Yellow Gum timber (Eucalyptus leucoxylon) is a medium sized hardwood of limited availability. The heartwood is pale brown, with yellow or pink tints. It is found in central and western Victoria extending into southern South Australia. The sapwood of Yellow Gum is distinctively paler and to 25mm wide. Texture is medium, with the grain usually interlocked. Often producing an attractive fiddleback [...]
Meet Charlie Bovalino and learn about his passion for Box and Ironbark timbers He also provides secure vehicle storage in the Maryborough Flour Mill. Charlie's background is in timber milling and furniture making. He spent more than 30 years working with Box and Ironbark timbers. Charlie turned his interest to making fine furniture from the timbers he collected over his lifetime. Charlie[...]
Bovalinos Image Gallery Examples of Furniture Timbers And Projects. Timbers are stored in a stable, dry environment. Click on an image below to see expanded view.
One of the largest trees of the Australian rainforests, Australian Red Cedar (Toona ciliata) is reported to reach a height of about 60 m and a trunk diameter of 3 m. Trees of this size would be exceptional. It is one of Australia's few deciduous trees. The heartwood is a handsome dark red. Some specimens are pink or even yellowish. Darkens with age. Growth rings are very prominent on back sawn [...]
Yellow Box timber (Eucalyptus melliodora) is a medium sized hardwood growing on the better soils of the tablelands and inland slopes in NSW, also found in Victoria and Queensland. The heartwood of Yellow Box is a pale yellow-brown. The sapwood is paler and distinct. Texture is moderately fine and even. Grain is usually interlocked. Often produces an attractive fiddleback figure. Green density is [...]
Red Gum timber (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) is a medium to large hardwood tree. The heartwood is red to reddish brown. A close grain and very hard timber. Sapwood is 40mm wide and distinctly paler. Texture is fine and even. Grain usually interlocked often producing an attractive fiddleback figure. Gum veins are common. Green density is about 1130kg m3. Air dried density about 900kg m3. Shrinkage is [...]
The Maryborough Flour Mill images below show a three storey brick building, with a detached iron shed at the rear. The silos and brick chimney still remain. The walls are 18 inches (45cm) thick and the building is 40 feet (12m) high at the ridges. When used as a flour mill, the shed was capable of storing 20,000 bags of wheat, with a siding from the railway to both the mill and shed.In 1974 the [...]
Bovalino Fine Furniture Timber is a family owned and run furniture timber business since 1980, specialising in Australian kiln-dried hardwood furniture timbers. Specialists in using the Box/Ironbark timber species especially Red Ironbark, Yellow Gum, River Red Gum, Grey Box, Yellow Box, Sugar Gum & Australian Red Cedar. Pioneering the research and development required to use the Box /Ironbark [...]
When Charlie Bovalino acquired the Maryborough Flour Mill in 1997, it had been vacant for 17 years and needed improvements to make it secure. Charlie began renovating and making the building secure, and then used it as a furniture gallery, displaying unique items of furniture made from his fine furniture timbers. More recently, he has upgraded the old flour mill into a secure [...]
Grey Box timber (Eucalyptus microcarpa) is a large hardwood of eastern Victoria and NSW. The heartwood is pale brown, sometimes with a tinge of pink. The sapwood is distinctively paler. Texture is relatively fine and even. Grain usually interlocked, often producing an attractive fiddleback figure. Green Density is about 1180 kg m3. Air dried density is about 1100kg m3. Due to the density of Grey [...]
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