{"id":99324,"date":"2025-11-29T04:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=99324"},"modified":"2025-11-28T14:57:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:57:40","slug":"exploring-hand-tool-woodworking-paul-sellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/11\/29\/exploring-hand-tool-woodworking-paul-sellers\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Hand Tool Woodworking | Paul Sellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/syLzcxqLLIA?si=iCNtlbkbvoH3bETs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Paul Sellers<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 28 Nov 2025<\/p>\n<p>Most of the woodworkers I come to meet have lost any working knowledge of just how efficient and effective hand tools are in daily woodworking, and yet I have used them to make my living for 60 years. Not only have they lost the skills and knowledge, but they have lost belief in themselves and the ability to use them. <\/p>\n<p>With our team, I have spent three decades training hundreds of thousands of woodworkers worldwide to use the methods I was raised with as an apprentice, and they are discovering that hand tools are not outdated or outmoded. <\/p>\n<p>Watch this video and ask yourselves, if you couldn&#8217;t use tools just like these in your day-to-day woodworking.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Want to learn more about woodworking?<\/p>\n<p>Go to Woodworking Masterclasses for weekly project episodes: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2JeH3a9\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2JeH3a9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go to Common Woodworking for step-by-step beginner guides and courses: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/35VQV2o\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/35VQV2o<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2BXmuei\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2BXmuei<\/a> for Paul&#8217;s latest ventures on his blog <\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Instagram: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2oWpy7W\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2oWpy7W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/33S7RFa\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/33S7RFa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pinterest: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/35X5uTf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/35X5uTf<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Sellers Published 28 Nov 2025 Most of the woodworkers I come to meet have lost any working knowledge of just how efficient and effective hand tools are in daily woodworking, and yet I have used them to make my living for 60 years. Not only have they lost the skills and knowledge, but they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,161],"tags":[1415,1140,1156,1177,1232],"class_list":["post-99324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools","category-woodworking","tag-chisels","tag-handtools","tag-joinery","tag-paulsellers","tag-planes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pQ0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99325,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99324\/revisions\/99325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}