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African Mahogany

The Authentic — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 10:06:32 +0000

This beautiful hardwood is durable and has a light to deep reddish-brown colour. Home to West Africa, it is used in boat building, flooring, furniture, veneer, decorative work, cabinetry, window frames, plywood, and musical instruments, among others. Currently this priced tree is being grown in NT in plantations. Legend has it that an early botanist visiting Africa many years ago, saw this tree growing in a forest and asked his guide what it was called. The reply being ‘Khaya’ – which in the guide’s language meant ‘I don’t know’. The botanist, none the wiser, diligently wrote this down and the genus was named accordingly.

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Silky Oak

The Authentic — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 10:06:08 +0000

This broad leave evergreen tree is native to Eastern Australia. It grows fast when young, but considerably slows down later. It grows preferably in rain forests, but occasionally also in subtropical and dry forests, as it can withstand drought but not frost. This hardwood is relatively soft and light, but has figuring that resembles lace, hence lacewood. It is used for building fine furniture, and musical instruments, particularly guitars. It used to be common also for external window joinery before the advent of aluminum.

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Beech

The Authentic — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 10:05:42 +0000

Beech is a popular choice for flooring, furniture, veneer plywood. It is a hard, strong and heavy wood. It has a fine, tight grain and even texture. Usually a pale yellow/brown colour which gives your room a warm feeling. With its smooth finish it is a great wood to polish, while it is a strong ... [Read More]

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Jacaranda

The Authentic — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 10:03:39 +0000

The beautiful Jacaranda tree that can be seen in many places in Sydney, Grafton and other parts of NSW, Queensland and even Australia, is a sub-tropical tree native to Brazil that has been widely planted elsewhere because of its attractive and long-lasting pale indigo flowers. From October onwards, everyone will notice streets turn pale purple or indigo colours. The timber is as beautiful, if not more! It is creamy or oatmeal in colour, and has tight grains. It is a lighter wood, with narrow growth rings. It works well and has a natural lustre. While not a commercial timber, it is a valuable timber for turning and carving.

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Damanu Cedar

The Authentic — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 10:01:58 +0000

Damanu Cedar, also known as Fiji Cedar, has reddish-brown heart wood colour. Some people also refer to it as the Pacific Mahogany, but it is not a mahogany. It is a durable timber with intermediate to coarse texture. It is suitable for both interior use such as for furniture, cabinet making, joinery or, exterior use, ... [Read More]

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Huon Pine

The Authentic — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 02:53:23 +0000

Huon Pine is the oldest living tree in Australia, second oldest in the world (after North American bristle cone). It can live for 3,000 years, that means some of them are older than the invention of Greek democracy by Cleisthenes at 507B.C. They only grow very slowly in the cool temperate climate in Tasmanian, averaging just 1 millimetre in girth per year; and they start to reproduce until 600 to 800 years of age. The timber has a very high oil content, which renders it impervious to insects, waterproof, and imbues it with its characteristic sappy perfume. The retrieval of stumps left over from old logging led to the discovery of tons of ancient buried Huon pine logs, some dated at 38,000 years old and still intact despite being buried in the damp earth at that time.

Currently 85% of remaining Huon Pine forests are conserved in National Parks while 15% is managed by Forestry Tasmania for salvage. It is estimated that the supplies of salvaged dead timber will last for another 2 generations.

However Professor Tim Brodribb from the University of Tasmania is one of those concerned about what carbon dioxide emissions could mean for the giant tree.
“If the emissions continue to rise as they are at the moment, then this species [Huon pine] and a lot of species in Tasmania will be extinct in 100 years for sure,” he said in an article Huon pine trees live for 3,000 years but climate change could wipe them out in the next 50

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Professional Everyday Prints

The Authentic — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 03:09:32 +0000

These professional Lustre prints are designed for your everyday images with outstanding vibrant colours, intense blacks, sharp contours and smooth gradations with a slight shine. The paper has a weight of 248gsm, thickness of 245µm.

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Tasmanian Oak

The Authentic — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 11:20:16 +0000

Tasmanian oak is the name used for three almost identical species of eucalypt hardwoods that are normally marketed collectively. E. delegatensis occurs at higher altitudes, while E. regnans is found in wetter sites; E. obliqua has a wide distribution, occurring in wet forests but also extending into drier areas.

Warm, dense and resilient, Tasmanian oak is the preferred hardwood for a wide range of applications. It works extremely well and produces an excellent finish. It can be used in all forms of construction and in interior applications as well as furniture timber.

Tasmanian oak is light in colour, varying from straw to reddish brown with intermediate shades of cream to pink. It is recognised for its excellent staining qualities, which allow ready matching with other timbers, finishes or furnishings.

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Fine Art Photo Paper

ta_publisher — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 13:59:23 +0000

Museum quality 100% cotton rag 310gsm fine art paper prints. The paper has a thickness of 466µm.

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Spotted Gum

ta_publisher — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 09:48:45 +0000

Spotted gum is one of Australia’s premium native hardwoods with a striking appearance and a high degree of natural durability and strength, making it an ideal timber for a variety of structural, exterior and interior applications. Architects and designers throughout the world value spotted gum timbers for their back-sawn grain structure, attractive markings and vibrant colour palette.

It grows along the east coast of Australia, from northeast Victoria to the northern tablelands of Queensland, with some occurrence in western areas of southern Queensland. These species have straight, slender trunks with smooth bark that is shed in patches, giving the trees their characteristic spotted appearance.

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