Lone Woodworking

In my choice of individuality, I mostly engage in lone woodworking. There aren’t too many of us out there. My work includes writing, drawing, designing and photography too, but the bulk of my day is still making at the workbench in non-commercial, non-industrial ways. I took myself off of the conveyor belt almost before the...

Source

from Paul Sellers' Blog https://ift.tt/eA4qREg
via IFTTT

Editor?

I’ve been writing down my life’s work working as an artisan from childhood in school woodworking to today. It’s a book yet to be but it’s well on its way. I may be getting ahead of myself but it’s planning. I will need an editor who will edit my work and life writing without editing...

Read the full post Editor? on Paul Sellers' Blog.

from Paul Sellers' Blog https://ift.tt/NdVPSXG
via IFTTT

Opinions Matter…

…sometimes. We are all entitled to them but are we really? As we should have learned from my introducing a screw to a dovetail joint hidden beneath a tabletop never to be seen in an oak piece I made. A gazillion comments showed hundreds of erroneous opinions that have been passed down for decades via...

Read the full post Opinions Matter… on Paul Sellers' Blog.

from Paul Sellers' Blog https://ift.tt/OzV8tGn
via IFTTT

C-Channel is Overrated!

Looking for my Backside…Sandnaper? Go here!

In my nearly 20 years of woodworking, I have never used C-channel for anything. That’s primarily due to the fact that I rarely work with live edge slabs, which are really one of the few instances where I think C-channel makes sense. In the last few years I’ve noticed a lot of people using C-channel in situations that don’t call for it, such as when making standard table tops from a series of glued-up boards. I’m guessing folks have seen so many live edge projects being made with C-channel that they assume the extra reinforcement is also necessary when  making regular table tops. Don’t get me wrong, if you want to use c-channel as something of an insurance policy, all the power to you, but don’t do it under the illusion that it’s actually necessary. In this video I’ll show you just a few of the many examples of table tops I’ve made that are still flat, but without any more reinforcement than what’s provided by the base structure.

Now before anyone starts sending finger farts in my direction, I understand that wood is a natural product and there’s always a chance a table top will misbehave. It happens. But if the wood is properly dried, stored, milled, constructed, and attached to a solid base structure, there’s an incredibly high probability that the top will remain flat for generations. So think long and hard before you plunk down the cash and invest the extra trim involved in assaulting your table top with C-channel.

For tips and tricks on making panels that stay flat, check out this video! 

The post C-Channel is Overrated! appeared first on The Wood Whisperer.

from The Wood Whisperer https://ift.tt/OEIgTl5
via IFTTT

Tell us about your home!

It’s Katrina (Paul’s daughter in law). Paul is making all the furniture for his Oxfordshire home. The next area he will be making furniture for is not a room, but a little mezzanine on the landing in the upstairs hall. It’s not a large space but just big enough for a home office. A space...

Read the full post Tell us about your home! on Paul Sellers' Blog.

from Paul Sellers' Blog https://ift.tt/2zEkho6
via IFTTT

Two Workshop Tools . . .

. . . no one should be without. And it was you who said it, not me! But I somehow can’t help but agree. Some things craftsmen did as a rule never got written down and I gained from these mostly unwritten gems throughout my life as a full-time joiner and furniture maker. These things,...

Read the full post Two Workshop Tools . . . on Paul Sellers' Blog.

from Paul Sellers' Blog https://ift.tt/YOtxH9z
via IFTTT

I’m First There

I cycle along the cycle paths surrounding town, houses one side, fields the other. Each contradicts the other for a few miles – fast cars towards me on my left and pedestrians on my right. In a year or two the fields I have known will soon be a thousand new houses. I take a...

Read the full post I’m First There on Paul Sellers' Blog.

from Paul Sellers' Blog https://ift.tt/OTo8i36
via IFTTT