Believing that in the process of customizing epoxy resin solid wood table, you may have some understanding about each solid wood, but there are two kinds of them have high similarity that we usually can't distinguish them well, which are Walnut Wood and Black Walnut Wood. In this blog, we'll help you get more knowledge about their difference with their respective characteristics. Let's explore together.
Walnut Wood
Origin Distribution
Walnut wood mainly distributed in South America, North America, Oceania, Southeastern Europe, and Eastern Asia.
Color and Texture
The color of walnut is usually various from light brown to dark chocolate, and with purple - gray tint sometimes. Its color will fade over time, which is a natural phenomenon of wood. The texture is straight or slightly wavy shape, with a strong luster and delicate touching.
Characteristics for Physical Processing
The wood structure is relatively delicate which makes the touching more smooth, just like a baby's skin. And it has strong hardness, that's why it's usually said that you can use walnut wood to work out a world with its high plasticity. It also has slight wear resistance, long life and quick dryness.
Features for Identifying Real Walnut Wood
The color transition of real walnut texture is smooth and natural, while fake one is fast and stiff, there is clear difference between black and coffee color.
Real walnut wood is heavier than fake one with the same size due to its higher density. Real walnut wood will appear something like gold thread when reflected by sunlight, but fake wood will not.
Black Walnut
Origin Distribution
Black walnut is widely distributed in North America, South America, Europe and Southeast Asia. And the North America has the best quality of black walnut which is known as the origin of top black walnut.
Color and Texture
Its color ranges from dark chocolate to purple-brown and deepens over time. It has tan which approaches black compared to walnut.
Like walnut wood, black walnut has straight grain and fine structure, if you look closely, you'll see irregular parabolic texture full of natural beauty. it also will show wavy curly tree grain texture or "bird peck marks" needle knots sometimes, which makes black walnut has more various texture shape than walnut
Characteristics for Physical Processing
Black walnut is a solid hardwood which has medium density, resistance of setbacks and compression.
The core-wood has strong resistance to decay, it's one of the most durable wood even in an environment prone to decay
However, it has relatively slow dryness compared to walnut wood, need to be careful after kiln drying to avoid reduction losses. but there is no need to worry, cause our factory are professional and has much experience in this point.
Features for Identifying Real Walnut Wood
First of all, texture is the most intuitive point. The charm of black walnut lies largely in its wood texture. The colors are bright, the layers are distinct, the contrast is strong, and it has a very jumping feeling. The second one is the paint process. Black walnut furniture mostly uses open or semi-open process, most of those that use closed paint process are not black walnut.
Conclusion
In a word, although there is only one letter difference between black walnut and walnut, except the scarcity of black walnut cause it a higher price, there are also differences from walnut in other aspects. Both woods are ideal raw materials for furniture making. We will customize your epoxy resin table according to your own special requirements. If you have any questions, please contact us.
