Make Workshop Mastery With Jimmy Diresta: A Guide to Working With Metal, Wood, Plastic, and Leather

Diresta, Jimmy/ Baichtal, John

ISBN 10: 1457194031 / ISBN 13: 9781457194030

Published by Make Books, 2016

About this Item

250 pages. 9.25x7.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # __1457194031

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Make Workshop Mastery With Jimmy Diresta: A Guide to Working With Metal, Wood, Plastic, and Leather
• Publisher: Make Books
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1457194031
• ISBN 13: 9781457194030
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.45 kilograms

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Synopsis

Jimmy DiResta has made a name for himself with his inventiveness and workshop skills, creating dozens of projects for YouTube videos and television shows such as Hammered and Against the Grain on the DIY network. In Make: Workshop Mastery With Jimmy DiResta, Jimmy and co-author John Baichtal teach readers essential workshop skills with over a dozen projects that explore everything from mold-making to CNC routing on to metalsmithing.Projects in this book include:

• Tool-drawer cabinet
• A chess set
• One-sheet metal stool
• A machete
• Crowbar-hammer mashup
• An electric guitar with a carved body
• Your own sign
• A leather backpack

About the Authors

Jimmy DiResta is an experienced television personality as an on-camera designer/builder host. Jimmy combines his charisma, his innate ability to solve problems with found objects, and a wide variety of tools and techniques, with sweat and brute force. He has appeared on the Discovery Channel, HGTV, DIY, and FX Networks as a host and co-host.

John Baichtal has written or edited over a dozen books, including the award-winning Cult of Lego (2011 No Starch Press), LEGO hacker bible Make: LEGO and Arduino Projects (2012 Maker Media) with Adam Wolf and Matthew Beckler, Robot Builder (Que 2014) and Basic Robot Building with LEGO Mindstorms NXT 2.0 (Que 2012), as well as Building Your Own Drones (forthcoming from Que). His most recent book is Maker Pro (Maker Media 2014), a collection of essays and interviews describing life as a professional maker. John lives in Minneapolis with his wife and three children.

Nick was taught to swing a hammer and countless other tools by his Dad, his grandfathers, and his Uncles Dan and Don of Roberts Brothers Farms. In theatre school at the University of Illinois, he used these skills to begin working in the scene shop, under the tutelage of Kenny Egan. This paid off handsomely when Nick began his professional theatre career in Chicago, as he offset his meager acting income with building scenery and props for large equity theaters. By the time he moved to Los Angeles, he’d opened his own modest shop in a warehouse and begun collecting tools. Once in LA, Nick couldn’t find as much scenery work, so he turned to building decks and cabins with his longtime friend Martin McClendon, another Illinois alumnus. Together, they fell under the spell of old-world furniture joinery, and, with Marty’s help, Nick opened his shop soon after, where he continues to build furniture, small boats, and anything else that tickles his fancy.