Facing retirement and an accumulation of off-cuts from many years as an amateur woodworker, it was time to make a plan for using all that wood up. My back was also telling me that I needed to reduce the scale of the pieces I wanted to make.
The solution was to concentrate on boxmaking – but there would be two rules. The first was to use only my own designs, and the second was to make those designs as individual as possible – without being different just for the sake of being different.
From that starting point I feel my work has developed in both quality and direction, to the point where it is starting to have some consistency of style and features. One feature in particular is the use of wooden dowel hinges. There are others who employ them, but they are not as popular as they deserve to be.
Apart from a guide to make the dowel, and another to bore it for a steel pin, there is little cost in each dowel, and if defrayed over a number of jobs, the cost of a good dowel guide is
