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The author does like to kzfaq.infoUgkxkNYRBJuiJ6EwD-tQSAlxg0eFKsnR2cgz from scratch, shaping and trimming wood from large blocks into fine finished products. As another reviewer mentioned, most projects require a lot of high-dollar equipment that most of us don’t have the room or budget for. But, knowing how to do these things, even if we won’t be able to practice the full stack project, is still great.

“Done is better than perfect.” Words to live by.

Patricks work is art. Sadly most of it is hidden never to be seen again. Thanks Jimmy for documenting his work.

I love how you'd done all these updates, yet it still has this feel of it being original. It all just fits.

Jim you are definitely a wonderful steward for this house, it's still amazes me that Patrick's relatives once owned this house and the "universe" brought you guys together such a wonderful friendship. 👊🏻👊🏻❤❤

This is what passion for preservation looks like. Well done.

The porch lights look great Jimmy!! Watching Patrick's install was quite the treat. Being a Hoosier, it makes me smile seeing some artifacts from here being reused on your home.

It’s good to have such an expert like Patrick around! The porch really highlights the house and gives it that country look.

Goes so beautiful with the farmhouse Great work

There are so many gems in this video. Patrick is a such a source of experience! What an invaluable friend to have!

Great job Patrick! Make sure to have him back on Jimmy.

Cool looking fixtures installed by two cool dudes! Thanks for all the fishing techniques Patrick . I'll definitely put them to use

The electrical tape to hold the screw...how did I live this long and never see that before? 😂 So many exciting things happening between your projects and Maker Camp developments. Nice work guys!

Beautiful! Nicely drawn cables, LED lights, all lamps aligned, no complaints :)

👍👍👍👍👍 wish I had a skilled electrician at my disposal 😊

17:55 I remember these lights from your bomb factory trip, absolutely superb you're making use of them!

I love that everything in your home has a unique and interesting story! The porch looks so welcoming now!

I have always loved the farmhouse wrap around porch look (I grew up in the 1950's - 1970's country lifestyle). Your house is looking so great and classic. The work you did on the porch and the lighting you and your electrician provided is dead nuts on.

Cool video. I like the lights backstory. And thank you for sharing your home builds with us!

Very smart and very experienced.. love watching a tradesman work and teach at the same time. Porch looks great, thanks for sharing!

Great explanation of pipe bending and layout. Patrick was impressive.

Beautiful work Jimmy & Patrick! Those light fixtures are amazing & the way they were wired and installed is right on point! 👍👍💡💡💡💡👍👍

It's been really enjoyable to see the transformation of this farm house. Thanks for including us.

Those lights really make the house look incredible. It’s amazing how good lighting can change and improve the look of things.

21:50 Wesley Treat spotted in the wild! And thanks for some great tips on lighting!

As a retired electrician, Patrick did a Wonderful job.

You inspired me to build a porch on the back of my house. In the process I have to rework the roof pitch of an extension that was put on in the 1960's. Making it all blend in and look nice has been a challenge. 1830's building technigues meet 1960's technigues meets 2020s is a wild blend. LOL I think I would have pryed some of your clapboards off and run the wires in the walls. It provides opportunity to cram some insulation in there as well as I imagine it is probably thin in that area as most homes that age at most have some blown in insulation which mostly settles and disappears over time and you wind up with bunches of voids.

Really have enjoyed watching the homestead projects and this is no exception. You can paint the work you ended up adding to the outside (to avoid fishing through the rooms/walls, etc) and it wouldn't even be noticeable. Another great video and information! Thank YOU!

Great job guys!!! I can't wait to see it in person! Patrick is a solid dude and does excellent work!!!

It’s great to see those beautiful salvaged fixtures put to use! I always learn something from watching Patrick work.

Looks great love it. 👍👍👍

A hug Jimmy !

2 of my favorite dudes, on one KZfaq video together!

Wow!! So gratifying to watch Patrick's work and the final result is incredible. At 15:43 I thought he was going to dismount that ladder and plank backwards off the porch, but he anchored himself with lightning speed! 😅 As always watching any Diresta video I learned a lot. My 2 takeaway lessons from this video: *Done is better than perfect *4 inches is enough for a small box.

Patrick did an amazing job, as usual. The house is really coming together!

I really like the ambiance the lights give. I love the Bulb choice of the, to me, traditional yellow glow of an Edison glow. I splurged when I did my deck in '17 and my office in '20 with an actual barn light that could take a 200w bulb with a 24" gooseneck extension. I would have loved to have found a decently priced salvaged fixtures like you from all the textile mills I had in my area but they all were priced as new or higher. The overall ascetic of your house is really nice and what you have done keeps with that feel! keep up the good work!!!

Great to see two master craftsmen working together!

It looks beautiful. So interesting watching Patrick work.

This was very enjoyable! Patrick is an artist and you were the right person to buy that house.

Those are beautiful old lights!

Gorgeous

THIS IS AN EXCELLENT BIT OF WORK EXPERIENCE EVEN JIMMY LEARNING SOMETHING ELSE.

Hi @Jimmy !Patrick did a good job there!Thank you for showing jimmy!Greeting Bulat the Blacksmith from germany 😊🤙

great job. fun to watch!

