That's so cool. My address here in south Carolina is #8. Now that I've seen this. I learned some techniques. I might scale it up and make some plaques to hang for the mail carrier. I'll need some resin though. All I have is a couple of gallons of flex coat for repairing fishing rods. Great video Ben
i love how precise all your steps are, and how well you problem solve as you go. reminds me a lot of the amazing work Ray Whitby does on his channel. y’all are both resin masters that i believe could make almost anything out of resin. also the 8 with the pencil lines through it on the white square (at 8:00) instantly reminded me of the countdown numbers they put at the start of old timey movies.
😱 you were nearly through with the ball when I thought to myself he can make that a gear shift knob. And in just a few minutes later you told us that's exactly what you were doing with it. Great minds think alike! Love your videos! Love your talent!
All things considered, you did a great job with the eight! Would be cool to see how making a full set of these would react on a pool table though, I'm curious to see how they would work compared to the real thing
That would be very interesting. The sizing is extremely important. The white ball is slightly smaller than the other balls, so it follows a different path when sunk. If the sizes are off, it won't work on a table.
WOW, Ben that was a lot of fun. The way you explained each step of the process was cool. Watching you create is always amazing. The "8" ball you made is gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. Thank you for a very enjoyable video.
This is actually a really cool idea. Taking an existing object and figuring out how to remake it always proves more difficult than you first think, but you learn so much along the way. Awesome job!
Wow, Ben! The 8 by itself made my jaw drop. The final shift knob made me shake my head in amazement! You are so precise and get such a shine on your products. Really well done!
That triggered a memory of when I was in the army, stationed in Germany back in the early '80s. My truck was an M109A3 shop van that I worked in the back of all the time, and drove to the field so I could work in it at various firing ranges for tank gunnery support. Somehow I got hold of a different shifter knob off another vehicle, maybe from an all terrain crane that was nicknamed Creepy. I know I had some part of Creepy on my truck. I'm 99% sure I had the buzzer from it that goes off when your air pressure is too low. Since the truck had air brakes and my buzzer quit working, I had to get one off a vehicle that wasn't going anywhere so I could hit the road. The knob may have been from it too. Anyway, the threaded hole in the knob was quite a bit larger than the threads on the shifter, so I wound a piece of steel wire around the threads, then screwed the knob over top of the wire. I was surprised it actually worked, and it worked quite well. The knob was maroon instead of black like everyone else's truck shifter knob. A 7 ball is solid maroon, so I put masking tape on the knob, cut out a circle, and had some tape shaped like a number 7 in the middle. I hit it with some white spray paint and had a custom billiard ball shifter in my army truck. No one ever made me change it back to the correct part, and when I left Germany it was still in the truck. I wonder what other drivers after me thought about that 7 ball shifter knob. I would have preferred an 8 ball, but the black shifter knob I had wasn't nice and round like a ball. It was shaped like a rubber ball that lost a lot of air and went flat. 😀 Painting it like an 8 ball would have looked stupid.
The last 8 ball like this I saw was My Mechanics making one out of brass and aluminum with a mill and everything at his disposal. You have done an EXCELLENT job doing it by hand. If you haven't watched Ray Whitby doing a similar thing making the resin Red Bull can I highly reccomend it. Again, hats off to you for nailing it like that by hand. Always good to see a new video come up.
At first, I thought the hole was for an LED... but I love what you did! Nice gear shift, with a nicely centered 8. As a few others have commented, I wonder how these would act as 'real' pool balls...you could make some really cool ones!
That looks just like a real one! I guess the white isn't completely opaque so there's a bit of colorbleed from the black showing through it, but otherwise it's perfect. :)
Cool Ben looks amazing . You’ve done a great job. . You should do a Billiard Set . Then make a triangle place them inside and encapsulate it in a clear resin block .
