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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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  • Custom Timber Profile Mould
    January 25, 2021

    Custom Timber Profile Mould

    Custom timber mouldings are something that we get a call for on a regular basis, but most of them are quite small in size and therefore are relatively easy to produce. As you can see by the accompanying photos, the custom mould that we produced for this customer was certainly not small.
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  • 80mm Timber Dowel
    December 7, 2020

    80mm Timber Dowel

    Recently we had an enquiry from a customer to see if we could do a timber dowel in an 80mm diameter. They had seen on our website that we manufactured a range of dowels varying in size from 13mm through to 60mm in diameter and in a selection of different timbers.
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  • Do Exterior Timber Products Need To Be Painted?
    November 9, 2020

    Do Exterior Timber Products Need To Be Painted?

    Sometimes when you work in an industry long enough you think that an answer to a question is obvious. This is the case when we have customers ask us "Do we need to paint that?", in reference to a exterior treated timber product that they have purchased off of us.
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  • Custom Turned Table Columns
    October 5, 2020

    Custom Turned Table Columns

    Custom wood turning jobs are unfortunately something we don't do a lot of these days due to an overall lack of demand; so when we do get a call for it, and there is a bit of volume involved, we normally jump at the opportunity to dust off some of our old wood turning lathes and return to our origins of how we began.
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