what can be done with buttonwood tree

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Hi thankyou for the welcome.I heat W/wood am starting to do woodworking, also metal working. Today I draged home a buttonwood,planes, or sycamore tree. Idon’t know why it has three names? I don’t know if it is a soft or hard wood or if it can be used for any thing special or is it just wood. Someday I hop to build a sawmill & saw several logs.

-- Harold, Finger Lakes, NY

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Barbara Gill home \| projects \| blog 153 posts in 832 days #1 posted 819 days ago	Sycamore is a hardwood. It has a very distinctive ray fleck pattern when quarter/riff sawn which makes it highly desirable for flat projects. I really like it for plates but not so much for bowls but that is purely taste. -- Barbara
Bill White home \| projects \| blog 2608 posts in 2132 days #2 posted 819 days ago	Turn a bunch of buttons? Sorry. Just couldn’t help myself. Bill -- bill@magraphics.us

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