Phil Vandelay I was thinking what part was unorthodox because he uses it a lot. Then I got to that “aha!” moment. That was a pretty cool use of a grinder.
Hello Mr DiResta, I just wanted to give you a well intended FYI. It's not usual practice in Blacksmithing to use cutting tools directly against the face of the anvil. The little step down between the horn and the face is called the cutting table, it's normally not hardened so it can be used as such without blunting your tools (or marring the face). For something too big for the table (like that beast of a knife) a cutting saddle or plate is used on the face to protect it. All the best from Blighty, great channel.
You all prolly thinking that he sped this up so that we can view the making of a Bowie knife in 12:37 minutes but no my friends. Jimmy diresta just works that fast
This is an incredibly beautiful knife..The girth of it!!! I would love to make one this scale. Also borrowing your idea with the angle grinder anchored to the table :)
So, I love what you did with this piece, Jimmy. It's functional, and it's got a certain aesthetic quality to it. That said, it's hard to get a scale from the video, but I think you left "knife" territory about 6 inches ago. It's more of a Bowie Short Sword at this point. That doesn't stop me from wanting about ten of them.
again thank you Mr DiResta for showing me something i didnt think of. What a great way to put in the fuller.I had seen stuff like that done in woodworking so DUH of course it would work likea charm for this also. THIS is why i watch artists and craftsmen like you Mr. DiResta.
enough knifes and axes ... would you start on something else please!... such as kids smart toys or home fixes or any thing else could be useful?.... i started to feel like if you are really promoting violence... use your talent the right way.
The New Diresta should have talked to The Classic Diresta into using the CNC for the brass and wood, and used the Torchmate to do the profile of the steel. 😜😂. Tons of tips in this video, great one Jim! Next up a sheath?
I just ordered an 8" Kukri handmade in Nepal from leaf spring 5160 steel. I wanted a Bowie knife of that quality but cant find them.. Only knives like Gerbers and Schrades, etc... I wanted something indestructable
Jimmy, it is crude. It is ugly. It has no balance. It uses glue (Bowie is spinning in his grave). It has a ridiculous number of rivets. I can't say enough how ugly it is. It's gonna rust. Did I mention it's ugly? Please, Jimmy, I'll trade you my firstborn for it...
Shrewd negotiating, but how would Jimmy know your crotchfruit will be worth a damn.... especially on your first try? What if it's ugly and full of rivets too?
Hello. I really liked your cleaver. I want to make myself this. How much does he weigh? Probably more than 1.5 kg? Probably a brass hilt made it even heavier by 200-250 g.
I think you might jhst give Crocadile Dundee a run for his money on "that's not a knife, this is a knife" argument. Nicely done. Love the brass work on this one for sure. Kind of gives it that old-school look. NICE!
Phone rings.....Hello? Mr Diresta? I'm the Executive producer on Forged in Fire.....We'll pay you a lotta money to appear on Forged in Fire....wait....wanna be a judge? We'll pay you more! Oh wait.....Wanna present the show AND be a judge? Talking big bucks here.....Mr Diresta?......Jimmy?......hello?
i used to think the same thing until i got a knife with a square handle. it all depends on where your knuckles fall on the angles. if they fit right then square handles are really nice, but if they are the wrong size, well then, they feel wrong.
Your blacksmithing would go a lot faster and easier if you'd get that anvil secured to something solid so it isn't dancing around with every hammer strike. At least half the energy in each swing is going to moving the anvil instead of metal in the workpiece.
I watch your videos for a long time now, and this type of "classic" video is my favourite type. Just the making process without any ballast. Greetings from germany and keep on making things like this masterpiece.
nice :D i thought for a while that you would make a brass handle with wooden pegs, that would have been so cool/funny :D the handle you ended up making looks really awesome though and is probably more practical :)
What a beast of a knife!?! The swift hammer replacement made me burst out with turgid laughter. It is that kind of inane ability and knowledge through years of incessant creativity and vitality, and the top notch content that will always make me love you more Jimmy! You're a Motherfracking genius! Lots of love!
