Fantastic Paul. Glad to see you're making an entire video dedicated to this one. Thanks for the fantastic information and helping make the internet a better place.
that's the most stunning thing about what he does. there are 1000 more ways that he could "monetise" his "content" than he does - so if a man doesn't want to get rich out of sharing knowledge, what does he want? he wants to share knowledge. decades of it.
"Its yours for the rest of your life"... love it... Thank you very much Paul for sharing in this most pleasant way. Nothing beats experience; huge respect.
I have been using this technique since you showed it on a video several years ago and it has made a world of difference in the quality of my cuts both by hand and with power tools. There is still a distance for me to go as a woodworker but these hints and techniques are making a tremendous difference in my enjoyment of this wonderful craft. Thank you so much for your videos.
My woodwork teacher, 70 years ago at Worsley Tech College Manchester, introduced me to "shoulder cutting" but todays slim knives enable much more accurate performance than the old marking knives. Having only recently become serious again about hand woodwork I am continuously reminded by your references to your KNIFE WALL and its extended uses together with the many other tricks you have shown us grateful viewers. Thank you Paul. Always excellent.
Dear Paul, I have been using this technique you have elaborated on in this video based on some earlier videos you have produced; and based on your extensive use of the Stanley Pocket Knife I also acquired said tool and it has been great. The one element in the success of the Technique is a very sharp marking knife and I think a short video on how you sharpen the Stanley Pocket Knife would possibly round of the explanation of the total technique. The blade is stainless steel and reestablishing on a very sharp edge on a ongoing basis may be of great value to your “RUclips Apprentices”. Thanks for all you help in my passion ; “hand woodworking “
Very important technique. Paul I just turned 65 and just got this passion to play with wood. Acquired chisels ,planes and various woodworking hand tools from parents old home. Most of the tools are dads and granddads. Going to attempt to use and get preficent with each. Been watching your vids for a while now. I just wish I started with wood as a young man. Sorry never spent time with pops when he did his small wood projects.. Always love watching you and your teaching ability. You make us all feel we can do it well. Thank you sir
The secondhand tool stall at my local market has a boxful of assorted small craft knives, snap-blade knives and so on, and the stallholder is quite happy for you to have a rummage through them. There are several knives of the type shown in this video, for £1 each; though you would have to clean them up & sharpen them
Mr. Sellers showed me a technique he doesn't talk about on this video, but he demonstrates it. That is to put the pencil or the knife on the mark, then move the straightedge or the combo square up to it, then make the line or the knifewall. That's the most important thing I have learned from Paul Sellers (in a class at Elm Mott), and it has improved the accuracy of my work immensely.
I was trying to establish a knifewall in endgrain for a tenon cut and found every step to be way more difficult than I remembered it was for Paul so I'm back and it's not a technique he relates to endgrain at all. My bad, but I'm relieved I wasn't doing it wrong other than where I was trying to do it. I learn something new every day.
I've used the "knife wall" technique to cut my first dovetails ever at school, after a couple of attempts I was able to cut decent and tight dovetails for a drawer. I will always thank you Mr Paul, my sole Mentor!!!❤
When starting my cabinet building/carpentry trade in 1969 I used a knife to layout for my door hinges but I didn't have a name for the 'markings'....I just had to get the job done asap!....lol. I thank you for having coined the term "knifewall" and YOU should be recognized worldwide and placed in history for the term. Congratulations for providing knowledge to future carpenters/woodworkers....AND I'm still learning from you!
Thank you. I’m repairing a too-narrow, round, center table leg w a roller for an expandable dining table which has three bad vertical splits from a poorly installed roller. I will be using an Oetiker clamp to hold the leg together, and I need to create a 9/16” flat to seat the clamp on the bulbed end of the leg. This technique just what I need in order to have a nice finished look
Wonderful to have a full video dedicated to this ingenious technique. Even I can get square edges with this technique. Thanks so much for sharing and teaching us beginners, and I'm sure even more advanced woodworkers learn plenty from you as well.
There is a Greek word to describe this, Orthotomeo, literally "straight cut" but commonly translated rightly dividing. It's the key to all human endeavor. Paul certainly gets this right. Thanks for all the wisdom you so freely share, you have a true talent for instruction.
Another terrific video Paul thank you. I’m practicing this technique now. It absolutely improves my modest hand saw results with a nice crisp much cleaner cut line. I too like the term ‘knife-wall’. It’s literal and figurative. Coining a term; what a nice gift and legacy to the craft.Thanks again Paul. Your videos are well done and appreciated. Keep up your good work!
