Black Walnut (Juglans nigra)

Description

Generally regarded as North America's premier cabinet wood, walnut is a semi-porous wood that is famous for its rich brown colour. Although kiln-dried walnut has a pleasant uniform brown colour, the real personality of walnut is evident in air dried stock. When air-dried, walnut wood is alive with subtle under tones of greens, blues and purples. Additionally, the sapwood in air dried walnut maintains its creamy white colour and is clearly demarcated from its hardwood. The sapwood of is usually considerable, making the yield of pure heart wood much lower than might be expected. Like cherry, the sapwood is often trimmed from planks or blanks prior to use, but careful inclusion of sapwood into a project can give it considerable character.

Walnut works and finishes well, and looks good just as good with an 'in the wood' as it does under a film finish.


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