Understanding Wood Grain | Paul Sellers
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- čas přidán 3. 03. 2022
- Grain for most people is the look wood has in its diverse colour and configuration. For the woodworker, grain is the inner depth that must be worked with saws, chisels, and planes, and the understanding reinforces the way the wood must always be worked to work 'with' the grain rather than against it.
Paul put this video together to help bridge the gap of information between the observer, who needs only to see and feel, and the maker, who must understand how the fibre of wood works like the material in their life.
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I am retired and started woodworking in late 2020. I have viewed hundreds of videos for woodworking, especially for beginners. Your videos are the best of all I've reviewed and this one adds to my knowledge. Thank you so much!
1 minute in and I already love this guy.
I’ve never done any wood working. Hopefully soon now
This guy is such a great teacher. Clean, clear the info goes in and stays in! Thank you.
I fully and totally agree with your sentiment about Paul so my apologies for going a tad pedantic on your comment but there are teachers and then there are educators. Paul is an educator IMO.
To fully explain the difference, there is an old joke about the cleaner at a high school complaining about the young girls wearing lipstick kissing the mirrors and it was tedious removing it. A teacher gathered the girls in the changing room/toilet (restroom for the, well you know who) so the cleaner could show the young ladies what was involved in cleaning off the lipstick. The cleaner picked up his mop, dunked it in the nearest toilet bowl and slopped it across the mirrors. After that no more lipstick on them; that cleaner was an educator.
@@josephking6515 I admire you. Most people would type that out and then be so embarrassed about how pointless and incorrect it was that they wouldn't actually post it. But you don't care what people think about you. Well done.
@@Tikorous Actually I was trying to point out that Paul is more than a teacher. The joke was to try and differentiate between the two. And no, I really don't give a shit what people think. Please don't admire me because I just don't care. Have a good one. 👍
@@josephking6515 Absolute sigma energy my dude
I'm new to woodworking because I want to build a guitar. This guy is one of the best ones I've come across. Just excellent explenations also well demonstrated. You're right. Just outstanding.
How much knowledge can one person possibly pack into a 12 minute video? Madness!
And with 48 seconds left he still slides in an additional point about saws!
This should be the first lesson for any budding woodworker, brilliant.
I'm now an electrical instructor to apprentices. I'm a Journeyman who's been through the exact program I now teach. The comments in this video remind me how none of my instructors ever thought to teach me that electricity flows to two places, the earth, and back to its source, through any and all paths available to it. If that simple concept had been taught to me during my apprenticeship, so many principles of DC Theory and AC Theory and many aspects of the program would have come to me more easily. My point--keep doing what you do, Paul. The importance of "the basics" cannot be overstated. Bruce Lee said, "Perfection is mastery of the basics." Whatever your field--take interest in, and learn to master the basics. They will never lead you astray.
Like you I’m a former police officer but I trained as a wood machinist many years ago and have since immersed myself in all things wood. I now work in conservation and fell a good many trees as part of my job. Some of these end up seasoned and used on projects. I learn something from EVERY single video you do Paul. Listening to the calm voice of experience is cathartic in itself, couple that with your time served knowledge and it is true wizardry. There are few true ‘masters’.
You are the Gandalf of woodworking and I thank you for your generosity.
I am a new woodworking/home maintenance instructor for a training center for the blind. I can now apply your visual teaching aides likes the straws, broom and splitting wood to our non visual students for a better understanding and experience.
One of the best explanations of how wood works.
This was hands down one of the most informative woodworking videos on CZcams for someone who doesn't understand wood grain , absolutely fantastic
Brilliant! Ive been hobby woodworking since the 1970s and never understood wood grain until I watched this. Just brilliant!
Paul is an absolute master of taking any idea and making it as simply understandable as possible. Great video!
Dear Paul. Thank you so much for your clear explanation. Every time I see your videos, I learn a lot about woodworking.
Beginner here. I would have never guessed that cutting against the grain would produce those kinds of effects. Thanks for this.
I wish that I had seen this video, WAY BACK when I 1st started!! I had to learn the hard way. I even wrecked some very nice pieces of wood. It is good to see somebody teaching These techniques, Thank you.
When nobody can afford electricity, the man with hand tools will be king, I wish you had been my teacher back in the sixties. Thanks, keep up the good work.
I can't beleive i got to watch this for free. Thank you.
Probably the most important info ever in regard to working “smoothly” with wood.
