Furniture
Dark Walnut Live-Edge Table Top
in Jaipur, Rajasthan
Live-edge walnut table top in Jaipur — finished with LEINOS Interior Hardwax Oil 290. Rich dark grain deepened toward lustrous brown-black, food-safe surface.
Context
The brief, and the surface.
A wide slab of walnut with natural live edges, hand-built in a Jaipur workshop. The walnut already carried deep colour variation between heartwood and sapwood — the oil needed to deepen the natural pigmentation without flattening the variation. LEINOS Interior Hardwax Oil 290 was applied with a cloth pad in two thin coats.
Cloth-pad application controls how much oil the open walnut grain takes — brushing pushes too much oil into the deeper grain channels, which would over-saturate the heartwood. The team worked end-grain first, then face grain, both with consistent pad pressure.
Conditions on Site
- Surface
- Interior live-edge walnut slab — natural heartwood-to-sapwood colour variation
- Climate & Exposure
- Rajasthan desert indoor — climate-controlled, low humidity, hot summers
- Limitations
- Cloth-pad application required — brushing over-saturates the heartwood grain channels
- Dining surface — recoat oil at 18-24 months under daily meal traffic
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Outcome
The result on site.
Live-edge walnut table top in Jaipur — LEINOS Interior Hardwax Oil 290 deepens the natural colour variation between heartwood (near-black) and sapwood (mid-brown) without flattening the grain contrast.
The oil deepened the walnut's natural colour variation, producing a rich, lustrous brown-black surface — the heartwood reading nearly black and the sapwood reading rich mid-brown. The grain contrast holds clearly under direct lighting; the surface wipes clean of food spills.
Results vary by surface condition, climate exposure, application method, and ongoing maintenance.
Documented by LEINOS India Specifier TeamUpdated 2026-05-16
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