Island Specialty Timbers Tasmania receive or select logs, burls and stumps of special timbers from Tasmania's working forests to sell or process into slabs or timber for furniture or craft designer / makers, woodturners, builders and luthiers. 

Our specialty is to make available highly figured or coloured timber such as fiddle-back, birds-eye, flame and burl feature or the spectacular colours in black-heart sassafras, tiger myrtle or purple-heart leatherwood.  

We stock Blackwood, Celery-top Pine, Myrtle, Black-heart Sassafras, figured Eucalypts, Huon Pine and occaisionally musk, Leatherwood and King William Pine.   

We sell green burls, craftwood, utility logs, sawlogs, building poles, posts for fencing plus green timber, air and kiln seasoned timber and slabs, (rough sawn and dressed), green and dry turning blanks and decking timber.                 

Special orders are welcome, eg slabs to 900 mm wide, beams, squares or posts to 13 metres long, boards and thin timber to 5 mm and slabs or beams to 500 mm thick - quotes are free!

Tender sales of selected special timbers logs, stumps and craftwood are conducted about six times each year.   Images of the material for sale are posted on this website with information about inspection options.  

The special timbers processed by Island Special Timbers Tasmania are harvested from forests whose managment by Forestry Tasmania has been certified under national and international standards, such as the Australian Forestry Standard and the International Standards for Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001). Huon Pine material is sourced from sites previously harvested for sawlogs and from stockpiles salvaged prior to dam construction, many years ago.

Business Hours
Monday - Friday 7.30 am - 4.30pm
Saturday 8.00 am - 12.00 noon

Contact Options
Island Specialty Timbers Tasmania,
Cemetery Road, Geeveston, Tasmania 7116
phone: (+613) 03 6297 1479
fax: (+613) 03 6297 1966
email: chris.emmett@forestrytas.com.au