Swingman wrote:

"Bay Area Dave" wrote in message

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...g_the_chestnut

Thanks for the info/post.

I have two old 8' chestnut tubafours (actual dimension) in my wood stash,
complete with wormholes ... been waiting for a project to use them on for
the past couple of years.

Great news.

I'm cleaning the paint off of a lot of chestnut trim in my house, and it
looks wonderful. But _damn_, it's brittle.