That red grape vine looked exactly like a little red dragon.

Hi Casey, This is the video I have been waiting for as I don't have a vacuum chamber at the moment but in my mind, maybe not my wife's, has just justified the cost of buying one so I can take my pen making to the next level. Cheers, Huw

Oh wow love it!!! My favorite KZfaqr of ALL TIME!!!

If I understood well: Step 1: Soak Step 2: Soak under vacuum Step 3: Dry in the oven and sand Step 4: Soak completly under vacuum Step 5: Dry in the oven Some questions: 1) When soaking under vacuum, when there's no bubbles left, you stop the pump and let soak. But do you open the valve to let the air goes in the chamber? 2) When you double dyed, do you finish with a process of soaking in clear cactus juice? Thanks and nice video!

Looks like something that would be a lot of fun to do. Hope to get enough space at some point to experiment with stuff like this.

Awesome video Casey! Beautiful work man, and thanks for the shout out! I haven't tried using vac without submerging yet, need to test that out =D

Great colors man! Keep up the good work!

Great video by the way always enjoy your stuff thanks for sharing

Thanks for your video. I wonder if first warming the pieces in the oven first would be a good step and then application of the dye/resin mix? Would this help open the wood up and generate more absorption into the wood?

Casey. Do you have a video using the eye dropper with finished results?

Casey thank you for the video im a newb to stabilizing i was given two slabs of maple burl for knife handle material ive had some decent results so far . I really want to learn how to get muliple colors in my scales and blocks your video helped alot thanks again Mark any other videos you recommend for me to check out ?

Interesting technology!

Good info, thanks! I’m going to try It! 🐻

I apologize if I missed the answer to this question. When soaking for the first round of dye, do you get deeper penetration when allowing to soak first before placing in the vacuum chamber or do you get about the same result if you just go straight to the chamber on that first round? Just trying to wrap my mind around it. If you were just stabilizing with no dye, you just go straight to the chamber. Thank you so much for all of the info you share. Love your work!

That one piece looks like a duck....lol...burl double dyed is so cool...

Hi my friend. Sorry about my english. When you do two colors, you always cure after first color and do the second color and cure again??? Thanks a lot.

Nice video. May I use water in the vaccum chamber to simply dye the wood with some color, or does it just work with resin? If I can do it, should I dry the wood before coloring it? Thanks for sharing

A few of questions: how far does the capillary action typically draw the solution up into the wood? Do you ever flip the piece of wood around to get the same color on the other end? And have you ever used too much dye in your cactus juice?

love your videos.. no one talks about the wood drying in the process. in normal stabilizing everything needs to be absolutely dry.. obviously this is hanging out on normal air during all these soakings.. is dry wood not as important ?

Another great video, Do you thoroughly dry the wood first before you start the dying process?

As usual,another great video Casey! I have most of my equipment on the way to get started! Here's a question though, for just getting started,should I start with a gallon or a half gallon of cactus juice? I believe,from the research I've done,the shelf life,isn't very long,on cactus juice correct? And since I'm just starting I dont know if I want to put $90 in a gallon if I end up not utilizing all of it before its shelf life is expired. What sayeth the professor to student? Thx for any help you might have! Always enjoy your videos!

What kind of paint is good for wood painting?

Have you tried guitar tops or bodies?

Casey, on the red drift wood piece, did you pull a vacuum on it in the red dye, or did you just let capillary action turn it red? And did you bake it before you sanded it?

What are the minimum specs you would use, or recommend, on a vacuum pump to do wood stabilization with?

Can you add mica powder to cactus juice for a bit of sparkle?

Do you prefer using powered dye's or liquid dye's? I have found that I can duplicate a color using powered by weight. Drops from a bottle are not as exact. They depend on the pressure of your squeeze and the thickness of the bottle.

Question, do you sand between colors prior to heat curing it? Or after?

I think it would look incredible if you burnt wood electrically and then filled in the fractal pattern with resin in a hybrid blank. Please do that.

Can I dry In a vaccum oven

What grit do you typically sand it back with? Also, when letting capillary action to happen, do you stop it to a point you want? or just let it soak till it stops. From my limited experience, it often can turn the whole blank that color. Granted probably using too much dye in that case.

Something a little off topic bought a harbor freight presure pot. Does the presure gage at 1 mean 10 pounds

Very informative man! Did I miss the announcement of the pearl powder winners?

Great video! As seeing I have a 5 gallon pressure pot like yours, I would like to make it double duty as a stabilizer. Do you know where I could get a 3/4 piece of lexan to fit the top? I know you’ll probably say the internet, which is where I have looked, but trying to find something of that size seems impossible. Or maybe I could just order a top from a vacuum chamber supplier. Your thoughts would greatly be appreciated. Thanks.

Where is your link for the vacuum chamber?

What type of dye do you use? That part of info blew over my head.

Do you bake after every color or only after all colors are added?

How many drops of red or blue to 8oz of cactus juice do you use?

Maybe you should do a video beginnig with a new piece of Wood and the go through all the steps till the end instead of just explaining it and showing stuff that is already finished

I enjoy your videos and usually pick up a tip or two from them. However I see you have purchased a vacuum chamber that has a tempered glass top with a hole drilled through the glass. I cringe every time I watch this ticking time bomb being placed under vacuum. As you know these glass lids are subjected to thousands of pounds of negative pressure over the cross sectional area of the glass. The stresses are, for the most part, evenly distributed across the lid. When there is a hole drilled through the glass lid these stresses are now localized as a major stress riser. Each time the lid is cycled under pressure, microscopic weak points develop. It’s only a matter of time before a catastrophic failure will occur, with possible injury to the user. There are several good articles written on this and I encourage you to look at them.