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In issue 223 of Furniture & Cabinetmaking John Bullar looks at some of the aspects of John Henry Belter’s patented system for laminating; David Rigler explains how he made this industrial-style desk; Derek Jones takes a look a Mafell’s new random orbital sander; Marco Terenzi introduces us to the concept of woodworking in miniature, and in our router table joinery series, we look at creating simple sliding dovetails without the use of measurements In ‘Design & Inspiration’, we look at the work of Jason Schneider who creates furniture using corrugated cardboard; we spend 20 minutes with sculptural furniture maker David Groth; Jim Hooker considers our relationship with hand tools and John Adamson looks at Scottish toolmakers Alexander Mathieson & Sons and Spiers of Ayr. As well as all this, we also have ‘Leader’ from the Editor; ‘News & Events’; ’F&CUK & readers’ letters; ‘Editor’s round-up’ and ‘Workshop library’, where we have a number of furniture-related reads that we think you’ll enjoy, as well as our website of the month. All this and more in issue 223!