Thread: Pencil Cedar

Googled and found this:
In the Otway district are valuable timber forests; over 280 square miles are covered with blue gum, spotted gum, messmate, and mountain ash or blackbutt of fine quality, with some stringy-bark and white gum, while the valleys between the ridges bear valuable timber of fine grain such as blackwood, beech, satin box, olive, sycamore, and pencil cedar.

Having done that another site claims it is a New Guinea timber, I'm at a loss and could not find a supplier.

And here was I thinking pencil cedar was WRC used in making pencils.

Cedar Sales in Bris have WRC and some Yellow Cedar, so you could buy WRC and lie??


Cheers,

P

Pencil Cedar.. aka .. Juniperus Virginiana.. aka.. Eastern Red Cedar

Sorry I dont know where you will get any in Aussie, but you might have better luck with those names. It's a common timber in the US so it's probably available someplace

http://www2.fpl.fs.fed.us/TechSheets...ipevirgin.html

Cheers

Ian

got a vague idea the oz stuff mighta been called pencil pine also.

Pencil Cedar was selected by a cilent for a very very very large house as the timber they wanted for the skirtings and archs, that was about 12 months ago, i will ask at work to see if we were able to source any yet.

There's a rainforest species up this way also called pencil cedar. I think that pencil cedar was one of those generic common names applied to any cedar-like timber suitable for making pencils out of.

Mick

Monaro timbers here in canberra have a great big stack of the stuff. White sapwood, redish heatwood and that distinctive pencil smell when worked.

Ph 6280 6467

I have no conection just know that they have it because it looks rather neat.