“There’s the mailman and I’m going back inside cause I’m awkward like that.” Big mood, but same honestly

the fact that people can just.. decide to make this one day and then actually _do it_ will never cease to amaze me lmao

Here's my suggestion about the epoxy resin.. SAND IT. Not just the rough grade, but you have to go up in grit until your basically just buffering the thing. Make the scratches super thin, then finish it with a polishing paste. That's the best way to get clear epoxy. Just keep rising in grits until you get to like.. 3000 grit or 5000 grit. Then you put polishing paste, rub it in and get rid of the excess. Those lines and drippies from adding the epoxy on top? Just sand them to a very fine grit then polish them. Wet sanding helps too! Also, if you want to get rid of any bubbles, either heat or a pressure pot. You COULD use a vacuum chamber, but I've seen that mess with resin before. A pressure pot(about 30psi I believe) will make the bubbles super tiny. Or, you can use a heat gun/lighter to pop surface bubbles. I see those used for thinner projects though, not... epoxy blocks. Seriously though, try the sandpaper thing. Thats your best chance at a clean finish. Check out dice makers or epoxy resin workers here on youtube, a lot of them use sandpaper. Some people commented micromesh, yeah that too! Just super fine grit, because the smaller the scratches the better

Your genuine excitement when you see that something actually worked out is the best thing about this channel, love your content, keep it up!

The quality of the content and the editing is just *french chef kisses fingers* superb

Id buy that for my shelf any day

Considering the difference between Potion 1.0 and Potion 2.0, I'm expecting Potion 3.0 to actually give you magical powers, or allow you to fly or turn invisible or something... LOL Great job! (Still too broke to support you on Patreon, but hope springs eternal...)

1.0 still looks like a cute lowpoly potion to me 😀

Nerdforge: *do something very cool* Also Nerdforge: "Hum... What if I added some... LEEEEEEEEDs!" Edit: thank you for the likes!

"Its a STAND! I know you underSTAND!" Finally you overcome all the problems and it looks so awesome!

7:35 I completely forgot that in Norway you don’t see the sun year-round! Congrats on keeping the lighting good. 😂 Also, love the potion. 💕 🧪

May I just say damn, the final result is so cool, I love it

Have you tried wet sanding or polishing the resin? There are a few people I see who lathe similar things out of resin and they'll look dull until they polish it and then it's a high gloss shine. Just a suggestion, love the creativity!

the red one that you sanded down into nothing almost you should turn it into a flask! also... I'm getting the feeling your gonna end up making a potion shop with all of these.

looks incredible !!! love the attention to detail on the potion and the stand !!

🤣😂 I see a person coming, run back inside!!! 🤣😂 That's so me!!! ❣️

I was havinga panic attack and went to KZfaq to try and calm down and this was the first video in my recommendations. It worked! Thank you so much! I love your work!

Love the flow of your videos

In my house standing just means that the project is almost done xoxo keep up the amazing work xoxo

Awesome project. I would suggest that you make your mold a similar shape to the end design to reduce resin waste/cost. The pigmented scraps can potentially be used together for something else and you could use the clear ones to hold up objects as they should disappear when more clear is poured on or around them (tho the clear scraps may need to have been from the same type of resin to increase the chance of not being seen after)

Everytime you make a video about something magic related (books, wands, etc) I get closer to the idea that you're secretly a witch

I love both the potions! Now, my 3 yr old wants me to make one 😂 (I dont have any of this stuff) She LOVES your hair 💜

Looks great! Sadly you will never get away from sanding epoxy if you want a really smooth finish.. I normally don't go any lower than 120 and then work up to 600 grit where I switch to wet sanding and then polish using plastic polish (car polish works well for this).

I just love how it glows up 😍 It looks so good!

Really nice work! Seems like you're wasting quite a bit of epoxy with all the cutting and sanding, though, but of course, if you're making only one of these, it might not be worth making molds. I might give this a shot as well. Perhaps I'll use a UV reactive dye, and UV LED's. And perhaps a good idea, mix the leftover gold leaf with resin to get a nice golden sparkle effect?

