Your questions, answered.

Crafted Hardwoods is a solid engineered hardwood, available in various species. What makes us unique is that we start where most of the timber industry stops: the overlooked, lower-grade end of the resource, timber that would otherwise be chipped, pulped, or go down the value chain. We turn that resource into large, stable hardwood billets, ready for a wide range of architectural and construction applications.

Our process starts with veneer, not logs. The rotary peeling happens upstream, where mills peel thin veneer sheets from lower-grade and juvenile logs. From there, our job is reassembly: around 300 of those veneer sheets are bonded together, layer by layer, under high pressure with our water-based nano-resin, until they form one solid, dimensionally consistent billet. It's less "milling a log" and more "rebuilding one from sheets”.

We've got a real soft spot for Australian species, but the truth is, overlooked and lower-grade timber isn't a uniquely Australian problem. It's happening in forests all over the world, and there's no reason to ignore a good resource just because of where it grows. So we also draw on selected species from overseas, sourced with the same standards we hold ourselves to at home.

In terms of the resource itself, that timber comes from two sources:

Plantation logs: juvenile trees, thinnings, or logs too small to make a sawlog, typically destined for pulp or short-life uses rather than sawmilling.

Mill fall-down: logs and sections graded out at the sawmill because they don't meet spec for structural or appearance-grade cuts.

Wherever it's coming from, every species we source carries an FSC® or PEFC (Responsible Wood) chain of custody claim. This means our supply chain is independently verified and our stock can be traced back to source, ruling out illegal logging, deforestation, and conversion of natural forest to plantation. Timber that can't clear that bar doesn't make it into our supply chain.

Because it's genuinely good material.

But there's also a bigger picture worth understanding: once you see how much of the annual harvest never reaches construction, architecture, or design at all, using this material stops feeling like a trade-off and starts making obvious sense. Our process gives that timber a second chance to become something high-performing and good-looking in its own right, while easing pressure on the higher-grade logs everyone else is competing for.

Our process also recovers roughly double the usable timber from every log compared to conventional milling, a yield most of the industry simply can't match.

Yes, and proudly so. The manufacturing happens in Adelaide, and it's a process no one else in Australia is running.

What makes Crafted Hardwoods different comes down to a lot, but here are the three things that matter most.

A lot of engineered timber products rely on formaldehyde-based adhesives to hit their structural performance. Ours doesn't.

We didn't want to choose between a material that performs and one that's genuinely safe to be around, so our adhesive, a water-based nano-resin, was developed to do both. That makes our material well suited to internal applications without compromising indoor air quality.

We’re real hardwood through and through, not a veneer skin over a dissimilar core.

With a veneer-over-core product, there's a thin decorative layer of "real" timber on top, and something else underneath it (MDF, particleboard, ply substrate). If you sand too deep, rout an edge, or cut a profile, you can go straight through that thin layer and expose the different-looking, different-performing material underneath, a visible defect that ruins the piece.

With our material, that risk doesn't exist. You can sand, machine, or shape it at any depth or angle and it's the same timber all the way through, no "wrong layer" to accidentally expose.

Don't let the word "engineered" fool you: on site, our material behaves like solid timber, and needs to be handled that way.

That means handling, storage, acclimatisation, and installation should follow solid timber practice, not the shortcuts sometimes taken with engineered products. Get that right, and it performs exactly as it's meant to.

Our goal is accessibility, not exclusivity. We aim to price in line with conventional solid hardwood and comparable architectural timber products, not as a premium or specialty material.

Where we genuinely pull ahead is at scale. In traditional solid timber, large sections are rare by nature, a mature log only yields so much clear, wide material, so the bigger the section, the steeper the price. For us, it's the opposite. Large, wide sections are simply what our process makes, not something we have to hunt for in a handful of exceptional logs. So the sizes that cost a premium in solid timber are, for us, business as usual, and priced accordingly.