Nice! But you could make another 8 ball, the rest of the pool balls including the cue ball, and a resin table with resin sticks! Ha! THAT would be amazing! (I think you could pull it off!) :)
I was thrilled to see that you just posted this! Thought it was a video done awhile back deep in the archives. What an amazing piece of work. I love the approach, thus method certainly makes this ball extremely durable. Extremely satisfying. I really appreciate how you let the viewers get a moment to try to guess the next step or try to solve the possible problems. So cool, you made your own 8 ball. 🎱
Ben! Now you need to create a cue ball! But insert a lead weight, mounted off-center. Then visit your local billiard/pool hall, substitute if for a real cue ball and ... watch the antics! (Just make sure the participants are all good sports/mates!)
8:54 can i just compliment you on your eye for alignment, i've noticed it so many times watching your videos, and the accuracy of noticing somethings off by even half a mm is wonderful to see :D
i was practically screaming "shut the up, shut up" at 6am when you got to the 8 pour part. love your channel Ben; i am always entertained or educated, sometimes both.
I think you need to make a whole set of pool balls using different materials set in resin (fabric, a resin egg, shavings, etc) could turn it into a series!!
Hi Ben! That was amazing how you did the number 8! I think in fact it’s one of my favourite round projects! I really want a sphere Jig! 😂 Thank you! 🏴
As soon as I saw the ball removed I knew it was a shifter knob. Looks great. I need to figure out the insert for my shifter as I need to replace mine. Looks great my friend.
The first thing I thought when I saw the drill bit being the way it was I was like this is gonna be a big mess up. But you did a fantastic job been. It looks fantastic centered as if it was done by a machine. Excellent job!
I've got a few ideas for things that might be interesting to try and cast. 1: one of those pickle shaped christmas ornaments. i was going to say "A pickle" but the ornament won't rot. 2: Wax lips. if there's a way to keep them from melting, they'd look hilarious in resin. 3: If the wax lips wouldn't work, maybe one of those wind-up chattering teeth, or heck, a set of dentures. the wind up teeth would be more interesting looking i'd say, because they tend to be bright red plastic. 4: a set of polyhedral dice. a d4, d6, d8, d10, d12 and d20, floating at various parts of the egg. that'd look sick.
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Amazing job again Ben Looks like the real thing glad to see you made it into a shift knob though looks Awesome 😎
That's so cool. My address here in south Carolina is #8. Now that I've seen this. I learned some techniques. I might scale it up and make some plaques to hang for the mail carrier. I'll need some resin though. All I have is a couple of gallons of flex coat for repairing fishing rods. Great video Ben
Yeah. Impressive work. The same. Could not find on Etsy. Does not compute. Lol
Sorry mate it’s already sold
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i love how precise all your steps are, and how well you problem solve as you go. reminds me a lot of the amazing work Ray Whitby does on his channel. y’all are both resin masters that i believe could make almost anything out of resin.
also the 8 with the pencil lines through it on the white square (at 8:00) instantly reminded me of the countdown numbers they put at the start of old timey movies.
Thankyou 😊
8 ball in the corner pocket lol when I first glanced at this I thought you were making a magic 8 ball I’m delusional lol. As always Ben a great pour
Thanks Mate
Me too
Now I want to see someone build a magic 8 ball.
I read “make an 8 ball” as magic 8 ball” too. 😂😂😂
I thought the same thing lol
You inserting the 8 piece into the hole is literally the most satisfying thing ever
The process you used to create the "8" was ingenious. Came out great!
That’s flawless, the sheen from the lighting didn’t even wobble, what a work loved watching the precision 👍
Thanks Alison 😊
The creation of the insert blew me away! Fantastic.
Thankyou
As soon as you said you were drilling all the way through, I knew this was going to be a gear shift knob!!! Totally retro!!!
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️❤️❤️
One of my favorite ASMR sounds is you mixing resin at high speed I could listen to it all day
"Hey guys, Korg here, we're gonna make an eight ball out of resin, wanna come?"
Phenomenal! 😲 The planning, process and execution was PERFECT! 🤩 You're a legend Ben.
Thanks Julie-Ann 😊
Amazing work Ben! I wasn’t expecting you to pour the 8 like that. I was thinking you’d paint it but you went above and beyond for sure!
Thanks Kara 😊
I can't tell you how many times I say "AMAZING" when I watch your videos !!!!!
