Are Walnut and Black Walnut lumbers the same?I have Walnut lumber that are lighter, darker and some mix and I read or heardsomewhere that you could darken the light color walnut by applying HydrogenPeroxide on its surface, is that possible?Thanks for the information.

Maybe. Black Walnut is certainly Walnut and Walnut could be Black Walnut. Black Walnut is also known as American Walnut. There are many different kinds of Walnut.

Walnut and Black Walnut Lumber?

Nov 20, 2004 45 Replies

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Prometheus 21 years ago

Hmm... That hasn't been my experience with butternut. It is a beautiful wood, but it is much, much lighter than walnut, and softer by several degrees. Having worked with both, I wouldn't consider the working properties the same- butternut is much more likely to tear out or chip than walnut, in my experience. But they're both great woods, especially when you inlay butternut into walnut- that golden tint in the butternut is really set off by the darker walnut, and flashes in a way the walnut does not.

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rcook5 21 years ago

As I say, my experience is based on carving them, not general woodworking. For carving they both work about the same. Roughly the same hardness and about the same workability. I didn't notice any difference in the tendency to chip or splinter and they seem to hold fine detail about equally well.

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George 21 years ago

The butternut which grows up here on the northern edge of its range is a lot different than the pieces I've seen from supply places. Closer to walnut, surely, than the more rapidly grown stuff from down south. Some of that is a soft as willow - I've suspected more than once that it was, but the burn test said no.

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rcook5 21 years ago

FWIW Butternut is another juglans species -- like the walnuts.

--RC

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

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Robert Bonomi 21 years ago

But absolutely necessary, for making a hickory daiquiri, Doc.

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J T 21 years ago

Fri, Nov 26, 2004, 7:29am (EST+5) snipped-for-privacy@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert=A0Bonomi) plagerizes: But absolutely necessary, for making a hickory daiquiri, Doc.

So that's where my book went.

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