It is not enough to have a handmade shotgun made by craftsman with candlelight usually in the back road of the Birmingham or London you need to have good timber You want you work of art to be adorned by high figured wood and so I went in search of woods blanks for high grade guns mainly double barrels and found that Walnut whose genetic Center of Origin is the Cacusis Mountain were harvested and cross bred by the French, later the Brit to adorn their bespoke weapons.
I heard often of Turkish Walnut but really it is Franquette a Walnut variety created by the French for their table. I have all English Walnut stocks but I knew little of the genetics or geographic until I was educated by a stocker in Oregon.
