Preserving a FRESH Rose in Solid Resin… Will it rot?

Today we are gonna be trying to preserve a rose,

like from the movie "Beauty and the Beast,"

but instead of using magic, which is notoriously unreliable,

we're gonna be using resin,

which is slightly more reliable.

Get down there.

Oh my god, whoa.

It's like steaming.

Oh my gosh, Katelyn.

Yeah, we've had some success

embedding organic things in resin before.

A few months ago we did a pumpkin

and we poured all the resin at once in one massive pour

to prevent oxygen from rotting him,

but I think doing a rose is gonna present some

interesting challenges.

For one, there are a lot of crevices

and places for air bubbles to get stuck in.

Two, we're gonna have to find some way

to suspend this upside down

with it not actually touching any of the edges.

And three, we could have made this so much easier

if we had have used a dried rose.

That's what people normally do,

if they're embedding flowers in resin, it's dried.

You can just buy them.

You can, yeah.

But we want a challenge.

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They actually sell an officially licensed

Disney Beauty and the Beast (TM) preserved rose thingy.

So we thought we'd look at that

to see if there's any inspiration we can pull.

Ta da.

You know, I don't think it's that bad.

You think it's bad?

I really don't like the clear, clear stalk right there.

Clear, oh, you're right, yeah.

The, it's supposed to be green.

It's supposed to be green.

KATELYN: I think they injected the wrong plastic on ours.

EVAN: They injected the wrong plastic.

[Katelyn They injected a white clear plastic

instead of the green plastic.

You don't want to be like this.

Yeah, that's a little lame.

Does it light up?

It's supposed to light up.

Touch activated off and on.

You wanna open the battery compartment?

It's not, you need to keep it plugged in.

It's USB powered.

Oh, well let's plug it in, let's see.

No, I do like the fallen petals.

Should we rip some petals off to embed at the bottom?

We could consider it.

But you know what?

That sends the wrong message.

Resin would never, resin would never drop those petals.

Yeah, resin would never.

Let's see, ready?

KATELYN: Okay.

I think we can do better than that.

Also, ours will be a real flower.

All right, so the general plan

is to use this as the base of the whole thing.

Now this is a glass dome we bought

because we thought it'd be fancier than the plastic

of the official Disney version.

This is disgusting.

KATELYN: The plan is to suspend the rose

and pour resin directly into the glass dome.

MALE: Whoop, pretty simple plan.

At this point, I'm like,

is this even a video?

Is it too easy?

Don't say that.

Stuff has already gone wrong you don't even know about.

Oh no.

This wasn't the original vase.

Originally, we bought a much bigger glass dome

'cause we thought that would be impressive

and easy to work with.

Do you know how I discovered

that it wasn't the right size?

KATELYN: How?

Oh no.

This was the original dome size, but it was too tall.

Man, that's a shame because it looks so much better.

Don't say that.

Don't you want a portable, a portable.

KATELYN: A pocket size rose.

It's portable.

KATELYN: Oh my gosh.

I bet that was a surprise putting it in.

I was like look, it fits, crunch.

Now putting this in here upside down

and letting go would be a bad idea.

But you know, one thing that I can do

to make this stand upright and be secure?

3D printing something.

We have technology.

(upbeat music)

It's so pretty.

It's a rocket ship.

Ta da, how are we gonna hold the rose

perfectly centered and everything?

3D printing.

We should be able to place that there.

Slide the rose in here.

KATELYN: And then we hot glue it.

I think that's gonna work.

You're doing great.

Dry, dry, dry, dry.

It's hot, it's hot, it's hot, it's hot.

You did touch it, yes.

(upbeat music)

Okay, ready?

Thank goodness we're putting this in the pressure pot

because otherwise that's a lot of bubbles.

KATELYN: A lot of bubbles.

We gotta go slowly 'cause the petals are pretty delicate.

MALE: Get down there.

KATELYN: Careful.

I'm gonna leave a little bit of space at the top

so that it doesn't like weld the rose holder on

and we can finish off that last little bit

with a little bit of resin later.

We just have to hope

that little exposed bit of stem doesn't rot.

We're gonna place this in a bucket of ice water,

kind of like we did with the pumpkin in the fridge,

because we wanna slow down the curing process.

Yeah.

We've technically poured this resin

way thicker than it's supposed to be poured.

And so we don't want it to have thermal runaway and kick.

Yeah, we'll slow it down

with a little bit of a cold plunge.

We've never put water or ice in the pressure chamber.

Water's incompressible so it shouldn't change things

that much right?

Yeah, I guess.

Maybe, you know, it's a fun experiment.

Isn't that right Pascal?

I'm gonna have to dip my hands in there.

Carefully, carefully without tilting it too much.

Careful.

I hope an ice cube doesn't get trapped under it.

Oh my gosh, there's ice cubes trapped under it.

