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

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

Kingpin Editorial5 min read2007

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

Part of Pioneer Brands

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Founded
2007
Country
Portugal
Focus
Decks, Trucks
Confidence
Confirmed
Inside the Y-Store — walls tiled with decks under a 'Professional Fingerboards' arch, the workshop's own museum.

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

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. The label notes how firmly each source is established.

  1. 1.Yellowood About— YellowoodOfficial↩

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

  2. 2.YTrucks 'Petr Pro' signature truck— Yellowood / YTrucksOfficial↩

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

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