Paul Sellers' Blog

In recent years, life has changed a lot for all of us and sometimes not.

It takes time to develop your workspace . . . to establish the version you've created in one or more places and reestablish it in a new one if that's what you have to do.

I rode my bike along the cycle path that parallels the Thames.

I like my inches, they always made total sense to me and I think that that's because learned imperial measuring as a young child.

I admire the insight and sensitivity of D H Lawrence in this: "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." which comes from his short piece "Things Men Have Made" Things Men Have Made THINGS men have made with…

Thinning things down these last few months, probably a year since we decided to build the workshop studio at the end of the garden, didn't yet take care of everything.

Tools get placed in practical ways that make for easy pickup, instant alignment to task and minimal waste in time.

This will be my last workshop--most likely.

Some Influencers work more silently to say the more.

Sometimes bits split and it's nothing you did.

In 2021 I published my guide for getting the two bevels on narrow plough plane blades dead on 30-degrees and 25-degress and 90-degress dead across too.

What I like the most about my craft is the days are laden full with work I want to do.

Hand Holds On Bench Planes I wonder if we truly understand the hold we have on bench planes, the subtle grips, the slips and slides left and right and then the difference between skews and slides and a combination of both in a sliding skew.

I recall the year quite vividly, September 2019, hard to imagine 7 years passing so quickly.

...and my, does this design of mine deliver punchy simplicity in making the simplest router plane you'll ever make!

And I am talking about what woodworkers new to woodworking don't know starting out.

I've seen pegboard backdrops and kitchen-style surrounds for a number of years, but an open benchtop with lidless tills and wells works best for instancy in the zone.

Twenty days in, the foundation work undergirds any future building work we care to do.

No pare cuts to fit here, just straight off the saw.

...Inside and Out Things are tight, but we have continued filming these past weeks, and it's working fine.

....Always Becomes More And thereby it leaves you with more to work with too.

I posted a picture on my FB recently showing two draw bore pins slightly protruding from the end cap of a breadboard end tabletop.