Paul Sellers

For sharpening all chisels, planes, spokeshaves and knife types, in fact, anything with a cutting edge, diamond plates do it all, they cut steel very fast, stay flat, and they are cleaner than oilstones, natural stones, water stones, man made or naturally occurring all of which need additional paraphernalia with

We tend to do better amassing tools without paying a premium price when we wait with a patient and watchful eye and are prepared to wait even a year or two to get the tool we want. Apart from starting out as an apprentice, where necessity forced me to buy

A workhorse and a one-type-suits-all to get you in the saddle. Believe me, they work! For some time, probably sixty years now, I have reflected on chisels, types and functions. General chisel work comprises two tasks that in no way are the same and therefore often set the tone for

Some modern makers use a tang that's forged to make a super strong tang, but it is not the traditional hammer-forged on the anvil type that's tapered from the bolster to a more refined and consistent taper finishing at a steep, sharp point. I have one

It's a strange phenomenon that I cannot always place. Jealousy and envy can be two close bed partners, of course they can, but then there is expert knowledge, insider knowledge and a range of levels between just disliking someone and all the way up to hatefulness. Challenging the

I went ahead and ground a chisel I own that I never grind on any kind of mechanical or electric grinder, never, ever hollow grind, and never grind to then sharpen with two bevels. I stopped doing that back in 1965 when I did it under instruction by a college