Lyptus

[Tom Crawford]

Over 15 years ago I bought some of this wood. (pic below)  It was said to be a sustainable wood farmed by Weyerhaeuser.  I have never seen this wood for sale again but then I now live in an area where it is 3 hours one way to a yard that has a reasonable selection of hardwoods.  I'm think about a future project and think this might be a good wood to use.  Does anyone know if this wood is still available or was it failed try by Weyerhaeuser?

 

[Mick S]

It is still available. It's a fast growing wood, thus sustainable. It's eucalyptus but marketed as lyptus.

[wtnhighlander]

It sure looks nice, especially for a piece that needs the design to be dominant over the material. Very reminiscent of straight grained mahogany-ish species.

[Isaac]

I'm using it right now on a project. At my local lumber mill they sell it as "red  grandis", so watch out for different names. 

[Unknown craftsman]

I've worked Lyptus before,I made a table and a fancy entry bench.

From what I remember it was kinda splintery, good hardness but too heavy.

And I remember it was a cross bread from Eucalyptus and mahogany.

I also remember it was mostly quarter sawn so it must be hard to dry.

I think it's still sold out by me.

Aj

[phinds]

On 8/22/2016 at 10:37 PM, micks said:

It is still available. It's a fast growing wood, thus sustainable. It's eucalyptus but marketed as lyptus.

In Australia, saying "it's eucalpytus" is exactly like saying "it's wood".  There are at least 800 eucalyptus species, so  "Lyptus" is NOT really "eucalyptus", it's Eucalyptus grandis x urophylla, A natural hybrid of Eucalyptus grandis and Eucalyptus urophylla which Weyerhauser decided would be a great wood to farm, so they created plantations of it. I think it's mostly used for pulp but in the US you'll see it in lumber form sometimes.