Pear
Pear 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
- 1,660 lbf
- Grain
- extremely fine, even, pinkish
- Used for
- letter carving, printing blocks, figures
- Ease of carving
- hard
- In the woodworking database
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- Notes
- Dense and fine with no visible grain; the traditional wood for engraving blocks and fine lettering.
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