I have questions. All rights reserved. It makes the most wonderful tool handles both straight and curved.
White ash is used extensively in the manufacture of sporting goods.
Ash has broad grain patterns. Its strong, easy to bend and easy to work, but tends to split. From canoes to cabinets, wigwams to toothpicks, birch has always had many uses. Native Americans and early settlers, both used its paper thin waterproof bark for house construction, roofing, boat, shoes, writing paper and kindling. Yellow birch wood was and still is used for sturdy furniture, cabinetry, flooring, paneling and interior finishing.