Father’s Day · Sunday 6 September
If the woodworker in your life already has the tools, here is the thing they almost never buy for themselves: a genuinely good piece of timber.
A blank is just a solid block, cut and ready to be shaped on a lathe into a bowl, a handle, a pen, or whatever they have got in mind. Boxmaking stock is thinner and already dressed smooth, for small boxes and fine work. Either way, you are buying the raw material for something they will make and keep.
You do not need to know which species is right. Any of these will be a good present. If you would like a hand, ring us on 02 4577 5277 and we will talk you through it.
Everything below posts Australia-wide.
Under $40 — a good piece, and a real present
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New Guinea Rosewood
Sawn · 50×150mm
The cheapest thing here that still looks like a present.
$27.20
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Huon Pine
Turning blank · 45×45×300mm
Landed this month. Slow-grown, and it smells like nothing else on the bench.
$29.00
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Camphor Laurel
Turning · 70–90sq × 300mm
Our best-selling blank, full stop.
$31.40
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Figured Red Gum
Turning · 70–90sq × 300mm
Ripple figure that moves under the light.
$33.50
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NSW Rosewood
Turning · 75sq × 300mm
For knobs, handles and small turned work.
$33.50
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Figured Red Gum
Turning · 190 dia × 45mm
Platter-sized disc. Four left in the rack.
$39.00
$40 to $70 — the ones people stop and look at
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Purple Heart
Turning · 50sq × 300mm
Genuinely purple. No stain, no trick.
$51.50
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Zebrawood
Boxmaking · 9×90mm
Dressed and ready to cut. The stripes do the work.
$53.90
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Wenge
Boxmaking · 9×90mm
Near-black and dense. No two boards alike.
$53.90
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Tasmanian Blackwood
Turning · 100sq × 300mm
The Australian classic, bowl-sized.
$61.00
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Zebrawood
Turning · 50sq × 300mm
The stripes do the work. No finishing skill required.
$62.00
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Huon Pine
Bowl blank · 200×200×50mm
Enough for a proper bowl, in the timber everyone asks about.
$69.00
$70 and up — properly special
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Brazilian Bloodwood
Boxmaking · 10×110mm
Deep red straight off the saw.
$71.50
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Purple Heart
Boxmaking · 10×125mm
Enough for a full small box.
$82.50
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Huon Pine
Sawn · 50×200mm
The biggest piece here, and the rarest.
$92.00
On every order over $150
Offcuts to suit what you make
Spend over $150 and we put a parcel of offcuts in the box, matched to what you make. Board offcuts if you work flat, around 300mm and usable. A turning blank or two if you turn. Pen blanks if that is your thing. Three or four species, no two parcels the same, and nothing token about them.
Nothing to enter and no code — we go off what you have ordered. If you want something specific, reply to your order confirmation and we will do our best.
Getting it there
Tuesday 1 September is our last regular despatch before Father’s Day. Order before then and it goes out that day.
Wednesday 2 September — order that day and we will upgrade you to Express at our cost. You pay regular postage, we pay the difference.
Not sure? Send a gift card
Any value from $25, emailed instantly. It spends on anything in the shop, timber included. No bonus, no catch, no fine print — and he picks the board himself, which is usually what he wanted anyway.
Still stuck? Ring 02 4577 5277 between 9 and 4 on a weekday, or 9 to 12 Saturday. We have been doing this since 1969 and we are very used to this exact phone call.