I bet your kitchen draws are filled with some amazingly unique cutlery.

It seems like everyone in the comments knows what tools and machines you are using. I can't be the only who doesn't know but watches these because they're interesting. I wish I knew more about this stuff because it looks like a fun hobby but I'm sure it's more than a hobby for you.

The plastic would melt much better in small pieces, with much less browning... Perhaps you should add a sturdy shredder to your workshop, such as the kind made to accommodate credit cards. Wash them and toss them in the shredder as they are used up, and you will always have a ready supply of plastic shavings to play with.

That scoop is defective. It served a bowl of ice cream that was clearly too small. Back to the drawing board.

Hello Peter, I really like your videos. You make this kind of work/art seem accessible. I'd totally attend classes in your workshop. I know you are much younger but the first time I watched one of your videos was cus you reminded me of my dad. He was a POW, and a navy seal in Vietnam. He didn't have a lot of education and unfortunately we lived well below the poverty level. I got my artistic skills from him. He wanted a lathe but no way we could buy one. We took trips to the dump and he found an old handheld electric drill. He took it home, mounted it and turned it into a lathe. I still have a bowl he made for me. Couldn't get big pieces of wood to turn so he'd use what precious little glue he had and bond together stacks of throw away pieces. Taught himself. I'm sure he would have loved to try the stuff you do, just didn't realize he could use the materials you do. He's been dead seven years now and I miss him so, so much. I would loved to have watched your vids with him. Thank you.

you should make a toilet seat out of resin that has barbed wire inside it... that would be fun

You totally did this to justify having ice cream didnt you

Can you please please make like a pot for a plant out of this stuff, just imagine how cool a plant would look in a pot of this 💕

perhaps a hdpe bottle opener. a bottle opener made from bottles.

It's a lot of work for an ice cream scoop handle, but you showed that it could be done - self-recycling and repurposing of trash into something useful, with a cool DIY vibe and an artisan's flair . Kudos to you!

Great. Now I need an oven in my shop. My wife is gonna love this.

I use these videos to relax after a stressful day.

I use deer skin gloves for wood burning and can touch the tip and not get burned. I also melted a penny and it got on my glove and I did not feel a thing.

Peter Brown, thanks for sharing your struggles and successes with us. You've saved us a lot of time.

i love what you do peter, but i swear sometimes i watch you just to make sure you still have both your hands and eyes and a working pair of lungs... this always looks SO DANGEROUS! :p

I absolutely love your channel. It reminds me of a hybrid between DIY and How It's Made. I've been binge watching your videos for the past three days.

I love these HDPE videos, I had no idea about the reusability of it until watching your channel.

Can you make a video on the purposes of the different lathe tools?

I don't understand how you're not extremely famous. you explain how you mess up and you try again! youre amazing and I love your work!!

Cool video Peter, I really enjoyed it. Not only are you repurposing trash but the waste can go right back into the mix. God Bless my friend.

I love this! I find this sort of thing deeply satisfying- turning something that would have ended up in a landfill into something useful!

It looks very icecreamy. The swirls of color capture the spirit of icecream just right.

It seems to actually be _serving_ a function.. ehehehe

I checked my email before watching this and saw that this project was featured in an instructables email! I'm happy to know that I can enjoy learning about your projects on that site as well

How funny that I am eating ice cream as I watch this lol. Yes it's almost 3 am, you don't know my life ok!!!

For some reason, these videos are super satisfying, especially when you sand it all down. So pretty!

When you pulled it out of the oven-it looked exactly like my mother in law's jello salad that I have lovingly dubbed ninja turtle soup. Very cool project and video.

I’m glad people in other parts of the USA recognize the Oregon has better ice cream

i never would have thought about recycling old bottles like that. seems like a great success, i look forward to seeing more.

Sweet! looks great Peter, the scoop and the Tillamook :)

Yes! An informative video that's also entertaining... I love that you didn't edit out the burns or imperfections before you revealed the finished product. D.I.Y.ing can be very frustrating on first-trys and you humanized it which motivates me to stay calm and enjoy the journey. Thanks!

