ACfdb Links

friends, links and resources

This area provides links to other sites of interest. Most belong to craftsmen and women and are wood or music related in one way or another. Others are directories or sites offering interesting products and services.

Please email me if you would like to set up a reciprocal link or if I've agreed to a link already and it needs updating, is mis-categorised or doesn't appear at all. If you have a link to my old address at www.harlequinac.com please update this to point to www.fine-boxes.com. By the very nature of this sort of list it will be constantly growing so please bookmark and visit again.

I put all the newest links at the top before they get lost in the murky depths below ...

fine-boxes.com homepage

Peter Lloyd - fine hardwood boxes - maker of beautiful English hardwood boxes, old friend and my co-author on the 'Celebrating Boxes' book.

newest links:

'Ol Dave's Woodshop - Where woodworkers are not all Pros
LaDonata Luxury Gifts - unique gifts & presents for special occasions
CompanyLeague.co.uk - British online shopping portal offering UK based retailers for Craft Supplies and Gift Ideas.
The Little Box Shop - Finely crafted rustic jewelry boxes, rustic keepsake boxes and furnishings
Woodworking Workshop - Visit Fine Furniture Maker for more information about our Woodworking Workshops
Woodworking Design - Please visit Fine Furniture Maker for fantastic Woodworking Design
Classic Hand Tools - 'Buy Wonderful Hand Tools & Books online with good old fashioned friendly service backed up with in depth knowledge and expertise'. Excellent and comprehensive site
Transparent Dreams Stained Glass - Innovative design and superior craftsmanship in stained and beveled glass. Shipping worldwide. Site includes info on how to become a savvy consumer of this wonderful art form.
Fremantle School Of Fine Furniture - some beautiful work here, and lots of courses and useful info too
Woodworking.com - the web's most complete resource center for woodworkers
Emily Cross Creations - friend and fellow woodworker now has her own site with some great ideas ...
Pauli Frames - high quality hand finished picture frames at a competitive price for photographers, artists, interior designers, art galleries and private residential clients
Simon Denison Photography - specialising in high quality black-and-white 'Human Landscapes'
Ismet Mustafic - Fine handmade furniture made to commission in Devon by Ismet Mustafic
N. J. Dean & Co - Music Boxes & Musical Jewellery Boxes, plus a selection of music & jewellery gifts
E-treasures - based near Glasgow, Scotland is your first online store for buying fine antique and modern jewellery for birthday or anniversary gifts
Halstead Music - excellent new site devoted to all things relating to the horn set up by Tony Halstead - conductor, director, harpsichordist and horn player extraordinaire ...
Jewellery Boxes and Jewellery Packaging - Online shop for small order jewellery boxes and jewellery packaging. Accepts most credit and debit cards
Jacqueline Sorel - the website of recorder maker Jacqueline Sorel
Cardboard Boxes - Cartons Direct is one of the UK's leading suppliers of Removal Packs. All boxes are extra strength doublewall boxes.
Veneer Presses - email John Brown for information on high quality custom made presses for box making and other purposes
Puzzle Box World - Unique Japanese secret puzzle boxes and more from around the world
Ebony and Ivory Woodworks - Original, hand-crafted exotic hardwood boxes and other exotic hardwood gift items
Veneer Inlay Australia
Box Makers Brassware
Wiedenman Custom Inlay - Heirloom furniture & Fine art inlay
Lou Works/Pyramid Woodcraft - fine wood boxes, furniture,woodworking
www.woodomain.com - The Jeremy Broun Woodsite - furniture, books, videos etc.
www.guitarcraft.co.uk - Jez Broun - innovative hand made acoustic guitars, tuition and DVD
Firescribble - Brad Hurley's website - a writer and editor based in Montreal, specializing in the subjects of global environmental change, ecology and field biology, and natural history. Includes an excellent area devoted to the Irish flute.
Tony Ward - fine wooden sculptured boxes from the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
Ray Sloan - maker of Uilleann Pipes and Scottish Smallpipes
Walsh Brothers Clocks Jewellery and Fashion Watches - Jewellery and Fashion Watches: High street Jewellery shop with a wide range and international delivery
Barry Horton - beautiful handcrafted shaker boxes and much more
DesignerMakers.org.uk - a new website set up by Barnaby Scott [of Waywood] to promote UK designer/makers of furniture and similar
Safe Harbor Woodcrafters - hand-crafted mahogany, teak, cedar and cypress Adirondack chairs, children's chairs, folding chairs, tables, settees and ottomans for the quality conscious consumer
Peter Shaughnessy - an innovative and unique twist on art as form and function
Andrew Poder
The Wooden Flute Case Shop - travel boxes for mainly native American flutes
Kiwicelt - wooden flutes ... simply beautiful instruments
SaveOnTools.com - best possible pricing on tools. Recently started marketing in Canada and the US, soon to expand to include UK and others
Wood Carvings - Bali Kingdom offers exquisite wood carvings from Bali

books magazines and plans:

BeatBooks
Creative Woodworks & Crafts Magazine Online
Cabinet Making Magazine
Creative Woodcraft Plans
Good Woodworking
Popular Woodworking magazine
Stobart Davies Ltd - publishers of 'The Book of Boxes' and 'Celebrating Boxes'
The Taunton Press - Fine Woodworking, Fine Homebuilding, Cooking, Gardening and much more
Woodworker's Journal
The WOODWORKERS LIBRARY - the site of Linden Publishing, US publisher of the 'Celebrating Boxes' book
WW Plans for Board Games

Top of Page

boxes of all sorts:

Jewelry Boxes from Gifts of Wood Treasures - Jewelry Boxes, Wooden Bowls, Inlay Bandings of natural wood, no stains, clear finish at a reasonable prices
Biesanz Woodworks
Blue Heron Woodworks - Fine Handmade Boxes, Furnishings, and Hair Ornaments
Nigel Bridges
Box Clever - Jewelry Boxes by Dave Blundell
Boxes & Folding Cartons
Boxes for Gifts
Christopher Vickers - excellent quality 'Arts and Crafts' furniture and boxes.
Crafts, Woodworking, Clocks
David Charlesworth - excellent maker and teacher running full and part time furniture making courses
David Trubridge
Douglas Stowe
Glenn Elvig
Roger Gifkins - maker of fine quality boxes and inventor of the excellent Gifkins dovetail jig
Michael Hamilton & Dee Roberts