Today is going to be crazy. We are going to use artificial intelligence to help us design a hand towel holder for our new bathroom. A couple of weeks ago, we made a vanity for that bathroom. Today we're going to use MidJourney to create a hand towel holder. This is going to be bonkers. This might be a little difficult, might be a little challenging, but I think we got this.
Dan, we got this? We got this! And today's video is brought to us by Squarespace. We're going to enter a prompt of bathroom countertop hand towel holder, and just see what comes up. And this is nowhere near what we are looking for. We need to refine our prompt. It definitely needs to be wood. This is a woodworking channel. So bathroom countertop hand towel holder wood. All right. That is interesting. The bottom left is the only usable one out of these. Let's add mid century modern to the mix here.
I don't like any of these results either. I'm just going to keep refreshing until I get something that I like. This is a little bit closer. Number three has like this goalpost type thing. Let's do a variation of three, but let's add Sam Maloof. Sam Maloof was an amazing furniture designer. Let's see if that does anything. Finally, I'm getting something that I sort of like this top left one. That is interesting. I'm going to see what happens when I do some variations with V1 here. Adding Sam Maloof, who's known for his Walnut and his kind of flowing curved design, not a lot of straight pieces. That makes this a little bit more interesting, a little bit more difficult to do. Now I'm getting kind of excited. You got to keep adding terms to the prompt until you can get what you want out of this. This is a great sketch pad. We've got 12 designs. I'm going to let my Discord users decide which one to make.
How does somebody get access to your Discord? That is a good question, Daniel. You can access my Discord. There's a link down below. You go through my Patreon. The votes are in from Patreon and Discord. I tallied everything up. Got the high res version here. There must be some sort of like goalpost going across here within a bar coming out that way. When I zoom into the image here, there are some really interesting things happening that might be a little difficult to do.
We'll tackle those problems later. Let's start with the easy part, cut out the circle and do our thing. You might recall we got this piece of wood from the antique mall a couple of weeks ago when we made the lamp. I don't suggest buying your wood from an antique mall, but this was such a good deal. We got to mill this up. It's rough on all eight sides. Six sides? Four sides? It's rough on all of its sides. So the first thing we need to do is just get it so it's workable.
Now that we got this board all milled up, I only need about this much of it. So I'm going to chop this off. The rest of this is ready to go for the next project. And I think I can re-saw this. And first thing I got to do is I just need to chop off the section that I need. That's what I'm trying to say. I re-sawed this into two and the circle bottom was going to be this piece. And then this piece was going to be this upright part right here.
And then when I look closer at the photo, it's way thicker down on the bottom. And I don't think I have the thickness that I want. So I'm going to save this piece for a future project and go cut off one more piece out of that slab. That's going to give me the thickness that I want. There's some other challenges like this. This up here physically doesn't make any sense. I've got a plan. I got a plan. So I think the bottom that looks to be about six and a half inches. I think that's going to work. So I'm just going to draw that out here. So when I zoom into the photo here, this base it's thicker on one side and that tapers down.
Also has a swoop going all the way across. There's also this divot here, which creates the shadow line. We'll worry about that later on, but right now we need to create this taper and then the swoop. I got this double sided taped on, on the bench here and I'm trying to create that swoop and I got some 40 grit sandpaper in there. It's just not working. I'll be here all day. So time to bring out the Arbortech Turboplane. Normally I do this outside, but it's winter. I think that is it. It has this weird Dr. Seuss feel that tapers down the one side and also has a swoop and it looks exactly what I see in the photo. So I think we can now move on to the top part. This doesn't work in the real world.
There's pieces missing and the towel is just floating on there. Plus the towel is not going to be rolled up like that. The towel needs to hang like this. So I think the first dimension is getting this width and I think three inches is going to do it. And so the height needs to be at least this tall so the towel is not touching.
I think I'm going to come in with the bandsaw, come in down here, cut this out and then cut this out and then I can glue that back together right there. I'll worry about this towel hanging part in a little bit. The proportions fit here on the computer because it doesn't show the full length of the towel. The towel is not going to be rounded up into this ball. It's going to hang. And so in reality this needs to be much taller than that. So we got that cut out on the bandsaw and now that I see this in person, even though proportions aren't going to be like what's in the photo, I think it's going to be okay, especially once we do some shaping. So I have to, I cut through here, so I got to glue that back together and then this is the piece that's going to have the, the dowel that's going to hold the towel. That's also going to get glued into there as well, but I want to cut this in half so on the other side it looks inset.
So I'm going to glue this piece back in. It doesn't look like much yet, but it's, it's coming together nice. So now, uh, the profile needs to be thinned out and then it comes out a little bit here at the bottom. So we're going to do that at the bandsaw. So I'm going to just draw a line here. This is where the magic happens. This is like your mom's bedroom. This is where it's all. Yes. I got Daniel to laugh real good. this is where we get to shape it and give it that organic-ness that it needs. I got this foot powered. You'll have to trust me that my foot is doing stuff and we're just going to start carving away.
I don't know what I'm doing. I just know I need to remove wood. I finally got this guy sanded smooth. This took hours, two movies worth and one of those movies was three hours long and I don't have a detail sander, but I got one coming now because this was a pain in the.. So a couple little tricks on my Foredom here, which is basically a glorified Dremel. Uh, I took a steel dowel and glued some sandpaper on there. That helped. Uh, I went and bought a file that definitely helped. I got some of those, those things that you, you can put on a drill that somewhat helped. One of the cool things that I found was taking some adhesive back sandpaper and putting it on a putty knife. And because this is flexible, it really allowed me to get into certain areas and sand away all those bandsaw marks and the foreskin marks, Foredom marks on there in the photo here.
It looks like it's dished out where this sits in there to create that shadow line. So we got a little bit more carving to do, and then we're going to glue it on there. Since we got long grain to long grain, I don't think we need to do any reinforcements. That should be good. I got that all carved out. It's going to have a good transition into this top piece.
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My wife is a speech therapist. You would think.. so we'll get to glue this dowel in the place. Got the dowel in there. So now I'm going to glue this onto the base. Got that beautiful transition. You probably can't see it yet, but you will soon enough. And I'm going to glue this in place. I've got long grain to long grain. Originally I was not going to reinforce this because I've got long grain to long grain, but I think I'm going to bring in some dowels from underneath just in case you want to stand on this and have that extra strength. So I'm going to use some wood glue and some CA glue wood glue for strength, CA glue as a clamp because it dries so fast. So now I've got this clamps to the bench and I'm just going to drill some holes from the bottom so I can add some dowels to add a little bit of reinforcement.
I got a few coats on my favorite oil finish on there and it's ready for use. Whether you like it or not, AI is going to play a huge part in our lives moving forward. Does this bother you? Are you excited or are you scared? Would this even be considered my design? And should I try it again on a bigger project? Design is a huge part of who I am and in this video, I show how I borrow other designers work to influence my own.