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June 21, 2021

Turned Baluster On A Grand Staircase
We may not have built the staircase on the most expensive house ever sold in Adelaide, but one of our turned baluster designs did feature on it.

The grand staircase you can see in the photos below was built by a stairbuilder here in Adelaide called Stair Innovations. The staircase resides in a new-build house on Robe Terrace in the exclusive Adelaide suburb on Medindie. The house took over 6 years to build, and was sold in early 2021.
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June 19, 2021

Galvanised Balustrade For A Ramp
In recent years there has been a trend away from getting older people going into aged care facilities. Rather they have been encouraged to stay in their own home as long as possible and receive at-home-care.

To enable this to happen it is important that their home is as safe as possible, with one of the major issues being trip and fall hazards.

A major fall hazard on many older homes is the entry to the house, where it is not uncommon to have steps that are required to be negotiated to enter/exit the front door.
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June 7, 2021

Treated Turned Porch Post - Old v New
In January 2020 my Dad and I did a motorcycle trip up to the town of Quorn, which is about 350km north of Adelaide.

Quorn was originally a railway town that was established in the late 1800's. Like a lot of railway towns in Australia, when the railway left, so did the people. These days Quorn has about 1000 people living in it, and is a popular tourist destination for people wanting to explore the Flinders Ranges.

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May 24, 2021

Designer Rail - Now Available in Black
Around 10 years ago we introduced a new timber handrail system into Australia. We called it the Designer Rail and it was a system that allowed you to seamlessly combine timber dowel handrail in 43mm diameter with stainless steel fittings, such as bends and end caps.
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May 10, 2021

New Product Catalogue Available For Download
We are pleased to announce that we have just released our new Product Catalogue, and you can click the image below or go to this link to download it.

If anyone has ever had experience in putting together a catalogue, you will know that it can be quite a substantial undertaking.
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April 26, 2021

Tapered Round Timber Plugs
A round tapered plug might seem like an easy product to make, but when that plug has a maximum diameter of 165mm it presents a number of problems.

Plugs of this size require large sections of timber to be glued together, but luckily for us we have some heavy duty clamps that are big enough to handle it.
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April 12, 2021

50mm Rebated American Oak Dowel
50mm American Oak dowel is a product that we have been stocking and selling for a while now; but occasionally we get a request from customers for a rebated to be put into it.
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March 22, 2021

Decorate a Verandah with Fretwork Spindles
Fretwork spindles are a great way to decorate a verandah or porch of a traditional Australian home. We have 3 different turned styles available for you to use for this purpose.
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March 8, 2021

Heritage Handrail Available in 4 Timbers
In the early 2000's we decided it was time to re-introduce timber handrails to our business. We had been making handrails 10 years earlier, but for a variety of different reasons we had stopped doing so.
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