Sycamore
Sycamore 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
- 770 lbf
- Grain
- interlocked, ray fleck
- Used for
- spoons, bowls, kitchen ware
- Ease of carving
- moderate
- In the woodworking database
- American Sycamore
- Notes
- Interlocked grain resists splitting, good for thin bowl walls; carves well green.
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