Blue gum.

**Robert WA** · 26th August 2002, 02:10 AM

Does anyone know a source of milled blue gum in WA? What is called "Tasmanian Blue Gum" is being planted here for wood chipping and is slowly taking over agricultural WA, but I have been unable to locate a source of milled timber. Even Bunnings were unable to tell me where I might locate it, despite the fact that their office in Manjimup has a huge expanse of blue gum floor.
I believe it is a difficult timber to work with but have a plan for a table that needs to be built of a light coloured hardwood.

**ubeaut** · 26th August 2002, 10:17 AM

What's wrong with good old KDH (kiln dried hardwood) it's a light coloured hardwood and readily available. You might try a timber yard that specialises in furniture timber (not Bunnies) there will be a number of timbers that could fit the bill. Not nessecarily Australian but light in colour and hard in wood.

**Robert WA** · 26th August 2002, 11:28 AM

Thanks for that.
I am out in the sticks, Albany, and have only Bunnings or Cullitys readily available to me for the supply of dry milled timber. Both, in Albany, stock timber for builders in large quantities. For the rest of us they stock small quantities of high grade jarrah, even smaller quantities of other timbers of high grade and, in any event, want my house and my wife for any of it. My workshop is attached to the house so they can't have that, and my wife alone is not enough for them.
I am closer to Manjimup, Pemberton etc than to Perth. Can anyone give me a name of some good suppliers in that south west region of WA.

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