Mr Dada fan for your information contrary to believe.jim Bowie DID NOT invent the Bowie knife..he made it famouse..the family blacksmith made it for his brother and Jim Bowie scarfed it up...TRUE
Монарх не префект, сын дурак - его дефект. Устранить лидеров надо, остальные - стадо. И среди лучших большинство худших. Хорош , как говорится , мёд с корицей . Выборы нам - Русь врагам. Федеративный договор без русских скор. Научим внуков 147 буков. У русских всех времён аббревиатура из имен. Трусость - урок, самый страшный порок. Русь губка всех культур, всех народов и натур, аршином мерить не даёт и всем его задаёт. Людской стыд - грех, свой - смех. Не ручайся ни за кого даже за себя самого . Храбрые ровесники - Бога наместники. Время лодырям опасно , над трудягами не властно. Одна Русь, братцы, опытна в экспроприации. Слух : Иван по арабски - друг. Ленивый одно знает - буковы посылает. Повторено много : свободный не пьёт спиртного. Тебе, злодей, деформация людей! Рябина! Цвети - нас защити. Где ненависть там варикозная бренность. Человек , Гога , есть мысль Бога . Наши обиды несчастья виды. Фанатизм масс губит нас. Знай молодец _ главное в жизни конец . Соль, сахар вскоре губит волю. Враг самый опасный - спокойствие и безопасность. Часто бывает, что чай нервы поражает. Зло произведение людей - щдно из их идей . Зла тлетворности от жадности и покорности. Болезни, есть мнение, во спасение.
Aftr watching this video I just had to make on of my own. The leaf springs came off a very large dump truck and I made several in flight modifications so that I would be able to tell my knife when laid next to Deresta's. It took me considerably longer to make it (Derista 12- 1/2 minutes Me about four days off and on). A really fun project. What wa sthe wood Derista used in his hand grip? I used ironwood and it turned very good.
Hello Mr Diresta. How are you doing? Very interesting your Bowie, but I would like to know how you did to fix the grinder to make a fuller on the knife blade. Please. I'm a cutlery parendiz and live in the interior of Brazil. I anticipate my sincere thanks.
Genuinely a fantastic video / build. Angle grinder jig is inspired. Jimmy you should go on Joe Rogan podcast, I'm sure you have lots of common ground. Bet he subscribes to you.
Techniques, ideas & completion, fabulous from start to finish, like we saw a master Smith in the arsenal of the ancients. Brought recollections of a Hollywood movie where the Smith adds a meteorite to the melt from which Bowie's knife is made. Thanks for sharing!
That's a beautiful beast! I love the steam coming off the burrito. 😉 Seriously though, you always make me want to do whatever it is you make. Thank you for being an awesome inspiration!
I have an old hunk of steel I found while installing solar for a farmer....likely a tine off a plow or disc or something....anyway, I was hoping to make something with it, similar to this. Looks like I need quite a few more tools. And talent. Excellent work, sir. That's a beauty.
Definitely awesome! Only one problem I see: try to hang that in a sheath hooked to your belt and your pants won't be able to stay on! That thing has got to weigh about 30 lbs???? LOL! Awesome work! That ought to cut in half anything you swing it at.
That is the most beautiful ugly beast I've ever seen!! Those rusty side marks in the blade are poetry! It impregnates her with a strong personality like marks of a person's own rough life... Very nice job indeed, sir.
You definitely have the skills sir. I would only suggest making the handle less blocky. With your tools it would be easy to shape the handle into more of a coke bottle shape (looking at the profile from the back) with every square edge significantly rounded off. To coke bottle the handle, just press it sideways into your grinder wheel somewhere along the area where the top and bottom handle pins are located.
This gets the medal for most unorthodox use of an angle grinder I've seen. Love it
Phil Vandelay I was thinking what part was unorthodox because he uses it a lot. Then I got to that “aha!” moment. That was a pretty cool use of a grinder.
