Walnut Rough Lumber
Priced per board foot
Walnut lumber stacks kiln-dried S4S Walnut hardwood boards
Walnut Rough Lumber
American Black Walnut · any quantity · board feet
  • American Black Walnut (Juglans nigra)
  • Chocolate-brown heartwood, no stain needed
  • Janka hardness 1,010 — works easily
  • Kiln-dried to 6–8% MC
  • Exceptionally stable once dry
  • Ships UPS or LTL freight

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✔ Same quality used in our production

✔ #1 Common and better grade

✔ Ships nationwide in 1–2 weeks

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Walnut Rough Lumber — American Black Walnut, Priced per Board Foot

Estate Millwork buys American Black Walnut for our furniture-grade door and cabinet work. Buy that same kiln-dried Walnut by the board foot — select thickness and milling, enter the quantity you need, and add to cart.

Choose Rough Sawn for shop stock you'll mill yourself. Choose S4S for boards surfaced to 150-grit and ready to use. Choose S2S for face-surfaced material you'll joint yourself.

About Our Walnut

  • American Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) — Appalachian and Midwestern stock
  • Rich chocolate-brown heartwood that needs no stain, only a clear finish
  • Janka hardness 1,010 — hard enough to wear well, soft enough to machine cleanly
  • Kiln-dried to 6–8% moisture content; among the most dimensionally stable domestic hardwoods
  • Sapwood is pale — expect some in wider boards; steamed stock is available on request
  • Available 4/4 through 10/4 thickness

Walnut is our most requested species for interior doors and cabinet fronts where the wood itself is the finish.

Thickness and Milling

We carry Walnut in 4/4 (1 in.), 6/4 (1½ in.), 8/4 (2 in.), and 10/4 (2½ in.) off the shelf, and can cut 12/4 and 16/4 blanks for table legs, turning, and bench tops on request — the same kiln-dried Appalachian walnut, just left thicker.

  • Rough Sawn — oversized and band-sawn, for shops that joint and plane their own stock. The most wood for the money.
  • S2S — both faces planed flat and parallel; you joint one edge and rip to width.
  • S4S — surfaced four sides and sanded to 150-grit, square and ready to build or finish straight from the box.

Grade

Our standard walnut is #1 Common and better — the same boards we pull for our own furniture-grade doors and cabinet fronts, with long clear cuttings and tight, straight grain. FAS, Select, and quartersawn walnut are available on request when a job needs full-length clear faces or ribbon figure. Expect pale sapwood along the edges of wider boards; ask for steamed stock if you want the color pulled together throughout.

What Builders Make from Our Walnut

Black walnut is the wood people reach for when the grain is the design. Our customers use it for:

  • Fine furniture and casework — tables, desks, built-ins, and heirloom pieces finished clear.
  • Interior doors and cabinet fronts — our own most-requested species.
  • Gunstocks — walnut has been the stockmaker’s wood for two centuries; 8/4 and 10/4 blanks machine cleanly and resist checking.
  • Musical instruments — guitar backs and sides, drum shells, and flutes; 8/4 rough walnut is a staple tonewood for luthiers and instrument makers.
  • Turning, carving, and mantels — thick 12/4–16/4 blanks for bowls, spindles, and architectural millwork.

How Board-Foot Pricing Works

Walnut is priced per board foot — one board foot is 144 cubic inches (a piece 12 in. wide, 12 in. long, 1 in. thick). Enter the board feet you need above and the price updates by thickness and milling. Because we mill our own stock in Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, the price you see is factory direct with no distributor markup. Buying in volume? See walnut wholesale for 500 board-foot and truckload pricing.

Walnut Across Our Catalog

Already know the piece you want built? We make walnut into finished millwork too: walnut interior shutters, walnut cabinet doors, and custom interior doors — all from the same American Black Walnut sold on this page.

Call 412.641.0177 with questions or custom quantity requests.

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