat less great.

[@souljaboy.6668]

i mean also just use better materials than buying waste to make more plastic waste, although with the amount of epoxy fumes and lathed plastic strips im not sure this dude cares lol

[@Projectmayhem82]

Also it's flammable there's a reason why lamps use ceramic 🤦

[@Garfunkels_Funky_Uncle]

you should get some bright (maybe florescent) colored loofahs and cast them in black resin, so when you turn it the colors would be streaking throughout.

[@BacktheBlue60]

Its really neat that there weren't a bunch of air bubbles in it. Nice work Ben ❤

[@TheConwoman3]

Looks like cotton candy. Very cute You can buy those loofahs that are braided. ❤❤❤❤

[@BensWorx]

Thanks Connie 😊

[@StrandedLifeform]

So cool! I love the blue loofah, it looks like swirling water.

[@gwynnfarrell1856]

Love it! The swirls are so cool! I hope you do another one, maybe using a bunch of mini loofahs and turning them into a hollow sphere or egg shape to be lit from inside. Then all the swirls would be lit up and seen really well. 😊 Thank you, Ben, hello Nicole!

[@ditkirbo]

Blue looks the best!

[@Corkies-1985]

That's pretty cool!

[@BensWorx]

Thanks Mate!

[@BuddahsCat]

Hiya Ben and Nicole! I very rarely comment but I just had to say I absolutely love this. I can definitely see an iteration of this being sold at Target. Just add a crystal shade instead and a disco/ color changing light and it's perfect for a bathroom/vanity table/powder room. Hope you guys consider making something like this again; refining the process. Let an influencer get hold of it and call it good. I most certainly would buy one!

[@BensWorx]

Thankyou! Yeah for sure 😊

[@lindahobbs5545]

That turned out really cool!

[@BensWorx]

Thanks Linda 😊

[@roseosullivanfromIreland]

Hi Ben 👋, the lamp is so pretty and completely cool. Have a great weekend.

[@brendadishaw9273]

I like that. Very impressive. Never would have thought about using them that way.

[@glowingember7553]

I bet this would be amazing if the light was put in the hole you drilled. I'm imagining it radiating from inside the resin and loofahs. Could you try maybe putting a string of lights inside the center to see what happens?

[@openorwap5412]

Same! I was expecting it to light from within to show off the textures.

[@korialogo]

The resulting lamp looks like it's going to Prom with itself. Cool!

[@hollypierce3076]

I think making a soap dish out of loofa would be cool! ☺️🛁🧼

[@MnACreations]

Pretty cool, Ben!

[@lisakaye3935]

Now just sprinkle some glitter on the loofahs ❤️

[@kandipiatkowski8589]

Interesting lamp idea. Another idea I thought of is cutting the top off and make it into a lidded pot.

[@der_kluger_gunther8391]

i was thinking it would be a vase! i didn't expected to be such a cool lamp, it's amazing. and i bet Nicole have to buy new loofahs as well XD

[@jaspergoesrawrr]

Dang this turned out cool!

[@Tim-57]

Hey Ben Fun project. I also see a nice vase for a bathroom counter. Take care 😊

[@1954JDR]

What a marvelous idea! That lamp is beautiful. Great job, Ben.👍👍

[@emperortivurnis9161]

Love the vlog channel cause its just Ben and Nicole havin a blast. The lamp came out pretty neat! I wonder what untying the loofas might get for results if ever tackled again

[@talllanky1]

I knew what it was going to be as soon as I saw the shape you made.

[@markchester7584]

The sort of gift that gets ‘put away until you find a suitable spot’.

[@jimromansr9971]

Pretty cool idea Ben. I kind of thought in the beginning it might’ve been a water fountain of some type using the loofah and such. Always entertaining though.

[@senslayer5052]

It looks like it would be a nice gift for a young girls bedroom.

[@suesmith9202]

That's beautiful. Well done you.

[@ellishansen8115]

Love the loofah lamp! I'm surprised you didn't make a loofah shade. I bet you could!

[@BensWorx]

Thanks Ellis 😊

[@resina_tabasco]

Great idea, o like they result

[@rashira9610]

Ben, watching your channel has reminded me of a good trick: Scoring. Now I learned this 22 years ago in elementary school art class when we were making clay pottery, but well, I don;t make pottery as an adult so I kind of forgot. But through watching your channel, and watching you score the blanks to glue on your waste blocks, I remembered this trick and recently used it do epoxy on the nosepad to my glasses. Previous attempts to epoxy it on have failed, I don;t think the epoxy was really holding on to the nose pad, but I think with the scoring, and epoxy getting into the little cuts, it may just hold up now. Thanks for the inadvertent help!

