Water Tupelo
Water Tupelo 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
- 880 lbf
- Grain
- fine, interlocked, no grain direction to speak of
- Used for
- birds, decoys, power carving
- Ease of carving
- moderate
- In the woodworking database
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- Notes
- The bird-carving wood: burns rather than tears under power tools and holds thin feathers. Harder to cut by knife.
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