one heck of a journey. great build!

I have never seen a block investment attempted that big. I think a slurry investment shell technique would be the way to go. I do a lot of investment casting, and I take the investment block to orange heat then let it col to 500 C for the pour. The manufacturers have very specific tables and instructions for the burnout (baking) stage. Great leanings and great reult as ever from Jimmy.

Love this Jimmy. Thanks for showing us the process and the learning. I love that you are willing to talk about being scared and pushing through. A wise man once said “you go to school on the first few”. Excellent!!!

Congrats on 2 million!🎉 The bell turned out great, looks and sounds beautiful. Can’t wait for the next bell.

I really love these process videos. It’s great to see how you learn and pivot until you get there! Thanks for taking us on the journey!

What a journey! I'm glad you showed and explained all the attempts along the way to the "final" product. A job well done!

I worked for a year in 1973 at a investment casting place outside of Chicago. Made artificial hip joints, knee joints, bone pins, etc. Hard, hot, dangerous work. Perfect for a 22 yo buck. The hot molds were put on a vacuum table before we filled them. Pulled the metal into all the voids.

Thanks for letting us watch and learn with you. Watching your process is amazing. Long live memories of those lost before us. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for taking the time to share this with us. I have learned a lot from you over the years. You instilled in me the need to keep going. Thanks again my friend.

You being honest about fear and it’s role in the creation process allows others to face theirs. Every time I back away from doing something is for all the reasons you mentioned. Thank you for inspiring me to just go for it and that’s it’s ok to learn as I go. And awesome build video!! 💪

That third bell, it had some visual imperfections, but it had a really sweet sound.

Great build Jimmy! The learning and passion to keep striving through the process is why I watch and follow you. Thanks mate!

Love seeing the process of learning a new technique. I don't think I'll ever get into casting but seeing you problem solve this inspires me to keep trying new things!

What a great story Jimmy! Thanks for sharing all you went through to make this beautiful bell. You are 100% correct about that fear factor prevent us from trying new things. You always seem to press through it and are an inspiration! Nice work!

That was very cool to see the processes you went through. I did a little casting at high school with a sand mold. Really nice to see inside the explorers club too!

I couldn't sleep, woke up and watched your video while the clock struck midnight and I turned 53 shortly thereafter. Awesome birthday gift thanks Jimmy. Great job and way to persevere.

Thank you so much for sharing the journey and everything you went through. Amazing work as always!!!! And you make all your videos informative and entertaining. Thank you!

What a great chronicle of not just your great casting, but how we all learn and improve our skills with every new step. A fantastic final result.

Amazing job, Jimmy! You did a fantastic job and so humble. Thank you for sharing.

Jimmy that was incredible ! I have so been looking forward too seeing this after hearing about it on the podcast. What a masterpiece Sir !! Very well done.

That was a ballsy job you got there, Jimmy. It felt personal when talking about the staling techniques. So recognisable. Also: I haven't had the gusto to finish it is a good way to putting it. I saw literally everything you put on youtube, but this one felt close. Thanks man.

Jimmy. Thank you for your dedication to your craftsmanship, for your insatiable appetite for learning and finally thank you for sharing it all with the rest of us. I really appreciate it all.

You must use Moliere's drying chart to dry the plaster mold properly. But looks cool, like flying Dachman' bell. 😊

Great job, Jimmy! Admire your tenacity, big time. Also, your comment about fear-based stalling, really resonates. Kudos and happy holidays

Going through all those steps makes one appreciate the final bell. A wonderful journey. Thanks for sharing. Watching your work, Jimmy, is magical!

Great work Jimmy, a fantastic result! Thanks for showing us the process; all valuable learning!

I really appreciate your tenacity when learning something new. This is a great thing to demonstrate and it's fun to see your progress. The bell looks greatt too.

I really loved you showing us the whole journey. I am making some silly little game boards and messed up so many times in the process and finally got their. And that is the nature of doing stuff. I love that about you and I enjoy your channel so much!

Fascinating process! Thanks for sharing your journey 🤘

Beautiful work and thank you for sharing the entire process as it evolved.

I love your videos, and especially this one, with the process, including the failures... Happy New Year....

Finally! You’ve talking about this for so long! 🙌🏻

Been looking forward to this one. Great job dude!

Fearless! Great inspiration as always, Jimmy. Thanks.

That was awesome, Jimmy! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for showing all the ups and downs of the project!!

Absolutely amazing journey. After hearing about this on the podcast for a few weeks, the video didn't disappoint.

Superb job Jimmy, nothing is a failure, only a learning experience. Glad you kept the first bell !

Love seeing you having problems and finding ways through and getting the result in the end. Makes it all feel more genuine than those channels which pretend it's all successes etc. Nice one and nice bell.

Four times is a charm. Merry Christmas to you, your family, everyone there at Diresta and to all the subscribers. 🎅

Beautiful Jimmy, one of your best pieces. Happy Holidays!!! 🎄🎄🎄

Loved the process! I like that you completed most of the bells, I'm sure it helps you learn what to do on the next one.

thank you for sharing the whole process in all honesty...

Thanks for showing us the complete learning experience, was interesting to watch.

Great story, Jimmy. I'm always inspired by your spirit of creativity, daring, and perseverance. Thanks for sharing.

What an exercise in patience and tenacity! Well done Mr. Maker...the bell rings true!

