What Is Butternut Lumber?

Walnut is one of the better woods, mainly produced in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. The domestic walnut is lighter in color. The black walnut is light dark brown with purple, and the string section has a beautiful large parabolic pattern. ^[1]

Mainly distributed in North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, Oceania and other places. ^[1]

Furniture, cabinetry, building interiors, high-quality joinery products, doors,

Walnut is easy to machine with hand and machine tools. Suitable for nailing, auger and gluing. Can retain paint and stain for a long time and can be sanded into

Special final effect. Drying is slow and care needs to be taken to avoid reduced losses after drying in the kiln. Walnut has good dimensional stability, is not easily deformed, and is an excellent material for furniture. ^[2]

1. Wood properties: Walnut wood has luster, texture until slightly staggered; fine structure; soft to medium; strength; dry shrinkage; easy to spin and plan; paint, glue, nail, dyeing and other properties are good. Slightly wear-resistant, dry quickly, and good quality. The density is 640KG / m3.

2. Structure: The structure of the wood itself is more detailed. In this way, the price is relatively fine to the touch. The more detailed wood is like the skin of a baby, while some relatively thick wood is like the skin of an elderly person. It is relatively rough to the touch, so it feels like Not very comfortable. Therefore the walnut furniture itself is very detailed, and many people like it very much after encountering it.

3. Strength: Walnut wood is strong, that is, the wood is relatively hard. This kind of wood is very malleable to the merchant, so some furniture and some doors may choose this kind of wood, so It has a variety of products on the market, and has very good performance during use, and this property can also increase the service life.

4. Wood color: Walnut sapwood is milky white, heartwood ranges from light brown to dark chocolate, with occasional purple and darker stripes. Can be supplied with sapwood deepened after steam treatment or without steam treatment.

1.Wood grain

The walnut tree is usually straight, sometimes with wavy or curly tree patterns, forming a pleasing decorative pattern. The walnut furniture produced has a very beautiful appearance and texture. The real walnut pattern is more natural, the fake walnut pattern feels the same, no difference

2.Weight

Real walnuts are heavier than fake ones at the same size due to their higher density. Real walnuts appear similar to gold wire under the reflection of sunlight. Fake ones are not.

3.Wood heart color

The heartwood of walnut is usually light yellow-brown to brown. But its color and streaks usually vary with the place of origin. Southeast Asian, domestic walnut, lighter in color. In general, the walnuts we choose to make furniture are all light-colored walnuts.

4.Sapwood color

Walnut sapwood is milky white, heartwood ranges from light brown to dark chocolate, with occasional purple and darker stripes. The color transition of the real walnut pattern is relatively smooth, and the fake color is too fast, which can clearly distinguish between black and brown.