Timber Veneers - Australian

One of the best known and most widely used Tasmanian special timbers, Blackwood, is produced in moderate commercial volumes and grows across a broad range of forest types. Blackwood timber colour ranges from a very pale honey colour through to a dark chocolate with streaks of red tinge. Blackwood with intense fiddle-back figure being the most valuable.

Huon Pine is found in the west and south-west rainforests of Tasmania where it grows along river banks and lake shore forests. It’s rich golden colour and figure make it one of the world’s most desirable furniture and veneering timbers. CLICK ON PRODUCT PHOTO FOR FULL DETAILS

Myrtle is the dominant tree in the cool temperate rainforest and in the mixed wet eucalypt forests. Colour varies from pink to a deep red brown and fiddle-back grain.  Stripy colour and burl figure is highly coveted. CLICK ON PRODUCT PHOTO FOR FULL DETAILS

Sassafras grows as an understory tree in Tasmania’s wet mixed forests and rainforests but also grows in Victoria and New South Wales. Sassafras is famous for its spectacular black-heart stain caused by naturally occurring wood fungi which produces a range of contrasting brown to black colours in the heartwood. Creative veneer lay-ups can produce stunning effects with even slight amounts of heart stain. Spalted Sassafras timber, with fine dark lines caused by stain fungi in the log after harvesting, is also attractive and popular in craft and furniture items. CLICK ON PRODUCT PHOTO FOR FULL DETAILS