Timbers

These are the most common timbers we use to create your boards. Please be advised that there are many colour variants of each timber species. The images displayed are just a guide into what each timber most commonly looks like.

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Victorian Ash

Victorian ash is the trade name for two of the tallest hardwood species in the world. Victorian ash timber usually has a straight grain but may also produce fiddleback markings and have visible gum veins. The heartwood ranges from pale pink to yellowish brown.

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Blackbutt

The common name blackbutt came about due to the tree's appearance after bushfire. The common name blackbutt came about due to the tree's appearance after bushfire

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Tasmanian Blackwood

Blackwood is a medium-sized Australian hardwood that grows in South Australia and the eastern states. It is definitely an ‘appearance timber’, with a heartwood that is a rich golden brown. This is sometimes complimented by reddish streaks or a narrow band of darker colour, indicative of the growth rings. The sapwood is much paler in appearance.

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Spotted Gum

Spotted gum is one of Australia’s premium native hardwoods with a striking appearance and a high degree of natural durability and strength. The heartwood ranges from light brown through to dark red-brown hues. Sapwood is usually white to light brown in colour.

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Grey Ironbark

Grey ironbark is a premium native hardwood that has been well regarded as a high quality timber in Australia throughout human history. The timber's appearance ranges from reddish to dark brown heartwood. The sapwood is lighter in colour and is 20mm thick on average. Grain is usually tight and straight and no distinctive figure is encountered.

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Red Ironbark

ed ironbark is a handsome Australian hardwood that grows readily from Victoria through the western slopes of NSW into southern Queensland. Red ironbark heartwood is a deep dark red to red-brown. By contrast, its sapwood is a distinctive pale yellow in colour. The timber's texture is fine and even with an interlocked grain.

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Jarrah

Jarrah is a unique Australian hardwood renowned for its versatility. Jarrah timbers reflect the hues of the Western Australian landscape. The heartwood varies in colour from rich reds to browns, while sapwood ranges from a pale yellow to orange. The texture of the timber is moderately coarse and even-textured grain, although some interlocked, wavy grain may feature, creating interesting fiddle-back figure.

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Red Mahogany

Red mahogany is a hardwood with a fine grain and attractive red colouring. Red mahogany is a dense, durable timber. The heartwood ranges from red to dark red, but sapwood is distinctively paler. The even grain is generally moderatley textured, displaying the occasional gum vein, and at times the grain is interlocked producing an attractive figure.

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Queensland Maple

The attractive Queensland maple has long been appreciated as a shade tree for Australian parks and gardens and also for its striking pink wood. The lustrous sheen of the pink to brownish pink heartwood makes for a distinctive tree.

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European Beech

Pale straw color, sometimes with a pink or brown hue. Grain is straight; fine to medium uniform texture and moderate natural luster. Veneer tends to be slightly darker colored, as slicing the veneer usually requires the wood to be prepared with steam, which gives the wood a more golden tone.

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Rock Maple

produces an attractive timber with creamy-white sapwood, sometimes with a pink tinge, and light to reddish brown heartwood. Higher grades of the timber are selected for the white colour of the sapwood, and this can limit their availability. While generally straight-grained, American hard maple can have a distinctive curly, fiddleback or Birdseye figure.

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White American Oak

White oak is mostly straight grained with a medium to coarse texture, with longer rays and more figure than American red oak. It has large distinctive growth rings, and some medullary rays may be present. American white oak is a hard, heavy wood, and has low stiffness and good overall strength, making it increasingly popular as a structural timber. It also has very good steam bending properties.

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New Guinea Rosewood

The heartwood of rosewood can be either golden brown or a dark blood-red, while the sapwood is pale yellow and up to 60mm wide. The wood is of medium texture and the grain is variable.

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Black American Walnut

American black walnut is a medium to large hardwood, native to the eastern regions of North America. Its heartwood ranges from a golden to rich chocolate brown colour, sometimes with narrow streaks of a darker purplish-brown. Sapwood is a distinctive creamy white colour. American black walnut is a fine and generally straight-grained timber, although sometimes it has an attractive wavy or curly grain, giving it a highly decorative figure.

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Wenge

Heartwood is medium brown, sometimes with a reddish or yellowish hue, with nearly black streaks. Upon application of a wood finish the wood can become nearly black. However, unlike most other dark hardwoods, the heartwood of wenge can lighten when exposed to sunlight.