It is curious now, for a second a feel that it may be not walnut, I´ll check tomorrow (again) with the two gunsmiths involved,the one that sold it and the one that worked on it. Anyway Keith, being walnut, it must be Juglans Regia, the only one imported and planted here from different European countries.
Southern forests lack most tree species known in the Boreal zone, so we don´t have local indigenous versions of walnut to the best of my knowledge, like you have in North America. I wonder whether there is a local variety of walnut in New Zeland or Australia. Trees from these two countries have more in common with trees from Southern South America than from the Northern Hemisphere.
Last edited by EJ; 05/22/08 11:35 PM.
