Timber Buying Guide
Wood is a natural product with certain structural properties you need to be aware of to use them effectively. If you aren’t experienced in buying wood, this guide will provide you with the info you will need to make your decisions.
Finish Options
These boards are supplied with one knotless face and less than 10% visual defects, voids and cracks on the other side. If you want a board with a more “natural” look, drop us an email.
All boards wider than 150mm could be glue-jointed, our gluing process is seamless.
Planed/Raw
Measurement accuracy: +/- 1mm from quotation.
Possible defects: Minor tearouts on the faces, furry grain on the ends of boards, slightly denting on sharp corners during handling, light scratches on some surfaces.
Planed And Oiled
Finely Sanded
Finely Oiled
Rough Lumber
Your dimensions will be rounded to 25mm or 50mm approximate and less than 200mm in width. These boards come straight from the sawmill. You will need either a machine planer and table saw or a lot of muscle to process them as these boards are not guaranteed straight or flat.
Thickness variations are +/- 5mm from quotation.
Solid Wood
We carry about 15-20 species of material at any one time. Not all materials in our price list are in stock at all times, so do inquire in advance for availability.
This Species Guide covers all of the standard stock that we carry, and the materials in this list are usually in stock in almost all our sizes.
Do note that boards wider than 185 are often formed by joining multiple boards.
Black Walnut
African Mahogany
Angsana
White Ash
White Beech
Burmese Teak
Rock Maple
Solid Wood
We carry about 15-20 species of material at any one time. Not all materials in our price list are in stock at all times, so do inquire in advance for availability.
This Species Guide covers all of the standard stock that we carry, and the materials in this list are usually in stock in almost all our sizes.
Do note that boards wider than 185 are often formed by joining multiple boards.
Black Walnut
We sell American Black Walnut from Eastern United States.
African Mahogany
Angsana
White Ash
Susceptible to termite damage in high moisture applications so only for interior use for fine furniture and instruments.
White Beech
Susceptible to termite damage in high moisture applications.
Burmese Teak
Rock Maple
Basic Plywood
These manufactured boards are much more affordable than solid boards and offer strength both across and along the length of the material.
3mm Basic Plywood
Surface quality varies largely with this grade, if you’d like something more consistent, consider our 5.2/6mm option.
5.2mm Basic Plywood
This grade is popular for CNC Laser Cutting due to is higher surface quality and simplistic 3-ply structure.
Actual Thickness varies from 5.0-5.8mm
9mm Basic Plywood
This is also a standard material thickness for router template making.
Actual Thickness varies from 7.8-9.0mm
12mm Basic Plywood
Actual thickness varies from 11.2-12.0mm
15mm Basic Plywood
Actual thickness varies from 14.1-15.0mm
18mm Basic Plywood
Actual thickness varies from 16.8-18mm.
25mm Basic Plywood
Actual thickness varies from 23.2-25mm
Fiberboards
Usually used for painted surfaces or template making where they shine.