Any fellow walnut-lovers out there?

Here is a Viking dagger made by Robbin Hudson MS with some beautiful walnut. Once this piece was mine and it now resides in the collection of my friend Mike.

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Marcel
 
Roger,
That really is a beautiful piece of walnut you bought.
My guess would be that it was cut in the area on a burl stump in between the burl and the graft line above. A lot of strange stuff can happen in that area.
Here is an example photo of what I am talking about. This piece is covered with dust and just a rough chainsawn surface. But you get the idea.

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I checked out the site where you got the walnut. Those were decent prices. Good walnut gunstock pieces can range in price up to over $1000 each.
 
I am a big fan of walnut. That is an outstanding piece, Roger!

Here are a few of my favorites:

Holson
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Hanson
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Andrews/Hanson
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- Joe
 
Beauties Joe. That Hanson / Andrews collaboration piece is just sublime.

Russ - thanks for posting - if we didn't see some Andrews bowies soon I was going to fix that situation.

Here's a Fisk Woojack in some pretty walnut:

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Roger
 
Good thread, Roger. :thumbup:
Very nice knives all !

A couple more...

Jerome Anders

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Don Hanson III

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Jot Khalsa

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Matt Roberts

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Doug
 
This thread is near and dear to MY heart. God bless you, Roger... :D

Walnut is the wood of note around here. These are knives that I personally own.

Some smaller ones:
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Speaking of beautiful gunstocks, I sent this out to be checkered for just this reason.
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Getting larger....

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What a treat. Thanks to all for their delicious posts and images. :)

Coop
 
Roger....thanks.

The Hudson piece is worth a double take......great
metal work, design, and an exceptional piece of Walnut...!!
 
Roger,

I use a fair amount of black walnut crotch wood. Unfortunately I don't know any sawyers who will cut up a root ball anymore. Thanks where the really prime black walnut lies. I have also used Turkish walnut with good success.

The few pieces of English walnut that I have tried weren't my favorite to work. Beautiful wood. Just not my favorite to work with. In fact, I gave away the last that I had of it.

From what I've been told by professional stabilizers, black walnut will accept the stabilizing resins but is stable enough by nature that it's not really necessary to stabilize. They also told me that the English walnut doesn't accept the resins well enough to make it worthwhile. [I typically will use a gun stock finish for all walnuts.]
 
Here is a little one I did a while back in W2 and 416 with some of Mr. Hanson's walnut. It now resides somewhere in the wilds of Belgium.:D
 

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Roger, great looking pc of walnut.

I don't know how well the pic will turn out, but here's my favorite of my stash--stabilized Turkish walnut gunstock remnant. I also dig the curly cocobolo it's setting on.

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Tad
 
Thanks for the great responses guys.

Coop - that Pierce folder is an excceptionally rare piece amongst a rare group of knives. And that Topsy Turvy is one of my favourites of Tai's work.

Joe M. - I must have missed that Belgium-bound beauty the first time around - thanks for showing.

Gary - the English walnut pieces I have worked have been exceptionally hard and dense - it doesn't surprise me to hear that this type of wood wouldn't readily accept stabilizing resin.

Stuart - I remember that one well - as I recall, I was bugging you for it, but it was already spoken for.

Tad - I'm bugging you from now - when you put that piece of gorgeous Turkish walnut on a knife - call me!

Roger
 
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