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In building our latest project in the Sellers' Home bedroom series I relied on my bandsaw for many of the long and often heavy rip cuts. I expect many of those building the same projects might well decide to do the same. Mostly, this was to do with the

. . . or the lure of a mechanised performance! The most predictable thing about wood is its unpredictability. I would say that that is the case in most natural materials used in most crafts and that is why we have such a predominance of man-made alternative materials; for any type of mass-making

I'm still grateful for the workshop I work in: it's the one I close the door on at night and then open at first light. I reach inside for the light switch and light floods what was left the night before. There's always the

I don't follow but two others online. One is a cafe I haven't been able to go back to because I no longer live near to it and the other is a support for those with a disability. But I clicked on an Instagram account of

I have called myself a lifestyle woodworker for a decade on a public level but two when I include talking of it in more isolated pockets as in my woodworking classes and courses. In reality, though, I have practised it for much longer than that it's just that

. . . that the work is always easy for me as Paul Sellers. It's not, not at all. The flow seems fine in the reviews I check before videos go out, but getting there takes structure through planning, micro- and macro-adjustment, attitude changes and other such things too many to

It looks excessive and might be for some but it's not in the life of a productive maker. Woodworking with hand tools in the life of a productive worker must be strategised throughout. Strategic planing soon becomes a way of life when you are a full-time maker but