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The Boxmaker should say it all, but I'm a vulture for horticulture too,raising trees and shrubs for timber,flower and perfume from seed in a house I designed that has solar heated benches. A local forestry project on land that does not produce food.

I started with small jewel boxes for my 4 daughters, the style and size decided only by the wood itself, then came their friends and the surprise that someone was willing to pay for my creations. Demand led to Harry Potter wands and noughts and crosses sets for the blind, but my real joy is with family boxes that sit on the buffet or sideboard and made with bow tops, inlaid panels of Australian woods, brass locks and fitted drawers. A larger one, a repro German dowry chest c.1760, from a photograph of was made for the Centenary of the district where I live and won second prize at the 3 day working with Wood Show in Adelaide in August 2007. Being an engineer by profession and inclination I am fascinated by feature toy systems that move and currently working on a 1 meter diam Red Riding Hood theatre of 5 scenes and a music group of puppets with violin, piano, accordion, base and a fat lady in a big hat whose mouth pops up and down, On Stage, The Murray Cods, do you like that?

Australian exotic woods, blackwood, camphor laurel and cedar, slotted brass screws, musk and sassafras veneers from Tasmania, and tree seeds, of course!

Dust, junk, and any bit of wood that is not jarrah or pine flooring that might be large enough to be useful.Material for a historical novel about the survivors of the brig Marie, 1840 on the Coorong in SA that were firstly rescued by the aborigines and then killed and eaten.

English, strine

My woodcraft, french polishing and sulphur inlay, lettering, engraving and writing a historical novel around the massacre of the passengers and crew of the brig Marie on the Coorong 1840 by cannibal aborigines. Solar energy conversions.

Military History of Asia, the Tokyo War Crimes Trial transcripts, The Rape of Nanking, Emperor to Citizen, the biography of the Last Emperor of China, Little Brown Brothers, the story of the deception of the Americans in the occupation of the Philippines in the defeat of the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay at the turn of the Century, biography of Patton

The Outlaw Josey Wales, Patton, The Shogun, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Last Emperor, Lawrence.

Two Ronnies, Dad's Army

Heavy Engineering Risk Consultant and Surveyor in Asia for insurers at Lloyds for 22 years until 1997 Resident in Manila, Extensive travel in Malaysia, China, and Philippines, Indonesia

PayPal or Direct Deposit

Usually ship item that fit the postal service in 2 days

14 day return policy for those items sold in store or at auction - no returns on commissions

Theboxmaker@iinet.net.au