Just wondering what's your favorite wood and why? I really like Teak. The oils in it make it cut like sharp shears and a hide of Connoly leather. It just feels good.
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Just wondering what's your favorite wood and why? I really like Teak. The oils in it make it cut like sharp shears and a hide of Connoly leather. It just feels good.
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OAK!!! What else?
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Cocobolo, bocote, and curly eucalyptus.
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Hackberry, Poplar, and Cherry.
Oh yea...add some Pecan in there too.
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Mesquite and Walnut.
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Cherry, black walnut, ash and spalted maple...as well as anything "burl"...
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Lace Sheoak, Green Jarrah (and burl) Goldfields burl, and Marri
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Hey Bill, I like Cherry, Mesquite and Poplar with a white creamy color and green streaks best. Cocobolo is very nice to turn, but it's a bit pricey, so I like "found" woods best overall. Jude
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Cherry, especially free.
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It varies on each "project".
I love most rosewoods (especially honduran and cocobolo) and most Aussie burls like red mallee, red morrel, brown mallee, yellow box, etc. Amboyna, desert ironwood, olivewood, koa, cherry, manzanita, maple, myrtlewood, bubinga, afzelia, chittam, pink ivory, buckeye, locust, mesquite, yew, TX mt. laurel, blackwood, box elder, etc. etc.
It is the biggest advantage of penturning, you can try various woods (mostly burl or highly figured) and still not break the bank.
For bowls and bigger turnings, I mostly use local woods (Mesquite, Huisache, TX Ebony, Maple)...not because they are my favorite but because of financial limitations.
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Hard Maple is my favorite followed by Cherry.
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