Black Walnut is widely used in Asia, Europe. In China, it is common planted in North, North-West and Mid area. The Walnut is originally from Asia, some scholar thought the walnut is originally from China. It is reported Greece took the Walnut trees to Italia, and then to everywhere of Europe, in DC1, Roman took the Walnut to British. Walnut is one of the best material for furniture, for luxury furniture, closet, artwork and carve artwork. Just like America black walnut, the walnut can be made to gunstock, pikestaff and athletic equipment,. From 14th century, walnut is widely used in furniture, especially in north-west Europe,. One of the reason why the walnut wood is so welcome is that it has light weight and colors are rich. The pith of walnut is in light yellow-brown to brown, the color and grain changes from different original. Usually the walnut is grey-brown, with obvious dark grain, color becomes lighter when time has gone.
The average walnut is 20~30m high, diameter is 1m~1.5m, the average density is 0.64g/cm3. It has straight grain, close and even structure, has fit weight, hardness, shrinkage and intension. Not easy to be dried, is good material for carving, easy to be processed by hand or machine, easy to be glued, bolt-holding ability is good, has shine color after painting. |
