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  • Treated Turned Porch Post - Old v New
    June 7, 2021

    Treated Turned Porch Post - Old v New

    In January 2020 my Dad and I did a motorcycle trip up to the town of Quorn, which is about 350km north of Adelaide.

    Quorn was originally a railway town that was established in the late 1800's. Like a lot of railway towns in Australia, when the railway left, so did the people. These days Quorn has about 1000 people living in it, and is a popular tourist destination for people wanting to explore the Flinders Ranges.

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  • Designer Rail - Now Available in Black
    May 24, 2021

    Designer Rail - Now Available in Black

    Around 10 years ago we introduced a new timber handrail system into Australia. We called it the Designer Rail and it was a system that allowed you to seamlessly combine timber dowel handrail in 43mm diameter with stainless steel fittings, such as bends and end caps.
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  • New Product Catalogue Available For Download
    May 10, 2021

    New Product Catalogue Available For Download

    We are pleased to announce that we have just released our new Product Catalogue, and you can click the image below or go to this link to download it.

    If anyone has ever had experience in putting together a catalogue, you will know that it can be quite a substantial undertaking.
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  • Tapered Round Timber Plugs
    April 26, 2021

    Tapered Round Timber Plugs

    A round tapered plug might seem like an easy product to make, but when that plug has a maximum diameter of 165mm it presents a number of problems.

    Plugs of this size require large sections of timber to be glued together, but luckily for us we have some heavy duty clamps that are big enough to handle it.
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  • Heritage Handrail Available in 4 Timbers
    March 8, 2021

    Heritage Handrail Available in 4 Timbers

    In the early 2000's we decided it was time to re-introduce timber handrails to our business. We had been making handrails 10 years earlier, but for a variety of different reasons we had stopped doing so.
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  • New Pointed Fence Post Top
    February 8, 2021

    New Pointed Fence Post Top

    Late 2020 when I was visiting customers, I had a request from a client as to whether we could sell fence posts with a pointed or pyramid style top on them and a recessed or rebated groove just underneath it. They told me that they get a lot of requests for this style of post, and the only way they can do them is to send plain posts to a local work shop and get them made to order.
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