Thanks Kathy 😊
They both turned out amazing… I must admit I think the clear one has my vote. Thank You for doing all the things on this channel I love watching them
The centering technique was bloody brilliant!! Well done, as always!
Thanks Karan 😊
😱 you were nearly through with the ball when I thought to myself he can make that a gear shift knob. And in just a few minutes later you told us that's exactly what you were doing with it. Great minds think alike! Love your videos! Love your talent!
Wow. I'm impressed 👍👍
Thanks Mate
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ah when my 2 favorite creators collide
Wow! you put a serious shine on that ball! very nice project, that 8 is perfect.
Thankyou
So satisfying when you nudged the waste block ever so slightly as you were gluing it to the black resin! 🙏😁😘
That is the coolest shift knob ever made!! Hand crafted by the one and only!! How cool!
That was pure genius how you made the 8! Great job!
All things considered, you did a great job with the eight! Would be cool to see how making a full set of these would react on a pool table though, I'm curious to see how they would work compared to the real thing
Thankyou 👍
That would be very interesting. The sizing is extremely important. The white ball is slightly smaller than the other balls, so it follows a different path when sunk. If the sizes are off, it won't work on a table.
I think this is a cool project idea
@@mayshack you can turn it round with out the flat spot it was one of the first things i done when i got my lathe
I feel like they would wreck the pool table rofl
WOW, Ben that was a lot of fun. The way you explained each step of the process was cool. Watching you create is always amazing. The "8" ball you made is gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. Thank you for a very enjoyable video.
Thankyou
@@BensWorx
You're very welcome, Ben
This is actually a really cool idea. Taking an existing object and figuring out how to remake it always proves more difficult than you first think, but you learn so much along the way. Awesome job!
Thankyou
This is gonna make a nice shift knob! I'm guessing that is why you drilled a hole all the way through, I haven't watched the whole video yet!
Gorgeous work, Ben! It was such a painstaking process, but you absolutely nailed it and should be proud.
Wow, Ben! The 8 by itself made my jaw drop. The final shift knob made me shake my head in amazement! You are so precise and get such a shine on your products. Really well done!
Thankyou 😊
That triggered a memory of when I was in the army, stationed in Germany back in the early '80s. My truck was an M109A3 shop van that I worked in the back of all the time, and drove to the field so I could work in it at various firing ranges for tank gunnery support. Somehow I got hold of a different shifter knob off another vehicle, maybe from an all terrain crane that was nicknamed Creepy. I know I had some part of Creepy on my truck. I'm 99% sure I had the buzzer from it that goes off when your air pressure is too low. Since the truck had air brakes and my buzzer quit working, I had to get one off a vehicle that wasn't going anywhere so I could hit the road. The knob may have been from it too. Anyway, the threaded hole in the knob was quite a bit larger than the threads on the shifter, so I wound a piece of steel wire around the threads, then screwed the knob over top of the wire. I was surprised it actually worked, and it worked quite well. The knob was maroon instead of black like everyone else's truck shifter knob. A 7 ball is solid maroon, so I put masking tape on the knob, cut out a circle, and had some tape shaped like a number 7 in the middle. I hit it with some white spray paint and had a custom billiard ball shifter in my army truck. No one ever made me change it back to the correct part, and when I left Germany it was still in the truck. I wonder what other drivers after me thought about that 7 ball shifter knob. I would have preferred an 8 ball, but the black shifter knob I had wasn't nice and round like a ball. It was shaped like a rubber ball that lost a lot of air and went flat. 😀 Painting it like an 8 ball would have looked stupid.
Wow! I'm very impressed by your talent. I don't think I could ever have gotten that 8 centered like that. Great job!!
Thankyou
You really got behind the 8-ball on this one, and sunk it. Looks great!
Thankyou 😊
The last 8 ball like this I saw was My Mechanics making one out of brass and aluminum with a mill and everything at his disposal. You have done an EXCELLENT job doing it by hand. If you haven't watched Ray Whitby doing a similar thing making the resin Red Bull can I highly reccomend it. Again, hats off to you for nailing it like that by hand. Always good to see a new video come up.
