Workshop Mastery with Jimmy DiResta: A Guide to Working With Metal, Wood, Plastic, and Leather

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

• Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It
• Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop
• The Big Book of Maker Skills: Tools & Techniques for Building Great Tech Projects
• Make: Tips and Tales from the Workshop: A Handy Reference for Makers (Make: Technology on Your Time)
• Making Time
• Getting Started with CNC: Personal Digital Fabrication with Shapeoko and Other Computer-Controlled Routers (Make)
• I MAKE
• Make: Tools: How They Work and How to Use Them (Make: Technology on Your Time)
• Maker Pro: Essays on Making a Living as a Maker
• The Tool Book: A Tool Lover's Guide to Over 200 Hand Tools