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
Also try Julian Baumgartner of Baumgartner Restorations who restores Fine Art Paintings, identical perfectionist, painstaking approach. I think they'd get on...
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.
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…
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 !
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.
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!
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 👍
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
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...
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!
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.
From watching some of your videos you obviously lean towards a modern slightly futuristic look, l don’t personally think it works for the age of your house but can’t deny the phenomenal craftsmanship of your work
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.
Maybe try replacing the led strips with "COB" Leds. COB means Chip on board, but the LEDs effectively look like one long light source instead of a bunch of individual dots. Space them closer together and you'd be in business.
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
Wow, Russ. That's gorgeous. You are one majorly talented dude. Making your house, and your client's projects better one step at a time. Well done, sir. Champion.
Excellent idea. I’m sure a thousand people have already commented about this, but higher-density LED strips are now available, with very little space between the emitters. The COB, chip-on-board style nearly eliminates hot spots. You can get them with tunable white temperature and RGB. RGB CW WW is the designation. Red, green, blue, cool white, and warm white chips give the user selectable color temperature between 2500 and 7500 Kelvin. Addressable ones are also available. If you wanted to get fancy, you could make a sunset color gradient, even blue, with sunset colors reflecting off the water. Unfortunately, I don’t believe individual pixel addressable strips with high CRI and white balance with color are available. I’m sure it is only a matter of time. Oh, I forgot to mention with a good driver you can get high-frequency PWM for “flicker-free” operation and precise dimming. I’ve been researching them for my home and to roll my video lighting.
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.
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
x_Tool made a wise decision picking the best 'woodworking' channel by an Australian country mile on YT to showcase their product. x-Tool just got a 'free' 30 minute advertisement for the donation of their product P2. I would hazard a guess that paying to have a commercial made and airing it for a total of 30 minutes would have cost them much more. Russ did them proud with a great project.
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 !
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!!!! ;)
It looks fabulous, well done! How things have moved on in my lifetime. I used to machine engrave on silver or gold, occasionally the computer gremlin would creep in half way, and make it a nightmare to restore exactly to reset the engraving position. Glad it didn’t happen on your mirror!
That city-scape mirror door is brilliant. I like its changeable mood colours. Good memories of my Meccano set(s) during my preteen and early teen years. Windmills, planes etc etc. Next home-improvement project will be the bedroom closet?
Creative solution... can the brightness be reduced with the the remote? Perhaps staggering the strips and adding another layer of the static glass frosting would help with the LED spots??? However, may be to much rework for unknown outcome. I'm wondering when the intended use would be for the LEDs. Likely too bright to sleep with it on so maybe to help set the mood for bedroom Olympics... Maybe add a motion detector to turn them on during the night.
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)... :)
Should also mention that wiring the LEDs in parallel prevents all the strips going out if a single LED burns out. Hope you made the door easily repairable because LEDs do and will burn out.
What a lovely project. Might try the stacked sheets of diffusers and fresnel lenses from a salvaged TV to eliminate hot spots if it’s still eating at you.
First reaction when this popped up: this guy is always worth watching
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
Absolutely the best RUclipsr ever!❤
Generally you are born with academic, technical or artistic skills. You on the other hand were blessed all three!
Saw this come up and told the Missus to leave me alone for half an hour!! Beautiful work!!
This guy is Next Leven man. Far and away the most talented and skilled you-tuber around.
Also try Julian Baumgartner of Baumgartner Restorations who restores Fine Art Paintings, identical perfectionist, painstaking approach. I think they'd get on...
Wonderful! Try LED COB strips if you haven't...
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.
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…
You’re an artist, man. Such patience.
Amazing skills and creativity.
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" ... 😄 ...
I'm still in awe of the Wood Nibbler 300000001XL.
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 !
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.
Yes, I was going to post a similar comment about addressable LED's, making the building 'twinkle' in different hues. Still pretty awesome project!
Would have commented similar as so-called "neon-LED"-strips would have more diffusion. Still Kudos for that effort!
Would have commented similar as so-called "neon-LED"-strips would have more diffusion. Still Kudos for that effort!
Using each hinge for the LED power - excellent idea.
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.
Dude you are making the coolest house ever! Always waiting for the next video!
Lucky guy. Able to walk out the bedroom and straight into the workshop! ;D
Living the dream…!
The 70s/80s references are bringing back memories 🤣🤣🤣. Great work as always Russ 👍🏾🇬🇧💙
Your skill set is staggering! Great videos. Many thanks.
Before I even watched the video. A temporary door, and it has 4 hinges! I think I'm overdoing it with 3.
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!
Beautiful work. Your wife is lucky to have such a husband!👍🏻😂
You never cease to amaze me with your skills and yes it does look way better than a lump of MDF
You make the most amazing things!
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 👍
your cnc table series is one of my favorites.
Nicely executed promotional and a creative application to showcase the machine’s capabilities. 👍
Promotional, that's the word I was looking for, I think.
Attention to detail 2nd. to none. Superb.
Amazing! Thanks for sharing so we can watch a master craftsman at play.😊
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
came here to mentioni this. DIY perks has a good example of this with his daylight led lights made from old tv screens.
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...
Specifically the Fresnel lens diffuser. This lens attached to the mirror would make those hotspots disappear.
We *needed* a reaction video of your wife seeing this for the first time!
Your battle with the door was magnificent ! Your skills are extra ordinary !!!🥷
Very cool, thanks for showing us
I’m loving your sense of humor. Wood Nibbler 30000001 XL… hahaha! I love seeing your sarcasm in the text of your videos.
