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EDISON PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY, NOVEMBER, 1913
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The most frequent fault in Circassian walnut logs is the result of a practice among Georgians or Kurds of striking a growing tree with their sword at several intervals along one side, using a downward stroke and making deep cuts three or four inches apart for a distance of several feet along the tree trunk. It seems to be a sword practice. This accounts for those gashes often found in a fine piece of veneer which destroy a beautiful piece of wood for a broad surface to be covered.
Then another defect is the holes made by early searchers after the finest colored trees, by boring with a half-inch core bit. This core reveals the color of the tree's wood and shows the grain. It also tells the prospector if the tree is hollow or if it has an unusually thick sap.
It is a common impression that Circassian logs are selected to have limb knots to enhance the figure, but quite the contrary is the rule, as there are always knots, and it is one of the difficulties to avoid them. We find trunks of trees with knots imbedded in them, very crooked and erratic and often crossing the tree from side to side most disagreeably if sound stock is wanted.
To bring about the best results of color and figure in Circassian walnut for cabinets and piano cases, butt jointing is essential, and perhaps it is this that accounts for some failures in casework where Circassian was misused.
With all these difficulties to contend with, is it
A photographic reproduction of a piece of Circassian
walnut veneer, showing native grain in the wood and
jagged edges with knot hole.
any wonder that Circassian walnut becomes expensive veneer, and that a cabinet carefully made with Circassian walnut is an object of an — a beauty that lies in the curiously outlined grain of the wood and its matchless, natural color?
All our cabinets in Circassian walnut, are wonderful examples of the cabinet maker's skill and art.
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