Paul Sellers
Published 3 Aug 2021

The frog in the range of bench planes designed by Leonard Bailey for Stanley planes like the #4 smoother here can cause some confusion, but they really don’t do that much either. In this video, I show you what limits it and where it is best to set it to for daily use in planing encounters. It’s dead simple!

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Paul Sellers
Published 5 Nov 2021

In this final episode, we go all the way from creating the handles to making the cutting iron and the retainer bar, installing the components, and finishing the plane with a shellac finish.

There are detailed drawings and parts list available here: https://paulsellers.com/router-plane-…

It’s simple step-by-step for everything to take out the mysteries of metalworking, and the magic result is your very own hand-made, finished router plane.

We do hope that you will enjoy the success of making such a fine woodworking tool as your own fully adjustable hand router plane for a lifetime of use. We believe that this is the best router plane in the world. Enjoy it!
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Paul Sellers
Published 16 Jul 2021

The depth adjustment could not be simpler once you have adjusted the lateral adjustment lever so that the blade cutting edge is parallel to the sole.

This adjustment determines the depth of cut for different thicknesses. I take this seriously when I make my adjustments and the more you practice, the more it will become second nature to you. This quick video will get you started and demystify this very efficient adjuster.

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Paul Sellers
Published 29 Oct 2021

Can a homemade wooden router plane give you what an all-metal one gives you? It absolutely can!

There are detailed drawings and parts list available here: https://paulsellers.com/router-plane-…

Paul has wanted to answer the need for a low-cost hand router plane that does not, in any way, take second place to any of the established ones made by Stanley and Record in the last century. Neither does it compromise on the utility offered by any of the high-end expensive ones.

This episode is Paul’s answer to a worldwide problem of supply and demand and he guarantees that you will not only love making your own, fully adjustable router plane, but also owning one for a lifetime of work.

Can’t wait for Episode 2 to be released next week? You can watch it it here for free: https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com/…

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Paul Sellers
Published 2 Jul 2021

Understanding what pressures to apply to your Stanley and Record planes enable you to fully adjust your bench plane in seconds. This video is a good start and shows the reasoning behind get the exact pressures right.
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Paul Sellers
Published 18 Jun 2021

Starting out with a bench plane can be daunting and, especially is this so, if you don’t understand the mechanisms that work to adjust the settings.

In this case, I discuss how to use the lateral adjustment lever that enables you to set the cutting edge of the plane iron parallel to the face of the sole. This unique feature revolutionised the adjustability of alignment to make it quick and simple to do but, more than that, it allowed us to immediately compensate when we hone our plane irons out of square.
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Paul Sellers
Published 4 Jun 2021

No matter who you are, wherever you are in the world, if you follow me at all, you will know that I am always refining my woodworking and my wood with a #4 Stanley bench plane.

You can buy them secondhand and enjoy them as I have throughout a lifetime of woodworking. Follow my channel here to find out how to restore them, fine-tune them, maintain them and use them. You will not regret it!

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Paul Sellers
Published 22 Apr 2021

You can 20 expert woodworkers about what distance to set the cap iron (chip-breaker in the USA) fore-edge to the cutting edge and get 20 different suggestions. Why? Because generally speaking, it is undefined. I personally find that 1/32″ (1mm) works well but watch this video and you will see that you can set it anywhere between 1/32″ and 1/8″ and it will still cut nicely. Myth and mysteries often have no real substance to them so, this is done to bust them.
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Paul Sellers
Published 8 Apr 2021

This little-used terrier of a plane has many different uses, not the least of which is the final fitting of awkward to reach places like the insides of cabinets to ease the fit of elements such as doors and drawers.

This video shows how to use the bullnose and set one up, and will help you to make a more educated assessment as to whether you might want to own one or not.
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Paul Sellers
Published 5 Feb 2021

Tricks of the trade were at once, hidden from others, even within the trade itself. Paul is passing on many of those tricks as he can to ensure they get used by those that matter the most; those who love woodworking as much as he does can keep these tricks alive.

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Paul Sellers
Published 22 Jan 2021

Thinking of buying a block plane? Watch this first!

I have owned a block plane for all of my woodworking years, that’s 56 years to date, but I have to say that this plane is a plane I might pull out from the shelf once or twice a month. The thing to remember is that most of the time it will not do what you think it should do and it has very little value as a first plane.

Add it if you think you might have a need of it but don’t buy it because you think it’s cute. It’s probably the last in the list of planes I would buy.

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