Scrap red maple

[Ross5403]

Anyone know the best place to get some red maple scraps to practice my carving?

 

[LongWalker]

You might check with a local cabinetmaker; red maple is used for some cabinets and as a secondary wood. Most shops will have some on hand, and if it is like any shop I've ever worked in, someone there has a box of scraps. They will probably know it as "soft maple" (vs the "hard maple" we know as sugar maple). They might have "paint grade soft maple": think of that as "#2 soft maple".

If the shop doesn't have any, they can probably point you to a local source. Around here we usually dealt with Paxton Lumber.