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When is walnut not walnut?

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When it's Padauk.

Checked the blanks at Axminster yesterday and what they sold me a couple of weeks ago as Walnut, wasn't. It was Padauk.
OK so I don't know much about wood ID at the moment, but you'd have thought that a company like Axminster would have got it right. Then again .... I made another Wych Elm Americana and didin't realise until afterwards that one of the tubes was a good 2.5mm short

Do all pen kits come from the same Far Eastern company or are some better than others?

<blockquote data-quote="chas_41_uk" data-source="post: 60894" data-attributes="member: 441">When is walnut not walnut?[ATTACH]5922[/ATTACH]When it&#039;s Padauk.Checked the blanks at Axminster yesterday and what they sold me a couple of weeks ago as Walnut, wasn&#039;t. It was Padauk.OK so I don&#039;t know much about wood ID at the moment, but you&#039;d have thought that a company like Axminster would have got it right. Then again .... I made another Wych Elm Americana and didin&#039;t realise until afterwards that one of the tubes was a good 2.5mm shortDo all pen kits come from the same Far Eastern company or are some better than others?<img src="http://www.penturners.co.uk/images/smilies/18/rant.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rant:" title="Rant&nbsp; &nbsp; :rant:" data-shortname=":rant:" /><img src="http://www.penturners.co.uk/images/smilies/18/rant.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rant:" title="Rant&nbsp; &nbsp; :rant:" data-shortname=":rant:" /><img src="http://www.penturners.co.uk/images/smilies/18/rant.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rant:" title="Rant&nbsp; &nbsp; :rant:" data-shortname=":rant:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="chas_41_uk, post: 60894, member: 441"] When is walnut not walnut? [ATTACH]5922._xfImport[/ATTACH] When it's Padauk. Checked the blanks at Axminster yesterday and what they sold me a couple of weeks ago as Walnut, wasn't. It was Padauk. OK so I don't know much about wood ID at the moment, but you'd have thought that a company like Axminster would have got it right. Then again .... I made another Wych Elm Americana and didin't realise until afterwards that one of the tubes was a good 2.5mm short Do all pen kits come from the same Far Eastern company or are some better than others? :rant::rant::rant: [/QUOTE]

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