Island Specialty Timbers Tasmania, through its three operation centres, receive or select logs, burls and stumps of special timbers from Tasmania's working forests to sell or process (only at Geeveston) into slabs or timber for furniture or craft designer / makers, builders, woodturners, boat builders / fitout 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.

ISTT Geeveston sell air and kiln seasoned timber and mill green timber to order from the following special timbers logs: Blackwood, Myrtle, Black-heart Sassafras, Celery-top, Huon and King Billy Pine, figured Eucalypts, musk and Leatherwood.   Contact them for special timbers boards, slabs for table tops or shelves, stair treads, turning blanks, beams or posts, floor boards, panelling and joinery timbers.  

ISTT Geeveston also sell a range of raw material: logs as craftwood, utility and sawlogs, building poles and posts plus green timber for beams or posts, cladding, decking, ramps and verandahs. 

Special orders for your craft, furniture or building project 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.   We can also source most raw material such as burls, stumps, poles, posts, logs of different grades and sizes, boat keels and knees.

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).

Island Specialty Timbers Tasmania at Geeveston is a licensed Chain of Custody member, FTT 08005, to guarantee customers that all its raw material and products are Tasmanian fine timbers sourced from forests whose management is certified to the Australian Forestry Standard. The Chain of Custody system is managed by Fine Timber Tasmania Inc., maintained by a coordinator and is annually assessed by independent auditors.

Huon Pine material is sourced from sites previously harvested for sawlogs, from stockpiles salvaged many years ago, prior to dam construction and from logs recovered after river floods. 

Eighty five (85) per cent of all Huon Pine forests are permanently reserved within National Parks & Reserves.

CONTACTS:

ISTT, Geeveston.
For special timbers burls, poles, logs and sawn timber
Manager: Mr Chris Emmett
Tel: (03) 6295 7161
Fax: (03) 6295 7162
Mobile: 0419 998 452
chris.emmett@forestrytas.com.au
Cemetery Road, off Arve Road, Geeveston, Tasmania
Business Hours: Monday – Friday 8.00 am – 4.00 pm.  
Mail address: ISTT Geeveston, c/- Forestry Tasmania, Main Road, Geeveston, Tasmania, 7116.

ISTT, Strahan, 5 Frazer Street, Strahan
For Huon Pine craftwood logs, limbwood & stumps
Business Hours: Monday - Friday but call in advance for an appointment.

Manager: Mr Craig Denney
Tel: (03) 6472 6004
Fax: (03) 6472 6001
Mobile: 0459 115 843
craig.denney@forestrytas.com.au
Mail address: ISTT Strahan, c/- Forestry Tasmania,
PO Box 21, Strahan, Tasmania, 7468.

ISTT, Smithton
For logs, stumps, burls, craftwood and building poles
Manager: Mr Stuart Swanson
Tel: (03) 6433 2653
Mobile: 0428 467 408
Email: stuart.swanson@forestrytas.com.au
Mail address: ISTT Smithton, PO Box 68 Burnie TAS 7320