This is one of our very early woodworking masterclasses series from 2013.
Woodworking masterclasses paul sellers. The list below is paul s latest videos on youtube. He is also the presenter at woodworking masterclasses where he teaches members to make furniture using a minimum of tools and equipment. Paul s gentle spirit comes through on the videos which makes learning hand tool woodworking therapeutic terry gandy. The resulting projects we have made in just six or so months of online broadcast is phenomenal and the youtube.
Watch paul sellers as he teaches you how to make a mortise and tenon joint one of the three most common woodworking joints. You can find out more about paul over on his blog. In being a part of the woodworking masterclasses i feel i am being taught to work wood by a 19th century master woodworker which is truly awesome. In this episode we develop the recess for housing the mirror using the gouge the knife the chisel and the router plane followed by the poor man s router plane made specifically for this mirror recessing project.
Paul s tutorials helped a worldwide audience access woodworking information online which inspired paul and his son joseph to create woodworking masterclasses in 2012. In this first episode paul shows how to prepare the wood and cut the tails for the dovetails. Obviously the price would differ from wood to wood but let s say for argument i could choose between oak pine and mahogany roughly how much might this tool chest cost to make in each wood i m very new to wood working so i have very little knowledge about sourcing wood and how much i should be paying for it. The mortise and tenon is a strong joint that can withstand all kinds of.
More recently they launched the sister site common woodworking in 2018. Already the range of projects has become fundamental to the various training sessions members and subscribers on that website undertake. Paul sellers videos cover a wide variety of woodworking topics.