Solid wood furniture made with walnut wood is meant to impress and it never falls short of the mark. In the world of custom furniture, walnut wood is a dream as it is easy to work with and finishes beautifully.
Want to know more about walnut wood? Let’s take a look at what makes it a luxury.
Walnut wood is revered for its rich, dark color. There are many varieties of walnut trees, but just a few are native to North America. It’s the Eastern Black Walnut (also called the American Black Walnut or American Walnut) that is most often used for woodworking. Beautiful walnut trees found in the midwest hail from Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana. Walnut trees can grow to be 100 feet tall or more with a diameter of 30 to 40 inches, which provides a consistent grain that makes it wonderful to work with.
Walnut wood is exceptional for carving.
The colors found in walnut wood vary depending on what part of the tree the wood is from. The sapwood of the tree is the outermost part of the tree. In a walnut tree, the sapwood colors include pale yellow and gray to almost a rich white. The heartwood of the tree is the innermost part of the tree. In a walnut tree, the heartwood gets down to the nitty gritty with rich colors that include a range of dark browns and light browns with some purplish hues, grays, reddish rays, and dark streaks included.
Walnut wood features a fine, straight grain that’s a bit coarse in texture and occasionally features knots or some irregularities possibly including some waves or curls. A “crotch grain” can happen naturally where the tree forks (divides into two branches) causing the wood fibers to wrinkle. Every year a new annual ring tries to fit in the space left and the wrinkles continue to form where the wood is being compressed. A burl is caused by growths on the tree that resemble warts, if you will. Burls are caused by abnormal division of growth cells, providing a way for the tree to grow new limbs if it needs to. A burl in the grain of walnut wood looks like a tight swirly pattern. Walnut is unique with a grain pattern that’s in between prominent oak and the uniform texture of maple.
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