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September 21, 2021

Why Paul Sellers likes the #4 Plane | Paul Sellers

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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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July 24, 2021

How to Set a Cap Iron | Paul Sellers

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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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July 18, 2021

How to Set up & use a Bullnose Plane | Paul Sellers

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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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July 2, 2021

How to Edge Joint Two Boards by Hand | Paul Sellers

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Paul Sellers
Published 19 Mar 2021

Simple things are often hidden in the age of mass information. I put this simple explanation and demonstration together to show you how our fears and doubts are all too often unfounded.

With a little understanding of what’s really happening beneath the plane sole, we can restore methods of working into our daily lives working wood and the result will be new levels of confidence.
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June 20, 2021

What’s the Difference between Crosscut and Ripcut Saws? | Paul Sellers

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Paul Sellers
Published 5 Mar 2021

To understand the difference between ripcut and crosscut saws, you must look at the way the teeth are shaped.

There are two types of sawtooth, chisel point as in rip-cut and pinnacle or pyramid point which are three-sided culminating into a sharp point. With the ripcut saw, it’s the chisel edges to each of the teeth that slice along the long grain. The crosscut saw relies on both the sharp point and then the side bevel to the front and back of each tooth. I think that this video will help you to see the difference!
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May 31, 2021

When to use Bevel up or Bevel Down with a Chisel | Paul Sellers

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Paul Sellers
Published 23 Feb 2021

Bevel up or bevel down chisel work? This question comes up often because for some reason, mainly from school woodworking, kids are taught to remove waste from a housing dado, recess, or other using only the bevel down. In reality, however, we need to be ready to use both or one or the other at different times. I hope that this video will help to show alternative ways and also show just how very versatile the chisel is for various applications.

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May 10, 2021

How to use a Scrub Plane | Paul Sellers

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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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May 4, 2021

Why not to use a Block Plane | Paul Sellers

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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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Want to learn more about woodworking?

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April 19, 2021

How to Crosscut Square with a Handsaw | Paul Sellers

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Paul Sellers
Published 8 Jan 2021

Having struggles cutting square with a hand saw?

Paul has put this video together to show exactly how he does it to get perfectly square end cuts across the grain that are always square in both directions.

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April 2, 2021

10 Quick Woodworking Tips (03) | Paul Sellers

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Paul Sellers
Published 22 Dec 2020

Paul is back again bringing you another 10 Quick Woodworking Tips!

Every Tuesday Paul uploads a quick 15 second “Tuesday Tip” to his Instagram stories. You can join Paul on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/paul.a.j.se…

Let us know your favourite tip in the comments!
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March 12, 2021

How to use a Shooting Board | Paul Sellers

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Paul Sellers
Published 11 Dec 2020

If you have never used a shooting board for squaring up the ends of wood and finalising rough-cut mitres, you are in for a treat.

Nothing works so beautifully for perfecting such cuts, and the pure bliss of slicing off those onion skins to seat the two faces perfectly is second to none. It’s self-explanatory to make one of these, but showing it in use demystifies how they work and why they work so very well. You must make one for yourself. It’s another lifetime piece of equipment for the cost of wood scraps and an hour of your time!
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March 7, 2021

How to Layout Dovetails with Equal Pins | Paul Sellers

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Paul Sellers
Published 27 Nov 2020

Dividing for dovetails using an angled line makes it easier to layout for equally sized dovetails but the standard method used leaves half pins on the outside edges. In some projects, this can be a weak point.

This video shows you how to layout for equally sized dovetails and pins. In this case, the board is 5 1/4″ (133.35mm), and we want five 1/2″ (12.7mm) pins and four dovetails but this system can be adapted to any variation of numbers and pins sizes.
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February 4, 2021

How to Sharpen a Gouge | Paul Sellers

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Paul Sellers
Published 13 Mar 2017

Paul shows how to sharpen a gouge using his standard method, rocking the gouge side to side. He uses flat stones, in this case diamond stones in coarse (250), fine (600) and super fine (1200) grit, followed by a strop charged with buffing compound. Then you’re ready for carving.

For a beginner friendly guide on sharpening a gouge, see our sister site: https://commonwoodworking.com/sharpen…

For more information on these topics, see https://paulsellers.com or https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com

October 4, 2020

Upcycling a Layout Knife | Paul Sellers

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Paul Sellers
Published 27 May 2016

Paul shows how you can re-purpose and sharpen any old kitchen knife to serve as a layout knife that works as well as any other you can buy.

For more information on these topics, see https://paulsellers.com or https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com

August 27, 2020

How to Make a Poor Man’s Hand Router | Paul Sellers

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Paul Sellers
Published 10 Dec 2012

Paul Sellers shows how to make a “Poor Man’s Router”. This is a hand router that helps with cutting housings, dados, tenons and other recesses. It helps guarantee a consistent depth of cut. A useful hand tool for any woodworker!

To read more about the router plane, visit: https://commonwoodworking.com/router-plane-guide/

To find out more about Paul Sellers visit: http://paulsellers.com and for more project videos visit: https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com/video-library/

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