DiResta Bandsaw Restoration & Collection

as many of you know every milestone sub count i do a collections video and this milestone is my 1.8 million subs so thank you all very much for following me along and staying with me all this time so for 1.8 million subs i'm going to do a collections video on my bandsaws and this is the latest bandsaw that i got and got it on facebook marketplace throughout this video you're going to see rob who's holding the camera right now do the lion's share of the restoration on this video we're going to do interstitials of the restoration of this band saw while i show you my collection of all my other bandsaw it's going to be a very special treat we're going to run this off of my new mr pete hit and miss motor collection i'm going to run it off of one of the motors now to the collection in no particular order so this is the bandsaw that i restored with eric from hand tool rescue two summers ago so two summers ago in july we did this and this band saw i got somewhere on the border of uh georgia and tennessee i stopped to pick up something taylor bought on ebay uh leather skyver and when i realized the farmer who was selling it was a new yorker he realized my accent was from new york i was in the back wood somewhere and we started talking all about kinds of different types of tools and i asked him about this which was sitting in his yard rusting he said oh you want that take it with you since you got your truck with you so he gave this to me for free it was a rust basket case sitting outside forever eric came up we redid the knobs it's all in that video if you wanted to go watch it it is uh probably from around 1940 hey come look at this we did a little bit of a like a rat rod on it this was a hot cold knob and it has the riser block the seven inch riser block so you can do a bigger resaw and runs great this is just a an old compressor motor that i got out of the garbage but this is basically how i got it we de-rusted it and fixed up some stuff eric forced me to change the bearings which i didn't want to do but we did it anyway and uh we got it running great and it is a great saw i use it all the time because it's i always keep these big re-saw blades on it so i know it's like a big chopper so that is again another one of my favorite delta rockwell in this case uh delta milwaukee company changed hands a bunch of times but it's always been the same model [Music] this is a walker turner this is probably from i gotta say the 1940s because it's got the beautiful art deco base but this is a beautifully heavy incredibly heavy super solid walker turner i don't love it and that's because all the adjustment knobs all need to be adjusted with screws and all kinds of stuff i keep a metal cutting blade on it the adjustments are just a little bit hokey i don't like it i don't love it but i keep it just because it's a beautiful saw just for what it is and we typically cut the ice picks on it so we have this 18 tooth blade on it doesn't go super slow but for cutting brass it works great a friend of a friend family member passed away and i got a bunch of wood and a bunch of tools from that pick i ended up keeping this and a couple of other things so that's why i got that it's a walker turn some of those details look at that it's my favorite part but here look at this will open this up another good thing about this is it's got this crazy casted door the hinge door is really nice the door is as cast as the frame itself so it is really rock solid i just i think i need new carter guides for something then i like it better [Music] do [Music] [Applause] all right this is a banter that i got in a shop buy out in probably 90 1991 or 92. i think this has got to be from the 80s this is again a delta i like this one because it has the hinged doors and this is probably the one i use the most often i always keep a thin blade on it when you see me cutting out letters and stuff it's mostly always on this blade this is an 18 tpi eighth inch thick and i keep this always so i can cut out tight curves and i love this saw i love all the deltas of course specifically because all the adjustment knobs for the most part are adjustable with your fingers you got to change your guide blocks with the allen key but that's not a big deal because that's not something you change very often but if i go from an eighth inch to a quarter inch blade i want to be able to push the bearings forward and back and i love this too because it has the hinge doors i do love being able to take the doors off because it reminds me of my first band saw which we're going to look at in a few minutes so this can't be beaten this is the one i keep the the stand on so now it's on all of its legs or pick it up now it's on wheels i made that in a video for lincoln a few years back so now it's on all of its legs [Music] this is american woodworking machinery company williamsport pa this is one of the three that i own and this i got at an auction in louisville kentucky last last summer last july i was told when i went down to visit the guys at first build they said hey they got a bandsaw just like the one you got and i was like it's probably just a big one it's probably not the same one and when i went and looked at it we took a lunch break and went and looked at the auction it is the exact same one as the other one in the black barn which we're going to see and it is uh from about the 1920s it's the heavy base which when you consider all this cast iron for it to make it all this time from the 1920s over 100 years and none of this is broken there is one cracked hinge piece but it was repaired down there but it's still basically intact and this bandsaw i got it for 600 at the auction and i was the only one that bit on it which goes to show you that these are readily available because nobody really wants them it's like getting a pet elephant it's just it's too difficult to deal with uh for most people and the the guys at first build were kind enough to pack it up and ship it up from louisville