Posted by Paul Sellers on 14 May 2013 in Paul Sellers' Blog | 1 comment

A New Nine-day Workshop Changes the Lives of More People Tomorrow we will be on the 4th day of our nine-day Foundational Woodworking course here in Upstate New York. When I arrived two weeks ago the trees were in bud and now with outspread leaf a green tinge softens the rays, goslings rest on the edges of the pond and the swampy woodland beyond is vibrant with spring life. Since the success of the pervious two-day workshop we have started out latest course. The correlation between woodworkingmasterclasses.com Read More

Posted by Paul Sellers on 10 May 2013 in Paul Sellers' Blog | 3 comments

Of Course They Do - and Exceptionally Well Too. Today I read an article that stated that, "We invented iron quick-release vises, which won't hold much of anything relating to woodworking." Bemused by this, I wondered why it was said and then I wondered why hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of woodworkers used something that didn't, according to the author, "hold anything relating to woodworking". The quick release vise has indeed stood the rigours of testing for a century now and has sold over Read More

Posted by admin on 10 May 2013 in Paul Sellers' Blog | 2 comments

...determines the outcome It's said that the one who frames the issues determines the outcome. With frame saws that may not be so predictable and so I found myself drifting with thoughts of frame saws these past few weeks and the thought crossed my mind that rigid plate steel saws like the ones developed in Britain and further developed in the USA by people like Henry Disston might seem to be a more advanced methodology than say the mainland European frame saw. It struck me then that thin plate Read More

Posted by admin on 7 May 2013 in Paul Sellers' Blog | 3 comments

I have been traveling the different states in the USA for several months now, teaching and training. I taught two courses last month in the UK New Legacy School at the Penrhyn Castle workshops and that was the fulfillment of our ongoing vision to expand the horizons of woodworking everywhere.This coming week we hold the same two workshops at the Maplewood Center for Common Craft here in Upstate New York. Beyond that there is always much more going on too. From Local to Global My two-day introduction Read More

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