Walnut splice's?

[safe t boy]

Hi all.

For a while now, almost a year, I have had some nice pieces of Walnut set aside. I found them on a building job I was working on. The customer had a very nice and very expensive Walnut kitchen installed. I have 4 in total each big enough or a secondary splice on a cue and a couple have really nice grain. I have not seen any cues with Walnut splicing's so Im curious to know why that is? Also if anyone has any photos of cues with this wood could you post them up in this thread.

I work as a decorator so happen to have some danish oil. I might put a coat on and see how the walnut looks with it. I can post some photos if anyone's interested. I'm thinking a single secondary splice of Walnut with a thick curly (or birdseye) maple veneer. Something a little bit different.

[Mellow Yellow]

i think welsh pool trading used to do a cue with a walnut splice and a maple veneer, looks good.

[vucko117]

http://img827.imageshack.us/i/pict0373.jpg/

http://www.thesnookerforum.com/board...ues-collection
in these pictures walnut splice is the one with green veneer. Hope this helps

[old school]

Dave Coutts does occasionally use walnut , but it is exhibition grade and very expensive.On his website there are some small j.pegs of cues using this timber.Glovers and Kev at NW as well as Robin will also use walnut and personally I think walnut is gorgeous and not used enough.Hope this helps.

[jaffa.johnson]

From the pictures above and from the google images I did. Walnut looks very nice.

Can you post some photos of the pieces you have?

Is the wood to be used on your welsh pool cue?

[jim evans]

i agree with old school it should be used more and is more easily found

[deant1982]

I brought a bowl blank to cut up and use as a splice for cues I am making. It has a really good grain pattern and I think looks very nice on cues.

[trevs1]

I think perhaps everyone needs to be aware that not all walnut looks like the stuff you'll see in the very best images you'll find of it.

There are numerous types of walnut, some darker and some paler, some with figure and some (most in fact) pretty boring, drab and uninteresting, with no distinctive grain pattern or figure. The stuff that OldSchool is referring to that Dave Coutts has used is the type of thing found in gunstocks. This is European walnut, often from Turkey, and can be very ghighly figured, and yes, very very expensive.
Other walnuts can also be very attractive, and in burr form, they can be utterly stunning, with utterly stunning prices to match.

But please, bare in mind, that most walnut you'll see it NOT very interesting at all, but is a drab, grey brown timber with no discernible figure whatsoever.

[jim evans]

what do you think about the black american walnut trev

[deant1982]

what do you think about the black american walnut trev

I was about to ask this, as it is what I have.

[old school]

Thanks Trev and yes I was referring to European walnut.I also agree that "burr walnut" is stunning but I would really like to find a nice piece of "burr elm" for sentimental reasons,for a front splice.Sadly burr elm is also ,in my experience, very hard to source.Incidentally I have heard of exhibition grade walnut costing above £100 , just for a section long enough for a front splice,whether this is true or not I cannot confirm, but it is truly gorgeous,real cue porn material.

[safe t boy]

From the pictures above and from the google images I did. Walnut looks very nice.

Can you post some photos of the pieces you have?

Is the wood to be used on your welsh pool cue?

Thanks all

Jaffa,

Yeah I am thinking of having some of this Walnut spliced onto the Welsh cue. Just a single front splice with a thick veneer. I will get some pics up of the Walnut soon. Its quite nicely figured and one piece has a quilted effect similar to curly Maple.
PS: Loving the cue still! Its a keeper for life.

[safe t boy]

http://img827.imageshack.us/i/pict0373.jpg/

http://www.thesnookerforum.com/board...ues-collection
in these pictures walnut splice is the one with green veneer. Hope this helps

Thanks for the pics. I just found this pic on Robin Cooks website of a cue using Walnut .

[jonnylovessn8ker]

what do you think about the black american walnut trev

pardon my ignorance, so black walnut isnt the same thing as european walnut?
i too am interested in listening to what trevor has to say about this.