[@thelamandapanda]

I have a suggestion! If you untie the loofahs you get long ribbons of the nets, I would do this and mix the different colors all around the resin!

[@Aslyuriel]

When you drilled the base I immediately thought "oh sick a loofah bong" lol

[@laurazakrzewski]

Neat idea!! Could make a Lava lamp shaped one too.

[@geoffwarnes9327]

Another great video love the patterns that where created ❤

[@Sinyk2u]

It would be cool to see it done with deconstructed loofah. Get a bit more of a variegated look maybe.

[@herodoesstuff]

at first i thought u added the holes for the water, and not like, wires LOL very interesting project for sure 👀

[@BurnChaos]

If you cut rope on each loofah, you can get each one unscrunched, then scrunch them all back together as one. I think it would lead to something more interesting.

[@nairocamilo]

It'd make an interesting lamp, for sure! Clean, soapy

[@markbass7145]

I hope you asked Nicole first...

[@jessicafutrell3204]

Plastic loofahs are bunched up tulle. You can buy tulle in rolls or by the yard. Then you can have more control over the shapes and easily mix together colors of the netted fabric.

[@richardbriansmith8562]

Awesome lamp Awesome Video Ben's worx 😊 and I hope you are all well 😊

[@ConnieConnie824]

Awesome

[@WX4CB]

speaking of loofahs... i think getting a few pumice stones that have a ton of air holes in would be a good one.. especially with multi coloured resins :D

[@sandyeubanks4972]

That is so very very cool Ben ❤❤❤❤

[@elizabethryan3594]

I thought you were going to put a light inside the loofas. I think that would have looked really cool. 😅 Anyway it still looks pretty cool. I love watching your videos. Missed Nicole this time. ❤❤

[@petershipman7314]

Lovely clean project 😂🎉❤

[@beaniiman]

I like it, may have been able to save some lufa by running something for the bit to follow ahead of time, then tape of course. Not sure but came out pretty good for a first try and love the way it looks in the resin.

[@Demonskunk]

I think you'd get some good results if you completely submerge the loofah and then turn a vase or bowl out of it. The patterns of the loofah in the resin, especially if you put a light behind it, would look amazing I think.

[@LisaVornhagen]

That is really cool!

[@ssue4q]

Well that came out really cool looking!! Thanks for sharing. PS what scares me is that we've all been using plastic on our skin since loofahs came out women longer than men

[@ikepigott]

I’m thinking that you could take that central post (that the wire is running through) and wind an LED ribbon around it. Power that up as well, and you have a wicked internal glow.

[@mariajustesen6534]

It's very pretty but, I think you need to do something with the exposed loofahs to keep them from unraveling further.

[@aprilfurcean8302]

This one turned out cute! Pun intended 😊

[@example54241]

Next time, put the loofahs in the container and then pour the resin over the top

[@Pollenoverponds]

This turned out really cool! If you cut them I wonder what you could do with the mesh? Maybe layer it with that iridescent stuff roll it in a big tube and make a lampshade?

[@802diamondpaintingpensbyli8]

We have people make blanks to make writing pens & diamond painting pens with Loofahs!!

[@lynn7049]

I love it.

[@BensWorx]

Thanks Lynn 😊

[@carolcrump32]

I like this, but I think it would look even better with the light inside, shining throught the loofahs. This looks great though!

[@afg122602]

You totally need to make a shade for that lamp. Either loofa or some other shower related item.

[@alisonmary1443]

I like the base, no keen on it's hair do though 😂 Lit from below might cast some great wall shadows. Glad the base didn't come away while turning 😰 Thank you great stuff 👍Hope your both settling back in.

[@qwertyness3565]

Best way is to untie them and mix and match colours maybe a egg or bowl made from it.

[@lightmagick]

I'd like to see another of these, with more loofahs of different colors, untied and twisted around in interesting patterns, cast into a solid blank with no poofs coming out, then bore out the center and make a bright multi led strip lamp with it.

[@teriwood9657]

Cute lamp for a bathroom. Would like u to make one where the loofah inside is lit up.

[@LilyChilman777]

I love that the pink has the blue and green beside it, because my mom's favorite color is pink and my two favorite colors are green and blue. And then one of my best friends (who is more of a sister then a friend really), her favorite color is black, so double perfect that the green and blue are next to it :D

[@Merennulli]

This makes me wonder if you could make a black loofah drizzled with colors to create galaxy-like swirls of netting.

[@welshpiper62]

Man thats one crazy idea but it came out great 👍

[@he-mansuncle7661]

Nice work. Any idea why I’m getting bubbles at the top of my blanks in the pressure pot? We’re doing 50PSI.

