Post #598979 by Beach Bum Scott on Sat, Jul 23, 2011 4:47 PM

I figured I would play around with my new tools today..
Let me tell ya if you are learning to carve small scale stuff with 1 mill v's & u's Padauk is NOT the wood to start with!!!

It's very pretty

But boy is it hard and it has long open pores that cause the wood to rip!