What would you call this grain patterning on Claro Walnut?

[Odie]

I have a customer who is asking, and I've called it marbling at arount 10 to 2 o'clock in the upper half.......not sure that's a correct descriptive word, though......thanks.

-----odie-----

 

[JeffSmith]

looks like curly walnut grain to me...

 

[Martin Groneng]

...or fiddleback because the figure only appears on one half of the board which is very common with maple in our part of the country. I have also seen walnut here like that too. Of course, I have been wrong before!!

 

[RichColvin]

I'd call it a wee bit of God love. (Never know where you'll find it.)

Rich

 

[robo hippy]

Maybe some one else will set me straight on this, but years ago I was asking 'what is Claro Walnut?' Of all the definitions I have heard, I think it is more specifically a color variation given to Juglens Hindisii which is a species native to Northern and Central California. I have heard several names for the boundary area of grafted English/Persian walnut onto other darker walnut species, and that includes Claro... Other than that, figure is a whole different thing... with just as many name variations...

robo hippy

 

[Tom Albrecht]

I would call it "pretty" and "curly" and "expensive".

Nice bowl.

 

[Charlie Knighton]

It is strange....ie it appears checked in that portion.....not sure if it stain or grain (like oak).....strikingly good

 

[john lucas]

It appears to me to be part of the what some call flame patterns often found in the crotch of the tree.

 

[Gerald Lawrence]

John I would have to disagree as flame is two sided . That is there are patterns on both sides of a central line . This is Curl. There used to be many names for it such as fiddleback, ribbon , ghost, tiger stripe. However the society that names all the wood terms has reduced them all officially to the term "CURL". This is absolutely curl. Just wish I could remember the name of the group.By the way this is the kind of stuff you get from 40 plus years doing flatwork.

 

[Leo Van Der Loo]

Figured or curly is what it is called, there are different figures in wood, but flame is what you get in crotch wood, quite different from curly.

Some flame in Walnut I turned showing here.

 

[Emiliano Achaval]

If that was Koa, it would definitely be "Curly" Aloha!