Uses for Russian olive wood?

It's always good to trial an idea!   I've never come across russian olive, but we have plenty of the kind that produce pickling olives, and a friend has been making turned tapestry bobbins from their heavier prunings.
So perhaps start with small projects and see how the timber behaves.
By the way, my first taste of an olive of this type straight off the tree puckered my digestive tract all the way through!!!  Talk about bitter.  I'd love to know who came up with the grand performance needed to make them edible.

Mike,

If you can find a piece of Autumn Olive that is of proper diameter, length, and is basically straight, once it dries out, it might make an acceptable walking cane.  

But a word of warning—the end that makes contact with the ground should be capped and protected by something—preferably a shielding of metal.  Autumn Olive simply won’t stand up to repeated stabbing and grinding into the earth.

I have never actually tried using Autumn Olive for a walking stick, but the next time I find a stick of suitable dimension, I will see what I can do.


Eric