Buckingham Timberworks is a woodworking company based in Indianapolis.
Owner Fred Buckingham earned his Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Management from Purdue University and worked in manufacturing procurement before deciding to pursue woodworking. Through his training at the Steubenville Workshop, Fred learned traditional skills to build houses that stand for a hundred years and furniture that serves families for generations. Fred’s special interest is gothic geometries and their applications both in structural and decorative elements of wooden goods and buildings.
Buckingham Timberworks is fundamentally about pursuing holiness. That means that our construction methods, tools, materials, business practices, and everything in between are chosen specifically for the role they play in instilling virtue, creating beauty, inspiring gladness, and fostering real Christian community.
Timber framing is a traditional technique
for constructing the frames of buildings which involves cutting joints into beams, assembling these beams together, and using wooden pegs to secure the joints in place. Timber framing is done using green wood because the joints contract as they dry, resulting in a tight union and enhanced structural stability, and because using green wood reduces the costs associated with the drying process. Though timber framing is commonly associated with "rustic" looking buildings today, it was THE method that was used to construct wooden structures for hundreds of years - structures ranging from simple houses to the Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris.