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Typical uses
🔨 Carving & turning
Castello Boxwood is one of the finest carving woods available. Its exceptionally dense, even grain holds knife-edge detail without chipping or splitting — ideal for figureheads, decorative ornaments, chess pieces, and fine turned components.
🚢 Museum-quality models
The go-to wood for visible deck planking, gratings, head rails and any part where fine detail must read clearly.
🔬 Fine detail work
Thin sheets are perfect for cabin doors, window framing and any visible interior part.
🎨 Marquetry & inlay
Its pale tone provides bright contrast against darker woods like walnut, pear or hornbeam.
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Castello Boxwood Sheets
Calycophyllum multiflorum · South American boxwood
The classic model-making boxwood lumber. Pale creamy-yellow with a glass-smooth surface and exceptionally fine, even grain. Takes the finest detail of any modelling wood we stock.
Width100 mmselected · ~~3.94"tolerance -5/+20 mm
Length500 mmfixed · ~~19.69"tolerance ±20 mm
Thickness tolerance±0.10 mmSanded 120 grit
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Milled in Tallinn, Estonia · EU sourced timber
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About Castello Boxwood
Castello Boxwood (Calycophyllum multiflorum) is the modern standard for boxwood lumber in high-end model ship planking, replacing the now-scarce European boxwood. Its pale cream colour and near-invisible grain give a smooth, uniform run where no single piece stands out from the next.
Boxwood is exceptionally dense and stable, so pieces hold their dimensions precisely and bend cleanly around the hull without crushing or splitting at tight curves. The fine grain means edges stay sharp and glue joints sit tight.
Wood Properties
| Species | Calycophyllum multiflorum |
| Origin | South America (Argentina / Paraguay) |
| Janka Hardness | ~2,100 N (hard) |
| Density | ~830 kg/m³ (air dried) |
| Grain | Extremely fine, straight, often invisible |
| Colour | Pale creamy-yellow, very uniform |
| Texture | Glass-smooth — best finish of all our species |
| Workability | Excellent — bends and glues cleanly |
| Moisture content | 8–10% (kiln dried) |