How to make a Housing Dado Joint - The Three Joints - | Paul Sellers 

I have finally found the best woodworking channel on RU-vid. You don't overly rely on power tools, which saved me from losing interest in the craft since almost every other channel I would see would say you need all of these large, fancy, bolted down machines. Im only 13 and teaching myself with videos, so this is very good for a novice as well as an expert. Thanks Paul.

The Gaming Ostrich Same here. I live in a flat, so there's no way I can have something resembling a proper workshop. I have to buy wood already cut to size and then...improvise. These videos open up the possibility to actually built something that isn't just held together by screws and brackets!

Thank you Paul. You make it look so easy and are a true inspiration!

Does anyone know of a good reliable place to help me identify my Grandfathers plane.

@glyn hodges I work so slowly and make so many mistakes that few people could afford my hobby projects either, even at minimum wage, lol.

Your 22 words did the job nicely...

Very true

+Jonny Ross well said

+Jonny the man 23 I agree, I wish I was his apprentice.

I just started and I find an ancient, profound wisdom in his craft

You are all virtual apprentices of Paul.

Agreed. However he'll only have time to build a handful of pieces in one lifetime at this rate.

Next, we are going to paint a happy little tree...

Bob Ross of woodworking

Best comment!

Try our www.commonwoodworking.com too. It's about new people and what's needed to get started in so many areas with hand tools.

Agreed, especially for hobby level work or low production. Machine work just allows for larger scale production, and it could be argued less "skill" as you can rely on the machine more. Each has their place.

When it comes to starting out all you need is cheap set of chisels, hand plane, hammer and hand saw. Those four basic sets of tools can really get you started. Hand tool woodworking is a declining art and if you can get good at that you will be able to make things that people using machines cannot.

Paul has an incredible video on maintaining important edges...watch and learn!

"Sleep-inducing"? Well, it's each to his own, but I find these videos so fascinating, I must watch every bit right to the end. "Riveting" would be a better description, from *my* point of view!

Offshoreorganbuilder Just trying to be cheeky... He is a real craftsman!

It's nice that we can do this without fancy tools, but in watching this I'm thinking it would take a LONG time to build anything at this rate.

Make a hundred boxes with dovetail joints and you will become really good at it. And you will get to the point that you can almost match people using machines for speed. If you can make a tenon and dovetail joint you can make anything.

Totally, It also helps for when you have a power outage in your shop for a week.

@@Erowens98 Machinists are not woodworkers.

@@bighands69 the difference between a chisel and a CNC mill is competely arbitrary. They are both machines meant to help you process a material. Woodworkers can absolutely use powered tools.

@@Erowens98 When you are working in fine woodworking the human mind and body are judging the dimension of the segment of wood and making fractional adjustments to the grain of the wood and hardness of the wood. To somebody that is not a real woodworker they would not understand what I am talking about. People think just getting an accurate machines it the same as a human hand making it. Wood carving by a master is orders of magnitude greater than anything a machine can perform. There are no machines that can match a hand plane when it comes to the finish of wood.

@@bighands69 Get over yourself. Virtually every professional woodworker on earth uses a mix of power tools and hand tools today. And they are capable of achieving exquisite results. Using power tools does not prevent your eyes from making judgements. There is nothing mystical about hand tools that someone result in a more pure finished result than power tools. The tools you use should not effect the grain or hardness of the wood. The only way you can effect that, is by either soaking it, or crushing it. Neither of which are typically desirable. Your magical fingers will not increased the quality of the wood in any way. There are absolutely situations where hand tools make sense. Your example of hand planes is one. But that does not mean that using power tools is invalid. One can absolutely use a thickness planer to bring a board down close to size, and then run a hand plane over it to remove the wave effect, and end up with the exact same result as if he had done the whole thing with a hand plane in a fraction of the time. As someone who has worked as a professional woodworker who regularly produces fine furniture to order. You're full of shit when you claim using machines is "not woodworking" .

I need a time machine so I can gain about 30 some years of experience with making things from wood.