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Watch me make a Machete using one of the many old crosscut saw i own. To shape the machete i use my new Baeumont Belt Grinder The Handle is made from ziricote wood from Belize. Please share
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i find your videos calming, no voices, no music, just the sounds of work.
Backyard blacksmith here. Or I don't know, been doing it for 6 years, can I call myself something else yet?
Just wanted to say, those old sawblades make some of the best knives, and they keep a straight razor edge for a long time. I've cut them out like you have, and have forge welded them in softer steel billets to get that keen edge but with a thicker blade. If you can find some that are a bit pitted with a good layer of patina, they make beautiful little blades that have an ancient look about em.
Great work man, love your vids.
Thank you !! Also have saw mill blade 30" dia ill cut up soon.. Ill Get the saw mill nerds upset. Thank you!!
I have no idea how you move your hands that fast it's incredible.
Jimmy, I periodically review your posts as a technique refresher anyway. Lots of pointers from different work stations. The projects all come together great. Thanks!
Best machette ever made
hahah thank you !!
jimmydiresta what bandsaw do you use?
The saw blade is already tempered to be springy. As for the plasma cutter taking out the temper, yes a little on the edges where the pattern was cut, but it did not affect the whole body of the blade. Obviously you people do not own a plasma cutter. This is the beauty of this project the material is already tempered to flex which is excellent for the machete, and there is no forging involved or heat treating. Believe me that machete has the proper temper already built in, it is not ruined. Nice job, and great looking machete, I really also liked the handle.
I have no need for a machete anymore, but the craftsmanship in that handle is pleasing to the eye. I love the brass inserts, I always believed they were there to reduce the vibration through the wooden handle when slashing and to help with the balance.
I just stumbled onto the DiResta vidoes a couple days ago, took me until today to realize there is more than one DiResta making them. I don't have a workshop so doubt I'll ever try one of these projets but it is fascinating to watch these just the same.
Anyway, I have listened to many CZcams how-to videos, and the DiResta videos have by far the best narrations! Keep up the good work!
The saw.... was way cooler, then the 15 dollar quality machete.
Okay... i admit the handle was pretty amazing... i was just heartbroken seeing that antique saw being ravaged.
Firstname Lastname Although I can't say I agree, but I do hope that he hung the saw right back where it was. I mean it's just that much cooler with the hole in it.
David Larsen he did - saw it today in his shop
Fine workmanship and great talent, I would be more impressed if he had refinished the saw, set the teeth, and sharpened them that fine. I wonder if he even knows how to set and sharpen the teeth of his many saws.
William Fitzgerald "I wonder if he even knows how to set and sharpen the teeth of his many saws"
i do, but my channel is more about the products i make with the tools i use. less about the tools.
And the saw is still useable!
What a nice machete! The old steel from the saw came back to life! Never had a story had a better ending!
A machete from a saw? Hey, why not? If you can, just go for it. That is the creative and fun side of the trade. Therapy if you will! Dude, don't stop, your work is awsome!
Jimmy, I like your style. That coming from a guy who knows what it takes to go from an idea ...to gathering materials...to posting the vid
Great job!!
Thank you Jody ! You have been my teacher for several years now thank you for what you do !
Jimmy DiResta sorry guys, nothing to add, just using the occasion of my two favourite masters in a row to thank both of you for the precious lessons you taught me everyday so far, thanks to which today I have the opportunity to express myself doing the kind of job I like most: thank you very much buds, I owe you both a lot
Thank you !!
Hello Jimmy! I love your work. It's so systematic and good to see.
It's too late, Uzair. Nobody cares now. Sorry.
Best engineer/crafter/legend/badass ever keep up the amazing high quality work
Thank you sir!!!
+jimmydiresta your welcome every video entertains me and hope to achieve the level you are at one day
+jimmydiresta is the blade hard enough to be a machete, saw blades are flex & not that hard
+Mohammad Wassef machetes don't need to be very hard.
