When I visited Highland Hardware last month I picked up several things I wanted to test out and one of them was a bottle of the Titebond Liquid Hide Wood Glue from Titebond. Straight off the bat I must say I was a little surprised that I liked its liquid-gold resinous look. I also liked…
Tomorrow I arrive back in New York and I am looking forward to the two upcoming workshops. With two full classes again (same in the UK), this promises to be a time of growth and change for about 40 woodworkers from across the USA and Canada. In my line of work as a teaching maker,…
I have been excited to present the various woodworking series with woodworkingmasterclasses.com over the past year. Already the range of projects has become fundamental to the various training sessions members and subscribers on that website undertake. The resulting projects we have made in just six or so months of online broadcast is phenomenal and the YouTube…
We just spent two more days filming, which for me is making too. Carrying the coffee table home yesterday was one of those rare satisfaction moments when you just made something completely by using your own hands and set the finished article in its place. I say rare because we actually live in a culture…
Recently I posted a blog on making one of these using a tablesaw to cut the recess walls and removing the waste using a chisel and hand router. It was fast and efficient and the holder works just fine. The appearance is less pleasing however. Here are the steps to making one with clean…
Q: Good Afternoon Mr Sellers. Could I start off by saying thank you. I have been signed up to your master classes since they started and find them inspirational. Your teaching style and ethos I find so easy to identify with and really convey the message of ‘just do it’ and that its not all…
I walked into the workshop this morning and saw the business of yesterday gone and instead there were thirteen empty benches with tools neatly arranged as if nothing had taken place. Oh, there was a little clean up still to do, about twenty minutes or so, but the vacant space was what stuck out to…
My frame saw came out fine, I mean really fine. Functionally, cost wise this could be another of those “Poor-man’s” tool things I have been blogging on. The blade was worn out and so cost nothing as it had already paid for itself many a dozen times over. The wood was also scrap. So, if…
I made a frame saw today, from a section of the old bandsaw blade and some scraps of oak. I cut the teeth by hand filing and set is yet to come. I have shaping to do, but the saw works fine already and the bandsaw blade was hard enough yet fileable without further hardening…
Finishing up the shelving unit today went just fine. The joints are tight enough and there are no gaps to speak of – no mean feat for some who never used hand tools before, let alone make joints and projects as large or intricate as these. This is high-demand work when you strive for these…