Making It With Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto
Sep 18, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 13 segments
!https://s3.amazonaws.com/iliketomakestuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/03142159/makingititunes.jpgThis week Jimmy Diresta, Bob Clagett and David Picciuto talk about excuses and putting things…
Jimmy DirestaHostBob ClagettHostDavid PicciutoHost
I just made eight new Apple Awards for something that they give, they give them away to, I think, to high school shop teachers.

I made a whole bunch of them, and then I looked at the pictures I made last year just to make sure everything looked the same.

To save your files for something you think you're never gonna do again, [laughs] just in case.

And then, uh, 'cause I had to laser etch the bases with the logo, and my patrons saw this, 'cause I was nervous that I wasn't gonna be able to figure the rotary out again 'cause I've used this machine so many times in the rotary.

The last time I used it was a year ago, and it was fairly complicated to figure out because there was a glitch, and I worked with the glitch, and I made an adjustments considering the glitch.

And anyway, I saved the file that I made last year, and I just implanted the new logo and the new branding right over the old logo and then turned off the layer with the old logo, and it worked perfect, so I had no problems there.

But like I said, I saved that file really more importantly for the parameters, not necessarily for the graphics in it.

And since Maker Camp is coming up, I wanted to get the woody, the wood, the wooden car that I built last year.

I wanted to get that back in shape 'cause it sat outside most of the summer, and the, the, the weather just destroyed it.

In case you do fiberglass coating, if you do fiberglass coating, I did one fiberglass coating on the roof thinking that was enough to keep the rain out.

I'm like, "Where is the water coming from?" And then Rob did an online search, found out that the gas tank we used is notorious for letting water in.

And I was like, "How can the water be getting in the gas tank? The roof is covered." And one day it happened to be raining pretty hard, and I was like, "Let me go look in the Woody to see if water is getting inside." And it was raining outside the car, and it was raining just as hard inside the car, and that's when I took a close look at the fiberglass coating that I put on it, and there was millions of pinholes that I didn't...

I just made eight new Apple Awards for something that they give, they give them away to, I think, to high school shop teachers.

I made a whole bunch of them, and then I looked at the pictures I made last year just to make sure everything looked the same.

To save your files for something you think you're never gonna do again, [laughs] just in case.

And then, uh, 'cause I had to laser etch the bases with the logo, and my patrons saw this, 'cause I was nervous that I wasn't gonna be able to figure the rotary out again 'cause I've used this machine so many times in the rotary.

The last time I used it was a year ago, and it was fairly complicated to figure out because there was a glitch, and I worked with the glitch, and I made an adjustments considering the glitch.

And anyway, I saved the file that I made last year, and I just implanted the new logo and the new branding right over the old logo and then turned off the layer with the old logo, and it worked perfect, so I had no problems there.

But like I said, I saved that file really more importantly for the parameters, not necessarily for the graphics in it.

And since Maker Camp is coming up, I wanted to get the woody, the wood, the wooden car that I built last year.

I wanted to get that back in shape 'cause it sat outside most of the summer, and the, the, the weather just destroyed it.

In case you do fiberglass coating, if you do fiberglass coating, I did one fiberglass coating on the roof thinking that was enough to keep the rain out.

I'm like, "Where is the water coming from?" And then Rob did an online search, found out that the gas tank we used is notorious for letting water in.

And I was like, "How can the water be getting in the gas tank? The roof is covered." And one day it happened to be raining pretty hard, and I was like, "Let me go look in the Woody to see if water is getting inside." And it was raining outside the car, and it was raining just as hard inside the car, and that's when I took a close look at the fiberglass coating that I put on it, and there was millions of pinholes that I didn't...
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