Pyrograhy Wood

[Travis]

What kinds of woods are typically used for pyrography?

[BuLLdoGG]

the best wood to pyrograph is sycamore

[blame]

when i use to do it i used mainly Basswood along with Pine and White Oak. found that the latter two where difficult to burn due to the difference in the hardness of the growth rings.

[Vector01]

I've used pine, basswood and poplar. Pine has a tendency to "sweat" sap which can make it diffulcult to get an even shade. I like the basswood and poplar.

[Christina]

I think that it is a personal choice. Personally I love using pine..........specifically because of the sap. You never know what you are going to get when you start and I love that! It's the same reason I use regular carbon paper to transfer my designs to the wood..............you get little flares, as you are burning, which can give some really great effects.

I've used all kinds of wood for pyrography.......but pine remains my favorite.

Christina

[ugsduck]

I use sycamore and birch plwood - mainly because blanks are easily obtainable here in the UK.

 

I would not use Pine because the sap gives off toxic fumes when burnt. Please look around the woodburning/pyrography sites for the warnings.

[Christina]

Thanks Ugsduck..........I'm aware of the toxic fumes.......but I work in a well ventilated area and I wear a mask whenever woodburning......I have asthma so have to be really careful anyway. But it's a good point to bring up in case someone else doesn't know!

 

A lot of the woods we work with in scrolling are toxic.........fumes and sawdust both. So it's always prudent to wear respiratory protection!

Christina

[scrolldad]

CHRISTINA' i have used lauan and white ash 1/4" panels made a saw from lauan and walnut turned out beautiful, i work with LOWES been with them about 18 years if you go to the managers of that dept. usually they will cut the price on damaged panels. i personally have used their 1" soild pine panels, made 2 huge coffee tables i have a picture of the 1 i made of wolves running in the wind if i can find it i WILL post it i love to wood burn and use my scroll saw in the same picture or project that i do. i have posted a deer in a wild rose in the new patten it is made of lanan and walnut. to get rid of saw marks i didnt sand i used my wood burner to make my deer come to life, the lauan burnt and then walnut background just set it off enjoy scrolldad wise va

[Dave M]

I use Basswood, pine and poplar. I like the look of the pine with the sap because it gives a bit of a glow to the burn. I am doing a lot of the boxes lately and I'm not always sure what they make them with. Some are marked but most aren't.

[Helenm2807]

I use anything that I can get a really smooth surface on. I normally use birch ply (because I can get free offcuts from work ) for pictures, poems etc but did the clock (in the clock competion) in spalted pine which was interesting.

I did a really lovely picture of a diving otter on a piece of spalted elm once, but discovered when I'd finished it (having spent hours on it) that you couldn't see it from more than a foot away

This one was on spalted poplar.

 

H.

[cjswoodcrafts]

when i first began wood burning, i was using sandeply wood, easy to work with, then i started using pine, as of now i use pine for all my wood burnings and relief carvings, and scroll sawing, unless customer wants a different type of wood, to see my work, go to www.cjswoodcrafts.com.