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   YesMaam27577 | Dec 07, 2003 03:46am | #1

   http://www.wdfinder.com/

   That site will help you find suppliers that have buckeye. And most of them will have an email address, so you could ask about veneer.

   By the way, I didn't think that buckeye was part of the maple family. I though it was closer to the chestnut. When I lived in Ohio, most folks called them "Horse Chestnut" trees.

   Vast projects should not be founded on half vast ideas.
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   jonsherryl | Dec 07, 2003 06:00pm | #2

   For what it's worth:

   Buckeye belongs to the horsechestnut family; Hippocastanaceae. This family is not closely related to either the maples or the true chestnuts...But in the grander scheme of things, it is a bit more closely related to the maples, in that both the horsechestnut family and the maple family (Aceraceae) belong to the same botanical Order; Sapindales...while the true chestnuts (genus = Castanea) belong to the beech family; Fagaceae, along with the oaks, in the Order Fagales.

   The fossil record (pollen deposits) suggest that the maples first appeared in the mid Oligocene, about 30 million years ago, while the horsechestnuts show up later in the Miocene, about 15 million years ago. The true chestnuts and other members of the beech family seem to be much older. Pollen believed to belong to the chestnut side of this family has been found in deposits dating from the Campanian, upwards of 70 million years ago.

   Edited 12/7/2003 10:09:43 PM ET by Jon Arno

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   chri7s | Dec 08, 2003 11:52pm | #3

   Thanks for the tip.  I'll ask some of the suppliers directly.