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This is some of the Best and Higest Grade Turkish walnut available today. The suppliers also supply wood to the top gun companies like Purdey, Holland and Holland ect.
Turkish Circassian Walnut
• Wood Type: Juglans Regia
• Native to the Caucusus Mountains
• Seedling: wild wood, normally uncultivated
• Color: blond, brown, red, to almost black
• Weight: varies, from region to region - blank to blank
• Density: varies from region to region - blank to blank
• Figure: varies according to type of cut, slab, 1/4 saw, etc. almost all has some faint fiddle back to extreme fiddle back; higher grades exhibit a translucence or inner glow as if there is light from within
• Stability: extremely good, the best of all walnut
• Hardness: varies from region to region - blank to blank
• Workability: the best in the opinion of most stockmakers
• This is the wood by which all other wood is judged in the stockmaking trade
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