Such valuable information ! Just at the right time for me - I'm making a sink base unit using softwood for the frame, and this demonstration is going to be a big help in getting it square ! Thank you !
Great tip... I Was taught this by an old joiner back when i was an apprentice many years ago...he always said "knife back your lines!!!"...same method...as you said its a great tip or trick and improves joints cut by hand..
Just noticed you put the marking knife to the pencil line then line up the straight edge. I've been doing it wrong for years. These vids just keep on giving!
Good show sir. I've been using this technique since I started watching your videos, and it really has kicked up my accuracy a notch. I'm now at -2 notches (my sawing technique still needs a lot of work) :D
Even German Amazon has the Paul Sellers set now: looking for the Stanley knife, you will find spare blades and the 650g Thor hammer in the “often bought together” section.
I had never seen it before watching you do it in one of your videos. However, I was informed that the technique is found in a book from the 60's or '70's. I can't remember the name of the author, but he was British, and the name was recognizable to me at the time.
I like Paul Sellers, I think he’s brilliant, and I’m very grateful for his generously sharing his brilliance with the word. But he just used up all the times I was allotted to hear someone say the word “knifewall” for my entire life, and I’m afraid if I hear the word again, I might die. I had to stop halfway through for fear of my life.
Learned about this a couple years ago from one of Paul's videos as I was getting into hand tools. What a game changer. Been using it ever since. I've noticed so many other woodworkers on RUclips use this also, whether they give credit to Paul or not.
Paul didn't invent the technique, he popularized it via his RUclips channel (which is where I first saw it used), and gave it a catchy name. I saw other woodworkers use it afterwards, but they called it a "first-class saw cut." That name came from Robert Wearing's "The Essential Woodworker" (originally published in 1988, republished by Lost Art Press in 2010). My point is that the first person we see using a method, isn't always the first person to use it.
@@lilcicero77 It's probably like anything else. Everyone has to find what works for them. This just happens to work well for me. I'm still very much an amateur with hand tools, at least as far as woodworking goes, so it is a procedure that fits my style quite well.
That is a splendid explanation, as good as with greatly enlarged exact pictures. Plus the lesson of SHARP tools. Hat off Uncle Paul. (Now how to remove bloodstains from wood.😎)
Dear Mr. Sellers, I have subscribed to your channel some years ago. My English is very bad, but I can understand some of yours explanations. Today I saw a channel that has 2 versions, one in English (DIY Creators) and one in Spanish with dubbing (DIY Creators Latino). It would be wonderful if you could expand your audience with explanations in Spanish. Thanks for your teachings and greetings from Chile.
For those not familiar with Paul Sellers, his nickname among the woodworking community is, not without a reason - "The Knifewall Man" 😁. And as we could tell, observing his slight smirk during the very first sentence - he knows it 😁 Sir, you're at the Pantheon of woodworking masters!!!
Since I started using the knifewall technique I'm achieving square cuts at last! My magnetic saw guide might well be rendered obsolete. I do find it strange that the tiny cut made by the marking knife is enough to guide the saw, but it works and that is all that matters.
Weird one here, just bought a Stanley 0-10-598 and have found issue with the internal plastic locking device, it just jams up and appears ill-fitting, fitting screws have to be loose. Disabled same, and rely on friction knife positioning.
Even on a chopsaw with a fine tooth blade you need to do something to prevent tearout. Cutting the fibers is good practice. Using a knife and a quality marking gauge increased my quality of markmanship 10 folds. And that isn't close to being an understatement.
Paul, I have thoroughly enjoyed watching your videos and have learned so much. In this video what is the type of marking knife your using? If anyone else knows, please post. I know it's a Stanley Folding Pocket knife, just wondering about the model.
If be interested to know why Paul chisels into the knife wall bevel up when starting off the saw, not bevel down. I always worry about going too deep, but is there a reason to do one way at the other?
It's much more effective and very efficient and you really cannot go too deep as as soon as the wood parts along the grain it automatically fractures to the depth of the vertical knife wall and then chisel or saw cuts subsequent to establishing the first aspect of the knifewall.
I might have to watch the crosscut technique with the Knifewall a couple more times, but when making the second wall is it placed on the waste side of the wood?
HAHAHA just clicked on the link which led to anothwe link of you using a paring knife to make a striker knife. I can't seem to find wooden handled ones around my area so my few are red, lime green, aqua green/blue, and yellow plastic handles. Easy to find when the bench gets cluttered though lol. Anyway I noticed in your bench hook that you have a couple of gaps in the hook plate. Is this done for a reason or just using up scraps of wood?
