Arrival day: 11 august

Progress: 29 august

My favourite is Wild Wolf, like a lot playing with it, size and shape are perfect.

Or should I do more?

(First time doing this)

Among mahetao (麻核桃), the Hamotou (蛤蟆頭, “Toad Head”) is probably the best-known toad-shaped variety, with a form that closely resembles an actual toad.

Interestingly, toad-shaped forms are actually quite common among the less widely collected tiehetao/iron walnut (鐵核桃), where the wart-like bumps tend to be even more pronounced.

The two have very different characters and aesthetics. Which one do you prefer?

I'm honestly shocked at how easy these were to prep. The dark black Dimen background made the hoarfrost super obvious, and the smooth Toadshead shells made it very easy to remove with just a stiff nylon brush. The very few small areas of remaining pulp were also very easy to distinguish, as they were almost silver-grey. CapybaraLabs also does an outstanding job cleaning their pairs, so i'm sure that helped!

They also polished up to a nice shine remarkably quick, only a couple hours. I switched between the much stiffer nylon brush (1 hour constant brushing and rotating the walnut) and my super soft nylon brush (30 minutes brushing and rotating the walnut) and after maybe 5 hours total they seemed pretty much finished!

The prepping also brought out super subtle, absolutely gorgeous deep maroon colors on the base and ridges of both walnuts, which my camera does't do justice.

I'm so excited to see how these further develope over the months and years!

Ive spent almost two weeks on these black walnuts and they are definitely starting to smooth out and also put on a different color.

I glued some green quartz in to give it some extra specialness.

The more I brush I notice some white lines and I’ve got some cracks and chips from dropping a lot this so really good practice before getting an official pair of wenwan walnuts. I also split one of the walnuts when I first started by dropping it on the ground luckily I had backups for this event. 😂

Followed the suggestions from this Sub so I am taking my Nuts out on an Adventure while waiting for my second pair :D

My Nuts have never been happier

Minimal play, minimal brushing. I've been mostly wearing these and rubbing my facial oils. They coloured in super nice! There are a few stubborn beads that are refusing to catch up with the rest but, they'll come around.

Seen so many Nanjiangshi posts lately so figured I should finally get around to posting mine

They’re about 2 months old, though I don’t handle them often, mostly brushing since the pattern is stubborn to clean

Recently discovered this variety of walnuts and immediately fell in love with their plump pumpkin like appearance so I had to get myself a pair. Quite fitting too as we are entering the Fall season 🙂‍↔️