Yellow Box

Yellow Box timber (Eucalyptus melliodora) is a medium sized hardwood growing on the better soils of the tablelands and inland slopes in NSW, also found in Victoria and Queensland. The heartwood of Yellow Box is a pale yellow-brown.

The sapwood is paler and distinct. Texture is moderately fine and even. Grain is usually interlocked.

Often produces an attractive fiddleback figure. Green density is about 1300kg m3 air dried density about 1100 kg m3. Due to the density of Yellow Box Timber it sands and polishes to a superb finish. Slow to dry but not much degrade. Shrinkage is about 3% radial, 6% tangential.

Yellow Box timber is available in limited amounts. Bovalino Fine Furniture Timbers are ideal for making fine furniture, and all kinds of timber projects where a quality finish is required.

With the timeless quality that wood provides and the scarcity of each timber species, now is the time to reserve your future stocks.Check our prices and contact Charlie for an appointment to view samples of Yellow Box Timber.

Bovalino Fine Furniture Timbers are used in all kinds of fine furniture timber projects where a high quality finish is required. This timber cannot be replaced and is rarely available. Once it is gone it is gone forever.