How to make a Simple Bookcase | Paul Sellers

[@richardrearick1975]

I’ve been following Paul Sellers and have been able to complete several of his projects for my children. I have no words strong enough to express my gratitude for his teachings.

[@egonmilanowski]

I love these videos where you see the project from start to finish. I am not sure how the algorithm feels about it, but these are great! Thank you for sharing.

[@vh9040]

Thanks for not using too much music in this video. I love hearing the sound of the tools being used; being able to listen to it is really educational.

[@SilverbackWoodworks]

started following Paul about 12-14 years ago. all i have to show for it is a house full of furniture and tons of pieces in other’s homes as well. i learned on hand tools and committed to not buying a power tool until I didn’t need it. I love handtools, but I leave the donkey work for the power tools now. I don’t enjoy thickessing or chopping mortises much anymore, but most joinery and finish work is done with my chisels, planes, chisel hammer, etc. I’ve used the knife wall for example everyday for a decade as well as hand sawing and shooting boards, router planes and hand planes. thanks Paul.

[@marchebert9813]

If he starts icing cakes, I'll subscribe to that channel. If he walks dogs, I'd watch that. He is truly amazing. His kids won the lottery!

[@mattevans-koch9353]

Thank you Paul for demonstrating the build of this beautiful bookcase. What I enjoy most about your videos is the thorough demonstration of each type of joint and the fact that I can view them at my bench on my laptop. It is like having you instructing at my bench.

[@fatroberto3012]

There is a whole new level of camera work in this video!

[@davidchisholm4031]

Great stuff. More of this long form content please.

[@paulhopkins1720]

Been looking forward to getting home from work and watching this all day, thoroughly enjoyed. Most nights I'm "wasting time" on KZbin but tonight I feel I have invested 2+ hours. As always a pleasure to watch, Thank you!

[@מעייןהמלבלבתחייםםםם]

Thanks for sharing! It is a privilege learning from you!

[@bill4123]

Stepping drawer bottoms in the same way you have shown us with the dados, is my favorite way to make drawer bottoms. No more questioning the thickness of the plywood. Instead, stepping in down to fit my plow plane.

[@Mario_DiSanto]

This is perfect timing! I was just buying lumber to build a bookshelf. Thanks as always Paul.

[@miguelangelvera6330]

Bendiciones maestro, desde Piriapolis Uruguay ❤

[@dalekitson1666]

Excellent video, great to watch in one go.

[@TheFishingExperience916]

I think paul had me on his ad listening list cause i was looking for videos on how to make a book case and he come out with a video the same week that's incredible

[@vscfalcon]

Thank you so much for this, Paul!

[@nikolausreinke9966]

Thank you Paul. No rocket science in any way. I love your approach at keeping the measuring to the lowest possible limit. It’s a pity that your top piece has been bending so much. But you proved that it really doesn’t matter. Thumbs up, very uplifting.

[@mm9773]

Hand routers are excellent marking gauges. This is one of those moments when a larger tool collection actually becomes useful: I’d love to have an extra router that I could leave at the final depth and use for marking and finishing.

[@pettere8429]

Take a less useful chisel and make a poor man's router with it and set it for the final depth?

[@frankrichter2556]

Thank you so much for this great lesson on how to create beautiful and very precise furniture with only the essential tools. For most of us it is already difficult to obtain precisely prepared wood.

[@nickmastro9287]

Another beautiful project. It is so nice and helpful to follow Mr Sellers from beginning to end on a project. Thank you for sharing.

[@johnproctor464]

"that's just tough", haha still laughing. wonderful. Beed watching and learning from you for years. Love it.

[@robertr4193]

This is a very nice looking cabinet/bookcase. I like the wood grain and pattern and color of the Walnut you chose for this piece. Nicely done.

[@rodrigoromero-by8os]

Thank you very much ! Gracias por su generosidad de darnos esta clase. Me gustan estos videos largos sin edición, en donde se ve el trabajo en tiempo real.