We might have to just have water in the bucket

and then carefully, by hand, place ice cubes.

But um.

KATELYN: Just grab that bucket.

I got it, I got it.

I don't want your hands wet too.

Feel like I'm not doing much here.

You're gonna emotionally support me.

How do you feel?

You okay?

All right, it's in.

Did you almost drop an ice cube in the resin?

No.

I saw you almost drop an ice cube in the resin.

Oh my god.

No, no, no, you didn't, no you didn't.

Oh my gosh, Katelyn.

Katelyn no, no.

I'll pull it out.

Wait.

It was so slippery.

It was so slippery.

Come out, geez.

I didn't mean to.

Oh man, oh man.

Now, now, oh gosh.

And there's water in there.

We're gonna have to suck that up.

KATELYN: Okay, we'll get a pipette.

This is the worst.

How about I'll place them one at a time?

Yeah, one at a time.

All right, while the resin cures,

I thought it'd be a good idea to cut a hole in this base

so I can embed this light.

Now there's a lot of ways to do it,

but I have a CNC, so let's use that.

(upbeat music)

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It's a hose.

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KATELYN: It's a CNC.

So Katelyn and I both verified, it was centered.

KATELYN: It was centered.

EVAN: Look at this.

KATELYN: We made center marks.

That is so not centered.

KATELYN: Is it fine though?

I mean, technically it works, it fits.

You can see here it busted through.

It was too thin there.

And all the thickness is there.

KATELYN: Do we have what, the extra glass piece?

Yes.

KATELYN: Let's grab it.

Let's put that in there.

Yeah, look at that.

Look at all this damage.

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You hardly notice it.

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So we wanted to make sure that this was fully cured.

KATELYN: Because if we unsealed it before it was cured,

all the bubbles would expand.

But we didn't fully think through

that we can't let it cure too long 'cause it's rotting.

Yeah and the bottom of the stem is still exposed to air.

So anyways, it's been nine days,

and we realized like, we should take it out.

We should take it out.

Let's do it right now.

Okay.

With some assistance from our friend.

Open wide.

This should dampen the noise.

(both laughing)

It does dampen it.

It does.

It turns it into a horrifying scream though.

Oh god, too much.

(air whooshing as pressure released)

KATELYN: I feel like we need to work on our seal.

(compressor motor running)

Oh god.

Oh, I was supplying it with infinite pressure.

He would've screamed forever.

What do you think about that little chicken?

(high pitched squeal)

It's like death metal, right?

(heavy metal music)

That will never not be funny.

That's hilarious.

So we're also about to find out

if the ice that I dropped into the resin

had any negative effect.

Did we splash resin on the outside?

Are there bubbles?

KATELYN: Are there bubbles?

Is it rotten?

Did the ice water cause something to not cure properly?

I can't tell anything.

There is goop, there is goop, there is goop.

Where's the goop?

Oh, whoa.

Oh, whoa, whoa, the rose looks like ice.

The rose looks like ice.

That's kind of cool.

KATELYN: That's cool but that.

EVAN: Look at, that looks bubbling.

It's bubbling.

KATELYN: The water.

Those bubbles are being forced out

the stem 'cause that's the weak point.

KATELYN: Yeah, that's the weak point.

Okay.

KATELYN: Okay, yeah, you can definitely tell

the stem is starting to rot.

Yep, the leaves are preserved spectacularly.

Yeah, how come the leaves look so good

and the rose look so bad?

You know, I'm still very curious

to see how this will do over time.

I think this is an interesting result.

Is it what I was hoping for?

No, not necessarily.

Oh, goopy, ew, all right.

I mean, what we got here is cool.

It's like goth Beauty and the Beast.

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It's a Beauty and the Goth.

The beast is goth.

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KATELYN: After cutting the stem,

we wanted to instantly seal it with UV resin

so it would stop leaking juice.

EVAN: It was going far.

KATELYN: But I got a little overzealous with it.

EVAN: That's fine.

KATELYN: I mean, it's all resin, right?

EVAN: It's a different index of refractivity

so that dribble will show.

KATELYN: Oh, it is?

EVAN: Yep.

But it's all resin.

EVAN: There's a difference refractivity.

I thought you knew.

Why would I know, it's all resin.

EVAN: Not all resins are the same.

Well how do you know that it is?

EVAN: We've done it before.

It showed up in Meatball.

I thought you'd remember.

Meatball was over a year ago.

Despite my messy UV resin application,

we moved forward with the final layer of resin

to level at our base and fully seal in the rose.

(melodic music)

EVAN: I think that's good.

KATELYN: Okay.

You know it's covered in resin.

It's flat now.

Ooh, look at that.

I really like how this is level

where the other one wasn't level.

So we're just gonna have to be careful when we set it in.

Okay.

Not to wobble it that much.

KATELYN: Oh, geez.

