Thread: Boxmaking Wood Suppliers

If you were a member of the Wood Craft Guild of the ACT, We have quite extensive supplies of nice stuff, but we only sell to members. We buy wood in from all over the place, as well as milling drying and dimensioning our own from Canberra's extensive supply of urban logs.

At the moment we are re-stocking with Blackwood culled from the botanic gardens on black mountain to add to Otway & Sth Afican Blackwood stock , We have elm from Duntroon& Government house, claret ash from Aranda, Red Box from Melba we have good stocks of Atlas cedar from Royal Canberra Golf Club. We have a fair amount of high country ash, some mahogany, Silky Oak from Torrens, Robinia pseudoacacia from Sutton. We regularly get Pin Oak, but I think we only have 1x 3m slab remaining

Its not a box, but this little shaker style table was from a locally grown Atlas Cedar.

You certainly will not get a better deal on timber anywhere, and our boxmaking special interest group has room for new members.

eBay has quite a few options, do a search for craft timber. I haven't dealt with them but Thor's Hammer is in Canberra and do dressed timber so they might be a local option for you.

Edit: Well, ignore what I said, T91's offer is too good to refuse. I think I need to move down to Canberra.

Some Red Box out by the mill... Before it made its way into the drying shed... before it makes its way to the Guild's Solar Kiln... and thence to the machine shop where we keep several bandsaws and most other things a box make would need...

sorry for hijacking the thread

G'Day Craig, You could ask James from Northern Victoria, he calls himself "tassietimbers" on the forum, very help bloke!

https://www.woodworkforums.com/membe...-tassietimbers

I could also supply some nice dried WA timbers.

Originally Posted by T91

If you were a member of the Wood Craft Guild of the ACT..........

This, I have to do! I keep meaning to but get distracted with stuff :/

Thanks you all for the helpful replies!

Craig

Contact Mal at Boutique Timbers, check his website for varieties, can saw down to 5mm thick on the bandsaw mill
email: [email protected] or call 0416097827
Greg

For those living outside the ACT, we have do have "Country" memberships, which entitles you to 5x shed sessions per year, or something like that. Same sort of deal golf clubs have. Although I don't think we have reciprocal rights with other woodies clubs, we actively support woody activities in our "region" out to about 2 hours drive. I believe our longest distance Country member resides in Salisbury North, SA.

You know, Ive been a member of the guild for 5 years (or more!) and not visitied ONCE! I'll need to change that.

Morbius, we've met. You came to my place once to grab some tools. I think it may have been the jointer?

Can confirm DustEaters and TassieTimbers timbers are 100% ridgy-didge youbeaut rippers. Ive a small mountain in my stash out at the warehouse and intend to keep it aaaaalllll to myself!

Highly recommend both - but be careful, you'll find yourself spending the rent money or giving your children less food to buy more of their DELICIOUS timbers

ask for me, Brendan. You are acually the kind of member we treasure... pays the renewal every year, but never clutters up the shed

If you are prepared to dry it, you can buy hardwood palings from Bunnings that are about 15mm thick. You need to avoid the tailings though - very bent.

Cheers Paul

Originally Posted by Morbius

Hi All!

I want to start making more boxes, and was wondering about where people source their wood from.
I am not yet set up to resew on my bandsaw yet, and am looking for sources of wood around 3/8" thick - so anywhere from 8mm to 12mm thick.

Can anyone point me to suppliers that do mail order?

Thanks,

Craig

Hi Craig, I can offer a wide selection of figured and pretty wood panels for box lids... if you want something different.
Contact me by PM if interested,

Euge

Originally Posted by betchern0t

If you are prepared to dry it, you can buy hardwood palings from Bunnings that are about 15mm thick. You need to avoid the tailings though - very bent.

This is an excellent suggestion. Ive done this many times.

Bunnings has some suppliers that spray them with something that I think is used motor oil. It is bloody nasty stuff.

I avoid those. When they get home, thoroughly degrease them (I use Pascoes degreaser, its fantastic),pressure spray then strap them all together with stickers. Pop them under some black plastic sheeting and they dry out in no time flat.

Pick and choose and there are some nice ones. I made a few hundred chopping boards for a kitchen supply shop a few years back. This was a super cheap way to satisfy the "cheap, it must be cheap" attitude (didn't keep them as a customer, they were All Too Hard).

They are, however, Gummus Genericus, so picking through them is necessary. ALSO, when dry, by hell are they hard. They murdered my blades.

Brendan, does the Canberra shed stock veneer sheets? Looking forward to getting to the box making SIG once the shed opens back up. Between a broken elbow, months of smoke and then covid, I've only been able to get to the shed a couple of times. I'll be needing some bowl turning blanks as well