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December 7, 2020

80mm Timber Dowel
Recently we had an enquiry from a customer to see if we could do a timber dowel in an 80mm diameter. They had seen on our website that we manufactured a range of dowels varying in size from 13mm through to 60mm in diameter and in a selection of different timbers.
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November 23, 2020

Galvanised Pipe Fittings For A Mezzanine
It is always nice when you can sell some of your products to one of your suppliers. This was the case recently when one of our suppliers contacted us about using a heap of our galvanised pipe fittings to construct a balustrade on a mezzanine level that they were building.
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November 9, 2020

Do Exterior Timber Products Need To Be Painted?
Sometimes when you work in an industry long enough you think that an answer to a question is obvious. This is the case when we have customers ask us "Do we need to paint that?", in reference to a exterior treated timber product that they have purchased off of us.
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October 19, 2020

Gooseneck Roof Finial
Roof finials or Gable Spires (as they are also known), are something that we have been manufacturing in bulk at our factory for well over 25 years.
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October 5, 2020

Custom Turned Table Columns
Custom wood turning jobs are unfortunately something we don't do a lot of these days due to an overall lack of demand; so when we do get a call for it, and there is a bit of volume involved, we normally jump at the opportunity to dust off some of our old wood turning lathes and return to our origins of how we began.
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September 21, 2020

Feature wall in 60mm Pine Dowel
We recently added 60mm diameter dowel in Pine, Victorian ash, American Oak and Meranti to our range of products that we sell through our online store.
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September 7, 2020

Rebated Timber Handrail
Doing a rebate in a timber handrail is something we have done many times, but occasionally we get a request for a size that makes us ask the question .... "can we do that ?"
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August 24, 2020

Classic Turned Timber Baluster
The Tasman turned timber baluster design has been part of our range for decades, and over this time it would not be an exaggeration to suggest that we would have turned well over 500,000 of them in various timber species.
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August 10, 2020

Lights, Camera, Action !
Back in August 2017 we produced a number of informational videos that we released on our newely established YouTube channel. We were hoping that these videos would be popular, but we were surprised by just how popular they were.
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