I would say the only thing you can do to make any of these plastic melting projects is to cut up the plastic into smaller dime sized pieces. It may be more time consuming but I think you'll like the end result better. Not to mention less of a chance of air getting trapped within.

thank you for being real and screwing things up in your videos and going back to fix them or just going with the flow. I wish more people were like you in their videos. Keep up the awesome and creative work!

Watching the spoon glide through the ice cream was strangely satisfying.

Almost looks like colorful marble. Really nice.

The world needs more people like you!

I've done some woodworking back in my high school in the past. It's always my dream to do woodworking and occasionally I would thought about how plastic working. My teacher told me that what I'm thinking does not exist because plastic working is not realistic if you are to do it from recycled plastics. Didn't know that after 15 years, it's becoming more and more common to be done. Even you don't need a huge gigantic Industrial machines to bake them into malleable results. It's nice that you found a way to recycle plastics in a creative way without having to dumb it out and have it chuck out into the sea of trash plastics.

I want ice cream now:)

I think the satisfaction we get in a little (ha!) project like this is may things together. We feel useful, we feel a certain independence and autonomy, we feel clever and creative, and we don't have to go the the store again and buy another questionable item that might go bad in 6 months. It's a good lineup of complimentary feelings and thoughts. And we are not arguing with the wife or kids while we are doing it!

I have some of those ov-gloves from Walgreens,they work great for playing around with stuff in my fireplace. They would probably work well for molten plastic too

Another awesome project, dude. Side note: I put in a comment about making a folding knife using plastic a while back. It would be really awesome if you gave it a shot.

I think I've already said this, but I think it bares repeating. You always make the neatest, most unique things ever, I love watching your videos.

That looks awesome. definitly gonna try the mallet sometime

Peter, you are the Man...love what you are doing with HDPE. And the ice cream at the end just made it that much better.

I am just absolutely enthralled and amazed by the things you make! I honestly wish I had your level of creativity!!! Keep up these videos! It is awesome to see you put what would have otherwise ended up in a dump to good use!

YEAHHHH TILLAMOOK!!! REPRESENTIN' MY HOME TOWN! Good choice for ice cream Peter!

i literally just watched ever HDPE video on youtube today. Thanks for one more!

At the start I didn't think the yellow would go but at the end I'm impressed with then end product the green and yellow and white go well together.

I've been obsessed with watching your videos cx I really like them. I'm 17 and I really like how creative and simple your projects are and I wish to recreate some eventually!!

It came out pretty awesome! I really like that swirly look!

I like the upcycling feel to reusing the plastic at home. Drawer pulls would be cool for a future project.

Now that is one seriously COOL ice cream scoop Peter. Keep having fun and being creative.

I don't have any of the necessary tools to do any of the stuff that you do but for whatever reason I binge watch your videos.

Peter the new handle really turned out great,thanks for sharing

What a perfect project for Pi day!

Really like the principle of recycling hdpe too. I did it myself, put way too much effort into shredding the plastic and making a mold, but as it does the result was porous and inconsistent. You've got the right (forgiving) approach I think, and it's great that you show the things which don't go right.

Am I the only one that gets really damn excited when a video gets out out by this guy?

Tilmook Ice cream! I am jealous! Using the good stuff to show off the new scoop!

Also, I love that you always get such beautiful hardware, it really sets your projects apart that much more. Love it!

I feel like this episode had some great quotables/taglines for your channel: "You should be sooo not doing this!" Awesome project!

Dear Peter, I would recommend that you get some silicone oven mitts or silicone BBQ gloves to protect your hands.

I have been watching... And rewatching these videos, and have finally managed to convince my mum to let me use the old toaster oven in the garage to try this myself, might make rings or knife handles

Nice save with that patch Peter! You have excellent taste in ice cream too!! Tillamook is in a class of it's own... cheese is top notch too :)

Re-watching these because I recently bought a gear knob from a UK company called Toxic Knobs. They melt HDPE from bottles into blocks and turn it in a similar way, with great results. This is where I first got the idea though.

Pretty cool! I really dig the patterns!

