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Placed an order for a Petrel. I wasn't aware of Peruvian Walnut as a supplied wood. Normal quantities of wood supplied is equal amounts of light, medium and dark woods. I asked for more dark than light, but now I am second guessing it. The P.Walnut looks pretty dark, so I am not sure if it should be used as a major portion of the wood, or is it better to use it more as an accent. I don't really care for a lot of the yellow cedar, and I don't want to stain the boat. I am thinking about using a completely differnt wood the a portion of the fore deck. I would appreciate some thoughts.
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RE: contrasting woods
» Submitted by CuMara - Fri, 11/2/12 » 11:21 PM
Dave, one of the features of american walnut is the wood is very dark chocolate and slowly changes to a mellow strong milk chocolate. Evidently peruvian walnut is much darker, and courser. Please see the following site for information:
http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-identification/hardwoods/peruvian-walnut/
On my kayak, I used several strips of walnut alternating with birds eye maple as the king planks, fore and aft; and the design worked out great. (or so I think). Without knowing the wood, it really takes a close inspection to decern the differences between the dark cedar provided and the walnut.
I would think that you biggest concern in working with walnut is bending it to highly twisted designs.
Good luck, Stephanie