And yet we are all going to try it at some point.
Nice way to lose your balls and shaft if the wheel shatters and your finger tips of it doesn't.
Holllllyyyyyyy smokes! you're gunna need 3/4 of a cow hide to sheath that bugger :)
Fantastic job!
* Crocodile Dundee meets Jimmy*
"Good God that is a knife!!!"
It's Dundee approved !!
Nice work what a beautiful blade 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I am so happy you just picked up another hammer and kept going. Just seemed very satisfying to me.
seems to me like a drummer breaking his sticks and replacing them in a second jajaja it looks like it happens very often
Hahaha
Your table angle grinder setup is by far the scariest, most ingenious setup I've ever witnessed. I love how your brain works. keep it up bud
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"He's got a knife!"
"ha, That's not a knife. THIS is a knife."
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"Just kids havin' fun"
God damn, that's exactly what i was thinking of!!!
yeah Mick Dundee will be dropping by Jimmy's place to get his knife back.
great work Jimmy
Maaaaate, that's not a knife, that's a bloody woodsplitter!
But.. did Kimmy got the kiss ? lol
Jimmy *
No toilette quench!? I'm disappointed.... but seriously cool knife, I've never seen anyone use a mill to surface like that, pretty cool.
Loving the "old Diresta" style with the new camera -- the improvement in video quality takes it to the next level!
Me: “Why on God’s earth would you need a knife that big?!”
Jimmy: *chops entire meal in half*
Me: “seems necessary”
One word: Zombies!
don`t you have sometimes useless telephone sales man, mormons or bounty hunters at your door???
Diresta Panini Slicer....
I clicked on this to see how you added the fuller. Did not disappoint. Looks great..
"That's not a knife, that's a knife!" :'D it reminds me really much on the Bowie Crocodile Dundee uses :D
Jimmy's logic: if it can't shave your arm, is not ready yet
Jesus man, who were you making a Bowie for, Crocodile Dundee? "That's not a knife... this is a knife!"
This is one of those videos I enjoy watching over and over again!!!
Giaco Whatever get a life.
Love your channel
Giaco Whatever happens
@@Chance-ry1hq screw you
@@shoudehuang1244 philip screw him ! in the face !
12:05 When you're having a rough day at work, and you finally take your lunch break.
Hello Mr DiResta, I just wanted to give you a well intended FYI. It's not usual practice in Blacksmithing to use cutting tools directly against the face of the anvil. The little step down between the horn and the face is called the cutting table, it's normally not hardened so it can be used as such without blunting your tools (or marring the face). For something too big for the table (like that beast of a knife) a cutting saddle or plate is used on the face to protect it. All the best from Blighty, great channel.
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That's me :)
Ian Lowe !
*Welcome to your laboratory, where safety is not #1 priority!!!* 😜👐👓
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I love how he just throws the handle of the broken hammer and picks up a new one and keeps workung
Learn to write!
u know hes a real g, when he wears a gopro around his neck 👌
Knifemaking with Fritz hobi bajcesi
+Alim AL -pó
You all prolly thinking that he sped this up so that we can view the making of a Bowie knife in 12:37 minutes but no my friends. Jimmy diresta just works that fast
I wonder where that chunk of metal has been and what it has seen in its life as a leaf spring. And now a new life as a famous knife.
Gimmy sei sempre il migliore salutami la tua famiglia Amico ⭐️⭐️⭐️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is an incredibly beautiful knife..The girth of it!!! I would love to make one this scale. Also borrowing your idea with the angle grinder anchored to the table :)
Time to make a sweet leather sheath. Recommend you watch “Book of Eli” for your motivation.
So, I love what you did with this piece, Jimmy. It's functional, and it's got a certain aesthetic quality to it. That said, it's hard to get a scale from the video, but I think you left "knife" territory about 6 inches ago. It's more of a Bowie Short Sword at this point. That doesn't stop me from wanting about ten of them.
again thank you Mr DiResta for showing me something i didnt think of.
