DRY Turkish Walnut Knife Scales - B grain, Twin Pair (SCLBGRAIN)

DRY Turkish Walnut Knife Scales - B grain, Twin Pair

Turkish walnut is what European gunmakers reach for when a stock has to be both strong and worth looking at, and it earns the same place on a knife. It is dense enough to take a pin without splitting, light enough not to unbalance a blade, and the figure runs deep rather than sitting on the surface.

Ours is air dried, not kiln forced. Kiln drying is faster but it stresses the fibres and the piece can move again once it is thinned into a handle. Air dried walnut is stable when you get it and stable a year later.

B grain is strong figure over part of the face with quieter grain elsewhere. The practical choice: it looks like premium walnut on the finished handle and costs noticeably less than A grade.

One purchase is two bookmatched scales — a matched pair for a single knife, sawn from the same billet so the figure mirrors across the handle. Ready to shape, nothing else to buy.

Finishes beautifully with oil — a few coats of tung or danish brings the chatoyance up and the grain appears to shift as the knife moves in the hand.

Specifications
Species : Turkish walnut (Juglans regia)
Grade : B grain
Drying : Air dried
Dimensions : Minimum 9 x 45 x 135 mm (0.35 x 1.8 x 5.3 in) each
Contents : 2 bookmatched scales, one pair

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