I'm from Ohio and I wondered why I have never heard of any one using Buckeye wood in any project. George Washington loved the tree because of the flowers. Of course there are the Ohio State Buckeyes. After a bit of research I quickly found out that the way Michigan Wolverines describes a buckeye is true. "a poisonous nut on a worthless tree"   

Seems everyone prefers to use the acorn tree.

 

Buckeye trees are a lightweight wood.

Neighbor, 4 houses down, has a huge one in the front yard.

 When I was a kid, we would collect the buckeyes and make things out of them, never knew they poisonous. Then when I saw my first Chestnut (as in Mel's Chestnuts roasting over an open fire) I wondered why we didn't eat them.

27 minutes ago, lew said:

Neighbor, 4 houses down, has a huge one in the front yard.

Have chainsaws will travel???

Yesterday, in a Peter Engler design studio in Branson, we saw a live edge buck eye burl slab made into a table. It was sorta arc shaped, about 40" long and, in places, maybe 20" wide. Rather light in color...like red oak...with real dark inclusions. Very striking. Steel hair pin legs. $1800! 

Gene, you didn't take a picture for us!!!!

2 hours ago, Ron Altier said:

Gene, you didn't take a picture for us!!!!

That means the table doesn't exist! Just a figment of Gene's imagination.

John

Edited July 2, 20187 yr by HARO50

9 minutes ago, HARO50 said:

That means the table doesn't exist! Just a figment of Gene's imagination.

John

Right no pic it didn't happen

 

They didn't allow photos. 

11 hours ago, Gene Howe said:

They didn't allow photos. 

John

On 7/2/2018 at 10:22 PM, Gene Howe said:

They didn't allow photos. 

That is when you pretend to enter a text