Welcome to episode 6 of Making A Bi- Weekly Podcast about Making Things with Your Bear Hands

hosted by Jimmy Diresta, Bob Cleggett, and myself David Petruto.

And we're going to start this off by talking about what we got going on in the shop.

Who wants to go first? I'll go.

All right.

This is Jimmy.

Actually this has been a really cool week. It's been a nice inspirational week for me,

typically between Christmas and New Year's,

I kind of just go into the shop and play around.

And so this week I decided to start four movies.

So I have no client work this week, so I started four movies. So I have no client work this week so I started four movies. I'm

Instagramming some of the pictures. I started a knife video but the knife is a

crisp blade which is a wavy Malaysian blade.

So I try to pick something extremely complicated,

just so I could learn something new.

And that's really why, because I can make a regular knife.

And, but I never made a wavy knife.

So I've already learned a tremendous amount just doing that and I'm not even done with that and then I started turning my cut down tree from a few months ago. I'm turning it into a set of country farm table legs. I'm going to lay each one into a nice farm leg.

And so I might just make that a video on its own of just the legs and then the building of the table will be a part two.

But they'll both stand alone and I started a

band saw restoration for this old 1950s band saw I got I'm going to turn it into a

metal cutting bandsaw with a slow, powerful motor.

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