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The Tree The Black Walnut tree is one of the best known and most valuable of all forest trees native to the United States. It is of value not only because of its beautiful and highly prized wood but for its delicious nuts used in foods such as candy, bread, cakes, and ice cream. It is strictly an American tree, growing naturally nowhere else. It has been proposed frequently as our national tree and has been known for generations as the “tree of the gods and kings.” In 1945 a Black Walnut tree in Kentucky was sold alive for $1,500 and was cut up into veneers worth $35,000. The stumps of some large trees have been sold at fabulous prices for use as veneers. Black Walnut is usually a well-shaped tree of moderately rapid growth for a hardwood, and attains large size. It is not uncommon to find walnut trees 100 feet tall and three feet in diameter. The tree requires deep, rich, moist, but well drained soils. The bark is dark and rather deeply grooved. The leaves are one to two feet long, and have 15 to 23 narrow, sharply-toothed, slender-pointed leaflets. The nuts, which are one and one-eighth to one and one-half inches in diameter, have a very hard deeply grooved shell encased in a ball-like hull, from one and one-half to two inches in diameter, consisting of a black, thick pulp having a mottled, light green covering. The nuts within the pulp must be removed with care as the pulp stains everything it touches and is difficult to remove before it is thoroughly dried. A yellow dye is made from the bark, and husks of the nuts. Black Walnut Foliage and Nuts Black Walnut Tree Bark Common Names in Use Black Walnut (N.H., Vt., Mass. R.I., Conn., N.Y., N.J., Del., Pa., Va., W.Va., N.C., Tenn., Ga., Fla., Ala., Miss., Tex., La., Ark., Ky., Mo., Ind., Ill., Kans., Nebr., Iowa, Mich., Ohio, S.Dak., Minn., Ontario) American Black Walnut (trade) American Walnut (trade) Dent-soo-kwa-no-ne "Round Nut" (N.Y. Indians) Gun-Wood (trade) Walnut (N.Y., Del., W.Va., Fla., Ky., Tenn., Mo., Ohio, Ind., Iowa) Walnut-tree (Pa., S.C.) Growth Range The natural growth range of Black Walnut extends from Massachusetts to southern Ontario and central Nebraska southward throughout the eastern half of the United States, excepting the Atlantic coastal plain south of Virginia, the Gulf coast region, and the lower Mississippi Valley. It attains its best growth in the central portion of this range in deep, rich, moist and well-drained soils. The Wood The Black Walnut heartwood varies somewhat from light to dark chocolate brown with frequent alternate light and almost black stripes which produce very beautiful figured effects. The narrow sapwood is nearly white with a narrow shading into the darker heartwood and gradually turns darker upon exposure. This wood is hard, strong, works well with tools and is one of the most desirable and useful of all American woods. The darker the wood the more valuable it is, and for this reason it is a quite frequent practice to stain or steam the sapwood to match the heartwood. Also, the stain is sometimes forced through the entire board to produce the more valuable deep dark brown color. The crotches, burls and stumps produce exceptional figured and mottled designs and are very valuable for high quality veneers. The knots, crooks, irregular growth and curly or wavy grain, especially near the knots, produce handsome figures. In the burls of old mature trees the bird’s-eye effect on a glossy jet black to lighter shades of brown is frequently found. The wood finishes to a pleasing velvety sheen, glues satisfactorily, and polishes exceptionally well with all types of paint, stain, wax or other finishingmaterials. It holds its shape, and after being seasoned, shrinks or swells very little. Black Walnut Curly and Fiddle Back Figure Uses Black Walnut is superior to all other woods for gun stocks because it keeps its shape, is comparatively light in weight, and absorbs recoil the best of all woods. The most important use of the lumber and of the beautiful figured veneers is in furniture, radio and television cabinets, sewing machines, wooden novelties and general mill-work. It is an especially desirable wood to work with all kinds of tools, and is a favorite wood in all Home Work Shops and Manual Training Schools. Walnut wood is so valuable that it is mainly cut into veneers. It is No.1 on the wood list of every woodworking shop. Bibliography Shelley E. Schoonover (American Woods) 1951 (Watling & Co. ) Santa Monica, CA- 5 comments
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From the album: Black Walnut
The National Champion Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) on Sauvie Island, Oregon.© CC BY-SA 4.0
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The linen closet and the bathroom projects have both stalled over supplies and I had a request for some instruction on turning from two people so time for some turning. We will start with some spindle turning ( they will be making handles for their new lathe chisels) and then a segmented bowl. I’m making the bowl blank in advance. I will talk them through the process of making the blank. A big part of the class is learning the sharpening process. Paul
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My neighbor asked me to help him make a black walnut step in front of his electric fireplace. I drove over to Austin Hardwoods and they had a beautiful unit of extra wide 4/4 black walnut in the rough. It was very nice stuff and we found several pieces that were 15 1/2” wide by 12 ft long that were perfectly clear. We milled it yesterday and he put the first coat of finish on. Hopefully install it today. Paul
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Every year we have a neighborhood get together where we walk from house to house where there is food and games to play. The food is good and the games are sometimes hotly contested. The corn hole game is the one that everyone gets excited about, although last year the target shoot with a nerf ball gun got everyone going. The walk ends up in our cul de sac where we usually have a food truck, this year a taco truck, and the final round of the corn hole game where this years champion will be decided. For the last several years I have donated a turning as the prize. Did the glue up yesterday and will start turning it today. The base is canary wood and the top is black walnut. Paul
