Australian Timber Selection

The sapwood is creamy white, heartwood is light brown to dark chocolate brown, occasionally with a purplish cast and darker streaks. Generally straight grained, but sometimes has attractive wavy or curly grain. Also known as Black Walnut, American Walnut.

American Oak has a generally straight grain with some crown, coarse but even texture. It is usually grey-brown and sometimes tinged with red. A native of USA and Canada, ours is sourced from FSC ® – Forest Stewardship Council mills in north-western North America. Hardness (Janka) (kN) 6

Blackwood or acacia melanoxylon is the tallest of the wattle family, growing up to 50m high. We source ours from Smithton in northwest Tasmania. The natural colour ranges from golden brown to deep brown to reddish-brown. It is considered one of the premium decorative hardwoods with a beautiful depth of colour complementing the fiddleback grain.

Blackbutt comes from plantations in coastal New South Wales and Queensland. It varies in colour from pale to golden brown with a predominantly straight, even grain its perfect for dining table surfaces. It is often marked with gum veins and some surface markings are common. Botanical name Eucalyptus Pilularis. Hardness (Janka) (kN) 9.1,

Our cherry comes from plantations in North America. This native hardwood also grows naturally in Europe and has a beautiful figurative character. The colour varies from reddish-brown to either deep red or a lighter reddish-brown. Our timbers are sources by mills complying to FSC ® – Forest Stewardship Council in North America. Cherry is a very durable and closed grained hardwood making it perfect for High quality furniture pieces. Hardness (Janka) (kN) 4

The cooler climates of eastern Victoria, southern New South Wales and northern Tasmanian are home to this native hardwood. Contains a mixture of Eucalypt timbers as e. Sieberi, e. Obliqua & E. Fastigata its timber is light brown with distinct growth rings and a beautiful choice for rustic, casual dining furniture. Trees are affected by wildfires, years of drought and attack by insects. Flood and strong winds stunt their growth with each piece showing nature’s signature. Deep red gum veins formed by fire, ambrosia beetle marks, pin holes and squiggly worm marks are all evident. Also known as Wormy Chestnut. Hardness (Janka) (kN) 8 PEFC certified

With samples collected during Captain Cook’s third Pacific voyage in 1777, this was the first eucalypt recorded by botanists. The premium version of its cousins the Victorian ash and Tasmanian oak, Tasmanian messmate has an even texture with straight grains and varies in colour from pale to light brown. Ours is sourced from Northern Tasmania. Botanical name is Eucalyptus Obliqua. (common name ‘Messmate’) Hardness (Janka) (kN) 7

Native to the southwest corner of Western Australia, jarrah ranges in colour from dark red in its heartwood to pale yellow in its sapwood. It has an even, slightly interlocked grain that sometimes shows fiddleback characteristics. Our timber is from sustainably harvested forests a few hours drive south of Perth. Hardness (Janka) (kN) 8.5

Over 100 years ago in 1892 this timber was milled in Western Australia and transported to the wine region south of Adelaide bordering the Murray lakes. It was made into huge vats in the making of their fortified wines. You can still smell the sweet nectar in the timber and the colour is rich with the years of wine infusion. We love the aroma in the workshop when we’re working with this timber!

This is one of the most common inland trees of Australia and is synonymous with the outback. Our red gum is not logged, but milled from naturally fallen trees in the Barossa Valley and Hindmarsh Valley. It is a durable hardwood with a distinctive rippling or fiddleback grain with rich red-brown colour. Hardness (Janka) (kN) 10

We source our mahogany from plantations in Fiji that were created in the 1940s from Brazilian seedlings. This fine grade hardwood is actually a honey-pink colour in its raw state, but is usually stained to achieve the rich, dark texture that is associated with mahogany antique furniture. Hardness (Janka) (kN) 4