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Nine Years a Café Chair Equals . . .

Sat, 02/01/2025 - 2:11am
. . . 50–200 years, a home version. At least that’s my consideration from what I found in the facts surrounding this mass made chair from the café I go to each day. At first, I said 50 years service, but then I thought, in careful use, an average family size of 1.7 children under...

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What else would you like to see?

Fri, 01/31/2025 - 5:43am
It’s Katrina (Paul’s daughter in law here). Since 2021 Paul has been sharing the journey of making all the furniture for his Oxfordshire home at Woodworking Masterclasses, in our series Sellers Home. The idea behind the Sellers Home series is that if you were to follow along and make every piece of furniture you would...

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Hand Tools on Wood

Sun, 01/26/2025 - 1:08am
We all have creative ways of entertaining ourselves, but it might be a little more unusual for us to see the contrast between watching as a spectator and creating our way out of one world into another by the doing of things creatively, working with our hands. In my early days, as a new and...

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Writing On a Lived Life

Fri, 01/24/2025 - 8:14am
In past years, like many of us, I’ve had to recover from different things. The most recent of these was recovering from three busted ribs after a man, an athletic runner, chased after me and with no warning, rammed into my back. I felt my ribs pop on impact, before I even hit the ground...

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Card Scraper Question

Wed, 01/22/2025 - 4:30am
Thanks Paul. I have recently picked up a cabinet scraper. However, I seem to get a better finish with my card scrapers. Is that normal? When do you use a card scraper over a cabinet scraper? I need to revisit your cabinet scraper video as well. These scrapers are amazing. I don’t know why more...

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Another Perfect Scraper Solution

Fri, 01/17/2025 - 7:04am
I come up with them all the time and this one should knock your socks off . . . Or at least take incredible shavings for you. New to woodworking or a seasoned machinist, I often get woodworkers lamenting that they sometimes get a good edge to Card Scrapers, but mostly not. I put this...

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Things New

Wed, 01/15/2025 - 4:47am
Something stirs deeply in new beginnings. The gestation of an inspired possibility in the ordinary of life prompts us to think of things beyond our capacity for a thought is nothing more than the expansion of a small cell, a pulse of oxygen, of blood and our brain reshaping, refolding itself with valleys between ridges,...

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It Came Out Right

Wed, 01/08/2025 - 10:20am
I remember when #4 Stanley planes would sell on eBay for around one pound, or even less if it was an English version. There are remarkable differences between some UK Stanley models and US versions. Oh, it’s not really in functionality or quality where the difference lies, none of that, they both work exactly the...

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Happy Birthday, Paul!

Sat, 01/04/2025 - 3:02am
Hello everyone, and Happy New Year to you all! It is my dad’s 75th birthday today. I hope you will all join me in wishing him a very happy birthday. He has shown great resilience this last year. Three broken ribs would have set a lesser man back further than it has him. He has...

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Another Guide From the Paul Sellers’ Stable

Tue, 12/31/2024 - 8:40am
A Guide Like No Other I’m more an advocate for freehand sharpening because of the speed and efficiency it gives me. My chisel and plane irons come 95% that way, and I’m more an advocate for developing methods that rely on our developing skill and mastery rather than anything that substitutes for it. Also, I...

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