Hard Wood, Hard Lessons – The Gidgee Episode

What happens when you put timber through university, throw a chunk of Gidgee at a lathe, spend half your life sanding it, and then realise you probably should have gone to the gym?

Welcome back to The Timber Bros Podcast with Plummo & Hazy — where woodworking, timber, tools, projects and the occasional workshop disaster all get thrown into the same bloody shed.

This episode is a ripper.

We kick things off with Engineered Timber and ask the question every traditional woodworker eventually faces: is it still timber if you’ve glued half a forest together? We get stuck into plywood, LVL, Glulam, CLT and why engineered timber isn't necessarily the poor cousin of solid timber.

Then it's time for Timber of the Week — Gidgee.

This stuff is seriously hard, seriously heavy and seriously good-looking. We talk about its incredible density, colour, grain, workability and what we'd actually make if someone dropped a beautiful chunk of Gidgee on the workshop bench.

Then we hit the sanding bench with our mates at SPX Abrasives and talk about one of woodworking's great truths:

You can never underestimate how much bloody sanding there is.

From there it's Jig of the Week, where we're building a routing jig for putting a proper juice groove around a chopping board. Simple idea. Great result. Absolutely capable of turning an expensive piece of timber into an expensive serving platter if you get it wrong.

We also get stuck into the projects currently occupying our workshops, including the inevitable question:

How much did that bloody project actually cost?

And of course, the Timber Bros wouldn't be complete without our regular segments:

🔨 What Did Plummo Stuff Up This Week?

🛒 What Did Hazy Buy That He Didn't Need?

Then we slow things down for Heartwood, our men's health segment.

This episode we're talking about strength, weight-bearing and muscle-strengthening exercise, and why staying strong isn't about becoming a bodybuilder — it's about making sure you can still lift your timber, carry your tools, get off the floor and keep doing the things you bloody enjoy as you get older.

And finally, don't forget to head over to:

👉 thetimberbros.com

That's where you can keep up with The Timber Bros, find the podcast, check out what we're working on and get in touch with us.

So grab a cuppa, a coldie, or whatever you've got in the workshop fridge, pull up a stool and settle in.

There's timber to talk about, tools to argue over, mistakes to confess and probably something Hazy has bought that he absolutely didn't need.

This is The Timber Bros Podcast.

Keep the blades sharp.

Keep the fingers attached.

And for God's sake...

MEASURE TWICE!

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