Timbermere StudioWares for the table, handmade
Selby · North Yorkshire53.7°N — Workshop est. 2019
№ 01 — The Catalogue

Made by hand.
Made to be used
for forty years.

From the workshop

Boards, bowls, and serving pieces — turned and carved from British hardwoods in a barn outside Selby. One maker, small batches, built to outlive their packaging.

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The Collection
9 pieces · 4 woods→
MaterialBritish hardwoods
MakerTom Marsden, est. 2019
Lead time3–4 weeks
ShippingFree, UK & EU
Contents · Vol. VIISpring Catalogue, 2026

In this volume.

Compiled · Selby, N. Yorkshire32 pages · 9 pieces · 1 maker
№ 02 — The Collection

Boards, bowls, &
pieces for the table.

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№ 03 — The Workshop

A barn, a bench,
and one pair of hands.

Walnut blanks · drying rack
01

Sourced from woodlands
we can drive to.

Every plank starts at a small mill within ninety miles of the workshop — oak from Yorkshire estates, ash and sycamore from the Dales, walnut from a co-op in Cheshire we've worked with since 2020.

We pay a fair price for the wood, and we don't take more than the woodland can grow back.

Sourcing radius
90 miles
Mills
7 partners
02

Shaped one piece
at a time, by one maker.

Tom mills, planes, sands, and finishes every piece himself — from rough plank to finished oil. No assembly line. No production runs. A board takes about four hours of work, spread over a week of drying.

What you get is a piece with the maker's hand in it, not a copy.

Time per board
~4 hours
Pieces / month
60–80
03

Finished, marked,
wrapped in linen.

Each piece is sealed with food-safe oil, branded with our maker's mark, and packed in unbleached linen with a card telling you which wood, which week, which hands.

Care for it well and it'll outlast its packaging by several decades.

Finish
Food-safe oil
Guarantee
Lifetime repair
№ 04 — Materials

Choose your wood.

English Oak

Quercus robur · Yorkshire

A pale honey-gold timber that deepens with age and oil. Strong, even-grained, and famously durable — built into half the medieval cathedrals of England, and still the workhorse of British carpentry. Best for chopping boards and surfaces that take real use.

Hardness
Janka 1,360
Grain
Open, straight
Origin
Yorkshire

“We don't make disposable. We make the kind of object you wash by hand, that gets better the more it's used, that one day belongs to your children.”

— Tom Marsden, Founder & Maker
№ 05 — Process

From plank
to finished piece.

— I.

Mill & dry.

Rough planks are cut to size, stacked with stickers, and air-dried in the barn for six to twelve months until moisture content drops below 10%.

~ 6–12 months
— II.

Plane, shape, sand.

Each piece is hand-planed flat, traced and cut, then sanded through five grits to a 220 finish. Edges are eased with a small block plane.

~ 3–4 hours
— III.

Oil, mark, wrap.

Two coats of food-safe oil, twenty-four hours apart. Branded with our maker's mark. Packed in unbleached linen with a maker's card.

~ 2 days
№ 06 — Journal

Notes from the bench.

All entries →
Photo · workshop35mm · natural light
Workshop04 / 26

Why we still air-dry our oak.

Kiln drying is faster, but air-dried oak holds its shape better and takes oil more deeply. Here's what the wait gets you.

Photo · materialsTop-down · linen
Materials03 / 26

A short field guide to British walnut.

Walnut is a temperamental wood — and that's exactly what makes a finished piece worth the trouble.

Photo · careDetail · macro
Care guide02 / 26

How to look after a wooden board.

The five-minute monthly routine that'll keep your board going for thirty years and counting.

Fin.Vol. VII · Selby, N. Yorkshire

Set in Fraunces and Inter. Printed on Bone & Walnut. Bound by hand.

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