My Drunken Mission

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So this weekend a buddy and I are going to get really drunk and attempt to hand build a coffee table using infinity light techniques.

Infinity lighting is where you take a piece of two way mirror(you can see through the back and the other side reflects, like what cops use) and put it on top of a regular mirror. Then you put lighting imbetween them. You look down through the back of the two way mirror and the light gets infinitely bounced back and forth between the two mirrors creating a wicked optical illusion. We're going to try to build a coffee table doing that.

Here's a fancy example
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Ours obviously won't look nearly that good, but I at least want to figure out how its done and then do some experimenting. It sounds like a neat project

Here's a regular wall mount infinity light
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You can do some neat shit, like here's a grandfather clock
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Well, just a fun idea. I'll post pictures of it (or my sawed off hand) when its done!
 


I've built several of these... Theyre alot of fun... The construction is simple, its just a box..in the back is a mirror in the front is a 1 way mirror and in between is the object you want repeated. If you go straight to a glass shop with SQUARE cut sizes, say 4' x 4' theyre gonna jack the price but itll still be decently cheap if you pick it up and take it home yourself.

I know this cause my father owns a glass shop and I helped him run it for about 2 years.

P.S. Do not get drunk and handle glass, my brother nearly chopped his arm off while sober and I've had my wrist completely slit open from simply reaching around a piece that wasnt properly seamed. It's very easy to break a piece if its mishandled, and the shards can fuck you up big time (Read if you drop a big piece youre carrying you will possibly die). The other problem is most glass cuts are so fine you dont feel them right away, so if youre drunk you may lose a lot of blood before you notice it. Friendly advice, by all means enjoy being drunk, just don't get fucked up by glass:)
 
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First make a bluehatseo post. :D

That looks really cool though, I want one of those. But don't go getting drunk and playing with power tools, now!
 
electricshoe said:
I've built several of these... Theyre alot of fun... The construction is simple, its just a box..in the back is a mirror in the front is a 1 way mirror and in between is the object you want repeated. If you go straight to a glass shop with SQUARE cut sizes, say 4' x 4' theyre gonna jack the price but itll still be decently cheap if you pick it up and take it home yourself.

I know this cause my father owns a glass shop and I helped him run it for about 2 years.

P.S. Do not get drunk and handle glass, my brother nearly chopped his arm off while sober and I've had my wrist completely slit open from simply reaching around a piece that wasnt properly seamed. It's very easy to break a piece if its mishandled, and the shards can fuck you up big time (Read if you drop a big piece youre carrying you will possibly die). The other problem is most glass cuts are so fine you dont feel them right away, so if youre drunk you may lose a lot of blood before you notice it. Friendly advice, by all means enjoy being drunk, just don't get fucked up by glass:)
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+rep for saving this dudes life hopefully, and for knowing so much shit about glass...

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That's awesome! I've never seen anything like that before... new to me. Now all of a sudden I'm going to be obsessed... kind of like when i gutted the inside of a TV from the 1960s television and fit an aquairium inside of it. That was sick too.

But that was some retro shit, this is straight up classy looking. (in the pics at least)
 
Ya I've never seen something that classy, I'm gonna build some shit like that this winter sometime. The great thing about these kinds of boxes is they only need to be like 3 inches thick. So a table that has legs instead of a solid base would look fuckin hot. So I could just get some good aluminum extrusion and some chrome plating, build a nice skirt for the table and ya...I could probably build a table like that for $200-300. Getting the glass cut in a shape that isn't rectangular will be a lot more expensive, and to use it as a table its gonna need to be 1/2" - 5/8" thick and tempered, which will be a bit more pricey, but the mirror inside the table can just be standard 1/4" annealed. If you do seriously get around to building it send me an IM cause I'd like to know how it goes.
 
trigatch4 said:
That's awesome! I've never seen anything like that before... new to me. Now all of a sudden I'm going to be obsessed... kind of like when i gutted the inside of a TV from the 1960s television and fit an aquairium inside of it. That was sick too.

But that was some retro shit, this is straight up classy looking. (in the pics at least)
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Oh my dear lord! What if you did an infinity light with a fish tank!?!
By all theory it would make the fish look like they have a long string of fish behind them. Following them around and stuff.

oooooooooooooo

Oh forgot to mention those tables and stuff above was right around the $1k mark. The wall stuff was much cheaper. I'm not sure how much the grand father clock was (i love it).

There's companies that do this kind of shit, they also put out some awesome ass furniture. That frankly, and i may just have poor taste, looks classy as fuck.
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So this weekend a buddy and I are going to get really drunk and attempt to hand build a coffee table using infinity light techniques.
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Eli,

Can I have your bunny after you die or cut off all your extremities?
 
Deliguy said:
Oh my dear lord! What if you did an infinity light with a fish tank!?!
By all theory it would make the fish look like they have a long string of fish behind them. Following them around and stuff.
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By Scott! That could create a glitch in the space-time continuum rendering the fuel in the flux capacitor obsolete thereby sending us forward and backward at the same time to 1985!

(sorry i've been watching the back 2 the future trilogy)
 
CorrectAD said:
where did you find out about this shit anyways?
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we were talking and he randomly asked me what would happen if you put a two way mirror on top of a regular mirror and looked through it. I stared at him blankly for about 2 minutes then walked over to the computer and went to google. He left and came back with a cut two way mirror and a regular mirror

the mission was born
 
electricshoe said:
P.S. Do not get drunk and handle glass, my brother nearly chopped his arm off while sober and I've had my wrist completely slit open from simply reaching around a piece that wasnt properly seamed. It's very easy to break a piece if its mishandled, and the shards can fuck you up big time (Read if you drop a big piece youre carrying you will possibly die). The other problem is most glass cuts are so fine you dont feel them right away, so if youre drunk you may lose a lot of blood before you notice it. Friendly advice, by all means enjoy being drunk, just don't get fucked up by glass:)
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Echoing the warning around glass... I worked for a commercial glazing contractor for a year - I have never been to the ER so many times in my life. Only for myself once, but guys in the shop and guys in the field a number of times...

My deal was helping to install a 6'0 x 4'0 piece of 1/4" tempered glass. There was 3 of us for safety sake, we all had suction cups and as we were going to set it, one of the guys decides hes in a bad spot, yanks his suction cup off without telling us - Silly me, trying to save it from falling I grabbed the edge... Needless to say, it took a whopping 5 seconds before I saw blood oozing down the glass - It put a nice cut all the way across the palm of my hand....

Be careful...mmmk
 
Take some pictures of step by step. I would be interested to see how this turns out. I have a feeling I will be making one also. And as far as doing this to a fish tank, I think the fish would be scared shittless and go into seizures. But it would look cool as hell.
 
take pictures, put a how to guide together, throw some adsense on that bitch, profit
 
Haha those top ones look awesome Eli - good shit, get to work! You'll want to photoblog the whole operation... whether or not there are accidents ;) Good luck!
 
they have a couple of wall mounted versions of these at a local head shop... wicked trippy
 
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