smartBoxmaker newsletter     newsletter 28, February 2019:   A quick update, and a very special offer …    The work to organise the newly extended smartBoxmaker workshops is making good progress [see below].   But because all this work has been going on I’ve been rather slow to promote the courses for this year. […]

smartBoxmaker newsletter   newsletter 27, January 2019:   Happy new year everyone!   This is a long overdue newsletter to post some course dates for the first half of 2019 – and a few other snippets of news.   In all sorts of ways the second half of 2018 was not a good time and […]

smartBoxmaker newsletter newsletter 26, July 2018:   So, my last newsletter was rather brief … but in it I promised I would update on a number of issues in this one.   This won’t be a very long one, but there are some special offers on my newly posted autumn course dates below and a […]

smartBoxmaker newsletter newsletter 25, June 2018: Hello everyone – this is a short newsletter this time: some necessary housekeeping, and some very special course and smartWare offers below … GDPR opt in: First the boring bit – as many of you will be aware [not least because your inboxes will have been inundated with similar […]

smartBoxmaker newsletter   newsletter 24, Easter 2018: Once again this newsletter is going out a lot later than I intended – and it will be a brief one just to post my spring and summer course dates. For us 2018 has started very sadly – my brother Jeremy died last month. He was 75, far […]

smartBoxmaker newsletter   newsletter 23, Christmas 2017: Well – I missed Black Friday and Cyber Monday … in fact I’ve basically missed the wole run up to Christmas. So this is going to be a very brief newsletter – short and to the point: in this issue:   •  The smartWare manufacturers have had a couple of […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter   newsletter 22, part 1 – September 2017: Hello everyone – I hope you’ve had a good summer [top half – UK weather notwithstanding] and winter [bottom half]. There seems to be a lot of mayhem on our little planet at the moment, both natural and self-inflicted. […]

smartBoxmaker newsletter   newsletter 22, part 2 – September 2017 Hello, again. Part 2 of this newsletter is being sent out a bit sooner than I’d intended – which is a first, most are late! The reason for this rare haste is the imminent changeover to the new smartBoxmaker site. Rather than the sudden dramatic […]

smartBoxmaker newsletter newsletter 22, part 1 – September 2017: Hello everyone – I hope you’ve had a good summer [top half – UK weather notwithstanding] and winter [bottom half]. There seems to be a lot of mayhem on our little planet at the moment, both natural and self-inflicted. This newsletter has many US subscribers – […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter   newsletter no. 21 – March 2017: smartWare launch issue Hello everyone – having announced that ‘the eagle has landed’ on the smartBoxmaker homepage a little while back, I had to do a little bit of hasty back-tracking, partly due to a very minor change I wanted to […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter   newsletter no. 20 – December 2016: Hello! Well – what was supposed to be newsletter 19 part 2, due shortly after part 1 in September, has turned into newsletter 20. Immediately after a weekend course in early October I had an attack of something that turned […]

smartBoxmaker newsletter newsletter no. 19, September 2016 – part 1: I hope you’ve all had a good summer. Or winter for all you down-under subscribers – I’m sure you’re always happy for some blessed relief from the excessive heat of your summers, but now with another one just around the corner! Once again this newsletter […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter   newsletter 18, May 2016   Now the April ice and snow have passed and it looks like spring might actually be just around the corner, this is a short newsletter to tell you about a couple of special last-minute deals on my spring/summer courses, to post […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter   newsletter no. 17, December 2015 – part 2   first, a word about problems reading this newsletter:   Every time a new newsletter goes out there are a very few who can’t read it because the paper background image doesn’t load, which means that it is […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter   newsletter no. 17, December 2015 – part 1 This newsletter has been somewhat delayed as I wanted to wait until I had my new version slideshow up and running, and also some definitive smartWare news. I now have both, but there’s much else to talk about, […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter Welcome to newsletter 16 – July 2015 This newsletter has been delayed by two main issues: I wanted to wait until I had some more smartHinges to offer all you hinge-starved box makers out there, and until my new fine-boxes slideshow was up and running. Despite my […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter no. 15, December 2014 – smartWare update: Having used up the buses joke last year when one newsletter followed very closely behind another, I was a bit stuck for something to say in exactly the same situation this year! It never rains but it pours seemed to […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter no. 14, December 2014: Several hundred have joined my newsletter subscribers list in the last few weeks – welcome! Those who’ve been subscribed for a year or more will be aware that this is the first newsletter since December 8th last year, exactly a year and a […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter no. 13a, December 2013 extra Bet you weren’t expecting another one along so quickly – I won’t mention the bus analogy … For various unavoidable reasons the newsletter I sent out a couple of weeks ago, no. 13, had to go out before some of the new […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter no. 13, December 2013: Well, the summer seems a long time ago now, but at least we got one in the UK – the first time in several years! My workshop garden looked the best it has for ages – long overdue! Anyway, welcome to this latest […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter no. 12, June 2013:   Newsletters are a bit like boxes. As anyone will know who has made boxes [I guess a fair few will be reading this] it’s easy to fool yourself into thinking a box is almost finished: the carcass is made, hardware fitted, trays […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter November 2012 Hello to you all, and welcome to the November fine boxes newsletter. Following the recent death of my father-in-law after a short illness this was not going to be a long newsletter as necessarily a lot of my time is being taken up with family […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter August 2012 Well, what has been on my desktop disturbingly headed ‘May 2012 newsletter’ has finally come to fruition. In August. Sorry for the long delay, it has been a very busy time, just for a change! There has been much going on – a lot to […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter February 2012 Hello – this is pretty much a single issue newsletter, the main purpose of which is to announce my 2012 spring and summer weekend course dates, and to tell you a little more about these weekends than is currently available on the website. Weekend box […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter November 2011 Hello, welcome to a very late newsletter. This was meant to come out sometime in August – but a couple of health issues have delayed things. Nothing too serious, just annoying, time consuming and inconvenient. But all sorted now … so, welcome from boxland, albeit […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter June 2011 Hello all – this is a relatively brief newsletter for two important announcements: news on the Veritas corner jig and to post my autumn weekend dates. Apoplgies to anyone not directly interested in inlaying perfect lines or doing a weekend course! … there will be […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter March 2011 smartHinge now available in US This is a brief notification directed at all my US newsletter subscribers patiently waiting for smartHinge to be available in US. It is now available – please click here to place your order. Currently delivery to US is around three […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter February 2011 Hello – in my haste to send the brief smartHinge info newsletter out I forgot to wish everyone a happy new year. A bit late, now – but I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and 2011 brings you everything you wish for. We had […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter January 2011 Y o u r    o p p o r t u n i t y    t o    b u y    b e f  o r e    t h e    r u s h ! ! ! Hello – this is a very […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter November 2010  … OK – no actual boxes in the header image this time … all will be explained When I started to send out these formatted newsletters at the beginning of the year my intention was to send one every six months. The last newsletter [July] […]

Fine box making in the Shropshire hills newsletter July 2010   Hello again, box makers … I hope you’ve all been enjoying some of the [northern hemisphere] summer weather and it hasn’t been keeping you out of the workshop too much! It has been a very mixed summer weather-wise here in Shropshire. We missed the […]