Posted by Paul Sellers on 6 May 2013 in Paul Sellers' Blog | 1 comment

Over the weekend We finished two workshops this weekend and I will spend time getting ready for the upcoming class starting this coming Saturday. It was a special weekend really. Nick Richards finished his Timber Framing workshop and everyone took away their trestles made exclusively using timber-framing methods and M&T joints of different types with them. The weather was so beautiful we kept all doors open and let the gentle breezes pass on through. I got to make friends with the guys Nick Read More

Posted by Paul Sellers on 5 May 2013 in Paul Sellers' Blog | 1 comment

I was glad to see these USA domestic made clamps offered in the Veritas catalog so I ordered a couple to see if they were the same quality as the ones I knew from many years back. They are! As with any tool or piece of equipment, with quality you can almost always see it before you touch it. As many of you know, I really like the lighter weight aluminium brings to clamps and if joints are well fitted, rarely do you need anything heavier in joinery in general. Between the US school and the UK we have Read More

Posted by Paul Sellers on 3 May 2013 in Paul Sellers' Blog | 0 comments

Easing through the day in readiness for tomorrow a few great things happened. Yesterday a company called Legacy Logistics in Philadelphia received my call to see of they could get my hand tools from their storage to the woodworking school so I could use them tomorrow for a class. They said immediately that they could do it. At 9.45 am this morning they said that they were almost there and wanted to make sure we were able to receive the pallet. These were the tools that I traveled with over the three Read More

Posted by Paul Sellers on 3 May 2013 in Paul Sellers' Blog | 1 comment

Timber Framing Workshops for Everyone The significance of timber framed structures throughout Europe and the USA cannot be denied when it comes to man’s quest for surviving seasons of harshness with store-housing crops and overwintering livestock and much more. Throughout the USA, hundreds of thousands of these structures survive as examples of workmanship and a way of life we may never see at such significant levels again, yet here at the Maplewood Center for Common Craft the traditions of Read More

Posted by Paul Sellers on 3 May 2013 in Paul Sellers' Blog | 0 comments

I sat in Marty Macica’s small shop and considered the unpretentiousness of a man who is my friend. I asked to see his guitar and he pulled the case from the corner of the shop and we opened the clasps jointly. Last month I saw a work he had just completed and I was impressed by the humility of his work. Unpretentiousness is, as I have witnessed throughout my life as a working craftsman, the quality of a man at rest in his sphere of expertise. He no longer needs to prove anything about himself that Read More