Walnut Wood

Walnut is one of wood's great aristocrats. Known and prized since antiquity in every corner of the world, European Juglans regia grows slowly, and that slowness shows in the wood: straight grain, tight structure, a warm color running from golden hazelnut to chocolate brown, with shades that shift from the forests of Central Europe to the woodlands of North America.

It isn't a wood that shouts, it's a wood that rewards a closer look. Shift your angle and the surface gives off silky reflections no photo ever quite captures, a quality of living wood that responds to light differently depending on the angle. Furniture makers have chosen it for centuries for their finest pieces; luthiers use it for bodies, necks, and details on guitars and bowed instruments; gunsmiths shape it into the stocks of luxury hunting rifles. Wherever beauty needs to meet durability, walnut has been there for millennia.

At Dogstar we choose it when a project calls for understated elegance. Its uniform density is ideal for laser work: the line stays crisp even in the finest details, complex symbols, thin patterns, small lettering. Nothing gets lost on this wood.