Veneer European Walnut steamed 0.56 mm

European walnut is known for its historical use in high-quality furniture and objects. This noble hardwood has a rich grey-brown to chocolate-brown or even reddish-brown colour with a strong sapwood area, which is usually evened out by steaming. The colour-contrasting annual rings give the veneer a stripy, sometimes flowery texture. The veneer appearance is given various variations by differently pronounced dark brown to almost black colour stripes.

Trade names and other names

German: Europäischer Walnut
 English: Walnut
 French: Noyer commun, Noyer royal
 Italian: Noce da frutto, Noce bianco
 Spanish: Nogal común, Nogal europeo, Nogal español
 Dutch: Walnoot, okkernoot
 Portuguese: Nogueira-comum
 Arabic: Gawz, Jouz
 Chinese: 欧洲胡桃

Available veneer thicknesses

0.56, 0.9, 1.4, 2.4, 3.5 mm and saw veneer 7 mm, other thicknesses on request.

Occurrence

From Southern Europe to Central Asia, Asia Minor, Caucasus, in the Orient, elsewhere cultivated and partly wild.

Trunk and bark

Walnut is a tree up to 30m tall with diameters up to 2m. Walnut has a woody trunk with a mighty crown. The bark is smooth when young, ash-grey with whitish corky warts on walnut, darkening with age with rough, long-cracked bark.

Characteristics and wood colour

Semi-ring-porous, early wood with coarse single-row vessels, late wood with small vessels Tangentially delicate veining, radially distinct stripes. Sapwood and heartwood clearly separated. Sapwood broad, grey-white and not usable. Heartwood in the root zone and fork branches mostly grainy. Colour of the heartwood depends on age and location, grey-brown to dark brown, often watered, striped and cloudy, matt shiny.