Butternut Wood
It is beautiful lumber and getting harder to find every year.
Butternut wood. Butternut is difficult to find in widths much over 8 and we typically have boards up to 24 wide and have had material as wide as 30. General Finishes Exterior 450 Water Based Wood Stain 1 Quart Butternut. Butternut glues stains and finishes well.
See the articles Wood Allergies and Toxicity and Wood Dust Safety for more. Butternut wood is very stable with little tendency to warp or crack in use. It is a golden brown member of the walnut family with a cathedral grain pattern that looks like waves breaking on a beach.
The sapwood is narrow and a light-gray or light-brown color. Two important past uses of the wood have been for church altars and for wood carvers especially for duck decoys. Stained brown butternut is a dead ringer for black walnut.
Wood Vendors supplies only the finest Butternut Lumber from Wisconsin and Iowa. Although butternut is a hardwood it is relatively soft making butternut wood a favorite with carvers. Butternut Carving Stock I have a great selection of Butternut carving wood.
Butternut wood is lighter in weight and not as strong or durable as Black Walnut. Butternut Lumber for Sale. Butternut lumber is the latest addition to the small group of woods we inventory.
At one time it was considered the poor mans walnut butternut is. Butternut wood dries slowly with little degradation. Shaker cabinetmakers colored it with washes of blue green red and yellow.