+Mohammad Wassef machetes benefit from having the flex that a saw does... it uses the flex to help with chopping
I was hooked when he freehanded that straight line at the beginning.
I collect knives and edged weapons. I've been collecting them for over 20yrs and I must say that I would proudly display that blade in my collection. It's beautiful and has a great story.
I can honestly sit here and watch you make stuff for hours. You're amazing at this!
Thank you for all the great comments !! And for watching!
Great vid I'd really like to know where u got that pen from id love on for my designs and
The year is 2020 jimmy diresta finally has no hair left on his body
lmfao 😂😂😂😂😂
i was thinking, hes either the best knife maker ever,or has a problem with his arm hair being so weak
+will blizard lol
December 3 19. No change lol.
Not only does the machete show superb craftsmanship but the video is also well made and entertaining to watch. Nice watch as well
I sympathize for the person that tries breaking into your house; home made machete, book gun, baseball bat, guitar AK47!! Can't believe you've made all those things, truly amazing. I appreciate such art.
It's 6 am and I'm watching some knive videos again
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Welcome to CZcams...
+Zorkz Holy shit me to
You are not alone friend
hämäläine prod mikäs siinä ku ei muuta katokkaa :D normaalia veittistä innostuneille....
4:28 exactly me watching your video's
you never fail to impress Jimmy. I would bet you are an old soul ... so many skill sets and creativity .. not to mention a gorgeous parcel of land upstate. all the best.
The joy and satisfaction of making quality things.
Hour 453 I continue to watch these videos knowing I can't make any of it I need help
same
You can if you try... anyone can
You can make many things with only the basics.I make filleting knives from modern hardpoint saws(sandvik 244 etc),which have gone blunt.They are easy to cut the outline with a grinder,and then work down with various blades and pads.I use recycled wood for the handles,pins etc,and due to their thin springy construction,they are the ideal thickness,and can be ground very sharp with an oilstone.It's a good way to start
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Do you make a new blade every time your arm hair grow back out?
+staslig was thinking the same, cos i never see a shaved patch on a new knife or axe test.
he uses different arms
+Gromble Guy I've seen one of his videos where one of his arms has 5 missing patches of hair. I forgot which one it is though.
Your meticulously worked craftsmanship is beautiful and the attention to detail is absolutely prime. This goes without saying you truly are a real woodworking artist.
I love the shot with Rodin's Thinker overlooking. Beautiful work.
secretly this is howJjason passes time
Jason Voorhees would be proud ;)
It started with a knife video and now I have just watched 4 hours worth of DiResta's videos. YOU ARE AWESOME! Thank you for sharing.
i'am in my taxi on Paris it's 1h41am i just want to say your are great thks for this vidéo
Right nice!
Thank you sir!!
jimmydiresta Make a Batrang! Please!!!
wish i have a lot of equipment like that
Is there anything that you can't make? You take great pride in everything that you do. The sign of a true artisan.
I'm from Malaysia, I've been following your videos lately and I greatly enjoy your works and finished products. Keep it up, there could be more youtuber watching your videos! Thank you.
Beautiful, but I never would have destroyed that old saw.
The most beautiful machete I have ever seen :)
But it hurt a bit to see that old saw get cut up like that :S
This is a new approach to plasma cutting to me, I’m happy to learn about the different ways that they can be used
I love the hair ceremony part, every diresta's knife made has one.
+Gilvin Yeah, classic case of looks cool and that's what is important. I remember getting my ass chewed out as a young man learning to sharpen wood axes and rolled over shovels/picks by making them too sharp...had to learn that a razor edge on a heavy cutter is actually counter productive.
"Every time you troll a crosscut saw get's turned into a machete..." I love it, big thumbs up Jimmy!
The Xmas wet dream of Jason !!!!
Ziricote is just lovely stuff. It's a favorite fingerboard wood for me.
Jimmy, look up some info about heat treating hardenable steel. I've seen you make a few bladed tools, and they are beautiful. But the blades will never hold an edge properly without retempering after plasma cutting. hardening and tempering Is not too entirely difficult to do with all the resources you have at your disposal, and you would be left with both a fully functional as well as beautiful tool in the end. Not criticizing at all, just offering a bit of advice, as a fellow tool restorer/repurpose-er. Keep up the art!
