Abodo’s thermally modified timbers have proven their long-lasting quality, combining aesthetics, durability, and sustainability.

Trees are affected by wildfires, years of drought and attack by insects.

Flood and strong winds stunt their growth with each piece showing nature’s signature.

Deep red gum veins formed by fire, ambrosia beetle marks, pin holes and squiggly worm marks are all evident.

Also known as Southern Blackbutt, Chestnut.

Similar in colour and appearance to European oak.

The sapwood of American white oak is light coloured and the heartwood is light to dark brown.

White oak is mostly straight grained with a medium to coarse texture, with longer rays than red oak. White oak therefore has more figure.

Also known as Northern White Oak, Southern White Oak.

The sapwood is creamy white with a slight reddish brown tinge and the heartwood varies from light to dark reddish brown.

The amount of darker brown heartwood varies. Can contain pith fleck.

The wood has a close, fine texture and is generally straight grained, but also occurs as “curly”, “fiddleback”, and “birds-eye”.

Also known as Sugar Maple, Rock Maple, Black Maple.

The heartwood varies from rich red to reddish brown and will darken on exposure to light in contrast the sapwood is creamy white.

The wood has a fine uniform straight grain, smooth texture, and can contain brown pith flecks and small gum pockets.

Also known as Black Cherry

The sapwood is creamy white, heartwood is light brown to dark chocolate brown, occasionally with a purplish case and
darker streaks.

Walnut can be supplied steamed, to darker sapwood or left unsteamed. Generally straight grained, but sometimes has attractive wavy or curly grain.

Also known as Black Walnut, American Walnut.

Accoya^® is modified timber using acetylation, which enables it to resist rot and defy the elements. Guaranteed for 50 years above ground and 25 years in ground. From joinery for the home to bridges submerged in water, Accoya^® long life wood is a leading material that stands up to every application challenge.

Heartwood is a rich dark brownish red, sometimes marked by short, dark brown radial flecks on the end grain and boat shaped flecks on flat sawn surfaces which enhance it’s decorative value.

The grain is usually straight but often interlocked or wavy. The texture is even but moderately coarse.

Also known as Western Australian Jarrah

Heartwood is creamy white to straw coloured.

The grain is almost straight, the texture fine and even and of plain appearance.

Jelutong is mainly used for pattern making.

Heartwood dark red. Sapwood pale yellow.

Texture medium and even. Grain interlocked.

Heartwood colour varies from pale brown to dark chocolate brown and also dark red.

Texture moderately coarse and even. Grain usually interlocked.

Heartwood pale yellow brown, darkening with exposure. Sapwood creamy and distinctive.

Texture coarse and uneven. Grain usually straight. The large ray figure of the radial surface is often referred as silver grain.

Slower grown wood is comparatively soft and is more suitable for furniture manufacture and veneer.

Also known as French Oak, English Oak.

Heartwood pale yellowish brown, sometimes with a pinkish tinge. Sapwood often hard to distinguish from the heartwood.

Texture very fine and even. Grain straight. No figure. Free of brittleheart.

Also known as East Indian Kauri, Indonesian Kauri.

Heartwood dark pink to red brown. Sapwood usually sufficiently paler to be readily distinguished.

Texture moderately coarse and even. Grains straight or slightly interlocked. Gum veins common.

Also known as Sydney Blue Gum.

Heartwood pale brown, but northern material may sometimes display a slight pinkish tinge. Sapwood distinctively paler.

Texture medium and even. Grain usually straight. Gum veins are common.

Heartwood pale to light brown in colour with a pinkish tinge. Sapwood is pale yellow, usually distinguishable from the heartwood.

Texture moderately coarse but even. Grain sometimes interlocked.

Growth rings visible but not prominent. Gum veins are common.

Also known as Messmate

Heartwood variable, from pale brown to dark brown. Sapwood is yellowish white.

Texture fine but uneven due to the prominent growth rings. Grain straight. Not resinous.

Also known as Red Cedar, American Cedar.

Heartwood golden brown, often with narrow bands of darker colour indicative of the growth rings. Sometimes reddish streaks are also present.

Grain usually straight but sometimes wavy, producing a fiddleback figure.

Also known as Blackwood, Black Wattle.

Heartwood pale to dark brown or chocolate. Sapwood is distinctively paler but there maybe a zone of intermediate wood.

Texture moderately coarse. Grain variable, the frequent presence of wavy grain produces an attractive fiddleback figure.

Slightly greasy nature. Gum veins common. Northern material is usually slightly denser, stronger and more durable than southern.

Also known as Lemon Scented Gum.

Heartwood is pale to mid red-brown. Sapwood yellow, pink or grey and usually distinguishable.

Texture coarse but even. Grain interlocked, usually giving a ribbon or strip figure to the radial surface.

Heartwood can be either golden brown or a dark blood red. Sapwood pale yellow.

Texture medium. Grain variable.

The freshly cut wood has a fragrant odour often highly figured.

Also known as New Guinea Rosewood, Solomon Islands Rosewood.

Sapwood is well defined and pale yellow in colour. Heartwood is yellowish to orange brown when fresh, weathering to brown or dark red brown.

Grain is interlocked. Texture is coarse but even. Growth rings are distinct.

Vessels are often filled with a yellow or a white deposit. which is conspicuous on surface. The dark brown gummy substance readily leaches out in water.

Also known as Kwila.

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Heartwood is reddish brown, paler in colour than Jarrah when fresh, but maturing to a more uniform brown.

The grain is interlocked with some wavy grain, the texture is even and moderately coarse.