Paul Sellers

About

YouTube star best known as a renowned professional woodworker and furniture maker. Through his YouTube channel, Paul Sellers, where he has earned over 106 million views, he loves to teach his 650,000 subscribers about the art of wood making. He especially enjoys teaching "Amateur wood making" because to him amateur woodmakers are those who love it not only as a hobby but almost as a lifestyle, just as he does. 

Before Fame

He has worked as a furniture maker for more than 50 years and began in a small joiner's workshop in Stockport, England in 1965. At the age of 30, he transitioned to handtool woodworking after starting to see woodworking become "A machine only prospect." 

Trivia

He enjoys presenting woodworking in its "Reality" and "Rawness" to others, demonstrating that they are capable of learning woodworking and incorporating it as a way of life. Besides being a regarded woodworker and furniture maker, he is also the author of books such as "Essential Woodworking Hand Tools" and "Working Wood 1 & 2." 

Family Life

He is from England. After spending several years working, and teaching woodmaking in the U.S., he moved back to the United Kingdom in 2009. 

Associated With

His designs furnish the White House's Cabinet Room, and the homes of George W. Bush and Senator Phil Gramm, among others.