DiResta: Looking Glass

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In this episode of Diresta, Jimmy makes a beautiful looking glass made from a magnifying glass lens he found in a NYC trash heap.
In each episode of DiResta, artist and master builder Jimmy DiResta (Dirty Money, Hammered, Against the Grain, Trash for Cash) lets us into his workshop, to look over his shoulder while he builds whatever strikes his fancy.
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[@DwightMS1]

Jimmy, you're one of those rare and very fortunate people who get to know what they were born to do, and to get to act on it, from a very young age. You must be a very fulfilled person, and that's as good as it gets man.

[@luckys1evin]

Your skillfulness never ceases to amaze me.

[@halsoy]

Seeing this makes me think of my late grandfather. He worked with wood mostly, but the techniques and tools are largely the same. Such craftsmanship seem to be rarer these days. I still remember the days spent in his shop, both with him and my uncles as his company grew to something the family could do well of off. Nice work there Jimmy, makes me wish I could do the same :)

[@animusfoxx6965]

this is a real piece of art

[@contactrkb]

Yet again I sit back shaking my head in amazement.

[@MichaelAlm]

Jimmy, this is the most incredible thing I've seen you make! And that's saying a lot. You know your way around a lathe my friend...

[@ilnonnogigi]

You are a wizard!!! I can't stop to watch your work

[@izzyswan]

Stunning Jimmy, I really enjoy your amazing talents. Thank you.

[@jonrichelsen4926]

Always great to see such beautiful craftsmanship in motion. The macro shot of you filing the bracket was absolutely stunning!

[@jonrichelsen4926]

Always great to see such beautiful craftsmanship in motion. The macro shot of you filing the bracket was absolutely stunning!

[@RenaissanceMan929]

Another winner Jimmy!!

[@SkogKniv]

Jimmy...The best thing on the youtube MAKE channel. Awesome use of materials and creativity. A pleasure as always Jimmy. I need to get in the shop now.

[@jonathan__g]

I would have to agree. I only subscribed for him and watch what he makes.

[@jimmydiresta]

Thank you for the on going support !!

[@SkogKniv]

Well deserved Jimmy. You been a huge inspiration for me Making. Happy I can support you!

[@joshuamckown3145]

Just beautiful, Jimmy. I bet that handle has a nice heft to it. I've really been enjoying watching you work. Thanks for sharing your projects with us.

[@rivera_civic]

Inspector Jimmy!

[@briansmobile1]

Way nice Jimmy!

[@sfh2050]

Truly multi talented guy. Great work.

[@dcox01]

Beautiful job sir

[@TheBushdoctor68]

Very steampunk! Love it.

[@kenbarker6478]

Jimmy, I love the coordination between your right and left hands to create the shape on the handle. You must be a mean mutha on an etch-a-sketch. LOL. Beautiful job! Take Care Ken :-)

[@jeepmanxj]

+ken barker Run a manual lathe for a living for a few months. You'll be doing just like him.

[@chemistryguy100]

+ken barker My thoughts exactly! Moving that lathe manually like that is HARD!!

[@MacFyben]

absolute work of art by the way jimmy. beautiful as usual.

[@georgeavedikian622]

truly very talented guy,i expect many peices of this fine quality work,keep going Jimmy Diresta

[@crashhanna]

Nicely done. Where I come from that is a magnifying glass. A looking glass is a mirror.

[@jpage5350]

Gotta say, I got a bit confused there too. I guess I read Lewis Carroll too much as a kid...?

[@edwardlab]

es increible las cosas que puede hacer este señor con sus manos!! saludos desde VENEZUELA!!!.

[@rynagon_]

That handle is spectacular! Awesome job dude!

[@capatainnemo]

that is gorgeous jimmy, nice job.

[@petersontaylor2000]

Maaaan! He makes it looks like it's an easy task! You, sir, are an artist. :)

[@nicolek4076]

Another example of what divides US and British English. A looking glass for us is an old-fashioned name for a mirror. What he's making here is called a magnifying glass.

[@projotce]

I'm not sure about that. I'm an American and I thought he was going to make a mirror too

[@keepcalmsaltandburn]

yeah, it's called a magnifying glass here in America too.

[@GaryTruesdale]

Hell Yeah Jimmy!

[@gypsyheart79]

Beautiful work!

[@ChozoSR388]

So, Alice traveled to Wonderland through a magnifying glass, not a mirror? I always thought a looking glass was a mirror...huh Learn something new every day! Great work, Jimmy!

