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Elms actually pretty soft. Black cherry which I have a lot of my my playground is a bit harder and I find it fairly soft. I'm talking seasoned wood not green wood.
Elm is around 760 on the hardness tests black cherry is around 950 hickory is around 1820
Generally you can feather stick any wood but the hardness really slows the process down and more practice is needed.
Hardwood won't roll and curl as easy as soft wood either so it can be extremely difficult to get fancy looking feather sticks.
Thanks! When I first saw your feather sticks I said "When I grow up I want to be like Switchblade62"Nice job there, Mountainmist!