Choose the best Tersa knives for your wood type

Choose the best Tersa knives for your wood type

Recommended Tersa knives based on wood variety

Afrormosia: Carbide 
American Walnut: M+
Ash: Carbide: M+
Australian Pine: M+/ Carbide
Ayous: M+/ Carbide
Beech: M+/ Carbide 
Birch: M+
Brazilian Rosewood: Carbide
Cedar: HSS
Cherry: M+
Chestnut: M+/ Carbide
Cypress: HSS
Douglas: HSS
Ebony: Carbide
Elm: M+
Fir: HSS/ Chrome
Iroko:Carbide
Larch: HSS
Limba:M=/Carbide
Lime:M+
Mahagony: Carbide
Maple: M+
Meranti: M=/Carbide
Nyatoh: Carbide 
Oak: Carbide
Pine: HSS
Plane Tree: M+
Poplar: M+
Rosewood: M+/ Carbide
Scots Pine: M+/Carbide
Sequoia: HSS
Teak: Carbide
Walnut: M+
White Beech: M+
Willow: M+

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