I have found the plans I want to use for my first carriage and was wondering what type of wood you guys would recomend to use. I know I need to use a hardwood but there's a lot to choose from, was looking for input from the experts
Prospector86,
There's one major drawback to
speed reading, and that is not "getting" the actual content of a statement, or question because of haste. For some reason I thought you were asking what was the historically correct wood that was used in making the original carriages, and latter reproduction carriages. If your making a scale model carriage, and are asking what types of woods could possibly be utelized, then there is a large selection of woods that you can choose from. Just off the top of my head here are some of the woods that I've seen used on model carriages: Teak, maple, ebony, black walnut, rosewood, mahogany, elm, ash, red oak, bubinga, purpleheart wood, cocobolo, cherry, etc., etc. Double D mentioned a member that used (IIRC) bloodwood to make the bed for his Confederate coehorn mortar, and one of our sponsors (Lendi) has made a couple of carriages for another member (El Cazador) out of exotic woods that I can't remember the names of right now, while yet another member (Richard "The Usually Mad at Me" - Hi
Rich) is planning on making his next carriage out of rock maple. So as I said, you've got a lot of options open to you.