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Planed American Tulipwood board showing the grainLiriodendron tulipifera
Hardwood · Light & easy-working

American Tulipwood

Liriodendron tulipifera

Light, soft and beautifully easy to work — a stable, fine- textured utility hardwood that paints, stains and machines superbly, with a distinctive olive-and-green-streaked heartwood.

Non-durableFSC / PEFCKiln-driedCut to size
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Density
≈510 kg/m³
at 12% moisture
Durability
Class 5
Non-durable
Workability
Excellent
Paints & machines well
Movement
Small
Stable when dry
Origin
Eastern USA
Responsibly sourced
The material

The one you paint.

Olive-green and yellow-brown, sometimes streaked steel-blue; takes paint and enamel better than almost anything, which is why it hides inside so much fine joinery.

Sapwood is white and often very wide; heartwood ranges from olive-green to yellow or brown, sometimes streaked steel-blue. A pale band of parenchyma gives a subdued figure to longitudinal surfaces. Straight-grained, fine- textured, fairly soft and light when dried.

Interior joinery and furniture, mouldings and framing, and a dependable paint-grade utility timber.

Panelled tulipwood door part-painted, bare timber still showing
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American Tulipwood — cut to your sizes.

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The m³ shown is the exact volume of the sizes you’ve entered. Your timber is cut for the best yield from the material we hold, so the volume we supply is normally a little over that figure — your quote confirms what we’ll supply.

No minimum order value, and delivery is free across our region. We prioritise by order value, so once your order is ready most go out within two working days, and smaller orders are typically with you inside seven. Machined and cut-to-order items carry their own lead time, confirmed on your quote.

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