Category: General
A Timber’s-eye Virtual Tour of a Dream Workshop
Posted on April 4, 2006 in General by Woodworld
Hi, I’d like to introduce myself I’m a 4 metre length (13 foot) of 250 x 50 mm (10 x 2 inch) Indonesian hardwood called Amoora – some call me a brunette, some a redhead -anyway, the boys at Teak and Fancy Timbers have dedicated me and a good few of my mates for a...
An Early Timber Wave Slider
Posted on March 20, 2006 in General by Woodworld
As a young boy on a camping holiday with my parents, I remember catching my first view of a surf beach on the North Cornwall coast in 1964. Yes, we do have surf and sand beaches in UK (the sun is occasionally seen also). “What are all those people doing in the surf,” I asked...
Some Thoughts on Timber
Posted on August 25, 2004 in General by Woodworld
By Rupert Goodall Article in Australian Amateur Boat Builder, Issue 37, March/April 2002 We run a relatively small timber company on the Gold Coast in Queensland. We pride ourselves in keeping stocks of globally sourced seasoned timbers with a state-of-the-art workshop that makes most visitors drool … people often comment on the wonderful aroma associated...
A Day in the life of Teak and Fancy Timbers
Posted on August 9, 2004 in General by Woodworld
By Rupert Goodall Article in Australian Woodworker, July/August 2002 edition. Many first time visitors comment on the delicious aroma associated with the racked storage of hundreds of tonnes of globally sourced timbers. Optic senses then cut in as the amazing range of size (who said size doesn’t matter?), colour and species becomes evident. Finally, auditory...
Pythons and Burmese Teak
Posted on July 5, 2004 in General by Woodworld
By Rupert Goodall Article in QLD Yachting quarterly, August 2002 edition. The forklifts were at maximum capacity unloading the three tonne pack of Burmese Teak off the Semi-trailer fresh from the docks. This process is repeated as global sourced timbers are replaced. You can imagine our surprise as we restock our teak shelves when a...
Thin Timber
Posted on June 21, 2004 in General by Woodworld
By Rupert Goodall Article in Australian Woodworker, Sept/Oct 2002 edition. The day Teak and Fancy Timbers bandsaw and wide belt sanding machine arrived, I knew we could suddenly offer a tantalising range of timber sizes, providing construction ideas I’d only previously dreamed of. We quickly find out that stellite toothed blades allow us to cut...
Exploding Timber
Posted on May 11, 2004 in General by Woodworld
By Rupert Goodall Article in Australian Woodworker, March/April 2003 edition. My mind was expanded recently when I was introduced to the world of The Model Boat Battle Group. This nationwide enthusiastic group labour over highly detailed and sophisticated radio-controlled model boats only to spend their weekends blowing each other out of the water; all legal...
Turbo Charged Pencil Sharpeners
Posted on April 20, 2004 in General by Woodworld
By Rupert Goodall Article in Australian Woodworker, May/June 2003 edition. I remember with glee when as a young boy I had a new wooden pencil to sharpen with a brand new pencil sharpener and how those gossamer thin shavings used to purr off the cutter. We were setting up our new dowel cutter recently, at...
THREE HA’PENCE A FOOT
Posted on February 20, 2004 in General by Woodworld
by Marriott Edgar (1932 – poem to be read in Yorkshire dialect) I’ll tell you an old-fashioned story That Grandfather used to relate, Of a joiner and building contractor: ‘Is name, it were Sam Oglethwaite. In a shop on the banks of the Irwell, Old Sam used to follow ‘is trade, In a place you’ll...