[@666alikat]

dont be silly. "looking glass" has meant mirror for nearly 500 years. The item we just watched diresta make is called a "magnifying glass."

[@ChozoSR388]

666alikat Well, that's what I thought, but wasn't quite sure after this lol I figured Jimmy knew better than I probably did.

[@andersonchristoph26]

That was totally Awesome!!!! Dude, It looks Great!

[@jvaldeuxo]

Wow, just wow

[@mohammadwassef2707]

Pure art 👍👍👍👍

[@onlypremiumlife]

Brilliant!

[@sjcea0512]

This is freaking awesome !!! Nice job!!

[@banglinumber1]

Wow you're amazing, keep up the good work, you're a true artist

[@xtechnolegendx]

Amazing work

[@callumoflaherty4538]

thought you were gonna give it the old arm shave test

[@bleaux6015]

lol

[@pract1ce863]

wonderful!

[@cristianmarquez3086]

Bravo, magnificent. Berry well done trully A one of a kind peace. Ur channel is great and extra ordinary.

[@b4ux1t3-tech]

This is my first Diresta video. Looks like I have my weekend all planned out now. Diresta playlist: Check. Beer: Check. Pinball machine to fix so I don't feel too useless compared to Jimmy Diresta: Check.

[@chaseofearth9280]

channels like yours are the coolest. it's awesome watching you do your thing man!

[@blizatrex]

Are you going to start your own detective agency with your brother John Diresta and have Matt Diresta reprise his Rat boy be the animal sidekick? This turned out better than I was expecting.

[@jimmyssmith]

Fantastic vid

[@mndlessdrwer]

Someone must have been good with an Etch-a-sketch as a child...

[@FloppyJedi]

Robert Coffey Don't think he had the time..hehe

[@NoorquackerInd]

+Robert Coffey Bet you he was playing with his dad's hacksaw!

[@NoorquackerInd]

***** So basically...he was

[@andrester88]

+Noorquacker Ind. Psch, Hacksaw is for babies. He played with the Bandsaw (He really did, he mentioned it during his shop tour video)

[@andrester88]

Why not both.

[@renbooth4147]

well done !!!!! i be looking for more of your video for shore.

[@claudiosoncini]

Wonderfull!!

[@Rutce125]

Dude, is there anything you can't build? I've been binge watching your videos all week and they are truly inspiring! I don't have the metal fabrication equipment you do, but you've definitely given me ideas for the wood shop.

[@smoothntallGWM]

John Gragg This is a nice magnifying glass handle, but I have a question about the wooden "box horn" thing on his workbench, in this video it can be seen at the very end (for like 20 to 30 seconds). What is that curved wooden box ? It looks very interesting.

[@elrusosimiand5891]

hermoso, una delicadeza..

[@VVVbosinis]

lol the sound in high speed is awesome

[@erodr4er]

AMAZING... that is all I have to say.

[@66tbird1]

Once again, nice work. Thank you for the video. I was a little nervous with the file that close to the turning chuck. Probably me though because I get the same feeling around 480V

[@letzrockitrite8469]

I love ya man !!

[@STFU123Fuck]

This magnifying glass is classy as fck.

[@hindiwindy]

Health and safety ? FFS ............. This is setting a right good example of how to seriously injure yourself ,,,well done !!!!!!

[@spejspig]

this is a good example of how to make a magnifying glass.

[@fundamental7378]

Andy A This is a master craftsman with decades of experience who has reached a certain level of comfort with his tools. If you try to replicate this video shot for shot with no experience, God help you.

[@ShafnatNaufalsketch]

After second thought my dad almost have all the equipments jimmy has to make things. Even the machines. But now my parents has divorced and i didn't live in my parents house again im really regretting myself i'm not into this back then.

[@Theswede79]

nice, good job

[@JJose-22]

this guy is just too amaizing D:

[@marceaton3128]

Thats it I am selling my tools. Great job once again Jimmy.

[@Noble909]

A trumpet factory doesn't use this much brass.

[@paradisefalls37]

Diversified DiResta , fantastic workmanship! Thank you for sharing as always!

[@Jeffrich308]

Your talents never cease to amaze me! You make things look so easy.... Beautiful work!

[@alenlopes387]

u r the no.1

[@spokehedz]

In the future, there will be anthropologists who will have dedicated their lives to understanding all of these "DiResta" artifacts they keep finding, Much like they do like Leonardo Da Vinci.

[@jimmydiresta]

haha Thank you ! love that guy leo

[@byrdhartley9014]

jimmydiresta DiResta is the new Uftbert.

