On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:57:48 -0600, "Swingman" wrote:


"Leon" wrote in message

There's maybe 100 bf of this in my wood rack now, air dried, with
excellent
figure. It's waiting until I get good enough to be worthy of the
challenge.

Yeah, Claro Walnut was what I was trying to remember.

It's still considered Black Walnut,.IIRC.

I got about 150bf of the stuff sitting in my shop waiting on me to get off
my duff and build a couple of tables and some trivets for Christmas.

Lucky so-and-so!

After looking online at walnut for some projects tonight, I think I
have a handle on the terminology. The true walnuts are all members of
the Juglans family. The big three are European/English/Carpathian
walnut; Black Walnut, which comes from eastern North America and Claro
walnut, which comes from western North America. What you get if you
get walnut without modifiers is almost certainly Black or Claro
walnut. The European stuff is apparently very expensive and rather
hard to get.

There is also Butternut, which is sometimes called 'white walnut'. It
comes from North American and is light brown but has working
properties almost identical to the various black walnuts, at least
when it comes to carving.

Next on the list are the tropical walnuts, many of which are members
of the Juglans family. They include Peruvain walnut and, I believe,
African Walnut. They look pretty much like the North American walnuts,
but I don't know anything about their working properties.

Finally, just to confuse things, there is New Guinea walnut and some
other so-called walnuts which aren't walnut at all. They're not
members of the Juglans family and at least in the case of New Guinea
walnut, don't look anything like any walnut I've ever seen.

--RC

Sleep? Isn't that a totally inadequate substitute for caffine?