Huon Pine – Sawn – Bowl Blank – 200×200×50mm

Huon Pine bowl and platter blank, 200×200mm face at 50mm thick. Fine even texture, cuts clean, waxes to a warm low lustre.

Ideal for Bowls and Platters

A 200×200mm face at 50mm thick suits shallow bowls, platters, dishes and coasters
— the pieces where the top surface does the talking. Huon Pine’s fine even texture
means the finished face comes off the tool clean, and the natural oils give it a warmth
under a simple wax that no film finish can imitate.

Huon Pine (Lagarostrobos franklinii)

Tasmania’s most storied timber, and one of the slowest-growing trees on earth —
individual specimens have been aged well past two thousand years. The colour runs pale
straw to a deep honey gold, the texture is fine and even, and the grain frequently breaks
into bird’s eye figure. What everyone remembers, though, is the smell: Huon Pine carries
a high natural oil content that gives it an unmistakable sweet resinous scent when cut.
That same oil makes it extraordinarily durable — timber pulled from
riverbeds after a century underwater comes out sound.

Supply is salvage only. No living Huon Pine is felled in Tasmania.
Everything on the market is recovered material — trees drowned by hydro schemes,
logs retrieved from riverbeds, and old stockpiles. It is not a timber that gets restocked
on demand, which is exactly why we buy it when it comes our way.

Working Properties

• Workability: A pleasure to work. Soft enough to cut cleanly with hand tools,
  dense enough to hold crisp detail. It turns and carves beautifully and does not tear out.
• Finishing: Takes an oil or wax finish to a silky, low-lustre glow.
  The natural oils mean it needs very little help.
• Stability: Very stable once dry, with low movement in service.
• Durability: Among the most rot-resistant timbers in the world —
  the reason it was the boatbuilder’s timber of choice for a century and a half.

Specifications

• Common Names: Huon Pine, Macquarie Pine
• Botanical Name: Lagarostrobos franklinii
• Origin: Western and south-western Tasmania
• Density: Approximately 720 kg/m³ air-dry, measured on our current stock
• Appearance: Pale straw to honey gold, fine even texture, frequent
  bird’s eye figure

Working with figure or character? Clear casting resin fills a void or a
bark seam and turns it into the feature of the piece — we stock
Luci-Clear
for exactly this.

More species in our timber range, and more blanks under turning blanks.

Kiln dried and ready to work

All of our timber is kiln dried to Australian standards, so it arrives stable and ready to be worked.