I'd love something like Orange PZ Grade A...

I have seen one stamp carved on orange PZ. It felt wonderful in my hands. How does it carve?

Carving Material Review: PZ Kut White and Orange :
http://bumblingacrossletterboxes.blogspot.ca/2017/08/carving-material-review-pz-kut-white.html

This almost brought me to tears. It's just sad that there are carvers out there who will never know what it was like to carve orange PZ Kut.

That review had this to say about orange PZ Kut: "Meh." To be honest, there were those who felt that way about the stuff when it was readily available. But it must be admitted that it was dramatically different stuff to carve, even from white PZ Kut. It's an entirely different experience. And once you become accustomed to how to work with it -- including the fact that it must be treated with an acetone scrub before transfer, which apparently was not done here -- it eventually becomes apparent that it's far and away the best stuff for knife carving that ever existed. For gouge carving, not so much, although there were those who loved carving it with a gouge.

Oh, and BTW: Fish probably didn't cut it with a hacksaw. It often came with that ragged edge as delivered. I dunno what that was, but it was common to have to slice the edges off before carving.

I'm an X-Acto carver and it's the best material I have ever used. And I miss it terribly :(

Very good article. I feel almost exactly the same way except for me I preferred the orange.
I don't like any of the other Z materials and only use pink now.

Lynn

I have some scraps of it that I will carve some mini stamps but pray that someday, something like the Orange comes along...

pray that someday, something like the Orange comes along...

It belongs in a museum.