What a great way to put in the fuller.I had seen stuff like that done in woodworking so DUH of course it would work likea charm for this also.
THIS is why i watch artists and craftsmen like you Mr. DiResta.
that is an absolute beast of a knife :) looks awesome!
Curious Creator
true. 🔪
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Hermoso!!!!, se me cae la baba... Excelente trabajo!!!!
Love the spring clips on the cuffs at 8.15, to all the safety trolls who say Jimmy doesn't do PPE, lol. Keep up the good work, see you at Birmingham.
2 years later and still my favourite knife build on RUclips.
Thumbs up if your watching this in bed and thinking i hate my job and wish i had Jimmys skills.
Get out of bed, go make something. Just start!
We all can have his skills with practice
Some skills are natural talent and we'll never have them.
@@DavidPlass Its more the WILL to get going...matter of how much you want to get skilled.
Thank you,,, I'm not alone
enough knifes and axes ... would you start on something else please!... such as kids smart toys or home fixes or any thing else could be useful?.... i started to feel like if you are really promoting violence... use your talent the right way.
The New Diresta should have talked to The Classic Diresta into using the CNC for the brass and wood, and used the Torchmate to do the profile of the steel. 😜😂. Tons of tips in this video, great one Jim! Next up a sheath?
Great knife, very good.
Is that chopper for dealing with the people that stole your trailer ? Awesome
Of all the things you're good at, your band saw skills are the most impressive.
I Think you need a bigger hammer. (:-)
I just ordered an 8" Kukri handmade in Nepal from leaf spring 5160 steel. I wanted a Bowie knife of that quality but cant find them.. Only knives like Gerbers and Schrades, etc... I wanted something indestructable
clever on that fuller! looks like a great EDC. ;)
This Old Tony WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?! TONY MACHINES A BOWIE KNIFE ON THE LATHE?!
Tony watching diresta mind blowm
Good ablity and art ,i enjoid it
Brotha i tell yaa what you got a great way about making sh!t happen👊👍👏👏👏
Very cool. The handle reminds me of the Buck 110.
Nathan Waters - I thought the exact same thing!
Me too!
Duh.
Pretty sure that was the intended look he was going for right from the get go. I believe he has a certain affection for those knives.
Cool trick with the angle grinder wish I'd got your ingenuity
Jimmy, it is crude. It is ugly. It has no balance. It uses glue (Bowie is spinning in his grave). It has a ridiculous number of rivets. I can't say enough how ugly it is. It's gonna rust. Did I mention it's ugly?
Please, Jimmy, I'll trade you my firstborn for it...
DaDa Fan 😂😂😂😂😂😨😨😨😂😂😂😂😂
Shrewd negotiating, but how would Jimmy know your crotchfruit will be worth a damn.... especially on your first try? What if it's ugly and full of rivets too?
I negotiate from strength... he retired at age 43.
Haha! Good shit.
LOL
Excelente video buen trabajo felicidades 🎉🍾🎈🎊🍺🍻🍺🍺🍺🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻👍
*Wow! Fantastic* 😱😱 I would like to make one like this.👍
Hello. I really liked your cleaver. I want to make myself this. How much does he weigh? Probably more than 1.5 kg? Probably a brass hilt made it even heavier by 200-250 g.
That’s how I cut all my sandwiches.
I think you might jhst give Crocadile Dundee a run for his money on "that's not a knife, this is a knife" argument. Nicely done. Love the brass work on this one for sure. Kind of gives it that old-school look. NICE!
awesome as always... but what no custom leather sheath? like a crock dun dee back rig? hehe
I was waiting for the sheath as well. Maybe for another video
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Phone rings.....Hello? Mr Diresta? I'm the Executive producer on Forged in Fire.....We'll pay you a lotta money to appear on Forged in Fire....wait....wanna be a judge? We'll pay you more! Oh wait.....Wanna present the show AND be a judge? Talking big bucks here.....Mr Diresta?......Jimmy?......hello?
I like the Buck Knife style handle
Chris Hutchins I thought the handle was spot on Buck myself. Looks awesome.
