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Aspen is cut such an effort, elastic, even tight, but the surface is good in all directions, perfectly ground and polished. If you use the crafts part of the trunk with a branch knot, you can get for finishing later in this place a texture reminiscent of something even Karelian birch. Cherry, which has a dense, heavy and sticky wood, well-cut in all directions. The texture of the wood of the tree grown amazingly beautiful. The wood of young shoots are often quite white, and for many years of cherries (longitudinal, oblique and transverse sections) is characterized by the alternation of large dark purple and brown, and light bands. In places strips of cherry is sometimes found overgrown layers of the cortex, and other anomalies. In the decorative against it often gives a prize, but in places overgrown with bark can develop cracks, delamination, spalling, which will require gluing and putty. However, such correction does not represent the complexity of the dark places, and justified the elegant texture of cherries. For decorative cherry wood, perhaps, superior whorl of pine and juniper. From it, particularly using oblique sections of young stems, branches, miniature crafts to do well in the form of trinkets, brooches, bracelets, that is, crafts with a smooth polished surface. For the relief carving of cherry striped texture is not well suited, in this it is similar to larch and pine. The smooth surface of the cherries well with carved details, made of self-colored wood - birch, aspen, linden. Of course, it is better to cut out articles from the dry wood, or they may crack later. Consequently, the timber must first drain. But perhaps the beginner carver agree to wait a few years, because it only lasts for natural drying pieces of wood (oak, for example, dries up to 7 - 8 years). That means we need to get parsed timber houses, dead in the woods, old furniture, dry wood, etc. But the cutting of the raw wood is also tempting, as the choice of material is significantly expanded, and cut out of it easier. On the possibility of production of articles made from raw wood will be discussed below.