Exotic Timber Furniture. Handcrafted Hardwood Timber Tables.

All of our handcrafted timber tables are sourced from the sustainable urban forest. Huge timbers that have outgrown their surrounds in the local urban forest around homes are the subjects for www.sculptables.com 

Exotic trees that are not growing in their native surrounds, eg Camphor Laurel, are a special subject for SCULPTABLES This particular Camphor Laurel was sourced from Urunga Primary School on 5 January 1998. Storage of perspective exotic timber furniture, entails sculpting away excess timber to within 20% larger than the finished design sizes, then finding a place where timber drying can be slow and even as possible. This piece was stored for 11 years before I decided to choose it as my next finishing piece.

Camphor Laurel and Exotic Wood Gallery.

Handcrafted Timber Tables

Hardwood tables this size should be classed as exotic timber because of it's rarity. This table was sourced from a tree growing between a home and power line at Coffs Harbour.

Tallowood Coffee Table handcrafted from a solid piece of tree trunk.

Click for Gallery of Red Cedar, Camphor Laurel, Red Gum, Tallow Wood, Morton Bat Fig, Mango Tables and Hall Stands

Coffee Tables from Sculptables.

Fully sculpted timber coffee tables, guaranteed not to come apart at the joints.

The timber for these coffee tables are sourced from the local urban forest around Emerald Beach NSW AUSTRALIA.

I help arbourist's remove the heavy timber sections from their work sites and recycle them into sculpted coffee tables.

To make coffee tables this sculpted way requires years of patience while waiting for the green timber to dry.

A further long wait is experienced as the chosen protective clear finish takes two months to dry before the coffee table can be polished and waxed.

Our sculptural techniques making coffee tables have improved during the 15 years this apprenticeship has evolved, and now timber forks weighing 1200kg or more are sculpted away so that two people can carry them, or one person can nudge them around the lounge room. As you can imagine, the grain in large timber forks are interlocked, or what others call fiddle back, compression timber, knotty, birds eye, wavy, some of my Camphor Laurel coffee tables have all of the above. After years the grain striation becomes more appealing as the large surface area of these coffee tables is harmonious in its expressing the natural subtle forces still present inside the wood. I have dutifully flattened the surface of all my tables only to find that the striating cannot be tamed, now I desire the effect, as the table forms its own sculptural relief, and I have not been displeased with these natural phenomenon as the table surface remains serviceable.