Yellowheart

Appearance: Yellowheart has a vibrant yellow to golden color with a straight grain and a fine texture, featuring a striking appearance.
Workability: Yellowheart is challenging to work with due to its hardness and density, requiring sharp tools and careful handling.
Use: Used for fine furniture, woodturning, and decorative items, valued for its beauty and durability.

Working with Yellowheart

Advantages: Offers exceptional durability, stability, and aesthetic appeal, making it ideal for high-end woodworking projects.

Disadvantages: Can be expensive, difficult to source, and challenging to work with due to its hardness and density.

Available Thickness and Widths of Yellowheart Lumber
Choose 4/4 (1") boards 4–6" wide or 8/4 (2") boards 4–6" or 6–8" wide, in 24" or 48" lengths, surfaced two sides (S2S) or four sides (S4S). Custom lengths and surfacing are available on request.

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Yellowheart 4/4

$31.40

A lumber pack of yellowheart wood with a vibrant golden-yellow hue and fine grain texture, branded by THE KNOTTY LUMBER CO.

Yellowheart 4/4 - 5 Pack

$194.99$214.99

Yellowheart 8/4

$62.40

Yellowheart Cutting Board Strips

$5.63

Yellowheart Cutting Board Kit

$146.40

Yellowheart Pen Blanks - 5 Pack

$18.99$26.99

Yellowheart Turning Blanks

$27.00

Yellowheart Thins (24"x4"x1/4")

$52.00$69.00

Yellowheart Coaster Blanks

$219.99

24 Pack

S4S Yellowheart 4/4 - 5 Pack

$214.99

Yellowheart 8/4 - 5 Pack

$424.99

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Yellowheart: Colour, Grain and Woodworking Applications

Shopping from Canada? This Yellowheart collection is available for shipping across Canada.

Yellowheart is prized for its bright golden-yellow colour, which is uncommon among typical domestic hardwoods. It can add a vivid highlight to boxes, turning work and mixed-species woodworking projects.

How Yellowheart Looks

The relatively fine grain allows the colour itself to become the focal point. Natural variations occur, and the appearance can change with finish and exposure; sample your chosen treatment rather than assuming it will always remain the same bright yellow.

What Can You Make With Yellowheart?

Yellowheart is a useful feature wood for decorative panels, gift boxes, handles, coasters and turned items. It contrasts with Walnut, Cherry and other darker species without requiring a complicated design.

Mixed-wood accent patterns
Gift boxes and small display pieces
Turning blanks and shaped details
Coasters and decorative inlays

Machining and Preparing Yellowheart

Yellowheart is hard and dense enough to require sharp blades and measured feed rates. Support thin pieces as they pass through the saw or router and remove material gradually around narrow shapes. Sand with care to keep the surface consistent.

Finishing Yellowheart

Try a clear finish on an offcut to see how much it warms or darkens the yellow colour. Keep the sample alongside any contrasting species if the final design depends on a particular colour balance.

Choosing Yellowheart Stock for a Project

The Canadian product assortment includes 4/4 and 8/4 lumber, some five-packs, and small project stock. Review the exact listed dimensions and preparation; for detailed accents, plan enough extra material to account for precise cutting and small offcuts.

When comparing boards and packs, check each product's listed thickness, actual dimensions and preparation. Plan your finished cut list before ordering and allow for trimming, surfacing and grain matching. Product photographs illustrate the character of the species; natural grain and colour vary between individual boards.

Shop Yellowheart Lumber in Canada

Explore Canadian listings: Yellowheart 4/4 - 5 Pack; Yellowheart 8/4 - 5 Pack. Check each item's dimensions and present availability.

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