On Wed, 30 May 2012 17:28:55 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
wrote:



What my son is thinking about is what I might describe as half planed - or
what I believe they call skip planed. Run through the planer or through a
double drum sander, but not to the point of being nicely smoothed.

Sounds horrid to live with. He may think it looks nice, but keeping
them clean will be a bitch unless sealed well to take out the
recesses. It is nor really a period thing either. We have plenty of
200+ houses around here with original floors and they are pretty
smooth.

You may find rough flooring in some of the peasant cabins and such,
but the better larger houses are much more refined. My son's house is
up the street from Jonathan Trumbull's war office from the Revolution.
Some of the original flooring is equal to that done today.