Nah, dried blood turns black.Mr. Hughes I detect some skepticism about the possibility of manure affecting the color of walnut. I said I am not making any dogmatic statement one way or the other but something gives some trees color as opposed to others of the same species and locale that don't have it.I know studies done at the University of Michigan,I believe,show that figure is inherited in walnut,that trees of unusual figure tend to produce other trees wiith unusual figuring.There will always be some figure in crotches as that is the nature of crotch wood,the grain necessary to support a crotch will produce some figure,at least.Saying that I have cut trees that produced crotch figure that was 4 or 5 feet long and others just a foot or so.Some trees display fiddleback or flame grain in the main trunk and others don't.Maybe we'll never know for sure but that's why wood is such interesting stuff to cut and work.