(dramatic music)

Is it level?

(creaking and tapping)

All right, now this, we truly cannot move it whatsoever.

No, we leave this until we demold.

Yeah, we do not move.

(upbeat music)

Okie dokie.

Sleep tight Pascal.

Don't have a dance party in the middle of the night.

Do not.

Or any other movement types.

We have a security camera on you.

(clapping)

Where's the chicken?

(dramatic music)

Last chicken of the video.

We hope.

We hope.

(squeaking sound as pressure releases)

You think he'll blow off?

(upbeat music)

(both laughing)

(chicken cackling)

Oh he loves it.

I'm excited to see if we're done.

Yeah, hopefully the last layer we added looks good.

Yep.

Hopefully there's no further changes.

We want this, ooh, whoa.

It was like steaming.

Does it smell weird?

It smells a little bit like resin.

That's never happened before, strange.

KATELYN: That's weird.

All right, well.

It's appropriate that it's like mad scientist vibes

you know what I mean?

KATELYN: Yeah.

Trying to artificially preserve life,

maybe because there was still like water in the chamber.

KATELYN: Maybe there's still some water.

And like it evaporated or something.

I don't know, man.

KATELYN: I don't know.

But it looks good.

KATELYN: Okay, cool.

I like it.

KATELYN: Did it merge nicely?

It merged good enough.

KATELYN: Good enough, you can see it.

That's the clear earth on the bottom.

KATELYN: Oh, that from which the rose is growing.

Yeah, wow, this is cool though.

KATELYN: That's really cool.

And let's see it on the stand.

Yes, it sits, yes.

KATELYN: Oh, that's cool.

EVAN: That is way cool.

(upbeat music)

KATELYN: Really cool.

EVAN: Turn on the RGB.

And then there's also that.

It looks evil.

KATELYN: I kind of like just the white light,

but you know, that's also cool.

We have the option guys,

plus this is wireless

and remote controllable,

whereas the one that we're comparing it to, not wireless.

KATELYN: Should we do?

Stupid.

Should we do like a Buy vs DIY comparison rating?

Sure, you know, this wasn't a Buy vs DIY,

but let's do it.

Yeah, kind of is.

Price, this is way more expensive than this.

Complete loss.

Yeah.

But this, wow, classy.

We totally win on aesthetics.

Yeah, we totally win on the aesthetics category

even though theirs is red still,

it's just, you can tell it's fake.

It's not cool.

You can tell it's fake.

Ours is cool.

This is, you can look at this.

You could look at this and stare at it for like a while

because it looks so cool.

KATELYN: It does look kind of magical.

EVAN: Yeah.

I love all the texture that it picked up from the petals.

Even the little microbubbles like look kind of magical.

They look like little drops of silver.

And while it's not still red, it's purple, which.

Is a color.

Is a color.

Yeah, now time, obviously we lose, the buy wins.

That almost always happens.

Yeah, I mean, when you take into account

the two days of resin waiting,

plus the designing and planning

and the CNCing and all of that.

Even if we ordered it

and started working at the same time, we lose.

We lose.

Yeah.

Now quality, ours wins by far.

Glass.

It's resin, it's glass.

It's a real rose.

Even our light is better.

Like the base is wood instead of plastic.

Like we win by far.

So is that two versus two?

Two v two.

What's the last thing we compare?

Function, the function is just looking nice, right?

No, no, no, also, in terms of function, this is wireless.

Oh yeah, it's wireless and we can change the color.

Function.

So it definitely is more functionality.

We win.

We win.

(both cheering)

Another thing that I wanna see.

Yeah.

Did we actually preserve the rose?

Yeah.

Will it change over time?

There's only one way to tell, time lapse.

(melodic music)

Do you wanna say what's happening?

Evan sat down and was like, don't look,

don't look at anything.

I need to get the camera.

So can I look now?

I thought that there's like wetness on the rose

or something like that.

But then I looked closer, look at this side.

Oh, oh my god.

Oh my god, it's cracking.

Was it, did it happen when we just sat like,

we were just looking at it a little bit earlier

and it didn't have that.

Did it happen like when we sat it down

or something like that?

Well, this is glass.

I think it's just the glass that cracked.

EVAN: The glass cracked.

Yeah, the resins fine.

But did like the resin expand?

Was it the heating or cooling of the resin?

Honestly.

EVAN: Did like the temperature in our house increase?

Okay.

EVAN: Which expanded the resin, which cracked the glass?

Okay, two of our pumpkins have bulged.

EVAN: Bulge, it's the post cure bulge.

The post cure bulge and it cracked the glass.

That just happened, I mean, not right this second,

but like within the past couple days.

EVAN: Well keep on,

we'll keep on giving you updates as things happen.

We should have expected the bulge.

EVAN: How did I not expect the bulge,

the inevitable bulge.