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Yellowood: Portugal's Premium Wood — and the Trucks That Followed

A Portuguese deck brand built on exotic woods that grew its own truck subsidiary, YTrucks, and outfitted champions.

Premium exotic-wood deck brand; developed the YTrucks subsidiary (signature pro truck colorways).

Kingpin Editorial·5 min read
Inside the Y-Store — walls tiled with decks under a 'Professional Fingerboards' arch, the workshop's own museum.
  • Where it started
  • What changed
  • What they pushed forward
  • Why it still matters
  • References

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Founded
2007
Country
Portugal
Focus
Decks, Trucks
Confidence
Confirmed

Origin

Where it started

Yellowood is a Portuguese brand whose trademark was registered in 2007, built around premium decks pressed from exotic woods. Where some brands chased the cheapest viable board, Yellowood went the other way — material quality as the whole point.1, 2

The push

What changed

That premium instinct didn't stop at decks. Yellowood developed YTrucks, its own truck subsidiary, complete with signature pro colorways for team riders — including a 'Petr Pro' truck for three-time Fast Fingers champion Petr Ptáček. The brand's reach spanned eras: founded in the community-growth period, its influence (and YTrucks' maturity) carried into the pro-setup years.1, 2

Archived Yellowood brand/product image captured via the Wayback Machine on 2015-09-05.

Signature

What they pushed forward

Yellowood's pioneering is the rare move of a deck brand successfully becoming a hardware house too.

  • Premium exotic-wood decks

    Yellowood made material the headline — exotic-wood decks that treated the board as a high-end object, pushing the ceiling on what a fingerboard deck could be.1

  • YTrucks — the in-house truck subsidiary

    Spinning up YTrucks let Yellowood control both ends of a setup. Its widely-ridden CNC trucks and signature pro colorways (like the 'Petr Pro') put the brand on champions' boards.1, 2

The Ytrucks X5 — the in-house truck subsidiary's fifth-generation design, spec'd like real hardware.

Legacy

Why it still matters

Yellowood proved a fingerboard brand could own its whole stack — premium decks and the trucks underneath them — and that a small Portuguese maker could equip the very top of the global field.1, 2

Archive images

The physical Y-Store in Portugal — proof the wood shop grew into a real-world scene hub.
A current Yellowood art deck — the Portuguese wood shop's illustrated graphic language.
Ywheels round out the ecosystem — decks, trucks, and wheels from one workshop family.
Archived Yellowood brand/product image captured via the Wayback Machine on 2015-09-05.
Archived Yellowood brand/product image captured via the Wayback Machine on 2014-12-19.
Archived Yellowood brand/product image captured via the Wayback Machine on 2014-12-19.
Archived Yellowood brand/product image captured via the Wayback Machine on 2014-12-19.
Archived Yellowood brand/product image captured via the Wayback Machine on 2014-12-19.
Archived Yellowood brand/product image captured via the Wayback Machine on 2014-12-19.
Archived Yellowood brand/product image captured via the Wayback Machine on 2014-12-19.

Watch & explore

  • Yellowood Fingerboard assembly — Yellowood

Setup-era context

For the wider gear story around this period, read The Community-Growth Era: YouTube, Bearing Wheels, and a Global Scene.

Evidence note

Trademark registered 2007 (official about page). Placement: spans the 2006–2012 community-growth era and into the 2012–2018 pro-setup era as YTrucks matured — listed once at its founding era with a cross-era note (resolves the #1061 'which era does Yellowood belong to' question: founded in community-growth, influential across both).

References

Numbered references to the brand, retailer, and community pages that back this article. Confidence labels show how firmly each source is established.

  1. 1.
    Yellowood About

    Yellowood·Official

    Portuguese brand; trademark registered 2007; premium exotic-wood decks; developed the Ytrucks subsidiary.

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  2. 2.
    YTrucks 'Petr Pro' signature truck

    Yellowood / YTrucks·Official

    YTrucks is Yellowood's truck subsidiary; signature pro colorways for team riders.

    Back to citation ↩

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  • Where it started
  • What changed
  • What they pushed forward
  • Why it still matters
  • References