Is there a difference in the wood when English Walnut is grown from a seedling instead of grafted to Black Walnut roots?

In my experience the seedling has more pink & gray on the average. Fiddleback is common and usually tight. The grafted has more honey and dark almost black stripes. every piece of seedling I've worked on has been very good/stable consistent wood. The reason the trees were grafted was to promote faster growing to produce the nuts. They had no interest in gunstocks. It does produce the great contrasting colors though. Between the two, I'd rather work on seedling.

seedling pic

grafted pic

Thank you.

Does a seedling blank usually bring more than the grafted?

It Depends

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Originally posted by Bill Soverns:
It Depends

On....?

layout, color, etc. Personaly I would not pay more for a seedling blank "just because"
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Originally posted by ElCaballero:
Thank you.

Does a seedling blank usually bring more than the grafted?

Usually the more the really dark/contrasting lines the more the blank will bring. There is some seedling with these dark stripes. I'd have to guess that the California grafted is the only place around the world that grafts to claro root stock. I could be wrong. I think all the rest of the Regia walnut grown around the world could be seedling. Turkish-French-etc???? more pinks in the over the pond variety.

Not sure if I answered your question yet???

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Originally posted by gunmaker:
Not sure if I answered your question yet???

Pretty well. I am just an info junkie when it comes to blanks.

I ran across some seedling english for sale and wanted the scoop from someone other than the guy selling it. I have been interested in walnut blanks for awhile now and just came upon something I didn't know much about.