That's not a knife, this is a..... oh wait.... never mind.
If you're old enough you'll get the reference.
Man this handle looks uncomfortable. Cool knife though.
i used to think the same thing until i got a knife with a square handle. it all depends on where your knuckles fall on the angles. if they fit right then square handles are really nice, but if they are the wrong size, well then, they feel wrong.
Your blacksmithing would go a lot faster and easier if you'd get that anvil secured to something solid so it isn't dancing around with every hammer strike. At least half the energy in each swing is going to moving the anvil instead of metal in the workpiece.
I watch your videos for a long time now, and this type of "classic" video is my favourite type. Just the making process without any ballast. Greetings from germany and keep on making things like this masterpiece.
As one Dundee would have said:
"Now THAT'S a knwife"
*Knoife
Get to da choppah!!!
Looks more like a bolo knife than a bowie... I've never seen a curved bowie knife before.
That’s a sweet knife
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Tu me fais le meme en ceramique lol 😜💪👍
well, that was fun to watch!
3x3Custom - Tamar You are killing it !! Great vids!
jimmydiresta thanks so much!! ☺️
3x3Custom - Tamar hi baby
3x3Custom - Tamar Hii
Today I learned Jimmy's favorite movie is Crocodile Dundee.
nice :D i thought for a while that you would make a brass handle with wooden pegs, that would have been so cool/funny :D the handle you ended up making looks really awesome though and is probably more practical :)
Zzzarka I really love this idea!
Normal people use purple heart for the handle and brass for the pins.
Diresta makes a brass handle with purpleheart pins. LOL :)
If you're old enough, remember your "Crocodile Dundee" - "That's not a knife, THIS is a knife."
I see you've played knifes-spooney before.
@@njmcliffe "Now THAT'S a knife, mate!"
Harika bir çalışma gerçekten süper siz birde demir ege sinden bıcak yapmıştınız onu bana hediye edermisiniZ
You are amazing, artist go ahead
Follow you from Iraq 🌹
عبالي بس اني هنا :)
taha ali
انا هم كنت اتصور هذا الشي 😂
Umm, follow
Tom Ahoks
Thanks for attention me Typing error 😄
Have you heard? Old man jimmi once said the bigger the bader
What a beast of a knife!?! The swift hammer replacement made me burst out with turgid laughter. It is that kind of inane ability and knowledge through years of incessant creativity and vitality, and the top notch content that will always make me love you more Jimmy! You're a Motherfracking genius! Lots of love!
Schlomo Yarlabach hahah thank you 🙏🏼
+jimmydiresta how much for that bowie or to mske me one like it
Mr Dada fan for your information contrary to believe.jim Bowie DID NOT invent the Bowie knife..he made it famouse..the family blacksmith made it for his brother and Jim Bowie scarfed it up...TRUE
the Godfather at it again.
Монарх не префект, сын дурак - его дефект.
Устранить лидеров надо, остальные - стадо.
И среди лучших большинство худших.
Хорош , как говорится , мёд с корицей .
Выборы нам - Русь врагам.
Федеративный договор без русских скор.
Научим внуков 147 буков.
У русских всех времён аббревиатура из имен.
Трусость - урок, самый страшный порок.
Русь губка всех культур, всех народов и натур, аршином мерить не
даёт и всем его задаёт.
Людской стыд - грех, свой - смех.
Не ручайся ни за кого даже за себя самого .
Храбрые ровесники - Бога наместники.
Время лодырям опасно , над трудягами не властно.
Одна Русь, братцы, опытна в экспроприации.
Слух : Иван по арабски - друг.
Ленивый одно знает - буковы посылает.
Повторено много : свободный не пьёт спиртного.
Тебе, злодей, деформация людей!
Рябина! Цвети - нас защити.
Где ненависть там варикозная бренность.
Человек , Гога , есть мысль Бога .
Наши обиды несчастья виды.
Фанатизм масс губит нас.
