TARDIS Cabinets of South Wales

Sooner, or later, you’re going to need a TARDIS

I create TARDIS-inspired boxes and cabinets for customers around the globe. My builds are more than just replicas of the Doctor’s Police Public Call Box, they each have a unique function!

These creations serve as ring boxes, jewellery or pen cabinets, dice tumblers, wall clocks, table lamps, cremation urns, wedding card receptacles, and much more!

Wood is my chosen medium. Perhaps in a parallel universe, I’d be a painter or poet, but in this reality, I’m a cabinet maker and TARDIS builder.

All the wood I use is high-quality hardwood—tight grain and more durable. Predominantly, I work with Poplar, Ash, Oak, Walnut, and Birch. Each cabinet and box is handmade with care by a Whovian.

About the Builder

I'm a Doctor Who fan because the show is optimistic, whimsical, and exciting. I like optimism and whimsy and excitement. I've been a fan since Tom Baker was the Doctor.

I studied at Colorado University in Boulder and the Banff School of Fine Art in Alberta, Canada. I live in the hills of Llangyfelach, South Wales.

Since 1983, I've approached my woodworking as an art form, not a hobby. I'm a craftsman and a small businessman, building solid wood Public Call Box-inspired cabinets and boxes.

I also work with exotic woods like East Indian and Brazilian Rosewood, Ecuadorian Purpleheart, American Black Walnut, and Birch Burl, appreciating the native beauty of each piece.

Visit The Exotic Woods Gallery to see specialty builds using unique hardwoods.

The TARDIS

The TARDIS is the Doctor’s ship, their home and their friend. It has been the one constant through all their lives; an impossible blue box, bigger on the inside than the outside, not necessarily taking them where they want to go, but very often where they need to be. It can reach any time or place, and with it the Doctor has shown the universe to their many, many friends.

‘TARDIS’ stands for ‘Time and Relative Dimension in Space’ – an acronym coined by Susan, the Doctor’s granddaughter. A Type 40 capsule created by the Time Lords, the TARDIS is the Doctor’s incredible ship for travelling in time and space. The First Doctor actually stole the TARDIS, using it to run away and embark on adventures across the universe. Or, perhaps, was it the TARDIS that stole him?

The TARDIS has a chameleon circuit which should allow it to disguise itself, but it's stuck looking like a tall blue police box from 1960s England. Dimensionally transcendental, it appears much bigger on the inside than the outside. As well as a central control room from which it can be flown, the TARDIS has infinite other spaces – a pool, a library, an art gallery, a junk room, a walk-in wardrobe, an aquarium, a zoo and a garage. Just to name a few!

More of a friend to the Doctor than a machine, the TARDIS has a strong will of its own... As the Moment tells the Doctor, the “wheezing, groaning” sound that the TARDIS makes when materialising and dematerialising “brings hope wherever it goes. To anyone who hears it.”