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Walnut stump value #6260557
06/15/18 05:26 PM
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I'm a logger . I deal with a fare amount of walnut . At least once a month some body ask me about digging walnut stumps . "You know they are more valuable than the rest of the tree " I've heard it countless times . I have yet to find a legitimate company (with good money ) that deals in stumps from east of the great plains . I keep several large stumps around but nobodies went any farther than saying " I want to buy that" .

Does anybody on here sell walnut stumps ,or had a logger dig up their stumps ?

Re: Walnut stump value [Re: Bigfoot] #6260558
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I own a tree service and sell quite a few walnuts myself and always heard the same thing but have never found a buyer. I know they use the roots for high end gun stocks. Maybe someone knows more

Re: Walnut stump value [Re: Bigfoot] #6260593
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Its just like the burl market. most of the story just gets bigger as everybody tells it. you have to find a woodworker that wants it. im setting on burl now when the woodworkers got enough it dryed up for me and happened pretty fast.

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I give my burl to a local who turns bowls and in return he makes my wife a pretty piece every year

Re: Walnut stump value [Re: Bigfoot] #6260597
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The burl market is something you might find one for once out of very many.
A guy I knew used to have loggers cut the stump just a bit higher than normal because he liked to have the "butt-swell" left for him so that the grain would run through the wrist of the stocks he made. That might have something to do with hearing about the stumps value.

*Talking about American Black walnut/

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Best market i could ever find was China. but i had to go through a broker and they wanted ship container lots and i had to load . so you know how hard it is to find that much burl. if you know some Asin ginseng buyers you could get hooked up maby.

Re: Walnut stump value [Re: Bigfoot] #6260671
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How many of the gunstock companies have you asked?

Heck, Macon/Fajen is in your state.


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Re: Walnut stump value [Re: Bigfoot] #6260721
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I worked for an old man that told me when he was young world war II started men came and cut the walnut off their farm and all the neighbors around .they cut by hand with crosscuts and axes . then when the US got in the war they brought prisoners out and dug up the stumps .he said these where huge trees many over 4' across they where as big as the cottonwoods . I think that's where the story comes from . if you cut a big tree with a cross cut the stumps going to be three feet tall leaving the best gunstock wood from the butt swell on the stump . today we cut walnut off at the ground .

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I don't know anything about using stumps for gunstocks....but the best gunstocks come from English or French walnut, more stable and considered better looking, so it seems that would be where the demand for gunstocks would be. I also read somewhere that there is more than 100 year supply of blanks already produced when considering the needs of the custom market. I can believe it...if you look around there are a ton of blanks available.

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I have a few old guns from my grandfather and I believe the stocks were make from the crotch of walnut...
Always thought that the crotch was the most valued wood for higher end gunstocks?


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Re: Walnut stump value [Re: Bigfoot] #6260824
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yes and no. a couple of the gunsmiths I know use walnut blanks that have aged for at least 5 years (i'm told if there is too much moisture in the wood it warps). if you would like a phone number pm me.


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I don't think stumps cut off at the ground would have any value. Way I understand it the fiddleback into a straight grain prized for gun stocks, comes from where a root just turns out and a couple feet of stump above the ground.


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the best high end wood is straight grained under the barrel and all the "pretty" grain is in the butt


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Re: Walnut stump value [Re: Bigfoot] #6260891
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To bad there wasn't a market for white pine stumps, I've made a bunch of them since last October.lol.

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the fiddle back is a compression striation that appears predominantly in the butt swell about six inches to a foot out of the ground and around large limbs . what's in the ground is swirly and often shows dark bullseyes from side roots . the farther you get into the swirly wood you get the softer the wood gets . trees that go straight into the ground with no swell don't show much fiddle back ,even if you dig down to the first roots .

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