Veneer Walnut Burl 2.00 mm

The burl veneer of this noble hardwood is a very rare and highly prized type of veneer. The colour of European walnut burl is an intense medium to dark reddish brown. When looking at this veneer, one thinks to recognise mysterious figures in different brown zones and border lines.

Trade names and other names

German: Europäischer Walnut Maser
 English: European walnut burl
 French: Loupe de Noyer Européen
 Italian: Radica di Noce
 Spanish: n.a.
 Dutch: n.a.
 Portuguese: n.a.
 Arabic: n.a.
 Chinese: 欧洲胡桃树榴

Available veneer thicknesses

0.6, 2 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 trunk with mighty crown. Bark 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 run and the 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.