[@roberteduardtecsy2527]

Absolutely amazing, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge with us, keep up the great work.

[@crazynthree]

"My middle one, is in the middle" 🤣

[@chlan1536]

Yeah, it's amazing (every time) to see how life long experience lets you do things right "out of hand". One of the things, why I love watching Paul Sellers

[@OperationDarkside]

Is the world going to end tomorrow? This is exactly what I needed today.

[@LinauLee]

Paul, you are the best. What a beautiful bookshelf & a great video, as well!

[@georgegriffiths2235]

Love it Paul I am the son of a cabinet maker he wouldn’t let me follow him into the trade but technically you could say i apprenticed under him from the age of 6 became a Boilermaker welder carried his ethics into my trade now at 69 I am showing my grandson things he taught me another grandson is in his first year diploma in joinery

[@DrShaggy]

Wonderful woodworker, wonderful project and wonderful human being. A true inspiration. Loads of respect and love. BTW, can you please mention the finish you were using?

[@AlbertSchmidt-u8i]

This video made a hard concept easy.

[@jimsuber6784]

Beautiful

[@vscfalcon]

Good evening, Paul. In your long form videos where you do multiple identical cuts (like the 8 dados in this shelf), could you do the follow-on segments (the ones after you show us how to do the first dados) like how you would actually do it for “your” ease of making, and not for “our” viewing ease? I just want to have an idea how you would do it without taking our viewing angle into account. And you can maybe do a voiceover explaining it. Thanks again!

[@leeryder4817]

“It’s how you work, not what you make “ I’ve just wrote this on my bench with a marker pen.

[@1deerndingo]

I like your technique. What is in your finish? And for myeducation why didn't you use a #78 rebate plane to take out the bulk of the rebate on the end of the board. I'm not saying you should have. I'm just educating myself about why you didn't. Thank you for a great video.

[@sarel5145]

Always masterful woodworking! In terms of the finish, what kind of finish did you use? Thanks for highly professional content Paul!

[@ziggen78]

Grazie🎉❤

[@Honman0029]

"flip over to real money" :)

[@crazynthree]

I chuckled for a moment and thought that's something my grandad would have said 🤣

[@keith121261]

Hi Paul is this American black walnut or English please I’ve used black walnut for London pattern chisel handle’s and yes lovely to work with

[@pettere8429]

Would there be any advantage to make a half sliding dovetail instead of the dadoes?

[@antoniosantos1002]

I was not aware of this channel. Are the projects on this channel different from the Masterclasses projects? Are they also available there?

[@Clark42EoC]

Yeah I spent 160 dollars on a lie nielsen router plane and it has a long groove on the underside of the sole...that groove more often then not mars the surface of my work >.>

[@uriel-heavensguardian8949]

💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

[@TimothyHall13]

Do you have a sketch with the dimensions of the kick and top boards? I estimate 4" for the kick and 2 1/2" for the top?

[@donjohnson8779]

what was the finish? and were can I get it in the US?

[@vh9040]

Look to me like tung oil or boiled linseed oil blended with a solvent and wax

[@grumpasav]

Paul, Your router plane kit appears to be out of stock - will you be getting more in?

[@Paul.Sellers]

Yes, they are on their way.

[@cornerliston]

OMG where's me socks gone!?

[@TheMrWoodsman]

a video over 2 hours long? just dont have the time to watch it.

[@grumpasav]

Your loss. Paul's videos are the best available and well worth taking the time to watch.

[@brianbarney1885]

Watch in segments as you have time, well worth it.

[@chrisherbert2444]

54:24 could you use your router plane rather than the chisel for that rebate? And why the chisel if you could use the router plane?

[@pauljarine]

21:28 what would people use instead of a router plane?

[@Paul.Sellers]

You could try the "Poor Man's Router" paulsellers.com/2012/03/poor-mans-router-it-works/

[@getaswordactual8766]

Chisel maybe

[@chrisbell8207]

graphic at 4:42 says 1 1/4" instead of 1 3/4"