Thanks Mate, I'll check it out
At first, I thought the hole was for an LED... but I love what you did! Nice gear shift, with a nicely centered 8. As a few others have commented, I wonder how these would act as 'real' pool balls...you could make some really cool ones!
that was also my first thought. Could be an awesome looking Nightlight with the glowing white circle and the black eight in it.
That’s a great idea!
Thankyou 😊
I think they'd be too soft and end up denting on some of the harder impacts
I got excited seeing that sphere jig. Then when that drill went in stationary that was probably the most satisfying thing ever
man i just love your voice, it just gives off a wholesome vibe my G
the pure aussie efficiency of mixing the 5 min epoxy on the service you want to stick *chefs kiss*
That looks just like a real one! I guess the white isn't completely opaque so there's a bit of colorbleed from the black showing through it, but otherwise it's perfect. :)
I always love seeing how you work out how to do things! It turned out so good!
Always impressed by how steady your hands are.....I can’t even cut a piece of paper straight! Lol
Great job Ben!
Thanks Jason 😊
Cool Ben looks amazing .
You’ve done a great job. .
You should do a Billiard Set . Then make a triangle place them inside and encapsulate it in a clear resin block .
Thanks Angela 👍
Man, that black is just perfect on there. Outside of the threads and the 8, couldn't even tell it was moving.
Thankyou
I am impressed! That was a very complex undertaking, and it turned out perfect.
Thanks Lynn
WOW Ben, you never cease to amaze me friend, you're the "Leonardo Da Vinci" of the resin world! thank you!!
Thankyou 😊
This is the most work around way of making an 8 ball shifter and I love it! 👍🏻
I wish that I had the talent and the PATIENCE, that Ben has. Great work!!!
What a stunning 8 ball! 🎱 It's absolutely perfect and turned out wonderfully. Thank you so much for sharing this with us all! 🙂
"...pretty good job..." dude, it looks amazing! Once again, nice work man!
Nice! But you could make another 8 ball, the rest of the pool balls including the cue ball, and a resin table with resin sticks! Ha! THAT would be amazing! (I think you could pull it off!) :)
INSANE! It came out looking better than an actual pool ball. 🤯
Thankyou
I was thrilled to see that you just posted this! Thought it was a video done awhile back deep in the archives. What an amazing piece of work. I love the approach, thus method certainly makes this ball extremely durable. Extremely satisfying. I really appreciate how you let the viewers get a moment to try to guess the next step or try to solve the possible problems. So cool, you made your own 8 ball. 🎱
Thanks Nick 😊
Well my 2 year old loved it. She spent the whole time saying "wooow" and pointing at things excitedly
Aww 😊
Ben, you are behind the 8 Ball! Nice project!
Thankyou
This was a great project. People who create things are awesome. Great work
Wow that is awesome! What a great pour. You are extremely talented! Thanks Ben
Thanks Linda 😊
This was actually really cool. The ol 8 ball shifter will never completely go out of style.
I never would have thought of using/creating a rounding gig like you have. Brilliant work!
The eight is impressive! What a smart way to go about it. With drills ! So smart!!
he has the most calming voice and I appreciate it at 3 am
Ben! Now you need to create a cue ball!
But insert a lead weight, mounted off-center.
Then visit your local billiard/pool hall, substitute if for a real cue ball and ... watch the antics!
(Just make sure the participants are all good sports/mates!)
😂
WOW!!!! 😃 What a BEAUTIFUL 8 Ball, Ben!! 😃 🎱 Great job!! 😃
Thankyou
@@BensWorx You're very welcome, Ben!! 😃
Looks amazing. The spherical projects are my favorites. Now make the whole set! 😅
Ever thought about putting a twinkie in resin?? To test the theory that twinkies have enough preservatives for them to last forever lol
Aren't you a smartie pants!! I love it, and how genius was that!!!! That 8 ball really is impressive! Thanks for making my friday evening Ben!!
Thanks Ellis 😊
Wow, so shiny!! I love the problem solving aspect of this video, thank you!
