Dear Paul, All the money I spent on your books and videos has been recouped several times over. Just by purchasing the lower-cost tools you recommend and using your methods for sharpening, tuning and maintenance has saved me a small fortune. THANK YOU for all the great ideas and for continuing to educate others. I learn something valuable every time I watch or read your work. Warm Regards, LL

Hi Paul, I'm 69 and enjoy coming to school for a few every day, then down to the shop to play with wood! thanks for the good company!

That bead though, very nice and even. these tools in the poor man's series will be in this poor man's tool kit before Summer's end. Just got to finish the semester first.

"Poor man's Tool" with ideas like this you wouldn't stay "poor" long. Brilliant. Thank you for the videos

Briliant adaptation by the world's no. 1 woodworking instructor.

I do the same thing usually. I made one of these and I use it all the time now. So simple and yet so effective. Thanks again Paul for sharing

I first like your videos, then watch them.

I love that beading tool. Amazing what can be done with an old screw and a bit of wood! Dying to give it a try now.

Hello Paul My friend's father Robert " Bob" Blickhan ( passed away ) was an old German cabinet maker and custom carpenter. His customers never ask about cost but mostly ask when can you do it. He was from several generations of woodworking . These poor man's tools you feature, were always laying around in his shop even though he had new latest and greatest power tools. Watching your vidios brought back some good memories of Mr Blick and his awesome work. He had factory made planes as well as homemade planes like you build, but what really amazed me was a drawer full of small pieces of thick glass ground in odd shapes that he would clamp in a wooden scraper like handle . He would place thin strips of wood long ways in a miter type box and drag the glass chip through the box (as a guide) to make the most beautiful trim molding you ever saw. Mr Sellers, could you please demonstrate this technique for your viewer's. This may bore some folks, but some ( who love your work) will like to see this I'm sure . I love your vidios and your relaxing mentoring attitude. While watching you, I always am reminded of M Blick. Thanks M L Rogers Pasadena, TX

I am not a woodworker at the moment, but now I fell like going to the shed and making some of these just so I have them when I decide to start working with wood! lol, awesome dude keep up the great work and thanks for sharing these tips.

Neat! I especially like the use of the marking tool for establishing the hinge and mortise outlines.

I made this tool at least a month ago to decorate corbels for a hoodie rack with an attached hat shelf. Today, while making a much shoddier project, I found another use for this wonderful tool which I may have to experiment upon. I was cutting out dados and didn't trust myself to pare down a perfectly flat surface by hand. I do not own a router plane to perform such a task. I simply pulled out this beading/marking tool, set the depth and creeped down to my final gauge line. It's not perfect, of course, as the block handle wasn't large enough to properly reference from all necessary angles, and visibility during use is very much limited, but it truly managed to do a passable job. I am already thinking up plans to make a purpose built version.

Excellent money saving tools that work perfectly what else could we ask for.Thanks as always Paul

I keep returning time and time again to your videos.

GREAT video Paul. So many times simpler is better and this video is a PERFECT example.

To think I was looking for another marking gauge for my tool set I use at work. Thank you very much Paul.

Thanks for all your useful tips. Most of us are passionate, but self taught woodworkers and your instruction is great. Hopefully some day I can get across the pond to meet you personally.

Hi Paul, Thanks for another interesting video. I have learned so much by watching them. You are the zen master of woodworking. Regards, Bill.

It's a little depressing that you can produce finer wood shavings with a broke screw than I can with a finely honed instrument having sharpened for 45 minutes. Must. Keep. Practising.

One of the best working hack.

Mr Sellers, you are a gem! Thanks

Kudos to Paul.

Always cool to see something this simple work so well!

fabulous. best woodworking resource on youtube.

Your an inspiration sir. Thank you for sharing your skills.

Easy and practical, thanks

Very cool idea!! Thanks Paul! Love your videos!

wow, simple and elegant... thanks for sharing!

nice idea for mortise gauge. It surely saves time and money :)

Thanks for that, can't afford "good" tools right now, so your "poor man's" series is a life saver. If you had a method of making a "poor man's" square to complete the measuring series, that would be great!

Great video. I,m restoring a Federal house interior shutters and I have to make an edge bead. My Stanley 45 and router bits won't hack it but a screw in a block of wood is all I need. Thanks

And yet another brilliant idea.

Last one...very nice

Thanks for the idea. It is a go to design for Leatherworkers to lay out parallel lines on veg tan leather for border stamping. And because border stamping patterns have to be precise and variable for different tools, it is great that it is adjustable. Yeeha.

Thanks! Paul

Simple yet so effective. Great.

So cool Paul! Love it!!

i get always impress with your tips

Pretty cool ideas!

Thanks, again. Very simple.

Fantastic Video

That is amazing! I guess this technique has been used for years.

simple brilliance!

Amazing Paul, case of 2;30 ' can be used as poor manś rabet plane also, marking de lateral. :)

This is pure genius!

So clever!

This is so great!

Wonderful stuff.

Fantastic.

Genius. Thanks Paul.

Hola Paul,Muy buenos intrumentos,miro todos sus videos y la verdad que es admirable las cosas que hace.Felicitaciones!!!!!, desde Buenos Aires Argentina

I'm going to make some of these!

You can see the adaptation progression from "screw in wood" to today's metal "steel wheel" marking gauges. I'm surprised it took so long for someone to commercialise it.

that are awesome Ideas

I think it so unique

Very cool.

simpel and effective ... love it

Thanks. Good idea.

This is what I've been looking for

this is a great idea

Brilliantly simple. I see one unfortunate with shaking hands has missed the thumbs up, and actually hit the thumbs down! (Sad, to see how alcohol can poison the system.)

It's brilliantly simple, or is that simply brilliant? I particularly like the hinge gauge, I will certainly be making one in the future.

Paul Sellers could you pl show how you make the mortise and tenon joint with 2 uneven pieces of wood??? for example a 2 and a quarter piece and a 1 and 3 quarter piece?? much regards

arking Tool Variations | Paul Sellers 94,618 views •May 14, 2016 2.7K 10 Share Save Paul Sellers 496K subscribers The simple poor man’s beading and marking tool can be adapted for other applications, such as a more specific beading tool or a gauge to mark out mortices or hinge recesses.

Brilliant!!!!!

Wow, I'd really need to write the name of what each of the tools is for on them otherwise I'd end up with a shelf full of nails screwed into bits of wood and no idea what each is for!

¡Thanks!

you could make a knife wall cutter just by using a different screw type in this tool

AMZING 👍👍👍

a Great Master)))

What's the size you normally make your mortise and tenons?

WOW

Please could you show us how you file the screwheads?

awesome :)

This is the kind of tool I can afford.

Wat a combination 😂😂😂

:-)

And then I thought, "That's why I never bought his book".

i get always impress with your tips