My experience is with hickory, but as someone else said, they are pretty
much the same. It is very very different than walnut.

It is very hard and brittle; it tears out badly when routing and is tough to
cut.

For the right application it is a pretty wood; but I wouldn't use it
anywhere that required a lot of work. Making a frame out of it would be a
real exercise; probably a poor choice even when free.