Aspen
Aspen 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
- 350 lbf
- Grain
- fine, even, pale
- Used for
- whittling, figures
- Ease of carving
- easy
- In the woodworking database
- Quaking Aspen
- Notes
- Very soft and pale; can be fuzzy when cut so tools must be keen.
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