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  1. 17th June 2006, 07:16 PM #1
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    Default What colour should fresh walnut be

    My wife's rellies asked me to come to their place and cut a couple of trees down. When I got there, I was pleasantly surprised to find one was a European oak and the other was a European walnut. Both were too small to be worth milling - but they will be useful for something. The strange thing was, after I had flattened the walnut I found the timber had good character but was almost white in colour - about the colour of pine. I was expecting something nice and brown, or perhaps even purplish. I have no doubt the tree was definitely a walnut as there were still a few leaves on it. So my question is - what colour should freshly cut walnut be? Will it go brown later, or is this how it grows in the Sydney area ?

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    How big was the tree Arron?

    The sapwood on Walnut is basically white, the heartwood is the expected brown. If the tree was young and fast growing it may not have formed heartwood yet.

    This is what the local walnut (chinese walnut) look like inside.


    You can see the difference between the heart and sapwood there

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    The strange thing was, after I had flattened the walnut I found the timber had good character but was almost white in colour

    i am led to beleive walnut doesnt produce much, if any heart(dead)wood
    until around 25 +years of age
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    I'm sure you guys are right - I think the tree was only about 10 years old or less. So is the sapwood useful for anything - other then firewood?

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    Well it's wood... I'm sure you can use it for something.

    No reason you cant cut some turning blanks or bandsaw it into a couple of boards if you want.

    Dont expect too much stability or durability from a small log though.

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    I've turned some walnut, colour v. similar to Ian's pic.

    But v. diff from what has been flogged as 'walnut' stained furniture.

    Good turning timber in my view apart from the rather boring colour; reasonably stable and fine-grained.
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