1 Hour Halloween Challenge: Can We Make Something Sellable?

What is up? Welcome back. We know you love to do a build to make it. Kim is out of town. So, this week I decided to give myself a challenge. I was going to give myself exactly one hour to come up with a brand new Halloween product. Not something that just works, but something that I could actually sell. I'm actually going to put a timer on it. 1 hour. When the timer goes off, pencils down. It's over. And in the end, I'll let you know, would I sell it, how much would I charge, and can I produce these efficiently. Step one, we're going to start the timer. Timer has been started. So, we're going to gather all of our supplies. We're going to need some 8 inch MDF. This is what we're going to cut our design out of. We're going to need some Foxy Hughes paints cuz we're going to paint this thing. We're going to put it together with some Starbound thick. And we're going to need a little bit of acrylic. I have some scrap. I hope I can get what I need out of this piece. Step two, we're going to make our design. We're going to make our cut file and our print file. We're going to try to make a lantern with some interchangeable pieces. I'm down to 59 minutes. [music] Now, I'm going to drip over to our website, k&gmakeit.com, where we have this new little tool that helps me build lanterns. So, I'm going to come down. I'm just going to do a 5x5x9. I want this something desktop. I'll keep all these. My material size is 8 in. My insert, um, yeah, I think that's correct for my acrylic. We'll leave it. Uh, I want three feet. These are the feet down at the bottom. Uh, this is going to be Halloweenish Halloweeny Halloweenish. So, I'm thinking it stick with the arch frame border. I'll leave it. Um, I can use a solar lantern, but it gets dark real quick. We'll just put a square top on it. And my top height, we'll just say an inch and a half. We'll come down. So, I do want some taller feet. So, I'm going to go inside advanced settings. I'm going to come down to bottom foot depth and we'll just raise it up. We'll just say 6. All right, let's close this. Now, down below, I can go check out my cut file. All right, everything [music] looks correct. We got the arch. Yep. But now I want it nested because I [music] want to save some material. So I'm going to enable product sheet nesting. And I'm using 24 by 36 or 18x 36. Uh we'll just we'll just use custom custom 18x 36. Now generate layout. And we'll come down below. and it's already laid out all of my pieces. Here are my inserts. So, sheet number one is actually my acrylic. And then up here, my structural sheet. This is going to be my 8 inch MDF. So, I'm going to download my structural sheet and my inserts. Now, while I'm here, I'm going to need something to print on these inserts. I'm going to go over to Invato. I'm just going to say Halloween. [music] Halloween. I should have picked my category. Let's uh Too late. Photos. Oo, what was that one? Halloween. I was impatient. Now I'm burning time. I want photos. I want that photo. All right, we'll download that guy. This guy doesn't look bad. Download him. It's kind of spooky. Download him. We'll download him. I want something with some good jacko'lanterns. I'll download him. He could look cool. He might look cool, too. I'll download that guy. Look at this fatty. I'll download him. All right. Oh, one more. Let's see. No, I think we're good. Unless something really catches my eye. Okay, I think we're done. Let's go check our time. Yeah. Well, let's check our downloads. All right. So, I have my my two cut files and a bunch of things that I that I can print. All right, let's go check our time. Step three, we're going to make all of our cuts and do a quick time check. 53 minutes left. 53 minutes 12 seconds. I'm going to take this 8 inch MDF and we're going to go throw it over in the laser. And I'm gonna take this acrylic and go throw it in my other laser. I'll meet you inside LightBurn. All right, let's head over to LightBurn. Here's LightBurn. We're connected to laser 3. Where's my downloads? Uh, lantern sheet one. Is it this one? Nope, it's this one. All right, drag this guy down. Bam. Bam. It's 17 in tall. I know my board is 18 and by 36. So, I'm just going to send it. Now, we're going to head [music] over to I already took a picture. So, now let's go back to my downloads and let's drag in my lantern pieces. Oh, they almost fit. I mean, should I risk it? I mean, I'm just going to [music] do it. I'm going to do it. Oh, wait. Let's ungroup them. Ungroup. Ungroup. ungroup. All right, let's boop boop boop boop. Let's move these up. All right, I think that'll work. Boop this down a little bit. Uh, we'll say material. Do I see clear acrylic up here? Trans clear. Clear acrylic 8 inch. Apply. Got it. I'm not removing it. We're going to cut it. and we'll boot this down to 20 process and start. All right, I'm going to hit start on both machines. >> [music] >> Step four, we're going to make our prints. The acrylic's done. It was like a two-minute cut. I still have a couple of minutes left on the uh 8 inch MDF. Uh that was like like a 10-minute cut. So, I'm going to see if I can get these peeled [music] off and put in the printer and get them printing [music] before my other cut is done. All right, I'll meet you at the printer. Oh, time check. 42 minutes. All right, we [music] can finish this one. We'll head over to the printer and uh I forgot how to do this. Oh, not connected. Hey, what's the X tool password? >> Well, can I let me just look it up? >> Uh, you don't know what it is? >> It looks like use. >> No, >> give me one second. I can look it up. No, I like these. But we can get them both. We'll eat them, right? Hold on a second. I'll look it up. I'm I'm filming a video about making a whole [music] thing in an hour and everything is going swimmingly and I've spent [music] 10 minutes trying to get into X tool. >> No, check out unless you want to leave down that way. Keep going. Keep going. I only know and I in here. >> Oh, what are you trying to log into? The affiliate thing or >> No, the the application XTool Studio. >> No, you can punch my phone number in. >> Oh, there. Yeah, >> it's Gmail. How do I get into support? What's the password to support? Okay, that's not it. >> KN&NG make it a Gmail. >> Oh, K and G make it Gmail. Oh, here we hold on. Hold on. All right, I got it. You ready? Lowerase X. >> No, that's not it. >> No exclamation. >> Nope. Oh, [music] yeah. I swear I've tried that before. >> Hold