Thank you Paul, for being so generous with all of your knowledge and experience.
God Bless you and yours.
This should be required watching before anyone begins to work with wood. Educational enlightenment!
You are giving us such a wonderful legacy! Your teaching will be valuable long after you are gone. Thank you so very much for the time and lessons you give us. You've helped me, and others, tons.
Underrated comment. Should have tons of Likes.
@@JohnDoe-zr6bk I, for one, hate his comment. He mentions Paul being gone and that makes me sad
A slightly morbid comment 🤣😅
Strange comment. It is common sense not to say something like this.
@@mariospapanicolaou4631 well thank heaven you’re here to tell us!
I'm a hobby woodworker. I'm just starting out, and I've just yesterday used a plane for the first time. I've been looking for some videos to teach me about wood grain, and your video was one of a few I saw. All the way through I had my jaw dropped since it all made so much sense. You're a great teacher. thank you!
Glad I could help!
I just recently developed interest in woodworking and most of the videos I have watched on popular woodworking channels are mostly about power tools, and showing off their skill without actually teaching much about the intricacies of the woodworking art itself. It seems they delibrately hold back the information. Therefore, this is by far the best video I have seen since I started this journey. Thank you for teaching in 10 minutes what I didn't learn after watching hours of other videos.
Hearing the basics never gets old. Thank you Paul.
I thought I knew everything I needed to know when I transitioned from using power tools to using hand tools. What I’ve quickly learned is that there really is a need to understand the wood before I dive straight in with planes and chisels. I only wish I’d seen this video before I attempted my first project. Oh, the wood that would have saved!
Paul teaches fundamentals unlike anyone else out there...
I’ve never seen this explained better. Wow. Emphasis on I because everyone has different ways of learning, but this really stuck with me.
Thank you Master Sellers.
It’s like you lifted the curtain of deafness to my experiences and placed a sound track with words of explanation.
The straws, the visual explanation.. thank you.
I think a lot of woodworkers take this for granted, I've been working in a high end furniture studio for just over a year and nobody has thought to explain any of this to me hahaha
This is so incredibly helpful for a beginner like me! Thank you so much for your wisdom 😊
Thank you Paul. You are a Gift to us. May the Lord keep you healthy.
Another excellent tutorial for the hobby woodworkers! :) Thank you Mr Sellers!
I think this man really, really knows his stuff, great teacher too, thank you! 👏😀👍
This is so helpful, you've really closed some of the gaps in my knowledge of how to work with a piece of wood. This helps remove a lot of frustration I had when my cuts were not consistent and results were unpredictable
Excellent - my dad taught me about wood structure and grain (he was a joiner) - the single most important aspect of woodworking. You explained it very clearly.
I'm fairly new to woodworking and this video is a complete gamechanger. Love what you do Paul, thanks! Also I absolutely love your/this community. Keep up the good work, cheers from the Netherlands!
In this case, I highly recommend one of Paul’s older videos, I believe called „bad vibrations“ or something along those lines.
I’ve been doing woodworking for years now and I still think that’s the single most useful video I’ve ever watched on the topic of woodworking and a must watch for every beginner!
@@Hubilicious90 thanks! I will watch that video. Good luck with your future projects!
One won't work with wood very long before experiencing all these behaviors of wood. The trick is 'reading the wood' BEFORE subjecting it to the chisel, rasp, or plane. Now THAT would be a useful lesson. It's not as easy as it sounds. Maple grain is very different than oak or cherry grain. Straight sawn wood is different than quarter-sawn. Finished wood is very different than rough-sawn wood. My biggest challenge has to do with reading the wood BEFORE I inadvertently gouge against the grain. I won't admit to the number of boards I've ruined on the first pass through my planer because I mis-read the grain :) Would really appreciate your take on this, Paul.
I have had the same experiences, wood grain can vary so much depending on the species of the tree and whether it is rough-sawn, quarter-sawn, etc. I've been learning from my mistakes but still find it difficult to read the grain, especially in highly figured wood.
Paul is an absolute legend!! 💯
Excellent video. I can never stress how hands on experience is the best, and this is only 2nd to that as you show us what to expect when we are doing are hands on work. Not only do you explain the why, and the how, but you show us how to get a better experience.
Thank you!
Now I understand wood grain, supper informative video. You are the best.
Thank you so much Paul.
Excellent information, Paul. You always break down info into easy to consume concepts, without lecturing. I appreciate you and your videos.
