basswood heart wood

Mryooper · #1 09-22-2005, 12:59 PM

I was wondering if any of you use Basswood cants or with the heart in it. I found a example of what I am talking about on ebay. If so I can get these pretty much witout ordering them special.

Hi_Ho_Sliver · #2 09-22-2005, 01:05 PM

When you live in the desert, you use about anything decent you can get a knife into! LOL

Mryooper · #3 09-22-2005, 01:18 PM

I was just curious lol, seems when I get asked for basswood , they dont want heartwood in it and I seen this and thought well , I can get all kinds of that lol

decoycarve · #4 09-22-2005, 04:48 PM

I don't carve any thing that has a full growth ring. If iI get wood that still has the heart I slice right thru it to relieve the tension of the rings. I was sawing blocks last weekend dried down to 15% and you could hear it pop when we sawed thru the rings.
Goody

Butch_Speer · #5 09-23-2005, 09:06 PM

I've carved some heartwood from bass. Some carves nice & some times it's pretty bad. It can be hard & splinter a bit. Tends to have mineral deposits in it also (greenish looking places that can really mess up an edge).

Clifford_Parker · #6 09-25-2005, 12:03 AM

All of my 'dimensional" basswood is from cant cut-offs that I get free from a local pallet plant. I rip it into smaller chunks on the bandsaw. One big bonus of living in the upper midwest is free wood.

Hi_Ho_Sliver · #7 09-25-2005, 09:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clifford_Parker

All of my 'dimensional" basswood is from cant cut-offs that I get free from a local pallet plant. I rip it into smaller chunks on the bandsaw. One big bonus of living in the upper midwest is free wood.

If you "cant" cut'em off, why cant you?

wade clark · #8 09-25-2005, 11:14 AM

Hi_Ho,
Because Cans don't carve as well as Cants!
You can carve cans with snips.
Wade

carver6 · #9 09-25-2005, 10:17 PM

HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!