Hard Maple
Hard Maple 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
- 1,450 lbf
- Grain
- fine, even, dense
- Used for
- spoons, bowls, netsuke-style detail
- Ease of carving
- hard
- In the woodworking database
- Hard Maple (sugar maple)
- Notes
- Very hard when dry; carved green for spoons and bowls. Takes crisp detail if the tools are keen.
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