Butternut
Butternut: hardness, how it works, how much it moves, what it costs and what it is used for.
- Botanical name
- Juglans cinerea
- Type
- hardwood
- Region
- North America
- Janka hardness (lbf)Side hardness as published by The Wood Database
- 490 lbf
- Colour
- light brown
- Workability
- easy
- MovementHow much it shrinks and swells with humidity
- moderate
- Price band
- mid
- Typical uses
- Carving, furniture, panels
- Working notes
- Looks like a pale walnut and carves very easily; soft.
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