American Walnut
Family: Juglandaceae - Order: Fagales - Class: Magnoliopsida
Scientific name: Juglans
nigra
Trade name: American Walnut
Also known as Wild Black
Walnut, Black Walnut
Origin:
Eastern North America
Instrumental uses:
Guitar back and sides, electric guitar bodies, head plates and bindings
Tonal properties:
Great tonal properties
and overall wood properties, placed between Indian rosewood and mahoganies.
Great overall balance in
all frequency ranges but with highly defined highs, warmth and deep basses.
An excellent reference
studio guitar.
Used often on guitar
back and sides also on electric guitar bodies as well.
Softer and less dense
than rosewood and mahogany, very resonant
Very good workability and very good natural finish.
Density reference nearly 610 kg/m3
A deciduous tree which
reaches 45 m in height, forms an open canopy. The trunk is straight, the bark
brown or almost black and very wrinkled. The concentrated extract of its bark
is used as a dewormer in biological medicine. Its leaves, green and yellow,
contain an aromatic oil and the flowers are catkins. The fruit is drupaceous,
best known for the nuts. The wood, with high resistance to wood decay agents,
is considered a most durable wood and in favorable conditions will not decay. High wood quality, highly valued, dense, hard and
strong.
CITES status is unrestricted. On the IUCN Red List reported as Least
Concern.
