The tree is the Agathis Australis* and it is used to make boats and guitar bodies.
This one happens to be in a museum in New Zealand and it looks like the greatest man-cave in the world to me too.
* Notes::
Kingdom:.Plantae
Division:...Pinophyta
Class:......Pinopsida
Order:......Pinales
Family:.....Araucariaceae
Genus:.....Agathis
Species:...A. australis
Quote:
Agathis australis can attain heights of 40 to 50 metres and trunk diameters big enough to rival Californian Sequoias at over 5 metres. The largest kauri trees do not attain as much height or girth at ground level but contain more timber in their cylindrical trunks than comparable Sequoias with their tapering stems.
The largest recorded specimen was known as The Great Ghost and grew in the mountains at the head of the Tararu Creek, which drains into the Hauraki Gulf just north of the mouth of the Waihou River (Thames). Thames Historian Alastair Isdale says the tree was 8.54 metres in diameter, and 26.83 metres in girth. It was consumed by fire c.1890.[3]
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Found A Fabled Agathis Tree 
