Sometimes I’m questioning myself when Paul sleeps, really. He writes thouthtfull articles. Ubiquitously he give presential coures in UK and EEUU simultaniously, and gift us with his extraordinarie and pacefull broadcast woodworking master classes every week, and sometimes he show us his inspirational workshop notebook.

Sideways, he helps me whith my yet poor oral english tongue 😉

I don’t miss the poetic moment when Paul carries and hangs his recent made clock at home, and a lot of apparently small moments on his teaching method, beyond the woodworking craft art.

This meritory man can take his sabbatical time when he likes. Sure, I don’t forget anything he teach me, and he teach me a lot.

I want also to thank you Joseph for your work, and trust me, I know what I’m talking about.

PD. Please, excuse my, still, poor english writing.

paul said the tool chest is coming soon. will it be next

Hi everyone,
Lot’s to talk about really. Thought it best to let everyone know the sabbatical is a change and not a preretirement rest. I have made no plans to withdraw from the pressures of working. I feel that I have spent almost quarter of a decade continuously involved in teaching and training in the US and the UK, Europe etc, that is far from over, in fact it may well increase as we take on more help from people to progress our vision for real woodworking as a campaign of change.
We will be keeping you posted on the different happenings, primarily because we need your continued support and inspiring contributions. We are limiting so we can expand. We certainly are not looking only to maintain or even reduce, but to increase so we can keep our craft alive and vibrant.
My health has never been a problem, though I confess a little artritis in my right knee from time to time. I find myself ever conscious of our changing world and the smallness we all feel to make things happen never mind create change. There are many hundredds of people like me that feel what I am talking about. I like the idea that we have contributed to changes in the world we are most involved in and that of course is working with wood.
I feel much more relaxed behind the cameras than when I first started. Now I can just be myself when the film crew comes over and we get together to teach on masterclasses. I think that that has been an important change for me. Much better than in the early days. Paying it forward has become something our team always had the vision for and now it’s really happening.
Magazines and catalogs listen to woodworkers more these days than they did in the early 60-90’s and that’s a positive step. Now we must target the devastation caused by educationalists and politicians. Not so easy I know,but I will talk about that later. They really blew it big time. Whether they will ever face the failures and admit it is doubtful. I am not talking about dedicated teachers here, I am talking about educational admin politics and of course the nation’s politicians who we trusted to have the best interests of the people at heart, for some naive reason.

Hi jose selling my English is a bit weak, that said I think it has to move and after making coffee table needed a project in which we can move the table that we did, that does not mean that there are two projects simultaneously, ie, one easier and one for people that spend time on this and need to advance learning. this reviewer??

Joseph Sellers wrote:

Hopefully some of them will start to teach. It will be a long road though as we will not have anyone leading classes without at least a few years experience.

@admin @paul-sellers

You may want to consider using advanced students for beginner classes. When I was learning to play the bagpipes, I had several excellent classes where we had a advanced student the first three days and then the master piper for the last day or two.

Just some thoughts, no hard feelings if you just ignore them.

Robin HC from Richmond VA