Just curious, what is your favorite wood to turn?

[Ernie Nyvall]

Curly red eucalyptus.

[Bill Blasic]

Maple & Blackwood

[Gary Garmar]

My favorite is Osage Orange and a close second is Red Mulberry. Both turn great with sharp tools and require little sanding to acheive an outstanding finish.

[William Bachtel]

I like Curly woods the most. Sassafras, Maple, Walnut, Hickory, Ash., to mention a few of the curly woods I have used.

[John Gornall]

I assume that the imported woods such as rosewood or cocobolo are dry woods.

I also assume that those that like cherry or other domestic woods turn green.

I'm just getting in to turning and while it's fun to turn a nice green wet piece there's no immediate satisfaction with waiting for months to finish the piece and I'm starting to like dry imported woods.

Life is busy and when I get an evening to turn I like to put a finished piece on the mantel at midnight before sleep.

So I'm still looking for my favourite wood.

[Tom Sherman]

I llike em all so far except for Wengi, just not for me.

[Nicholas Briggs]

Desert Ironwood. Hands down.

[TYLER WOOD]

Cottonwood burl, elm burl, walnut, and mesquite.

[Curt Fuller]

Two woods that I've found can be turned with little or no sanding are apple and koa. But both are hard to come by.

[Jerry Pittman]

Whatever 'jumps' onto my lathe. I haven't a lot of different woods yet but so far maple, esp. figured, and Oak rate high on the list.
Jerry

[Jim Shaver, Oakville Ont]

Cherry,

It's clean on a sharp tool and I love the way it works......cherry any day, or maple, or walnut or .....

[Roger Bell]

For ease of turning, just about any fruitwood (apple, plum, cherry, pear). For looks, walnut, koa, pacific yew, african blackwood, lignum vitae, teak, osage orange, cocobolo, figured maple. For smell, Alaska yellow cedar, myrtlewood.

[Dick Strauss]

Green Apple!

[Neal Addy]

In order, my three favorites would be Blackwood, Texas Ebony, and Messkeet.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Maple, cherry and oak