This is so incredible ! Thank you for bringing magic into our lives 💖

Really cool project! You can get everything glass-clear by polishing it. You're already doing a great job with the wet sanding, now you could go over it with polishing compound and really buff out the shine. Even the first potion bottle would probably look a lot more interesting if polished.

Yorkshire Grit, it is a sanding and polishing paste I have seen others use it has shined up epoxy like you wouldn't believe it takes a little bit but it will work wonders!

That was fun! I love the new potion and stand!

Going into the video I already knew it would look incredible in the end (although I was still shocked by how much), but the main thing I was excited about was the progress since Ver. 1 😀 I was somewhat proud of all the upgrades and things you learned and improved in this version 😁

The roughness and lines in the epoxy gave it a more authentic look of medieval glass and like it was actually an antique vial of potion. I thought it looked amazing with the bubbles and lines in it.

One tip on the sanding, use a pottery wheel, and tape down the sandpaper, it makes the process much quicker and easier.

You go into crazy detail on everything. My gosh, I love this!

it looks SO GOOD!!! i love it!!! you did a great job, martina!!!💖💖

Your second potion bottle came out Beautiful 1.Gaia's Tears potion 2. Mana potion If you had a purple gem and turn it into a Sacred Witches Power Potion for Spells and Magic that would go excellent with the witches book. I love both the potion bottles, think of the first potion bottle a very ancient potion that only the sorcerers of life magic only prepare from a sacred landmark. Mana- pervasive supernatural or magical power - a concept of a life force, believed to be seated in the head, and associated with high social status and ritual power. A spiritually powerful, influential and courageous, yet humble. Sry the brown leftover epoxy trash didn't work I'm sure it'll still be useful give it a new color and maybe turn it into a dragon scale or a earth gem attached to the front cover of an earth tome, or an earth potion that tells time and space like a sands of time from an hourglass. Hopefully once the Virus is cured we can finally get the tome of water up and ready, keep up the incredible work NerdForge. :)

When you showed it with the lights turned off made me think it's a rare item and only glows in the dark. So cool!!!

Ohh my goodness. It just wouldn’t be a Nerdforge project without the gold leaf 😍🤤

Her first reaction: This is where I'm supposed to be exited... Less than 2 minutes later: YES OMG I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!

It's absolutely possible to sand epoxy to be glass clear. It needs multiple steps of wet sanding, and finishing with a polishing compound. You did a great job, but if you wanted to, you can get it clearer. Awesome vid👍

You just gave me the best custom potion idea!! What if you wanted to be able to make custom potion bottles in cool shapes that could actually hold liquid?! SO... instead of making the first part out of colored resin, you make it out of a wax that melts at a very low temp so that after you cast the bottle around the outside you can simply drill the hole in the neck and melt out the wax leaving your cool shaped custom bottle!! Totally gonna try this.

This is just pure beauty! I love itttt! ♥

This stuff is literally AMAZING ❤❤❤

it looks like a night sky when the room is dark and the potion is lit up! so pretty!

Your excitement for when the project is coming along great is both adorable and relatable.

Hey, if your biggest gripe is how long it takes to sand to a clear glossy finish might I recommend using zona paper. I follow some resin dice makers and it gives a really nice finish in like half the time.

So are you just making like a full wizard costume? With the potions and the staff and the wands like all you need now is a robe and spell book

Alternative idea. Take a light-colored discard piece, compatible with green. Shape it as the bottle and hollow it out. Pour in darker epoxy, in green, still at least semi-transparent, and include fake herbs. Harden, cork and decorate.

Woaah the final result is awesome, the LED in the stand is the perfect finishing touch 😁🙌🏼😍

There is still an issue with the 2.0 potion : you can clearly see that the "liquid" is directly in contact with the "glass" on top : you should have an empty space above the liquid to make it more realistic. But I guess it's really hard to make ^^

I just realized we're using the same brand of gold/silver leaves lul, nice project, you got me into book binding haha

I'm a first timer here, and I'm getting excited watching YOU get excited!!! I haven't had this much fun in a LONG time! Thank You!

