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Vocational callings I hear fairly frequently that craftsmen advertise for an apprentice only to find that the person applying doesn't really want the job but must apply to get state benefits, or, equally sad, no one applies. We bandy around the term "apprentice" with alacrity in

The blue sky over my house this morning and thoughts of the work I must do now that we have the book finished and at the printers reminds me that space and time correspond with each other to provide my creative space. I often ask myself why, in our troubled

Perhaps my last Paul Sellers blog on the AWFS Fair in Las Vegas for this year, not sure. As you know, I have spent the past few days trying to understand exactly how the AWFS Fair impacts a world working wood and I came away with mixed but positive feelings.

Just a few thoughts this morning. A few days ago I was in the UK pondering a question. How can I, getting ready to go to Vegas in three days time, with a half dozen important things yet to do, I needed a workbench 5,000 miles away in Las

Unbelievably busy today, meeting old faces (and young ones). It's a different show than The Woodworking Shows that travel the length and breadth of the USA in that it appeals to the high output manufacturers as well as the small hobbyist without having the hobbyist suppliers there. I

The show went well yesterday. Very successful. So many people stopped by the booth to see the film and watch demonstrations and many highly motivated woodworkers from around the US and Central America in the south and Canada in the north too. Sooo, is this woodworking? My demonstrations went really

Yesterday seemed almost surreal. Just as digital cameras don't make many of us photographers and computers cannot make every individual a printer or publisher, massive machines will never make us woodworkers. Getting to the core of woodworking will be difficult for any attendee at this show because, even