Medium brown colour. Fine, unobtrusive close grain. Hard and tough and can take detail carving.
Cherry Tree/Ceiriosen Bren Keeps good detail. Mid-dark wood with a reddish brown colour. The grain can either be open or closed depending on which part of the tree the plank is taken from.
Ash/Onnen
The heartwood varies from light to dark brown while the sapwood is light colored to nearly white. Ash has generally a straight, moderately open grain.
Oak/Derw
The heartwood is a pleasant light yellow brown colour while the sapwood is white. Turns dark brown with age. Hard and heavy and can take detail but the wood tends to split along the grain.
Beech/Ffawydden
Denser than ash. Less string and grainy and tends not to splitt along grain. Recoginsed by dark flecks on a ligher buff background and polishes well.
Sycamore/Masarn
Hard whitish wood and carves cleanly with little grain.
Lime/Pisgwgdd (Boxwood-USA)
Light buff colour, dense but easy and straight forward to carve. This is Keith’s preferred wood to carve. Can carve paper thin sections whilst still keeping detail. After polishing is a beautiful buff colour with little grain visable.
Apple/Onnen
Straignt-forward to carve. Has a pale buff brown colour and little grain. Keeps detail so can so thin sections can be carved.
Holly/Tinne
A dense white wood. Little grain but keeps good detail. Planks of holly are narrow and carving will be thin and narrow as a result.
Walnut Tree/Walnut Bren
Dark brown colour although the colour may vary. Burr walnut is a very attractive colour. The wood is hard and heavy and keeps detail well.
Yew/Ywen
Purple red, a beatiful colour. Shades may vary within each plank. Sap wood is as hard as Heart wood.
Poplar/Poplys (Tulip - USA)
Soft as lime, open grain but shades and colours vary.
Willow/Helygen Buff brown colour with close grain. Keeps good detail and used for making cricket bats and white willow was the original source of Aspirin.
