Thread: Huon Pine Carvings in Geevston Tasmania

Hi all
The photos disappeared. I'll try again.

Cheers
Lili

Bugger, I didn't see them when I went to Tassie. In my defense I paid a flying visit to Island Specialty Timbers and did not have the time to cruise thru Geeveston. Did you get to see the carvings at Scottsdale or the Huon Wall at Derwent Bridge?

Hi Pat
Missed Scottsdale, wasn't on the itinerary. The trip was designed to be a lazy retreat from Deniliquin's searing summer heat. Did see the Huon Pine Wall on the bridge.

I decided after the WWW show in Melbourne, that I wanted to extend my range of places where I bought my timbers, and went to Misan in Ulverstone and Distinctive Timbers in Devonport for a look.

The man at Devonport was marvellous and they have a good range of things to choose from. It was lovely to have someone take the time to talk about what sort of choices there were in Tasmanian timbers for my planned move into intarsia, as well as to convey his obvious deep love of timbers.

I came out knowing a lot more about timbers than when I went in. I saw figured, spalted and birdseye rarities, and was enthralled.

Misan was a great place to come in and buy what you had already decided upon. It caters very much to the craftsman, and everything was clearly laid out and priced, and though I wasn't all that clear what I wanted, yet we still spent a heap of dollars.

There was lots of thin wood, which we would have loved to have a couple of years ago when David was first working on his models.

So having done the spending in the first week, Island Specialty Timbers was out of the question, and LOML kept reminding me that we had plenty of timber, and really didn't need any more.

What's at Scottsdale that's worthy of viewing? We went through it on the way to the East Coast the first time we went to Tassie.

I only remember it as the place I couldn't get anything to eat because it was 2 o'clock and "We don't serve lunches after 1 o'clock"!!! So I made a mental note of ensuring I get hungry earlier in the day if we ever went through Scottsdale.

Cheers
LiliB

They are certainly entertaining and Geeveston is a great little village.

Have you seen "The Wall In The Wilderness" at Derwent Bridge? Fabulous work.

3rd photo's a new one I hadn't seen garden now behind no 4 did you see the 2 around the back and the town Mural across the road.

The art work in the Park at Sheffield is awsome changes every Easter or so.

Hi Lilib,

Let me set your mind at rest re logging of Huon Pine. Apart from a little HP logged during the impoundments created by The River Pieman hydro electric scheme and the salvage of some pine from new road alignments on Teepookana plateau near Strahan there has been no legal logging of Huon Pine since the early seventies.

The annual supply of about 300 m3 now comes from recovery of trees felled and abandoned by earlier logging operations on the Teepook plateau and from rounding up stray logs floating in the Gordon river from earlier operation that are set loose from time to time by floods.

Contrary to popular opinion stands of green Huon pine are still represented extensively in the rivers and creeks of west and SW Tasmania. Most of the remaining stands are in the World Heritage Area, some are not. There is one superb stand on an unlogged State Forest within 300m of a forest road in southern Tassie. It's presence is known only to a very few so its remains safe from the attention of chainsaw bandits. The sitaution with King William pine is much the same but the distribution different.

Don't worry we will look after them all mankind as best we can.

Old Pete