Resin, Epoxy or Epoxy Resin? Making Sense of the Mix By Alaina Bodley Dipping your toes into the resin pool, you’ll find it’s brimming with terms like resin, epoxy, epoxy resin, epoxy adhesives – so… are they the same, are they different? Let’s dive! Category: Finishing Read More
Router Bit Basics By Geoff Doube Router bits come in all shapes and sizes, but are basically all the same kind of thing: a steel shaft with cutters that is designed to rotate very quickly (up to 20,000rpm!) against the workpiece, removing material in thin slices. Category: Routing Read More
A Buyer’s Guide to Thicknessers By Alaina Bodley If you prefer to work with machines in your workshop, you’ll find that there are few essential machines needed to get the job done. Planing takes your rough sawn, or bent and bowed timber and turns it into a useable and squared piece, from where the magic really happens! Category: Trending, Planing Read More
A Beginners Guide to Japanese Saws By Geoff Doube In a recent informal poll, Timbecon employees expressed an almost unanimous preference for them over their Western counterparts (with the exceptions remaining diplomatically neutral). But what makes Japanese saws so good? Category: Sawing, Recommended Read More
Bevel Envy - Sharpening by hand - A simple step by step guide Sharpening induced anxiety is better known as Bevel Envy. A debilitating condition that affects a broad range of woodworking practitioners. This may seem like a joke, yet if you are unable to sharpen well for whatever reason - it will limit you in the craft. Category: Sharpening, Recommended Read More
Freud - Manufacturers of Exceptional Carbide Tools Freud is a worldwide leading manufacturer of woodworking carbide saw blades, router bits and shaper cutters. The company’s name “Freud” isn’t a family name such as “Sigmund Freud”, the name is a combination of “Fre” that is short for “fresa” (the Italian word for cutter), and “Ud,” the abbreviation of “Udine” (pronounced “OO-dee-nay”), the Italian city where the Freud company was founded in 1962. Category: Product Review, Recommended Read More
A Buyer’s Guide to Thicknessers By Alaina Bodley If you prefer to work with machines in your workshop, you’ll find that there are few essential machines needed to get the job done. Planing takes your rough sawn, or bent and bowed timber and turns it into a useable and squared piece, from where the magic really happens! Category: Trending, Planing Read More
Setting Up a Wood Workshop with Limited Space – Part I – Workflow and Layout By Alaina Bodley In the squeeze of a small space, setting up your woodworking shop with all the bells and whistles might feel like mission impossible, but it doesn't need to be! Whether you're reclaiming your garage or a spare room, it is all about getting clever with the layout. Seeing a small space shapeshift into an efficient workshop will be just as satisfying as the completion of the projects created within it. Category: Site & Workshop, Trending Read More
Bevel Envy - Treatments Available via Machine Therapy Sharpening induced anxiety is better known as Bevel Envy. A debilitating condition that affects a broad range of woodworking practitioners. This may seem like a joke, yet if you are unable to sharpen well for whatever reason - it will limit you in the craft. Category: Sharpening, Trending Read More
How to find estimated shipping on the Timbecon website By Hague Haswell You can now get estimated shipping costs just by going through the checkout! Category: Timbecon News Read More