Yellow Cedar
Highly durable with versatile uses indoors and outdoors
Yellow Cedar
Highly regarded for exceptional resilience and strength, Canadian Yellow Cedar is one of the world's most durable woods. Its fine, uniform grain and light color absorb stains beautifully, offering versatile design possibilities for intricate carvings and sophisticated indoor and outdoor furniture. Naturally resistant to decay and insects, this highly enduring species ensures long lasting performance, making it a popular choice for doors, window frames, and outdoor settings.
Notable Characteristics
Fine & straight grain with consistent color
Clean, elegant look
Uniform density
Smooth planing and shaping
Pleasant natural scent
Enhancing sensory experience
Natural durability
Resisting decay, termites, and moisture for outdoor uses
Good hardness and sturdiness
Intricate carvings & furniture
Yellow Cedar’s Properties
- 85/15 CLEAR (equiv. FAS)
- #2 SHOP & BTR (equiv. 1COM)
- Rough 1 x 4 & wider, 2 x 4 & wider
- Yellow Cedar is easy to work with, making it ideal for furniture and carpentry, decorative paneling, moldings, cabinetwork, and joinery. Its fine, even texture and lack of visual grain make it a top choice for carvings and turnings. Due to its longevity, Yellow Cedar is often used for shingles, posts, poles, marine pilings, small boat hulls, oars and paddles, water and chemical tanks, exterior doors and door jambs, window frames, and window boxes. Structural grades are commonly used for exterior applications like bridges, decking, stairs and for landscaping. It’s sometimes used in specialty construction projects such as temples and shrines.
- Yellow Cedar is known for its exceptional working properties, it can be easily machined and finished. The wood glues well and has moderate nail and screw holding ability. Yellow Cedar turns, planes, and shapes well, and can be sanded to a smooth finish.
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