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September 8, 2024
What are the best types of wood in Barbados for beginners to practice carving?
A master carver names the best types of wood in Barbados for a beginner, and why grain beats hardness at the bench.
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September 6, 2024
What are the best types of wood in South Africa for beginners to practice carving?
Best types of wood in South Africa for beginners: what a yard really sells, which trees the law protects, and how to test a board.
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September 6, 2024
What are the best types of wood in Australia for beginners to practice carving?
No basswood down there. The best types of wood in Australia for a beginner, named by Australian timber sources, not by me.
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September 5, 2024
What are the best types of wood for beginners to practice carving?
Basswood at 410 lbf is the board I hand a beginner. Butternut sits right behind it. Here is why pine stays off my bench.
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September 5, 2024
What are the best materials for beginners in wood carving?
One knife, a basswood board, a strop, and a way to hold the work. The best materials for beginners in wood carving.
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September 5, 2024
What are the best softwoods for beginners to practice wood carving?
A master carver ranks the best softwoods for beginners and shows why softness is the wrong reason to pick a first board.
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August 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.
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August 29, 2024
How do you know if wood is good for carving?
The board is already on your bench. Six checks I run before I trust a plank with a design, and the one fault that sends it straight back on the pile.
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August 29, 2024
What is the meaning of wood carving?
Wood carving is subtraction, and after forty years I would say it is the ability to see in three dimensions. Here is the craft split into its three real parts, in the order they belong.
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August 28, 2024
What does rot resistant wood mean?
I carve indoors, so the species list here comes from the government wood laboratory and I name it every time. What I can teach you is how to read decay in a board before you trust it with a hundred hours.
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August 28, 2024
What does wood density mean?
Light board, heavy board, and one number behind both. Here is what density really measures, and why the same basswood shows up as 0.32 in one book and 0.42 in another.
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August 26, 2024
Do I have to dry wood before carving?
You do not have to dry wood, but you do have to live with what wet wood does after you put the tools away. Here is what happens under the gouge, how dry is dry enough, how to read a board without a meter, and the projects where green wood is the better choice.
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