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I wasn't working full tilt at it from 9-5 every day, but I started it just after Christmas. The previous Nov we'd been to Japan and went to an exhibition of Japanese craftwork (that's putting it very crudely) held at an art gallery in Okayama. There was all sorts of really exquisite stuff...

Thanks Ian. Construction was by using long rebates machined on the router table: I made the pine cores from ordinary stack laminated boards which were then re-sawn to obtain a true quarter sawn, knot free quarter sawn board. The grooves at each end are for the Satinwood end panels and the...

Over the last few decades I've made loads of these things and no matter how accurate you make them initially, they always go 'out of kilter' and refuse to plane a lump of end grain squarely. This one is different; it still eventually goes 'out of kilter' but if you look at the clip, it's the...

Thanks and yes, all the drawer boxes are dovetailed and incorporate a central runner; the sides don't actually have to make contact with the cabinet. Drawers finished with Lemon Oil which tends to mark the wood dark. The drawer fronts are epoxied in place and then carefully planed to fit the...

The original box made by Suda Kenji uses surface mounted hinges which gives greater clearance when it's opened; hence this one does as well. In point of fact he actually makes all his own hardware from solid silver, which is ever so slightly beyond my capabilities so I used Brusso hinges...

An interpretation of a Japanese masterpiece that can be seen in the V&A in London, made primarily with Bog Oak veneers over a pine core with Satinwood end panels: Surface mounted Brusso hinges from ClasticHand Tools: Four interior drawers using Victorian mahogany given to me by...