to here in new york so i owe those guys a huge thank you always they've been so good to me guys in first build in louisville kentucky but uh this saw i am the third owner the the family bought it from the original woodworker in the 1930s and they had it until they sold it to me so this was in the same family since 1936 until now and i got a nice email once the guy realized who i was and that i bought it he sent me a really nice email said he was happy to see that i went to a good home so that was very nice this has the original guard three-phase motor this thing is super super strong and this is the heavy bass this has got the bigger thick full cast which we'll get some details of it you will compare it to the one we just restored and you can see the difference this is the so-called heavy duty compared to the light duty which is the one we just read on the hit and miss motor and by the way this one compared to the restored american and my other american has enclosed bearings so this might have been a uh like a new feature in the 20s because my others have babbitts this is enclosed bearing where it takes a little oil or cup and it's all enclosed non-babbitt i'm assuming it's not bad because it doesn't look like you can pour baby in there so i'm assuming they have roller bearings hey guys i'm excited to announce that in short order i will be launching the very first limited batch of the rest of makerware it's been complicated long road but we're getting ready to sell we're going to be going live with 200 pairs of make-a-wear jeans and about 50 make wear jackets for our first run supplies going to be limited so if you want to get notified before the make aware goes live on my store please click the link in the description and add yourself to the wait list and you will have the first chance to order before anybody else thank you very much [Music] [Applause] [Music] now [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] the guy that makes those water stickers he wrote me nice he's been watching he's following me oh hey what you doing there all right so what we have here this is a 1990 dual i've got this on get this on craigslist facebook market maybe craigslist it was on craigslist it was pretty expensive i paid 2700 for it but i needed a bandsaw i was in talks with a couple of bandsaw makers and nothing really came through to do some sponsorships and i needed it faster than waiting for deal so i ended up just buying this i'm so happy with it it is multi-speeds it's got high and low and in the high and low there's a range you could turn the crank handle which we'll do a close-up of in a minute but it also has the blade welder which works it's three-phase i run all my three-phase tools off of the american rotary amp unit which works fantastic so the dual doesn't have much it doesn't have much to adjust right now i'm running it with a 18 tooth per inch start blade we run it slow and there's not a lot of adjustments it just turns on and off and that's it the guide blocks here are what they are they're like very solid there's not much to adjust you're always going to run a fat blade on a bandsaw like this you're not going to run like an eight inch blade so it doesn't matter and super strong super reliable strong and slow which is what you need for cutting metal and i love it and a couple people ask me eric specifically if it came with all the attachments to pull the material through the blade i never saw any of that stuff in person but i heard about it i went looked it up online and with a dual you could have this thing which like pulls the metal through the blade which is some kind of automated thing also duals they call it a do all because you used to be able to put a filing blade on here you could run a sandpaper belt on here you could run okay you can run like a stone cutting blade on it they have all kinds of accessories but for my purposes here at the shop all we needed for is cutting metal and it's just amazing i really love it it was a really good investment so if you can get your hands on a duel get yourself a dual right rob all right jimmy [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] so [Music] so i'll tell you a funny story a few years back maybe six years ago i won fifteen thousand dollars in the super bowl and i said to myself what is the one thing that i want that i can go buy right now without guilt and it was a handheld bandsaw and i went and i bought this dewalt handheld bandsaw at lowe's or home depot and it was my main metal cutting bandsaw in the new york city shop for a long time and at one point during a lincoln video i ended up making this stand which is designed to so that it could stand up so i could use it like a table top or i could pick it up and still keep the stand on it so that's what this whole concept is for so this still comes in quite handy we keep an 18 tpi blade on it it gets used every day still and i can show you this little interesting trigger mechanism because they don't have a locking trigger on these things so we either just shove a wedge of wood in there or i keep one of these clamps on it and i give it a half turn and it stays on it's like a third world country in this room do that i shut it off and that's how we keep this powered on and again since i just undid the clamp the idea is i could pick it up and still use it as a chopping band so if i wanted to bring it to the material will keep it standing up so i can bring the material to it [Music] this is a chopping band saw from wind i bought it on amazon i don't have a bandsaw sponsor so i spray painted it white and this thing is like for the money it's good it's useful but you know it's it's not the most high quality tool but it definitely does the job if you're doing small production cuts but we have it when we need it i forget i think i used this for the barbecue video last year i think i can't remember anyway it's good to have i just wanted to try it out ultimately i want to get a better quality one of these this satisfied that need when