Is Your Wood Too Hard to Carve?

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 https://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: https://ebay.to/3B8LhZM
Beavercraft Basswood: https://amzn.to/49XRZmn
CANUSA: https://amzn.to/3Qjb2QU
Heinecke Wood: https://heineckewood.com/block-wood

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