Butternut for carving?

Butternut is Walnut's albino brother...Beautiful wood, works decient with powertools from my experience, but way too hard and way too heavy to mess with for decoys...If you got some, it would make great keels!

Chuck
 
I have heard that some folks carve decoys from Butternut. What are the characteristics and is it advised?
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I'd stick with the more typical pumpkin to carve, much more traditional.
 
I think it's mainly for decoratives that will just be given a clearcoat finish to bring out the grain. Better yet if the worms had gotten to the tree before it was felled and cut up.
 
On a little side note, for all of you boat builders out there, Butternut makes excellent boat framing. An old buddy, from back in high school, is a nationally ranked Hydroplane racer and builds all of his own boats. They use Butternut for a lot of the boat building because of it's strength vs weight.

Just throwin' that out there...

I have played with some a time or two. Finishes quite pretty, just aweful hard for basic carving use.

Jon
 
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