Ellis Guitars uses Sheoak as tonewood tops on their custom acoustic stompbox. This timber is an exotic wood from Australia.

Western Australian Sheoak occurs in the south western corner of Western Australia in the coastal and hinterland region from Perth in the north to near Albany, Western Australia. There is a small isolated population between Moora and Jurien Bay, Western Australia.

Sheoak heartwood dark red to brown. Sapwood pale yellow. The texture is moderately fine and even and the medullary rays are prominent. Western Australian Sheoak is primarily orange in colour, the best is streaked and mottled with with darker golds, and light red.

Sheoak is used as guitar inlay material on Ellis custom acoustic guitars, and as Stompbox tonewood on the Ellis custom acoustic stompbox

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