Our Timbers

We specialise in using Australian hardwood timbers, why - because they are one of the fascinating aspects of our natural world here in Australia that generally people are still largely unaware of.

They're tough, dense and beautiful. We have so many species of eucalypts in this country, all with different colours and appearances, and these characteristics vary within each species, depending on the conditions they grow in.

The timbers we mainly offer are a combination of local timbers (around the Riverina district) such as red gum, red ironbark and red stringybark, which despite it's name isn't very red. We also have alpine ash from up in the mountains around Tumbarumba and timbers from the south coast of NSW such as spotted gum and blackbutt.

We have other species from time to time such as southern mahogany, again from the south coast and then from up in the mountains we have some timbers commonly known as narrow leaf peppermint and mountain gum or otherwise known as eucalyptus radiata and eucalyptus dalrympleana.

In addition to eucalypts we also love to use some of the casuarinas such as river sheoak when ever we can get onto some. These timbers are also very dense and very beautiful Australian hardwoods.

Two species were often asked about are blackwood and jarrah. Blackwood isn't a eucalypt as some people think, it belongs to the acacia family and is reasonably soft, in my opinion too soft to make a durable everyday use table from. For people who have a kitchen made from blackwood we find that it's really not difficult to find one of our other species that is similar in colour to what's found in the timber in their kitchen and besides like most timbers blackwood can be very different in colour from one batch (or tree) to the next so matching the timber in a kitchen at anytime can be nearly impossible sometimes.