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!!! :)
Just simply fantastic
Looks great. Superbly executed as usual.
LOL Your sense of humour "KNIGHT RIDER" 🤣🤣Excellent work 👍👍👍. Thank you for sharing. Be safe 🇨🇦
"Need more input." Loving the Short Circuit reference.
Very nice ! Btw, if you don't want LED hot spots you could add a diffuser sheet, in between, from old LCD displays.
You never cease to impress and amaze me!
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!
I spent one day in Yorkshire and fell in love with this country, it was just like a fairy tale land to me...
I'm lucky enough to live right next door to York, the counties capital.
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.
From watching some of your videos you obviously lean towards a modern slightly futuristic look, l don’t personally think it works for the age of your house but can’t deny the phenomenal craftsmanship of your work
You’re craftsmanship continually amazes me. I am surprised you chose mdf for the door
FANTASTIC!!! That's a unique way to light up a door.
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.
I just love your inventiveness and admire your ability to turn your hands to almost any sort of project. I'm so jealous!
It’s good to see you again
I Love it. !00% pure art on the outside, 100% pure jank on the inside.
All the best effects are like that.
Awesome work as always. Great video. It would be really cool to see your wife's reaction to your projects.
Use hinges as low voltage connectors. No hanging cables.
Maybe try replacing the led strips with "COB" Leds. COB means Chip on board, but the LEDs effectively look like one long light source instead of a bunch of individual dots. Space them closer together and you'd be in business.
Fabulous stuff, looks amazing.
That looks superb !!!!!
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
Your work is perfect as always. Respect.
Wow, Russ. That's gorgeous. You are one majorly talented dude. Making your house, and your client's projects better one step at a time. Well done, sir. Champion.
Copper contact points in the door edge could take care of the visible cable.
Quite creative, nice work, as usual. 👍🏻
Excellent idea. I’m sure a thousand people have already commented about this, but higher-density LED strips are now available, with very little space between the emitters. The COB, chip-on-board style nearly eliminates hot spots. You can get them with tunable white temperature and RGB. RGB CW WW is the designation. Red, green, blue, cool white, and warm white chips give the user selectable color temperature between 2500 and 7500 Kelvin. Addressable ones are also available. If you wanted to get fancy, you could make a sunset color gradient, even blue, with sunset colors reflecting off the water. Unfortunately, I don’t believe individual pixel addressable strips with high CRI and white balance with color are available. I’m sure it is only a matter of time. Oh, I forgot to mention with a good driver you can get high-frequency PWM for “flicker-free” operation and precise dimming. I’ve been researching them for my home and to roll my video lighting.
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.
It is such a beautiful mirrored door! You are correct. A plain mdf door would have driven you nuts!
Awesome job again Russ !
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
Ace project, Norm would be proud of you.
x_Tool made a wise decision picking the best 'woodworking' channel by an Australian country mile on YT to showcase their product. x-Tool just got a 'free' 30 minute advertisement for the donation of their product P2. I would hazard a guess that paying to have a commercial made and airing it for a total of 30 minutes would have cost them much more. Russ did them proud with a great project.
Can you please link this? Many thanks 😊
I have been looking for part 1 on each of these xtool videos
you are the greatest of all time
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 !
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!!!! ;)
Nice work as allways. But why didn’t you connect the LEDs to the lock so the mirror lights up in bright red when the bathroom is occupied?
Not sure if you knew this but you can beam light through the glass on its edges to send light through the glass
there are electric transfer hinges out there that would tidy up the exposed wire and conceal it. fantastic work as always! well done!
It looks fabulous, well done! How things have moved on in my lifetime. I used to machine engrave on silver or gold, occasionally the computer gremlin would creep in half way, and make it a nightmare to restore exactly to reset the engraving position. Glad it didn’t happen on your mirror!
Awesome one of a kind piece 💖
Mad respect …. Watched him build the CNC …..this guy is a freaking genius !
As usual brilliant conception. I think your next project should be built in wardrobes.
Ha ha ha, I was thinking the same thing. The wife must be saying "when are you going to finish the bedroom closet!!!??"
12 out of 10 - absolutely fantastic.
Excellent work!
You are an artist!
I am impressed….. you are make excuses to buy the neatest toys!!! Genius
Beautiful job
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.
One of a kind. Beautiful. To long between videos. LOL can't wait till the next one.
That city-scape mirror door is brilliant. I like its changeable mood colours. Good memories of my Meccano set(s) during my preteen and early teen years. Windmills, planes etc etc. Next home-improvement project will be the bedroom closet?
Absolutely amazing.
Looks awesome!
Another interesting and educational video. Lovely job.
As usual, incredible.
Think I'd have opted for a battery alternative LED system.
Another great piece of work,amazing
What a great work! It's always nice to see creative thoughts turn into real work.
Creative solution... can the brightness be reduced with the the remote?
Perhaps staggering the strips and adding another layer of the static glass frosting would help with the LED spots??? However, may be to much rework for unknown outcome.
I'm wondering when the intended use would be for the LEDs. Likely too bright to sleep with it on so maybe to help set the mood for bedroom Olympics... Maybe add a motion detector to turn them on during the night.
Nice work!
Caution to viewers. Do not show this man’s work to your significant other!
Looks excellent to me!
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)... :)
Should also mention that wiring the LEDs in parallel prevents all the strips going out if a single LED burns out. Hope you made the door easily repairable because LEDs do and will burn out.
What a lovely project. Might try the stacked sheets of diffusers and fresnel lenses from a salvaged TV to eliminate hot spots if it’s still eating at you.