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Butterfly room divider A video showing the making of a butterfly room divider. More videos inside...
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Vampire Spike Table
Massive Dovetail Joined Bench
Dual Drawer Toolbox
Via Industrial Design Blog Core77
Vampire Spike Table
Massive Dovetail Joined Bench
Dual Drawer Toolbox
DiResta's Cut: Butterfly Panel Room Dividers His Goddamned Thumb Off. The divider is nice but I had to skip through the band saw part. I'm not sure how you safely manipulate wood to cut curves like that but I know that's how wood shop instructors loose digits.
I do totally covet his workshop though. We have plenty of tools and equipment and if I can just figure out where to find talent, I'll be all set. (I built a worktable once but it was pretty bad and we ended up using it as a base for the goat feeder....)
posted by Beti at 7:34 AM on April 10, 2016 [1 favorite]
I do totally covet his workshop though. We have plenty of tools and equipment and if I can just figure out where to find talent, I'll be all set. (I built a worktable once but it was pretty bad and we ended up using it as a base for the goat feeder....)
posted by Beti at 7:34 AM on April 10, 2016 [1 favorite]
Stuff like this makes me really wish I had taken shop in high school
I took shop. ( And with Alan Horowitz, one of the best )
I've won a NYS Industrial Arts award in shop for a project I've done.
He still blew my mind when he casually tig-welded up the custom brackets.
posted by mikelieman at 7:54 AM on April 10, 2016 [3 favorites]
I took shop. ( And with Alan Horowitz, one of the best )
I've won a NYS Industrial Arts award in shop for a project I've done.
He still blew my mind when he casually tig-welded up the custom brackets.
posted by mikelieman at 7:54 AM on April 10, 2016 [3 favorites]
"I know I'm gonna get a letter from saying that's not how you use that. I'm fully aware of that."
I love this guy.
posted by fatbird at 8:02 AM on April 10, 2016
I love this guy.
posted by fatbird at 8:02 AM on April 10, 2016
Jimmy "Bandsaw Manicure" DiResta previously:
Watching a thing done well is a pleasure in itself
Jimmy Diresta makes things
posted by zamboni at 8:05 AM on April 10, 2016 [3 favorites]
Watching a thing done well is a pleasure in itself
Jimmy Diresta makes things
posted by zamboni at 8:05 AM on April 10, 2016 [3 favorites]
I know that's how wood shop instructors loose digits
For me the table saw is the much more dangerous part (though obviously with many more safeguards in place). A table saw is the only saw that's ever managed to put its blade inside my body (spoiler alert: I was using inadequate safeguards!).
That said, I thought it was an odd choice to make that piece that way. I would've routed a curve out of a long piece of 1x6 and then cut it to width to fit the panels. Safer and would've been a more consistent curve. I'm sure he had his reasons though - he's obviously a skilled craftsman. May just not have had any lumber wide enough handy, since that was an afterthought.
Anyway, very cool to watch. I love seeing stuff like this.
posted by obfuscation at 8:28 AM on April 10, 2016 [2 favorites]
For me the table saw is the much more dangerous part (though obviously with many more safeguards in place). A table saw is the only saw that's ever managed to put its blade inside my body (spoiler alert: I was using inadequate safeguards!).
That said, I thought it was an odd choice to make that piece that way. I would've routed a curve out of a long piece of 1x6 and then cut it to width to fit the panels. Safer and would've been a more consistent curve. I'm sure he had his reasons though - he's obviously a skilled craftsman. May just not have had any lumber wide enough handy, since that was an afterthought.
Anyway, very cool to watch. I love seeing stuff like this.
posted by obfuscation at 8:28 AM on April 10, 2016 [2 favorites]
I'm not sure how you safely manipulate wood to cut curves like that...
Uh, yeah. I found that segment shocking and amazing.
posted by jeffamaphone at 8:58 AM on April 10, 2016
Uh, yeah. I found that segment shocking and amazing.
posted by jeffamaphone at 8:58 AM on April 10, 2016
Every time his videos get posted here I notice his casual safety attitude. It always seems to show up at least once per video, and usually unnecessarily for something that could easily be done in a smarter way.
posted by Dip Flash at 9:25 AM on April 10, 2016
posted by Dip Flash at 9:25 AM on April 10, 2016
Watching these videos made me go out and buy a toolbox to replace my Rubbermaid box. My “different kinds of tools in different ziplock bags” system just doesn't scale well.
Maybe in ten years, I'll build my own.
posted by oceanjesse at 10:13 AM on April 10, 2016
Maybe in ten years, I'll build my own.
posted by oceanjesse at 10:13 AM on April 10, 2016
Beti: " I'm not sure how you safely manipulate wood to cut curves like that but I know that's how wood shop instructors loose digits."
I'd put my shaper head in my table saw and feed the stock with a cross cut sled; you can do the same with a cove bit in a router table or shaper. Or you could start with double thickness and double length material. Stand it on edge and drill down in the center with a forstner bit then rip in half and cut the pieces in half (giving four blocks with a quarter round void down one edge. Or for a curve that doesn't have to match anything: Use the undriven roller on a belt sander to create the curve.
