What is best wood for carving?

Answer 1

The Best possible wood for carving is Evergreen.

Many woodcarvers as do I use BASSWOOD, Its a soft tight grained wood which makes for its popularity. Its very easy to carve, Its true you can use most any wood. NOTE: (the harder the wood the harder to carve) And in some cases (With a knife almost impossible) With the onset of power tools such as grinders, diamond , cutz-all , and carbide bits the harder woods are used more. Good-Luck

Answer 2

Determining the best or worst wood for carving, all depends on what you are carving. If the wood is too hard or too soft, it may be considered bad for carving. Generally speaking, harder woods like hickory are not good for hand carving details because of the hardness of the wood.

Answer 3

A great carving wood is Basswood. It is very easy to carve and is one of the preferred carving woods for beginning wood carvers. It is a light colored wood that grows in the Northern United States. There is a whole list of woods that people use for wood carving. Check out this blog post about selecting wood for carving walking sticks.

http://www.ozarkwalkingsticks.com/2011/05/17/selecting-wood-for-walking-sticks/

Answer 4

lime wood is most widely used.(basswood in USA)

Butternut is nice, as is London plane