White Walnut (butternut)

littlejohnnc · Post by **littlejohnnc** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:48 pm

I came across some of this in the planning mill at work culled from a black walnut run...what the best use of this wood ? I know JPG would say just send it to me...

Seems very soft...

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littlejohnnc · Post by **littlejohnnc** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:46 pm

Thanks Dave
I was thinking of making boxes out of it maybe a chest ,sure looks good planned down but it soft.

nuhobby · Post by **nuhobby** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:35 pm

I've used some -- it is soft, but very attractive:
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mountainbreeze · Post by **mountainbreeze** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:59 pm

I've heard that Butternut is used a lot in carving.

JPG · Post by **JPG** » Wed Jul 04, 2012 11:54 pm

littlejohnnc wrote:I came across some of this in the planning mill at work culled from a black walnut run...what the best use of this wood ? I know JPG would say just send it to me...
Seems very soft...

You got me confused with Dusty. Them be his words!:D

I would think that however!:rolleyes:

Ed in Tampa · Post by **Ed in Tampa** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 12:41 pm

Are you talking about the Walnut sap wood or actual Butternut?

If you found it after a planning run of walnut my guess it would be sap wood.

The tissue box nuhobby showed us looks like a lot like pecan that I often come across.

I have never used butternut in my shop, but when I was a kid I remember us kids in the scouts sought out butternut for a purpose. I thought it had something to do with bows and arrows or maybe canoe paddles. If I remember correctly the project was in the scout manual, any one remember it?

littlejohnnc · Post by **littlejohnnc** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 6:19 pm

Actual Butternut some of the grader call it white walnut...it not sap wood ...it dark heart wood......The graders say if it very light ...this is a dead give away Black walnut is heavy .

garys · Post by **garys** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 4:34 pm

Butternut is very desirable as a carving wood. If you don't carve, you can use butternut as a replacement for black walnut on any project. It is softer and lighter in weight than black walnut, but still a suitable wood for furniture. Once stained with a black walnut stain, it is almost indistinguishable from black walnut.

Some furniture sold commercially as French walnut is butternut with a black walnut stain. Usually, French walnut furniture will be the European walnut J. regia which is a whiter wood similar to butternut, J. cinerea of North America. The Asian walnuts J. ailantifolia and J. mandshurica are similar whiter walnuts.

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