But then my bandsaw is pretty crappy so I never use it for anything that needs any sort of accuracy.
posted by Mitheral at 10:19 AM on April 10, 2016 [2 favorites]
I'd put my shaper head in my table saw and feed the stock with a cross cut sled; you can do the same with a cove bit in a router table or shaper. Or you could start with double thickness and double length material. Stand it on edge and drill down in the center with a forstner bit then rip in half and cut the pieces in half (giving four blocks with a quarter round void down one edge. Or for a curve that doesn't have to match anything: Use the undriven roller on a belt sander to create the curve.
But then my bandsaw is pretty crappy so I never use it for anything that needs any sort of accuracy.
posted by Mitheral at 10:19 AM on April 10, 2016 [2 favorites]
...I know that's how wood shop instructors loose digits.
Recycling an older comment of mine: Mr. DiResta actually did lose a digit. I see he has upgraded to a SawStop machine since then, which is great. But we can also see him tweaking his cuts with the saw running, using his bare hands on smallish workpieces etc, which is exactly how he got into trouble before. Yikes. I guess it's hard to change, it's hard to focus on the job and on safety, and hey, what amazing things have I built anyway?
Love the butterfly screen and the toolbox. I'll never have a place to put a screen like that but I might make a toolbox one day.
posted by Western Infidels at 10:27 AM on April 10, 2016 [3 favorites]
Recycling an older comment of mine: Mr. DiResta actually did lose a digit. I see he has upgraded to a SawStop machine since then, which is great. But we can also see him tweaking his cuts with the saw running, using his bare hands on smallish workpieces etc, which is exactly how he got into trouble before. Yikes. I guess it's hard to change, it's hard to focus on the job and on safety, and hey, what amazing things have I built anyway?
Love the butterfly screen and the toolbox. I'll never have a place to put a screen like that but I might make a toolbox one day.
posted by Western Infidels at 10:27 AM on April 10, 2016 [3 favorites]
I have 9 fingers, having lost 2 and a thumb (the micro vascular surgeons re-attached thumb and sorta kinda the second finger). I did it on an industrial radial arm saw when I was a teen - soooo easy to do.
I have a Saw Stop saw and it's pretty amazing. Any other table saw gives me the willies.
posted by parki at 11:45 AM on April 10, 2016 [4 favorites]
I have a Saw Stop saw and it's pretty amazing. Any other table saw gives me the willies.
posted by parki at 11:45 AM on April 10, 2016 [4 favorites]
I remember your comment now, Western Infidels. I still can't help but laugh at his line in that video, "I know people don’t think I’m Mr. Safety but actually I do really worry about cutting my finger off again."
I know you can only be so responsible for other people but I just think if you are putting how to videos out there, you have some sort of moral obligation to show safe techniques. And there's no good reason not to use safe techniques in any case.
I don't mean to be excessively critical of your post, troll on a pony. I do love watching videos like this!
posted by Beti at 11:52 AM on April 10, 2016 [1 favorite]
I know you can only be so responsible for other people but I just think if you are putting how to videos out there, you have some sort of moral obligation to show safe techniques. And there's no good reason not to use safe techniques in any case.
I don't mean to be excessively critical of your post, troll on a pony. I do love watching videos like this!
posted by Beti at 11:52 AM on April 10, 2016 [1 favorite]
Great post, thanks! I've just started (re-)learning simple woodworking stuff at my local hackspace, so these videos are inspirational. Oddly relaxing, too.
Diresta also co-hosts a podcast called Making it, in which he and a couple of others discuss their projects, their workshops, and the ins and outs of how their Maker-on-Youtube businesses work. I've only listened to the first three or four, but so far it's interesting and the co-hosts have a nice dynamic. Well worth a listen.
posted by metaBugs at 12:05 PM on April 10, 2016 [1 favorite]
Diresta also co-hosts a podcast called Making it, in which he and a couple of others discuss their projects, their workshops, and the ins and outs of how their Maker-on-Youtube businesses work. I've only listened to the first three or four, but so far it's interesting and the co-hosts have a nice dynamic. Well worth a listen.
posted by metaBugs at 12:05 PM on April 10, 2016 [1 favorite]
I won't discuss his safety practices, but I've seen a grip of build videos and this is one of the best. The sped-up footage from multiple angles with overdubbing really works to illustrate process without skipping ahead to compress for time.
I wish all youtube DIYs were this good.
posted by a halcyon day at 12:54 PM on April 10, 2016 [2 favorites]
I wish all youtube DIYs were this good.
posted by a halcyon day at 12:54 PM on April 10, 2016 [2 favorites]
That was mesmerizing.
posted by Belle O'Cosity at 5:33 PM on April 10, 2016
posted by Belle O'Cosity at 5:33 PM on April 10, 2016
He also made a cool distillery model commissioned by Bulleit that was really fun to watch come together.
posted by karlshea at 9:05 PM on April 10, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by karlshea at 9:05 PM on April 10, 2016 [2 favorites]
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