Can't fix a void in your walnut "on the fly" Very cool project Peter, awesome!

way to recycle, Peter! Very, VERY cool! love the handle, and I thought it was kinda cool how the ice cream scoop was gold!

I think the scoop is going to need more testing.

I do like the dark brown handle with the brass type scoop but that end result dose look pretty awesome.

we want more frequent videos ... i know it's a hobby but we are dying for more

These are things where I'm going "Wow thats neat! Totally gonna try something like this" and then never even think about it again haha

Peter! You need some cheap welding gloves! a little insulation goes along way. This reminded me of the direct glass casting I did. You are often handing the glass with only kevlar gloves which protect you initially but can build up heat to that feeling where your hands are "cooking" :) We use welding gloves for handing torches/molds etc and would be a big step up for you here beyond mechanics gloves.

I love the the colors running through it, another awesome project done well!

Great idea, I'd like to see more of this type of thing done. I really like that it wasn't put in a landfill, so good on you buddy. You did a fantastic job Peter. It looks great 👍👍

Good job Peter. I like that you don't give up on your projects. Great ice cream too. I really like Tillamook products.

So glad I found your channel. Very inspiring to create. You're quite innovative, a true artist. Thanks for doing your thang.

Nice project. I like how the colors came out. Your imagination far exceeds my own. Hope you report back how well it holds up in the dishwasher.

I have to say, my favorite KZfaq channels are the ones where as they tell me not to do something, they are doing that exact thing lol thanks for the info buddy lol

That is such an awesome application! It reminds me stylistically of kinda like the plastic equivalent of glassworking, then crossed with woodworking...

This is a great idea reusing plastic for different purposes

That's really cool, and the swirly design definitely fits the function!

Now that's a cool way to recycle!

Love the ice cream scooper! Hope the new shop is coming along nicely as well...

Nice mitts, Peter.

This was pretty awesome. A lot more work then I'd want to do, but fun to watch and looked really cool when you finished it.

Tillamook ice cream (the best!) and Oregon Duck colors.... Awesome!

That's some next level recycling!! And beautiful!

Just for future reference, there *is* glue that can bond HDPE. I would try 3M ScotchWeld DP8005. It's a very weird tube, unlike most adhesives that are 1:1, this one is 10:1 so it has one really skinny tube and one fat one that dispense at the same time. It can also bond other low-surface energy plastics like PET. It's definitely not cheap (usually around $60-80 a tube depending on where you can get it from) but it's something you don't use often and it seems to have a very long shelf life because it's a 2-part adhesive. Also, for most plastic adhesive needs, I get DevCon plastic welder. There are a few products out there that claim to be "plastic welders" but make sure you get the cream-coloured stuff, it uses a different chemical composition and it bonds plastics *exceptionally* well. It can bond plastics to other materials too, like wood, metal, rough surfaces, smooth surfaces, it's awesome stuff.

That Tilmook Chocolate Mudslide ice cream is the best ice cream I've ever had. My favorite for sure lol

This one is great too. I always want to fill my garage with power tools every time I watch one of your videos.

That looksbeautiful! Never thought id say that about plastic...

I really dig these HDPE projects...almost more than I like the epoxy stuff you've done!

Liked that repair mate, very clever and tenacious.

Tillamook ice cream is the best! I love going to their creamery and getting ice cream and cheese fresh. So good!

that looks so fun!! - fantastic

You should invest in a pair of "Ove gloves" I remember they used to have commercials where one of the recommended uses was to reposition logs in a fire. Then they'd show someone reaching into a fire and grabbing a burning log like it was nothing.

Great choice of ice cream Peter, since I live in the Northwest. Great scoop too

Flipping awesome. After that hideous patch job I'm blown away by the finished result. Very nice work. I too am uplifted by the notion that you have made an "objet d'Art' from the stuff we throw away mindlessly. I am inspired. Why is there no ice cream in my freezer right now?!

You deserve way more subscribers! Watching you working on such amazing, creative stuff is stunning! Love it!

i liked the idea of working with plastic it was really interesting. the final product was very nice.Some people dont understand the idea of working with this kind of material i think interesting and a good new experience. Congratulations