Australian Wood Review

A Question of Scale

Some of the lesser known timbers I have in my stash are too small for production runs, but too good to ignore. These are pieces of wood not processed to commercial dimensions but show fantastic character in terms of colour or grain that just screams for attention, so I adjusted the scale of my idea to suit material I had on hand.

From small things

I had some hooked needlewood () that had been split radially from a log. With

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