Just a suggestion for future projects. If you grab a Headlight Restoration kit it comes with all the sand papers and polishing compound and applicators to make plastics incredibly clear and shinny. There are kits where you just use your hands and there is a 3M kit that comes with a mount to attach to a drill.

If you want the epoxy shinier maybe you should fill a little tray with alcohol, hang the epoxy thing above it and cover it with a glass our something. If the alcohol evaporates it will melt the epoxy a bit so it's gonna "smooth it's suface out" (I did it before with alcohol nail polish washer + fine sandpaper). Or fine sandpaper + water and some polishing with the rotary tool's polishing attachement... both can work I think.

Her: We’re gonna take off all the corners until it’s a square shape. Me: Visible confusion

I'm not sure what I enjoy more. The crafting, or the extreme excitement you get when something works out!

Beautiful work and excellent ideas! I love the excitement, the dramatic (and sometimes funny) flair as you work and how you totally geek out when everything comes together... Still going to keep offering suggestions though... Seriously, get some of that slightly oily children's clay (usually called plasticene) it doesn't stick to the epoxy and cleans easily. You can also make much smaller and more form fitting molds so you use less epoxy and save a bit of money! The clay is also reuseable and you can also press buttons or other items into it to create raised patterns on your "glass"... Another benefit is you don't have to carve away all the extra epoxy, much less sanding, and the polishing is much faster and easier to get the clear finish! Also, listen to LivenUp7 in the comments about taking your polishing to the next level! Another thing I would suggest is carefully cutting your gold leaf sheets to just a bit larger then the straight surface you are trying to cover so you can get more use out of each sheet rather than a large pile of gold crumblies! More materials and less waste means you can do more awesome looking projects!!

"I can't justify spending more time on this, 'cos it's really ugly" Sounds just like my ex :/

or you can fill a fancy shape glass bottle with some blue liquid. preferably bleach and led. And boom you have Potion of Harming (Instant Damage II) You can add gunpowder in a brewing stand to make it Splash Potion of Harming (Instant Damage II)

You could create a whole series of potions. You did the blue mana potion, you could also do red health potion, green antivenom potion, yellow rage potion, purple shadow resist potion. you could have a whole apothecary shelf. This is so cool I wish I had your skills and resources to do it myself

Have you ever used a product called Novus? It’s a polishing compound to be used after you sand resin to the highest grit possible (usually ~3600), that will bring back the crystal clear window look. My husband uses it all the time in the gallery he work for to restore the plexiglass of framed works, or to restore the work of artists using resins and epoxies. It's amazing stuff, a must have for anyone working with resin. Especially since resin can get easily scratched.

I wish I could do this, but I am not that talented , like you are 😕

Great end result! The walnut stand with the gold leaf is positively stunning. I am very impressed!

this is AWESOME! you went all out with this one! For a finished polished look, without the lines next time and to hide the imperfections within the actual epoxy, use a resin POLISH, instead of using resin to make resin shine.The results will be even more stunning! Excellent job! You are so creative!

A wall-mounted potion rack would be cool. You could hang the thinner potions from the neck of the "bottle" and have multiple potions hanging around.

Hope you guys stay healthy midst this virus circus. Those potions and spell books might be our only hope

Excellent as usual, one thing you could do to the next one is make the lights go on when the potion is put in the stand. Maybe a small switch in the bottom of the stand that the potion presses down on. Keep up the good work and I cant wait for the next one.

I am a furniture maker by trade and I have taught kids for years that aren't even capable of doing the things you do with timber. Well done, I love seeing people just give things a go!

You can make it shiny by hitting it with a torch, briefly. It melts the rough outer layer, and hardens smooth.

This is actually really awesome and you should do a few more!! With each one getting better and better. I think next one you could nail down the super clear and shiny! Should do the blood red health potion, you have a blue mana potion, maybe a yellow poison or something too!!

Sanding with finer and finer grades will shine it up and then there are also polishing compounds when the surface is already smoothed.

Some sanding paste and a buffer to put on the dremel would help get it even more shiny. Take a look at wood working finishes ;)

There are polishes you can use to smooth and shine the resin after its sanded. I see wood workers do it all the time.