on. >> I'm in. Thank you. >> Thank you. Yeah, that's all I got. Support k&gmaker.com. Um, what are you trying to log into the app? >> Yeah, I'm in. I'm in. It worked. Thank you. >> Okay. Bye. >> All right. Bye. All right. Now, let's use smart mask subject. I don't think it's going to find a subject. Let's see. Hey, it found them. Great. Apply. Now, we'll go back to our downloads folder and we'll drag in some of these guys. Let's drag in these four. We'll just take these four guys. We'll drag them in. Boom. [music] >> All right, let's uh do flat white. We'll do one pass white, one pass color. I don't want a whole lot of white behind here. Yeah, we'll just do one pass white, one pass color process. Let's see how long this sucker is going to take. What? 29 minutes. That's 30 minutes. I only got 30 minutes left. Oh, we're going to be cutting it. So close. Step four, it's time to assemble. The uh printer is still printing. It's going to be close, so I don't know what what time we have. Uh I'm filming with my phone, but we're just going to snap this together. Now, I put these little teeny nubs in the files so it'll stick together when you when you go ahead and put it inside the base. You'll actually hear it snap. You hear it snap? Look. And those little nubs hold it. That way you don't have to fumble around with it while you're trying to hold it and assemble it all at the same time. That is a pain. Now we'll just press all these pieces into place. Snap it in. It'll be the other big one. Snap it in place >> a little bit. It holds it. And then the last side was snuffing into place. >> And now we'll just run a little bit of glue down the edge. Just a little drop of this glue. calmed. >> Now we'll just run a little bead of glue down the edge. [music] We'll glue on the bottom edge here. Just a quick little stripe. And just a little bit of glue will hold it. Now I'm gonna put the top on. This is my top. I'm just going to add a little glue around the edge. And then I have a little top on here that sits on the top. >> [music] [music] >> Now, there's these little tiny tabs here. These go in the bottom. There's some holes in the bottom. You'll see. Yeah, they go in the inside. And these will keep the interchangeable pieces that we're putting in here tight up against the window. So, we'll just put these in here. They also have a little snap to them. You can hear it. All >> [music] >> right, >> I'm still waiting on the printed pieces, but we're about ready. >> Step five, time to paint. We're actually going to paint with some deep burrow and a paint sprayer. It's already assembled. It's going to be hard getting in all those little nooks and crannies. I'm just going to spray the whole thing. So, I got about half filled with water. This is a Tills Wall Hornet. So, this is a little paint sprayer. It's all compact. Here's the battery right here. You could do like quick swaps on the battery. We're just going to add some of the deep burrow to it. We >> probably do like 5050. >> We'll just do There you go. It's like 50/50. >> All right, we'll give it a shake. All right. Looks like chocolate milk. And because I'll be spraying this acrylic paint all over the place, I will be masking up. Did I say we only got like 20 minutes left? So, let's try to get this done quick. I'm trying to do two colors, so make it quick. [music] >> I'm going to give this a minute to dry and I'm going to go swap this paint for some different color. I gave it a quick rinse. I filled this with warm water. I let it run a minute and then I put um some water back in it. And we're ready for the apple stars. This thing's This thing's still looking wet, but that's fine. I want it to look like aged bronze. So, I'm okay with it still being wet. >> I'm hoping these two paints mix a little bit. >> I'm going to go less than half on this guy. >> All right. So, I probably be at about 6040 60% water. So, I'm just trying to get that little bronze look to kind of peek through. All right. >> Oh, I forgot to mix paint. I'm back with the prints, but I got like 56 seconds and this thing is still pretty wet. I almost made it. I think the long pole in the tent or the inserts and the dry time on the paint. Maybe I didn't need to go two coats, but um I almost I almost got it dry with the hand with the hair dryer, but let's see what it looks like. I think it's dry enough where we could put the inserts in. So, I guess step five. Now, we add the accents. All right. So, here are all my little inserts. See if they slide in. Now, let's come back to those three questions from the beginning. Would I sell it? Yes, I would. I would sell this all day long, especially during Halloween or Christmas because it's interchangeable. Let me just swap it out and put some Christmas in here. I didn't have time to print Christmas. I barely had time to print Halloween, but I could totally sell these. And how much would I sell it for? Well, all in, let's see. All in, we're about $3.50 50 in MDF. We're about $5 or $5.50 in acrylic. Then we're about 50 in paint cuz I thinned it out and sprayed it. I think [music] the paint came out pretty good, too. It's got that look that I like. I wish it would have ran a little bit more. I probably should have come back in and squirt it with some water, try to get it run, but it already took forever to dry. ink. It said zero, but I'm gonna say 25 [music] cents. And then glue probably 10 cents. So, all in, we're all in for under $10. I would sell this all day long for $25 as the kit. And then I would sell like the lantern itself without the the panels for like $10. And then the four sets of panels for like 15 a piece. And then you could keep them interchangeable. Easy. $25. And then easy to produce. Yep. And I can knock out any type of like design in no time. It was quick to cut. 10 minutes to cut. I could probably fit four in my bed and cut them all in 40 minutes. I'd throw these pieces, these print pieces on the logo jet to speed up printing. I'd probably group those in groups of four, too. It would probably take 30 minutes to print 16 of these. So, yes, I think this is I think this is going to make it into the store. Well, I'm about out of time. I got to go make a bunch more of these before Kim gets back. And a big thanks to the Make It Mafia. That's the best mafia. It's all about the family over there. But we have files, Zoom calls, business content. Uh there's just a bunch of extras over there, but it's really about the community. The community is great. You need something, the mafia's got you.