Fantastic. Love it!. It was amazing to see your process. I've also made many typographical errors that go unnoticed right up to the final touches. Nothing sinks my morale faster. ...all the work, all the artististry, all the focus on technical skills and finesse, then you find a typo. ...I feel your pain. Thanks for sharing. And yes, the fear can be crushing.

What a journey and challenging work. I learned something from that too. An entertaining video documenting all the making and mistakes we learn from. Well done!

Incredible work!!! This is truly special!

Stunning work !! Love it man well done ✌

Your casting journey is nothing short of amazing. I myself, i formally had a family foundry business know how difficult that process actually is...to do it with basically homemade equipment is incredible. Bravo!!

You just keep feeding my appetite for new skills Jimmy !! Thank you.

WOW! That was an amazing video! Thanks so much for sharing!

Amazing job!!! Your work is top notch!!

Impressed by your enthusiasm to take on new challenges and your dedication to the goal, without succumbing to fear. Definitely the take away for me on this project.

Loved the process !

Thank you for sharing the story and showing the failures along the way.

Jimmy I loved this video and the journey bud. I loved the clips of the shot glasses thrown in the fire mixed with the video. Dad always loved how you did it with Spike and let our minds take a break before the next clip. Cant wait to see the next thing you cast now that you know how to make bells. Merry Christmas bud and what a very cool ceremony! -Brian

Well done Sir, huge learning curve!

Great story, well told, a fine result after lots of difficulties. The best of youtube content. Thanks.

that was such an honest video about how you work reallly hard at your craft(s).

Persistence pays off! Nice project, Jimmy.

I wish I could have the patience and understanding that you provide yourself. I get super annoyed at myself for screwing up (I'm a woodworker), which doesn't do me any good. Hopefully, one day, I'll be able to have your same attitude and appreciate the process of learning and screwing up and ultimately fixing the mistake. I really enjoyed this episode. Keep it up!

Amazing, Jimmy. You’re such an inspiration and so humble to show the all the learning processes. If you want a proofreader, I volunteer!

You've impacted so many people with your skill and style. What an honor for you to craft this in memorium.

Absolutely beautiful sounding and looking bell!

Master class stuff Jimmy!! Wow realy great casting and story behind it!! Glad you showed the process..

great work and a wonderful story behind

Can’t believe you made a bell. You kept that one quiet!? The anticipation has been killing me, looks great. Worth the wait.

Thanks Jimmy. Great Bell. Great story. And thanks for sharing your mistakes and your learning and building process.

Very interesting, thank you for showing the entire process, including the failures that led to your success!

Thanks for showing the full failure process. It's an important part of the journey. Cheers!

Thanks for taking us through the process and thank you for letting us know it’s ok to fail but not ok to quit!

Magnificent! Art in its raw, hard & uncompromising methodology from which is born an extraordinary & fitting tribute to the remembrance of explorers who fell living their adventurous dreams. Thank you for sharing!

Make more bells! and bigger bells! Love it.

Great video! I like seeing all of the failed attempts leading to a mastery of the process!

Thanks for sharing the process! I thought even the second one was awesome!

Never afraid to show a mistake, love the learning process. Great video as always Jimmy.

Brass and bronze are great. I can't think of anything else to describe them but stoic. Nice work.

Awesome Job as always! Keep it up!

Thank you for showing your whole learning process.

Very cool to see the whole process

What dedication for a great tribute. Congratulations.

Great video, I like how you showed the entire process and all the mistakes you learned from. I feel like I learned something too.

Thats pretty awesome. Its a cool remembrance piece.

❤️❤️❤️. This is such a great video with mistakes, realism and a great story.

You sir are an inspiration. Thank you for this journey. To see someone like you making mistakes and working through them is incredibly uplifting. Simply amazing. You are the GOAT.

Saw that you subbed me (thank you) so thought it'd be ok to comment here. Bells are the best. Good to see you promoting the making of bells as it is an art and science that needs to be explored with the information gained disseminated before the process goes away.

beautiful, and it has a nice tone.

This is an awesome video. The inclusion of all the failures makes it infinitely better.

what an awesome tribute. that was a tenacious build.

Talk about a learning curve, great job Jimmy, and cool is that having been asked to make something memorializing members of the Explorers Club.

Impressed by your concern to make it so perfect. Very few castings are perfect. Although I do suppose that many do have the correct spelling. LOL. Very nice job. Thanks for including us in the journey.

I would say that you were on a journey of exploration of your very own with this project. Well done Jimmy..!

Amazing story and wonderful journey that you just took us on.

Thanks a ton! I needed that pep talk. Fear is failure's best friend and the worst enemy of success.

Jimmy, you are absolutely correct when you said you learn from your mistakes. By now my wife is tired of hearing it. I would constantly be saying to her, "I am convinced that I learn much more from a screwup than a success". But as you are, I am very persistent and will keep going until achieving the result I was looking for. I abhor failure, it just gnaws away at me and pushes me forward. It's a journey, and I wouldn't want it any other way. When I achieve my goal, it is so much more satisfying to know I got there despite some bumps along the way. Great job Jimmy and Happy New Year.

Good job mister Jimmy Diresta beautifully done

man, that little aside about pushing past fear based stall tactics in your projects is probly exactly what I needed to hear.

Great video and journey ❤ thank you.