| Trade Name: Kauri
Botanical Name: Agathis australis
Source: The largest and most renowned of New Zealand’s
forest giants.
Availability: Fully protected except from
existing stock, underground logs and some second growth harvest.
Air Drying Density: 560kg/m3
Characteristics: The heart timber is light biscuit
brown to reddish and the sapwood (Pale Kauri) is light brown.
The grain is straight and clean with a pronounced fleck.
Traditional uses: Carvings, canoes, boats and ships.
Building, construction, engineering and mining. Housing, furniture,
joinery and sink-benches. Huge volumes of this timber have
been milled over the centuries.
Generation-4 Timber Top specification:
Kauri is a traditional timber and when available makes excellent
timber tops when presented with the Generation-4
finish.
The Generation-4 finish presents a dense
but flexible, low maintainance finish, that is waterproof,
acid and heat resistant. |