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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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February 22, 2021

New Square-Line Range of Legs
In 2014 we started manufacturing and selling online our range of Slim-Line furniture legs. Then in 2015 we added the Regular-Line range of furniture legs. In the case of both of these ranges, the legs are round and tapered and come in 7 different lengths and 2 different timbers.
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February 8, 2021

New Pointed Fence Post Top
Late 2020 when I was visiting customers, I had a request from a client as to whether we could sell fence posts with a pointed or pyramid style top on them and a recessed or rebated groove just underneath it. They told me that they get a lot of requests for this style of post, and the only way they can do them is to send plain posts to a local work shop and get them made to order.
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January 25, 2021

Custom Timber Profile Mould
Custom timber mouldings are something that we get a call for on a regular basis, but most of them are quite small in size and therefore are relatively easy to produce. As you can see by the accompanying photos, the custom mould that we produced for this customer was certainly not small.
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