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Not Just Any Bush
It's not just any bush, if you smell it again your memory goes back Tasmanian Special Timbers' co-owner Randal Morrison was interviewed for the Western Wilds Story Stop project. He reminisced about his time as a child working on Huon Pine with his sawmiller...
You don’t need paint or pencils
Beautiful timber begets, provokes and encourages beautiful things to be made from it. Sometimes our clients will send us photographs of the finished items they have made from our timber, and we are pleased to celebrate that work on screens in our shop, and on our...
Huon pine Half Price Stocktaking Sale
Schools, Men’s Sheds, craftsmen, hobbyists, people with an eye for a bargain?In a very rare offering we have pallets and bags of dry Huon pine for sale, suitable for parquetry, picture framing, cupboard doors, boat fit-outs, toy making, wooden bathmats, small bowls or...
Malt Whisky By The Fire
It’s many people’s vision of heaven – sipping a dram of malt whisky while toasting your feet by the fire. Tasmania is beautifully situated with the raw materials for fine whisky making: an abundance of pure, soft water; good quality barley; and large areas of peat...
Drought With Legs
Bill Gammage, in his brilliant book The Biggest Estate on Earth describes fire as ‘drought with legs’. He also explains how ‘eucalypts and fire formed an alliance, which people joined’.Australians living in almost the entire continent are familiar with...
It Takes A Village
If you think that places like Queenstown and Strahan are isolated, spare a thought for those living in the little settlement that surrounded the Princess River sawmill, in the King Valley east of Queenstown. Who came first, the cattle ranch or the Bradshaw...
The Huon Piners Had It Easy
In a way, the Huon piners had it easy: Row 20–50km across the Harbour and up a river, find a place on the steep banks to get out of the dinghy, walk a few paces into the forest to find a good Huon pine tree, spend all day with axe and crosscut saw cutting...
Welcome
Welcome to the new website of Tasmanian Special Timbers. This rebuilt site marks a new chapter in Tasmanian Special Timbers' operations: while our sawmill near Queenstown and the shop on the Strahan waterfront will still sell the majority of our...