This video is a rant on the state of vintage tools on the market.... Read more

This stick chair features some of my favorite details on older chairs: low side stretchers (with no medial stretcher), plus faceted short sticks and a newly designed skinny armbow. I’m selling it via a random drawing. Details on the drawing are below. Here are some notes on the chair. This comb-back chair is set up...... Read more

I developed this strategy to give me repeat cuts from a single guide and I can slide up or down the guide to give me different sizes of dovetails within fractions of a millimetre if I want an alternative size from as little as half a millimetre on half pins with 1 mm on full... Read the full post Repeatable, Scaleable Dovetails From a Single Layout on Paul Sellers' Blog.... Read more

I don’t like making up names for furniture components. Not because I want to be pedantic. But because I want to avoid confusion. If something has a name (fiddleback maple) I would rather use that name than make one up (maple on a lot of acid). One name that has escaped me for years is...... Read more

I finished the DVD bookshelf I started yesterday and I already need another one. I found more woodworking DVDs and the current bookshelf can't hold them all. I have some stock set aside to make a bookshelf that I planned on giving it to my sister Kam. I was hoping to get it planed to a 1/2" with the lunchbox planer but the weather forecast has it raining all day tomorrow. Tuesday is supposed to rain free but have high... Read more

Another fascinating aspect of this build is that you’ll witness the usefulness of chalk paint. It dries quickly and sands easily due to its chalky texture, which helps level out brush marks. Although ready-made chalk paints can be quite expensive, I’ll show you how to make a homemade version at a fraction of the price.... Read more

I left early Thursday morning for my two-and-a-half-hour car drive to Cambridge. I’d filled up with petrol the day before and was ready for the drag to my destination. Halfway there you hit a place called Milton Keynes where every half mile or so you hit a roundabout (circle USA), either side of that the... Read the full post A Uniquely Different Day on Paul Sellers' Blog.... Read more

As Nancy Hiller famously said, “It’s all problems.” We will move the remainder of our inventory into the Anthe building during the first week in October. The three semis have been scheduled. We have a plan. But until that moment the first truck arrives on Oct. 2, we have to move a few mountains. It...... Read more

Ophelia is supposed to hit North Carolina today but my wife said it is north of High Point. It isn't a hurricane but it does have high winds and a lot of rain. We are getting some of that here in RI. It has been dismal looking all day with rain coming down off and on. The weather seers predict the rain will stop sometime on Monday. It isn't raining in the shop so I don't really care. goneThis is one... Read more

I’ve been getting ready for the wheelbarrow class in a couple weeks, including building some test wheels. Here’s a finished wheel: Oops! Wrong photo!  Here’s a finished wheel: Well, at least the wooden parts are done – now it’s off to Peter Ross’s to shrink the tire on. Making wheels is really fun! I’ve learned […] The post It’s round! first appeared on Elia Bizzarri - Hand Tool Woodworking.... Read more

After much debating with myself on whether or not I should make a video on the build, I decided to go ahead and do it. The reason for doing it is that it makes me… More... Read more

We just finished up the chair class with students selected by Chairmakers Toolbox, and we are both inspired and exhausted. Building eight stick chairs in five days with limited tools is no joke. But working with a group of chair-crazy enthusiastic young woodworkers gives me hope for the future of our craft. So today I...... Read more

 My wife left for High point this AM at oh dark 35 and when I last checked her position it was Greensboro, NC which isn't too far my daughter's house. I wish I could have gone with her but with my prostate headaches it isn't feasible. So I will have about two plus weeks of no adult supervision. No company but two cats who are incredibly indifferent to my presence outside of treat and dinner times. It is looking like... Read more

 ....and dried up all the rain. So Jon, the riven oak joiner, got out his froe again....I've mainly been hunkering inside while the storms raged, so hats off to all the brave souls who came to my Open Workshop. The gazebo survived; even though it's screwed down to the concrete; it still nearly went into kite mode in the gales the other day.So, good to get out in the sunshine and do some actual riving.Some rail and stile stock for... Read more

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.... Read more