To see more information on how to sharpen and set up your woodworker's knife visit: commonwoodworking.com/setting-up-a-woodworkers-knife/
Fantastic Paul. Glad to see you're making an entire video dedicated to this one. Thanks for the fantastic information and helping make the internet a better place.
It's humbling how generous this man is with his experience and skills. Thank you, Paul.
What a wonderful thing to say, I completely agree with you and thought your sentiment needed acknowledging also.
Have a nice day!
that's the most stunning thing about what he does. there are 1000 more ways that he could "monetise" his "content" than he does - so if a man doesn't want to get rich out of sharing knowledge, what does he want? he wants to share knowledge. decades of it.
"Its yours for the rest of your life"... love it... Thank you very much Paul for sharing in this most pleasant way.
Nothing beats experience; huge respect.
There's nothing better than starting my morning with a Paul Sellers video. I feel smarter already.
Thank you Paul. There's no other like you!
I have been using this technique since you showed it on a video several years ago and it has made a world of difference in the quality of my cuts both by hand and with power tools. There is still a distance for me to go as a woodworker but these hints and techniques are making a tremendous difference in my enjoyment of this wonderful craft. Thank you so much for your videos.
My woodwork teacher, 70 years ago at Worsley Tech College Manchester, introduced me to "shoulder cutting" but todays slim knives enable much more accurate performance than the old marking knives. Having only recently become serious again about hand woodwork I am continuously reminded by your references to your KNIFE WALL and its extended uses together with the many other tricks you have shown us grateful viewers. Thank you Paul. Always excellent.
Dear Paul, I have been using this technique you have elaborated on in this video based on some earlier videos you have produced; and based on your extensive use of the Stanley Pocket Knife I also acquired said tool and it has been great. The one element in the success of the Technique is a very sharp marking knife and I think a short video on how you sharpen the Stanley Pocket Knife would possibly round of the explanation of the total technique. The blade is stainless steel and reestablishing on a very sharp edge on a ongoing basis may be of great value to your “RUclips Apprentices”. Thanks for all you help in my passion ; “hand woodworking “
I totally agree with you 👍
Very important technique. Paul I just turned 65 and just got this passion to play with wood. Acquired chisels ,planes and various woodworking hand tools from parents old home. Most of the tools are dads and granddads. Going to attempt to use and get preficent with each. Been watching your vids for a while now. I just wish I started with wood as a young man. Sorry never spent time with pops when he did his small wood projects.. Always love watching you and your teaching ability. You make us all feel we can do it well. Thank you sir
The secondhand tool stall at my local market has a boxful of assorted small craft knives, snap-blade knives and so on, and the stallholder is quite happy for you to have a rummage through them. There are several knives of the type shown in this video, for £1 each; though you would have to clean them up & sharpen them
Mr. Sellers showed me a technique he doesn't talk about on this video, but he demonstrates it. That is to put the pencil or the knife on the mark, then move the straightedge or the combo square up to it, then make the line or the knifewall. That's the most important thing I have learned from Paul Sellers (in a class at Elm Mott), and it has improved the accuracy of my work immensely.
Thanks Paul! Not just for this video, but all of them. You teach and work from your heart and that makes your content a pleasure to watch.
I’ve learned a great deal over these past few minutes. Thanks Paul.
The easiest things are often the more important ones! A huge thank you from Italy for all your videos , Mr Sellers.
I was trying to establish a knifewall in endgrain for a tenon cut and found every step to be way more difficult than I remembered it was for Paul so I'm back and it's not a technique he relates to endgrain at all. My bad, but I'm relieved I wasn't doing it wrong other than where I was trying to do it. I learn something new every day.
What's more soothing after a long day at work than a Paul Sellers video?
I've used the "knife wall" technique to cut my first dovetails ever at school, after a couple of attempts I was able to cut decent and tight dovetails for a drawer.
I will always thank you Mr Paul, my sole Mentor!!!❤
When starting my cabinet building/carpentry trade in 1969 I used a knife to layout for my door hinges but I didn't have a name for the 'markings'....I just had to get the job done asap!....lol.
I thank you for having coined the term "knifewall" and YOU should be recognized worldwide and placed in history for the term.
Congratulations for providing knowledge to future carpenters/woodworkers....AND I'm still learning from you!
