Just a small note. "Baltic ply" is a birch plywood specifically from around the baltic sea region: Finland, Sweden, Estonia, etc. Good and consistent quality birch wood is easily available around the region. Also as solid wood.

Great video, Laura. Thanks. One other thing to be careful of when using found planks like the piece from your son's back yard is to watch for the presence of nails or other pieces of metal. They will ruin a chisel in a flash!

Thank you so much for making all these series Laura. Love your work and your creative philosophy in printmaking :)

Very informative Laura, thank you!! I find the idea of 'found' woods very exciting, with the challenge of designing an image around the unique characteristics of that piece of wood. Am off to my local wood merchant this week! TFS!!

Purchased your book a month ago, reading it as you go.

What about Katsura wood I have got that for my latest project. It looks a bit like pale maple up close. Tight grain, sold at Jacksons. Anyone here used it?

The piece you used for the cover of your book...did you slice it and glue it to the base? or did you cut around the shape you wanted of a large solid plank?

Laura please can I have (if you don't mind) the supplier you use in Japan for paper and one for tools. What is the name of the paper knife they use in Japan? Looked on line and it's mainly chefs tools I can find. I have just bought (before lockdown) the woodblocks from an artist who died. I just put them away as was busy with ply but this video has encouraged me to relook as I'm sure there was yew etc. Many thanks - Glynis

Lots of very useful information. Would it be possible for some of the suppliers you mention to be given WEB links? I know you can search and find them using google (or other search engines) but it might help. (And yes the P400 is a sand paper grade. The higher the number the finer 'sand' it is)