[@morbidflame1139]

Go higher, 50 psi sounds like a lot, but its nothing, try something like 60-70

[@he-mansuncle7661]

@@morbidflame1139 Will do, thanks!

[@morbidflame1139]

@he-mansuncle7661 yeah, just increase by 5-10 until you obtain the optimal results

[@andymanaus1077]

Hi Ben. I'd love to see you do an egg with dice and casino chips.

[@staceysarian7444]

Cool lamp

[@BensWorx]

Thanks Stacey 😊

[@happyavacado1495]

Like always your finished project is amazing but the real 🏆 winner is the music you use to show your finished project The lamp is very nice but I would've cut ✂️ off the fluffy stuff Maybe next time you could use only 2 colors black and blue on the bottom half blue and black on the top cut the same shape but cut the fluffy top off and make it a lid and hollow it out like a vase with a lid

[@justjake9469]

Love the loofah-lamp. Slightly disappointed that the top for the lamp is not from a lava-lamp. But it's gorgeous!

[@graygrand]

That’s crazy.

[@Ssjg-Broly]

lol your mixer sounded like Macaulay Culkin as a kid from the first home alone when he shaved then put after shave cologne on

[@RushDF]

Hello Ben, I enjoy your content and thanks for uploading. I think it would be very interesting to see various materials being chiseled in slow motion. Perhaps you and the SlowMoGuys should consider a collaboration.

[@lyndaowen2154]

cute but definitely different

[@roelienliebenberg2516]

Love the lamp. Wish I had your talent. ❤❤❤❤

[@ctempleman1401]

Would tieing the loofas with hair ties above the resin line keep them neat and away from the resin while it hardens? Does look very cool, love the black and blue colours in the base.

[@mistwolf]

For a second I really thought you were making a bong >

[@JaceDraccus]

When you first cast it and were looking at the netting at the top, I was thinking maybe you could turn it into kind of a fake vase, with the netting as the 'flowers', so to speak. Not sure how to make it work for best effect though. This looks pretty cool as is.

[@blodpudding]

Real loofahs aren't plastic, but actually a type of cucumber that has been dried. You should get the real deal and try it out! ❤

[@DannyWeaver0900]

Honestly think you missed the mark on this one, Ben. There was a TON of potential in that project well beyond just a lamp. It's almost like mailed this one in, Bud. I'd like to see a revisit with something else. Maybe a burle/loofah egg or something. Just my opinion.

[@Luvpig]

❤❤❤

[@BenKDesigns]

Not gonna lie... If you were to have cut the loose loofah off the top and then turned it into a vase or something, added some LEDs...it'd be really really cool. But, with the loose stuff sticking out the top and it turned into a lamp, it feels like a cursed object. You know, like one of those things you see on Reddit in a long list of posts of weird stuff that people made for some inexplicable reason. Like a Christmas tree festooned with doll heads or a very bad taxidermized mouse. Not trying to be mean, because the work is clearly not in the same category as my examples...just...idea versus execution. You were close. Maybe try with something different, like a sphere and LEDs inside. Look up WLED for a very cool effect. ;)

[@ItsaTrav]

Something about the little beat up bottle of water you use for polishing always makes me giggle

[@bethcaselman7952]

Interesting idea by using show poofs to make a lamp looks cool though

[@marydavis4533]

You could also have used a form like pot or bottle mould.

[@kruimell83]

Why didn't you put tape around the loofa that sticked out? Or some plastic film or something. To keep it out of the way from your chisels

[@EweChewBrrr01]

I paused the video but I have no idea what you are making. What might look cool is putting a light inside of it because I think that would look awesome.

[@EweChewBrrr01]

OK so I was right but I was thinking about the bulb being inside of it. I'm sure that would be a cool mood light.

[@one10hobbies78]

Missed opportunity… ice cream cone lamp.

[@Phthisis09]

If you put masking tape on the drill bit on all the sides then drill it in it will not get caught then it will remove the tape as it goes into a hard material

[@sbxdoctom]

My heart stopped a bunch of times with this one lol

[@snowballil3133]

Take the middle tie that's holding it together off

[@loverrlee]

I like it but I think it would have been cooler to cover them all in resin, so it’s not fluffy at the top, and have it just have a cool hourglass shape.

[@Hythyr]

I bet a real loofah would be really cool!!

[@bascodelagamma]

👍👍

[@Compman007]

Thats what I thought! A Loofah Lamp! xDDDD

[@darrellkrank485]

What kind of glue do you use for your lamp

[@phae7020]

I thought you were making a soap dispenser