[@GreenArrows0705]

Jimmy, love the projects! Got a question... Where do the projects go? Are these your personal projects, commisioned pieces, a combination? Some of them are obvious but say this one, what happens to them? Thanks for the inspiration and taking the time to make these videos. Thank you, Brett

[@ryana2652]

That is a fucking work of art!

[@ImGranger]

i would buy damn near everything he makes or just learn how to do it myself. and still buy all of his products haha

[@chaos420ification]

badass

[@Danstab]

Cool, an old South Bend lathe ;-)

[@TheJkilla11]

how could anyone dislike this? this is frickin awesome you rock.

[@Metalloys]

Great work. I would've 1) used copper screws, 2) added a small chamfer to the base.

[@johnDingoFoxVelocity]

How steamely awesome dude

[@hermeshamblok5701]

For when you want to burn ants in style

[@bleaux6015]

lol

[@arjunreddy3416]

great

[@BrentBlueAllen]

Any chance you could show us a project failure? I love seeing accomplished people make humbling mistakes.

[@jimmydiresta]

i like this idea, if something interesting happens again ill post it Thank you

[@moralescd]

Excelente trabajo .. cuanto tiempo te llevo hacer este ..?

[@AllenSunnyD]

Ouch! Cutting Brass an a $100 wood blade? I'm not that much of a wood fabricator but docent that just kill the blade?

[@Hyaoo]

I know this WILL sound extremely stupid, but, is that real gold or just a goldish metal?

[@matthewroy4664]

Pretty sure its brass.

[@LarsTechTipsDe]

wow

[@NotYourDio]

more project pls!!! :p

[@ШынгысУразов-л4ь]

Master нет слов

[@BuildiTDIYIsrael]

amazing craftsmanship. always a treat to watch your videos. thank you! very cool project.

[@МихалПалыч-ъ6й]

Super

[@schein101]

demais!

[@elhugo1960]

exelente ¡¡

[@halimpermadi7773]

Apik banget kiye :-)

[@NoahBarr85]

+1 for no welds or soldering

[@art1muz13]

2 days and 7,000 people already saw this. What a bummer! Well I get to see it now, after I comment and "thumbs -up" 1st, ALWAYS and 2nd, kik-bak & watch. NOW I RELAX AND WATCH.............! thank you MR.D.

[@wmonger]

Everything you create is amazing. Are most of your projects for clients or do you just have OCD and have to keep doing stuff.

[@TheDutyPaid]

Loved the mini G clamps XD

[@creativeobsin]

best part

[@MrtPit]

Awsome and beautifull!

[@AudioTherapy0]

NICE thanks for shareing

[@electricfilms100]

Love this object. As always, completely agree with all the production decisions for the video, such a cool way to watch something getting built. An inspiration to be sure. I'd love to be working in my own shop. Thank you JD

[@6shooter498]

I really enjoy watching you thinking about how to problem solve your way through a project!....Just remember for everyone who says t1hey can buy a similar item for less cost at a dollar store , mass produced items are desighned to be replace, you on the otherhand are creating a family hierloom, to be used and appreciated by your great grand kids, it reminds me of my grandfathers tool box...I was never allowe into it and after he died I had moved out of state so my cousins got all his stuff I know he had several hammers, an old hand powered drll, saws, chisels and a bottle of homemade wlne! Thanks for the talent display!!!!

[@Mrzoo2021]

You make the coolest stuff. Real craftsmanship. Quality work. Things just aren't made with quality now days.

[@allen2905]

This Diresta guy has such ingenuity that I'm beginning to realize he can make anything if he sets his mind to a project! I've been watching his vids these past 2 weeks while getting my strength back. Very envious of his boy/girl who's going to inherit all his tools plus absorb so much talent over the years while growing up. Haven't seen any children yet but hope he has some to carry on his legacy. WOW!!

[@veyisharmanl697]

Turkiye'den selamlar takipteyim

[@salense1]

Make: Sometimes I wonder what you would not be able to build. And I can't get any response. Congratulations you are the best. Greetings from Brazil

[@HAYAHIYAHAYAHO]

Anytime u make something that I think I wouldn't care to make( which is rare)... I find that I'm blown away still at the techniques and tools that u use... And how they can be used to make many other things... So glad you're sharing this with us... Thanks

[@Loafy23]

Amazing project as usual, dude. I'd like to see you customize a vehicle. I saw what you did with the one van for that contest and the wrecked cars you turned into cabinets but I'm talking about something done more for the beauty and art of it than the usefulness for a purpose.