Basswood

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• Basswood
• Wood identification
• Uses in woodworking
• AvailabiIity
• Machining methods
• Carving comments
• Turning tips
• Shop-Tested Techniques

Carving comments

It would be hard to find a wood more perfect for carving. A sharp knife or gouge slides through it as if cutting butter. And the finish of a clean cut looks lustrous.

Because basswood takes fine detail, it's great
for relief, figure, and chip carving.
Basswood requires control or your carving tool may go further along a stroke than planned.
Strengthen details subject to breakage with a thinned coat of woodworker's glue (it won't take stain) worked into the wood.

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