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Rimu

Rimu

Rimu is one of the most popular of our native timbers. Because it was used extensively in older character homes as both a structural and finishing timber, it is probably New Zealand’s best known native species. Rimu has been proven as a remarkably versatile and exceptionally beautiful timber. Good supplies of recycled rimu are available from a range of suppliers and demolition timber yards. Rimu timber can also be sourced from sustainably managed forests.

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Silver Beech

Silver Beech

Silver beech is sourced from sustainably managed forests and is becoming the favoured wood to replace rimu as the prime native species. It is excellent for turnery and cabinetry, and particularly good in brushes and dowels. It also is renowned for its steam-bending properties and was once used widely for motor body building.

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Tawa

Tawa

Tawa is an excellent furniture timber, its strength properties make it suitable for handles and rods, and it is very good for turnery across the grain such as in door knobs.Tawa has always been a specialty timber, and it has long had a reputation in New Zealand as a utility and joinery timber in the style of silver beech. It is picked to rise in demand as sustainable supplies became increasingly available.

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Totara

Totara

Totara wood is light in weight and easy to carve. Totara heartwood is useful as sleepers and outdoor landscaping timber. Second-growth stands less than 100 years old have a high proportion of sapwood. Although heartwood has superior wood qualities, sapwood can be used for furniture, joinery, and also for exterior woodwork, as long as it is not in contact with the ground.

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