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I use basswood, I have family who use it for firewood, so I can get big already dry pieces for free and then I cut them down to workable size with a hand saw.

It's cheaper at my local lumber store than online as well.

I haven't been very adventurous with other woods because of that.

Basswood is light and easy to carve, but it doesn't finish as well as other woods.

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I googled basswood, and found this article about it, and its parent site, the Wood Database, both of which are interesting:

https://www.wood-database.com/basswood/

I didn't know about that site either, the comment section is fantastic, it's full of users who both try different finishes and report back how it went

Cool, I will check that out. I only read the basswood entry so far.

We need more sites like these on the net, instead of the garbage piles that are much more common nowadays.

This might be the coolest site I've discovered on Hacker News in a while. Thanks for sharing!

You're welcome :)

Thanks.

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