About Fine Timbers

Circular Head Fine Timbers was set up in early 1983 by the Wyndarra Community Centre of Smithton, in far North-western Tasmania, as a way of making better use of the timbers native to the temperate rain forests of the region, as well as proving work for the local timber getters and timber crafts people.

The Fine Timber story

Fine Timbers is spearheading a new approach to Tasmania’s timber resources. Our objective is to make better use of our native forests by utilising ‘forest waste’.

16-page booklet published by Circular Head Fine Timbers in September 1983.

Hidden Treasure

Native timber ‘rescued’ for fine craft work

With the decline of the apple industry, Tasmania is fast becoming the Timber Isle instead of the Apple Isle.

Article by Sue Cartledge, published in The Tasmanian Mail Magazine, January 22, 1985

Horizontal – the bushwalker’s bane

Since the earliest days of exploration in North-Western and Western Tasmania, horizontal scrub has been known and cursed.

Article by Sue Cartledge, published in The Tasmanian Mail Magazine, February 19, 1985.

Survival of the smelliest!

In the forests of West and South-West of Tasmania grow a group of trees rather different from your average run-of-the-mill wet forest specimens.

Article by Sue Cartledge, published in The Tasmanian Mail Magazine, March 12, 1985