Best Woods to Carve With Besides Basswood

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My website: woodspirit.net/
Link to tools I use: woodspirit.net/products-i-use/ Here is the list of woods I refer to in the video and their respective Janka Hardness ratings:
380 Aspen
380 White Pine
410 Basswood
490 Butternut
540 Poplar
570 White Willow
590 Alder
640 Crack Willow
700 Silver Maple
720 Box Elder
770 Sycamore
830 American Elm
870 Southern Yellow Pine
910 Paper Birch
950 Cherry
970 River Birch
1010 Walnut
1335 White Oak

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@aleichorn5464 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing information. Looking forward to trying the other woods you noted.

@BluegrassBushcraft 4 жыл бұрын

Great informative video. Thanks for sharing.

@brendakopecky9667 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful video, very useful info., Thank you!

@inksinner1 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice video. Thanks. I'm in Kernersville nc. Hope to see more soon. Have great day.

@kinshasa13 4 жыл бұрын

good info. thanks a bunch

@moonolyth 3 жыл бұрын

Great! sycamore a spirit tree in some countries.. One of your favorites. Very cool I have one I must cut down very tall. The grain is also very interwoven very nice looking but often not used for furniture because the grains warp the wood, a secondary wood as I have resurched. As a 16yr old I carved ahead from a piece that fell from a 50foot tree, it was old but carved very nice.. looking forward to slabbing my tree with a cheep electric saw!! and cust some choice pieces for carving geat video I'm stocked to get started.

@nandkishorchavan5976 3 жыл бұрын

Nice information

@mikeyoung5329 5 ай бұрын

Alder is more of a weed then it is a tree.. they don't normally live much more the 40 or 50 years.. I have heard it's good for carving and I know forsure they use it for furniture making. If it's left sitting too long after the trees been harvested it will start to turn black on you

@grassyknoll4702 2 жыл бұрын

I can highly recommend sycamore, as long as it's green. It gets pretty hard when it dries out. I found that river birch gets real fuzzy if you use a power tool on it. I had pretty good luck using knives on it.

@River-Channel 4 жыл бұрын

We'll have to get you some Maine white pine!

@IdRatherMakeItMyself-Net 4 жыл бұрын

I'd like to try that

@KonnyP 4 жыл бұрын

I carved stuff out of eucalyptus and it was only later on that I checked the janka scale just to see how hard it was... ...3000 - 4000!

@TheCramunhao666 3 жыл бұрын

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@kaibilbalam7151 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir very informative your video is!!!! What is the janka hardness of white willow, box elder, American elm, ? I didn’t hear you say it..... thank you again!!!

@IdRatherMakeItMyself-Net 3 жыл бұрын

Not all of the woods are listed on the Janka charts. Box Elder is around 750 - pretty soft. I would guess Elm and Willow are somewhere in that range as well.

@supplespecimen725 Жыл бұрын

Unless I’m really misinformed, poplar and aspen are the same thing, right? We’ve got such confusing naming conventions, we should almost be referring to each wood we use by its latin name for specificity’s sake.

@DullPoints 4 жыл бұрын

Very informative! I'd love to hear more about your approach in working with these woods. Do you do you let the hardness dictate how shallow a carving will end up or do you only use softer woods for carvings where you will remove a lot of material?

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@corymiller9854 3 жыл бұрын

Great vid. I have started to carve and make some hand tools. Wanted to ask if you carve wet or dry. I have tried both and i struggle with dry wood. Although i did use some harder species with my first projects. Fresh tree seems to be my choice but i do struggle slightly keeping it stable and check free. Homemade wax paste of the end grain has worked great.

@IdRatherMakeItMyself-Net 3 жыл бұрын

I started carving using green wood. It is easier but the pieces are more prone to cracking. With good tools and techniques you can carve into harder wood well.

@corymiller9854 3 жыл бұрын

@@IdRatherMakeItMyself-Net Ty for your advice. I need all the help i can get when it comes to hand carving. I thought about asking a beaver but i talked myself out of that:]

@mrs.americanmade7452 Жыл бұрын

@@corymiller9854 oh my, I bout spit my coffee out when I read this, Thank you kindly for a smile this morning

@brendakopecky9667 4 жыл бұрын

Silly question,,,Do you carve only Dried woods, or do you find fresh cut to be easier carving? I realize that may be a loaded question..

@IdRatherMakeItMyself-Net 4 жыл бұрын

I do both. Green wood is easier to carve than dried wood but it can split on you as you dry and possibly ruin your carving.

@questioneverything2488 3 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyable, thankyou so much. Have you tried white ceder? What do you think? 3🎂🍏🍎🌻🌿

@IdRatherMakeItMyself-Net 3 жыл бұрын

I haven't tried white cedar. We have Eastern Red around me and I have carved a bit with it. It carves pretty nicely.

@albertreed966 2 жыл бұрын

I have read about a tree that is very fast growing and supposedly straight grained and very light in color. I think it was called Paulina or something like that. Have you heard of it?

@urmelausdemeis3495 Жыл бұрын

In Germany it is called Blauglöckchenbaum because of its blue flowers. I think it is also called Paulownia (tomentosa)