i needed a cold saw so i went and i bought this for 100 change and i didn't have to spend five thousand dollars on a cold so that was a it was a band-aid [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right this is a craftsman chopping bandsaw that we use for metal and i got this from craftsman when i was working on the tv show hammered and there's a lot of shadows in this area but it's we got a lot of production going on this gets used at least once a week it's don't be fooled by how dirty it is this thing has saved me many many many times and i only dropped it once trying to load it onto my truck it did a crazy back flip flip over got oil all over the place because the oil pan was completely full and it still works fine so one of these days i'll get myself a better version of this something a little bit higher quality a little less worn out but i got this in 2006 so that's how long i've been using this it's great to have [Music] so [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so this is the bandsaw that i got from andrew of blacksmith tools he picked this up this is the the delta rockwell with the art deco base this has got to be from the 1940s i'm guessing if anybody knows specifically i never checked the serial numbers on these things i use them i love them this is again my favorite style bandsaw which i'm going to show you a couple more this has two speeds this is for wood and for metal and when i got it it's three phase but when i got it it wasn't shifting gears andrew didn't know he just bought it and sent it right to me but if you look back here see if i can get this to switch gears can you see that there it goes so that's how you shift gears so now you're in one gear there and then you engage that pulley and now you're in another gear so now you disengage you're in probably for cutting wood now you're in for cutting metal so it disengages some internal gears and re-engages them when you push that and pull on that they're kind of hard to find especially intact this one was already uh it needed to be repaired but it was a simple repair i did it on instagram about a year ago anyway so i think andrew picked this up he gave it to me for what he paid for it because we're friends i think we paid 300 bucks for it so it's a great deal this is worth about a thousand bucks you know in good working condition chickens agree i bought these knobs on ebay just had nuts and bolts so i bought these knobs on ebay they they just fit they probably they offered delta rockwell but this saw was set up it had short pegs but they do fit a couple turns and it just dresses up the saw makes it look nicer more original i have it set up in here for cutting metal for the machine shop [Music] so here we are in the blacksmith's shop on the property and this is a wells metal bandsaw metal chopping bandsaw and i paid 50 bucks for this and it was in pieces i had no idea what a wells band saw was i had never heard of it it looked kind of cheap to me of course i said i'll take it whatever and when i brought it home and put it together did some research on it turns out these are very well made respected saws this thing is dead simple it's got a couple of simple little mechanisms on it you can just let the weight of it go down and cut through it it doesn't need hydraulic or anything it has this little interesting gear mechanism here which keeps it up when you need it to stay up and pull in close it's got this really cool little quick release for tightening on stuff you could just pick it up and pull it out find where you need on top of that gear on that rack and tighten the way you want it so this has been very convenient that's why i leave it out here in the blacksmith shop because we're always cutting stock with it this is really cool so this spring it keeps it from jamming against the thing but [Music] that little mechanism is great because when you're going to load the stock wherever you need the stock to be you just rest that down quickly when you use this saw you start developing a pattern of how to use it and it's actually quite convenient you think because it doesn't have an automated stop it might be a pain in the butt but that actually i wish that was on more saws having that little stopper like that i keep a 14 tpi blade on that and under here we have two speeds actually we have three speeds over here [Music] do [Music] what we have here is a kalamazoo metal chopping bandsaw cuts 12 by 16 profile i think yeah it's 12 inches this way 16 inches this way this thing is a monster don't be deceived by the way it looks it actually works well i leave it out here because it's just for cutting big stock and this thing is such a monster i don't have a good base for it right now the original legs were taken away these things come with typically casted legs so in my searches i'm always looking for the original legs for this kalamazoo metal chopping bandsaw i keep a pretty aggressive blade on it gotcha bees all right we're going to get our asses stunned so the kalamazoo chopping band saw i got it from new york's uh seaport i think i did it on another story when i was going through tools a couple years ago but i got it for free from the the seaport was throwing it away my buddy who was working there at the time as a volunteer called me and said you got to come take it so i went and grabbed it and a funny story is when i showed it on my last video about that saw which was five years ago one of the guys in the comments recognized it and knew where it came from because he worked at the shop that donated it to the new york seaport and he's like that's a very good saw i'm glad you have it so there it is it needs a little oil put some oil on there [Music] so [Music] [Applause] so this is my uh what we call the youtube band so when we all kind of started developing a community on youtube a lot of us started putting stickers on our band saw so this is the band so that i started putting stickers on in the new york city shop i guess about eight years ago so a lot of these