American Chestnut Substitute

Try Googleing: reclaimed wood chestnut. You should get a number of sites that have reclaimed chestnut available.

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Hey Bet, have you got a picture of your wood?

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I was trying to avoid purchasing reclaimed Chestnut since most of it is “wormy”. It is also expensive, and I need several long, narrow pieces for baseboard trim. It’s hard to find that dimension on the reclaimed market as far as I can tell.

Here are two pics of some of the woodwork. The floors are Southern Pine and the stair treads are Oak

Have you thought of Poplar with a Chestnut stain?(see the sofa table in my projects) I’ve had very good results with it. Just be sure and use a blotch control. With a little experiment you could probably mix chestnut with a little mahogany to get the color right. Sand to 220.

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Butternut is very good substitute for chestnut although a little on the soft side. But there is lots of chestnut out there yet. A friend of mine found a stash of virgin chestnut couple years ago. never had a nail in it.the most exciting part was when we found a stack of 6/4×18 to 22 in 18 ’ planks of Clear chestnut hidden in amongst it. He still has most of it. Started with around 15,000 bd ft. What a find

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Ash with the right stain would nearly be a dead ringer for chestnut, plus it would be considerably harder.
To say nothing about cheaper.

Steve

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