Amoora – Dressed – 4 sizes

These amoora dressed boards work like mahogany, at a fraction of the fuss. Amoora sits in the same botanical family as true mahogany and behaves like it under a plane — even texture, honest colour, a reference face you can build straight off. It’s a limited parcel, while stocks last.

What it is. Amoora is the trade name for a Meliaceae hardwood — the mahogany family — grown across South and Southeast Asia. Modern botanical treatments fold the Amoora genus into the closely related Aglaia, but the trade name Amoora has stuck in the timber industry for this reddish-brown, mahogany-adjacent species.

What you’d make with these amoora dressed boards.

• Cabinet door panels and carcase sides
• Small furniture components and drawer fronts
• Box lids and jewellery box panels
• Shelving and joinery where a mahogany look is wanted at a lower cost

Working notes

• Density: 555–655 kg/m³ depending on the parcel — Amoora covers several closely related Aglaia species; medium, comparable in the hand to Plantation Mahogany
• Hardness: published figures for the Aglaia group sit around 4.5–5.7 kN Janka — the medium range typical of Meliaceae cabinet timbers
• Grain: fine and even, reddish-brown, straight-grained
• Surface: one dressed face, sawn edges — the face is a true reference surface ready to template or mark out; the edges are as-sawn.
• Working: planes and glues cleanly off the dressed face, machines like other mahogany-family timbers
• Finishing: takes Danish oil evenly across the dressed face for a warm mahogany tone

The stack it came from. These amoora dressed boards are old stock — they sat in the back of the shed for many years before we recovered them and got them ready to sell — this is a limited parcel across four sizes. See the rest of our dressed timber range or browse mahogany and mahogany-family stock for comparison. Once it goes, the listing closes.