stickers are old and see some old friends that i know aren't making videos anymore and i see some guys that were new at the time that are still doing really well making videos so it's it's really cool to see this as like a moment in time this is a delta rockwell this is from about the 1980s when i did a shop buy out from a friend in brooklyn a friend of a friend of brooklyn and i bought truckloads of lumber tons of tools and spiked the cat for 500 this was one of the tools that i got so this was a fraction of the 500 bill that i paid for all that stuff so i guess you could say probably paid a hundred dollars for it but it was a desperate situation he was scheduled to leave new york he needed to leave right away and he was running out of time to sell his shop so that's why i got a good deal those are the best deals when somebody has to get out of a lease these tools are here the big part because this is where we do either the axe handle making class or the spool making class and so there's a couple of bandsaws here that's why this is here and that cools the piston head which is down in there this is the very first american woodworking tools bandsaw that i've acquired i got it from a very generous fan who retired and he gave me a very good deal on it he wanted to see me have it he's very generous of him thank you george and just like many things in my life when i get one thing or like the ether knows that i have one the the universe gives me more so i got this one then i got the one in louisville and then on facebook marketplace about eight months ago six months ago i got the one that we restored but well this has a 220 single phase motor on it which is still extremely strong come take a look it's got the cage and all the other stuff on it and you guys might remember the video i did for lincoln electric where i made the base that's what this is the bandsaw for again the heavy bottom base a little bit different than the one that i opened up the video with that is the the the the light duty this again is the heavy duty so i have two heavy duties with the cast doors come take a look at the doors just like before we got the steel cast iron doors which are in really good shape thankfully made it all this time and this is it's funny now how american woodworking cool bandsaws keep coming into my life i pass on them all the time only because of logistics or a lot of guys think they're worth a lot a lot of money i mean if you can get a perfect one for a thousand dollars that's a really good deal much more than that people think that just because they're old they're worth a lot of money maybe the history helps sell it for a little bit more money maybe if it belonged to a certain person or had some unusual history generally speaking thousand to fifteen hundred dollars nice all original [Music] this is obviously geared very slow so we should probably put a metal cutting blade on here we're going to put a real electric motor on here sometimes we have to do the blacksmithing class in here because it's too cold outside this becomes the bandsaw to chop up the stock it is a milwaukee that i got somehow i think i bought it and the guys that swag off-road may be this cool stand for it so shout out to the guys at swag offroad so this is a great entry-level band saw either one of these dewalt or milwaukee it's a great entry level metal cutting band so if you're just going to be working in a small shop all right what you're looking at here is my very very first bandsaw that i ever learned how to use this was a bandsaw my dad got from a gentleman in the firehouse when i was like seven or eight years old so this band has been in my life for at least 40 43 44 years and it's obviously a delta milwaukee probably got to be from the 40s or the 50s we never had the original base the base that was on it was really hoping and then one day i decided to make an even more hokey base out of plywood which is ridiculous so i want to restore this bandsaw in the video this is my very first band so in a funny story that i often tell when i was too young to be able to turn on the electric and use the banzo and i was like maybe this sounds like 10-ish my dad wouldn't let us use the electric when he was at work so he had the electric shut off in the whole shop and me and my cousin or my brother we would turn this thing or the other person cut so i'd stand out here and power it while my cousin thomas or my brother john would cut and we would all take turns turning this thing so i there was a time when i was little enough that this felt like a steering wheel let me turn it and cut so i have it in here because we were doing some nice big thick resawing on here for the spoon making class but this is desperate need of proper setup i set it up as you see it about 15 years ago and i haven't changed it i just did a quick setup because i had the body alone with a motor and so i did this stupid ass stand i'm in a desperate search for an art deco base i was talking to somebody but the deal fell through so if anybody out there has an art deco base that i could use to restore this please let me know that's perfect so come on [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so thank you everybody for 1.8 million subscribers when i hit 1.9 million i'll do an anvil collection and when i hit 2 million i'll do something super special thank you very much for joining me and uh i think soon i'm going to put a three-phase motor on this the hit miss motor runs a little too slow thank you for joining me i hope you like this and if you have any questions or if you have any information pertaining to some of the machines i showed because i don't know too much about everything just put it in the comments below if you know the dates or manufacture dates on some of the things i showed you listed in the comments below thank you very much

Channel: jimmydiresta

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Id: VdelZ-iVogI

Length: 36min 24sec (2184 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 09 2020