Boxwood
Boxwood 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
- 2,840 lbf
- Grain
- extremely fine, dense, pale yellow
- Used for
- netsuke, miniatures, tool handles
- Ease of carving
- hard
- In the woodworking database
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- Notes
- Dense and fine enough for jewellery-scale detail; small pieces only; expensive.
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