The best part of this project aside from the expert electrician, is that you found these lamps and recycled them. Way too many things, especially industrial items are trashed. Here you have given new life to old lamps and saved the planet at the same time. Thanks Jimmy for your creativity, you are a true master craftsman.

Awesome Jimmy!!

Looks amazing! And so great to have smart friends!

Patrick is a knowledgeable sparkey, thanks for the experience🤗😎🤗😎

Amazing work Jimmy! You made it look easy Patrick!

That is an awesome upgrade for sure. Nice work guys.

Patrick makes bending pipe look easy. Absolutely beautiful result Jimmy. Kudos for rescuing and repurposing those fabulous vintage fixtures. Looking forward to seeing what you do with the inside of the house.

Wow... looks awesome 👍

Beautiful man. Congrats. God Bless and Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Looks great!

Now, it almost needs lights on the top part of the house. Maybe some downlighting that highlights areas between the windows. It looks SO great!

Looks amazing

Looks wonderful... well done 👏

Done is better than perfect...loved that

This is awesome.

Dude you really have made a fantastic job of the house. It looks so much better, like a beautiful home. You should definitely be proud of what you and your team have accomplished

Amazing transformation and got to see it all lit up. Great work Patrick & Jimmy 🙌

Great job. The house looks fantastic.

I've been to the Jefferson Ammunition Plant. Cool place and kind of scary if you think of all the stuff that was still there in 1999. Glad you got a little of the history of the place, Jimmy. It was neat to see the place and all the real history there.

The EMT installation reminded me of my days of bending and installation of miles and miles of it, 1/2" up to 4" for buildings about 50 miles north of where you got those fixtures.

Nothing like seeing real experts on the tube.

Really looks great! Awesome reuse of the fixtures

Looks amazing and having the lights with story’s is even better.

Love that you have this electrical video with pro tips in it.

Good choice to have the piping outside the wall.

Thank you!

THATS THE WAY TOO DO IT WE NEED MORE TRADESMEN THEY GET PAID A LOT HONESTLY 💯.

Reminds me of a live Vlog Jimmy. All that knowledge and skill from Patrick made this a great watch. You have added a beautiful look and function to your home and It looks awesome. Thank you for sharing. As always, Love and Respect from North London UK.

What a nice glow. Patrick is interesting to watch, neat and methodical. Also, rare footage of Wesley being idle! 😆

It's got to look on purpose, intentional, there for a reason, pleasing to the eye. That's what makes it art. 😁

Very nice, lamps fits perfectly with the house and porch. Well done Mr 👍🏻🔥

Lights look great

Great video. Nice seeing Patrick using his tools. Can see the experience when doing something simple like a wire nut splice. Can always spot a novice from a pro in how they use their tools. Learned a lot. Mahalo for sharing. That porch is gorgeous. 🙂🤙

Sweet lighting!

11/28/22. Porch lighting using old 'Bomb' factory 🏭 lighting fixtures. End results look great! From yur comments..been waiting 6 years for schedule, time etc...love yur quote...' better installed (& done!..with few cosmetic compromises) than 'perfect' (taking waay more time). Another great video! Stay safe & carry on!👍👍👍🛠😊

#AWESOME Looks great! I love those lights. Have restored quite a few of them, just the regular ones though, not the explosion proof ones.

awesome video! love seeing things like this. nice little story!

Awesome repurpose of those BOMB lights. They cleaned up so good. So now everyone can refer to Jimmy as Jimmy the bomb!

Looks awesome man

I love that lamp style! Looks great Jimmy! 👍

enlightening episode , thanks for sharing :)

It Looks Great

New Diresta with talking, like it!!

Sometimes “good enough “ is fine. Chasing perfection can break you.

25:40 'Echo and the Bunnymen' ... perfect The whole vid ... perfecter Seeing a master electrician at work and his commentary ... perfecterer That porch sure does look lovelier each vid, nice.

Another killer video! love the instagram sneak peaks.

I can even remember the video from the factory when you cut the lamps off with your battery driven angle grinder. And you finally use them 😊😊😊

Very Nice

Very homey looking. Love the whole porch thing. I have an 8'X30' porch on the front of my house. I wish it wrapped around the house.

Looks good Jimmy

Best christmas lights ever :)

The lights complete the porch. Honestly, it would've looked quite sad without some proper vintage lights, so chef's kiss on that one. I love it when someone DIYs something, when they finish the job with the detail that binds all the elements together, because it's their vision and they did it. A lot of times when the job's farmed... the end result is not quite consistent, all over the place, and as you have noticed and noted, sometimes not even good enough for government work. Hence why you did it yourself.

Wow, love the lights. My parents worked and met at that plant. Thank you for including the link on when you collected the lights. It was great to see and remember the stories they use to tell about working there on the line.

perfetto guys - greetinx from Tirol/Austria

I remember when you picked up these light fixtures and how cool it was to see them salvaged. It's great to see them finally come into play in such a nice way. Of course Patrick did a great job and I learned a few little tips about bending EMT. I have the tools but I always struggle with the calculations and wind up leaving everything long and then cutting it to fit, which is not ideal! The old lights really look like a huge upgrade in ambiance... and on that note, you gotta do me a favor and match the 2 bulbs on the fan to the rest of them, that color temp difference is killing me.🤣