Concrete Youtube Diamond Play Button Paperweight
Introduction: Concrete Youtube Diamond Play Button Paperweight
Hello Instructable... And my viewers... Today I'm going to make a project on the occasion of this concrete competition and also as I recently surpassed 500 subscribers on my channel "Infinity Workshop" on youtube... As we all know that after completing some milestones, youtube basically gives us 3 awards... Silver award for 100k, gold award for 1M & Diamond play button for 10M subscribers..... But as I'm still a small creator and my channel is taking way time to even reach 500 subs (1 year and 2 months)... I decided to give an award to myself... So I decided to make this project.....
In this project, I made a mini Diamond play button replica with cement... Which can also be used as a paperweight in my daily work...
So without wasting any more time... Let's get started...
Step 1: Things We Gonna Need...
For making this kinda awesome looking project just from scratch... We will be using just a few items...
* Templates for printing
* A4 hard cardboard paper
* Craft glue.
* Clear lacquer
* Clear tape
* Cement(Good quality one)
* Chisel set
* Exacto knife/hobby knife
* Sandpaper
* Resin
* Files
Step 2: Making the Templates...
For making this project easily, we Firstly have to make our own templates for the diamond play button... One thing to notice here that if you have a 3d printer then you can easily make the 3d model into that format... But as a maximum of us don't have a 3d printer... So I decided to make paper templates which will be later used as the mold... If you want to make the plain and simple play button then the process is very easy... 733
But as I am making this as a diamond button replica... It must have those designs.....
But don't worry... I made the templates for you guys and give you all totally free...
Link~https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wVdGBS9-iX...
my channel- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCySf3QlXc-e5E20JE...
Pls, give me a subscribe on my channel as that will help me to continue making this kind of things...
Just take the templates and scale according to your need... Feel free to contact me for any help...
Step 3: Printing and Assembling the Mould
For this step, we gonna have to print the given templates on a hard a4 sheet... It's better if you can find a partially waterproof paper(full waterproof is best)...
Here I'm using my laser printer on an A4 cardboard stock paper... Be sure for the scaling..... Because every printer does scale every page my their own ratio...
After the templates are printed, it's time to cut out all the parts and assembling them... I made the templates in such a way... So everyone can do this job...
For assembling the templates we have to firstly fold the templates according to the lines given and the hints given. If a line has 2 crossing line then the fold will be mountain fold, and if the line has 1 line then the fold will be valley fold... follow these and fold all the pieces
Use craft glue and stick the flaps to attach the pieces ...as this will be the mold, so the flaps are needed to stick from outside...
similarly, make the inner crystal piece... and fix it in the open hole...
Be aware of any open space of holes...
Step 4: Sealing the Mould
After the mould is made..its time to seal the mould with something...as the paper is not a very good material for pouring cement, so we are going to make the mould more water-resistant...
for this job I used clear lacquer as I only had that...you can use spray colour if you have, to make a protective waterproof layer from inside...
make sure to cover all the surface from both inside and outside...
I almost used 3 coats for the job...
Step 5: Mixing the Concrete
Its time to mix the concrete mixture... But make sure beforehand that the mold is dried well... otherwise, it will be a messy job...
Take a good quality cement in a small mixing cup and mix with some water... it is suggested to use less water as the more you add water the more the mixture will be hard to mold into...
The quality of the cement is important because that will help to case good pieces...
Step 6: Pouring the Concrete...
Now take time and fill a very bottom layer of the mould ....and shake that well to remove any bubble trapped inside...
repeat this process several times to fill the mould with cement... 438