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Even the Big Box stores that offer price protection on their products still require the buyer to apply for it. If sellers were required to notify every past buyer of a sale, sellers would never be...

Paul Sellers does make a concerted effort to minimize the number of tools that he uses in his project builds. And he does periodically go off-piste and show alternative methods. For example, in one...

Chris Schwarz makes that recommendation in his Anarchist Tool Chest book, where he is trying to list what he considers to be the minimal toolkit. Basically, he describes a toolkit that would fit...

I should note that Paul Sellers regularly uses a 2-sided Shinto rasp in his project videos for various shaping tasks.

One of the things that can surprise beginners (like myself) is how quickly a...

And there are plenty of DMMs for sale in the usual places.

Paul Sellers Youtube channel currently has 336 videos, as he does periodically add some of his older paid projects to the channel for free. He also has some various livestream and "tips and tricks"...

A provisional patent application is simply a placeholder; it is not even examined by the patent office. You could file a provisional for a perpetual motion machine or a peanut butter sandwich and...

I found the Lie Nielsen honing guide helpful for sharpening plane irons when I was trying to figure out the whole sharpening thing. However, I quickly learned to ditch it when doing chisels in favor...

I find it works really well for me on chisels, and some plane irons. I feel the more I can sharpen freehand, the more frequently I'll sharpen, which is a good thing.

I'm still working out the...

Some of his blog posts are rambling monologues without much direction. His videos, both free and paid, are much better.



Sellers focuses on the #4 as the best plane for a beginner to start...

I'm not sure where it was implied anywhere that Sellers invented the technique. And from reading the comments, few, if any, subscribers seem to think Sellers invented the technique.

Sellers does not claim he invented the technique. He does make a claim that he coined the term "knife wall"; in the video, he mentions what he heard it called previously.

First, every business owner has to make their own value judgments as to how much to prioritize their business (and their respective customers) over the needs of their immediate families or other...

My assumption is that most PhD scientists either don't read Popular Science, or, if they do, they do it more out of curiosity than looking for information vital to their ongoing research. But, if...

Chris Schwarz's company, Lost Art Press, has published titles from several professional woodworkers from around the world, including Nancy Hiller, Peter Follansbee, Peter Galbert, the late Jennie...

Mike Siemsen built a Nicholson style workbench; his video, the Naked Woodworker, is available from Lost Art Press, along with plans. About the only difficult part is that at one point you may need...

The WR 5 1/2 was the first "premium" plane I purchased. Great deal and works really well. Not much difference in cost from used these days once you pay shipping and materials and time needed to...

Warning: the following advice is from a rank beginner.

Sharpening can be a very confusing topic, just because the detailed methods are very much individual preference, often based on experience....

Brandon:

I'm a rank beginner; actually I've been a rank beginner for a while, but I have gotten much better at sharpening. And I've screwed up my fair share of blades while learning. So I'll add...

Fair enough. You viewed 3 of his free videos and found them lacking. I just wanted to address a couple of potential misconceptions about Sellers and what he was trying to do in the above videos.
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As a newbie who does subscribe to Sellers' videos, I want to point out that his instruction is most helpful. And his videos are top notch both in production quality and in the ability to instruct...

To be fair to Paul Sellers, he does recommend a #5 for edge jointing in some of his videos.

To address a couple of comments, Crucible makes it very clear on their ordering page that you need to sharpen the dividers, and have included a video and text instructions. From the video, it would...

The blog on Crucible Tools' site explains in some detail why their dividers cost what they do, and why they leave some fine tuning up to the user. Obviously, they are not going to be for everyone,...

I'll start by saying I'm a rank beginner at this whole sharpening thing, as hand tool woodworking is a relatively new hobby for me. So I cannot offer advice, only my perspective instead. So my...