Just curious, what is your favorite wood to turn?

[Bill Wyko]

Just wondering what's your favorite wood and why? I really like Teak. The oils in it make it cut like sharp shears and a hide of Connoly leather. It just feels good.;)

[Christopher K. Hartley]

OAK!!! What else?:D :D :D

[Nancy Laird]

Cocobolo, bocote, and curly eucalyptus.

Nancy

[Keith Burns]

Mesquite. There is always a suprise inside !

[Dennis Peacock]

Hackberry, Poplar, and Cherry.

Oh yea...add some Pecan in there too. ;)

[Bernie Weishapl]

Mesquite and Walnut.

[Ron Erickson]

FREE WOOD! Because it is FREE.

[Jim Becker]

Cherry, black walnut, ash and spalted maple...as well as anything "burl"...

[Joash Boyton]

Lace Sheoak, Green Jarrah (and burl) Goldfields burl, and Marri

[Kim Ford]

Myrtlewood

[Andy Hoyt]

The kind that turns. :cool:

[Jude Kingery]

Hey Bill, I like Cherry, Mesquite and Poplar with a white creamy color and green streaks best. Cocobolo is very nice to turn, but it's a bit pricey, so I like "found" woods best overall. Jude

[Patrick Taylor]

Cherry, especially free. :D

[Dario Octaviano]

It varies on each "project".

I love most rosewoods (especially honduran and cocobolo) and most Aussie burls like red mallee, red morrel, brown mallee, yellow box, etc. Amboyna, desert ironwood, olivewood, koa, cherry, manzanita, maple, myrtlewood, bubinga, afzelia, chittam, pink ivory, buckeye, locust, mesquite, yew, TX mt. laurel, blackwood, box elder, etc. etc.

It is the biggest advantage of penturning, you can try various woods (mostly burl or highly figured) and still not break the bank.

For bowls and bigger turnings, I mostly use local woods (Mesquite, Huisache, TX Ebony, Maple)...not because they are my favorite but because of financial limitations.

[Terry Quiram]

Hard Maple is my favorite followed by Cherry.

[Ernie Nyvall]

Curly red eucalyptus.

[Bill Blasic]

Maple & Blackwood

[Gary Garmar]

My favorite is Osage Orange and a close second is Red Mulberry. Both turn great with sharp tools and require little sanding to acheive an outstanding finish.

[William Bachtel]

I like Curly woods the most. Sassafras, Maple, Walnut, Hickory, Ash., to mention a few of the curly woods I have used.

[John Gornall]

I assume that the imported woods such as rosewood or cocobolo are dry woods.

I also assume that those that like cherry or other domestic woods turn green.

I'm just getting in to turning and while it's fun to turn a nice green wet piece there's no immediate satisfaction with waiting for months to finish the piece and I'm starting to like dry imported woods.

Life is busy and when I get an evening to turn I like to put a finished piece on the mantel at midnight before sleep.

So I'm still looking for my favourite wood.

[Tom Sherman]

I llike em all so far except for Wengi, just not for me.

[Nicholas Briggs]

Desert Ironwood. Hands down.

[TYLER WOOD]

Cottonwood burl, elm burl, walnut, and mesquite.

[Curt Fuller]

Two woods that I've found can be turned with little or no sanding are apple and koa. But both are hard to come by.

[Jerry Pittman]

Whatever 'jumps' onto my lathe. I haven't a lot of different woods yet but so far maple, esp. figured, and Oak rate high on the list.
Jerry

[Jim Shaver, Oakville Ont]

Cherry,

It's clean on a sharp tool and I love the way it works......cherry any day, or maple, or walnut or .....:D

[Roger Bell]

For ease of turning, just about any fruitwood (apple, plum, cherry, pear). For looks, walnut, koa, pacific yew, african blackwood, lignum vitae, teak, osage orange, cocobolo, figured maple. For smell, Alaska yellow cedar, myrtlewood.

[Dick Strauss]

Green Apple!

[Neal Addy]

In order, my three favorites would be Blackwood, Texas Ebony, and Messkeet.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Maple, cherry and oak

[Reed Gray]

Pacific Madrone. I turn green and to final thickness, then let it dry and warp. Nothing warps like Madrone. Add the pink and purple hues, and smooth even grain. SIGH!!!!!! As a matter of fact, I just picked one up this evening, base about 30 inches but hollow, with some rot, but lots of solid wood. Know what I am doing for the rest of the next week.
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