Bryan Tyler Nelson			WALNUT
		WALNUT: (Juglans nigra) Other names are American Black Walnut, American Walnut, Black Walnut, Eastern Black Walnut. A commonly available, reasonably inexpensive high quality wood that can be rather plain but can also have great beauty, and always has high dimensional stability, the combination of those properties making it a prized wood for architectural millwork and high grade furniture such as breakfronts. It is also widely used for low end rifle stocks because in addition to its handsome looks in that use, it has an unusually high shock resistance, giving it an excellent ability to withstand recoil. High end rifle stocks are more frequently made from other walnuts, such as claro, that have similar physical properties but even greater beauty (and correspondingly higher cost). The sapwood is not particularly attractive in color but is otherwise pretty much identical in properties to the heartwood, so the wood is sometimes boiled or steamed to leach the heartwood color into the sapwood but this slightly degrades the color quality of the heartwood. A moderate sized tree reaching about 100 feet and producing a trunk up to 60'' in diameter.
	Click image to enlarge. The first six pictures below are of a bowl made from crotch walnut, gives it a real nice figure.                   This bowl below is a type of walnut called Claro Walnut which grown mainly in California

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