Best Paul Sellers' quotes
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16 May 2017 at 6:12 pm #312011
I was just reading Paul’s blog post from August, 2016 entitled “Don’t Give Up” and came across the following quote:
“Don’t fail yourself by dishonesty.”
I really liked his answer to a question in a Reddit AMA three years ago.
Someone asked: “[…] at what point in your journey did things stop becoming a struggle and start becoming second nature?”
And he wrote: “When I stopped trying to impress other people with my skills.”
You can find the whole AMA here.
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“This is you, coming into a relationship with the wood in a very, very different way. You are learning – not pastrami cutter, microwave woodworking. We are talking about patience, kindness, and things like that.”
2010, The Woodworking Show, Atalanta Georgia, USA
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You must be logged in to view attached files.30 June 2017 at 5:53 pm #313372“Now comes the boring bit…” graps a brace and starts the fun part of the project
I really loved the quote from the Joiners Toolbox series, when he was making the hinge mortise.
I parafrase:“I was 15 years old when I did my first hinge mortise, and it looked like a rat had gnawed it out. Honestly, the rat probably would’ve done a better job”
I really cracked up on this joke, which also gave confidence as he has been struggling with woodworking as well in his first years of becoming the master he is now.
6 September 2017 at 6:16 pm #315592best dig at the expense of poor craftsmanship ” maybe for a garden gate or something”
13 September 2017 at 7:52 pm #315903The thing I like most about Paul’s instruction is you get the sense he’s an incredibly patient teacher. So one small slip from a video sticks in my mind, I forget which video or what he was doing but he says something to the effect that if such and such happens “you’ve already failed”. He then immediately gets a pained look on his face and says “I shouldn’t have said that”.
Even when making a video for a hypothetical audience he’s thinking about how to encourage and not discourage the student. That is a rare attribute in a teacher.
15 September 2017 at 5:53 am #315930One I liked was from the Finishing with Shellac video and he says something to effect of “…And I am going to seal off the end grain here… Because that is who I am” I love that one because it reflects the thoroughness thoughtfulness he puts into his work and how it is tied to his identity.
Another one I liked being an American of British descent and loving Brit slang in general is “that Leonard Bailey really knew his onions when it came to hand planes.”
25 October 2017 at 9:33 pm #341136I don’t recall the video but he is making a vertical cut in a board that’s clamped in the vise (likely rip cut) and says
“stop when you get to the blue bit. that’s the vise.”31 October 2017 at 5:44 pm #345335In the assembly table series. Shaping the legs. Ooohie a knot,what to do. Stop and make tea.
12 January 2018 at 8:34 pm #436103‘Never mind the blood there, I caught a splinter but I’m not going to cry” in workbench episode 6.
15 January 2018 at 10:35 pm #439716As close as I can remember:
You can see the blood there but not to worry, I caught a splinter but I’m not going to cry about it.
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