G'Day,,nice too see your back,I have missed your wisdom,Very satisfying,in this mad world we live in,,Can remember my next door neighbour teaching me about grains and what weapon to use when,,,,Very Glad you took the time to do this,,Thank you,
I'm going to watch this a couple more times to let it become second nature for my Joinery course. The knots and splitting I discovered long ago, with an axe, breaking down firewood. But it's nit so obvious with dressed wood. Thanks for yet another excellent upload :)
I've seen the straws explanation before but never with a saw. Everything madensense to me all of a sudden. Rhis is an excellent video.
this video is very helpful and it is a definite improvement on your other wood grain video from 2 year ago. thanks, Paul
What an incredibly interesting explanation on wood nature. I work with wood for about 20 years as an amateur and you’ve just taught me the basis I should have for long. Thank you so much Paul for this piece of knowledge.
Awesome, simple explanations. A lesson that I’ll not easily forget. Thank you Paul
Thanks Paul. The visuals were particularly well demonstrated in this video.
Great advice/refresher information as always sir. Thank you.
Thanks for wonderfull explanation.The best I saw about this issue.
Congratulaions from Brazil
Clear and on the point... love it thank you and god bless you...
I struggle to remember if my school woodwork teacher ever taught the characteristics of wood in this manner, however, after many costly mistakes, I worked it out eventually.
Wood grain and how it should be explained. Awesome video and lesson: thank you! 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks Paul. I love what you do.
What a fine lesson!
Superb exposition!
Great demonstration! Thank you
You describe the indescribable.
Thank you
-CY Castor
You're a blessing to the woodworking community.
Thank you for sharing your lifelong accumulated knowledge of woodworking.
Fascinating and easily understood.
Good and clear on grain, rip cut, and cross cut Paul. Many thanks.
una delle lezione più belle ed esaustive su quello che è il taglio del legno lungo vena e contro vena, semplicemente semplice
Wonderful lesson… Thanks Paul, all the best!
Mr. Sellers, I nominate you for M.B.E. and recommend knighthood as well. You, sir, are a national treasure.
Straightforward and clear. Marvelous.
Very entertaining demonstrations
I feel like you need to write a book just on the subject of wood grain, movement, drying, finishing etc to complement your excellent books about tools.
This is one 0 one.
Thank you Sir.
Beyond awesome!
Great video. Very helpful for me . Thank you.
Outstanding
This was super helpful! Thank you!
Fantastic understanding of wood and a gift for teaching
Amazing, Paul! Thanks a bunch! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
This is an amazing video! Thanks, Paul!
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing!
Perfect explaining!
Outstanding Paul! Thank you.
Thank you so much!
Thanks very much for sharing with us your precious and great experience. No matter how much experience we gained, we are still learning. Best Regards, Rashid from Bahrain
Excellent information. Thank you.
Very nicely done!
Clear and common sense based educational videos. Thank you very much for this teachable experience.
Blessings abundant
Crawford out 🙏🔥⚒️🧙🏼♂️
Love your videos! I have learned so much from you.
Thank you! Learning from you all the time.
This is a fun video.👍🏻
Thankyou very much for this... It will definitely help.
Love and respect. You the man Paul.
Always a pleasure to listen to you.Your an inspiration so thanks so much for sharing
😻 the way he explained 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
That's awesome to know more about wood , interesting indeed , thanks.
Thank you, it was interesting to learn about the properties of wood
Thanks a lot
Can't fail to watch another grain direction explanation. As always brilliant and simply explained something that for someone else might be to complicated to explain. My only issue is that this video made me feel like 10 years old again :) . All I wanted to say was when I am working with my wood it is smooth to :P Couldn't resist. Sorry. Especially while I admire and love all of the videos I have seen from master him self.
Perfekt explanation of the anistrope nature of wood!
simply genius👌
is there a video where you explain the topic of face grain, side grain and end grain?
One doesnt have to understand a thing to love it. One can love something or someone simply in and of itself.
Thanks Paul!
That's what I was gonna say!
@@nathansmith6914 great minds “thank” alike!
Je vous adore ! 👏🇨🇵
A pile of knotty beech logs and an axe or maul will teach a person a lot about wood grain - especially if there are some Y shaped pieces… I took way too many swings at a Y shaped log trying to split it at the crotch before I learned to turn it 90° and split it into two “book matched” Ys instead.