Thankyou
8:54 can i just compliment you on your eye for alignment, i've noticed it so many times watching your videos, and the accuracy of noticing somethings off by even half a mm is wonderful to see :D
Nice! I can't believe that shine! I really like it. The magic 8 ball
Thanks Connie 😊
i was practically screaming "shut the up, shut up" at 6am when you got to the 8 pour part. love your channel Ben; i am always entertained or educated, sometimes both.
Thanks Liam 😊
I think you need to make a whole set of pool balls using different materials set in resin (fabric, a resin egg, shavings, etc) could turn it into a series!!
I watched the whole thing and I have to say that you did an amazing job!
Thankyou
Beauty! Fantastic work! Great test of skill and the finished product is spot on!
WOW! you are so talented, Ben! I can't get enough of your videos 😍
Great job mate.That number 8 is really acurate and centered.
Looks awesome. If I hadn’t just watched you make it, I’d think it was a real one. Very good work
Niiiiice I dig it! I wondered how you'd accomplish the 8, but that was a genius way to get it in there. Well done.
That looks like a real 8 Ball can't tell that it is made out of rosin great job keep it up
Thanks David
Looks pretty bad ass. Very realistic. Nice job 👍 Ben!!!
Thankyou Monica 😊
Towards the end, I was kinda hoping you'd make it into a shift knob. Freakin awesome man..
If you hadn’t told me it was made of resin I would have thought I was an actual 8-Ball. Beautiful work!
The final product is absolutely amazing!
Hi Ben! That was amazing how you did the number 8! I think in fact it’s one of my favourite round projects! I really want a sphere Jig! 😂 Thank you! 🏴
Thanks Pamela 😊
This project really resineighted with me. Great job Ben.
As always, you never fail to impress me! Amazing job on the 8, that must've taken ages to get just right. Keep up the great work!
Thankyou
This video just called me lazy cause it’s no way I thought it would go like that 😂😂 amazing job 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
You could cast like a Lego car or something like that that would look cool
As soon as I saw the ball removed I knew it was a shifter knob. Looks great. I need to figure out the insert for my shifter as I need to replace mine. Looks great my friend.
Thankyou
As always, amazing! I would LOVE to see a magic 8 ball, like the ones you ask questions and shake it and look at the answer 😂😂 thatd be awesome
The first thing I thought when I saw the drill bit being the way it was I was like this is gonna be a big mess up. But you did a fantastic job been. It looks fantastic centered as if it was done by a machine. Excellent job!
Looks great, Ben. I love the way you made the "8" in the white resin.
Bill
Thanks Mate
Phenomenal quality here, I would definitely use that as a shift knob in my vette! 👍
Thankyou
Genius way of tackling that #8. Nice one mate.
Great work Ben. I never would have guessed it would turn out to be a shift knob.
Always amazing watching you create things
Thanks Steven
Always amazed at your polishing just beautiful not as easy as people think
Great job Ben. Love the way you explain your thought process. 👍👍
Thankyou
Oh you genius I love you. This is so clever and creative and well executed, thank you for sharing this brilliant build.
Thankyou
I've got a few ideas for things that might be interesting to try and cast. 1: one of those pickle shaped christmas ornaments. i was going to say "A pickle" but the ornament won't rot. 2: Wax lips. if there's a way to keep them from melting, they'd look hilarious in resin. 3: If the wax lips wouldn't work, maybe one of those wind-up chattering teeth, or heck, a set of dentures. the wind up teeth would be more interesting looking i'd say, because they tend to be bright red plastic. 4: a set of polyhedral dice. a d4, d6, d8, d10, d12 and d20, floating at various parts of the egg. that'd look sick.
Never mind the gear shifter, mate, when are we going to see a full set? I reckon the spots and the stripes would give you a challenge to cast!
13:21 what a beautiful 8 ball! 😊🖤💛💕💞✨
Excellent work my friend and you definitely got the 8 centered.
Thankyou
The tech for forming the "8" 👌👏 well done!
Man, I really enjoy watching you make rad things!