5-layer Ziggurat Jewellery Box in English oak, ebony and holly with fantail details
Simple Stool in ash and walnut with ebony wedges

Bespoke — furniture and wooden objects from locally-sourced hardwoods

Pebble Lamp — standard lamp turned from oak, elm, ash, cherry, yew, cedar, mahogany, sapele, amarello, walnut, sycamore, maple, olive and others
Chessboard in sycamore, wenge and ebony
Mark Stoneham / Woodmarked — cabinet-maker based in Standlake, Oxfordshire.

About — I am a cabinet-maker based in Standlake, Oxfordshire.

More details of various completed projects and works-in-progress can be found on my Instagram page

View fullsize The anatomy of box making. Here are (most of) the steps in making a burr walnut veneered engraved pen box. Starting with cutting up 8mm plywood and glueing together the box. Then selecting and book- matching the sequential veneers. Next the veneer is
View fullsize Urn for a friend’s favourite horse’s ashes in mahogany on green baize with carved detail of horse cantering #cabinetmaking #bespokecarpentry #uniquewoodengifts #boxmaker
View fullsize Pen box as a gift for the surgeon who fixed up my shoulder. Burr walnut with Green baize lining
View fullsize The brief was to make a stool like this one but a little ‘finer’ in English oak. I set up a jig to drill 30mm holes at exactly the right spangles for the legs. Then turned the tops of the legs to fit and slotted them for wedges. Assemble
View fullsize This is an old rip saw that I haven’t used for years. Rip saws cut down the grain and are used eg when the wood is too big to go in a bandsaw. This one looks a little sad so it got a makeover. Handle removed, sanded, stained and finished. Blade
View fullsize Postman just delivered my new business cards to go with each piece I make! #cabinetmaking #bespokecabinetry
View fullsize I had this jewellery chest back to add some baize inserts in the middle drawer to keep rings or studs in. #jewelleryboxes #burrwalnutveneer #bespokecabinetmakers
View fullsize Some amazing hardwood timber I have just acquired including sycamore mahogany cherry oak walnut and many more from the workshop of a colleague’s father who collected hardwoods! Can’t wait to use it. Includes a piece of mahogany which is m