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DiResta's Cut: Live Edge Shelf

How can "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" apply to furniture creation? Jimmy DiResta demonstrates

By Rain Noe - August 5, 2015

in Furniture Design | Video | DiResta's Cut | DIY

In this second episode of our "Diresta's Cut" series, Jimmy DiResta starts out with a loose plan that Mother Nature instantly sends off of the rails. After encountering a ruined cedar tree on his property in upstate New York, Jimmy figured he'd make something out of the stump; but after cutting it down, he found the tree had been rotting on the inside, leaving a large vertical void through much of it.

Unfazed, DiResta hauled it down to his tool-filled Manhattan shop, determined to find a beautiful, functional object inside this seemingly worthless hunk of trunk:

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Did you miss DiResta's Cut, Episode 01?

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John Kirk

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Really enjoyed that. Something about these types of tutorials makes me want to spring out of my chair and go make something. Gorgeous shelf btw. My mom had a cedar closet for coats.....always loved that smell in the house. Cheers-

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Draco Xia

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Really impressing

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