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Walnut Wood for Sale

Walnut is a highly regarded hardwood known for its rich chocolate-brown color, fine grain, and excellent workability. It machines and finishes beautifully, making it a popular choice for fine furniture, cabinetry, gunstocks, and high-end woodworking projects where a classic, elegant appearance is desired.

Walnut (Juglans nigra)

Pricing

Moderately Expensive

Hardness

1010

Janka

Distribution

Eastern North America

Availability

Readily Available

Appearance

Black Walnut’s heartwood ranges from pale brown to a dark chocolate brown. It is also known for having a red, purple, or grey cast and the sapwood ranges from pale yellow to almost white. It can present grain patterns like curl, crotch, and burl.

Workability

This wood is a joy to use and has a pleasant, faint odour when worked. It responds well to hand and power tools and presents no issues with gluing or finishing.

Uses

Furniture, cabinetry, gunstocks, interior paneling, veneer, turned items, and other small wooden objects.

Additional Comments

Black Walnut is a fan favourite of furniture makers in North America. Once you’ve worked Walnut you will quickly plan for the next time you will use it. The rich brown colour is unmistakable and pieces that live near sunlight lighten to a dark honey colour. The wood also has good dimensional stability, shock resistance, and strength properties making it an easy choice for most woodworkers.

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Why Choose Walnut Lumber?

Walnut is the gold standard of American hardwoods and has been for a long time. It has a rich, chocolate brown color with a straight grain that gives it a natural elegance most woods can't match without stain or finish. It's strong, stable, and easy to work with, and it machines, carves, and finishes beautifully. That's why Walnut has been the top choice for high end furniture, dining tables, cabinetry, and flooring for generations. It's also the wood of choice for gun stocks because of how well it absorbs recoil and how comfortable it feels in the hand. Walnut develops a deeper, richer patina over time that makes anything you build with it feel like an heirloom. There's a reason it has never gone out of style.

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