Help confirming wood identity? American Walnut?

[David B Thornton]

I need some help confirming the identity of some wood flooring that I got at some point. I'm pretty sure it's American Walnut, but wanted to get the thoughts from others to confirm my thinking. It smells walnut-y, looks walnut-y, so it must be, right?

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[Phil Thien]

Looks like walnut to me.

[Art Mann]

I work with black walnut a lot. I don't know about American walnut but the photos you have posted look exactly like black walnut. This wood can vary a lot from tree to tree and that is the variation you are seeing. Some of it is quite grey in color and other samples are much more reddish or brown.

[Mark Patoka]

Yep, looks exactly like the black walnut I work with quite a bit. There can be a lot of variation in the browns so it can be tricky to match up, depending on the project.

[Jeffrey Martel]

It's definitely Eastern Black Walnut. I've got a decent sized stack I'm sitting on in my garage. As far as I know, there's only one other kind of native walnut to the US, which is Claro walnut which grows down in California/Southern Oregon.

[David B Thornton]

So I had some scraps of Black Walnut lying around from a previous project and put it on top of the wood. It does look like it's a match:
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[glenn bradley]

I use a lot of walnut and it does run from reds through black/browns through yellows. Your material walks like a duck (that is; its walnut).

[David B Thornton]

Perfect. Thanks, everybody!

[David Helm]

@ Jeffery, there is one other American Walnut, Bastogne. Also only grows in Northern California. It is, I believe, a natural cross between Claro Walnut and California English Walnut.

[Kent A Bathurst]

I use a lot of walnut and it does run from reds through black/browns through yellows. Your material walks like a duck (that is; its walnut).

And purple and almost orange.

Orange dye, or for the faint of heart garnet shellac or an orange #3 shellac, do wonders on walnut.

[Chris Padilla]

I used some NGR Dye from Behlen, Hickory color. It imparted a wonderful chocolate brown to get the brown and reddish walnut matched up nicely.

[Martin Wasner]

Sure looks like walnut

[Peter Quinn]

Yup, thats Juglans nigra.....aka Eastern black walnut. I'd bet $1 on it. I could close my eyes and make a positive ID based on the smell of an off cut, its got a unique aroma when sawn. Sort of....nutty!