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WOOD for Wood CarvingSeptember 1, 2024
Is Blackwood, African Good for Carving?
WOOD for Wood CarvingSeptember 1, 2024
Is Yellow Birch Good for Carving?
WOOD for Wood CarvingSeptember 1, 2024
Is Birch, sweet Good for Carving?
WOOD for Wood CarvingSeptember 1, 2024
Is Birch, river Good for Carving?
WOOD for Wood CarvingAugust 31, 2024
Is Birch, silver Good for Carving?
In depthAugust 30, 2024
Is denser wood stronger?
Denser wood resists a gouge about twice as fast as it gains bending strength. The handbook numbers, and what they miss.
Everything above is free and stays free. The courses are where I put your hands on the gouge and watch what they do.
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In depthAugust 30, 2024
What does low density wood mean?
Light wood is not weak wood, and softness is not why I carve basswood almost every day. Here are the real numbers, and one puzzle from my bench I still cannot explain.
WOOD for Wood CarvingAugust 30, 2024
Is Birch, Baltic Good for Carving?
In depthAugust 30, 2024
What wood is the strongest?
Strongest is four different tests and they disagree. Ipe wins three of them. The hardest wood on earth loses three.
In depthAugust 30, 2024
What is high density wood?
Heavy is not the same as hard, and hard is not the same as strong. Here are the real numbers for the top of the weight table, and the honest bill a dense board hands you.
In depthAugust 30, 2024
What makes wood less dense?
Density in wood is the ratio of solid cell wall to hollow space, and the wall weighs the same in every species. Ten light woods weighed, with the cedar oil claim corrected.
In depthAugust 30, 2024
Does dense wood float?
Fresh water weighs 62.4 pounds per cubic foot. A wood lighter than that floats, a wood heavier sinks, and the water still inside a board can move it across the line either way. Density figures from 68 of our own wood pages, and what they mean at the bench.