Sellers Home Wardrobe: Episode 8
Posted 2 August 2023
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As with any project, it’s finalising the small details that make the biggest impact on our art. You will see many tricks-of-the-trade tips being applied minute by minute, ranging from adapting and adopting tools for non-standard applications to creating moulded edges designed to strengthen the outcome of shelving, etc. We shape and fit the nosings to carry the appearance of strength and to finish off elements in a solid manner, yet continue for the main part to rely on hand tool woodworking throughout. The rigidity of the wardrobe comes together when we cut and fit a full sheet of Baltic birch plywood into the rebates we created. At the end of this episode, we have all of the plywood shelving and back fitted, and installed and moulded the outer facings to shape. We also shape and fit the feet to the wardrobe facing too.
The space between the shelf and the pole looks really tight. Can you still get hangers on it ok? Or maybe it’s just the camera angle.
Maybe there is a Paul Sellers cloth hanger project coming up next? 🙂
It fits a standard clothes hanger. It was tested!
Is Paul accidentally using a Phillips screwdriver bit to drive Posidrive screws? I think that’s why the tip cams out each time he drives a screw in.
Yes, I’ve noticed that too. It happens in many of Paul’s projects and it always makes me cringe. It is all the more surprising when he constantly reminds us to be sensitive to the wood and tools we use. It won’t make dismantling the wardrobe any easier!
More likely he is using Phillips screws, which are designed to cam out. They were developed in the 1930’s for automotive assembly line and crammed out so installers on the assembly line didn’t break off screws.
https://www.hagerty.com/media/maintenance-and-tech/that-phillips-head-screw-isnt-what-you-think-it-is/
First used on the Cadillac line, I think.
Invented right here in Portland, OR.
Mr. Paul Sellers and the rest of the production team
Hello everyone, I enjoyed this project. The panels that were made for the project is close to what I used for making a hamper. Not as good as Paul though. I like it and it gives a beautiful effect on the project. The techniques used in making this project helps me a lot. It gives me ideas on other projects and methods for construction.
All the best to everyone. God Bless
Your friend from Canada Dennis