SaltyDuck Woodworking

SaltyDuck Woodworking in Canning Vale

SaltyDuck Woodworking is a woodworking and custom joinery workshop at 2a Enterprise Ct, Canning Vale WA 6155. Searches for SaltyDuck Woodworking or Salty Duck Woodworking tend to come from people after something you cannot buy off a shelf: a solid timber dining table, a built in unit for an awkward wall, a benchtop, or a repair to a piece worth keeping. Custom timber work is priced differently to flat pack, so here is how to read a quote.

Solid timber, veneer and board are three different products

Solid timber is what most people picture and it is the dearest. Veneer is a thin slice of real timber over a stable board core, which is why most quality cabinetry uses it. Melamine or laminate over MDF is a printed finish, perfectly fine inside a wardrobe and wrong for a table top that will cop hot plates. Ask which one you are being quoted, because the word timber gets used loosely.

Perth’s climate moves timber

We swing from bone dry summers to wet winters, and solid timber expands and contracts across the grain with it. A well made table allows for that with a floating top or breadboard ends. A slab bolted rigid to a steel frame will eventually cup or split. Ask how the top is fixed to the base. It is the single best question you can put to a furniture maker.

What a custom quote should spell out

Timber species and where it comes from, thickness, the finish and how many coats, hardware brand, lead time, and what happens if the timber moves in the first year. Expect to pay a deposit that covers materials, and expect a lead time measured in weeks. Anyone quoting a solid timber piece in a few days is either holding stock or cutting corners.

SaltyDuck Woodworking is listed under Woodworker and serving Canning Vale, Western Australia. Address: 2a Enterprise Ct, Canning Vale WA 6155, Australia.