Now find am old machete and make a woodsaw.
Dawg that’s genius
How dare you take something that's yours and make something cool out of it!
How dare he indeed! He is merely practicing one of his most fundamental rights, but fuck that. Let's all tell him what to do!
***** If you look through the comments section, you'll see a lot of people complaining that he ruined that "antique saw" or some shit. Truly, those hipster fucks don't understand the first thing about constitutional rights.
+Brastius It is a shame to ruin something beautiful which is still very much useful and will never be made again. But he absolutely has the right to and I defend his right to do it, but I think it's a stupid decision to use that right.
Völundr Frey No use of a right is a stupid decision. Even when that decision seems to affect others negatively(this is not the case in the video, however), excercising ones rights is still an admirable thing on its own. A right not excersised is a right lost
+NecroBanana I loved how he made this out of an old sawblade, and kept the original patina all the way to the end. when he ruined that i stopped waching, wich is my right!
Jimmy, I also have the Beaumont KMG. Just a suggestion here: Remove the metal 2 inch roller on the top of the platen and replace it with a 2 inch contact wheel. Makes for a much better grinding wheel. Second, invest in a 9 inch disk sander (variable speed and reversible) It is so much better when grinding the handles!
Don't know why people are complaining about the blade being ruined from plasma cutting. Machetes don't really have to cut, but just hit, in order to be very, very deadly. Great work!
You cut your thumb on the bandsaw didn't you? xD Kept going so props for that.
And now You reminded me I want to make a machete :) Thank God I just got a belt sander :D
Shut up
Mr. Jimmy, I've watched your videos and the only one thing I can say is you are an artist
this guy is a genius. Everything he touches becomes instant art... I wish i could work with him for a week, just to see these types of awesome things.
You would have been cursed by Wranglerstar, but who is he to judge. Great work.
+Erik S Wranglerstar is a donkey. Hopefully he lets his wife and child out of their cells every once in a while.
Brainwashing his son up in the mountains. What a fucking fruit basket.
Wow...kinda harsh dude. You know something we dont know...?:/
Lol'd pretty hard, but jeez m8 that is a bit harsh
Lol exactly what I was thinking it looked like a good saw :(
+Jake Wright I agree but i dp heavily respect him for his skills and sticing with the family
Oh shit!. I was sitting in the same position. 4:26
Excellent video..smart move mocking up the handle to do the rough shaping of the handle and I dig your finale. Retrieving the machete from the original saw blade..nice one..
@jimmydiresta - you should try making your own micarta and use that for knife/tool handles. Using the bandsaw to shape it will create super tight patterns if you layer your micarta using different colored materials
Totally Rad! Every Pimp in the Jungle will want one of those! Hahaa ... really awesome! No joke...
Darude - Sandstorm
***** Darude - Sandstorm
the meaning was certainly lost on me....
Did you just say you are ruining the meme? How the hell do you make it better?
Mr. Diresta,
After viewing some of your other products, im curious as to why you didn't decide to label you last name on to the machete.
Fan
I have just started watching your videos. You are a true craftsman. The machete is beautiful and it really makes me want to do a project like this.
I really enjoy watching you redesign something old and making it into something else, recycling is good
He has to wait for his arm hair to grow back every time he wants to make another video
+Alec Bayer He's so manly that the hair grows back after 10 minutes. This guy is a very talented badass.
@4:30....The fuck are you looking at?
I'm amazed you've still got all your fingers !!! good stuff. the brass inlays looked exactly right.
That's what you call craftsmanship.
I have to laugh, for when I took shop class in High School my shop teacher would be livid and yell at anyone that used a drill press without clamping down the piece being drilled because of the chance it could catch on the drill bit and spin around enough it could tear someone's fingers off. He would show us a picture of someone's broken fingers to illustrate.
