Some extremely dark walnut

123maxbars · March 06, 2019, 04:09:19 PM

I started into a nice walnut log yesterday, I hope to finish it up tomorrow. So far it has produced some of the darkest Walnut I have ever sawed.
These pics are of two of the slabs taken three hours after sawing, I did put water on them to show the color better.
9/4, 22in Wide and 8ft long. Below the pics is the video showing the sawing.

THIS LOG WAS LIKE NO OTHER, STUNNING WALNUT SLABS - YouTube

Roxie · March 06, 2019, 07:00:09 PM

WOW

YellowHammer · March 06, 2019, 07:04:36 PM

That's a winner.

moodnacreek · March 06, 2019, 07:16:25 PM

The color of hardwood lumber varies a lot within the species. In walnut it is very noticeable and interesting. Back when I started the walnut was dark with little sapwood. Then I started seeing red and now it is lite brown with way too much sapwood.

Hackeldam Wood Products · March 07, 2019, 05:17:34 AM

very nice.

cbla · March 07, 2019, 05:48:35 AM

beautiful color!!

sealark37 · March 07, 2019, 08:45:39 AM

I see a couple of stunning gunstocks between those knots!

Farm29 · March 07, 2019, 01:28:17 PM

Dats some pretty stuff any guess on how big or old the tree was it came from? I cut some the other day that had some nice dark streaks came from a 38" + diameter tree

samandothers · March 08, 2019, 11:57:42 AM

Danny must have fainted, no comments yet! :D

Beautiful color on both!

WV Sawmiller · March 08, 2019, 04:15:59 PM

Nathan,

Nice wood. Let me know when you are having another get together or such at your home and I may just try to make a day trip if timing is right around here.

Nice sawhorses. I make some real similar. Basically 7-3' long 2X4s with whatever scrap 4/4 pieces I have laying around to make the stringers/stretchers. Its a good use if you end up with a short 2X4 from flare or defect when cutting some. Of course those short ones also make good stacking pallets and I usually make 2' wide stacking pallets and use 2X4 vertical for bases and 3-2X6s for the tops.

Anyway here is the design I use if you are interested. It would be real easy to make them longer/wider or taller by just modifying those lengths. Keep them videos coming.