Paul Sellers

In the closing of yet another work week, and I have closed 3,120 of them to date, that's 18,720 working days, I find myself filled with gratitude. I doubt that out of all of those days, I have had 100 sick days or any of those

. . . Hand Surgery Update It's been a year since the surgery on my hands. One doctor said don't do it and another said do. The conflict was the timing. I continued without surgery for three additional years, and then the time came that seemed right to me.

In woodworking, we often encounter multiple components requiring a dozen shoulder lines to joints that must be equidistant within a tight fraction of a millimetre. A pencil mark may well be an adequate first guide, but splitting the line is not definitive enough. T what point do you decide to

The things we woodworkers do to jig up for a tablesaw process or all the more to expedite cuts with a power router is phenomenal. If we'd mastered using just a few hand tools, setting them, training our bodies and minds to use them, life would be so

I'm convinced that sawing and planing is much more than separating a single piece of wood into two or more pieces, and that planing is more than levelling and smoothing. I know that a lot of people woodworking have the more pragmatic dogma that surely the end result

Is watching glue dry the same as watching and waiting for paint to dry; both have a way of postponing progress, when both, in their own way, are actually the progressing action of moving things forward. The inference in the common saying, "It's like watching paint dry.