NSW Rosewood – Sawn – Turning – 120×120×300mm

Photos show the species — grain and colour — not the size of this listing. You’ll receive the dimensions stated.

This rosewood bowl blank is big enough to actually turn a bowl from, which this species rarely offers. Most NSW Rosewood comes through at spindle scale — knobs, handles, pulls. This block is the size that lets it be the whole piece instead of the accent. It’s a limited parcel, while stocks last.

What it is. NSW Rosewood is Dysoxylum fraserianum (current botanical databases list it as Didymocheton fraserianus), a rainforest hardwood native to the NSW and southern Queensland coast, traded under this name for generations. It carries a distinctive rose-like scent when freshly cut or turned.

What you’d make with this rosewood bowl blank at 120×120×300.

• Small to medium turned bowls
• Lidded boxes
• Vases and hollow vessel forms
• Platters and shallow turned dishes

Working notes

• Density: ~705 kg/m³ — medium-dense
• Hardness: rated moderately hard on the Queensland timber-properties register — comparable to Blackwood in the hand
• Grain: fine and straight, occasionally figured
• Surface: Supplied rough-sawn — dress one face true before templating or glue-up.
• Working: turns cleanly, holds a crisp edge on bowl walls
• Finishing: a coat of Danish oil under a buffed EEE-Ultra Shine topcoat suits a finished bowl interior and exterior

What turners say about it. Turners on the Australian woodworking forums flag NSW Rosewood at bowl scale as uncommon — most parcels through the trade only run to handles and knobs.

The stack it came from. This rosewood bowl blank is old stock — it sat in the back of the shed for many years before we recovered it and got it ready to sell — bowl-scale parcels of this species are genuinely rare and this one’s limited. See the rest of our NSW Rosewood range or browse turning blanks generally. Once it goes, the listing closes.