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Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto

405: What If We Put Sunglasses On It?

Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto

I Like To Make Stuff

Arts, Crafts, Education, How To, Leisure, Design

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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This week Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto talk about promotion, marketing and being seen in 2023. What We’re Working On Jimmy Diresta Finishing up the pool table, working on products, headed to TotalBoat David Picciuto Still working on the video wall Bob Clagett Completely  redid our back porch Links: August 29 – Maker meetup in Russelville, Arkansas What we’re watching: David Pick of the Week: Posy Jimmy’s Pick of the Week: Why Oppenheimer Deserves His Own Movie – Veritasium Bob’s Pick of the Week: Fretless (Rob Scallon video game) Special thanks to all of our patrons on Patreon for supporting this episode! Especially: Crabtree Creative The Webb Ranch Woodworks Michael menedjian Warren Werks Stu Morrison The New Janky Workshop Scott Oram – Dad It Yourself DIY Shawn Beckner Odin Leather Goods (Chad) Rich at Loen.Design Chad’s Custom Creations Chad from ManCrafting™ WorksBySolo Albers Woodworks Corey Ward Tom Funk Andy Woodriff Shane O’Flaherty (Roughhouse Salvage) Roughhouse Salvage Bill Burkel – WTB Woodworking Newton Makes Samuel Gable Randy Watson Skullforge Studios KlingsporsWoodworkingShop Rupert Klopfer Joshua Barber Ryan LaValley Richard Quay Mike Wagner Jacques Speas Gary Burkhardt Master Of None Gordon F. Crago (@gfc62) Gary Oshust (Chisel and Mold) Starks Lagoon If you enjoy the show, please consider supporting us on Patreon

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0:00.0

So, you started making a yardstick, did you make a yardstick or did you buy a yardstick

0:07.6

and do something to it, because I saw the stories, but you know, I don't have a question

0:12.0

on it on my phone.

0:13.0

Yeah.

0:14.0

Yeah.

0:15.0

Now, Jordan and I were trying to come up with a couple of premium ideas, well, those would

0:19.5

have been premium.

0:20.5

So, you go to an antique shop, you see these yardsticks, some of them are flat, maybe

0:24.0

like one and a half inch or one and a quarter inch by a quarter inch thick, and that's just,

0:28.8

but I always like these square ones, they're tapered, they're longer than, they're like

0:32.9

maybe two or three inches longer than a yard, and they have, they taper, yeah, it looks

0:37.8

like it's, yeah, it's hard to photograph that taper, it's hard to show, it's all the

0:41.0

perspective, but it tapers from about an inch and an eighth from one end all the way down

0:45.4

to about three quarters on the other end.

0:47.4

And that's why it has like this feel, like you know, which is the end to hold versus the

0:51.3

pointy end.

0:52.8

And these yardsticks, I've always collected them, I see them at antique shops and I grab them.

0:57.4

And one of them I even have a quarter 20 screw in the end, so I could put a camera on

1:00.8

the end of it, a small GoPro or, you know, those metal cages that sometimes come on the

1:04.6

DJI, they'll screw right into the quarter 20.

1:07.6

So I use it as a camera pod.

1:10.2

And me and Jordan were kicking around ideas and I was like, you know what, I keep thinking

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