Red Alder
Red Alder for carving: how hard it is, how the grain behaves under the knife and what carvers use it for.
- Janka hardness (lbf)Side hardness as published by The Wood Database
- 590 lbf
- Grain
- fine, even, reddish
- Used for
- spoons, bowls, figures
- Ease of carving
- easy
- In the woodworking database
- Red Alder
- Notes
- Carves easily green or dry; a common spoon wood in the Pacific Northwest.
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