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Chestnut vs walnut wood color.
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.
2 light 2 medium and 2 dark.
Walnut stain colors category 1 limed oak fc 108 natural.
Chestnut fc 104 almond fc 42000 sealy fc 44938 golden pecan fc 41610 hoosier special.
Recently i ordered a new pair of strands in walnut and also ordered the matching walnut belt.
If you ve never heard of special walnut you won t forget it now.
Special walnut is one of the go to brown stains that isn t too dark.
You can see that this stain consistently pulls a brown hue with the exception of the red oak for obvious reasons.
I already have an ae chestnut belt and to my eye the two belts look exactly the same.
Harvest fc 107 almond fc 42000 sealy.
Are they the same or similar enough that i should return the new belt.
Maybe the color i m seeing is a bit off.
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 tend to view special walnut as a lighter brown stain.