Any online images of which timber is which?

[Jerry Crockford]

Hi folks,

I'm about to make two glory boxes for two daughters.

I'd like them to be able to choose the timber, but our knowledge of different timbers is very limited. I know what Merbau, Hoop, Tassy Oak, Wenge (and a few others from looking at the photos in this forum look like), but that's about it.

It would be GREAT if there were a chart/index/reference thingy that showed different timbers.

We have searched a lot on Google, and found plenty of text-only listings of timbers and their characteristics (Which is a great start), but we don't know what they actually LOOK like. I have tried all KINDS of sites, including timber industry associations etc., but actual photos seem to be a bit thin on the ground.

Does anyone know of a site that shows PHOTOS of the different Aussie timbers?

That would avoid the pain of driving the poor buggers at the timber yard nutzo by driving down there as a family and asking to look at every type of wood. (Picture two teenage girls in the timber yard, trying to make a decision, while I'm jumping around in the background trying to calculate price/sizes etc. Aaaagh!)

Thanks in advance,

Jerry

[joe greiner]

Try here: Exotic Wood Pictures: Exotic Wood displayed, described, and identified (http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/index.htm)

Not limited to Oz, though, and might be more than you care to digest.

Cheers,
Joe

[dai sensei]

A couple of Ausy sites here (http://www.ttit.id.au/) and here (http://home.people.net.au/~macropete/)

[glenn k]

Go to google images them search Australian Timbers there are several.

[Jerry Crockford]

Thanks very much for that.

Those links are a GREAT help!

As a long time reader and infrequent poster on these forums (Fora?), I am amazed at how generous and helpful everyone is.

While I don't know where you are, I bow in your general direction!

Cheers,

Jerry

[munruben]

Problem is pictures look totally different sometimes to what the timber really looks like.

[Ravvin71]

Another site is Tasmanian Timber (http://www.tastimber.tas.gov.au/) . If you go into the Species listings it shows pictures of the different timbers and a page for each listing a lot of info like growth habits, uses and pictures of projects it has been used for.