About.

Australian Hardwood Shingle and Shakes is the premier commercial hardwood shingle company in Australia dedicated to providing you with authentic roofing and building options to make your dreams a reality.

Established in 1983

Our business came about in 1983 when a client wanted,  apart from our range of products,  handsplit shakes. Well after spending time with one Australia’s oldest and most experienced shingle splitters, and working side by side with some very old bushmen, Stan forged and made  his own tools and the rest is a very colourful history.
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Our Goal

Make your dreams a reality!  There is no better choice for your roofing solutions than Australian Hardwood Shingles and Shakes.  Timber work is in Stan’s blood, his father worked in the bush, his father before him was a “pit “sawer in Poland.  His (Grandfather) brothers also worked with timber. Now Stan’s youngest son Andrew has a sawmill and timber drying complex locally in Mullumbimby NSW , carrying on the family tradition, working the old ways with timber. Stan’s other 2 son’s also worked in the local bush from age 4 upwards and still retain knowledge of the bush ways

Our Team

Stan Ceglinski and wife Noelene are the founders of this long established company. Stan has been living and
working in the timber business in the northern rivers for 42 years.   He is extremely well known throughout
Australia, both for his passionate demonstrating with colourful commentary on this age old craft, and with his
incredible knowledge on the subject.

Specific  housing / timber related organizations have regularly forwarded to Stan clients needing information.
Organizations include - Tabma, Tradac, TPC, TDA.
Stan is a regular feature at selected shows and festivals Australia wide, with demonstrations of traditional
woodwork & related skills. 
This is part of his “entertainment” package.

Noelene Ceglinski these days plays a “back seat “role in the business, she has split many thousands of shingles
and spent many hours educating architects, designers & builders with the technical side of the shingle story.
These days she spends time with grandchildren and children…(happily)
Our sons and their partners also help when needed.

Stan Ceglinski
Passionate Woodworker

I’ve always loved working with my hands, my heart - it’s always been part of me - genetic memory I think -from a young age, my mind was filled with stories of the “öld” ways in country Poland.
Working with wood started at age 4, helping dad in the bush.  Although dad was a cobbler, he still had things to do in the bush, his father was a pit sawyer as well as a woodworker in Poland as was his brother.
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Stan Ceglinski
Entertainment

Stan is in demand for his traditional bush craft & timber skills, carrying out demonstrations at festivals, giving children & their parents or friends the opportunity to use a 100 year old cross cut saw, or use a draw knife and shaving horse creating a pair of traditional music sticks.
The visitors often get the chance to split a shingle & have “Big “Stan create the shingle into a small cricket bat !
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