Thank you. I’m repairing a too-narrow, round, center table leg w a roller for an expandable dining table which has three bad vertical splits from a poorly installed roller. I will be using an Oetiker clamp to hold the leg together, and I need to create a 9/16” flat to seat the clamp on the bulbed end of the leg. This technique just what I need in order to have a nice finished look
Wonderful to have a full video dedicated to this ingenious technique. Even I can get square edges with this technique. Thanks so much for sharing and teaching us beginners, and I'm sure even more advanced woodworkers learn plenty from you as well.
The single most important thing I've ever learned for making hand saw cuts. My skill has improved enormously since using this these past few years.
I had difficulty getting straight chisel lines. Now I know how. Thanks you!
Thanks for the knife wall, Paul. I appreciate the gift.
There is a Greek word to describe this, Orthotomeo, literally "straight cut" but commonly translated rightly dividing. It's the key to all human endeavor. Paul certainly gets this right. Thanks for all the wisdom you so freely share, you have a true talent for instruction.
Another terrific video Paul thank you. I’m practicing this technique now. It absolutely improves my modest hand saw results with a nice crisp much cleaner cut line. I too like the term ‘knife-wall’. It’s literal and figurative. Coining a term; what a nice gift and legacy to the craft.Thanks again Paul. Your videos are well done and appreciated. Keep up your good work!
Thank you, Mr. Sellers.
Great job, Paul. Doing these videos as sort of back-to-basics are really appreciated. Thank you for caring about us and our skills.
Thank you for these videos Mr. Sellers.
Thank you Paul for renewing my love for woodworking.
I bought the knife...it's amazing...perfect dovetails immediately!
Such valuable information ! Just at the right time for me - I'm making a sink base unit using softwood for the frame, and this demonstration is going to be a big help in getting it square ! Thank you !
Best 12 minutes on the internet. WOW. Thank you
Great tip... I Was taught this by an old joiner back when i was an apprentice many years ago...he always said "knife back your lines!!!"...same method...as you said its a great tip or trick and improves joints cut by hand..
This is a very interresting technique. This was fun to watch and i have learned something again! Thank's Paul!
Of all the wood workers on the internet, you are the best for proper woodworking. You are a truly inspirational craftsman and someone to aspire to.
Hats off for a Master of Masters
This was the thing that improved my woodworking the most. Learned it from you years ago.
The precision of this man is as sharp as the knife he uses to make his knife walls. BRILLIANT Mr Sellers.
Thank you for the knife wall tutorial. I consider this video as a generous gift.
I switched to using one of the Stanley knives a year or so ago based on your recommendation. It has been great ever since.
Excellent technique/video tutorial. Thank you Paul!
Always the best Sir Paul!
Just noticed you put the marking knife to the pencil line then line up the straight edge. I've been doing it wrong for years. These vids just keep on giving!
Good show sir. I've been using this technique since I started watching your videos, and it really has kicked up my accuracy a notch. I'm now at -2 notches (my sawing technique still needs a lot of work) :D
Even German Amazon has the Paul Sellers set now: looking for the Stanley knife, you will find spare blades and the 650g Thor hammer in the “often bought together” section.
I had never seen it before watching you do it in one of your videos. However, I was informed that the technique is found in a book from the 60's or '70's. I can't remember the name of the author, but he was British, and the name was recognizable to me at the time.
Hayward? Joyce?
Gifted with a “knife wall” for life - Thanks Paul very generous. Brilliant demonstration
Thank you for sharing, love that double knife wall for cutting down a longboard ♥️
Great vid Paul, looking forward to getting some practise in.
I like Paul Sellers, I think he’s brilliant, and I’m very grateful for his generously sharing his brilliance with the word. But he just used up all the times I was allotted to hear someone say the word “knifewall” for my entire life, and I’m afraid if I hear the word again, I might die. I had to stop halfway through for fear of my life.
Learned about this a couple years ago from one of Paul's videos as I was getting into hand tools. What a game changer. Been using it ever since. I've noticed so many other woodworkers on RUclips use this also, whether they give credit to Paul or not.
Paul didn't invent the technique, he popularized it via his RUclips channel (which is where I first saw it used), and gave it a catchy name. I saw other woodworkers use it afterwards, but they called it a "first-class saw cut." That name came from Robert Wearing's "The Essential Woodworker" (originally published in 1988, republished by Lost Art Press in 2010).
My point is that the first person we see using a method, isn't always the first person to use it.
I must say that I haven't found it indispensable as you have, but no doubt I'm misunderstanding something
@@lilcicero77 It's probably like anything else. Everyone has to find what works for them. This just happens to work well for me. I'm still very much an amateur with hand tools, at least as far as woodworking goes, so it is a procedure that fits my style quite well.
