While mango tree is much better known around the world for its popular fruit, this South Asian tropical species from the flowering plant genus Mangifera can also be successfullycultivated in the production of wood. However, Mangifera indica can only produce wood suitable for cutting into lumber when the fruit-bearing lifespan has finished, and the tree can dedicate more of the nutrients to growing its size and quality of heartwood.

Black Ebony is one of the most valuable and expensive types of wood in the world; prized for its dark heartwood. Traditionally, Blackwood has been used for charcoal, native carvings, combs, needles, cups and knife handles. Because of its high density, texture and waxiness, it is ideal for the production of woodwind musical instruments like clarinets and is a superior wood for holding the metal fittings of guitar fret boards and prized for the making of fine furniture.

American hard maple is a cold weather tree that grows across the north-east States of the US and in Canada. It produces an attractive timber with creamy-white sapwood, sometimes with a pink tinge, and light to reddish brown heartwood. Higher grades of the timber are selected for the white colour of the sapwood, and this can limit their availability. While generally straight-grained, American hard maple can have a distinctive curly, fiddleback or birdseye figure.

Red Mallee burl is an incredible species with vivid color and figure. This native Australian timber has a distinctive mix of pink, red, and violet heartwood with contrasting white sapwood. The wood is dense and easily yields a smooth, durable finish with light sanding. Incredible burl caps offer a natural artistic palette for any artisan. Burl squares and bowl blanks have tight figure and colors that are ideal for bowls, spindles, turned boxes, knives, and other fine articles.

A very large Australian hardwood, and the tallest of the eucalypts, mountain ash is from the mountain regions of Tasmania and eastern Victoria.

Mountain ash has a straight grain but visible gum veins are common. With its course or stringy texture, it is sometimes referred to as 'stringy gum'. Mountain ash is similar in appearance to alpine ash. The heartwood is pale brown, sometimes pinkish and, like alpine ash, the sapwood is not always clearly distinguishable.  A fiddleback marking may occur at the butt.

River red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) is an iconic Australian tree, yielding an equally iconic Australian timber. The timber has a reputation for durability, strength and its distinctive red colouring. Its wide availability has seen it used for a range of applications including heavy construction, railway sleepers, flooring, framing, fencing, plywood and veneer manufacture, wood turning, firewood and charcoal production. It was also commonly used as street paving throughout Sydney in the late 1800s.

Roasted wood is stable and resistant to humidity and temperature changes.

Hydroscopic cellulose is sealed so wood resists warp and movement.

Stiffness, strength, and integrity of the wood are maintained with no chemicals.

Vibrational testing indicates roasted maple has clearer tone than regular maple.

Blackwood is a medium-sized Australian hardwood that grows in South Australia and the eastern states. In the wetter areas of Tasmania it is grown in large volumes for commercial use. 

It is definitely an ‘appearance timber’, with a heartwood that is a rich golden brown. This is sometimes complimented by reddish streaks or a narrow band of darker colour, indicative of the growth rings. The sapwood is much paler in appearance. Blackwood has a medium and even texture. Its grain can either be straight or have a wavy, fiddleback pattern, which is valued for furniture and veneers.

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.

Zebrawood is an exotic wood native to the Western African countries of Cameroon and Gabon. It is a hard wood, with a medium to coarse texture. The Zebra-like appearance is due to the light colored sapwood in contrast with the dark colored grain.