Paulownia Projects

I thought I'd post some of our clients' projects built with our Australian-Grown-Paulownia

Some of them have used our Paulownia-Build-Packages and some have built from scratch using their own various methods.

5'10 fish built by Danish Yr 12 students at Kingscliffe TAFE under the supervision of Aaron Carle. Brilliant Australian indigenous artwork by Christine Slabb 

6'6 x 18" singlefin built by Danish Yr 12 students at Kingscliffe TAFE

Sensational longboard by Tony Crimmins

5'10 Fish by James Wilson

Pete Young spends a ridiculous amount of time doing these incredible inlays.

Sensational grain definition under glass.

5'10 fish built by Danish Yr 12 students at Kingscliffe TAFE

A little fish I made for my mate Shawy

6'0" thruster built by Danish Yr 12 students at Kingscliffe TAFE

"Stitch and Glue" canoe by Kim Koltoft

Australian Paulownia and Western Red Cedar Longboard Alan Copelin.

Hillsbrooke Anglican College

Burleigh crusty Glenn Clarke finishes his second build.

Not paulownia this one but worth including.

Dave Malthouse has a few wooden surfboards under his belt.

Luke Dahl gets creative with the traditional hawaiian Alaia

Many intricate and individual pieces in this Piece by Mark Charters.

5'10" twinnie egg-crate built by Danish Yr 12 students at Kingscliffe TAFE

Five different build methods used here by Danish Yr 12 students at Kingscliffe TAFE

Scotty Hill builds a nice board. This one from scratch-no computers.

This beautiful tracker built by Ollie in the hills of Northern New South Wales. For some reason, the world epicentre of wooden surfcraft building.

My slightly feral son Jack enjoying a Champ Ruby in between wooden surfboard building and cigar-box-guitar jammin'

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Paulownia

I started this blog as a means of showcasing some great projects by people making beautiful and rewarding projects using Australian Paulownia Wood.

It's a great natural resource and is genuinely renewable and sustainably forested right here in Australia.

Every couple of months I head down Australia's iconic Pacific Highway in my trusty old truck into the lush green hills of Northern New South Wales to stock up with beautiful clear white Paulownia Fortunei.

More often than not the weather gods smile upon me.

Winter especially, is sooooooo crisp and clear.

Just makes me wanna sing.

Just three men keep this great operation in motion. With very basic equipment they plant, prune, irrigate, clean, fell, snig, mill, wash, stack, kiln-dry, dress, pack and ship.

It's a truly streamlined operation.

Stored after being air-dried, then kiln-dried to 11-12% moisture content.

Sawmill dog. How cool is this guy?

Do you reckon all this will go in my trusty "Wood-ace"?

'course it fits..along with a slab for the mill boys, my trusty wooden fish(right)

and my wettie bucket.

The boys really play the saw like a fine instrument.

That is seriously neat work.

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