Chestnut Vs Walnut Wood Color

Special walnut is one of the go to brown stains that isn t too dark.
Chestnut vs walnut wood color. I tend to view special walnut as a lighter brown stain. The most well known is the american chestnut which can appear in various shades from a pale white through medium brown which develops a reddish hue with age. I already have an ae chestnut belt and to my eye the two belts look exactly the same. If you ve never heard of special walnut you won t forget it now.
Are they the same or similar enough that i should return the new belt. Chestnut wood doesn t refer to wood from a single tree but rather from a family of trees. You can see that this stain consistently pulls a brown hue with the exception of the red oak for obvious reasons. We ve been wanting to do a wood stain study for years now and in my head i wanted to do every type of wood with about 20 different stains each but with limited resources not to mention space we settled on 5 popular species of wood commonly used by diyers with 6 different stains.
On that note red brown shaded stains like walnut and chestnut have a very warming homey effect in a home and are a very safe bet. Maybe the color i m seeing is a bit off. 2 light 2 medium and 2 dark. Recently i ordered a new pair of strands in walnut and also ordered the matching walnut belt.
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