Same with my teacher haha. But I still argue that its not always necessary.
i have been at this since i was 7 ... 40 years later only cut off one pinky.
Thank you for watching!
No problem I read a comment about your tv show and have been watching it getting some ideas for things to make.
jimmydiresta Just to be clear, I wasn't trying to reprimand or criticize your holding down a piece with your hand, my teacher's instruction really got pounded into my head so I cringe everytime. :) I still love watching you work.
***** Well, he's been using the tools for so long he knows what works and what he's comfortable doing. His results seem to justify it.
at the end i thought youre gonna chop your arm hahahah
You are amazing! Thank you so much for the inspiration and ideas. Can't wait to try to copy some of your projects. I'm telling everyone I know about you and everyone that watches you for the first time is always amazed and riveted. Thanks again Mr. DiResta.
Best part is that saw is still perfectly functional.
imagine if the serrations of the saw blade were the spine of the blade
mad bansaw skills
At about 7:14 in you can see he recently got just a little too close to the blade. Love the videos, keep up the awesome work.
Hi, I really like your video's, zero waffling on! A lot of vids on CZcams over explane things and repeat things over and over! And make it hard to watch you don't need a running commentary when you can see what's going on! You also have a great variety of projects! GREAT CHANNEL!
only just found your channel tonight. i love watching you work
There was enough saw blade left for several Diresta Bushcraft blades. Open a store.
7:00 looks like he might have slipped a bit using that saw
jack lohrey ki ub4
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Love the brass liners with the scales.
All i could think about the whole time is Crocodile Dundee, "That's not a knife" "THAT's a knife" lol good stuff can wait to see more.
Has anybody ever seen this guys face , I have a feeling he wears a hockey mask.
spliffsperlunk Lol, I have seen two of his videos and he shows his face in one
All his tips and trick videos have his whole body and he talks also
spliffsperlunk
Says the guy with some creepy as fuck clown face profile picture.
Boinkstyle I fully admit to saying that.
He had like three tv shows. Hammered, Dirty Money, and I think Trash to Cash?
Don´t let wranglerstar see this! :D
In the post apocalyptic world, Jimmy will be undefeatable.
The brass against the tang is an awesome touch! Great job!
That's a lots of work just to shave your arm! Must be a lot of people using your shop. Gotta put your name on stuff that's yours. We do that at work all the time.
He puts his name on everything so no one can steal his videos
Your thumb 0-0 geesh looks like that hurt
Recycling at its finest. Nice work!!
Very nice work!!! Wonderful craftsmanship!!!!!
Looks like something my Abuela would use to kill the chickens! Brings back memories.
Courtney Ortiz-Cseh Seguro que tu abuela manejaba el machete mejor que cualquiera de los que estamos aquí
+Courtney Ortiz-Cseh I can relate, mine would do the same. My abuela would use it for chickens and my abuelo would peal coconuts with it too.
+79pejeperro EEEEH MACARENA
+Courtney Ortiz-Cseh you are beautiful =)
+Courtney Ortiz-Cseh Had to google what "Abuela" meant. My granfather was the same, i use the air rifle these days because if people see you in the back yard swinging at chickens with a machete they might think you're a bit mad...
Hey Jimmy,
Goes without saying that you are a true badass and an experienced craftsman/artist. Not quite sure what all the fuss is about: that old saw is made from QUALITY steel, and is perfect for repurposing into a machete! Aaaaaaaaand the saw is still functional. Anywho, love your stuff, always entertaining, educational, and inspirational. Please keep em comin!
Ps.....not too many of us "cat men" out there, gotta love the pussy! Go Spike!
-Shane-O
Haha thank you for the love!!
+jimmydiresta A little wobbly, and that's what you want in an old fashioned amazon machete, from one forest loving knife-maker to another, could use a little heat treating, but, nonetheless, lovely machete, love the brass on softwood. Was it pine?
+Cade Prewitt Ziricote
that's a man's shop right there. love your videos dude.
Excellent workmanship Jim , again a very enjoyable watch . Thank you .
