[jdietrich]

Hi Matthias, I really enjoy your videos. I hope you didn't take my comment as a criticism of your work - it was really aimed at the broader culture of woodworking. Your videos are experimental, interdisciplinary and in many ways orthogonal to that culture.

The Sellers approach is obviously far more time-consuming than what I might call the New Yankee Workshop approach, but it has tremendous merits for new woodworkers. It's very easy to be intimidated by the huge workshops full of expensive machinery that you see on YouTube or in the magazines, but Sellers makes it absolutely clear that you can do fine woodworking with a tiny amount of space and a handful of cheap second-hand tools.

Other YouTubers promote a similar message - Rex Krueger springs to mind - but I think that Sellers offers a uniquely clear vision of how traditional skills and tools can make woodworking a more accessible and enjoyable pastime. For many amateur woodworkers, getting it done is almost besides the point - it's about the quietness and concentration of skilled manual work, the smell of the shavings, the satisfaction of a sharp tool and a neat dovetail.