Is Your Wood Too Hard to Carve?
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2024
- Picking the right wood to carve is one of the most important factors for wood carvers. If it's too hard to work with, it will take forever to work with and is more likely to discourage new carvers.
Some of the best woods to carve is called Basswood and is what most carvers use to create fun works of art!
There are also a few ways to make wood easier to carve as well, like increasing the moisture level of the wood, which makes the wood more malleable and easier to carve. Wood moisture content really can make a real difference for carvers!
Wood Hardness is super important as well, which is why I made this resource showing the wood hardness for a few hundred different species of wood carvingisfun.com/wood-hardness/
00:00 Introduction
00:21 Wood Moisture
03:38 Wood Hardness
05:57 Where to Buy
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Where I buy basswood:
Choice Craft Woods: ebay.to/3B8LhZM
Beavercraft Basswood: amzn.to/49XRZmn
CANUSA: amzn.to/3Qjb2QU
Heinecke Wood: heineckewood.com/block-wood
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Wood Hardness List: carvingisfun.com/wood-hardness/
Where I buy basswood:
Choice Craft Woods: ebay.to/3B8LhZM
Beavercraft Basswood: amzn.to/49XRZmn
CANUSA: amzn.to/3Qjb2QU
Heinecke Wood: heineckewood.com/block-wood
Spray (just add a little more water) amzn.to/49XS35B
Thank you so much for taking the time to compile the hardness list, it's so helpful!!
thank you for this video, I'm really new into wood carving. I only have 1 knife and no sharpening tools and I had no idea where to find wood that would be good to carve on.
Glad I could help!
Wow thanks SO much ... brilliant video and great list article for wood hardness
You're welcome!
Hopefully people find it useful!
Thank you so much for the information. If you're looking for a good source on wood information I highly recommend wood database, they have an absolutely insane compilation of different woods, so much so that it can sometimes be hard to be exactly sure which wood you're looking for. For example: by mahogany did you mean genuine mahogany or African mahogany? Or perhaps sepele or Philippine mahogany?
Another great resource is the book "With the Grain: A Craftsman's Guide to Understanding Wood" by Christian Becksvoort from Lost Art Press for US domestic woods.
Love your videos. They're all so chill and always have good advice. Will defo be using the wood hardness list next time I pick my wood. Had a piece of walnut from a friend and ho boy 😅
I live in the UK and would suggest people give EnglishWoods a look. Ordered their selection box they're all a decent quality. They don't do bass wood but they do do Lime wood which is harder on the Jenka scale but similar
hello, a little off topic but have you ever tried to do relief carving? It looks like something I might want to try to do. Thank you for all you do for the carving community!
Yes I have and it is quite fun! You don't need a ton of tools to do it either, just a gouge, chisel, and maybe a v-gouge will do. If you want a really nice set, Pfeil has a great intermediate set with just these tools in it to start off with!
If you want to get into it, I have a few beginner friendly relief carving templates on my website: carvingisfun.com/templates/
@@CarvingisFun thank you for your quick reply and the templates!
Hello Brian, merci de cette vidéo très intéressante. J’ai la chance d’avoir du tilleul frais gratuitement par des amis qui transforment leur jardin. Je débite moi-même les morceaux dont j’ai besoin. Et en effet le bois séché à l’air a un meilleur rendement. Faut-il couvrir d’une bâche le bois ? Ou le laisser à l’air et ou aux intempéries ? Dans un réduit ventilé il sèche bien. C’est celui qui est débité. Mais pour le bois brut que me conseilles-tu ? Merci pour tes réponses, Michèle
I have heard that Lime is really good to carve and when air drying I recommend lifted off the ground with a tarpaulin under the wood to separate from the ground and above to prevent uneven moisture falling on it.
Hi! Can i use wood of my tree in my backyard? Is poplar wood and i have a beavercraft knife's
Im sure you could if ya wanted to!
I have several pieces of very dry wood laying around and I really want to carve them. Is it possible to moisturize them to the state of green wood somehow? Like soak them for a couple days, or maybe boil them?
Ive heard of people boiling them, but I would also be concerned about over saturation as well. It's honestly something Ive never attempted
Is there in wood carving / whittling kits you recommend for a beginner?
Sure!
If you are on a budget and just want to do whittling and chip carving, the Beavercraft S15 kit is the way to go
If you want to do whittling and spoon carving on a budget, the Beavercraft S13 is the cheapest option I recommend
If you want a really nice whittling, chip carving, and spoon carving set for a good price, Schaaf Tools 5 piece set is the only option I would recommend
If you want to do whittling and some wood carving on small figures, the Flexcut palm and knife set will get you started, but you will need a leather strop
@@CarvingisFun Thank you for replying :D
Interesting, but right now I just use found wood, I leave it on our terrace to dry. Of course most of my work is walking sticks.
I honestly wish I could find good wood on the ground around me, unfortunately it's almost always in some form of decay.
@@CarvingisFun Well during the lockdown we did hiking every other day - and even now on weekends - once a week - and we have some great trails in our area. Hence me able to harvest good pieces.
Still I envy a lot of your pieces - and your sharpening guides have been truly helpful in keeping my knives in great shape and very sharp.
Put hard wood in bathroom, showers will create steam to soften the wood, but don’t overdo it.
Thats a good idea!