Frank
no logo on it?
what king of wood is that, nut?
I think it is Dark Walnut
Even if the saw was hardened, it's obvious the plasma cutting alone ruined the temper. The blade right now is totally useless.
So if i take a hard fast swing at your head noting would happen?
jimmydiresta
I'm not sure, but you'd have to sharpen it afterwards
Okay that was funny.
jimmydiresta cut test vid? I think the balde is to flexible an thin. But it looks good... Respect for your handcraft skills.
+Vesterpester Why? Plz give more explanation. It looks like ur just trying to look smart.
jimmydiresta This thing is awesome.I found your channel yesterday, or maybe the day before yesterday, you make such awesome things and have a huuuuuuuuuuge knife collection. I would love to see one in Romania, it looks cool and it's hand made.
im from Greece im Mike... i like to see your videos.... you are do nice work... im happy to there is ppl who love to create..... Very nice man!!! keep going
Mike Mike You sure your name is Mike? It could be a mistake; like a typo or something. I mean, it's not like your name says "Mike" in it or anything. So why would someone think your name is Mike? I'm just kidding man. I had to rib you since your name says "Mike" twice, and then you mention it in your message too.
im Michael or Mikel or Maikl... :) or in Greek Μιχαλης :)
hundreds of DiResta signs everywhere........
Did enyone ever attempt to count dem?
samuel bhend I counted them, and they added up to narcissism.
The fact that you counted gives me pleasure please keep talking about me. ... Please how many... please tell me.
***** Why such hate ? Peace bro
***** Ok, so what ? He's human, he's allowed to make mistakes.
*****
Oh no I didn't realize you were an internet tough guy
7:23 his thumb was bleeding
ouch!!
yeah i saw that his thumb
naw it looked like a scar to me
So what? If you don´t work you can´t get hurt Mr. Quirky
Great vidoes Jimmy! I love your videos. I never got to know my Dad, but I'd imagine he was a lot like you. He was a cabinet maker and general craftsman up until he was mugged and paralyzed 2 months before I was born. Thanks again for the great content and keep up the good work. I've made so many of your designs in my own garage just for the hell of it. I think I'm going to use my fathers old crosscut saw to make a few knives.
thank you ! sorry to hear that sad story. thank you for the kind words!
Mith...Keep your fathers crosscut saw the way it is. It has its own value to you. Cut up some other saw for knives, that way you can pass on your dads saw and your knives.
Muddy Fences I feel like he would rather see it go to use for the rest of my own life than have it rust to nothing on a shelf. Not even steel lasts forever. I WILL be keeping his saw, at least the "soul" of it.
first of all pretty nice result. It´s admirable that there are people left who think making it by yourself is better than bying crap, but it hearts my toolmaker feelings seeing some of your methods ^^ is there anything in your workshop without "Diresta" on it ;-)
I know the price of razors is getting stupid, but that just seems like a lot of effort.
I just can't appreciate it without any form of heat treating applied to the blade. That soft spring metal won't hold an edge well, especially after being cut with a plasma cutter. :< It looks nice though.
Machete blades don't need to be sharp, it's good if they are but they don't need to be. And have you ever tried to heat treat a sword, it's not easy!
I did once. It snapped in half and I ended up with a really odd knife... I'd pay money to have it back though.
UberDoyle He dosnt need to heat treat it because he made it from a saw blade. Because he didnt heat or anneal the blade it was still martensitic, or hardened. Judging by the pettina/light rust on the blade and the age of it it is good quality, old school carbon steel, which is the best for blade making.
Jeremy Martin you don't need to sharpen them? then why are they sharpened?
Anthony Sillato He cut the blade out with a plasma cutter. that's about 3000 F on a steel that will start to go soft at about 350F
I love a good old machete. While yes a double edge one would have been better you took it to the next level here. Couldn’t stop coming back to this classic. Well done
evrything you do is Amazing!!! Just watched everyone of your videos on Make. You and your brother need to start making Dirty Money again!!!! Best Show ever