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I received some new engraving bits so I decided to try them out on a gift for one of my boat neighbors. A simple set of monogrammed coasters. Paul
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While waiting for the drywall to dry I turned another handle for a bottle opener/ tab top opener. I thought they would merely be kind of a novelty item but everyone I give one loves it. This one is black walnut and bubinga. I used the ceramic finish again. I have figured out how to get high gloss with one coat. Paul
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I have been asked by the neighbors to turn a bowl as a prize for this weekends Super Bowl party. Any good reason to turn another bowl right ? Plus I have yet another excuse not to paint the laundry room. Did I mention how much I hate painting ? It’s very nice of them to invite us seeing that the wife and I don’t have a clue who is even playing. Paul
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While making the holiday gift deliveries I discovered everyone had one except my next door neighbor. It was easily remedied this morning. Besides it let me procrastinate one more day on demoing the laundry room I used an end cut off a piece of 8/4 black walnut. Paul
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My middle size mallet has been looking pretty sad so it was time to use up some scraps and make a new one. The top is two cutoffs of black walnut and the handle is made of white oak I rescued from the stack of firewood. Paul
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Finished up the Christmas goodies today. I made some lidded bowls and mounted ceramic ducks on the lids. I've had these ducks for years and this year decided to use them. The lids are brass made from some salvaged door kick plates. I used my metal lathe to turn the brass sheet into round discs after roughing them out at the band saw in the metal shop. The lids are roughly 5 1/2". The lathe is a 6" max so rough cut had to be under the 6" limit. I had nine ducks ergo there are nine bowls. Black Walnut and Cherry are the wood species.
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The black walnut came from city hall here . They took down 3 and woodturners got 2. This is the crotch and there is still the other half to do. I was pleased with the flame showing on both inside and outside. This cherry bowl was a practice piece for the demo I did in March. It had a knot which was rotten but did not show till well into turning. Fortunately it was not a thru knot. I used epoxy colored with two micro powders which I think were blue and silver. Had noticed rim treatments . The center is cross hatched with Sorby Spiral Master and colored with Baroque Gilders Paste. Used woodburning pen to stipple the inside and outside of the rim design. For some reason this one looks better in person.
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Today we finished the concept of the media room. This is going to be a long one. I am expecting this to take me at least 2-3 months. The whole room including a major portion of the ceiling will be in black walnut. This is one of my favorite woods to work with so it’s going to be fun along with more than a few challenges. It includes making and hanging three doors, one of which she wants inlayed. The cabinet doors will be a combination of black walnut and Birdseye Maple. I am starting with the cabinet that houses the TV and going from there. Paul
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After making the chicken bowls I wanted to add an accent ring to a bowl and not waste my little supply of black walnut so I figured I'd just use my miter gauge to cut some segments and use that to make a circle. However they didnt' fit very well so I glued up 4 segments and hand sanding to get them flat then glued them into a circle... not ideal. Bowl parts ready for glue up. Glue up of the parts... on the right is the first chicken bowl. Not happy with that it's just wrong. The finished bowl... getting a bit better but not there yet. Woody III doing a cat scan of the bowl Did a bit more finish work with sand paper Finished Not happy with the segments... a bit of research and I built a segment jig... JT
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From the album: Walnut Rocking Chair
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So last weekend we worked on the boat and spent time with our grandsons. I delivered the top made last week to one and returned the toy F1 car to the other. Silly me. There is no reasoning with three year olds. I didn’t get the manual that says definitely don’t give one grandson a top and not the other ! What a circus. So we are returning this weekend to continue working on the boat and deliver another top. Walnut and maple again. I gave this one a brass tip to make it a little different. I will turn the launcher tomorrow and quell the uprising this weekend. Paul
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From the album: Walnut Rocking Chair
The joints in these chair is known as the "money shot". They are really pleasing to the eye, but in the manufacturing process of the leg to seat joints, the process can go from great to disaster in milliseconds, and the project could be ruined. I am happy when the seat joint operations are completed! In this image, the first coat of finish is not applied yet, the sheen you see is purely from sanding through the grits, up to a 1000 abralon pad.- 6 comments
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I want to thank @lew and @Gerald for their contributions to our "Black Walnut" wiki page. I put out the call in our Monday topic this past week for Black Walnut project images to be used in our wiki, and Lew and Gerald came to the rescue, thanks so much guys! Have a look at our updated page with some great walnut projects now in the page, thanks to these two gents. Wiki | Black Walnut THEPATRIOTWOODWIKI.ORG Wiki
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How does black walnut change its color. some of the wood will be back walnut as we know it dark, and then some of it is as white as pine? Preston
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From the album: Walnut Rocking Chair
The seat is really fun to shape in these rockers, you get to make a ton of sawdust!- 3 comments
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