That is a splendid explanation, as good as with greatly enlarged exact pictures. Plus the lesson of SHARP tools. Hat off Uncle Paul. (Now how to remove bloodstains from wood.😎)
Simple, clean, and slick. Thank you.
Love it. Use it all the time since I seen one of your videos years ago. I now pass it on to my apprentices. Thanks Paul.
Thanks Paul
I learn so much from watching your videos!
Thank you such detail now I have a total understanding of the " knife wall "
Fantastic tip Paul. Thank you for sharing.
Dear Mr. Sellers, I have subscribed to your channel some years ago. My English is very bad, but I can understand some of yours explanations. Today I saw a channel that has 2 versions, one in English (DIY Creators) and one in Spanish with dubbing (DIY Creators Latino). It would be wonderful if you could expand your audience with explanations in Spanish. Thanks for your teachings and greetings from Chile.
Got to love this guy
Thank you for all your knowledge, master Paul.
I loves me some knife wall. I use it all the time.
Thank you Paul.
Well done Paul 👍🏻
thank you sir, i love your videos..
have a blessed week
dale
Thanks again Paul. Learned this a while ago from You, and it has improved my woodworking.
For those not familiar with Paul Sellers, his nickname among the woodworking community is, not without a reason - "The Knifewall Man" 😁.
And as we could tell, observing his slight smirk during the very first sentence - he knows it 😁
Sir, you're at the Pantheon of woodworking masters!!!
On 90 k views! We gotta get people up to date on the knifewall. I don't see enough people using it.
Love you paul
Another superb tip.
Thanks Paul. I've been doing this with mortises since you first showed it, but I nerver thought of using it on creating crisp cuts boards.
WOW! Thank you, this is awesome technique!
I really enjoy your videos and i learn alot about carpentry keep up the good work 👍
Always did this when cutting door hardware before using a chisel. Used a box cutter
Brilliant, nothing more to add sir.
That's a proper technique. thanks
Interesting new techniques. Thanks
great knowledge A 1 👍
Any video on shooting board technique?
Merry crispness everyone
Since I started using the knifewall technique I'm achieving square cuts at last! My magnetic saw guide might well be rendered obsolete. I do find it strange that the tiny cut made by the marking knife is enough to guide the saw, but it works and that is all that matters.
Weird one here, just bought a Stanley 0-10-598 and have found issue with the internal plastic locking device, it just jams up and appears ill-fitting, fitting screws have to be loose. Disabled same, and rely on friction knife positioning.
Thank you!
two thumbs way up!
Thank you.
How does one avoid dulling the knife on the metal straight edge?
Maybe a dumb question, but would a box cutter (razor knife) work as well?
Even on a chopsaw with a fine tooth blade you need to do something to prevent tearout. Cutting the fibers is good practice.
Using a knife and a quality marking gauge increased my quality of markmanship 10 folds. And that isn't close to being an understatement.
Love it!!
But what if you wanted to cut the board diagonally lengthwise across a 2' 2x4
Paul, I have thoroughly enjoyed watching your videos and have learned so much. In this video what is the type of marking knife your using? If anyone else knows, please post. I know it's a Stanley Folding Pocket knife, just wondering about the model.
If be interested to know why Paul chisels into the knife wall bevel up when starting off the saw, not bevel down. I always worry about going too deep, but is there a reason to do one way at the other?
It's much more effective and very efficient and you really cannot go too deep as as soon as the wood parts along the grain it automatically fractures to the depth of the vertical knife wall and then chisel or saw cuts subsequent to establishing the first aspect of the knifewall.
I might have to watch the crosscut technique with the Knifewall a couple more times, but when making the second wall is it placed on the waste side of the wood?
New Paul Seller's drinking game. Drink whenever Paul says "knife wall" or "fibers" in his videos.
If want to split a piece right in the middle , no keep side and no waste side, how should I make it as accuracy
Exactly as he shows it, with 2 "knife walls," one on each side of the kerf line of your saw blade.
2160p?? WOW thats great quality! what camera do you use? havent seen another woodworker with that quality haha
who thumbs downed this video 😳 i wonder about people sometimes
HAHAHA just clicked on the link which led to anothwe link of you using a paring knife to make a striker knife. I can't seem to find wooden handled ones around my area so my few are red, lime green, aqua green/blue, and yellow plastic handles. Easy to find when the bench gets cluttered though lol. Anyway I noticed in your bench hook that you have a couple of gaps in the hook plate. Is this done for a reason or just using up scraps of wood?
Thank you for the name knife wall