Reply To: Paul Sellers' Working Wood 1 & 2: The Artisan Course
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It probably depends on your skill/experience level, how you learn and what you want to get out of it.
I bought this book three years ago without the DVD and found it very useful even without the DVDs. I still refer back to it frequently.
As a total beginner, this book + Paul’s youtube channel was more than enough for me to learn way more than any other sources.
The book is very clear has good sections on basic joinery techniques as well as some suggested projects. All of the suggested projects are described in detail and can be made without the DVDs, although the DVDs would no doubt help with some subtleties were they available.
The projects are perhaps not as involved or complex as some of those on WWMC, but they start simple and build up.
Even the “simpler” projects have a skill-building component that usually makes me wish I had made the the ones I skipped because I thought they looked too simple and I wanted to get on with making something “proper” that I wanted. Paul wins again.