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Paw in law is a machinist, welder and fabricator. He gives strange gifts at Christmas….sure beats a pack of socks or gift card. It’s sure nuff overbuilt.Now that looks like a sho nuff nut cracker!
Paw in law is a machinist, welder and fabricator. He gives strange gifts at Christmas….sure beats a pack of socks or gift card. It’s sure nuff overbuilt.Now that looks like a sho nuff nut cracker!
I’ll send him Christmas cards if he’ll make me something.Paw in law is a machinist, welder and fabricator. He gives strange gifts at Christmas….sure beats a pack of socks or gift card. It’s sure nuff overbuilt.
Paw in law is a machinist, welder and fabricator. He gives strange gifts at Christmas….sure beats a pack of socks or gift card. It’s sure nuff overbuilt.
They're everywhere up here.Apparently it's so rare they're not using it much for gun stocks anymore. From what I gather, most of the walnut for today's gun stocks comes from Turkey and Kurdistan, I believe. Still, very beautiful wood.
Its a very pretty wood. Interestingly when it is sawn fresh the wood has an olive green color. Only after being exposed to air does it turn the familiar walnut hue.
Yes we have tons of them here in the extreme northeast corner of Georgia. I have a few trees in my yard. They are all up and down the banks of the Little Tennessee River which heads maybe two or three miles from my house. They are almost as hard to get the goody out of as a hickory nut. Hickory nuts are smaller though and a lot harder!Well, I went back to make a closer inspection of the Black Walnut tree, which was actually a grove of them planted around an old farmhouse.
There was a family there who had gathered a bunch of them on a blanket. I asked the mother if she was going to take them home and eat them and she looked at me strangely. She said "No my son likes to play with them."
I asked her if she knew what they were and she said, "No," and I told her beneath that green covering were black walnuts she could bust open with a hammer and eat. She was surprised and said, "Really, no kiddin', thank you for tellin' us." That's when I should have said, if you go on Georgia Outdoor News you'll learn things. They thought I was another Euell Gibbons.
NC Hillbilly I pulled out my Audubon Society Guide to NA Trees (which is what I should have done initially) and Black Walnut trees are not common to south Georgia. The cut-off is the fall line. Not saying you don't have them down there, but folks plant all kinds of trees and shrubs outside their native ranges and they become naturalized.
Take the Osage Orange, which has softball size fruit. Most people have never seen them, that's because they are indigenous to TX and OK. Book says they became naturalized here because of people planting them. The subdivision I grew up in was an ante-bellum plantation. The owner planted some foreign trees around his place and that is where I encountered them.
The farther north you go the more common the Black Walnut becomes. TN, NC, KY and VA are completed blacked out statewide. North GA too.
Air dried colors are much more vibrant and ranging as opposed to kiln dried.
I have examples in my stock right now, of air dried vs kiln dried. There is a difference beteeen those pieces that were allowed to air dry and one of the same flitch right off the saw that was kilned. Its Missouri walnut. With the bf cost of walnut, not sure theres many who are letting it sit for 1-2 years before its sold. What I have was cut probably 20 yrs ago.
Thats true, but thats done in the kiln generally with todays vacumn, predriers and dehumidifiers.
Here in north FL air drying a nominal 2×4 would take 2 yrs, thats IF you can find a tree thats not hollow core But the bugs would turn the rest into sawdust anyway
Are they as hard to get out as a Hickory nut? ?
I know those are some sho' nuff work to crack.
I love Hickory nuts.
And... I've seen those green husks over the years but didn't know they were Walnut.
I'll grab some to try next time.