[Doug Ridley]

Anybody ever carve any Bradford Pear?
Some ocaisionally blows down around here and I wondered about it.
Doug

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

Very hard wood I hear, bet it would make good pens tho, the harder the better for making pens lol

[Ron Davidson]

I was wondering the same thing and was also wondering about sweetgum? How it would carve.

[papasar]

Doug,
It carves pretty easy when green but, tends to check when drying. Like most fruitwoods, it is very hard when dry. I just threw out a 3 inch diameter 24 inch piece.
I was showing my son-in-law how dense it was. He told me on his job he is always cleaning up broken branches due to them breaking so easily. I proceeded to drop the unchecked piece that was drying for about a year from about 4 ft. to demonstrate its hardness. The darn stuff checked upon impact. Both ends were quartered with about 1/16 openings.
Bill K.

[Thomp]

Originally Posted by Ron Davidson

I was wondering the same thing and was also wondering about sweetgum? How it would carve.

I bought some Sweetgum in 91 it was planked 1x10, stored some weighted and some not weighted down. the unweighted wood twisted and warped bad in the longer lengths,
i have carved some of it but not really liked it for hardness, its tougher on a cutting edege than popular but close grained and durable and fine detail can be carved into it,
i get cut more on harder woods so im sticking to basswood while i can afford it.

[Dylan]

I've seen people use Bradford Pear for walking sticks. The way I understand it is carve it green or use power. Same goes for Sweetgum.

Dylan