Celery Top Pine – Sawn – 12×100×900

Celery top pine from Tasmania. 12mm thin-section board — fine straight grain, takes finish well. Good for drawer bottoms, cabinet backs, and panel work.

The Tasmanian softwood that holds a panel flat. Celery Top Pine — Phyllocladus aspleniifolius — milled to thin-section box-making proportions, the dimension Tasmanian cabinetmakers reach for first.

What it is. A slow-growing Tasmanian endemic conifer with fine, pale cream-to-tan heartwood, straight grain, and the dimensional stability that has earned the species a place in fine cabinetry, marine joinery, and box-making since the colonial era. Tight grain, predictable behaviour, calm under the hand — the working register of a softwood that has been refined over generations of Tasmanian use.

What you’d make with it at 12×100×900mm.

• Drawer bottoms for small to medium drawers
• Cabinet backs and dust panels
• Decorative panel inserts in frame-and-panel work
• Model-making, fine scroll-saw work, infill panels

Working notes

• Density: ~580 kg/m³ — light, easy to handle in long thin sections
• Hardness: ~4.0 kN Janka — firm for a softwood, holds an edge for fine joinery
• Grain: Fine, straight, even — planes cleanly, holds detail under scrapers and fretsaws
• Surface: Supplied rough-sawn — at 12mm thickness, dress lightly and only what you need to true the face
• Working: Cuts and shapes cleanly with sharp hand and power tools; takes oil and lacquer evenly. Holds glue well
• Finishing: Oil or clear lacquer — Rustins Danish oil warms the tone without darkening the pale colour

The stack it came from. Celery Top Pine is a Tasmanian-only species and ships north in limited quantities. We pack thin-section stock carefully for transit. Once it goes, the listing closes.

References. Species reference: Phyllocladus aspleniifolius — Wikipedia. Browse more: our Celery Top Pine stock.