What is the best kind of wood for carving?

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What Kind or type of wood do you suggest to make sculpting and statuary for professional job and hand carving?

I'm trying to make a Sculpture with top quality for some places ( They will use it for outdoor or maybe indoor) so I should use the Best wood Hardest Wood And the Most Heavy wood to make it....Some friend said Beech Wood,,,some friend said Walnut Wood and some said it's good to use Mahogany Wood or Teak wood. There ism any choices but still I don't know what kind of wood should I use for my Hand Carving and for me it doesn't matter how is that hard wood too BUT I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEST WOOD THAT...

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Go take a good look at any wooden sculpture's you can find. Type in a search for every wood suggested...

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The best thing to do would be to sharpen your tools, a sharper tool is safer than a blunt one. Then...

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Purchase a six foot tree trunk.outline your mate with a magic marker and begin!

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Probably the two most common woods used for carving are Basswood(aka Tilia or Lime) and Tupelo, both...

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For a beginning carver, the selection of carving wood is simple: basswood, black walnut, white pine...

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Catalpa is a great carving and turning wood. It has an interesting grain and is very stable. Hemlock...

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Very lateral thinking.....I do suppose it wood!

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What tools would be best for hand carving a wood chess set?

I've been interested in hand carving my own wood chess set and board but have no wood carving experience. A chess set has 64 pieces and I think that could be very hard on the hands without the right tools for small wood carving, so I'd like to know what...

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the smaller tools. they make them in all sizes. and hand carving is hard on the hands always. a good...

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Good paint for wood carving?

I am just wondering, what is the best kind of paint for a wood carving? And is there some kind of paint that's clear and serves as a protective coating?

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There are clear acrylic sprays in cans available at many stores that sell can spray paints. I sometimes...

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3 basic wood carving questions?

1. what kind of woods are used in most wood carvings (by hand) and how do those woods compare to that of your average pine wood from a store? (are they harder? better in some way?) 2. how do the knives or blades used by wood carvers compare to that of...

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1. basswood, lime, tulip, poplar about the same as white pine but with much finer grain, thus smoother...

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