A blog of my green woodwork carvings and photographs.
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Saturday 22 January 2011
Silver Maple flour spoon
I finished a flour spoon made in Silver Maple, its finished with the knife and oiled with Flax seed oil. I have a few more bits left from the Maple and plan on making a couple more spoons.
The Maple is lovely wood to work, carves and finishes well.
I've never carved any red Maple, we do have them here but they are more of a ornamental tree in parks and gardens, they are sometimes planted as street trees. I found the silver Maple wood very soft and when dried very light.
Is it softer than red maple?
ReplyDeleteI've never carved any red Maple, we do have them here but they are more of a ornamental tree in parks and gardens, they are sometimes planted as street trees. I found the silver Maple wood very soft and when dried very light.
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