OMG! It’s so beautiful! Creativity level 100/100. Perfect!

Gorgeous, breathtaking! So glad you did the extra sanding!

I love your videos and the tome making ones inspired me to make my own book! Thank you for your lovely work and please stay safe and healthy👍

This potion looked way better than the previous one. The stand also looked great. I have a suggestion as well. This is just my hypothesis but if you use both the potion and the glass with similar optical properties, there will be no total internal reflection which will seem to separate the glass from the potion, so using something with different optical properties will hopefully help with making it look better. For example making the glass part with epoxy and putting actual liquid for the potion in it. Also, you can use the gold dust to make gold shellac paint, it can be used in illumination of manuscripts. Hoping for more great videos :)

I think this came out awesome! Along with the excellent advice on sanding and polishing already posted here, I'd like to throw one thing in; when you're making these things keep in mind that completely clear glass is a relatively new thing compared to how long glass has been around. It was completely common for glass to have various warps and inclusions from the process of creating it prior to the Industrial Revolution; if you've ever seen photographs of really old houses with the original window glass you can see the types of "impurities" ( for lack of a better word) I'm talking about. So things like lines, rough/cloudy spots, etc. just make it more convincing as something made using more traditional methods.

This is awesome I love watching you creating new things for your projects

Polishing paste and a buffing wheel....Love it♥️

To prevent all the streaks and bubbles for the final coat of epoxy you could have dipped the potion into the epoxy then used a vibrating table or something that will vibrate the bubbles and drips out to make a super thin and nice shiny coat.

Amazing! I loved the first version. This one is so much more!!!

Beautiful project! I love the stand. Absolutely gorgeous! For a glassy shine without the streaks you might wanna try glossy modpodge spray - a light layer or two tends to give my projects the gloss without the streaks if not applied too heavy!

I really wanna tour of her shelf, just seeing all her masterpieces in one place. Oh my gosh it would be amazing!!

Gorgeous! Stuck inside so I’m re-binge watching your videos!! Loving them!!!

So very beautiful! I so love the Magical Art you make 💖

It looks incredible! You guys make me want to create so much! Thanks for the motivation !!!

More clothes changes than a J-Lo concert, love it lol. I thought potion 1.0 was great, 2.0 was bloody awesome. 3.0 make it voice activated because your a magic user and can magically control lights and stuff with your voice :DDDD Love your enthusiasm it comes across as very natural and watchable and not cringy at all.

Mind blowing. Absolutely gorgeous. Awesome work.

Looks amazing! Thank you for sharing your process!

I absolutely love your channel you guys are so great together it shows!

If you want bubble free resin I would suggest looking into buying/making a pressure chamber. I use it for dice and boy does it work. The only down fall is that if you have a old silicon mold used in it with resin your object will have little spikes in it because the silicone might have bubbles in it. Beyond that it will give you that pure glass look if done right.

Takes off the mold. Sees the desired result. Makes happy leprechaun dance. Now I understand that this is how I'm supposed to celebrate good things.

The first one with polishing would bring back the color that you wanted. The sanding marks are what caused the color change and darkening.

First video I've seen by you, and enjoyed every bit. Cool project + a cool attitude with lots of enthusiasm and excitement made for a really interesting watch!

It s really cool to watch your videos, you do so mutch different things and use a lot of different technics

The music in your videos is always so perfect!!

This potion is so epic. Especially with the lighted base. An idea (if even possible) for a future potion forge: clear resin bottle on a stand that projects a potion or image into the resin… a moving potion. Possible????

The potion is absolutely amazing!!! love it!! I'm a resin artwork beginner, and I'm wondering have you ever considered using the UV resin for the coating step? It's gonna dry way faster than the epoxy resin if you put it outside (a sunny day is better but cloudy day works too). I've applied the UV resin on my own sculpture before and it turned out great

Your a serious role model, you're so talented at what you do

Wow I love seeing start of project and end results and beautiful potion and stand and love all projects you done so interesting and that painting you did epic