Знай молодец _ главное в жизни конец .
Соль, сахар вскоре губит волю.
Враг самый опасный - спокойствие и безопасность.
Часто бывает, что чай нервы поражает.
Зло произведение людей - щдно из их идей .
Зла тлетворности от жадности и покорности.
Болезни, есть мнение, во спасение.
#classicdiresta Love it, I like the how some of the forging is still visible.
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Now I get why Jimmy made the knife. You’d better bring his trailer back douschbags :)
WoW brother I like it good job very nice project to much love later :)
Aftr watching this video I just had to make on of my own. The leaf springs came off a very large dump truck and I made several in flight modifications so that I would be able to tell my knife when laid next to Deresta's. It took me considerably longer to make it (Derista 12- 1/2 minutes Me about four days off and on). A really fun project. What wa sthe wood Derista used in his hand grip? I used ironwood and it turned very good.
Jimmy Diresta laughs in the face of shop safety.
Great knife, man. Love all your vids!
Hello Mr Diresta.
How are you doing?
Very interesting your Bowie, but I would like to know how you did to fix the grinder to make a fuller on the knife blade. Please.
I'm a cutlery parendiz and live in the interior of Brazil.
I anticipate my sincere thanks.
Classic Diresta! 😆
Genuinely a fantastic video / build. Angle grinder jig is inspired. Jimmy you should go on Joe Rogan podcast, I'm sure you have lots of common ground. Bet he subscribes to you.
I'm pretty sure that thing changed size/shape at least 3 or 4 times during the manufacturing process.
Techniques, ideas & completion, fabulous from start to finish, like we saw a master Smith in the arsenal of the ancients. Brought recollections of a Hollywood movie where the Smith adds a meteorite to the melt from which Bowie's knife is made. Thanks for sharing!
Springwood Cottage 🤮
Nice job Jimmy, what is the fuller at the top of the blade for, is it aesthetic or for mechanical purpose?
I really enjoy these knife videos. Amazing work as always 👍👍
جميل وصيلي
That's a machete not a knife. I'm not a stock removal guy but hey, whatever gets you from a to b.
That's a beautiful beast! I love the steam coming off the burrito. 😉 Seriously though, you always make me want to do whatever it is you make. Thank you for being an awesome inspiration!
Probably the most badass way I have ever seen to cut a panini...
"that's a noif"
I'll give $1000 right Now....anybody else got a larger bid ?mine may be to small for such strength and quality craftsmanship;
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Knife pattern baldness strikes again!
I have an old hunk of steel I found while installing solar for a farmer....likely a tine off a plow or disc or something....anyway, I was hoping to make something with it, similar to this.
Looks like I need quite a few more tools. And talent.
Excellent work, sir. That's a beauty.
Heavy metal 10:22
Listening to Neutral Milk Hotel! Woohoo!
Thomas The Fap Engine Can you please tell me the name of the song?
That's not a knife.....This is a knife....Crocodile Dundee would be happy to meet you...Be careful not to shave a bone instead of skin...
1:11 Jimmy Two-Hammers.
i like it! it would make a great addition to my zombie apocalypse kit. have you weighed it ???
Is that bloodwood on the handle?
Definitely awesome! Only one problem I see: try to hang that in a sheath hooked to your belt and your pants won't be able to stay on! That thing has got to weigh about 30 lbs???? LOL!
Awesome work! That ought to cut in half anything you swing it at.
Love how the hammer fails, no prob, next hammer.
कखघछछदध
That is the most beautiful ugly beast I've ever seen!!
Those rusty side marks in the blade are poetry! It impregnates her with a strong personality like marks of a person's own rough life...
Very nice job indeed, sir.
It's an executioners bowie lol.
You definitely have the skills sir. I would only suggest making the handle less blocky. With your tools it would be easy to shape the handle into more of a coke bottle shape (looking at the profile from the back) with every square edge significantly rounded off. To coke bottle the handle, just press it sideways into your grinder wheel somewhere along the area where the top and bottom handle pins are located.