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wood types for carving
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August 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.
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In-Depth
August 28, 2024
What does wood shrinkage mean?
Every other number on a wood chart decides what happens while you carve. This one decides what happens for the next hundred years, and I have a gouge whose ring went loose on its own to prove it.
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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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