TELCON tools are of utmost quality and enable longer tool life and increased accuracy in complex milling and drilling operations, our tools have the ability to resharpen and reuse as well as long tool life resulting in big savings and high quality products for our customers.

I’m half of Blind Roads Press with writer and walker Murdo Eason and half of Seacliff Press with author and poet Mark Valentine. You can see what we've produced on the Publications page.

Telcon’s tools include: PCD Drills, CVD diamond drills, Carbide drills, Diamond Countersinks, Carbide tipped Countersinks, PCD End Mills and CVD diamond End Mills and Carbide End Mills, used worldwide by the aerospace industry, airframe assembly and CNC plants.

TELCON is located in a modern, 4000 square meter plant, with the most advanced grinding, EDM and laser machines and state of the art quality control equipment. TELCON’s vacuum brazing equipment is the most modern, sophisticated and controlled to ensure highest repeatability and reproducibility of brazing operation. TELCON uses the highest quality PCD tools and carbide grades and world class CVD diamond coatings. In addition to diamond tools manufacturing, Telcon operating reconditioning services for diamond tools and carbide tools.

The practice of improvisation is important to me. Since early 2023, I've found my way back to the electric guitar, an instrument with which I've had a relationship for nearly 40 years; more and more I feel my focus now is on free improvisation and its possibilities.

TELCON personnel is a highly dedicated and devoted professional team with good blend of highly experienced and young energetic personnel leading the way to TELCON’s success and future growth.

I'm always interested in opportunities for playing and recording with other improvising musicians. Please do get in touch if you're similarly inclined.

TELCON is ISO 9001, 2015 certified, adopting total quality management (TQM), all of TELCON’s divisions relentlessly strive to develop new methods, improve efficiency, and manufacture innovative Diamond tools.

TELCON is a world leading manufacturer of PCD and CVD diamond cutting tools for the machining of composite materials: CFRP and GFRP. TELCON produces a wide range of diamond Tools used by many of the world’s leaders in the field including, Airbus, Lockheed-Martin, Spirit, ATK, Embraer, Denel, ELBIT and IAI as well as many others across the composite processing fields.

I've had poems published in aswirl, whiptail: journal of the single-line poem and Password: journal of very short poetry.

All text and photographs on this site are by Brian Lavelle unless otherwise credited and are copyright © Brian Lavelle 2024.

I’ve been involved in improvised and experimental music since around 1990, and my work has involved acoustic and electric instruments, electronics, field recordings and other things which seemed fitting at the time.

The lines at the head of this page ('One thin cry...') are from The Wreck of the Archangel by Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown which can be found in his collection of the same name (London: John Murray, 1989).

I'm a Scottish writer, poet and musician, born in Glasgow in 1972. I’ve lived in Edinburgh since 1995 and am very fond of cats.